teachers unions, i guess a lot of teachers would like it if the union were accountable to us. but the unions get our money no matter what they do. so do you think they listen to us? no. they speak on behalf of the union leadership, not on behalf of teachers like myself who want to protect the children from the witch. so let me just tell you one quick story. i decided to become a full member at one point, because remember, i had no voice, paying those fees. so i became a full member and i served for three years as a union rep and a leader on my local union executive board. i was a secretary. during that time, we had a downturn in our economy. and several district teachers, we were told, were going to be laid off. by the way, they were laid off for the crime of being new. because based on the teacher union rules, the last in, first -- we lay people off based on last in, first out. you have tenure, you keep your job. while someone who's working really hard, loving on the children -- let's just say the witch, the witch would keep her job, but some really hard working loving teache

teachers unions, i guess a lot of teachers would like it if the union were accountable to us. but the unions get our money no matter what they do. so do you think they listen to us? no. they speak on behalf of the union leadership, not on behalf of teachers like myself who want to protect the children from the witch. so let me just tell you one quick story. i decided to become a full member at one point, because remember, i had no voice, paying those fees. so i became a full member and i served for three years as a union rep and a leader on my local union executive board. i was a secretary. during that time, we had a downturn in our economy. and several district teachers, we were told, were going to be laid off. by the way, they were laid off for the crime of being new. because based on the teacher union rules, the last in, first out. you have tenure, you keep your job. while someone who's working really hard, loving on the children -- let's just say the witch, the witch would keep her job, but some really hard working loving teacher who just happened to have less seniority wo

when teachers are freed from fourth unionism, great teachers can thrive again. and when teachers are freed from fourth unionism, america's schools can be excellent again. wouldn't that be great? i have a teacher with me today and thanks for listening. >> ... well, rebecca friedrich is a hard speaker to follow especiallywhen you're talking about the relatively monday legal details of it all but i will do my best . so as colin mentioned earlier, about 40 years ago the us supreme court said that governments can force their employees to pay union fees as a condition very of their employment. the court said you can't make employees pay for certain union political activities like support for electoral campaigns or things like that but you can make them pay for their share of the unions cost of bargaining on their behalf. and the supreme court thought this struck a good balance in the first amendment because supposedly nobody would be forced to pay for union politics but you could prevent workers from what they call free riding off the unions efforts on their behalf. s

are promoted whole bunch of the charter schools are very effective mechanism for destroying the teacher's union right that's why the walton family which owns wal-mart is very much into charter school really right they their wal-mart is not unionized and they don't want schools that are unionized and the walton family has committed to spend a billion dollars over a five year period two hundred million dollars a year on charter schools they also like vouchers but they're willing to take these are charter schools really the pathway to the voucher system is not what it is well charter schools have the advantage of being bipartisan i mean the interesting thing with out years is there have been about twenty elections around the country and states about whether or not to approve. of lost every time they're going to use the word an oil well that's the device you see the word she loves it she loves watchers and you know trump and divisive propose spending federal funding on on vouchers which is we she's the first secretary of education in history who was actively hostile to public education is a twenty

teachers union might stray. and in a number of nonwhite people have made the point that after the obama years there will then be this awakening that black power is not cracked up to be that politically there must be other ways. what do you think that the republicans, independents need to do to attract black voters so that they can have integrated parties that the country as a whole can be less divided racially? >> i think they need to show up in these neighborhoods in their districts . they largely just written off this vote for many, many years no you can wabl over why you think that is and racism or some other factor but it's political expediency they need this vote to win, and some of the party may look at trump's success an go well we still don't need to vote to win. i mean, a lot of people in my camp over the years were you saying diversifying they won't be able to win national elections. trump proved everything wrong in that front and there's an argument that he proved everyone wrong i think i can push bac

. >>> the president of the washington teachers union calls this the beginning of a new relationship between teachers and the school system. teachers are being offered a 9% pay raise over years. the agreement would be retroactive to last october and receive a 4% raise in the first year of the contract. city educators have gone five years without a contract and the union's 4500 members will vote over the next two weeks. >>> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. lift off falcon 9 takes flight. the dragon spacecraft. the international space station. >>> spacex. that is a successful launch. it landed. a new dragon rocket carrying supplies to the international space station today. that separated successfully with one half called falcon 9 coming back to earth and the other continuing onto the iss. we have a eclipse viewing party we have talked about it for awhile. a viewing party. it is monday august 21st. 1 to 3:00 p.m. at the college park aviation museum. the eclipse starts at 1:17 and it will peek at approximately 2:40. we're taking in the first 600 people. that is a lot of people. >> it is. >> you're going to get sp

we spoke to the teachers union, and they said anecdotally they have one person in the union who actuallytes from fresno. a lot of people from closer in. they say even more than that people are just moving away and they are losing teachers in the area. >> 40 vacancies. let's hope they can fill those and come up with a solution. an, thank you. >>> some contractors made a surprising find while digging in a garage at the home in san francisco. the crew of electricians was working on a job in laurel height when they uncovered an old gravestone. they were unaware they were working on the former site of a laurel hills cemetery which was relocated in the 1930's. at that time the city passed an ordinance banning cemeteries within city limits and the cemetery was removed but some gravestones were left behind. >> we uncovered a little more and cracked a piece off. next thing you know, just see some lettering on it, so we uncovered a little bit and ended up being a team stone. >> pretty interesting to find something like that, because it's a part of history and it's not something you find every day.

i mean in this conversation and wyatt wrote this book because the teachers union and so on and so forth are not pulled into the free market. they are in there and they are saying tough luck and you hear over and over again the teachers teaching things that they have no business getting into. the schools are supposed to be in local parameters. the basic idea for freedom is i can raise the way -- my kids away want to raise my kids. don't have time to teach my kids so we are going to create a school and pay taxes so somebody else can do what i want them to do. the idea that those teachers say we are going to do what we want to do is fundamentally un-american and undemocratic. it just doesn't make sense of the idea that we have schools teaching our kids but, public schools teaching our kids things that are not what they were called then to be taught is fundamentally crazy. that's why you have to have school choice. that's one thing i'm very happy to say that trump has been talking about school choice. [applause] the idea that i have to send my kid to be indoctrinated by crazy people who are

in this conversation why i wrote this book, the teachers unions and so forth are not beholden to the free market, they are in their saying tough luck and you hear over and over teachers teaching things they have no business getting into. schools are supposed to -- the most basic idea of freedom is i can raise my kid the way i want to raise my kids and i don't have time to teach my kids so we will create -- pay taxes so someone else can do what i want them to do, they will be paid and teach our kids, the idea those teachers say we will do what we want to do is fundamentally un-american and undemocratic. the idea we have schools teaching our kids public school teaching our kids things that are not what we would want them to be taught is fundamentally crazy. that is why you have to have school choice. that is something i'm happy to say trump has been talking about school choice. the idi have to send my kid to get indoctrinated by some crazy people who aren't afraid of losing their jobs is fundamentally un-american. it is wrong. my mother left communist germany when she was 17 years old b

. >> i get the equivalent of about 400 euros from the teacher's union.ut that doesn't get me very far. i still have to pay off my mortgage. and how will i find a job? private schools aren't allowed to employ us either. i would be able to get a research grant from france or germany, but my passport has been confiscated. >> these academics may not be in jail like some others, but they do feel trapped. mehmet fatih tras couldn't deal with the situation anymore. the place where he used to sit in his local bar is empty. he would often come here with friends for a beer after work. the bartender knew him well. she says that toward the end he became increasingly silent. hasan durkal still comes -- to try to overcome his friend's death, to remember him and to keep his ideals alive. >> his dream of a peaceful, democratic society lives on. we mustn't stop questioning the political conditions that led to his death. those political conditions in turkey have already led to hundreds of deaths, thousands of arrests and countless cases of exile. >> there are a lot of bea

is that state after state his pass right to work laws and the importance of unions is first of all they protect these teachers academic freedom they protect people from arbitrary dismissal but more important there are a ladder into the middle class and i think the disappearance of unions across the entire economy has basically frozen the class structure stopped or that was historian of education diane ravitch. our system of public education is not broken it is under assault our urban and many of our rural schools are in trouble not because of poor teaching but because of poverty children are in no condition to learn when they come to school hungry when they live with the stress of the vixens domestic and street violence in adequate health care a lack of enrichment programs including preschool education and when they live in homes where families. often torn apart by mass incarceration see a father or mother work seventy hours a week to barely survive not only is the diagnosis by billionaires and hedge fund managers who champion charter schools wrong but the proposed solution will further segregate the most vul

i want to work with the teachers union, i want to work with parents, students, communities to fix our schools. as you said it, we have an 80% graduation rate in this state for latinos and african-americans, it's closer to 70%. 60% of the kids in our public schools. when they graduate, only 13% of them are going to a four-year college. the next governor is going to have to work with our partners, but is going to have to push all of us to excel to a much greater degree. i have a track record of doing that. i'm not afraid to do that. as i said, i'm willing to do that. >> it's time to wrap up, mayor. it's a divided country, a divided state. why is antonio ville rosa in a position to bring people together? that's really the uber problem in america. it is a divided country. why you? >> well, again, i've got a track record of bringing people together. l.a. is a very diverse place politically, ethnically, racially, economically. i wasn't a perfect mayor. i made my mistakes. you look at downtown today, look at hollywood, the three light rail lines, one busway. you look at crime down 49%, homic

by for profit corporations are not designed to educate they are designed to indoctrinate great teachers unions marginalize the poor especially poor people of color along with those with learning disabilities and those for whom english is a second language the objective is to dump these students who would cost more to educate in the underfunded and dysfunctional public schools charter schools championed by billionaires such as bill gates are transforming schools through vouchers into a commodity they are turning over public funds to private corporations this project begun under democratic administrations is being accelerated by education secretary betsy divorce a billionaire heiress who is the first education secretary in american history to be hostile to the very concept of public education are to correspondent on your part and tell looks at the growth of the charter school industry. the trunk administration led by secretary of education betsy good boss it's plain to spend one billion dollars to promote so-called school choice in the u.s. the policy has been branded with a careful selection of

for profit corporations are not designed to educate they are designed to indoctrinate break teachers' unions marginalize the poor especially poor people of color along with those with learning disabilities and those for whom english is a second language the objective is to dump these students would cost more to educate in the underfunded and dysfunctional public school.

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but the combination of new and old style exams has caused confusion and lead head teachers' unions tok back and think this has been a very distracting process. the most important thing is to let teachers get on and teach and the stu d e nts we teachers get on and teach and the students we need to focus on in particular those middle —— middle ability and lower ability students who are easily neglected and by focusing on the top end we neglect them either further. students have spent two years getting used to the changes but the next big challenges explaining it to employers who recruit 16—year—olds for apprenticeships. at this hairdresser they'd take on several 16—year—old apprentices each year but the owner isn't sure how he'll be up to work out who has the best qualifications. i'm going to be slightly confused, but over a period of time we'll work it out. a standard pass, i think that would be our borderline, a four, definitely. it's notjust pupils in england who's been picking up pupils in england who's been picking up results. welsh students have also been finding out how they fare

chicago teachers union says if you are not sure why we need unions consider the grown up anger and must need. it is an essential companion to this book if you want to hearl p the songs, chicago country and senior is the founding member joining us and will perform a few of the songs that aregs particularly important to the fascinating book. for a thought provoking and entertaining our please welcome daniel wilson and emily kane. [applause] >> the fourth story in this bo book. if i was 13 and angry and it leads to the discussion of bob dylan. if you can get a back story to introduce a song that we are going to hear how you've got to the first song we are going to do. i was furious and general and they kept saying what are you mad about and i would say everything. that's not useful. it's just true. i can't help that i am and at some point in the future when i was 13 that a rolling stone came on the radio and this guy understands. he knows why i'm angry. he's telling the truth.i co i could barely understand the words as is often the case. it was the sound of the thing. he ha had maybe three

for profit corporations are not designed to educate they are designed to indoctrinate break teachers' unions marginalize the poor especially poor people of color along with those with learning disabilities and those for whom english is a second language the objective is to dump these students who would cost more to educate underfunded and dysfunctional public schools charter schools championed by billionaires such as bill gates are transforming schools through vouchers into a commodity they are turning over public funds to private corporations this project begun under democratic administrations is being accelerated by education secretary betsy divorce a billionaire heiress who is the first education secretary in american history to be hostile to the very concept of public education r t correspondent on your part. looks at the growth of the charter school industry. trump administration led by secretary of education betsy to vos is planning to spend one billion dollars to promote so-called school choice in the us the policy has been branded with the care .

it's having teachers unions making the school better you think? >> if we're going to talk about education -- >> tucker: you see the point. i'm not here to grill you about education. there's actual stuff going on. the country is in trouble and this is an msnbc democratic side show designed to cloak the reality of it, which is that our leadership class is terrible and they failed. >> i agree. our leadership class is terrible starting at the top when we talk about the president -- >> tucker: trump is bad. i agree. thanks for joining us. >> absolutely. >> tucker: appreciate it. >> any time, tucker. thank you. left wing thugs as they're known on television, peace activists have been smashing windows, burning buildings, beating people that disagree with them. in a few days, they'll be in san francisco for another rally. their efforts have been met with gleeful coverage from the press. thanks to the internet now we know what happens at the rallies. stuff like this. >> tucker: davis richardson, a film maker that shot that footage. he joins us tonight. dav

they agreed to a three-years contract with the teachers union. it's the first deal in three years. tom says he'll have more details at 4:00. >>> well, it's national health center week. that means. >> reporter:ers show that one in every 15 americans rely on health centers for high quality/low cost care. >>> the children's health project of d.c. has brought those services to families in need. justin finch shows us the unique way you can take advantage. >> how are you all doing? good morning. >> before back to school, it's back to the doctors. >> you think about getting kids ready for the doctor, building time into your day. >> yeah. >> what kind of stress can that be like as a mom? >> a lot. when you're working, tutoring, all that. it's just a lot of work. >> reporter: so mom, could mika mcnair, did her homework connecting her children's hospital mobile kline iic. >> who wants to go first. >> reporter: which searches about 4,000 kids in d.c. right now they're seeing kids for required checkups and dental screening, despite their ability to play. in southeast, staffers say the van is a

she is happy they have a tentative contract with the teacher's union. the first in five years. >> over the course of the deal 9% increase for teachers in >> i'm excited about the contract. i want to thank the chancellor and the mayor to make it possible. sam: they have two weeks to ratify or reject the contract. it was held at bunker hill. we stopped at nearby luke seymour high and the school was in full swing and has been since tuesday last week. >> they have an opportunity to ease in the school year. >> at the alternative school that gives the 17 to 21-year-old students a second shot at high schooldy blow ha not a lot of complaints. >> i like it. it will get a head start on the game. we get our priorities straight and get out early. >> it has been a theory that the shorter period between years the less the students will practice to see if it's true. 13 public schools are open and the other 102 open next monday. michelle: we want to see your photos. share the photos by going to burst.com/wjla. nancy: shana rymes leaving abc for netflix. there are not a

. >> another minute being posing with staff and educators as the mayor and teacher's union announced that contract. back in the classroom, she's beginning her 30th year as a teacher all at bunker hill. >> at first it was back in 1987 i was just as enthusiastic. i'm ready to start it off. first year, a little unsure what i'm doing. i start my 30th year, i'm still enthusiastic, but i pretty much know how to set the classroom up. >> she's among teachers who will review and vote on the new contract in coming weeks. first, she'll be visiting the homes of all 17 of her new students. >> we home business to get to the know the families and have the children know who we are. >> and in their 30 years she's seen the worst days of the school buildings, management chaos, those years mostly in the past. >> but they were hard. but i just count my focus, you can do this. >> she's proud exceeding family members. many come back to thank her. but she knows some students don't make it in life. >> when it is tough when you have those children that end up on the wrong side of the law. it makes me sad. some

up on chool choice calling for moratorium on charter schools at annual convention last month teachers unionhool-choice movement has roots in quote racism xenophobia homophobia may be working with a poll showing sport for public charter schools dropping from 51% in 2015 to 39% this year we are back with bill mcgunner james freeman "the wall street journal" editorial board member astarted with democrats hillary clinton elizabeth warren, now, they are opposed why? >> well i think you should not overestimate the results of this poll, the poll shows that equal number charter schools lost equal number as republicans, in terms of. >> not just coming from not just from democratic party also from republicans independents, what you really see is unions ramp up attacks on charters because becoming a bigger threat to the monopoly this has especially this last year with attacks wages on for profit unregulated charter schools, essentially making them out to be reason by plutocrats. >> but not rally that is a small portion of the charter school business charter school operation. >> i mean, most nonprofits

none of which is ideal, but what's more, the problem stems likely from pay, according to the teachers unions. you get between $10 to $14 to get a sub job. that's not terribly competitive in a robust economy. when you're not in a recession and when athere are some downsides to the gig itself. >> we all know what goes down when the substitute teacher is in. >> our full investigation tonight on news4 at 6:00. >> basic law of economy, when you have the demand and you don't have to go up. >> you got to pay more. >> salary wills as well. thank you, scott. >>> smile. >> d.c. mayor muriel bowser spent some time talking about attendance yesterday. you're looking at video that was shot in temley town. the mayor welcomed in the year with a safety campaign to get drivers to watch out for students on the roads. she also said too many kids are chronically absent which means they miss 10% of class or more a year. >>> okay. so, if you walk your kids to the bus stop, get this. you can find out the minute you need to leave the house. prince george's county reminding parents this morning that you can actually

. >>> the washington teachers union has come up with a tentative agreement with d.c.nclude a 9% raise. it will not go into effect until the majority of members of teacher's union vote y it's been five years since it pay raises would cost $125 million over three years. >>> the dallas cowboys aren't too worried about 13-ten preseason loss to the rams on saturday. no, they have way bigger fish to fry they deal with star running back ezekiel elliot six game suspension he's expected to appeal it tomorrow fit stands elliot who hasn't played in the preseason yet wouldn't play in regular season game until late objection. so that's going to be pig out come there. finally, the next powerball drawing will be worth, are you ready for this, at least $430 million. and that is a lot of money. the number is growing and nobody matched all the winning numbers saturday 90 next drawing is on wednesday. your odds of winning are about one in 292 mel i don't know. not great odds but just a small glimmer of hope for winning inspires me to buy a couple tickets. how you guys? >> for sure. >> b

this because of her support for the teacher's union. loeb says he regrets the language he used about senate minority leader andrea cousins. >>> the first round of the pga championship he used a 6 iron he is the 86th ranked golfer in the world. >> thanks so much. nice stouf there >> nice stuff. right. >> it was. why him, not me? >> he may favor you one day. >> it kept on going off the green, probably into a tree. >> not necessarily to a hole to the right or left. >> exactly >>> j.c. penney is getting crushed on earnings, record low, lowest level, jim, in 45 years, wider tan expected loss, gross margins missed you have been making the case this is a stock to own. >> listen, i'm very disappointed in this result obviously, i have been on this show multiple times saying i believe in this company. clearly, i've gotten it wrong, now, i'm looking forward from here that's all can you do. you wake up in the morning, the results come in. the stock price is where it is this stock for the immediate term is not going to go anywhere there's two things

is having teachers unions making the school better, do you think?if we are going to talk about education -- >> tucker: we don't need to. i'm not here to grill you on education. you see the point that, like, there is actual stuff s going o. the country is in trouble and this is just an msnbc democratic caucusms sideshow designed to cloak the reality of it, which is that our leadership class is terrible and they fail. >> i agree. our leadership class is terrible, starting at the top, we talk about the president -- - >> tucker: trump is bad. i agree. [laughs] professor, thanks for joining us. >> any time, tucker. thank you. >> tucker: left-wing thugs, or as they are known on television, peace activist, has been smashing windows, burning buildings, beating people up who disagree with them for months. in just a few days, they'll be in san francisco. so far, their efforts have been met with almost gleeful coverage from the press and their political allies. thanks to the internet, we know it actually happens at some of these rallies. stuff like this. [boos

see the growth of pushes of black teachers, sometimes threatening to create alternative black teacher unions if they feel that they are not being represented or doing what they need to do, so particular educators coming out of this particular generation and their various responses to what they are interpreting and encountering in the classroom, but i think it is important to see what these ideas -- converging with ideas, particularly with business leaders who increasingly want to in education. they see it as a new space for capital investment and accumulation, so some of these ideas like, well, we do not necessarily need more money to change curriculum, to develop a, you know, culturing -- culturing sustaining way. theink it also speaks to shared wariness of the state that you have this generation of black education reformers and sort of the conservative, neoconservative, neoliberal area. the business ideology that the market can do it better. at the same time, you have educators saying the state has failed us. so they come from different directions, but you see convergence in support of cha

and i've been a member of the public teachers union. and i am a pro union republican. host: that's roger in scombch we thank you for your time this morning. joe is calling in from argon, wisconsin. joe, please go ahead. caller: hi, good morning. thank you. i am a republican and i think trump is doing a great job and i think the reporters are pissed off about it and are creating stories and when their stories are wrong, then they try to look for something else and say see, see, we said that happened and it's going on and on and it's crazy. people in wisconsin here loves trump. verybody supports him. host: joe is next. caller: look at his polls policies what he's cutting. he seems to hate the elderly, middle class, the poor, sabled, children, and even indians. where's charles dickens? he only seems to want to accommodate billionaires, dirty coal and oil barron's, crooked wall street, polluters and those and help only those that are going to -- can afford to stay in his expensive hotels. he seems to be against wild lifes the environment, clean air and clean water. host: s

those comments came because of her support of teachers unions he says he regrets the language he usedbout senate minority leader cousins colombian authorities uncovered one ton ever cocaine inside shipping containers on a ship bound for europe the drugs belonged to a gang of colombian drug traffickers a 2017 report said production in colombia surged to levels not seen in 20 years that's the news update at this hour back downtown to you >> thank you very much less than a half hour to go in the session and the week gordon, little bit of a tepid bounce after yesterday's significant drop what are your looking at >> the thing that's remarkable about this market today is that it's unremarkable. the vix elevated people looked at 2400 on the s&p. a place you might want to get in a lot of guys with varying opinions but interesting enough 24/40 was the spot we thought it would level out. >> we've seen a come of these one day sharp air pockets, one in may, one in july. didn't lead to anything. is this feeling different to you >> feels like a typical friday in the summer on the backdrop of what c

the classes themselves are disruptive by a rotation of fill-in teachers. the unionshis is a problem soon. >> and just people doing their job. >> not enough that want to do it. >> missy dirks rebounding economy shrinks the pool of people. and fast rising cost of rent and mortgages locally makes it difficult to live in a sub job that pays between 10 and $14 an hour, even they say it's too to working year around. >> if you wanted to, could you get 180 days of work a year. >> yes, if i wanted to, i could work every day. >> every day. >> every day. >> prince georges at montgomery county schools are staging job fares to recruit new substitutes. they just added 189 more subs to beef up their roster, school back in session there yesterday. >> staggering numbers. what you got coming up tomorrow night. >> we'll continue our investigation, our back to school weekend investigations of school showing the number of school employees arrested over the past few months do not have we're going to talk about why some people think it needs to be more oversight over all the adults who wor

first time in several years since 2012 new contract with the teachers union has been reached. >> so we'reher with mayor bowser here sho shortly and also president davis with wtu. it's extremely important as we start the school year that we great year an big part that is having to deal with our teachers and so we look forward to big announcement here with the mayor and the president but, yes, we are very excited about the news. >> let's cut to the chase. what's the raise looking like, mr. wilson? >> um, well, what i can tell you is that we -- it is significant. we'll say more here shortly, but in short period of time what we can say we were able to agree to an agreement that is going to show our value for our teachers and then also position them to remain the highest paid teachers here in the country and so we're excited about that. >> awesome. let's talk about what the school year holds former chancellor put a plan in place five year plan back in 2012 to improve things. those goals i presume have been met because now you're launching on new vision for schools. can you tell us about it? >>

at my school, middle school in union city, my teacher said i was too smart, to move me up. i did geometry. now i will have to do honors algebra ii at the high school. >> but you haven't done quantum physics. >> not yet. >> we are almost out of time. it is fantastic to talk to you young men. continue on your road and achieve your goals. amen? >> yes. >> excellent. thank you for being with us. we had a great day with the scouts and their leaders, the executives that were with us. we thank the parents for bringing them. we hope you are inspired by this program. we hope you were informed and we hope it motivates you to go and recruit scouts and to be active in the leadership that you are involved in. thank you. this morning... art, gala events... even some tech. but first... som the name of a hit >>> welcome to bay sunday. so many good things are happening. art, gala events, even some tech. first, something rotten. that's how we are starting. that's the name of a hit broadway musical in san francisco. here to tell us about it is one of the stars adam pascal. welcome. >> thanks

people blame it on hispanic people blame it on immigrants blame hell get angry with unions are your neighbor or teachers for having better health care than you or bernie voters it's a party vote it's a just time vote it's the trust voters or whatever they want us to turn on each other because they know that once we unite to create a better sustainable egalitarian system we'll be unstoppable we will be right back after this. global warming sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken or forcing you to fight the battles they're going. to do sox credit so you could be gossiped a couple of. blocks of our eyes and tell me you are not cool enough like. all the hawks that we all already know what. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money forgiveness has drowned out a lot of voices that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it's still on our to america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get the straight talk in the straight news. but to bill in. welcome back recently the creative

union high school students teachers, administrators and state farm agents meet with our representatives. the severance committee. our town council into town managers. they had worked towards achieving a common goal. it meant everybody have to sit down together. we have to quit thinking about our own agendas and we have to look at what needed to be done and try to find common solutions. the students have listened to the experts and they came to understand that around about costing about a hundred and 30,000 less than it single traffic light was both a safer and more affordable solution. i have to tell you when someone first suggested around about i spent two days marching up and down the hallways same as a dumbest thing i ever heard. but it didn't take long if we honestly looked at the research and we listened to what was there. it was the only solution that was work. a member of our school board i'm sorry his wife was a member of our school board for a long time. the board of supervisors in a member of the severance committee said that when our students cared enough to count cars how ca

blame it on hispanic people blame it on immigrants blame it hath hell get angry with unions or are your neighbor or teachers for having better health care than you or bernie voters it's a party vote it's a just i vote it's the trust voters or whatever they want us to turn on each other because they know that once we unite to create a better sustainable egalitarian system we'll be unstoppable we will. back after this. the mission of newsworthy is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think the mainstream media in this country can say that any average viewer knows that r.t. america has a different perspective so that we're not hearing one echo chamber that mainstream media is constantly spewing. we're not beholden to any corporate sponsor no one tells us what to cover how long the coverage or how to say it that's the beauty of archie america. we hear both sides we hear from both sides and we question more that journalists are not getting anything get a new way to bring it home to the american people. all the world's a s

union iron worker in wisconsin, teacher in tennessee, folks like that.to run for congress. >> the house of representatives. steve: i think that's such a smart way of thinking about it. in the end, if you change the representation, you change the agenda that's brought to the table for every policy discussion. >> if you know what that cliff looks like, you're not going to sell us out to wall street. that's just not going to happen because this is your family and your neighborhood and your community, so that's what we need. >> that is how i would describe myself as well. steve: you've got another book coming out, right? >> one book coming out in the fall and another one i'm working on. steve: you will be back a lot to talk about it. thank you very much. thanks to all of you. >>> coming up, a lobbyist of saudi arabia is working for the white house. the whole story in swamp watch next. . steve: the d.c. swamp has been infiltrated by foreign governments who want anything but the america first policy that president trump's talked about. some of the world's wors

changes the dynamic, there are places in the united states where the charter school teachers are members of the unions well. there are places where the districts are the authorizer, i think the charter is the apt term for this. i understand amy's point, this is sort of private versus public, this is an important one . it really is an important one. what the operators in liberia are doing is partnering with the government to deliver better results. in the case of liberia, there is an mou between the operator and government. that is a function between the charter, the authorizing document that stipulates what the operators will provide and how they provide it and what they're expected to deliver. at the ends of the day they are charters. and at the spectrum of charters, between those and the public employees to those that are much further in the other spectrum where they are the equivalent of closer to voucher, where the government is basically just doing a transfer of funds to attend the private school or another type of school. and so there is a whole spectrum that are met here. and to me the definit

am happy to welcome madison collins, fccla chapter president from union high school and her advisor, family and consumer sciences teachernie carico. thank you, connie, for your decades of dedication to students in your community. we cannot wait to hear firsthand about the work you did near your school to make it a safer place for everyone on the road. [applause] madison: hi, everyone. was excited toer conduct 18 rsa this past school year. we had no idea what an exciting adventure we were about to embark on. you should have received our case study in your packets. here are the highlights. have from a small town, we schools that share an intersection close to each other on a main road. you have parents, student drivers, school buses, and members of the community sharing a busy road during school drop-off and pickup times. imagine all this traffic moving through a congested school area every day with no type of traffic safety infrastructure. it was not safe. we decided to do something about it. we conducted a teen rsa. we surveyed students and teachers and recorded traffic patterns at the intersection near our school. we c

from our president garcia and it's a 3 million teachers -- and that 3 million teachers and professionals of the largest union in this country, the national education association. [applause] becky pringle: i know that's like a man -- is like many, many of your hearts are breaking. for our world, for our country, for our children. we harbor no illusion that our fight for social justice was over. but to have to face of the reality that a man who openly and without shame embodies hate and misogyny, racism and a xenophobia has not only been elected the leader of the free world, but has given permission from the highest office in this land to bully and it to discriminate -- and to discriminate. it is our new reality that we realized we were in the fight for the very soul of america. forgot democracy and opportunity. this group here surely knows that what maya angelou said was true. when a someone shows you who they are, believe them. -- and a trump secretary devotes -- secretary devos made it clear that their educational priority was to decimate our public schools and destroy the dreams of those students who come