thousands of people in cities across the country came out to pretest low wages. and focussing on the flight of fast food workers, others joined the protest in solidarity like adjunct professors. they were demanding a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour, something that offers a living wage. comey has our report. -- christine saloomey has our report >>> agnes takes two buses and a subway, spending $10 and four hours getting to and from work, where she makes $10 an hour, and she hasn't had a raise in a decade. we're really struggling. i mean struggling bad in the city. we need the $15. cost of living has gone up, transportation, food went up. we need the $15. >> the fight for 15 started with fast food workers and expanded to include other low wage earners like agnes. her union, service employees, is an organiser. >> a lot of groups coalesced around the idea of $15 as a bare york. >> reporter: in response to critics mcdonald's announced it's increasing average pay by a dollar to under $10 for workers at corporate-opened restaurants. workers say it's not enough and wi

they want to do a pretest, a posttest, a diagnostic test, a benchmark test. there are many test that students are taking, but none that are completely clear to parents and often not to teachers as well. so i want to talk a little bit about this position i i talk about in the book and then open it up to questions. people focus on different aspects of the problem and it depends on what people are coming in with so i want to open it up to questions. when i talk about the future of testing i look at it in two parts. we need better accountability and better assessment. the stakes attest to the test, right now in no child left behind they're tied to school closer closure, teacher evaluation, closure, teacher evaluation, funding that affects states and the funding is being held over the state by the federal government to get them to agree to certain things, and it's affecting students. that's the most detrimental effect because they have a mindset a mindset and attitude around learning and the fact that were making school about these test implicates this mindset. wh

pretest on the protest diagnostic tests, benchmark test. there are many purposes none of which are completely clear to parents of coors and also teachers as well. i want to talk a little bit about the solutions i address in the boat and then throw it open to questions. every single one is different. people focus on different aspects and it depends what you come in with as far as experience. i want to spend plenty of time on the question. i look at it into cars. we need better accountability and better assessments. the accountability system, the stakes attached to the test right now under no child left behind in your state tests are tied to score your organization enclosure. increasingly tied to teacher evaluation. they are tied to funding decisions in the money being held up her states in many different ways by the federal government to get them to agree to certain things and then they are also affecting students and families that is the most detrimental effect because we no assessments are part of a students formamide that an attitude arou

and i believe that the new training is just now being sort of pretested. actually we're talking in the car on the way over how we're doing i stand intervention -- bystander. some of our own staff have requested mail only bystander interventions because they feel like they would be able to ask more questions, feel accountable. i think that's important because staff are certain to face, of i was going to this end this is the kind of change, this is what i need in order to feel like i am gaining most out of it. that makes me really happy. both staff are asking for it but they are also asking for it in a form that it would be most useful to them. >> we met after this meeting, we had the, specialist, the advisory council commended for a whole day with our staff and really to talk about what exactly we do, we can understand from his approach. i think he gained an appreciation for the depth of what we are doing as well. i can only say that our staff was grateful to have had the opportunity to spin an extensive period of time on this topic. one of the issues is th

ranger and that will allow us to then baseline on the standards that are required, one, through the pretesting -- there was a pre-ranger phase as you probably know, and for applications throughout the mo ss, the application skills. the data will be used as a reference for the general neutral standards. it will not necessarily be the be all, end all as to whether they get through. if you get eliminated from a phase, there's an opportunity later to come back and to retry and we certainly hope the few women that have gone through that may want to retry in the future to get the ranger tab, that they would. so because of that, there's no penalty for it. we're just pretty excited about the women that went through. anything else with that? >> so i guess i would just add so on your question regarding the exception, there is no simple answer to that. so as laid out in the secretary and the chairman's memo so any request for an exception to policy which would be to keep a position or occupation closed has to have a rigorous justification, it has to be based on the knowledge, skills, and ability to do th

a ranger in that will allow us to then baseline on the standards that are required one, for the pretestingthem it was a pre-ranger face as you probably know and for applications about the mos in the occupation skills. the data will be used as a reference for the general standards. it is not necessarily going to be the be all end all of it was not they go through because as you point out there are several phases as you can eliminate it from a phase, there's an opportunity later to come back and to retry. we hope the few women have gone through the may want to retry in the future that they would. so because of that there is no penalty. we're just excited about those who went through. >> i guess i would just add on to question regarding exception, it is no simple answer to that. as laid out, any request for request has not a requisite justification, has to be based on the skills and the knowledge skills and abilities needed to do the job. what i will tell you it will be multilayered. is not a simple binary answer and it will be thoroughly reviewed and discussed across the department for any d