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schools and whether chancellor michele reid will still have a job when the new person takes over. >> a lot of people have been asking that. michele reid says when she first started talking school reform with mayor fenty, she told him the decisions could cause a lot of consternation. she's made a lot of decisions including firing a lot of teachers. that could have contributed to mayor fenty losing her job as mayor. but whatever happens she hopes lit continue moving forward. >> i have spent the last 3 1/2 years putting my blood, sweat and tears into reform efforts and we're going to make sure we do whatever we can to try to ensure that they continue. >> now vince gray says he has reached out to michele ri, and she says as well they hope to have a conversation in the coming days about their future and that she looks forward to working with him to see how they can move forward. gray said he wants to work on school reform sanched looking for an 'em powered and inclusive chancellor, whether that will be michele remains to be seen. >> and former mayor fenty is planning to hand over the reig

the chancellor michelle reid gets plenty of face time in this one. fox's shannon green has the sneak peek tonight. >> reporter: okay. >> either the kids are getting stupider every year or something is wrong in the education system. >> reporter: the man behind the new education documentary waiting for superman says it's the latter. the movie about the u.s. school system will hit theaters. it follows students and their families on their uphill battle to secure good education in a system he calls broken. >> among 30 countries we rank 55th in math and 31st in science. >> reporter: michelle reid lauded by some for her innovative ideas and criticized by the local teacher's union features in the documentary and says it is time the country got a good look at what is really happening. >> if you looked at what has happened in american public education over the last 20 years we have gone from number one in a lot of different respects, to absolutely at the bottom amongst developed nations. >> reporter: while charter schools are portrayed positively in the new fi

primary election here this month in part because of school reforms speer headed by chancellor michelle reid and people are upset and agry over those issues. politicians have to b willing to take political risks. >> it's going to state the obvious. the goal of politicians is to getre-elected. and too often that goal surpasses everything else. if you really wan to do education reform right now in this country, you are going to have to take some political hits. otherwise we're just going to see what's happened overhe past 30, 40 years. we know what needs to be done. >> permission to -- >> when asked about hisplans after he leaves office, mayor fenty predicted he and michelle reid will likely stay involved in education reform. and he warned they will likely be agitators from the outside as they have been from the inside. >>> coming up tonight on "nightly news" we'll take a look at what bill gates wants to do to make better teachers. and we have a special education nation section on our website at nbcwashington.com. >> with regard to mayor fenty's comments, most political observers in the city n

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public school chancellor michelle reid laided by some for her innovative ideas features prominently in the documentary and says it is time the country got a good look at what is really happening. >> if you look at what has happened in american public education over the last 20 years we gone from number one in a lot of different respects to absolutely at the bottom amongst developed nations. >> shannon: while charter schools are portrayed positively, teachers unions are not but this is no attack from the right. guggenheim is the director and producer behind "an inconvenient truth." randy weingarten praises the attempt to get the country talking about education but is not happy about what she calls an inaccurate portrayial of teachers. >> most teachers do heroic work every single day and so we need to give the good teachers we have the tools and the conditions to support them. we need to support them rather than scapegoat them. >> he says he never expected any fill. making experience to surpass the support he got for an inconvenient truth but the ground swell around this project has been

what he has to say about michelle reid's reforms. and a multimillion dollar donation by bill gates to improve the classroom. >>> new concerns about the safety of segues, emergency ros are seeing a spike in injuries. >>> ps help wanted, tens of thousands of new jobs are available as the holiday season approaches. >>> the irs goes green. they're changing how you get your tax paperwork this tax season. >>> new questions are being raised about the safety of those segue personal transporter. jim maceda reports. >> reporter: a relaxed sunday ride along the cliffs of this west yorkshire property turned lethal when jim hazleton plunged 30 feet into the river below. police found his segue scooter in the river near his body. he bought the new hampshire-based company only a few months ago. friends remembered him as a kind, giving man. >> he did good things with his money. >> this raises more questions about the high-tech scooter that first appeared in the parks and bike lanes of america a decade ago. speeds up to four times faster than walking,

duncan and michelle reid appeared on meet the press this morning.id mayor fenty can walk out of office with his head held high. reid was asked whether she will stay on as chancellor with vincent gray as mayor. here is what she said. >> i am a huge fan of what he and michelle have done. by any measure the public schools in washington, d.c. are better than they were. there is a question i should ask you are you going to stay as chancellor of washington, d.c. schools? >> that is something very to determine and talk to mr. gray who is the mayor. but i think the important thing to realize is that education reform can continue in washington, d.c. regardless of whether i'm there or not. >>> reid also said she could stay on as chancellor as long as the new leadership is willing to make the incredibly tough decisions they have already made the last few years. >> as majority leader hoyer is calling comedian stephen colbert's capitol hill inappropriate and an embarrassment. he testified on the judiciary committee hearing for immigration. invited by chair perso

we'll see if mayor fenty and michelle reid keep their jobs after today. >> savannah guthrie live at the white house. thank you. >>> an update on american sarah shourd. she's out of the iranian prison and speaking now for the very first time. >> i want to really offer my thanks to everyone in the world, all of the governments, all of the people that have been involved, and i especially particularly want to address president ahmadinejad and all the iranian officials, really just the leaders and thank them for this humanitarian gesture. >> andrea mitchell has confirmed she was charged with espionage. president obama released a statement saying i am very pleased that sarah shourd has been released by the iranian government and will soon be united with her family. nbc news tehran bureau chief has more detail ls. i was giving a note that sarah shourd has been met by her mother in oman. >> reporter: that's right, tamron. an end of an agonizing weekend of uncertainty for sarah shourd. we don't know what is going to happen with shane bauer and josh fattal. they said it would be reviewed in two m

with michelle reid, she went out and actively recruited african-american males because there are not enough role models in the classroom. >> we talk about a million new teachers, that ha to be a diverse workforce. i'll give you tougher numbers. less than 1 in 50, less than 2% of the teachers are african-american males. if you put african-american males and hispanics together it's 3 pntd 5% of the teaching workforce. our young boys of color desperately need mentors, role models and coaches to help them aspire to do something positive. many of them grow up in single-parent homes. we're going to have a huge focus on diversity and a huge focus on bringing in men of color. >> secretary duncan. stay where you are. we'll be back in a moment. when we come back secretary duncan will take questions from students from university of phoenix. but first, we'll hear from musician john legend on how one teacher made an experience in john legend's life. >> we need a new generation of teachers to join those already in the classroom. people need to understand what the value of a teacher is and the powe

. >> reporter: the chancellor, michelle reid, lauded for her innovative ideas and criticized by the localons features prominently in the documentary and says it is time to get a good look at what happened. >> if you look at what happened in american public education over the last 20 years we have gone from number one, in a lot of different respects, to absolute at the bottom, amongst developed nations. >> reporter: while charter schools are portrayed positively in the new film, teachers unions are not. but, this is no attack from the right. guggenheim is the academy award-winning director and producer behind al gore's global warming documentary, "an inconvenient truth" and randy weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers, praises his attempt to get the country talking about education but is not happy about what she calls an accurate portrayal of teachers and unions. >> teachers, most of them do heroic work every day and we need to give the good teachers we have the tools and this conditions to support them, we need to support them, rather than scapegoat them. martha: boy

public school chancellor michelle reid lauded by some for innovative ideas and criticized by the teachersatures prominently in the documentary and says it's time the country gets a good look at what is happening. >> if you look at what has happened in american publication in 20 years we have gone from number one in a lot of different respects to absolutely at the bottom amongst developed nations. >> while charter schools are portrayed positively in the new film, teachers unions are not. this is no attack from the right. guggenheim is the academy award winning director and producer behind al gore's global warming documentary "an inconvenient truth." the president of the federation of teachers praises guggenheim's attempt to get the country talking about education, but not happy about what she calls inaccurate portrayal of the sub par teachers and villainous unions. >> there are 3 billion teachers in the country, most of whom do heroic work every single day. we need to give the good teachers tools to support them. >> guggenheim said they never expected film making experience to surpass supp

tuesday the democratic primary, he's not going to be mayor next year, mostly because he supported michelle reidol chancellor who fired over 200 teachers in washington. president obama did not come to his aid, help him, stand up and be counted in this legs and basically he was turned out of office because people in washington, d.c., where i live, were offended that the schools were no longer employing as many people. again, schools are seen as a jobs program. it's a complicated, complicated issue. martha: we don't have time to look at it but this morning there was a teacher on fox & friends who represented 700 teach respect in brooklyn, i believe, who decided they don't want tenured, they want their salary to be based on how well they do, and i was at my son's middle school, public school, back to school night last night and i got to tell you, i was so impressed with the teach theirs spoke there last night and i thought to myself, you know, teachers, nobody -- and this isn't about beating up on tiv e. nobody wants the good teachers in this country to not be paid well, so why do you think teach r

i tell you this, michelle reid has a real problem because she campaigned with fenty, and colbert kingt says that she's gone. she, joe, as you know is a national figure, and it will be a very interesting test of the new mayor if he says she's got to go despite the fact she's really got an independent base. >> yeah. seriously, she does a lot of good for barack obama, for arne duncan, for the forces of education reform on the democratic side. who knows? maybe the white house gets involved in that. >> we'll see. harold ford junior coming up in a few minutes. first a little news you can't use, harry reid's twitter conversation with lady gaga. the senate majority leader spending the day on twitter with lady gaga. words alone aren't enough. our job is to listen and find ways to help workers who lost their jobs to the spill. i'm iris cross. we'll keep restoring the jobs, tourist beaches, and businesses impacted by the spill. we've paid over $400 million in claims and set up a $20 billion independently-run claims fund. i was born in new orleans. my family still lives here. i'm gonna be here un

michelle is on. the two will meet this coming thursday at noon in gray's office at the wilson building downtown. reid campaigned for her boss, mayor adrian fenty who lost in last week's primary. she questioned gray's commitment to school reforms and said she didn't think she could work for him. gray has been critical of his management style. the firings of some teachers and said his chancellor must be able to get along with people. >>> the vatican is surprised about a money probe. italian authorities seized some $30 million from a bank. that bank top officers are being investigated for mistakes that violate italy's antilaundering law. >>> several streets downtown open tonight after a suspicious package started leaking today. it happened at a pharmaceutical company in the 900 block of f street northwest this afternoon. dc fire crews concluded the liquid was not dangerous after several businesses had been evacuated. >>> pennsylvania gas utility says there's no reason for a immediate concern after defective pipes were installed in thousands of buildings in virginia, maryland, ohio, and kentucky. a worke

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