has joel mengin, nea has a vision for a great public school for every student.in this environment what is it that you need to do? been joel says he has three copies he wants me to talk about in ten minutes. that is a challenge. i have a hard time saying hello and ten minutes. but i'm going to attempt that. the first thing we talked about is turning around low performing schools. i want you to know in our language in nea we don't call them low performing we call them high priority schools. they ought to be a high priority. and in this area of trying to turnaround schools this is not a new topic for us. really since the 80's and the nation at risk in april of '83 we have been about trying to change education, and we have done a lot and we have seen a success and failure, and what we really have seen most is that we started and created campfires of excellence as one of my colleagues used to describe. he said we build these campfires of excellence but the design of the campfire is that it should and spread. and what we really need is a brush fire, something that mov

neas? >> thank you mr. scott. my remarks today are going to address whether low income and minority owned with disabilities have been deprived of an equal educational opportunity. and i believe the answer is a simple yes. i want to give a little additional background from what nancy said. dakar to more than six months and with disabilities who receive support from i.d.e.a. approximate half of them are white, 20% are black and 20% are hispanic. and i.d.e.a. is not means tested haircolor, we do know that 24 percent of students with disabilities live in poverty compared to 16 percent of the general education population. in order to be eligible for special education services, a student must have both a disability and needs special education. it's also important to note that 85 percent of special education students do not have a disability that prohibits them from achieving great level academic standards. at this time there are about 16 categories of disabilities within i.d.e.a. one of the things that article to look a

he has been president of the nea for about one year.r and other posts. let me read three quick quotes from him that the fine his views and sets the stage for some of what he will talk about. of his official bio on his web site says," the mission and vision of an 8 organization defines who i am and what i care about and what i believe in." taser promised to fulfill the promise of public education and to prepare every student. i am proud of that and i want to continue the journey. dennis also said,"nea's vision is for great public school for any student. unfortunately, despite the commitment of members, too many students in communities do not enjoy the benefits of a great public school because their schools are often chronically underfunded, understaffed, and others supported. this is simply unacceptable." one issue that has been controversial in the education committee and dennis said desk," the time to fix the flaw of education law has,. we cannot afford to start another school year beginning with the unintended consequences of a lot th

taking over responsibility for what russia saw as the neas the u.s. and the u.k. had created. you have the u.s. at one end of the speck truck and russia at the other. it became almost a normal security council negotiations. thinking back to the post 1441 resolution. it went to the french when it comes to 1483. the security council were more constructive than i was expecting at this stage. i think for one, perhaps two overwhelming reasons. one was they wanted the united nations to come back into the picture. they wanted the unilateralism of what they saw having happened in the invasion to be corrected back to an internationally approved and organized situation for iraq with u.n. playing its proper part in it. and secondly, they wanted to minimize the overall political geo-political damage that had been done by the invasion of iraq and that in my mind was a more constructive approach than might have happened but i had something to play with in the rest of the security council because of those attitudes. those two sets of responses very much echoing the united kingdom policy at t

the first, in your testimony, you are talking up the nea -- let me get to the page -- to adjust our effortsote a government that the judge did levels. do you believe this is achievable under the current constitutional system that of afghanistan has in? would you prefer to see another system that devolved power that would make this more compatible with the history and culture of afghanistan? >> i think the limiting factor is not the framework of the constitution. the limiting factor that exists is the difficulties of the government of afghanistan has after 30 years of war, trying to develop the necessary organizational capacities to deliver services. their talents in the development of human capital. >> -[unintelligible] >> that would be my view. i knew the afghan leadership, starting karzai with starting is looking at the possibility of the idea of taking more financial resources and allocating that to a provincial governor and allocating that a district governor. right now, they are starved for funds. there are additional discussions going on and that should be the right mix of the electro

nea idea that this is a fallback i think is a big step forward. i think that is how most of us feel. we can only take one or two more because of senator mcconnell. but also compare this gentleman from "the new york times" hear who said look at the fights among the democrats. look at the difference. we are struggling to come together of the most difficult issue america has ever faced and we're getting close to the finish line for the we have had our disagreements but it has not been poisonous. it is just pure politics. it is basically coming up the political argument of the day, one day they like government and one day they don't. there is no consistency, no feeling here is how to make things better, it is tactical. here is the best argument today and let's see if there resonates even though has nothing to do with their true feelings. and it will be one of our saving graces because it will save us a lot of trouble because the american people see that. they see we're trying to do the right thing for them and they see a cynical ploy witticism of a ju