arnie duncan gives out waivers and they say you don't have to be subject but what you do have to do is be subject to my rule. you have to evaluate teachers by the test scores of there students open more charter schools, adopt the common core. and he actually took the waiver away from the state of washington because the legislature refused to go along with the teacher evaluation fees. every school in the entire state is a failing school and has to inform the parents. we live in an unprecedented time. not only because we have this crazy law which should have been reauthorized eight years ago but instead the obama administration added race to the top which is a knew iteration of know child left behind making punishments more severe. race to the top focuses on labeling and punishing teachers. many, many teachers have been fired. i just read a statistic in an article he said that 4000 4000 public schools have been closed since 2,008 rahm emanuel closed 50 public schools in one day which is never happened before. before. were not talking about continuity but a radical extreme break and a a d

. >> secretary of education arnie duncan talks about poverty, and we found this from a speech at theional press club, which is as you see the poverty-related schools crossing the line. >> we can't use the excuse for educated children at risk and helping them to beat the odds year after year after year. our children only have one chance to get a great education. they can't wait for poverty to magically disappear. >> yet you have to reach adequate yearly progress goals else you lose your job, your school, in some states can be broken up and the children dispersed to different places. that sounds a little like you there. >> yes, but it's what i was made to do. i actually received as long as i remember. free assistance. i walked in the shoes of the children. since i have walked in the shoes of the children. i'm equipment to lead a school. >> if you look at the way we staff school, how we fill them up with children. decide where they are going to do, what we will pay for we are probably the only country in the world that funds rich kids schools better than poor kids schools, when we know

the next question i don't know that arnie duncan said there are 2,000 kids or whatever and i don't know where he got the numbers from and 50% didn't have an opportunity and if that is true something is wrong; right? but part of is also -- we know there are probably kids that do qualify especially for title v, that income level, and yet if we were to get enough resources next question would be do we have the capacity in terms of space whether it's in the school district can we offer more or not? and outside of the school district? i am running a bunch of questions so you can answer whatever you want. i know you have to rush out of here, but those are some of the questions that i have. i have more but -- >> just quickly i think it's a good question and we can unpack that number. we know how many kids are going into -- we know how many pfa children are in the district and how many are in the community that come into the district, and we know some things about -- we know about their readiness as compared to non pfa. we also know and barbara's slide showed it. we know know norman who the fou

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. >> and she put together a group of individuals, movie stars elected officials, arnie duncan and we started campaigning called "ban bossy." >> ban boxing? >> the whole idea was -- >> ban boxing? >> ban bossy. >> ban the word bossy. we're finding that the girls, again, every time they're raising hands or say they want to control something, they're labeled bossy. and we found that actually more than 0% of the time when a girl is called bossy at school it's not a little girl telling her she's bossy. a girl telling another girl that it's bossy. so it's girl on girl crime. so what we started to say is can we stop saying when a woman or a girl is sharing her opinion or is trying to run for class office that she's not trying to be bossy. she's trying to live her dream and her potential. we did. it was astounding. the campaign went global. it really started it. we had people who disagreed with us. which i enjoyed because never before did i hear people talking about the concept of girls and leadership and banning a word and it started this whole dialogue about the need for adults to understa

i think this administration and arnie duncan and barack obama have been supportive of charter schools i have been supportive at least on par of the way in changing how we reward and higher teachers and have been supportive of accountability. there have been times they have gone against what the unions have wanted. i would argue that they have not gone far enough. they do deserve credit for being for charter schools for at least starting the conversation about how you changed it -- teacher compensation. starting those approaches. and i will come back. i want to commend the pres. and first lady. my biggest complaint is that they don't go far enough. they are fine with charter schools but not with full school choice. charter schools are great command we have done a lot of things to lift the cap on charter schools allow people that have been successful, multiple charter schools collect in the contracts and to close down ineffective charter schools. that is not enough. you have to go further on teacher certification reform, empowering reform empowering parents and repeal common core. their

as is an increasing tension in the democratic party as it relates to the teachers unions with arnie duncan'sproposals. there's a large there is a large number of that are reformed democrats that feel as though the teacher tenure and charter schools and other education innovations are not really necessary and another group tends to support the union position and another that is teacher bashing. is this something that they have to make a choice going forward not just the teachers unions but also a very powerful public-sector unions that you took on when you are the treasure? >> they just need to be willing to be honest about the reality. if we have schools that are not working in educating our kids well and the results are not what they need to be diminutive ace the facts and if that means some changes i think democrats have to have the courage to do that. unfortunately all of this quickly gets unproductive and i think we ought to treats teachers like the professionals that they are and then hold them accountable. every teacher that i know wants to be held accountable. every teacher that i kno