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marlo thomas said schools should enact a zero tolerance policy towards bullying. she talked about bullying stories from her own line and about responsibilities parents have. her remarks came during the third annual bullying prevention summit today that was hosted by the education department. this is about 55 minutes. >> principal assistant secretary office of the elementary and secondary education. ♪ >> good morning everyone. how are you all doing? good. welcome to washington dc. welcome to the third annual summit. my name is michael and i am the deputy assistant secretary prefer the office of elementary and secondary education at the department. the mission in my office, the office of the elementary and secondary education is to promote academic excellence and ensure equitable opportunities to educationally disadvantaged and we have a number of great efforts and programs to support this mission race to the top early learning challenge which provides kids with a great opportunity to start off by particularly high needs kids to give them access to high-quality earl

. >>> and finally, actress and activist marlo thomas was in washington today for a department of educationis c-span reports her speech called on schools to enact a zero tolerance policy where students who bully others could be expelled. the issue of bullying is has become a big issue. >> as it should be. >> erin burnett is in oak creek, wisconsin, tonight going out front of the temple massacre. erin, tell us what you're hearing from witnesses. >> reporter: you know, it's been a pretty shocking day. you can see how traumatized people are. .tight knit community. we went by one of the families of the priest who died. and there were three families all there the entire street covered in cars. all those people were mourning and spending time together today. and they really just to a tee could not believe that religion could cause the sort of a thing. it was more shock and grief rather than anger, at least that we saw today. also spent some time at the hospital where the three victims fighting for their lives right now are in critical care and some stunning things to say from the trauma surgeon a

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