the education secretary, arne duncan, is stepping down.e takinglso questions, which can range on anything from personnel changes to jobs to syria. alix: we will see if he will mention guns at all after yesterday's shooting. it's rare for him to have a press conference on a friday. scarlet: in the meantime, let's get a look at companies stories. the internet giant google has announced it expects transition stock from google to alphabet. that is according to "the wall street journal" reports. google will be one of a number of independent businesses operating under alphabet's umbrella. stockss class an and c will begin trading as stock on the nasdaq global select market on monday. they will keep the same goo and googl ticker symbols. alix: microsoft acquired the leading provider of 3-d physics and gaming tools supplier from intel. just an announcement on microsoft's website. it is created more than 600 games, including "call of duty." microsoft will continue to license havok's development. scarlet: the number of oil rigs in use in the u.s. is

week's "all access" feature we go to the head of the class in washington with education secretary arne duncan and check out challenges of providing the best for the nation's students. education has to be authentic. gives young children born in poverty, in tough neighborhood, born into families with challenge, education has to be the path. >> from there, entrepreneur of the week, home health care and >> miracle homecare has a total of several locations in the state of georgia. we have 293 employees. we have 332 clients. >> from the corn office, a special inside view of what it takes to provide better access to affordable housing from the secretary of housing and urban development. >> in the african-american community, for instance, today lows that sloans made to african-american to purchase a chose, almost 50% of an fha secured loan. >> and finally in our "spice of life," cookery providing scholarships that can kurn students turn students into chefs. >> education and career opportunities in the culinary arts to at-risk students throughout the nation. >> that's what's happening in "our world,"

and one a note about arne duncan? matt: yes.harter schools wouldn't be what they are in america if -- if it werehim not for him. excellent, cory, thank you so much for that information. reporter and former hip-hop reporter, believe it or not. i am not kidding about that, by the way. cory johnson. still ahead on "bloomberg market day," worrying about the housing rebound. betty liu will join us to explain. ♪ matt: welcome back to "bloomberg market day." u.s. home prices are on the rebound. this should be a good thing but maybe not. it's complicated. signsilliams says he sees of imbalance emerging, especially in real estate. yesterday, betty liu was in san francisco hosting a panel on a real estate conference and there is more to add on this conference. wait, you were in san francisco yesterday? how did you get back? the redeye? betty: no, i just got back. but thank you for being concerned about my sleep cycle. john gray, who is arguably the most influential person to listen to in the real estate market, he is also via blackstone,

arne duncan announced he will step down in december.ys he will return to chicago where he used to run the public school system there, though he doesn't know what he will do next. patricia sabga has been following the story. >> one of the big problems if you will for arne duncan and the department of education has been the handling of corinthian colleges. this was the nation's largest for-profit college chain, and it was hit with a slew of state and federal lawsuits, alleging things like predator lending and lying about job-placement rates. and the department of education when they finally started to look into it. corinthian through its hands up and said if it didn't continue to make federal funds available, it would go into bankruptcy. so it kept it afloat while it brokered the sale of 56 colleges. this lead to a student strike, a group that got together and demanded loan forgiveness. the department of ed launched a program where any student who feels they were defrauded could apply for loan forgiveness, but it has been riddled with pro

arne duncan, secretary of education will leave his cabinet position in december. in an e-mail to staff duncan said he will return to chicago to live with his family president obama spoke about the change this afternoon . >>> arne duncan is one of my longest serving cabinet friend for a lot longer than that. so it's with some regret and sorrow that i have accepted his decision to return to our hometown of chicago. >> anchor: duncan has been in charge of the education department since president oh bomb i didn't's first term. the current dependency is set to take over . >> anchor: we wanted to show you a special drill to make sure-fire and rescue crews are prepared in case of emergency. officials treated all of the exercises as if they were real life situations. the drill is required by the federal aviation administration every three years but at logan massport conducts at least one per year and officials say it's no easy task. >>> today our operation ready involves over 52 agencies, public and private, all levels of government. there are 35 fire vehicles on scene, 4

honest, i pushed for arne duncan to stay, but while i will miss arne duncan deeply, he has more than earned the right to return home. take a look at what he has accomplished of the last six and a half years. he is one of the longest-serving secretaries of education in our history and one of the more consequential. just a few years, arne and his delivereddelivere exceptional results at every step of education. nearly every state in america has raise standards for teaching and learning. expectations for what our kids can learn and our high school graduation rate is at an all-time high. families million more afford college and more americans are graduating from college than ever before. that is just stretching the surface. army has done more to bring our educational system sometimes kicking and screaming into the 21st century than anybody else. america is going to be better off for what he has done. it is one to be more competitive and more prosperous. his went to be more equal and more upwardly -- it is good to be more equal and more upwardly mobile. i truly believe no other education

arne duncan is one of my longest serving cabinet secretaries and he's been a friend for a lot longerso it's with some regret and sorrow that i have accepted his decision to return to our hometown of chicago. after more than six years of living in washington, arne's wonderful wife karen and their excellent kids claire and ryan who are also buddies of mine wanted the move back home and that's meant in the interim a lot of time apart so i'll be honest. i pushed arne to stay. sorry, guys. but i also know from personal experience how hard it is to be away from your family on a sustained basis. so while i will miss arne deeply, he is more than earned the right to return home. take a look at what arne's accomplished over the last six and a half years. he's within of the longest serving secretaries of education in our history. and one of the more consequential. just a few years arne and the team delivered incredible results at every stage of the educational experience. more than 30 states have upped their investment in early childhood education. nearly every state in america has raised stand

earlier today, i sat down with the outgoing education secretary arne duncan, and michael casserly, thecutive director of the council of the great city schools about the problem, and the proposed solutions. mr. casserly, secretary duncan, thank you for joining us. secretary duncan, you started talking about the inadequacy of testing and the shortfalls and flaws two or three years ago. what took so long for the education department to embrace this idea today? >> we've embraced the idea for a while. what's different is we actually have data. i have been talking about this for a while, and the president has. we had lot ofen eke dotes and needed to get to a better spot but no one had surveyed the nation. i went to mike about two years ago and said would you be willing to ask your districts what are you doing and it's taken them two years to get together. we're beyond anecdotes now, we have facts, and where there is too much spent on testing, a redundancy of du duplicitous st, we don't want to do that. where we're wasting students time and adding stress, we want to challenge the stats quo. >

what are we expecting from the president other than bidding arne duncan farewell?ng to be a lot more detail. he's wanting to take questions on this gun violence issue. you can hear the frustration. even anger in his voice. he's just been announced. here's the president. >> please be seated, everybody, good afternoon. arne duncan is one of my longest serving cabinet secretaries and he's been a friend for a lot longer than that. so it's with some regret and sorrow that i have accepted his decision to return to our hometown of chicago. after more than six years of living in washington, his wonderful wife and excellent kids claire and ryan, who are also buddies of mine, wanted to move back home. and that's meant in the interim a lot of time apart, so i'll be honest i pushed him to stay, sorry, guys. but i also e know from personal experience how hard it is to be away from your family on a sustained basis. so while i will miss arne deeply, he has more than a right to return home. take a look at what he's accomplished over the last six and a half years. he's one of the l

secretary of education arne duncan is set to step down in december. white house just confirming this information to fox. and we're told that john b. king jr. will replace him. arne duncan used to be the ceo of chicago's public school district. he came to the white house, essentially, with president obama and has been one of the longest, if not the longest, cabinet members of the original team that came with the administration. so he said in a statement to his team that he's been commuting between chicago and washington, d.c. with his family, and it's time to maybe stop that commute. but was proud of the work that they've done. we hope to talk to him before he goes, but secretary duncan stepping could down from the administration. jon: some new information now on a story we've been following. a man accused of murdering two college students could get life in prison for a rape case later today. a judge is set to sentence jesse matthew for a sexual assault from 2005. his family has asked for leniency. an ex-girlfriend even writing a letter to the judge sa

please give a warm, national press club welcome to education secretary arne duncan. [applause] secretary duncan: thank you so much. i want to start by telling you something i'm not proud of. early in my time as the el of chicago public schools, we set out to make our school safer places. we knew too many of our students were going to jail. i went to the police chief there and asked if we could find a what time of day or night our kids were getting arrested. i figured if we knew when the rest were occurring, we can target an intervention to keep kids more engaged in after school hours. if this was happening late at night, we have to challenge parents to step up and keep their kids safe and at home. expectabsolutely didn't was the actual answer that the majority of the arrests were current during the school day in our school buildings overwhelmingly for nonviolent misdemeanors. those calls the police put kids in jail. we were the ones making them. we were responsible. we met the enemy and it was us. , none of our teachers or principals, had set out to criminalize the be

>> the resignation of arne duncan and taking questions. presentat, democratic -- presidential candidate hillary clinton in florida. at a white house news conference, president obama announced that he will risen -- reluctantly accept the resignation of arne duncan. the president also took questions from reporters on of the government funding deal, dealing with gun violence and the situation in syria. this is about one hour, 10 minutes. president obama: please be seated. good afternoon. arne duncan is one of my longest-serving cabinet secretaries and he has been a friend for a lot longer than that. so it is with some regret and accepted his have decision to return to our hometown of chicago. after more than six years of living in washington, arne's wonderful wife, karen, and their kids want to move back home. they want to move back home. so, i will be honest, i pushed for arne duncan to stay, but i also know from personal experience how hard it is to be away from family. so while i will miss him deeply, he has more than earned the right to r

[applause] >>> preston obama talk about the resignation of arne duncan. and take the reporter's questions. then an from oregon officials on thursday shooting at a community college. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton in florida. announcer: the c-span city's tort working with our cable affiliates a visiting cities across the country. we are joined by comcast to learn about the history and literary life of santa rosa, california, considered part of napa wine country. the evolution of the wine industry. the agricultural history began with wine because the first wine planted here were by general vallejo and the mission. an omission in sonoma probably in the late 1820's or early 1830's which is a long time ago. and were mission greats nobody will make wine out of them now. labelhat wine country that started in the 1970's, by the 1980's and the 1990's, we were beginning to be better in better known. my folks first purchased the ranch in the late 1950's, they do not know at the time that they sought quite a change industry.- ag it has not always b

mejor.hoy cerramos la semana de la educacion, con una exclusiva de noticiero secretario de educacion, arne duncanpanos abarcÓ siete estados del paÍs. en el viaje el secretario revelÓ que la deserciÓn bajó de un 28 hago un 14%. >> la buena noticia es que los Índices de graduaciÓn entre los hispanos son los mÁs alto en la historia, la meta es que no sÓlo se gradÚen de la secundaria sino que vayan a la universidad. lucÍa: segÚn el secretario esa debe ser la meta de todos los estudiantes hispanos a nivel nacional el porcentaje de hispanos escritos en la universidad se ha triplicado sigue bajo el nivel de los graduados a lo largo perjudicarÁ los bolsillos de las familias hispanas. >> sabemos que lo que uno gana si solo termina la escuela secundaria es mucho menos que lo que uno gana si uno tiene una educaciÓn superior. lucÍa: en promedio un estudiante que se graduados de la universidad ganarÁ 1 millÓn de dÓlares mÁs durante su vida laboral comparado con estudiante que sÓlo tiene un diploma de la secundaria. llegamos a la segunda parada del tour presidente obama se hizo eco del mensaje ante los estudia

we have to make a bet on education. >> arne duncan's proposal to reform the criminal justice system.r graduates are defaulting on college student loans. >> we are very pleased that the default rates are going down. it is down across every sector. we all have to do better. we have to make sure young people know about income based repayment plans. where they are indexed to how much they make. >> students from for-profit colleges are the most likely to default overall. interesting stuff. the idea you can use money to fund teachers as part of the process to reform the criminal justice system. >> it should be interesting to see the fourth quarter. >> they want to get a lot done. >>> he says send them back. donald trump explains what will happen to syrian refugees. and bernie sanders fund raising efforts. is it enough to beat hillary? rheumatoid arthritis like me... and you're talking to a rheumatologist about a biologic, this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me reach for more. doctors have been prescribi

the former education secretary, the chair says arne duncan was one of the president's best appointment. it has a big heart, cares about children, and i have enjoyed working with him. -- i should say again, we will be covering hillary clinton. we will have that live for you on c-span. , this morning's washington journal. kyleur screen, pomerleau, an economist with the tax foundation. we are going to discuss some of the gop candidates' tax plans. here is a little from donald trump's announcement. donald trump: we are going to cut the individual rates from seven brackets to four. simplification. 20%, 10%, and 0%. if you are zero and you earn less than $25,000 per year, or lessed and jointly earn than $50,000. . and you earnrtant less than $25,000 or married and jointly earn less than $50,000, you will not pay any income tax. nothing. eliminates very strongly and quickly the marriage penalty, a very unfair penalty. it eliminates the amc, the alternative minimum tax. it ends the death tax, the double taxation a lot of families go through hell over. it reduces or eliminates most of the deduc

this is about 20 minutes. ♪ ♪ [applause] >> secretary arne duncan, it's great to be here with you. >>ou. >> we were just talking about his long legs and how they're going to reach the front of this platform. i'm delighted to be here, and i want to just start with something that you unveiled just yesterday, a proposal to redirect the money that's being spent today to incarcerate half the people who are convicted of nonviolent crimes and put it instead into paying teachers who are working in the highest-need schools in the toughest communities. you said you want to tackle, you call it the school-to-prison pipeline, and we've heard you talk about this before. how would this work? >> so i think no one can defend the current status quo, no one can say that mass incarceration has worked, has made us safer, has worked economically. if we just took 50% of nonviolent offenders instead of locking them up at 40, 50, 60, $70,000 a year and found other paths for them, if we took the 20% of schools around the nation in the poorest communities with the highest poverty rates, we could take every teac

tomorrow, arne duncan talks about the results of the study in urbanrdized testing schools, hosted by council of great city schools, beginning at 9:30 on c-span2. monday, republican representative from tennessee marsha blackburn talks about cyber security and data breach legislation, joint by john mckinnon+. subjected,als become they have come to realize it is not if you have your data breached, it is when is your data going to be breached? so having a federal standard and exercising some preemption and setting a period of time that companies have to conduct that information and then to inform consumers and sent penalties for enforcement, those are appropriate steps that should be taken and there is a step that is covered in data security legislation that we have worked on at the committee -- >> monday night at 8:00 on the communicators on c-span2. a signature feature of book tv as our coverage of the book fairs and festivals. top nonfiction authors, here is our schedule this weekend. we will be a national. -- we will be in nashville. in november, we are at the boston book festival. i

education secretary arne duncan is leaving after seven years on the job.on't get is -- duncan is one of the longest-serving obama cabinet ministers. president obama is planning to put john king junior in charge. touching alle areas of the company. walmart trimmed its annual earnings report. it marks the largest cut it headquarters since 2009, 1 800 people were let go. joe: biotech is one of the main sectors that has gotten clobbered during this bout of volatility. alix: the index has fallen more than 20% since july. seeing a rebound. buy tom is that you should the biotech floor. you are bullish. why? care areech and health great, innovative, american sectors with growth. there have been questions about pricing, but one of the ask is howou might common is a 20% fall in a month? since 1904, it is happened 800 time. joe: for every group? tom: every group. 2/3 of the time come the group comes roaring back. can get 2000% you after an internet bubble and you buy after 20%. tom: clients are calibrating the straight -- restraint. companies are more comfortable wit

secretary arne duncan speaking yesterday at the washington ideas festival in washington.look at that now. >> secretary arne duncan, it is great to be here with you. we were just talking about his long legs, and how they will reach the front of this platform. i'm delighted to be here. i want to start with something you unveiled yesterday. a proposal to redirect the money being spent today to incarcerate half the people who are convicted of nonviolent crimes, and put it, instead, into paying teachers, who are working in the highest need schools, and toughest communities. you said that you want to tackle the, you called it, school to prison pipeline. secretary duncan: no one can defend the current status quo, and say that mass incarceration has worked, made us safer. if we just took 50% of nonviolent offenders, instead of locking them out, find other paths for them. if we took the 20% of schools in the nation with the highest poverty rate, we could take every teacher in those schools, and give them a 50% raise. we should pay all teachers more. great teachers make a huge .iff

.: arne duncan will retire in december after seven years in the obama administration. in a letter to staffers he says he is heading home to chicago to be with his family. education department deputy john king jr. will serve as acting secretary through the end of his term. j.c.: a new york city high school teacher who accidentally crashed his drone at the u.s. open tennis tournament has been disciplined. daniel verley has been sentenced to five days of community service. verley had gone to photograph a park sculpture on september 3, when his drone lost signal and ended up at the nearby louis armstrong stadium. the drone plummeted into an unoccupied part of the stadium during the next-last game of a second-round match. no one was injured. phil: 50 degrees. we are looking at hurricane walking. it was a category four. it is still a monster storm. if you look up and down the east coast, we have people in new jersey in the carolinas, none of this is associated. >> it is such a large storm. we could have clear blue skies going on. it would still be doing the same right here.

what turned into a very emotional news conference in which the education secretary arne duncan announced that he's going to step down by the end of the year. >> the president also is commenting about the tragedy at the community college in oregon yesterday. we will continue to monitor the news conference and bring you more of what the president says. news 4 at 4:00 starts now. >>> news 4 begins now with storm team 4. >> and live at 4:00, a nor'easter bringing bands of rain, gusts of wind and bursts of cooler air and the worst of the storm may be still to come. >> no doubt ocean city is the hardest-hit spot in maryland. we're getting new video just in from the storm team 4 x 4, it shows high surf eating away at that beach. >>> closer to the district, a flash flood watch is in effect and the heaviest rain will be hitting us over the next few hours. good afternoon. i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm chris lawrence. news 4 will be with you for the next three hours and we'll pushing out alerts on the nbc washington app all weekend long. >> we'll have team coverage from ocean city to northern virgini

well, arne duncan grew up in chicago.his mother started an urban tutoring program for kids from low-income families on chicago's south side. young arne was there tutoring, playing basketball, and learning the value of a good education in stark terms. later, he would head the chicago school system. he became friends with the future president named barack obama. duncan and agriculture secretary tom vilsack are the only two remaining members of president obama's original cabinet. since being confirmed for his post on january 20th, 2009, duncan has changed education policy in important and sometimes controversial ways. states are increasing the rigor of their academic standards. they are turning around their lowest performing schools, and they're opening new charter schools. these reforms were triggered by funding available through the race to the top and waivers given under the no child left behind act. after a legislative overhaul in 2010, the department of education is now the lender and guarantor for billions of dollars i

we are learning that education secretary arne duncan will step down in december. duncan said in a letter to staff that he is returning to chicago to live with his family. president barack obama is tapping deputy secretary john king, jr. as acting secretary through the end of his term. also new this noon, a big change for public schools in the queen city. starting in november, elementary school will begin at 8:45 and end at 2:30. middle school starts at 7:35 and ends at 2:20. and high school starts at 7:45 and ends at 2:53. this is all due to the recently approved teachers contract and takes effect on monday, november 30. so they are starting school later in getting out later. several presidential candidates will be hitting the campaign trail here in the granite state this weekend. governor john kasich is holding a town hall meeting in goffstown right now. senator ted cruz has just begun his two-day visit making a stop in nashua. former senator rick santorum and businesswoman carly fiorina will arrive in new hampshire tomorrow. they, along with ted cruz, will atten

education secretary arne duncan has announced he is stepping down in december. president obama has named deputy education secretary john b. king jr. as acting education secretary, avoiding a senate battle to confirm a replacement for duncan. king previously served as new york state's education commissioner, where he came under criticism for advocating high-stakes standardized testing linked to teacher evaluations, policies which have sparked a historic statewide testing boycott by students and parents. arne duncan has faced criticism for advocating similar policies at the national level. utah congressmember jason chaffetz is making a bid to replace john boehner as speaker of the house, challenging boehner's presumed successor, house majority leader kevin mccarthy. chaffetz has been a leading critic of planned parenthood during recent house hearings targeting the organization. alabama has announced plans to shutter 31 drivers license offices. in areas which are disproportionately african american. the move comes after the state approved a voter id law requiring a

secretary of education arne duncan said that he'll step down. he introduced a number of reforms including the common core curriculum overhaul and the race to the stop that required states to compete for federal grants. he'll return to chicago to live with his family. >> finally to my family, and i love this work. i love this team. i love the president. i love the chance to serve. the only thumb things i love more are you guys. i can't wait to go home, coach ryan and have a few more dinners and maybe going to a movie some day. that would be amazing. >> america will be better off for what he has done. he'lhe will it's a record that i truly believe no other education secretary could match. >> john king jr. a high ranking official in the education department will take over upon duncan's departure. mcdonald's, coca-cola, and visas have linked their brand name to soccer. now they're forcing out the president of fifa, accept blatter. the big-money fight next. >> the president of the world soccer governing president is been called to resign. sepp blatte

good education and terry arne duncan on improving standardized testing. in tributes to outgoing house speaker john boehner. and nancy pelosi talks about women in politics. and her 45 minutes children on the decision to send toe u.s. combat advisors help in the fight against isis. then a discussion of the recent -- linkinging process meats to cancer. we will talk to the center for science and public interest. and i looked at moved by republicans to impeach irs commissioner amid accusations he misled the public and ♪ it saturday morning to you. it is october 31. the white house has announced it will deploy special operations forces to syria to aid in the battle there against the islamic state. it marks the first time troops will be on the ground full-time there. obama administration says it will not be engaged in direct combat, still, it is being called a major shift in strategy for president who vowed to not put boots on the ground. we want to know what you think. how involved should the u.s. be in syria? if you support that decision, .ou can dial (202) 74

so, i will be honest, i pushed for arne duncan to stay, but i also know from personal experience how hard it is to be away from family. on a sustained basis. so while i will miss arne deeply, he has more than earned the right to return home. has --look at what are arne has a conflict over the last 6.5 years. he is one of the longest-serving secretaries of education in our history and one of the more consequential. in just a few years, arne and his team have delivered incredible results at every stage of the educational experience. more than 30 states have raise standards for early childhood education, and nearly every state in america has raised standards for teaching and learning. expectations for what our kids can learn. our high school graduation rate is at an all-time high. we have helped millions of more families to afford college and more americans are graduating from college than ever before. that is just scratching the surface. he has done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anybody else. america is going to be bett

plus, secretary of education arne duncan on reducing the amount of testing in the nation's schools. >l do things that are redundant or not helpful and waste time and energy. >> ifill: and, going beyond the headlines.

npclive.hash tag # arne duncan grew up in chicago. his mother started an urban tutoring program for kids from low-income families on chicago's south side. young arnie was there, tutoring, playing basketball, and learning the value of a good education. later, he would head the chicago school system. he became friends with the future president, barack obama.

education secretary arne duncan announced today that he will be stepping down in december.says he'll be returning home to chicago to be with his family. duncan is one of the few remaining members of president obama's original cabinet. >>> it is the third straight day now of russian air strikes in syria. moscow says the air strikes destroyed a command center and training site for isis fighters. two days after the kremlin started operations in syria, the united states accused russia of bombing the opposition to president al assad. mass could you says the air strikes will only intensify and could last as long as four months >> >>> the pentagon says enemy fire is not suspected in the crash of a relief airplane. >> reporter: the u.s. military plane had just taken off from the air base when it quickly came down in eastern afghanistan early friday morning. the plane was flying very low, said this witness. suddenly, i saw an explosion and flames shoot from the plane. six airmen and five contractors were on board the large transport plane, a c-130 similar to this one. they were part

arne duncan says he'll be stepping down in december to spend more time with his family in chicago. deputy secretary john king jr. will take over duncan's duties. during a press conference today, just a few hours ago, king talked about the death of his parents when he was a kid and how teachers changed his life. >> new york city public school teachers are the reason that i am alive. they are the reason that i became a teacher. they are the reason i'm standing here today. those teachers created amazing educational experiences, but also gave me hope. hope about what is possible. >> king previously served as education commissioner for new york. >>> okay, did they meet or not? >> what the vatican is now saying about a meeting between pope francis and the kentucky clerk kim davis in washington. >>> plus this -- >> reporter: with a recent death linked to new cases of legionnaires' diseases, i'm going inside this cooling tower to find out why these are breeding grounds for bacteria and how they're cleaned. >>> and lester holt has a look at what he's working on for 6:30. >> "nightly news" c

arne duncan announced he's leaving in december, being education secretary since december of 2009.e'll be returning to chicago to rejoin his family. the president nominated deputy education secretary john king jr. to succeed duncan. >>> and ben salem wants more people to spend time along the delaware river there. they unveiled what they call the river renaissance. the improvements cover nearly 700 acres of river front property. the area used to be chemical and industrial plants, and that was all cleaned up, and now 20 families live there. there is room for about 600 more families with the new plans. yesterday, officials showed off the plans to businesses who may also want to redevelop at the end of bucks county -- at this end of bucks county. >> huge uses with residential, commercial, high-tech industry, looking for high-tech industry to come in here. all those things to create jobs, great place to live, river front access to everyone. >> while there are people living there already, developers are quick to point out it's the first phase of a multiphase redevelopment project. >>> no

he will replace arne duncan who announced he's stepping down. >> while i'm deeply sad to be leaving, i'm extraordinarily happy and thankful and proud that john will carry on this work with the team are. >> reporter: he is heading home to chicago after seven years as education secretary. king will take on his responsibilities but not his title. president obama has decided not to nominate him as secretary to avoid a confirmation bat until the senate. >>> david denkins is getting a building namedfter him and not building will be renamed in his honor. after years of service as a city clerk, he became the fst black mayor. he was elected in 1989 and rved one four year ter >>> a motorcycle rider leads police on a high-npeed chase all the while texting on his cell phone. thursday afternoon in martin county, florida. the rider is caught riding without hands to text. the helicopter pilot forced him off the interstate where he was arrested. he faces multiple charges including fleeing and eluding police. >> and charge for being stupid. >> lucky to be alive frankl >> seriously. too. >> probably t

. >> today education secretary arne duncan talks about results of a two-year study on standardized tests in urban school systems. hosted by the council of great city schools, you can see it live beginning at 9:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> u.s. chamber of commerce president and ceo thomas donohue talked to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the washington bureau of the christian science monitor. he talked about legislative priorities in the coming years and the chamber's role in the upcoming 2016 election. this is an hour. >> so metropolitan this morning, we're going to have people join us in prre

arne duncan says parents and teachers shouldn't panic simple states are now implementing higher standards. >>> the president of ireland will be in the city of berkeley where six people died in a balcony collapsed last summer. he will attend a ceremony for the first responders. he take part in a tree planting ceremony in civic center park. >>> tonight republicans will take part in the third presidential debate this time focusing on fix cal -- fiscal policy. don champion reports. >> i don't like being second. second is terrible to me! >> reporter: on the eve of the third republican debate, donald trump held his second rally of the week in the early voting states of iowa. this time, pleading for support. >> will you please do me a favor and work with my people and go out on february 1st and vote? and give us a victory? [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: for the first time, a new cbs news poll shows the billionaire businessman trailing neurosurgeon ben carson not only in iowa but nationally in part because of his personality. tea party republicans and evangelicals prefer carson's tone and d

educator gathered today at the white house ming with education secretary arne duncan to discuss the way forward . >>> the goal here is not just to test, the goal here is to improve teaching and learning. >> reporter: under a new plan the president recommends schools use no more than 23 of classroom time for standardized test. the test enhance teeing and learning and provide a clearer being . >>> learning is about so much more than filling in the right bubble. so we're going to work with states, school districts, teachers an parents to make sure . >>> according to a recent study students in big city public schools currently take on average about 112 mandatory standardized tests between prek and high school graduation. while thgoal of standard used testing is accountability, many agree it's gone too far and is often redundant . >>> it is important that we have accountability and testing but we need to make sure that it help the teacher and the student and the parent know what to do next to make improvements. >> reporter: now a largely bipartisan push to put the focus back on teaching and

to live at the national press club for discussion about student testing with education secretary arne duncan and others. the obama administration announcing it wants no more than 2% of students time spent taking standardized tests. >> the next steps that all of us on the panel are proposing as we move forward. this council study was initiated two years ago by our board of directors, which is comprised of the superintendent and one school board member from each city. in the discussion they had when they met in albuquerque about this time in 2013 my board realized that frankly we did not know as an urban school coalition how much testing we are actually doing. nor did we have a good sense of the testing policies and practices in place from district to district. our board charged us with taking an inventory of the testing administered in urban public schools in the 2014-15 school year as well as reviewing how these tests were being used and reporting out the result of our inventory, no matter what that inventory said. we were not interested here in saying who was right, who is wrong in the publ

education secretary arne duncan is resigning. president obama said today he is reluctantly accepting duncan's resignation after 7 years. that makes duncan one of the president's longest serving cabinet members. he said he is leaving at a time when high school graduation rates are at an all-time high. >> arnie has done more to bring our educational system sometimes kicking and screaming into the 21st century than anybody else. >> duncan in turn thanked the president for enabling him to make reforms. the president has asked duncan's deputy john king, jr. to take over the department when duncan leaves in december. >>> why is homeland security targeting the mayor of stockton? it's happened again. what the mayor speculates is behind all this sudden scrutiny. >> and they survived the "valley fire" thanks to one man's commitment. meet the man who is taking care of the four-legged victim. >> sunshine is back for your friday. but guess what? there's more rain in your seven- day forecast. find out when the showers are making a return comin

arne duncan the secretary of education will leave his cabinet position in december. in an e-mail to his staff stun can said she will return to chicago to live with his family. duncan has been in charge the education department since the beginning of president obama's first term. the current deputy secretary of education is set to take over . >> anchor: the vatican clearing up confusion today about pope francis's meeting with a controversial county clerk kim davis. saying it does not mean he supports her position. davis is the kentucky clerk who refuses to approve any marriages so that she doesn't have to improve same sex marriage. davis citing religious believes. the vatican said the pope met with many people in the u.s. due to his "kindness and availability." >>> he shook example's hand and gave them rosaries. in terms of why this person was invited, you have to ask those questions of the nunciature . >> anchor: the vatican says pile pope francis was in the u.s. he met with one of his former pupils an open we gay man with his longtime time warmer in in. still to com

then president obama on the resignation of education secretary arne duncan, and taking reporters questions. and live at 7:00 a.m., your calls and comment on "washington journal." her,e c-span cities to working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. this weekend we are joined by comcast to learn more about the history of santa rosa, california. considering considered part of napa wine county. >> i guess you could say it's history began with wine, because the first vines planted here were at the mission in sonoma. late 1820's or early 1830's, which was a very long time ago. they were mission grapes, and nobody in their right mind would make wine out of them. 1990's wes and the were beginning to be better and better known. when my folks first purchased the ranch in the late 50's, they did not know it at the time but they saw quite a change in the industry happening, just in our little valley. it had not always been the quote unquote wine country. we have a wonderful agriculture history here in sonoma county. it the jackoes london house. >> this is where jack london

meeting with education secretary arne duncan to discuss the way forward. "the goal here is not just to test, the goal here is to improve teaching and learning." under a new plan, the president is recommending schools use no more han... ... 2 percent of classroom time for standardized tests, that the tests enhance teaching and learning and provide a clearer picture of how students are performing. "learning is about so much more than filling in the right bubble." "we're going to work with states, school districts, teachers and parents to make sure that we are not obsessing about testing." according to a recent study.. students in big city public schools currently take, on average, about 112 mandatory standardized tests between pre-k and high school graduation. while the goal of standardized testing is accountability... many agree it has gone too far....and is often redundant. "it is important that we have accountability and testing but we need to make sure that helps the teacher and the student and the parent know what to do next to make improvements." now a

deputy education secretary john king is expected to replace arne duncan when duncan leaves in december> also tonight, a new incident in what has been a string of troubling incidents involving the police. this time it involves coffee shop employees who are writing ftp on the tops of its coffee cups. the initials are believed to be directed toward police. with the latest on this story we go to trace gallagher from our west coast newsroom. trace? >> it is a st. louis coffee shop, sandra. tweet that started the controversy is "when you realize why bay is bay, that's short for baby, and why mokabes is your favorite place. ftp is "f the police. the owner's son wrote ftp on all the lids. because of the tweet, the coffee sh shop was inundated with accusations. "i've seen them call police numerous times for disturbances, panhandlers and people who refuse to leave. if you can't support the please, please opt out of the police. good-bye, mo." the shop posteded a facetious comment on twitter saying about the employees, per our policy he is on paid leave pending an investigation because we take cup

. >>> just getting word an education secretary arne duncan is stepping down in december.tter to his staff and a white house official is confirming the news. president obama plans to discuss the change that education secretary arne duncan is stepping down later today at the white house. >>> about 90 minutes from now law enforcement officers in oregon will be holding a news conference. they will tell us the latest about that mass shooting at umpqua community college in oregon. there are reports the gunman chris harper left behind a hate filled manifesto. he killed nine people, wounded nine others and he was wearing body armor and heavily armed. but we still don't know if he committed suicide or killed by a shootout with police. survivors say he targeted christian students and told them he had been waiting to do this for years. >> people running in every direction. everyone was running everywhere. >> what was going through your mind? >> i hope i make it. >> police did recover four weapons at the school. three pistols and a rifle. one of the weapons was not registered to him.

. >>> and up next, education secretary arne duncan is out, but are students better off for his service? we take that up with radio talk show host larry o'connor and sam sorbo. that's sam right there. we're coming right back. >> one of the last remaining members of the president's original cabinet resigned. calling it quits the president said secretary don't bin had done a terrific job here is one metric he did not consider that s.a.t. scores have fallen to the lowest levels of the decade with declines across all three disciplines of reading mathematics right-wing and african-americans and hispanics slipping further behind in those test. joining us tonight we have jerry o'connor. and radio talk-show host host, author of the answer. good to have you here. let me ask you with the s.a.t. scores there are very few metrics to say his administration has done well what is the deal? >> he changes the metric he talks about the deficit it was the highest we have seen when he first took office. and he just changes the metric. to say i am happy he is stepping down i have my doubts began -- of his s