reggie love was a lot more valuable to duke then a arnie duncan was to harvard.onomic asset, i mean, arnie duncan produced exactly zero profit for harvard university. he played on a basketball team that like all harvard teams is at best a break even proposition last year. nicely covered the team's expenses of 1 $1.4 million. in the one year i was an ncaa athlete at that same college as arnie duncan, i'm not sure our baseball team produced any revenue. i don't think i remember them selling tickets back then. i think people wandered in and watched. but reggie played millions of profit and a fastball team that made even more in profit for duke university. duke's basketball team hauled in about $26 million in revenue. the accounting system indicates the basketball team had more than $15 million in expenses, which means that duke basketball team delivered nearly $10 million in profit to the university 13 players delivered nearly $10 million. they do that every year. if that sounds like a lot, it is nothing compared to the ut football team. the university of texas foot

. >> secretary of education arnie duncan and attorney general erik older went to an elementary school in washington, d.c. to announce the results of a sweeping study. highlighting inequality in the nation's schools. it starts early and it starts with discipline. black children make up just 18% of the preschoolers in the country, and yet are 42% of the children suspended in school at least once. you probably didn't think preschoolers were being suspended from school. the attorney general tried to explain. >> i think a lot of it has to do with who we are as a society. there are certain pre-conceptions that people have about kids of color. they are perceived in certain ways. there are kids who engage the kinds of things that children normally do. that can sometimes be misconstrued if you view a child with a pre-conceived notion about that child. we have to break through that. it means we have to train our teachers in ways that they are sensitive to cultural differences. >> cultural differences aside discipline management problems in america's public education system span the grade levels

they are going to lose membership and people like the president and the secretary of education arnie duncan who very much support charter schools and to speak to bruce's point i have to say, i don't care who is running them. some are for profit. the bottom line is when you look at the performance numbers the charter schools, the kids are doing better. >> and rich, the fact is the parents want them. who should be in charge of kids' education? the teachers union or the parents? i think it's the parents and so do they. >> well, the parents overwhelmingly want them. i'm so glad that rick pointed out this physicalure in the democratic party. you have people on the right side of this like rahm emanuel, governor cuomo in new york and then you have people like de blasio and part of the reason his polls are plummeting he is on the wrong side of this. how could you be against parents wanting their kids to get out of the cycle of poverty by getting a real education. >> and john, we should mention by the way, we mentioned there is this connection with the old acorn people, and the teachers union, the t

arnie duncan is powerful. he should be. congress cannot do anything. we all agree we should get over it. we cannot get anything done. then we have the higher education act. i will try to bring up the elementary and secondary education act. we know the republicans will not be there to vote for it. its congress advocates , then thelity secretary has to take over into things. nobody wanted to keep no child left behind going with the terrible provisions. secretary duncan is coming with the waivers to allow schools to get out from underneath that if they will do certain things. a lot of the things are basic that we have in our legislation. the republicans will not let us pass it. i think duncan is doing a great job. he is doing a great job. to pass the legislation. they house is to pass them. we need to go to conference and work these things out. i do not know if we can get it done. >> we will have to leave it on that annote. thank you for being here. we're back here with our reporters. let's begin with the minimum wage. when is this likely to come to the f

clearly, the obama administration and secretary arnie duncan had taken a strong innd on what the reformsate should look like. they have been holding states accountable to that through the no child left behind act, and things like ways to the top. but the states have a strong role to play as well. int of our policies education are made at the state level, so state legislators play an important role in putting in place laws and policies at the state level that will impact kids. >> where are you seeing the most improvements, which states are leading the way? >> we have seen a couple of jurisdictions that are really out in front right now. tennessee is one of them. the governor there in the legislature have taken an incredibly aggressive approach to education. you are seeing that bear fruit. national, in the last examination, found in every other jurisdiction, as did washington, d.c., where they have implemented a lot of these reforms. >> when you were the d.c. school chancellor, you argue that performance was not always the basis for tenure. there are states that use in valuations for teach

institute put out a paper a couple of years ago arguing for later start times, secretary of education arnie duncan said he supports the later start times. why haven't we seen more schools do it? >> well, you know, it's a very interesting question because schools in america are very concerned and believe in the local control concept. american schools from founded on that. so to have an uniform policy for all starting time of schools i think would be counterproductive, number one, and number two, when a school district considers making the change, they're changing the forms of what is normal in that community. when do buses run? when do parents leave for work, daycare, all those issues are part of the decision. it is not an easy decision that school districts make. >> the study really raises a lot of interesting questions. fascinating study. doctor wahlstrom thank you. if you hav want to learn more go to www.aljazeera.com/consider this. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories that we're following for you. glitches on the last day to sign up for affordable care act. p

arnie duncan is powerful. he should be. congress cannot do anything. we all agree we should get over it. we cannot get anything done. then we have the higher education act. i will try to bring up the elementary and secondary education act. we know the republicans will not be there to vote for it. when congress advocates its responsibility, then the secretary has to take over into things. nobody wanted to keep no child left behind going with the terrible provisions. secretary duncan is coming with the waivers to allow schools to get out from underneath that if they will do certain things. a lot of the things are basic that we have in our legislation. the republicans will not let us pass it. i think duncan is doing a great job. he is doing a great job. we need to pass the legislation. they house is to pass them. we need to go to conference and work these things out. this year i do not know if we can get it done. >> we will have to leave it on that note. thank you for being here. we're back here with our reporters. let's begin with the minimum wage. when

the speakers included secretary ack lew, arnie duncan, and white house advisor valerie jarrett. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the treasury department. i'm with the office of national institutions here at treasury. it's great to have you-all here with us for the first meeting of the new president's advisory council on financial capability. also warm welcome to the members of the council. we are grateful that you have agreed to serve. the subject of financial capability is a priority for the administration, so we look forward to the work of this counsel with great interest. in a few minutes, we'll hear remarks from secretary lew, secretary duncan, sill seala munoz, and director rich cord ray. before i turn it over to secretary lew, let me make a couple points about the work of this council. first, the mission of this council in many ways follows from the work of the previous' president's advisory council on financial capability. that council submit add report to the president which it noted the importance among other things of financial education for our youth and drawing on all r

they are going to lose membership and people like the president and the secretary of education arnie duncanch support charter schools and to speak to bruce's point i have to say, i don't care who is running them. some are for profit. the bottom line is when you look at the performance numbers the charter schools, the kids are doing better. >> and rich, the fact is the parents want them. who should be in charge of kids' education? the teachers union or the parents? i think it's the parents and so do they. >> well, the parents overwhelmingly want them. i'm so glad that rick pointed out this physicalure in the democratic party. you have people on the right side of this like rahm emanuel, governor cuomo in new york and then you have people like de blasio and part of the reason his polls are plummeting he is on the wrong side of this. how could you be against parents wanting their kids to get out of the cycle of poverty by getting a real education. >> and john, we should mention by the way, we mentioned there is this connection with the old acorn people, and the teachers union, the teachers unio

produce graduates who on average earned less than a high school dropout as secretary of education arnie duncan put it too many of these programs fail to provide students with the training they need at the taxpayers' expense and at the cost of these students futures joining me now to talk about the predatory practices of for profit colleges and the obama administration's attempts to reel them in is david helper a contributor there to the republic report and the nation magazine and author of the new e-book stealing america's future for profit colleges scam taxpayers and ruined students' lives david welcome. thank you tom if you have great to have you with us how big is the for profit college industry in the for profit college industry is something like forty five billion dollars and thirty maybe thirty three thirty four billion of that comes from you and me comes from taxpayers many of these schools receive almost ninety percent of their revenue from taxpayer money. now this fast to be relatively recent i mean i'm kind of an old fart i remember going to college and the sixty's and early seventy'