that is a significant cut that is gonna pass on to cuny staff and to cuny students. i went to cuny. it represented a huge opportunity for me, and it represents a huge opportunity for many latinos to get an education, to get a better-paying job, and if you are cutting cuny's budget, you are cutting access for tens of thousands of people. >> but the same question 'cause i'm not sure i heard an answer in there, the argument -- and some people would hold it up and say, "well, it makes sense to me. if the city controls 30% of the board, they should cover 30% of the expenses." why is that unreasonable? >> well, it's unreasonable in the big picture. i don't get want to get into a debate between city and state. >> sure. >> what i want to look at is public education. public education should be free, and we've lost funding across the nation, so cuny's going through something that's happening across the nation. we want to insist and really make clear that we have to invest because we're talking about lower-income families. we're talking about latinos, african-americans, students of color -- pr

and because of open admissions with cuny, everyone who has graduated is guaranteed a seat in a cuny community college. so we are winding up in cuny's community colleges with students who cannot read college-level text because they don't know the sounds of the alphabet. and they're 18-years-old-plus. >> so, in essence, could you end up having a cuny graduate who may not even be able to read? >> they would probably drop out unless the teachers that they have at cuny are sympathetic and are trying to maybe change things and just push them through very subtly. but i don't think that's gonna happen. so they're gonna drop out. but it's become a fiasco because we have students who just can't read. they don't know all the sounds. so they're guessing. >> what was the concept behind common core? i mean, they couldn't have been a group of people who got together and said, "let's destroy students." there had to have been a reason why they came up with the concept. so what was the original concept? >> the federal government is trying to improve upon the past. okay, we had no child left behind, then we had

. >>> some lawmakers would like a student group kicked off of cuny college campuses. >>> plus -- out of control kids on a subway train, spewing curses, even punching and spitting on passengers. what the boy's mother is saying tonight. >>> and it was nice and quiet today, but we have spring storms the next several days. >>> lester holt has a look at what he's working on for 6:30. >>> donald trump calls for some form of punishment for women who undergo abortions if they are banned. patients left in the lurch after cyber crooks. . >>> a mother is apologizing to subway riders tonight after her kids were caught on video screaming and swearing and spitting at them. this video was taken on one of philadelphia's trains. five boys were standing in the aisle of that crowded train yelling curse words and hitting passengers. the man who recorded this video claims one of the kids head-butted him. >> they sent me the video. i'm like my kids? when i seen, i was like oh my god. that was shocking. i was ashamed a little bit. i want to apologize to everybody and especially to the man. >> the boys' par

several arrests were made of a spokesman for the governor tells us that cuny will receive its full $1.6 billion in state aid this year and urged the union to resolve its contract negotiations with the schools. >>> it is time to look at our forecast. easter weekend is upon us for some of those celebrating -- i guess not really. it's not a friday but i'm off tomorrow so i'm already thinking. >> i'm in that state of mind, as well. >> it's cloudy. >> right now it's cloudy. we'll see more sun as you get into the weekend. i think a lot of people had that big taste of spring yesterday where you were 71 degrees. not the case today. as of right now we have been cooler because the winds have shifted. the picture -- and this is kind of what kristine is talking about. you can see the clouds have set up. you have a temperature right now 48 degrees. so anytime you have have any kind of an easterly component to that wind, it's going to keep your temperatures this time of the year on the cooler side. 55 at 2:21. 4 degrees above the average of 51. take a look around the area. these are your tri-state te

well, cuny now faces devastating cuts in state funding. we will tell you what advocates are doing to stop these cuts from taking effect. that's coming up in just a few minutes. pero en este momento, we're talking about cuba once again, more specifically,

then cuny getting in on the action. and three straight shots from beyond the arc sealed this one. richardson's a freshman. he led all scorers with 21 points and syracuse wins easy 70-51. let's go to brooklyn where temple and iowa went to overtime at bar clays center. hawkeyes with the ball. jumper, no. the follow, yes, from adam wood maybe gets away with a shove in the back there. the play was reviewed, the shot counts and iowa heads to a sunday matchup. >> six pegs, only five holes. thw'at's how he describes the yankee rotation. athe math is not adding up. baltimore hit the yanks one time ace hard today in tampa allowing four runs before recording n out. cc done after allowing 7 runs in four innings. he says he's just not a good spring training pitcher. but he has to become one the rest of this spring if he wants to keep his spot in the rotation. he isn't too worried about the way the nationals touched him up today. a three-run homer in the force. the box score was not pretty. breath and relax. what a day in the ncaa tournament. still trying to figure out how that happened. >> a

shifting $484 million in state cuny on to the city. one stipulation, the legislature has to agree to hire an expert to look for savings at both the city and the state university systems. >>> one of new york city's landmark cemeteries, police archives out of the analog area. greenwood cemetery in brooklyn announced on its facebook page that it will be deputizing the 177 archive -- thanks to a some items date back to before the cemetery's founding in 1838. they include handwritten chronological burial books and thousands of archival photographs. >>> you may remember him as larry sanders. gary shandling has died. >> some of us are talented. i'm sweating like a pig. >> gary shandling's spoofed late-night tv for years on his groundbreaking show. you see him there with jeffrey tambour and robin williams. what planet are you from and zoo lander. gary shandling died suddenly yesterday of a heart attack at age 66. he really set the stage for a lot of other comedians who worked within the fourth wallace they say. like seinfeld's show did later o

in new york, governor andrew cuomo said the state will fully fund cuny the city university of new yorkfor the next year. this comes after protests in new york city thursday in which students staged a die in to demand fully funded. >> my contract has been expired for seven years. city don't pass this budget, the cost comes down to its. my tuition has been going up steadily every single year. how much more can we take? the university was established for working-class students, and it is no longer that. it is becoming privatized, and there is nothing left for us. amy: and those are some of the headlines. i am amy goodman. juan: i am one gonzalez. expose, "thew intercept,t," has revealed that the justice department is investigating blackwater founder erik prince for possible money laundering, ties to chinese intelligence, and attempts to broker military services to foreign governments. prince is currently the chairman of frontier services group, an aviation and logistics firm specializing in shipping in africa. but documents obtained by the intercept show that prince has also set up shell