this is not some sudden thing he has found in the de blasio era.igher taxes on the wealthy in new york. >> there was a millionaires tax that ended up passing the legislature and actually governor cuomo has now said because that's went through -- >> the backstory, it basically passed in spite of andrew cuomo even if he signed it, we should know. >> it did go through under his purview, just to note that. >> the question is, how does this play out? because at this point you have really got open warfare and it becomes less and less credible for the two men to be like, we're friends, we're friends while they're, like, sticking knives at each oaths while everybody watches. >> i've spoken to aides of the mayor and asked them. it seems every turn, as the governor has put a shiv into the governor's side, the mayor's people continue to insist they're friends, they haven't fought back. antagonizing the governor would be against mayor's interest. if they could get some form of the pre-kindergarten program expanded in new york city, the ultimate political benef

new york city mayor de blasio, bill de blasio eliminated funding for three of those schools last month. a move that left nearly 200 harlem children educationally homeless. how do the parents of these displaced children feel? take a look at the ads running in new york city. >> i love charter schools but the fact is i need the help. i was brought up in the era where you were told it takes a village to raise a child. this is my village. >> we need charter schools to continue to keep on going. they're doing a great job for my kid and for thousands of parents' other kids. >> as regular students, we're going to give you the greatest education. we need these politicians to keep our schools open. >> i voted for de blasio, but i didn't vote for you to take my child's future. >> andrea, i'm going to start with you, new york politics expert. bill de blasio said he was going to do this. in some ways, you may say, he won by 85% of the vote, even though the participation rate was low, so maybe did the parents end up with the government their chose? >> i don't think they know what they were voting fo

new york city mayor de blasio, bill de blasio eliminated funding for three of those schools last monthft nearly 200 harlem children educationally homeless. how do the parents of these displaced children feel? take a look at the ads running in new york city. >> i love charter schools but the fact is i need the help. i was brought up in the era where you were told it takes a village to raise a child. this is my village. >> we need charter schools to continue to keep on going. they're doing a great job for my kid and for thousands of parents' other kids. >> as regular students, we're going to give you the greatest education. we need these politicians to keep our schools open. >> i voted for de blasio, but i didn't vote for you to take my child's future. >> andrea, i'm going to start with you, new york politics expert. bill de blasio said he was going to do this. in some ways, you may say, he won by 85% of the vote, even though the participation rate was low, so maybe did the parents end up with the government their chose? >> i don't think they know what they were voting for because these

understand, kimberly is right. de blasio really screwed this up.r schools in favor of the other schools, the teachers unions and what not. cuomo called him out on that, governor cuomo called him out. was going to pay for the charter schools to stay open, and de blasio was painted in a corner. he goes to morning joe and says help me out of this bag i'm in right now. water this down so i can work my way out, and they spend the first ten minutes sloppy wet kisses with de blasio before anyone asks a tough question. they finally get down to the charter schools and he has nowhere to go. he double talks these two people for a long time. and towards the end, they get to the point. charter schools are outperforming regular schools in new york city in math and reading by a long shot. so bill de blasio, what are you going to do? at which point, he says i'll take a look at this. what msnbc has done for him is let him out of the corner he painted himself in. it was disgusting. >> can i get greg in here? i want greg to be able to say one thing in the segment. so

what's going on with mayor de blasio? >> well, i think the mayor got elected on a promise to basically charge the charter schools rent for being in the public schools when they have public school facilities when they are using it. of course, they are public schools. so it's a little ridiculous to be charging them rent. and given the tight budgets they are operating on. going to destroy a good number of them. the shame of this is, charter schools are basically helping poor children or children who don't have the means maybe for their parents to put them in private schools. certainly not rich kids. and they do so much better than regular public schools. most importantly, their parents want them in these schools. and the parents really should be the ones deciding on the education of the children. not the government bureaucrats. these are been very very good development. it started around the time of my administration. i began part of the charter school movement. mayor bloomberg developed it immensely. became a very big propo

and i think de blasio is going to be defeated on this. one of the things, too, in terms educating kids if they don't go to a school that has the right environment and we talked to some of these kids, contrast what they had before and in some of these charter schools, day and night. it changed them. so you got to have the right environment and kids change, it brings in parents in a way they had not been before. so has a real good ripple effect. >> last word from the boss. thanks, gang. remember this? >> for the 375,000 people who visited the site by noon today i think that they didn't need an advertising campaign to visit. >> so obamacare sells itself, right? then maybe somebody should return the $700 million that they are going to spend to sell it. i've always kept my eye on her... but with so much health care noise, i didn't always watch out for myself. with unitedhealthcare, i get personalized information and rewards for addressing my health risks. but she's still gonna give me a heart attack. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare.

he took de blasio, he realized de blasio was on the ropes in a corner and what cuomo did was very smart. cu this is going to be my first venture towards the 2016s presidential run. i'm going to distance myself from the far left wing of theeft party. i'm going to go a little centrist and here is a great opportunity. boy, was that smart. >> let's keep in mind, charter schools were started in north carolina by a democraticlina governor. democrats whoocra are governors that favor --prog >> this is a war in the democratic party.vouc andrew cuomo is part of the of clinton wing -- i gave bill clinton credit. cuomo is up for reelection this year action so he's very smart. he's thinking now before he's thinking 2016. i just don't -- you guys must be fighting it out in the democratic party. >> 'cause you guys are into the cages. >> can you show that picture of the children again, the kids being affected? there was a nice mosaic. >> greg is in there. >> this was an issue in which the left were attacking the right, this would be a deck of race cards.ght, >> oh, yeah. >> these are the 194 studentssr

de blasio's trip was met with some opposition.er school advocates also showed up in albany today to protest his plans. eva moskowitz, success academy charter schools ceo is protesting mayor de blasio's policies. moskowitz is angry de blasio is refusing to grant three of her schools space in city school buildings. she canceled classes at her 22 schools so that hundreds of parents and students could be bussed to albany today to protest de blasio's move. daniel drum, a queens councilman says moskowitz is using kids as pawns in her effort to privatize public schools and get rich. daniel drum, the chairman of the city council's education committee joins us here on "the ed show." mr. drum, good to have you with us. >> good to be here, ed. >> all right. this is charter schools for prove, looking for something for nothing. >> that's right. >> do you believe that? >> that's right. they're looking for free rent in our public schools where there are already existing public schools in the same building. and the inequality of having a charter

well new york city democratic mayor bill debaz de blasio declared war on children. kicking hundreds of students out of their classrooms. make no mistake about it. that is not going to hurt the rich kids. rich senator kids from fancy private schools. charter schools are a big chance and most instances the only chance for the not-so-rich children to get a great education. i visited unweather forecast new york city charter schools and saw with my own eyes how much the charter schools can make for many students. so why would mayor de blasio take action to dismantle charter schools if they are working? why we do such a rotten thing? selfish and self-interest. plain and simple. the teacher unions got him elected and they hate the charter schools. poor ones for himself. unbelievable, isn't it? picking on the poor kids. that's the selfish, real selfish. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. if you have an important story or issue you think i should take off-the-record go to gretawire.com and tell us about it and for more on charter schools and mayor de blasio giving the

suzanne, do you think it's back, bill de blasio, andrew cuomo?rivalry the way we saw ed koch and cuomo go at each other? is this a power split between the two biggest players in the state? >> well, i think it's definitely back, and one of the reasons it is, bill de blasio just got in. this is his first round up in albany trying to come up with various funding issue, the money for pre-k being the main one. this is the first round. and the two men have gone back and known each other for years. they say they're very good friends, but it certainly has been praying of recent. >> and, nick, the two of them, ideologically, they're not really in sync. i think it's fair to say -- >> right. >> -- if you were to look at this in the '90s, in the context of what the democratic party was in the '90s, andrew cuomo, more of a dlc'er, but more of the center-left of the party, and bill de blasio, part of the progressive wing, or more liberal wing. >> de blasio is a movement liberal, a progressive. and they come at this from very different places. what you're seein

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any moment now, mayor de blasio is actually on this location, as we speak. the pictures you're probably seeing tell the story. if not tell the emotion in this area. the smoke pouring from a building, the effect of that explosion heard and felt for blocks upon blocks. there were reports that even said there was one witness saying she could see actual people coming from the buildings. that from one of the local news reports on the scene. and we can tell you right now that the new york city police department is confirming that the two fatalities are two women. we just actually moments ago saw the medical examiner pulling out of the location where we are right now. we are unclear as to whether there was a body in that vehicle or whether that was just an investigative vehicle. but clearly, the information is just coming in trickles. here are the things i can tell you off-hand. president obama has been briefed in washington on the situation in new york city northern manhattan here in east harlem. i don't have any other comment on whether the president has said any

de blasio is standing in the schoolhouse door.ut for the poorest and disadvantaged children of color in new york city so good for cuomo. >>> we will talk about that issue in a moment. >>> first, no sign of agreement or easing over russian's invasion of crimea. moments ago, russian president vladimir putin spoke to reporters calling the ouster of ukraine's president a military coup and saying the people should be able to choose their future on what he called a level playing field. he added no need to use military force in crimea for now, but he does reserve the option to do so. even so, the u.s. ended all military relations with the kremlin and suspending trade talks and congress is drafting own sanctions. initial efforts that 6,000 troops in the peninsula ballooned to 16,000 and all intents and purposes the troops control the area. ukraine's navy sang together in defiance and their ships are blocked. russia ordered the crews surrender or be stormed. protests have turned deadly. 11 cities have seen pro russian protests and in some

you know, mayor de blasio is on shaky ground.true that only 5% or so of new york city kids are in charter schools. that's because they haven't let charters grow. they're actually stopping growth of charters because they don't want the competition. charters spend less per student than traditional district schools and are doing better. >> and they base the teachers on merit. leslie, is it not criminal to take away a parent's choice, especially an underprivileged family's choice? >> i don't think that parents' choices should be taken away. as a parent of a 5 and 6-year-old child myself. my problem is when you're taking classrooms away from children who are in the inner city, 90% of new york city's children are on food programs. they test lower for the past five years. they continue to do so. so obviously under mayor bloomberg, the public school system didn't thrive. are we supposed to turn every city, new york, chicago, los angeles, into a 100% charter school system? >> we cover this every day on the ed reform minute podcast. i'm te

is putting the shaft to them. >> de blasio did not attack charter schools. 49 approvals that had been forwarded to him by mayor bloomberg, who's very pro charter, being a billionaire himself, like all the other billionaires. de blasio approved 39 out of 49 new charters. he gave eva moscowitz three new charters and he denied her three and she's on a warpath taking out full-page ads in "the new york times," going on television, spending millions to say i can't pay rent. >> and professor dyson, she makes a half a million dollars a year herself and acts like a victim because she isn't getting free rent. what do you make of that? >> the privatization of education is the undermining and undoing of american education for those who are stuck at the bottom and those most vulnerable. if you're extremely bright and you stand out in the crowd, you will get chosen, but many bright people don't get chosen and beyond that, those who don't mature until later will get left behind. this is a radical inequality that needs to be contested. >> diane ravitch and dr. eric michael

that is how de blasio became mayor of new york. at the end of the day, you know, americans don't want to punish prosperity. and i think most americans, even some democrats are tired of hearing this constant drum beat. >> this is exactly the problem, you think we're punishing people that are wealthy. that is what i mean, that is not the point at all. the point is being able to help people, you mentioned de blasio. univer universal pre-k. >> you say people lift up. you want us to pay for it. you expect people to be punished in new york, have to pay for pre-k. >> erika, if you live in new york and you're quote one of those rich people, 60 cents of every dollar goes to the government. is that enough? is that fair? >> i think it depends on the goal. no, no, actually i do think it is fair. >> 60% of every dollar you make goes to the government. >> what de blasio is talking about is a latte a day. >> only a liberal knows what a latte is. >> who among us is going to pretend we don't like good coffee? >> in all seriousness, 60% of every dol

de blasio runs as the hero of the left behind. he wants fairness. he wants to tax the rich.to people who are less fortunate. these are exactly the people who are less fortunate and they are learning like never before. i just don't understand any of this and how he's going to get away with it. >> well the other thing that's appalling about this act is he himself has never visited the school or asked about the student data that we're just talking about. so, at the very least i think he should meet with the community and the families before making such decisions. the families in these schools, the studio audience have been in this school since 2008. you're not talking about a new school that's being created. the other thing that's ironic the democratic party has been a huge supporter of charter schools over the years starting with bill clinton, currently president obama is a huge supporter. the governor of the state of new york, governor cuomo is also a huge supporter. he's defying the leadership of his own party by taking this harsh stance. >> the charter school movement is sp

as i've noted, mayor de blasio is arriving on the scene right now. what kind of information have you been able to receive, sir? >> first of all, i want to thank the fire department and the emergency services for their fine work. we have been able to ascertain through the hbv and city housing departments what side, the building had 60 open violations, including 31 a-violations, b-violations and c violations. >> what does that mean? >> some of the apartments had some disrepair, they had some bad conditions in there. as early as january of this year, the department of housing was able to -- the inspectors were able to inspect the building and found there were carbon monoxide detectors missing there. that's important, because we're in some sense lucky it happened during the day. had it happened at night and we didn't have these carbon monoxide detectors, many of the tenants wouldn't have been warned what was going on. obviously, it was an explosion and whatever investigation that occurs in the future will determine what caused the explosion, but the buil

wants to stop them from opening and expanding -- >> i voted for de blasio, but i didn't vote for you to take my child's future. >> under this withering assault, mayor de blasio has turned conciliatory, determined, according to the "new york times," to avoid the wrath of a well-financed charter-school movement. even dialing up billionaires personally, asking for a truce. the private buying of public education has brought a piercing cry of alarm from my guest. once a champion of charter schools, she has changed her mind, and that was a reversal that struck home with a seismic wallop. diane ravitch is our preeminent historian of education. she has worked for presidents from both parties, and served as an assistant secretary of education. she's a scholar with a popular following, in the last year alone her website has received more than 8 million visits. her teaching, writing, and advocacy have long influenced our debate about schools and the public policies that affect them. and her latest book is a best seller, "reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to a

and i think he gave that advice to bill de blasio, and it was great advice, and bill de blasio, i thinkat political acumen and was probably helpful. having said that, bill de blasio was great on our show. he was great. he admitted the p.r. part of the whole thing was horrible. >> right. >> he actually came back and said he's going to fix up the mess he made with the school that he shut down. he's going to find a place for the kids. he evolved on the air. he didn't change his positions. he's got a problem with eva and has a problem with charter schools versus the rest of the schools, and clearly if it was an easy issue to deal with, obviously somebody would have done it. this is so convoluted, and he stepped in. >> you can afford to be an ideologue if you're in the legislature in albany or washington, d.c. you can't if you're mayor of the largest city in america. and he certainly -- >> sat here for 20 minutes, took anything. >> -- sophisticated people in new york, across the spectrum, are questioning the mayor's competence and ideology, who he's getting advice from, and has enough senior

he argued that de blasio stood up for kids, and charter schools.bout kids getting the best education, the ladder to success in life. the kids that are in the charter schools, 80% of them passed the math state exam. citywide, only 30% passed, why would a liberal take that away from mostly minority kids in poor neighborhoods? >> charter schools is one. >> listen, i am what is right for the country. i am a conservative, i believe limited government, more responsibility, greater freedom is the answer. for all of these problems and i think really the biggest answer to america's problems today is found in energy. every state could be like dakota with an unemployment of 2%, or mid-land texas. >> and the unions will get behind that if it mea,-ñnñ jobs >> can i add one point? we are getting jobs for thousands of people. we have partnered on my website at "hannity".com with all of these energy companies. they're are hiring people at 70, 80, $90,000 a year. >> i have two questions, she wants to know if your wife was a liberal, you may have still married her?

sound the air horns when mayor bill de blasio joined host peter rosenberg. >> so, de blasio, the biging like they're making you look like you're anticharter school. i don't think that's the case but explain to us why this is playing out this way. >> well, you are absolutely correct, it's not the case. so the bottom line is of course we're going to work with the charter schools. there's a lot of good charter schools but we're going to treat them with an equality as the same way we treat traditional public schools. we're not going to favor them the way the bloomberg administration did. >> the mayor has talked politics on hot 97 before. this time it may have been a strategic move as it includes andrew cuomo but thousands of constituents including many students and parents of color who have strongly objected to barriers for those three charter schools in harlem and say it's key to improving education around the city. regina, you wanted to get in on this. >> i did. first he said they're not adverse to working with charter schools and they're not against them. throughout his campaign he sa

bill de blasio should be ashamed of himself.urned himself into the george wallace of the 20th century. he's standing in the door of the school, he's standing in the way of these little kids and denying them their chance to get ahead in society. >> can't ignore got in charter schools. >> certainly not. >> a lot of parents will sacrifice to send their kids to catholic schools, but they don't get any advantage. still pay for the public schools with their taxes, but they don't -- there's no opportunity. if you want to send your kid to a better school, you got to pay the freight. >> catholic schools and others are closing down because most people can't afford paying for their kids to go to public schools even if they're not going to public schools and then sending them to the private schools. you know what, we mentioned before about being a statesman, about having strong principles, but also knowing -- having the wisdom to compromise and figure it out. this issue of school, this issue of school choice is the most obvious example. if

and i think de blasio is going to be defeated on this.things, too, in terms educating kids if they don't go to a school that has the right environment and we talked to some of these kids, contrast what they had before and in some of these charter schools, day and night. it changed them. so you got to have the right environment and kids change, it brings in parents in a way they had not been before. so has a real good ripple effect. >> last word from the boss. thanks, gang. remember this? >> for the 375,000 people who visited the site by noon today i think that they didn't need an advertising campaign to visit. >> so obamacare sells itself, right? then maybe somebody should return the $700 million that they are going to spend to sell it. up. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising

charterattle over schools heats up after mayor bill de blasio blocks three schools from using spreads -- space. we will speak with steve barr. suspendsern university the group students for justice in pakistan -- palestine. we will get the latest on a hunger strike inside of a detention prison in washington state. >> i'm hoping we can get support from all of the people that are listening. hear. believe what you life here is not easy. we work for four hours, five hours, just one dollar. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president obama has called for releasing the torture report at the heart of a dispute between its author, the senate intelligence committee, and its subject, the cia. panel chair dianne feinstein has openly accused the cia of spying on senate staffers and seizing material from their computers as part of an effort to undermine the exhaustive report on the agency's torture and rendition program. the report has yet to be released but reportedly documents extensive abuses and a cover-up by ci

>> i think de blasio's totally wrong.lso staying here and what liam knneeson jus said. horses are meant to work. horses like to work. these are draft horses, the tine of horses they are. it's better for them. where are they going to be? sitting in a stall? that's actually bad for horses, sitting in a stall. >> they love working. >> he didn't even go to the stable. he wants to ban something, this guy, without even addressing the issue. i realize he may be a little busy shutting down the charter schools to be able to take a visit to the stable. one argument is with the traffic situation in new york, people are concerned about the horses, so if you want to have that debate fine, but do your research before you ban something. >> it's the same as the previous story. it's a liberal getting something in their head and not paying attention to reality. that's why he didn't go to those stables, because it would reverse his point. the horse is pure muscle. it's like you and i walking around with a backpack with a tine eye roy rock i

throughout the whole government the mayor bill de blasio. the public advocate. speaker. they are all sort of step child of the radical left. >> if i'm in alabama or mississippi or any of these other and hearing what you're saying, we say new york they are all crazy. hip when david dingus was mayor. the left has gone so far off the trail that it gives you and insight into where the democratic party is. the democratic party success hijacked by these folks. >> they must be looking at de blasio's poll numbers. his approval number is down largely because of these attacks. these have taken to a new level. not only can the rich be trust when they are doing good deeds. we're not apologists for the billionaire club. >> i come on this show all the time and we -- >> you hate everybody. >> right. but what i'm saying here is that when the left -- the left has been unchained in new york city. i don't think the people in the city realize where it's going. >> what about the rich left? i mean to they feel that this is fair? >> no. they don't. they think this is off the charts bu

alone, we will save charter schools. >> that's dramatic for governor cuomo, the three schools de blasioe are run by moscowitz. if you thought that brass knuckle political pay back was something practiced exclusively in the western banks of the hudson river, you were wrong. joining me now is herself, eva moscowitz, founder of charter schools in new york city. i agree with you, and i want to make sure you understand i'm playing devil's advocate here. you go to public schools, some kids go to the neighborhood schools, the ones they would walk to if they're lucky. okay. they get everybody. charter schools get students who are maybe smarter, maybe, they get kids who definitely -- parents who care a little bit more about their upbringing, a little more money, a little more resources. is it fair to compare the results of the two kinds of schools and say charters are better because they get higher numbers? >> district schools are zoned according to zip code. you have much more affluent kids. charter schools we admit by random lottery, if you look at our numbers, you'll see the same number of sp

. >> new york city's democrat mayor bill de blasio is making waves in the big apple with a series of education reforms that could divide his party ahead of the midterms and ripple to the 2016 presidential race. >> i didn't come here to leave a generation of children behind. i came here to uplift a generation of children. >> de blasio is pushing pre-k and after school programs while under fire from critics who say he's denying charter schools space to operate, closing one school in harlem where fifth graders have the highest math scores in the state. eva runs a new york charter school system. >> it's unfathomable, unconscionable. i cannot explain the decision. >> as public schools struggle nationwide to meet their students' needs, centrist democrats and independents are increasingly supportive of charter schools. >> andrew cuomo, a liberal who is considering a 2016 presidential run and would need to appeal to moderates and swing voters nationwide to have a chance promised a crowd of several thousand infuriated parents he would block de blasio a chance to block their education. >> we'r

a lot of people here have been supportive of mayor de blasio but we really are flummoxed. >> you know, i don't really have an explanation. it seems bad for kids, it seems bad politics. i don't really have an explanation. people have put forward there's some sort of personal thing, we served in the council together. it's not personal for me. he seems like a perfectly lovely person. i don't really have an explanation. >> he doesn't think the same of you for some reason. >> it's personal for him. >> it's very personal for him. >> she has to stop being tolerated, enabled and supported. there is no way in hell that even moskowitz should get free rent. >> isn't it amazing he's talking about a political foe, who doesn't even consider him a political foe, instead of talking about the kids. they're not evicting her from her home. they're not hurting her children. they're hurting the most disadvantaged students in new york city who, by the way, are performing better in fifth grade math than students in scar dale, and he's throwing that down the drain. it's disgusting. >> i'm waiting

as a candidate for mayor bill de blasio to lead new york city in a new progressive direction, includingd to slow the growth of charter schools in favor of more traditional neighborhood public schools. the mayor has now cancelled an agreement, negotiated by his predecessor which would have allowed three new charter schools to operate in public school buildings. this has awoken a sleeping giant. andrew cuomo typically avoids controversy and shuns the national spotlight. he rallied in opposition to the mayor. big fight between the two of them. even the new york post called gov know cuomo a class act. >> you are here, 11,000 strong. you are braving the cold to stand up for your rights. this is the most important civic lesson you will learn because this is democracy, and this is how you make your voice heard. . and we are here to tell you we stand with you, you are not alone, we will save charter schools. >> that's dramatic for governor cuomo, the three schools de blasio plans to close are run by moscowi moscowitz. if you thought that brass knuckle political pay back was something practiced

because this is being painted as a blood vendetta between bill de blasio.he e-mails need to be shown to the public on how they are using their personal city council committee to go after the charter schools. >> but then they won't survive, well they? >> it is less tha 10% of the kids right now. why not give them a chance? the charter schools are successful. >> it's a veryood point. in the meantime, ralph nader saying if she were to run, woul@ yoyou back or not we've set up whole two-party system? >> we need fresh voices and fresh experience. >> what he was talking about is that it openeor run for office. that is the first thing that ralph nader ever said that i agree with. one more and jim clinton takes credit for srplus. he people forget was the republicans who control the house and the senate. basically like alternators id. >> yes, we have been talking about this. so what about political monopolies, we have the same politicians who have taxes for funding, time and again come back into fice. we have talked about this since e nixon administration. they have

mayor de blasio, don't take away our children's future.chool. >> well, the group is upset over mayor de blasio's decision to stop three success charter school academy schools from using space inside public school buildings in the city. this is not just a local problem. it's all over the country. for instance, in florida. charter schools are looking to privatize and run education for a profit. it's impact students and families all over the country. down in florida, it's an issue. i asked florida state senator dwight bullard what the public school system is up against in south florida. >> we've been face hearing in floridas a whole is a 15-year really war if you will by the charter reform and school reform folks here in the state of florida. as you know, governor jeb bush was elected governor in 1998 in the state of florida. and chose to take a very, very different stance on what public education has looked like traditionally, and his efforts and his works have been consistently sort of part of a continuing problem over the last 15 years as

right now in the debate of new york bill de blasio staff approved 36 of the 45 charter locations that michael bloomberg did out the door. the one that is really getting all the attention, the mickey mantle school in harlem, why did the new chancellor said no, don't do that one? because it would have evicted special needs kids. frankly you have to look at all the kids. we can't have winners and losers. all our kids have to be winners. >> can we take the best practices that many charter schools have, the 6500, how many are high performing? many are, some are, how do we get the best of the charter schools and the best of the public school system and meld them. >> that's what places like new haven and other places are doing. they don't compete with each other. we actually don't have funding such as if you get funding for charter, it takes the money out of a neighborhood public school. what we need to do is lift all those and have people work and play together well. so part of the reason why the collocations were so terrible in new york because it took space like music rooms, art rooms fro

around the world and owning yachts and going around the country. >> they have supported bill de blasio's plan to ban the carriages, saying that the horses work long hours and breathe in exhaust. though he's a liberal, this is an issue. banning the carriages is one of the few things that he and his opponents agreed on in last year's race. >> in the past year, there have been 20 accidents, horses hit by taxis and suvs, and horses are dropping dead on the streets. it's 2014, and there are 8 million residents in new york. putting an animal in traffic when there are cars, trucks buses isn't safe anymore. >> they have proposed antique cars to replace the horses but they're impractical. >> the bottom line, people come it see the horse, that's the star, that's the celebrity. you can't replace it. >> it may be another part of new york history. aljazeera, new york. >> coming up on aljazeera america, one woman wanted to help the homeless in the winter, and now she's doing so with one coat and one job. >> welcome back to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. here are your headlines at this hour. a las

mayor, always great to see you. >> always great, larry, always. >> this mayor de blasio.all him -- you know, he's the head of the san denista wing of the democratic party. why is he against the horse and carriage? they had horses in nicaragua when he was there. >> i don't know. when i became mayor, there was a big movement to ban them. i investigated the industry very carefully. liam neeson is absolutely correct, the horses are very well-taken care of. just think about this. they're the livelihood for these men and women, most of whom are middle class and poor. so they have to rely on these horses in order to make their living. they take very, very good care of them. they actually give them vacations. and i think it adds something very, very special to the city. after all, horses are animals that like to work. i mean, what, are we going to put them on welfare? we've got enough people on welfare. >> that's a great point. horses like to work. i think the democratic party does not understand that concept of work. i just want to say to neeson, i've never met him, but he sound

i'm going to read a mayor de blasio and i decided we are going to read a dr. book to pre-k. >> we have some students in today. >> we have a great group in today and talk about that as well. >>> moving on to other forms of politics. a race held as a test case for democrats and republicans alike in 2014. a special election is set in the clearwater/saints petersburg area to replace long time republican congressman bill young who served 43 years before passing away in october. polls opening this morning. it is still considered a tossup between become alex sink and david jolly. slate is calling it obamacare's ground zero with the president's health plan in the front of the race. >> reporter: david jolly lobbed about being a lobbyist and now lying with alex sink's record on health care. the facts jolly would go back to letting insurance companies deny conch and pay thousands more for prescription drugs. >> we can't go back to letting insurance companies do what they want. we need to keep what is right and fix what is wrong. i'll work with republicans and democrats f

>> absolutely. >> is mayor de blasio correct in doing what he's doing?n't shut any school. that is the irony. the bloomberg administration as it was leaving swiftly approved 49 applications for charters. he approved 39 out of 49. she got three new schools. three of her applications were denied. so she's saying that three of her schools were closed. they don't even exist. >> ruth, what did you take out of the conference down in texas? what is this movement going to do, and also what about -- that is kind of the belly of the beast down there when it comes to testing and forming the tests that our students will be taking. isn't it? >> it absolutely is. and you know as diane put it so he will lo eloquently, it's really the heart of the testing industrial complex. and i think what we see is a nationwide movement of public school activists, of teachers, of parents and students themselves who are saying there is something wrong when we have this dual system, when we have corporations sucking money out of the public school system to run -- to make a roft. and we