during the schoo year, earned good grades and getting involved. >> i ran for vice president of my elementary schooand the president of the student council in fourth grade. my dad was always helping us write speeches for my elections and my mom was helping us do posters. i think my sister wasas running for secretary. kiki. my mom did a poster courtesy of kiki couric and put it above th water fountain. >> she also creditser parents for teaching her the value of a dollar. grateful f for her own financial success but warning her daughter's be ready for the warren buffett way when they get older. >> the idea of having a designer handbags is repugnant to m when they were growing up, elli wanted a certain watch when she was in third grade and they were $100. i said absolutely not. there was no way i was going to buy an 8-year-old girl a $100 watch. they understand the value of things and that you have to be smart about money. i have told them they are on their own when they graduate. i said you guyhave to go out and make your way in the world and earn a living. i really believe in the importance of

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taliban militants were hurt. 0 authorities say most of the wounded were afghan children on their way to schoo >>> president barack obama's critics are saying, the trip he took to afghanistan was a missed opportunity. >> and the mile long cable. more than 17,000 steel wires are crushed into one and they are 23 inches thick at a price tag that tops $6 billion and it's due to open labor day weekend. and sal, are you happier. >>> good morning to you and we will look at all the live pictures we can highway 4 westbound as you come to the willow pass grade, 24 looks good in case you are driving to oakland and walnut creek. looking at 880, that is a nice looking drive, traffic looks great. and on northbound 101 approaching the 880 split and 105, let's go to steve. >>> just tweeted, 44 santa rosa one of those big container ships are heading out. what is that, say that again. your television is on, always comedians. we do have have a little bit that is -- that direction of the whip is coming from livermore 45, mountain few san jose 47, mostly clear, a few high clouds will drift, sunshine and breezy and

postings caught the tension of victim mother who reported the threats to officials at this middle schoo school. administrators conducted an internal investigation that led to the suspension of these 3 girls. one parent did not know about it the but says parents need to intervene. >> we as parents l we have to take action to the kids to learn. you don't take action from the beginning and if you let it go too long it will get worse. not get any better. >> it is not clear at this point how long the 3 girls will be suspended from school. >>> drama in southern california courtroom. promising young football star who had been imprisoned for years on charges of kidnapping and rape was exonerated today. he won his freedom after secre secretly according his accuser childhood friend admitting she had lied. here's miss vega. >>reporter: it was the moment ryan banks had been waiting a decade for. >> people motion to dismiss this case. >>reporter: as he heard those words he knew to be true all along all he could do was sob. he had been wrongly convicted. falsely accused of raping and kidnapping a chi

. >> most of the independent schools are still catholic schoo schools. 70,000 verses 5,000.chools can't because teachers get tenure. >> why have tenure. >> nothing can tell you which is a nice thing. >> you like organized crime. >> there's that perspective. this feature shouldn't be a problem. >> here is one problem. >> not every teacher is going to. some are really lousy. it's impossible to fire these. >> why? >> because there are millions on taffe. -- millions of steps. >> there's only one. >> it's not one step. it's all of these steps. >> this is the steps required to fire a teacher in my town. this is why most principals don't even try. they look at a list of appeals and just give up or they push the worst teachers to transfer to another school. such a common way to avoid these rules there's a name for it the dance of the lemon. it would be funny except these rules leave some schools stuck with terrible teachers. >> this is crazy. >> this former police investigator said it would take years to fire even an abusive teacher. >> lots of people said he hit them. >> lots of pe

now mom and dad to her 14-year-old daughter and surviving son andrew who just graduated from high schoo school. they are still in the witness relocation program. passenger in that car that fateful day is still on the loose. >> say my life has been completely stripped. being in protective is kind of hard because it's not the same. we can't just do what we want to do. we can't just go where we want to go. >>reporter: danielle told me about the hardship she's faced since the m you are ders. she lost her home. her husband. was the bread winner so it destroyed her financial and personal security. her children had to move away from schools in san francisco. now one footnote. all of the pictures with he showed were you given to us by danielle. she felt none would compromise her safety or her security including the photograph of her which was taken a long time ag ago. vick leeshtion 7 news. >> now you can watch the complete interview with both danielle and edwin ramos on our web site. just look under see it on tv. >>> as if the economy has not hurt people enough. across california vulnerable ho

we laerdheard a lot about schoo choice. we heard about how bad teachers are the problem.more people said we love our school teachers and they don't live a luxurious life. there are these draconian cuts. they affect all of us. in pennsylvania, $860 million in cuts. they are talking about now cutting baseball, volleyball, freshman track. next year they are looking at guidance counselors. communities don't like that. we start to look at this and say we value our schools. we value our teachers. we want a better future for our kids. >> public education has been an american value, but for some reason it's become a political football and target for one party that wants to give tax breaks to corporations to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 1 and 2% in this country. they have to find the money somewhere and reduce the obligation so they might go to the poor school district this is this country. what are poor school districts going to do. go raise the property taxes? they can't do that. the funding source of education will be in the balance here in this next election cycle in the

violence starting on social media websites and spreading to his classrooms here at john hopkins middle schoo>> d 100 and something arrests and most of the time the fights with some gangs and stuff that happened at home from facebook and twitter and all that stuff from home and they came into the school. we had police every day at the school and i really didn't like that. >> reporter: what the violence did waspark idea fo deqonton. he hoped to shine a light on the roots of the fighting and why it was happening at john hopkins. deqonton led a team of his classmates in producing a video for the pbs "newshour" reporting labs, which showcases student journalism across the nation. >> they put us in groups and they was talking about gangs, drugs and fights and how that's making a bad influence on our school and i said the gas and the bullyingnd stuff might happen at home. something that happened at home from their anger and frustration, they bring it in school and the only way to take it out is to fight but to yell at the teacher or do something bad. >> reporter: the students questioned other stude

regulators noting several deficiencies there in the schooling schoo schooling including chronically ratese school could lose the state license unless it approves -- improves the grades in schooling over the next two years. >>> checking the forecast with christina loren. >> well, if you're looking for a warm-up, that's exactly what we've got in store for you today. 6:36 now. a live look earlier, showed you that fog creeping in over the golden gate bridge and over your coastal and bay side cities. what i can tell you is that onshore flow has made for good air quality. now we're back in the good air quality range and your pollen levels have dropped from the high range to the moderate range. we're getting much-needed improvement in both of those departments as we head throughout this afternoon. temperatures will climb from the 50s into the 70s and 80s. your hour-by-hour forecast explains it all inland. 70 degrees at noon today, 80 at 4:00 p.m. as you make your way home from work. 75 degrees at 4:00 and 68 degrees at the coast. your seven-day outlook is minutes away. we're going to swing your

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the front lines to fight initiatives tot a tract and maintain the best teachers and fight measure schooslity and limit choices to parents. joining us now are new york city public schoolteacher and self-described union activist meghan berrent. and we were talking in the break that the fact that no one thinks that the broken system makes sense, and everyone is thinking that we are need reform, but there was a time when i was coming up where we had general a agreement across democrats and republicans and rich and poor that the teachers were underpaid, and we had a belief that the teachers were sort of good folks who were working hard and generally did not make enough, and that is why you brought the apple to the teacher, and then felt suddenly that the discourse shifted and instead of how do we attract better teachers with better working conditions, it turned into teachers and the interests of teachers are pitted against the interests of the students as if what is good for the teacher is bad for the student? am i missing something here? >> no, it is crazy just how much of this teacher bashi