randi weingarten, president of the americanan federation of teachers.stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "screaming a whisper" by dani mari, i am snow angel & claire london. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we turn now to look at billionaire education secretary betsy y devos, a lonongtime bacr of charter schools and voucherss for private and religious schools. she has said she considers education an "industry," and called the public school system a dead-end. a recent study by stanfoford university's center for r reseah on educatition oututcomes foundt students attending for-profit charter schools have significantly lower academic gains than those attending non-profit charters. amy: devos is back i in the news this month a after she said she wanted to return the education department's office for civil rights "to its role as a neutral, impartial, investatative agency." an official with the office came under fire last week after she said that most campus rape claims amount to two young p

american federation of teacher president randi weingarten said it is racist.parents more say in where their kids go to school is sexism, and classism, screeny phobia and homophobia. looking autoedcasiolooking at -- at education stocks. patrice, randi continues to say this privatization are lightly more police cousins of segregation is that over broad. >> absolutely, we look at most segregated schools district they are in democratically controlled cities. liz: danielle, school choice, does not help low income mone minority children? in florida 6 68% of scholarship recipients are minorities. >> and there is a place ar for chat charter schools. i think what critics are saying we need funding and make sure that public schools are taken care of. they mean community which is important part of our society. liz: and reform. we have a new york time reporter, switching gears, now facing blow back for calling out white women saying they are racist. in the piece titled, when white women are in my path on the street, they wil almost always continue straight, forcing me to

kennedy: obviously randy weingarten is scared her clutch on power is loosening and it's her reaction to that. thank you very much. the pentagon catch something heat after spending $28 million on camouflage uniforms for the afghan army. here is the kicker. the cam oh is useless because it's designed for forest combat in a country only 2% woodlands. over the past 10 years the pentagon spent 93 million to buy uniforms for afghan soldiers. is this wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars helpful to the cause? joe, i'll start with you. when we talk about below thed spending in the military -- when we talk about below the below bd spending --. >> the same government entity that didn't spend $620 on a toilet seat. that toilet seat would now be $3 million. this keeps going on and on. why can't they hire some bean counter who looks at these things and said that may not be right. kennedy: there was an afghan counterpart look at some of these uniforms on line saying i like those. but you say of all the ways we spend money on the military, this is the least distressing for you. >> you guys might lo