the commitment to public education in all its manifestations. public schools from kindergarten to higher education. there are thousand of new deal schools built within less than ten years. many have art work in or on them. this is berkeley high school. you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. the schools are always telling you that public education can make you better. it should be free. now, public education was fortunatate in california. just in time for them to move in. they build hundreds of schools. seismically safe schools. when you enter it, you go under a copper marquee. enter to learn. we are all this in together. the public service is a noble thing. this is a san francisco school that might be attractive to so eyes. it was a fire trap. they tore these down and replaced them. george washington. hollywood high school. they have english, latin and greek. this is a middle school in long beach. it wasn't centralized authority. they chose the architects. the main constraint is there had to be an engineer on site. there ther

privatized them the way that they did hospitals during reagan's years the rest of the nation's public education system fall like dominoes. here's how the frame is rushed out taxpayer dollars are being used to fund public universities where liberals are ignoring american history to raise a new generation of american hating liberal this is basically what follows in this frame is the call to action which is simple cut public funding to public universities as they die it opens a hole in the business ecosystem for profit name colleges to step in and make even more money off america's young people their article on alter net sarah robinson goes on to explain how this brain is created and then passed on through all the right wing media outlets until politicians spring into action and start passing legislation based on the free santorum is frame of the public universities in california not offering american history classes came from a grossly partisan report by the conservative hoover institution which was selectively quoted by the wall street journal and then misquoted by rick santorum and robertson po

>> the real answer is education is very much appreciated in finland. >> by the general public? >> yes. we see that as a means to a decent life, well-being and to climb the social ladder. >> you are not so much concerned, if i'm hearing you correctly, not so much with scores and statistics, but more as a total human being? >> yes. that's the point. but we do not use any standardized tests. >> would you say that again outloud? >> we do not use any standardized tests in finland. we have one standardized test which is an examination after secondary school. >> toward the end of their time in secondary school. tests are not important band rankings are not important -- and that rankings are not important, and competition is not important? >> no. if you want a comparison between countries, the differences between schools are the smallest one. we tend to think every school has to be a good school with good teachers and if you ask parents which school they want, it's the nearest one. the difference is not in quality. >> i gather that people who are citizens of the country, whether they a

. -- one winter says he hopes the money goes to public education. >> a pretty good story there. city police are alerting food delivery drivers to be alert after a rash of robberies. investigators say receive reports of five incidents where a driver will arrive at a location that is a to a vacant home and get attacked. >> this seems to be catching on. before it does, we need to make everyone aware. we do not pete -- we do not want people falling prey to ambush. the problem is with some of the homes you cannot tell their vacant. >> police say drivers can keep themselves safe by checking the address against the list of vacant properties online. a bizarre end to the 2011 general assembly care the only budget passed was the so-called doomsday budget, and as david collins explains, that could bring legislators back to annapolis. >> legislators called this one of the most baffling endings to recession they ever experienced. if the governor accomplished much of his priorities, but the general assembly failed and overshadowed the success. >> i move the house stands adjourned. >> no ballo

our campaign stands for free public education. we want this country to join the long list of other industrialized countries in the world that manage to do this. and none of them are as affluent as the united states of america. >> that's the other part of the big debate, should we be giving everyone a free education in this country? >> i would ask to distinguish education as a public good that you say benefits society, for housing, it certainly benefits society for people to have a roof over their heads? >> i think shelter is a public good, i think shelter is a human right according to the u.n. and education is not exactly in the same category as housing. the fact is however, that our government increasingly wants to withdraw from its responsibility to fund higher education and will compel students who are supposed to be the beneficiaries to pay for it privately. we have -- this $1 trillion debt is going to multiply unless something seriously is done about it. >> this is an immoral process. you describe so many things now as public

the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. the ctc foundation, ofa communications. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for this opportunity. >> how did the idea of a summit come about? >> we thought was important to not learn from isolation but from our colleagues around the globe we brought the union leaders. we did it last year. we did not know if it would be successful or a failure. it went extraordinarily well. the feedback has been fantastic. it is a lot of fun. we learned so much from these other countries. it has been an amazing two days. >> what were the takeaways from last year's summit? >> there are so many comments that are interesting but what i did not fully appreciate was despite all the differences in geography and local context, the local issues we are grappling with. how do you support a workforce that is preparing for the 24 century still, how do you retain teachers, how to make sure that we have the skills that are needed. -- ho

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possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. the singapore tourism board. there is something for everyone. singapore airlines, a great way to fly. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. the rotondaro family trust. the ctc foundation. afo communications. >> ambassador, the czech republic is landlocked, isn't it? >> yes. >> tell me the border countries so people can visit it on imap. >> it is bordered with germany. we are basically a trying goal that comes into the belly of germany. we border with bavaria on the south, and saxony on the north. and of our north border, it is quite a long border, with portland. and our eastern border, we border -- with poland. and our eastern border, we border with slovakia. >> the population of the czech republic now is how much? >> it used to be a 50 million nation, czechoslovakia, and it split 2 to one. >> and the capital, of course, as prague. which i understand is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. >> t

confronted by the philosophy that says we cannot afford health care, public education, and affordable housing for the broad majority of our fellows, both national and state governments have withdrawn their support for affordable housing. currently mayor lee has undertaken a process involving private and public sectors because it will take both to seek to provide the minimum of $50 million a year for that purpose in the city of st. francis. that effort will require a ballot measure or two, patience, determination, and wit. if this opening is merely an homage to his past, my old friend would simply remind us that he never came to these kind of events anyway. but if this ceremony is a demonstration of a commitment to the future of providing many more thousands of units permanently affordable to san francisco's poor and working people, we can all rest assured that rene would be pleased. it all depends on us now. [applause] >> the first thing i want to say is the key to everyone who worked so hard to make -- is to say thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this possible. my mom w

public action. the center will embody and sustain this new educational commitment. think of it as a kind of secular church. the words on the card describe what will happen inside. we intend to turn the intellectual and imaginative power, passion and boldness of our students, faculty and staff to developing strategies for acting on the critical challenges of our time. so we are doing our job. while these past weeks have been a time of national exhilaration in this country, it would be tragic if you thought this meant your job was done. the glacial silence we have experienced in the face of the shredding of the constitution, the unraveling of our public institutions, the deterioration of our infrastructure is not limited to the universities. we the people have become inured to our own irrelevance when it comes to doing anything significant about anything that matters concerning governance, beyond waiting another four years. we persist also in being sidelined by the idea of the expert as the only one capable of coming up with answers, despite the overwhelming evidence

does this speak to how people feel about public education, or just their own personal economy?e irony is voters understand, they get it, they understand the poor shape of public education in california. that same ppic survie, 81% believe that public education has been hurt. 60% are concerned with the deteriorating quality of ed indicates. and another piece of data, 58% are worried about teacher layoffs, which is understandable, because california has the highest -- the highest student to teacher ratio in the nation. there are a lot of numbers here. sometimes we get blurred, but the fact is voters get it, they get the relationship between taxes, education, and many just don't want to pay more. >> is it a funding issue that's overstated? >> again, we go to the data. according to education week, which is a national periodically, very well respected. >> i get it. >> okay. california now ranked 47th. last i heard there were 50 states, 47th in per capita spending, and here are the results of the investment in california. look at this. 47th play in spending, near the bottom in achieve

possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. singapore airlines. the singapore tourism board, there is something for everyone. singapore airlines,a great way to fly. poongsan corp., forging a higher global standard. the ctc foundation. afo communications. the rotondaro family trust. >> the book is absolutely terrific on some money different levels, not only to get to know the queen, the family, how it operates inside, but also some of the history. and people know the movies in the last couple of years, "the king's speech" which i gather the queen has seen, but she did not see "the queen," of the helen mirren film. her father was a george vi and he took over because his brother, edward the a's, decided he did not want to be king. george died pretty young and she becomes queen at the moment of his death, the best pitcher and all of this later on. but she was 25 years old. home schooled. in the war, she helped out her father. she was a mechanic. >> she learned how to l

i'm a big proponent of public education, so much so, when i was exploring preschool options, i focusedpublic preschools. my older son is fortunate to attend the presidio child development center where i serve as the secretary on the c-p.a.c. i'm here to speak for myself and on behalf of six other parents at the school who have gone through the elementary school assignment process. last year and i have to say as a resident of san francisco, i've taken keen interest in how we offer public education in the city and i've made note of the assignment process for a very long time and last year when i saw the new tiebreaker system come into place and also see a circle of mom friends, about 10 of them, who got their assignments last year, almost all of them received their neighborhood school, i thought, wow, we're making progress, this tiebreaker system is really cool, it's going to work. so this year going through the process, i thought, wow, you know, it seems like this is going to work but to give you some examples. i thought for sure we were going to get our assignment school and a friend o

hundreds more greeted walker in michigan, protesting his assault on public education. i'm joined tonight by john nichols, washington correspondent of "the nation" magazine and author of the book "uprising." john, what does this mean? okay, he's got attorney bills, but what does it really mean? >> well, he's got a lot of attorney bills, and that means a lot. you just mentioned $55,000. but that's not the whole of it. this is the important thing. the financial disclosure forms give you wide range. so he's confirmed he spent -- or he owes $50,000 to one firm. he owes between $5,000 and $50,000 to another firm. so we could be at $100,000. and his campaign has spent $115,000 more hiring two additional firms -- >> what kind of work are they doing? what are they, answering all the questions for him? >> this is what the governor tried to suggest back in february. he said, oh, i needed somebody to help with the paperwork and all that. but these two firms that we're talking about, the core two firms with $50,000 and $5,000 to $50,000, these are core defense lawyers. he's hired l

and catholics supposedly wanted to control public education and wasn't public education the bull work of the republican system? not just the bull work of the republican system but also a way in which the evangelical protestant faith was passed on. it may strike us as odd today, but remember public schools in those days are often run by religious societies and there's bible reading in the schools and so on. so nativists are concerned about catholics infiltrating the democratic party. the democrats were viewed as the toties of the catholics. meanwhile, the know nothings saw themselves as a kind of people's party, opposed to the corrupt traditional parties that had been perverted by the catholic interests, as they called it. the formal name of the party was the american party, and they were very successful, especially at the state level, in the mid-1850s. 1853, '54, '55 they were quite successful in -- well, even in states like massachusetts. the know nothings won several key state elections because there was a general feeling among the voters they wanted to throw off the old party organ

education and treatment. through this effort, ohio has raised public awareness, increased public education, and improved ohio's investigations and prosecutions and in both criminal and regulatory cases. however, to make a real difference, we must limit the availability of prescription drugs to those individuals and actual need and in the proper quantities. in ohio, drug poisonings cost ohioans $3.6 billion annually. between the years of 1999 and 2007, ohio's rate of opioid distribution increased. ohio's drug death rate increased 305%. if you will look to my left see the remarkable correlation on the graph located closest off to the back of the room. in 1997, ohio averaged 7 doses of opioids per cap tachlt in 2010, our average dose of opioid per capita increased. in less than 15 years. ohio watched the average dose, increase almost 900%. the chart to my left, the closest off to the front of the room will illustrate, death rates during the current prescription drug scourge is hyper higher in ohio than tt heroin epidemic in the 70s and the crack epidemic in the 1990s. ohio's leaders recognize the seriousness of o

school and go to the capitol and lobby on behalf of public workers, public school teachers, public education, and public -- because our elected leaders have forgotten their commitment in this regard, and the long-time executive director of madison teachers incorporated and one of the great leaders in the struggle is with us today, john matthews. [cheers and applause] >> the day that the teachers did walk out, i was driving to the state capitol here in madison, and folks in madison know it's not the most -- it's -- you can get across town pretty quick, and at 10:00 in the morning you can drive up east washington avenue the capitol will no trouble at all. it's never a problem. and yet this morning, as i was driving up -- about a year ago today -- i'm driving to the capitol, and i am encountering traffic difficulties. there were cars in front of me, and it was moving slowly. i thought to myself what could be amiss, and i saw police lights flashing, and i thought, what is happening in my peaceful, calm city? and as i got closer, realize that the when the teachers had chosen to get out of schools

that was the only time that ever happened is we started a public education campaign in the beginning of 2008 in conjunction with our 75th anniversary. we thought it would be a good catalyst for having a fairly aggressive public education campaign about deposit insurance. we had this benign period in banking for so many years. people forget about it. we did start that early. that did help us. we ramped up the efforts. we had ads out and psas. we ramped those up. since that was already happening it really helped. the other thing which i had done earlier there was a lot of controversy about whether hedge -- nontraditional investors like hedge funds should be able to charter a -- get a bank charter or bid on a failing bank process. and we stepped our toe. we put our toe into that. in 2008 we really -- we needed bank buyers. we needed new capital coming into this system. it wasn't like we were going to be choosy, well you can come in, but you can't. we try not to exercise judgments based on business models anyway. if you've got capital, you've got good management, you should get a charter

universities as your standard how can you even repeat this nonsense out of your prompter the us public education system is one of the greatest systematic failures on this planet pretty angry well. i think that you're misunderstanding exactly what it is that we're talking about yes our public university system is riddled with problems there's no argument there but you're way off if you think the i'm the only one out there pointing out the problems with the for profit college system. there have been numerous investigative reports done there have been congressional inquiries into for profit institutions and these schools have been known to defraud students and roll them into classes without their knowledge then charge them for it and they oversell the value of their degrees as often they're not even considered valuable to employers not to mention according to the department of education only twelve percent of students attended for profit colleges but the institutions are responsible for forty five percent of federal student loan defaults and that's just to name a few problems so i say even take ano

no tax increases but severe cuts to public and higher educ. >>> republic was not built on gambling gimmicks, on bin gos or on bake sales. if we want a better state for our kids then we better come together and make the right decisions that protect the people's priorities. >> speaker of the house blamed the impasse on his counter part in the senate. >> they felt the appropriate decision for the citizens of the state was to take an all cults budget. and they -- all cuts budget and they passed that along. >> the senate president blamed it on his counter parts in the house. >> we reached agreement on the revenues package, on gaming and everybody shook hands on it but the house ran out of time in terms of getting the job done so guess what, we'll have to come back another day. >> republicans blamed it on govern nor o'malley. >> you have a governor running around here every other day releasing a new tax proposal, a sales tax increase, any manner of tax increases, it was dilatory. it was taking people's focus off of what we should have been focused on. these folks are really out of control, really

in our society, we have the responsibility to make sure that youth have access to a free and public education. that should not exclude accessible transportation to and from school. we are urging you to vote for free muni for youth in san francisco. thank you so much. chairman brinkman: thank you. [applause] >> [reading names] >> hello, everyone. i am chair of the san francisco youth commission. i have spoken in front of you before. there are three things. we do not want to stigmatize muni as being only for low income. i am appreciative that the proposal includes -- it has proven that they do their free lunch status data, but it does not reach everyone. people do not consider themselves low end, and they do not want to apply. that is one of the things i fear happening. administration of the program, i read the proposal that you have here. on page 5, it is sam's that administering would cost less than administering it for all low-income -- let's backtrack. administering the past for low- income students would cost less than administering it for all students. i find that the really interesting.

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they all work in public education in maryland.blic education system here in extremely high regard. it's the number one rated public education system in the country for the past four years. and so for them to have come out of that system, to be contributing back to it and then as you highlight, one's an elementary schoolteacher, one teaches special education, one provides administrative support, but they all work at least a second job. one works a third. i can't think of anyone to have as good a look as these three did. >> so these three winners basically are the invisible three amigos. if we can show that picture again. the check is covering their face. they've got to red sweatshirts, but even down to their gloves -- are those officially lotto-branded gloves that they're wearing? >> absolutely. only the very finest. >> absolutely. so they are in complete disguise, so to speak. i'm sure that behind that check are a lot of teeth because they're smiling at winning the mega millions. however, as you talk about, we couldn't have script

. >>> a high school senior calls it the fight for the right to continue public education. ktvu's jade hernandez is live. >> reporter: an hour ago we gathered to listen to the berkeley high school senior who plans to appeal and start that process on monday. she is doing that because she wants to gain admission to her gain school, university of california at berkeley. >> i still believe in public education and i think we can like -- i think it is in the people to improve it. >> reporter: the high school senior plans plans to turn in her appeal letter tomorrow. she has 3.8gpa and was in the top 9% of her class but she wasn't admitted. they support her. both groups held a rally and sit in on friday. they respect to double minority student enrollment. when a students over comes spanish as a first language and goes to the front of the class and denied entrance to a public university, others may get the wrong idea. >> it got me, she said it is not about my dot, i know -- daughter, i know she strong but it is the message it sends. >> reporter: bam filed a lawsuit. the group claims

no tax increases but severe cuts to public and higher education. >> republic was not built on gambling gimmicks, on bing gos or on bake sales. if we want a better state for our kids, then we better come together and make the right decisions that protect the people's priorities. >> the speaker of the house blamed tim pass on his counter parts in the senate. >> they felt that the appropriate decision for the citizens of the state was to take an all cuts budget and they passed that along. >> the senate president blamed it on his counter parts in the house. >> we reached agreements on revenues for the revenue package. we reached agreement on gaming and everybody shook hands on it and we said we have an agreement but the house ran out of time in terms of getting the job done i guess we'll have to come back another day. >> the governor running around here every other day releasing a new tax proposal, whether it was a sales tax increase, a gas tax increase, any manner of tax increases. it was taking people's focus off of what we should have been focused on. these folks really are out of contr