education secretary arnie duncan is going to introduce a policy to avoid closing down 80% of american schools. they will have a waiver system to give waiver to those deemed failures under the "no child left behind" policy. the policy says the schools could be shut don't meet the reading and math standards. the administration wants to change the push era no child left behind. congressional republican ospose changes. >> meteorologist mike nicco with the forecast. >> we are seeing sunshine around the bay area for those who want it. flight arrival delays are over. hard to believe when you look at this picture. see how long cooler than average temperatures hang around. >> new report of safety of packed lunch. what researchers found after testing hundreds of the kids' school lunches.  (speaking in international language) and he said unto them go ye into all of the world and preach the gospel preach the gospel  ♪very creature in the world. (applause) >>> we want to check the dow for you again. it was down over 500 points just moments ago. now it rebounded a little bit. still dow

criticism from arnie duncan, secretary of education, texas public education.this i think is rick perry, it's his welcome to the show moment where he's in it now. >> should he answer where he stands? i mean, he says evolution is a theory. he questions the science. is that a gocha question at this point? >> the question itself isn't. obviously that's a position he's going to have to elaborate on at some point during the campaign. when you see a moment where you have a kid and the mother is behind the kid asking questions designed to elicit a certain answer from the governor, it tells you something doesn't smell right in denmark. >> that kid's face says a lot. how did i get here this morning? my goodness. karl rove also making headlines. a column in the "wall street journal" talking about the gop going in on each other and attacking each other. he wrote because primaries tend to be binary contests, mrs. bachmann and mr. perry will now likely compete to be the not romney candidate. they can aclooef dominance by attacking each other, attacking mr. romney or attacki

education secretary arnie duncan is going to introduce a policy to avoid closing down 80% of american schools. they will have a waiver system to give waiver to those deemed failures under the "no child left behind" policy. the policy says the schools could be shut down if they don't meet the reading and math standards. the administration wants to change the push era no child left behind. congressional republican ospose changes. >> meteorologist mike nicco with the forecast. >> we are seeing sunshine around the bay area for those who want it. flight arrival delays are over. hard to believe when you look at this picture. see how long cooler than average temperatures hang around. >> new report of safety of packed lunch. what researchers found after testing hundreds of the >>> we want to check the dow for you again. it was down over 500 points just moments ago. now it rebounded a little bit. still down 481 points. nearing the end of the trading session. major selloff as investors respond to america's credit rating being lowered. president obama held a special news conference within the pa

. >>> arnie duncan will unveil a new policy to avoid closing down 80% of the american schools. .ey are announcing a waiver system to give a break for schools deemed failures under the no child left behind policy. schools could be shut down if they don't meet standards. the waiver will allow the schools to stay open if they meet other reform requirements. the administration wants to change no child left behind. congressional republicans oppose the changes. >>> 4:50 on monday morning. time to look at the forecast. feeling okay, big guy? >> just a little froggy. just like the weather. just battling a cold, as a lot of people are, it seems like lately, though it's august. 4:50. we look at the embarcadero, where right now it's dry. but we did have drizzle earlier, hard to see the bay bridge, because of the low clouds. we have flight arrival delays and cooler than average temperatures this afternoon. everybody in the mid-to-upper 50s. around the monterey bay and inland, we have temperatures in 50s. it will be sunny and cool today away from the coast. where it's cloudy and cool today. a

president obama's secretary of education, arnie duncan joining me live from washington. hanks for coming on. let's begin with -- >> thanks for the opportunity, brooke. >> of some phrases popping up, the fact that the administration by issuing this executive order, letting schools off the hook here. they're offering these waivers. explain how that will work. >> well, basically the law is four years overdue for reform. we're really hoping congress would act in a bipartisan way, a law that was fundamentally broken. the law is far too punitive. many, many ways to fail. basically no rewards for success. for prescriptive, very top down in washington. none of these things are what our children or our country needs right now. we can't have a law that stands in the way of progress or invasion. -- innovation. we'll work directly with states and where states are doing the right thing, raising the bar, having higher standardsing being thoughtful about teacher and principal evaluation, support, turning around underperforming school, we want to give those states a lot more flexibility.

desperately need money left holding an end to it not only that president obama's secretary of education arnie duncan just announced forty nine million dollars in federal education grants that will also go exclusively to new york and florida for profit charter schools and president obama's two thousand and twelve budget calls for three hundred seventy two million to go to for profit charter schools all over the nation so here we are outsourcing the education of our children to corporate c.e.o.'s religious leaders neither of whom care about actually preparing our kids for the jobs of the twenty first century and compete with china but instead only care about profits so this is really the sort of education we should be pursuing in america here offer his take his conservative commentator david sullivan new york city david welcome back if you think it's on thanks for having me and thank you to your viewing audience i got a lot of kinds feedback last time i was on i'll it's nice that you're gung ho in favor of charter schools and you don't want public schools apparently to succeed why do you hate students

of the restoration is supposedly trying to respond to this we have a chorus eric holder we have arnie duncan secretary of education saying of their lodging a new initiative to go after this what are your thoughts in terms of how far they'll go whether it actually is anything. well i mean i'm not really sure what they can do i mean a best thing that they could do to address all this is to reform the drug laws and particularly to you know stop sending federal grants out to local police departments in exchange for greg arrest and to call off the federal drug work to be on marijuana which i think is really where a lot of this damage is being done but in terms of you know what even with the kids i mean they said that they're going to you know try to go after the zero tolerance policies to stop this school school to prison pipeline specifically yeah i mean i don't i mean i really don't know what the department of justice can do in terms of telling local law enforcement i mean law enforcement is traditionally a an issue that's supposed to be left up to the states and left up to to. you know more ju

arnie duncan will be held on his tomorrow. he has been pushing no child left behind law. d them questions on topic of education by using the tag ask arnie. for more information go to our website at abc7news.com. >> a memorial for martin luther king, jr. is opening in washington. it was designed right here in the bay area. it includes a 30 foot sculpture of dr. king and features growth i have a dream speech. it was designed by san francisco team and stanford historian that was selected in 1985 by coretta scott king to study his writings and speeches. >> the memorial honors, brings honor to the nation. king, his historical importance whether or not we have a memorial would still be there, but i think having them says something this nation. >> the four acre memorial site will be officially dedicated this sunday on 48th anniversary of the march on washington. >> we've heard three strikes and you are out. last night, one all star outfielder found it on it can be one bug you are out. bizarre incident that happened. >> every santa clara county library is closed today. why most pe

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on news makers, as american children head back to school, education secretary arnie duncan talks about the state of the u.s. education system. as well as waivers from the no child left behind law and other education issues. today at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. texas republican congressman and presidential candidate ron paul was the keynote speaker friday night at the florida liberty summit in orlando. he talked about the current tax system and the federal reserve monetary policy. the summit is hosted by the group campaign for liberty. congressman paul finished in second place in last week's iowa republican party straw poll, one percentage point behind the winner. this is just over 45 minutes. >> thank you, thank you very much. i want to thank jack for his introduction and mark for all his hard work. mark has something to do with this. he has good organization skills and he has a lot of people to work with. thank you very much for helping out. [cheers and applause] this year i particularly wanted to make sure i made this meeting because you know we had that little straw

education secretary arnie duncan slammed perry's handling of the texas school system in a news interviewoomberg tv's al hunt. >> texas has really struggled, and i feel badly for the children there. texas may have the highest high school dropout rate -- sorry, the lowest high school graduation rate in the country. far too few are prepared to go to college. massive increases in class size. cutbacks in funding. we have to educate our way to a better economy. >> and it's likely to get worse. mr. no relation perry is using this year's budget to slash $4 billion from public schools. $46 million from the university of texas alone. and ut is part of the statewide system that's one of the largest in the country. perry and a texas think tank are pushing a plan spearheaded by a perry donor to overhaul the university system in a way that at least one dean warns will drive top students and faculty away. now, all of the members of the system's regents board are perry appointees, and among them, one of his top campaign donors, james dannenbaum. his engineering company has been awarded multiple state co

. >>> arnie duncan will unveil a policy today to avoid closing down schools.give a break to schools that are deemed failure under the federal "no child left behind" policy. policy says the schools should be shut down if they don't meet standards. it will allow schools to save open if they reach performance requirements. congressional republicans oppose changes. >>> 5:50 on monday morning with a lot of people heading to work across the bay bridge. what is in store for them? >> drizzle and flight arrival delays. we have warmer weather. a beautiful picture with the cascading clouds from east bay hill to valley. talk about the temperatures that are mild. great sleeping weather when we're in the 50s. to near 6r 0 in mountain view. monterey bay and inland low to mid-50s. cloudy condition and drizzle. patchy in your neighborhood. sunny and cool today. around the bay. but as we head to the coast, cloudy and cool. cloudy, drizzle and likely we'll see that and deal with it again tomorrow. inland, a slight warming this week. compared to average, warmer as we talked about

education secretary arnie duncan says they grant waivers to states that have college standards.ve apply for the waiver. secretary duncan will decide which states get the waivers. >> the 2011 volkswagen jetta is being looked at for leaks in the fuel line and the 2011 and 2012 ford mustangs are being looked at for possible transmission problems. the government says it's received about 32 complaints about shippifting problems for mustangs with manual transmissions. >> teens honoring their favorite celebs last night in los angeles. of course, that's harry potter keeping the magic alive. it won seven surfboards at the teen choice awards. topping "twilight." another big winner, taylor swift, country, that is. i thought that was a new name of some artist. no, it's country cutie, taylor swift. she took home five awards including choice female artist. the 21-year-old says she's humbled. >> it's crazy to win things. i never used to win things. you know, before this started taking off. >> choice male artist went to justin bieber who, despite rumors of a breakup, was sitting next to girl fr

sunday on "newsmakers" education secretary arnie duncan. he talks about the state of the u.s. education and jobs. >> jobs are going to go to where the workers are. we're competing for jobs with india, china, south korea, singapore, and i think our children are as smart and creative and as talented and entrepreneurial as anywhere in the world. i just want to give them a chance to be successful. right now, unfortunately, the brutal truth is other countries are out-educating us. countries that out-educate us today are going to out-compete us down the road. >> you can see the entire interview with education secretary arne duncan sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern time on "newsmakers." >> search, watch, and share all our programs any time with c-span video library. we are on the road bringing our resources to local communities and showing events from around the country. it is washington your way. the c-span networks created by cable, provided as a public service. >> next a discussion on aviation security. you will he will you please stand to be recognized. we are proud to h

. >> as kids head back to school, education secretary arnie duncan talks about the state of the educationrs for the no child left behind law and other education issues. news makers 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch more video on the candidates. see what political reporters are saying and track the latest campaign contributions on c-span's website cap 2012. candidate bios and the latest polling data plus links to c-span media partners in the earlier campaign caucus states. august 16 marked the 34th anniversary of elvis presley's death. this weekend on c-span 3, elvis aide and confidente jerry schilling talks about the king and his meeting at the white house with president nixon. we'll talk about mount vernon and shedding new light on george washington. get complete we could schedule at c-span.org/history. >> now presidential account michele bachmann holds a town hall event in meriting beach, south carolina. last weekend she won the iowa republican straw poll with 28% of the vote. this is just over an hour. >> ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, i want to make one comment

and later education secretary arnie duncan talks about some of the challenges that schools face, including alcohol abuse and drugs. >> arne duncan, education secretary, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. eastern. coming up next, latino politicians discussion next year's elections. then jeffrey toobin on the u.s. supreme court. >> see how your elected officials voted with a comprehensive video on c-span.org/congress. it includes daily floor action and committee hearings. >> now, a panel of latino-elected officials talks about voting trends, the census, redistricting, and the 2012 election. the national association of latino elected and appointed officials hosted this discussion in san antonio, texas, at its annual meeting in june. it took about 20 minutes. he >> the national hispanic media and others met to begin planning the campaign resolved in the 2010 census count. as we came together, we clearly understood what the challenges were. and also, what the census means. we also understand what comes with a complete count. the federal resources needed to improve our schools, our transportation, our infr