smith told my colleague kevin owen why over seventy percent of teachers believe education in the u.k. is on the wrong policy. the national union of teachers the biggest teachers' union in the u.k. has commissioned a survey which says that morale among teachers has dropped dramatically they talked about the highs and lows of life in the classroom incredibly low morale but also frustrated at continual criticism and interference from the government they said and the figures are quite staggering actually fifty five percent of teachers surveyed said that morale was either very low and that's up from forty two percent just eight months ago so it's really on a declining trend seventy seven percent said that they didn't feel that specific education policies of the government so specialist schools free schools were taking education in the right direction in this country and just five percent felt that this current coalition government impact on the education system was positive and had more specific about what the teachers don't like about the government's policies. well there are specifics that they don't like they don't like this con

and that's of course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers is not ruling out striking unions of course never ruled out striking but christie did tell me specifically that they don't hear this house. the government is attacking pay and conditions and in fact just before christmas michael gave the education secretary was reported in newspapers having put the department of education on a war footing with teachers which is not going to help going forward. this is all taking you live from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day the french capital suffers a string of all the robberies we report later on how jewelry shop owners a raising the blaming the break ins on halt economic times. plus a jerusalem neighborhood beyond israel separation barrier we look at what life is like in an abandoned district that's coming your way to the brink. sigrid laboratory mccurry it was easy to believe when it's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything james mission to teach me the creation of why you should care

schoolwork and in fact i talked to christine blower who's the general secretary of the national union of teachers and she talked about that the general science what the government is doing wrong is its whole approach to austerity because one of the things that's obvious to teachers is that great swathes of children and their families are having a very difficult time at the moment and if families lose benefit in london for example that's going to be a huge problem with housing benefit cuts that have to move schools and of course you know family income drop struck stickley which it has had lots of places children are coming to school hungry they haven't had first they may not go and get a meal in the evening so in a general sense there are really quite big problems and the upshot of that is that seventy six percent of teachers surveyed said that austerity measures will have a negative impact on families or british teachers will get nervous about reform they want changes now to improve the situation is what will make the difference at minimal cost to them. well cost is of course the issue they want

and that's of course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers is not ruling out striking unions of course never ruled out striking christie good told me specifically that they don't rule it out. the government is attacking pay and conditions and in fact just before christmas michael gave the education secretary was reported in newspapers having put the department of education on a war footing with teachers which is not going to help going forward. or smith right that now the french capital suffers a string of robberies i guess a bit later we report on how jewelry shop owners are raising the alarm blaming the break ins on tough economic times. plus a jerusalem neighborhood beyond israel's separation barrier but what my first like and abandon district and more after this short. visit sigrid laboratory was to build its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in. this. only. mission free clinic ation free in-store drug free arrangement free. free

and that's of course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers is not ruling out striking unions of course never rule out striking christie told me specifically that they don't rule it out. the government is attacking pay and conditions and in fact just before christmas mike who gave the education secretary was reported in newspapers having put the department of education on a war footing with teachers which is not going to help going forward. correspondent laura smith reporting right now the french capital suffers a string of robberies just a bit later on here when we report how jewelry shop owners are raising blaming the break ins on tough economic times. such a recent neighborhood and israel separation we look at what life is like in an abandoned district and more for the short break. gridlock. to build. anything. to teach me. this is why you should. only. mission free credit cation three. three. three. three. three. three broadcast quality video for your media. free media. tom. thanks for joining us here on artsy today i'm. at the dip in the

and that of course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers is not ruling out striking unions of course never rule out striking christine told me specifically that they don't rule it out. the government is attacking pay and conditions and in fact just before christmas michael gave the education secretary was reported in newspapers having put the department of education on a war footing with teachers which is not going to help going forward there's not the worst education official the world reserve. all right laura thanks ever so much for the. church of england to find the u.k. its laws for centuries but its privileges no appear to far outweigh its place among british society in the past the number of people who consider themselves christian . has dropped by more than four million police reports on whether it's time for today's religious mix to get the recognition that. one of the most religiously diverse nations in the world with one official state religion to some it's a paradox i think any institute any faith institution like the church of e

place i lived for a long time, moved out of new york city when i was the president of the teachers union in the national of time in washington, d.c., and i spent a lot of time in the place i live in long island and gladly pay every sing m bit of my taxes, and, also, when i was the president of both, i actually had my salary cut in half to make sure i did not double dip. you know, at the end of the day, i, you know, it is up to the members, and i think what happens is we work really, really hard to ensure there's the voice of teachers. >> couple more issues, and this is what i want to talk about now. >> sure. >> with the argument over guns at the moment and school safety, it seems like there's a couple choices here. put guns in the hands of teachers, or we can put guns in the hands of professional security officers in all schools. do you favor either of those? >> look, i don't think that teachers nor do most americans and most of all, most teachers, we do not believe that teachers should be armed. >> okay. >> we think it is the most -- frankly, it is the most dangerous and ire spobl responsible proposal

left-leaning coalition, comprised of 48 member organizations including the liberal lobby, americans for democratic action, pro obama labor union, federation of teachers, national, this ad. >> and what it does is debunk the liberal kinard, that unions are for the-- >> 20% of senate democrats are either have an a or b rating from the n.r.a., including harry reid. you have seven-- >> that's what they're trying to get at right now. the president obama right now for president obama he can't get the senate democrats to sign on to his legislation and groups that support president obama's gun control push are putting out ads like this on democrats. >> and shows you the president having a moment to unify the country after a horrific tragedy and you and i have talked about it in the past, in an effective way people are at the table saying comprehensive reform and let's discuss all things that will make our children and society safer and the president comes up with a plan not even members of his own party can support. i don't think that's the kinds of divisive leadership-- >> tony, you say members of his own party don't support this. the vast majority of members do. yes,

well-paid, focused teachers who act at the direction of their local school district, not the national education association or the national federation of teachers or any other union- >> about that fight there. >> and we have so many disconnects and the penalty is found in the drop-out rate of this country. they are an absolute disgrace and we have educators, secretary of education, karen lewis in chicago, leading the the employees union, they are a disgrace because they're acting as if they have the problem in hand. meanwhile, school districts are going bankrupt, the teachers' organization admit they're working for themselves and not for the students, and the parents are not engaged in the teaching of those young people, who are our future. >> megyn: but it's the point that knowledge is power and better educated the children are whether they're on public assistance or not, the better off they'll be in the future, a decent area for focus, how well are they being educated. lou, thanks. >> great to be with you. >> megyn: well, as vice-president biden meets with hunters, gun dealers and the n.r.a., there are new questions about mr. biden suggesting yesterday the pres

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nation on earth. we make of the most guns and we shoot them. we make the most bombs and we drop them. in this state unions larger than the teacher union and building first class jails and second class schools and [inaudible] stop the problem. each out and convene the family is the first step in the right direction. mr. mayor at this table must be disk jockeys, athletes, artists, ad agencies, all those impacts must find a place at this table. we spent $3 trillion on the war in iraq and it was the wrong target. you spend $3 trillion on the budget and tax cut for the wealthiest americans and took their money to the camen islands and not in america and having huge threats and medicaid and medicare and threaten the scpeerns that is violence. number one and must commit ourselves to the ban on assault weapons. we lost about 6,000 americans in iraq in 10 years. lose 30 to 50,000 a home at home. 100,000 are injured and didn't die and the highest cost in any city is the emergency room hospitals in those cities where they're shot. [inaudible] shot by ak47's. we have a lot of role in the killing of syria. 9/11 /12 in benghazi. [inaudible] y

teachers be armed in the classroom. your union and other unions in the national education association, where do you stand on this, and how do you push become against this kind ofonversation? >> so we do not believe that teachers should be armed in the classrooms. and, you know, this is the irony, ed. just last year, we're having a conversation about whether teachers should actually have latitude to teach as opposed to test, whether they should have collective bargaining rights. so some of the very same people who have stripped teachers of their collective bargaining rights or any latitude to teach now want to arm them. teachers do not want to be armed. we do not want schools to be armed fortresses. we want them to be safe sanctuaries. >> you would be in favor of a greater police presence? >> in places. you know, this should be done on a school by school or case-by-case basis. for example, you can imagine that why people in newtown would want a police presence in and around schools, because right now they're scared, and they want to have that police presence. it's the schools in newtown, for example are, in remote areas. it takes the cops about ten or 15 minute

won't back down, both of them ntended to demonize the teacher's union, looking at úhere is the highest performing states in the u.s. they're union states, if you look at the nationse ighest performing school systems like finland, the 100% union, the teachers and the principals all belong to the same union, unions are nottthe problem. what we need to do to improve public education is to bring people around their schools, to bring the parents, the teachers, the kids, working together, and also to have the public recognizing that the schools alone are not responsible, families bear a very large responnibility for making sure that their kids are ready, and society bear as responsibility to make sure that there's good health care and frankly that we do something to act on poverty and segregation which are toxic elements in our society. >> are you hopeful, about the future, you know, this fight -úwill continue. >> you know what makes me -- i mean it sounds strange to say this. i believe. i don't know if it's hopefulness, but i believe that all the things that are being done now under the name of accountability, and also the privatization movement will fail because othi

service employees unions, the teachers unions, and the national labor relations board which he has stacked with his democratic allies, pro labor, driving the principal agency in charge ofween business and labor. >> megyn: they've tried to make it as easy as possible nlrb for a company to union, a work force to unionize. why is it? because the companies are hurting and therefore, they dent feel -- the unions don't feel like they could extract what they want from the company, so why bother? >> well, the unions are extracting what they can and it has risen in point of fact. and the extraction takes place really between the union member, the man or woman, working as a member of the union sending his or her dues, which are just about $700 a year, on average. that is the extraction that matters. >> megyn: they get benefits for the member and the union shops tend to get better pay. >> and they get better pay and a political direction that folks who are not unionized don't have to worry about. >> megyn: because thee spend the money on politics. >> this symbiotic relationship between the unions and the democratic party, local, state and federal government is one of the reasons

of the labor market during the recovery. we're losing teachers. this is important not to the union members only but to the natione it means that as we have gone through this recovery, we have not been able to make the proper investment to make sure that the kids are educated for the future. and the private sector drop comes in construction and again we know that need to be building the infrastructure to make america successful for the future and the numbers speak a lot about the weakness in the labor market and especially the weakness in the public sector where we know that we need teachers, we know that we need policemen and we need firefighters. >> correct. it's interesting that you point to the fact that people are out of work and that may be part of the reason you're seeing declining numbers but the professor of the article you're in se should be looking to unions but they're not. so given your point about so many people being out of work, the theory is that they should be looking to unions at a time of insecurity, especially and a lot of places like michigan, for example, and wisconsin, where we know unions

association, the largest teachers union in the state, doesn't see the blended learning as a panacea for what's ailing california schools. >> california is about last in the nation in the number of computers available per student. >> don dawson says years of underfunding have left a deficit that no one organization, not even a well financed one like the silicon school's fund can overcome. >> all of our students deserve that promise. all students deserve to have the resources allocated. >> so this time. >> but at at this middle school, teachers are embracing the split classroom and the students seem to be on board too. >> it's great because you get to learn at your own pace. you gcan go back on the computers. >> for his part, the ceo behind the new effort to re-create the classroom says he may not have all the answers just yet but it's never too soon to try. >> what we want to do is bring great change thors into the classroom and let them use their schools as laboratories of innovation. >> that charter school is one of two to win grants from the school's fund. the other is summit public schools, both will use the grant money to expand and reach more kids. now, while the jury is s

nation. >> i'm terminating your principalship now. >> it seemed to work. >> 42% increase in mathematics. >> but at what price? correspondent john merrow examines her battles with the teachers' union and accusations of a cheating scandal. >> merrow: what's your reaction to those numbers? they say the gains are phony. >> in isolated places, could something happen? maybe. but i can point to dozens of schools where there were dramatic gains that were maintained. >> "the education of michelle rhee." >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontline is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. additional funding for this program is provided by: >> michelle rhee's journey to national prominence began in 2007. washington dc had just inaugurat

union thugs. >> stephanie: yeah, they are ignoring what teachers think and what police officers think. >> yeah. >> stephanie: most gun owners have grown up with gun restrictions that are tougher than my parts of the nationely in new york because of republicans. >> yeah. >> stephanie: a virginia tech victim at the white house yesterday. >> you can do it over the internet so calls it the gun show loophole doesn't effect the larger picture of gun sales in this country. >> stephanie: that's a good point. how do you stop -- >> internet sales. >> but you can't buy heroin. >> technically you can. >> stephanie: that's a good point. it would be like trying to sell heroin on craigslist or -- >> yeah, but how do you stop people from using code words? >> stephanie: how do i stop people from saying mean things about me on the internet? i would like to stop that? i want to shut down the internet. except hard-of-hearing darth vader -- >> what? >> and cat videos. >> stephanie: right. fifty-eight minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show."@Ñ@Ñ ♪ >> stephanie: all right. hour number 2. current tv world. valerie harper coming up on the big show. jacki schechner a great piece entitled state mental pa