join us for this conversation, richard kahlenberg of the century foundation.hat is a charter school? guest: it is a publicly funded but privately managed school. the idea started in 1988 when al president ofwas the american foundation of teachers, a teacher union president, said, we need more experimentation in public education. his idea was that a small number of teachers could go off and start a new school, try new things, from which the traditional public schools would learn. it was originally a very idea.ative sort of since then, we have moved to a more competitive model where you have charter schools against regular public schools. host: is it still technically considered a public school? guest: there is a big controversy over that. they are publicly funded, and the proponents of charter schools like to argue that these are public institutions. they are in the sense that no one pays tuition, and you can't tests.out students for a test on the other hand, there have been disputes on whether you can unionize at a charter school. there, many of the charter sc

julie stewart, the president and on family minimums and we will talk about charter schools with richard kahlenberg. we will see you tomorrow. ♪ which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> next, newsmakers with california congressman adam schiff, ranking member of the intelligence committee. after that, a senate hearing on afghanistan with operations commander general john campbell. >> on "newsmakers" this week, we are joined by congressman adam schiff of california. he is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. he also serves on the house select committee on benghazi. to help with our questions, we are joined by niall stanage, associate editor of the hill newspaper, and ryan lucas, intelligence reporter with cq roll call. ryan lucas has the first question. >> congressman schiff, thank you for talking to us today. i wanted to start off with the announcement from the white house that it was essentially scrapping the

richard kahlenberg discusses grants to fund charter schools. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this monday on c-span's new series, "landmark cases." in 1830, dred scott was enslaved. during his enlistment in the army, emerson was assigned to duties in several free states, during which dred scott married. when the doctor died, he tried to buy his freedom. the case of scott versus stanford in c-span's new series, "landmark cases," with our special guest george washington law professor christopher bracy and martha jones, history professor. landmark cases, live monday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. be sure to join the conversation and we will be taking your calls, e-mails, tweets during the program. on c-span, c-span3, and c-span radio. it is good for them to have individual time when the community and work with them so they can get a feel for the personalities, individuals who arll

julie stewart, the president and on family minimums and we will talk about charter schools with richard kahlenbergill see you tomorrow. ♪ which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> next, newsmakers with california congressman adam schiff, ranking member of the intelligence committee. after