what wfound is schoo with very lon waiting lists., seven, eight, nine applicants for every spot. parents desperately looking for bett options for their children weaped have the job t listen. i'm a n of the i actually caused three f academic failure tt were not working and when children do not show up, you close them down. tavis: you thinkhe numbers then indicate right n that the charter school works a well for students of color? do you believe that, sir >> the vast majorit of children in the charter schools come from th minority. tavis: you mentioned a moment o the maetplace. there are some whohink that thearketplace making anyind of roll role isisgaded? you feel dferent sflip >> too often, childn from very poor communities had few options and few choices. the weahy in our count have had many educational optns for a long time. ilways think if it is goo enough them r for them it is good enoughor famils who dot have many resources. they have aariety of options to choose from. th works better i urban areas ere you have a greater populat

we may have to s up screening stations in your schoo. and of course they're aut to put out guidance next wk in the next cple of days for colleges because tse kids mostly don go home. so this is a massiveoperation on the school level. and we don' know how that's going to work a the government said we might chae our guidancet any time. and guess that leads to the third test that ty're facing. ani'll be quick. that i the eduational formational challenge. it's one thing to have a nationwide vacce 50 years ago when there were fr sources of information and now the are asen sourc of informati as there are -- now therere as many sources of infomation as there are people and ny bad and th challenge for govnment to putno crierringconn pecking ord. ey're trying it out righ now. several dierent companies have made it. they'reworking -- they're ging it to people to see ow they eact and whetherthere are adverseffects. they're hoping t have it availae by the -- fst they said mid toate october. that's again, aost two monhs after scho starts. school star

dynamics and, you know, trying to have a boyfriend, do i look pretty, you wear uo oforms, you go to schooyou learn, and it's been very successful. >> i l-pe the whole idea of trying something elss dc you kn? one of the reasons why women don't earn as much as men is because so few of them go into disciplines that require engineering, math, science skills, and apparently, it's been proven that some of these single-sex, whether it's online or in person classrooms generate a greater deal of confidence in th ene areas, hs,nher scores in those areas. i don't think i'd like it if it's solely internet-based. i think itl l-pe the mix of it, because i think you need the socialization. >> i agree with that >> but you knonk if we can mele girls -- >> but i should say, by the way, just having been very close to a mother whose two homeschooled children, one girl, one boy, are in high school now and a member of my family is homeme,me,me,mei used to think it was all in front of the computer. it's not. they do several academic classes maybe at a lrleal school, which are coed, so it's not like one kid of o

rathgebesays, small classes will promote one of the schoo's key tene: connectedness. >> we know tt onef the asons why we'e successful in our face-to-ce classrooms is at girls feel real stron connections to their classmates and the teachers. yowalk intour hallwaroo in bethesda or in cleveland or anywhere arounthe country and you're going to see kiake interacting with their tehers real ways. we want to create a model in online education that n do that as well so wgro'reoing to have virtual hallways for kids to conegate in, we're going to make sure that they're connectg with their teacrs and classmates on a regular basis. we think tt one of theeal powers of this is the ability to connect girls aroundhe wld togeer, to learn in an environment that's.ot just centered on their hometown, b that's centere everywhere a anywhere. >> but.ot everyone is supporti. itics question whether ther is any advantageo offering genderpecific classes online. >> for us,growre looking to make sure thate're creating bette opportunities for girls. so it's about creatg better opportunities for kids, specifically fo

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that was enough to pay for school clothes for me, my older brother, and my twin sister for the entire schooar. you old timers know about 116th black avenue. i mean for $25 you could pretty much buy all the clothes that you needed. the funny thing is i knew that mr. johnson's name was ellsworth. and i knewhat there were people who called mr. ellsworth johnsonuppy. being in the harlem even at 9 years o, i knew who buppy johnson was. but at 9 years old, i couldn't make the connection. because my mr. johnson couldn't be that murder, that gangster. i could not bring myself to make that connection until more than 20 years later. when i'm now, thanks to mr. johnson, i went to school, made something of myself, and i was w a reportert the philadelphia inquire, which is one of the top ten newspapers in the coury. and as a program that comes on. on a&e that has the riddle of the rock. in it it mentions buppy johnson the harlem gangster who is rumored to have the only successful escape from al coo razz. so i'm listening but not looking. i justapne to loo up as they were showing a picture. it was my mr.

>>he gave ildren names nd said-- and whe th went to schoo and en heung up. themessage being thf i know where tey go to school they're wiin my cess. >> that's righ and that was the one time actuay tha i nsider stoppi a this. dr. offit is a target, not just for suppoing vacce safety but bcause heimself madeillions of dollarsor ienti a accine,iven to childno prevent aerious form o diarrhea me of the peole who believe dr. kefld look at you and th say, okay, wait a send, let's dissect paul oft for ecd. they sahee'sa guyho created a vacne, so of crse he'snot going to say anythg that wou call into queson other ccines. t's jst against hna >> well, firstf all, i have calle ito questiother vaccines. when the united states wted to move forrd on a smallx vaccine program, i was stil votinmeer of e advisory commiee oimnizaonlaque pracces. i vot ainsthat beuse oug it was a bad move. >> so, you n't thnk you have anyonflic of iterestere a guy who eed a vacneas a guy seen as nt wantin to sak ut againstth partul ccine. >> ocoure n. tnk the fa that iord fo 25 years cree a ccine

something that was a bit of birth rig to be able to grow in immigrant families and go off it ivy league schoo, bome mbers of the middle class, and enjoy life at a pretty high level. and, uortunately, my mother died of breast cancer in the-- wh she was 61. my father died o a heart attack in his mid-60s. they had a lot invested in their children, and when ey died, i wain my early 30 they-- they knew i had gotte educat and married, but ty-- they nev saw the other parts of my career tt they would have found interesting and, you know, having seen me a ayoung person who wasn't alys so easy to get along wh i thinkhey probably would have joyed seeing my more matu years and me successes and-- parents like seeing their kids go to stockholm. >> ros exactly. ( laught ) >> or woing in goverent. >> rose: that's my pnt, make a nobel speech. >> or running cance ceers or other things thewould have thought useful. >> rose: the point is they would have been proud. >> exactly. they believein and tryo ach rlected in the career you ha which has spaed heal and public issues as well there is also th-- this book is t

borrowg that i would rather not have done but in this emergency i helps us avd fuher devastating cuts to schoo but the cunties argue the cuts to them are destating as well. contra costa county already was ffering because of a deine in revenues fromoth property d sales taxes. it is a county wth some of the wealthiestnclaves in th state, like orda, whose residents may feel the loss of library park money, an some the orest, like richmond, a largely minority community with a 17% unemployment rate, where the medical and cial-service cuts willhit hadest. already, e welfare offce wherthey dispens financial aid and food stamps has seen an upsurge in cientele and a reductionn personnel. john joyas a county supervisor who think the state took the easy way out. >> what happens is counties are the agentf the state for social service and health services so it's easier for them to cut us, because people won't show up in sacrento complaining, they'll sh up at our board chambers bause we're the ones delivering the programs. >> supervisor ya met with county welfare workers including wendy farrien to figure out

there are certain progms, like dropout preventioprograms, for example, that local schoo districts mightnot be able afford, but maybe we can ma sure tt the federal government is giving help to those lol districts sthey can improve eir educational system. >> do you have the pow to make the scho lunches better? >> well, i remember at, when i used to get hool lunches, they didn't taste so goo i got to admit. we are seeing if we canork to at least make school lunes healthier, beuse a lot of school lunches, there's a loof french fries, pizza, tatetots,nn all kinds of stuff that n't a well-baland meal. so we want to make sure the are more fruits d vegetables in t schools. now, kids may not end up ling that, buit's better for them, it'll be healthier for th, and those are some of the cnges we're trng to make. >i suggest that we have frenc fries and mangoes ery day for lunch. >> i notice, as president,ou get bulli a lot. how do you hdle it? >> you mean people samean thgs about me? i think th, when you're president, you'rresponsible for aot of things, and people are having a tough me, they're hur

needed, some things tt can't be measured on a test sce, then we can make better assessment if the schoosystems getting better. >> reporte do your teachers trust michee ree? >> some do andsome don't. >> reporter: you trust mhelle ree? >> i trust michelle to be who she is. >> reporter: what's tha mean? >> i don't want to get any deer, she is who she is. >> reporter: for nearly two years parr and e have been negotiating anew contract, one that could tie teacher pay to w well students perform on tests. is th new contrt going to make it easier for you to get rid of ieffective teachers? >> the new contract i thk will have a much greater focus on insuring that every single classro isstaffed with an effective teacher. >> rorter: pay for peformance going to be in the ntract? >> i think pay for performance makes sens i thinkit's a matter o how you imement it. >> reporr: can you give us anidea of how cse you are? >> a contract? very close. report hoabout a date? >> ll, the president and i have talked abouteally wanting to make surethat we staed the school year with a new contractn place. >> report

. >> woodruff: weel works at a horse auction busine to earn money for schoo and lives at home wh hisnts on their farm in e small town of blnchard. >> i'm sre there's problems. ere's problems with everything. nothing's perfect. kick her out there. goes the saddle rn, kick her out. it's a good given way to go in a different direction we can work thugh the problems. it can't be allbad. we' already seen what the oil does to theeconomy and does to the people and douz the land so it'sefinitely worth researching and trying make a goo go at wind. woodruff: wind jbs pride research, training, edution, to the buiing, operating, and maiaining of wind farms. mike bergy president of bergy windower says wind marks huge industrial shi and yung ople can ride the wind wa. >> they're a little more job oriented than maybeome of their peer they're maybe le consumed with their text mesging and sort of... they have broader picture of thworld and they seehepportunity, the see the trend towar cln energy. this is the best business environment we've everseen. it'sne of the bright spots in an otrwise pretty mar

watusi pursued private schoo choice, what is that larger role with public education reform? competitive effects? >> in florida, fighting f full parental choice, and we fit for charters. we fight f virtual schooling. we fight for magnets. but we fight for the whole spectrum and again, full parental choice for low-income families is the tip of the reform sphere. if you can get a legislator to back that, they are going to back everything that you want to do, everything that susan just descrid, all of which are wonderful. they will back all those reforms if they will back private school choice for low-income families. and you can get them to do it i mentioned earlier that we work in the wor environment for the support for, to try to create bipartisan support for this idea. in 2001, it was the most pulverized by the you can imagine. there was a lockout on the democratic party in our state against parental choice across the board. and we ve reversed that. i mean, i don't have timeo give you all the examples, but we have the most beloved black democrat in our state who used to be a

atour schoo.ccines given out but some parents aren't taking the risk. >> reporter: students lined up at temporary vac sin clinics around the district to get their school shots. but there is one controversial vaccine one parents don't want their daughters to have. the hpv vaccine to prevent cervical cancer has serious side affects. >> one of the common side askses is fainting and seizures. young girls can't form words hours after they've had the vaccine. >> reporterthis week the cdc said gardasil is linked to 32 unrelated deaths, dizziness and blood clots. although it still considers the vaccine safe. this year d.c. city councilman dated all girls in the 6th grade or above be vaccinated but parents can opt out without explanation, we have information about the vaccine. >> reporter: here the department of health is also taking extra steps to educate parents. >> we have a counseling station that if a parent has a concern about any vaccine, we'll be able to address that with them. >> reporter: dr. dav

. >>> hit's already back to schoo for some students in our area. two schools in alexandria are running on a modified school calendar. those sdents start school bright and early this morning. >>> it's a big day in court for the future of michael jackson's estate. a hearing in los angeles will decide who's in charge. today we could also find out whether katherine jackson and michael's three children get allowances. a judge will hear some of the multi-million dollar deals involving the estate, including jackson's unreleased music. >>> the senate has the final say on the fate of the clash for clunkers program. the house voted to give the wildly popular rebate program the green light last week. the white house, though, says it could be suspended unless the senate goes along with the plan to back up the program with another $2 billion. >> in this morning's jobs 4 you segment, advice for those looking for work in this recession. this may not be what job seekers want to hear, but experts say accepting a pay cut or even volunteering could end up making you

israeli resident and introduce, we have about a quter of a million people, to have children, to go to schooclassrooms a in kindergarten, kindergartens they need to have a place to house theamilies that this is very different from grabbing land. and i have made it clear that we are not going to build new settlements. what we are seeking to achieve with the united states in the talks were conducted or conduct a more or conduct after tomorrow, is defined a rigid formula that will enable us to at once launch the process but enable those residents to continue living normal lives. and when we have something to report on the stack, which is not necessarily what has been reported, and then you will hear it ld and clear from a. >> let's be clear tha we want to d everything we can in the united kingdom to support the peace process. we want an israel that people feel secure against the reat of terrorism, and that should be diminished by any actions that are taken. and what a viable palestinian economic state so that people could see the benefits of prosperity from peaceful coexistence and working toge

now a lack of iovation and options were students did not preclude schoo from experimenting with a variety of reform. schools and districts try to smooth reform over the years but they have little impact and staying power. some forms like the introduction of phonics and the advanced placement ems ught on to chae placement for the better but more than a few failed in fact, part of the problem with k-12 innovation has been lurching from one pedagogical favor to the next without ever really vigorously or rigorously affecting what works and what does not. in the last two decades the moral institutions of the past have become me open to innovation and entrepreneurship. 1996 the nation had to give 50 charter schools today, more than 1 million students across the country attend approximely 4,000 arter schools. the bus today are modeled on innovation and the worst should be close but off the risers have waed too long to intervene if at distressed not done enough to understand and apply more broadly the lessons of what does work from the top performers. in half a dozen cities charter schools are mo

settlement house of the turn-of-the-century or like the jewish labor lyceums or the catholic labor schoo from the 30's to the '50s. they are drop-in centers for woers who haven't gotten paid find hp and support. that is actually how i learned about this crisis in wage theft, because we have about1 workers centers affiliatewith u around the country and the number one problem that we see every day is workers not getting p@id. these workers' centers are doing incredible work. there is one here in chicago that is affiliated with us called rise chicago. every day ey see workers who have not gotten paid. last year they saw workers from 200 different restaurants in chicago. not a sgle group of workers had gotten paid overte in chicago for their restaurant work so again it is a huge crisis right here in our backyard. the next pushback force, our trial attorneys and i have to say nobody really spea all that positively about trial torney tha they are carrying a lot of the weight on this pushback force right now. 2007 there were 7,000 cases filed in federal court under the ir labor standards act an

i think charter schoo are vouchers with all of the roof edges worn down.i think there a more involved public policy and more effective public policy. they are clearly if you look at what is actually happening as we try vouchers and tax credits in some places in charter schools and other places, the charter school envirment has created a whole new ecosystem of the airy effective resource intensive, nonprofit organizations that are accountable to the plic can get also have flexibility to try new educational models that have the proven ability to bring new resours, both financial resources and human resources to the surface of providing education and a large part to the most vulnerable students. the district of columbia is a perfect example of that. the fact that now have a president who is not as liberal as many people make him out to be but certainly a democrat, no question about that, who has decided, has clearly made a choice to be pro-charter schools. not a cice, not a surprising choice. it was very consistent with what he said during the campaign but it