secretary duncan said today there would still be accountability. how do you know that if you're basically letting people off the hook with these waivers? >> well, one thank the waiver will require states to do is to have high standards and have assessments that measure whether students are actually meeting those standards. for instance last year there was an attempt and a successful attempt to introduce something called the common core standards. over 40 states in washington d.c. have now adopted them. and they're thought to be a lot higher than most previously had. take a state like tennessee. in the past when tennessee was defining its own standards and saying what percentage of their students were proficient, they were reporting back in mathematics that 91% of their students were proficient. well, you introduce higher standards and suddenly that percentage drops to 4%. so it really makes you think the students aren't really any different. the same students. and they're performing the same. it's just how you're defining proficiency. so we see onc

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if duncan hines was born in bowling green. edward hines had another son, a brother of duncan hines huji david jon porter and john porter hines was the grandfather of the wonderful lady to provide it with a photograph that you see on the dust jacket and so many of the manuscript is that i used to describe john porter and his family. so it is a very interesting crowd of people, and they are all still in evidence from kentucky. they don't move away from here very much. >> how long did it take you to put this together? >> i suppose the manuscript was given to me about 1995. infantry 1995 those and when this book was finally released in february of this year, i published a number of other books and so it's not as though i took all that time. i published a book called the retreat from gettysburg in 2005 and from really 2005 and four were to begin working in earnest on this and what i did was, again, i corrected manuscript so that it is readable and -- but you still have the flavor of john porter and then what i did is i annotated it

secretary duncan, thanks for coming on.- >> 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. the best ideas in education are never

in june, a secretary duncan and -- secretary duncan asked congress to act and said we had to find better ways to provide state flexibility. in every case, we did this saying we needed to do it for our children and have to do this for our economy. this has been echoed by business leaders we talked to all over the country, and consistently by governors and parents. all said it is critical we move forward to make sure our students are ready for college and a career. at the same time, we are a few weeks away from the beginning of a new school year. congress has not found a bipartisan path to send us and the president a bill. instead of being able to focus on flexibility that is necessary in our classrooms, instead of focusing on turning around our lowest performing schools, which have 7000 drop us every day, instead of being able to focus on innovation and support for teachers and principals to make sure they have the support they need, we have labels that do not accurately reflect what is happening in our schools. we also have low expectations and states that have moved down instead of up i

this is as opposed to the duncan case in hawaii. the case of fred koromotsu was one of a small number of cases of americans of japanese ancestry who challenged executive order 9066 and mass removal, in the courts. this case he refused to leave the west coast, and he got caught. he had a nonjapanese girlfriend that he wanted to stay with. but once arrested, he decided that it was matter of principle and he was going to not give up otherwise citizenship rights. so with the help of one of the branch office the american civil liberties union, he brought suit, challenging on the basis of his constitutional rights, the government's policy of removing and confining him. in the lower courts, he was convicted of violating public law 502 and 503, congress' backing up of executive order 9066. the supreme court agreed to hear his appeal, and the federal government, which didn't want to lose the case because they were scared if any of the japanese americans succeeded in challenging thecourt -- challenging the army, the army would look back, and

c-span, created by cable, provided as a public service. >> arne duncan is the u.s. secretary of education and he returns to "newsmakers" this week as millions of americans return to the classroom. thank you for being with us. allyson klein is the "education week" staff writer. greg campeau is the national k- 12 education writer for usa today. allyson, let's start with you. >> you said that you are going to offer states exemptions from the chubb left behind in exchange for -- exchange from the no child left behind in exchange for certain conditions. you of not said what they are. >> we believe that the law in its current form is broken. it is way too punitive, lots of ways to fail, and no rewards for success. it is very punitive, very top down from washington and it has led to a dumbing down of standards. the law of the land has some money has so many disincentives and that does not make sense to me. do is doe going to creative and invented things around principal and evaluation support. we want to give them a lot more flexibility. we're focused on doing the right th

secretary arne duncan is set to speak next. this is live coverage here on c- span. >> we basically did our homework. we examined other introductions. there has been hundreds of them. we talked to the folks who had the honor of introducing him previously to say what they said. we checked out the youtube clicks that had on the secretary. , not on company time. [laughter] we discovered after being secretary of education for 2.5 years and countless interviews with newspapers large and small and tv stations and cable news shows and arne has even been on comedy central. there is nothing new to say about him. he went to harvard, he played basketball, he was co-captain of the team and kicked around a little bit in australia where he played basketball. he ran a successful nonprofit education, the real initiative in chicago. he took on the small task of reforming the chicago public schools. we went back and checked with one of his predecessors. they said that they are sure that there is a system as bad as the chicago system but i just do

duncan. upping mr. duncan: i thank you for talking about america living within its means. we are $14.3 trillion in debt. and the legislation we passed this evening, it's no residing over in the senate, includes what i think is the most important language within that legislation and that is a vote on a balanced budget amendment. i'm a small brings owner for 16 years and when i did my budget i had to think what my revenues were going to be for the coming yoor and had to set a budget based on that. i couldn't hope there was ag money tree and i continue spending money that i didn't have. the americans have been engaged in this process of the debt ceiling debate and we are urging them to get involved in this process of a balanced budget amendment. once that requirement and that amendment does pass both the house of representatives and the nunes senate, it will be sent to the states to be ratified. at that point in time, americans will be able to rally their state legislatures, their general assem bliss to take up and ratify their important amendment to the united states constit

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. >> a detective named david duncan had once actually hired jones as a mechanic. >> it was kind of ae ralph was -- i'll say was -- i don't know what he's like today, but was a pleasant person to be around. >> but then, this was years ago, detective duncan was called in to investigate those allegations by jones' ex-wife a woman named lisa. duncan has retired now, but when the possible connection to paige's disappearance came up, he read the old record, and -- >> the reports allude to the fact that in the home ralph physically restrained lisa. lisa in her statement calls it kidnapping. they're not minor things. they're firearms involved. ed evidence is there and it's clear. >> but it's one thing to say the man has a past. quite another to connect them to the disappearance of paige. in other words, the investigation stalled, and paige's father was reduced to writing jones a letter begging for his help. >> i said, i'm aware that you knew my daughter paige. who's been missing. first, the letter is asking to meet me somewhere and tell me whatever it is with your knowledge that will help me

late yesterday, we taped it, it's going to be a part of the special with education secretary arne duncanno child left behind is a slow moving train wreck and we heard the presidential candidates last night comment on it, and duncan said, listen, it's time to -- >> bipartisan agreement. >> i don't know if they would consider that, also duncan said it's the politics of washington that is injuring and hurting our school systems. we've put together an amazing panel. big names from detroit looking, you pointed out, at reforming the school district there. even director/writer robert townsend, and he's going to talk about what he's experienced as young african-american man who made it through a successful point in hollywood. has is the key here? assembled a cross-section of people. ben chavez, the list goes on and on and people for charter school, teachers who are going to discuss, you well know, the hard tajik of tenure and what is necessary. it is interesting. the political climate is always interesting. loved last night that no child left behind was talked about. it plays has we're talking a

>> first let me thank secretary duncan. i think he's doing exactly the right thing here, chuck. congress would have gotten organized to make the necessary modifications. but in the absence of that, i think it's right for the department to act. and we're most interested in the flexibility to measure the growth of students, not simply their absolute levels, taking into account that the teacher or the school does not control the level at which kids enter school. and what we're doing in indiana is measuring and then holding schools accountable, rewarding those teachers who help a child grow at least a year for every year in the classroom. that's the single most important thing, change that we could ask for. and the secretary, to his credit, is going to provide it. >> you know, it's interesting, governor, you were in the bush add when no child left behind was created. it was a bipartisan effort between ted kennedy and the president, john boehner involved in that. and when the law was written at the time, what wasn't foreseen, and now that you're on the state side of things, what wasn

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

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widely differing interpretations about an eye for an eye a tooth for a target we have pastor don't duncan accompanied shawntel and many other prisoners both men and women in the final moments now he no longer carries out this mission. does that square for justify what we're doing today. are we doing it today because we like punishing people in my life it's been. it's been eight years now and now confining talk about fully talk about what i did. do i regret you know i help the person. not that i was in favor of putting a person to bear nothing was going to stop that i was there to help that person and i thought i was i would minister to the person i would talk to them i cannot do this any longer i can't put words in god's mouth but i don't think he would want the death penalty i think he would want us to share law and how to have a life and christ. can believe in god or much do you fear his judgment you know what well more so you must raise i'm so not or i'm out even though the chance that i did against death penalty. was. six years after sean's execution the supreme court at long last rul

difficult for me to assess the next few years in this process, because has most of you know, secretary duncan is offering waivers for states but find themselves in this particular situation, but if things stay the same, this will be an implementation for three years, so i will be responsible for monitoring it. the accountability will clearly lie with the principles of the school corridor -- at the school. commissioner fewer: i would like to say how pleased i was of the big picture school was a reference, and i had a chance of seeing a portfolio being presented, and we were both quite impressed with a level of engagement and and dedication and work students have put in and decried the students have with the work. i hope we are able to take that into the curriculum of san francisco unified schools, but thank you for reference signal what impact it is having on our schools. >> i also was very taken. they are a very unique organization, all little out of the box common but they do very well. if any of you are interested, this is extremely cost- effective in terms of services the county office is

as duncan announced earlier, a rocket space is one of a number of technology companies locating here. over 4.5 million space of office -- over 4.5 million feet of office space has been leased this year. of that 4.6 million square feet, 1.6 million square feet have been leased by technology companies. tech leasing has become our basic business in san francisco. it is the bundling of services that come with the space. it is the smart way of doing things. if cities are going to survive, they have to be smarter about it. they have to reach out to new technology. i have to keep changing government to make sure we are business-friendly and doing smart things. rocket space has an earthquake-safe building. then you start seeing the technology businesses. everybody is innovating in this building. they are innovating with great ideas. whether it is travel, financial , were just better ways of doing business all over the place, we have so much innovation going on. i have gotten innovated and inspired. i am happy to be here and congratulate you for a great offering of this building and the expans

help sounding and it eliminates kind of a considerable tasks -- a considerable tasks to -- >>> tax duncan valley was hammered today. high-tech companies were you a glass the board. it could mean the company's dominant targets for ambitions for mergers and that could mean layoffs. >>> for more coverage of many look at the dow's worst drought since 1900, visit our homepage at ktvu.com. >>> the opponent about the news at this hour from oakland were police say they are questioning at least two people following this afternoon's drive-by shooting that killed if -year-old boy and the two of those injured it happened just after 1:00 on international boulevard. there is a longer map their -- laundromat and a pizza joint. they were pushing him in a toy car when the shooting started. two men were the annual targets in gaza that warheads that are expected to recover. >>> clearly this was broad daylight on the busy streets. a heavily traveled area. it is branded an acceptable mac about one hour ago oakland police chief told us that two people are in custody. they said it's too early to tell if they wi

duncan hines was born in bowling green. edward ludlow hines had another son, a brother who he named john m. porter hines. john m. porter hines was the grandfather of the wonderful lady cora jane spiller who provided me that you see on the dusk jacket and so many of the manuscript that is i used to describe john porter and his family. it's a very interesting crowd of people. they are still in evidence in kentucky. they don't move away from here much. >> how long did it take you to put this together? >> i suppose the manuscript was given to me and 1995. in the -- between 1995 though and when this book was finally released in february of this year, i published a number of other books. and so it's not as though i took all of that time. i published a book called a retreat from gettysburg in 2005. from 2005 on i began working in earnest on this. i corrected the manuscript so it's readable. i still have the flavor. then what i did, i annotated it. so that when john porter is mentioning any of these people, and there are hundreds o

but arne duncan says that 50%82f the schools would fail with these standards. >> clearly the data fromalf that and probably it will be 40% to 50% of the schools will be labeled needing improvement, and we, americans, can't say that half of the minority kids are getting out of high school and the schools are great. so it strikes me that the schools do need to be attended to if we are losing that many schoolchildren. >> margaret spellings, and we anticipate the president in 30 seconds. chris matthewmatthews, we are s here waiting for him, and this is a high bar for him. >> pivotal and he should have been out by saturday talking about the loss of the troops tshg s.e.a.l.s. >> and he could recover today. >> i don't want to criticize, but i hate to see this double-barreled complicated discussion of the fiscal and the debt situation, because they are two different topics. >> but the challenge for him is to restore america's hope and there is a psychological impact of the downgrade, because he has to be worried about that the economy will be affected as well. here is the president. >> on frid

arne duncan secretary of education. he gave interview it's going to air tomorrow.ve a clip from it. he talked about texas and texas education. let's listen. >> you have had no harcher critic than governor rick perry of texas. how does texas stack up over the last 10 years in education? >> texas has really struggled. i feel very, very badly for the children there texas may have the highest high school dropout rate or, i'm sorry, the high -- the lowest high school graduation rate in the country. far too few are actually prepared to go on to college. >> laura: ed, obama might not be talking a lot about perry. well, he just hit the campaign trail. i will be easy on him but the surrogates are out there. >> they are. in fairness he was responding to a question. this is energetic education secretary who has been working pretty hard. i interviewed him before. evidence is all over this issue. you are right in the sense that, you know, he could have maybe not hit back quite as hard. and not engaged but, he decided to do that. and i think it's clear, it's amusing because i ha

she is also a school board member, joanne duncan.she called my radio talk show the other day and was very passionate when talking about the miracle in texas. i think joanne has a different definition of what that miracle is. great to have you with us tonight. you're thoughts on how rick perry has handled the meeshg until texas when it comes to education. >> hi, ed. glad to get a chance to tell you about the real texas miracle. you know, my thought when i hear him talk about the texas miracle, i thought it was a miracle we were able to open the schools. we had a chance to really, you know, if he had used his so-called rainy day fund, otherwise known as the slush fund, to help schools we would be a lot better off. i live in a small rural area. we've cut $600,000 from our school budget in the last two years. and we're going to cut even -- have to cut even more next year. this is a real impact on our children. >> well, you're in trenton, texas. >> it's wonderful here. our teachers and our community that we're going to have a great school