go ahead. >> i can only speak to what happened in our case, at south philadelphia high school. so the school district of philadelphia does have a zero tolerance policy. it certainly has the highest number of -- >> zero tolerance of what? of>> zero tolerance in schools. >> and, you know, what we felt like was that in incidents of bias and harassment that it was an easy crutch. after the south philadelphia -- after the december 3rd beatings they automatically suspended 10 students. we didn't actually know who they were, why they were there. it ended up including two of the immigrant student victims who had actually been beaten in the melee. so it was a simple crutch for them and then they wiped their hands and walked away. so essentially they got -- they changed over the security staff. they put in $700,000 in security cameras and they suspended 10 students. and that satisfied them. >> should those students have been expelled in your question. >> the question is whether that incident was investigated -- should they be -- >> more punished. i'm saying that there's -- there should --

in south philadelphia we have students being sent to the hospital. in lopez we have students being raped on a special education bus. these are serious cases where it is not at all a question of whether a hostile environment is being created. with regard to local issues we absolutely think the schools are in the best position to address harassments and ensure safety of their school environment. that is why, first of all, we only get involved when there has been a failure of the school district to take the necessary steps. the resolution agreement uniformly contains provisions for training of staff, evaluation of procedures and engagement of experts so that we can get the schools the help they need in order to be able to take the best steps possible to protect their children. >> the chair recognizes commissioner harriet. >> thank you. i just want to make sure i understand the apartments cert. when i was in school we had separate personal grooming and dress codes for boys and girls at elementary school and junior high and a school. what is the departmen

harassment at south philadelphia high school cause students to drop out and walk in groups while one student was victimized the whole group felt threatened by it. sources of bias goes well beyond what bullying is. it's not a personality conflict with that child and another child. so for, you know, peer mediation is a popular resource for conflict but wholly inappropriate for bias, physical violence. a punitive approach also fails to substantially address problems because, you know, things like racial or verbal attacks did not rise to that level. there was -- you know, there wasn't an understanding that you can punish one individual but if whole groups of students carrying biased feelings that cause them to act a manner then pushing one student on a case-by-case basis wasn't helping people establish patterns of bias. >> mr. chairman, thank you. earlier this morning we heard a number of witnesses express concern about federal intervention per se. and some speculated that the laws that seemed to authorize federal intervention,

in south philadelphia we had students being sent to the hospital. in lopez, we had students being raped on a special education buck. these are serious cases where it is not at all a question about whether a hostile and violent has been created. with regard to local issues, we absolutely think that schools are in the best position to address harassment and into the safety of their school environments, and that's why, first of all, we only get involved when there has been a failure of the school district to take the necessary steps. and why our revolution agreement uniformly contained provision for training of staff, evaluation of procedures, and engagement of experts so that we can get the schools the help they need in order to be able to take the best steps possible to protect their children. >> the chair recognizes commissioner heriot. >> think you. i just want to make sure i understand and i am tracking the department -- back when i was in school back in the prehistoric days, we had separate personal grooming and dress code for boys and girls, lik

i tried to talk to him about south philadelphia and the italian market, the quaker community, lincoln- t have none of it. all he saw was the philadelphia he saw reported in the harrisburg news. that is the arab world we see. we only see the violence, anger, and terrorism. what we do not know is about a doctor who delivers babies and wife andme to his kids. hopefully with the arab spring, we may see more of that. i am afraid we will fall back into the old stereotypes in. israelis are human beings. arabs are human beings. we need to cover both of them as they really are and not just good, bad, black, white. both sides need to be portrayed in the complexity and reality of who they are. host: prime minister netanyahu derided the agreement and said the palestinians have a choice of either peace with israel or peace with hamas. guest: it absolutely needs to be supported. problems will be in the implementation of the agreement. there needs to be a unified palestinian policy. our hope is that by coming together, hamas will come to agree to restrain itself and function in the context of a unif

philadelphia. now they are down in south florida. they flexed some defensive muscle last night. tonight maybe they could get some offense going. nats taking on the fish in south florida. washington would get three straight hits to open the game. it was a wish for them. loaded the bases. adam doing the rest. 2-0. in the 9th a weird play. matt stairs with the grounder. check out wes helms. he gets in his way. he scored. nats win 5-2. >>> orioles hosting the rays at camden yards this afternoon. top of the 3rd. rays up 1-0. evan longorria getting his first of the season. a three run homer. rays win this one easily 8-2. >>> special day in toronto for tigers pitcher justin verlander. almost four years after his first no hitter he gets a second. he struck out rajai davis to get the no hitter. >>> and kevin garnet and celtics trying to get back in their series against the heat. rajon rondo. goes the distance for the flush. with a dislocated elbow. celtics avoid falling in 0-3. game 4 is set for monday in boston. >> did he see that with elbow? dislocated elbow came back to play. >> th >>

philadelphia with my wife and we had one child at the time in philadelphia and then we moved when our second child was born. i was teaching in south-central pennsylvania. the guy next-door to be came over one day and he said, you lived there? i said, you mean here? no, no in philadelphia? i said, yeah. you lived there with your wife and your kids? i said yeah. weren't you afraid? i said well, no. he said, but they get murdered there every day. people are getting murdered. i said it is not true. is like self philadelphia and the lincoln drive and the community of quakers in chestnut hill. is a very diverse and very interesting city. he had none of it because he read in the newspaper every day somebody gets murdered in philadelphia. he saw on harrisburg television there was a murder in philadelphia today. so all he could do is relate to the stories and he saw it playing out every day. now is the only stories we get about the arab world is violence, that is what is fixed in our heads. so popular culture reinforced by media culture creates a picture of a world that is the only world we now. and so our sense of who they are is skewed b

new york and philadelphia have a dry out by the afternoon. showers in south florida.and showers in washington state. >> near 60 in seattle. 70 in salt lake city and a hot 97 in phoenix. mostly 60s from fargo to indianapolis. 59 in boston. 69 in baltimore. 70s, meanwhile in atlanta, new orleans, and dallas. >>> how about this. some california college students are showing their appreciation in a very big way, we mean big. >> a chapman university sorority just created a giant thank-you letter for all of the men and women serving in the military. get this, it's 30x90 feet and they're hoping it sets a new guinness world record. >> the students there correlated event with military appreciation month. a small token for our heroes putting their lives on the line every single day. good reminder. >> and that could not be more timely considering what we've seen the true heroes do with osama bin laden in the last couple of days. incredible. >> and say, hats off it our heroes. the men and women of our military. >> baddest dudes on the planet. >> we'll be right back with more "worl

in arizona and new mexico, african-american communities in mississippi and south carolina, and urban communities in philadelphia, new york, baltimore, and st. louis. so i say to my colleagues on the other side if you're going to cut funding for training new doctors, let us at least ensure that the communities with the greatest need are placed at the front of the line. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this final amendment. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? mr. guthrie: thank you, madam speaker. i claim time in opposition. the speaker pro tempore: the chair would note that the gentleman did not reserve a point of order. does the gentleman seek time in opposition to the motion? mr. guthrie: i withdraw my point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. guthrie: thank you, madam speaker. as we began the debate just a minute ago, talking about medicare, we know last week when we left to go home to work in our

military garden in brooklyn, somewhat farther afield in philadelphia, saratoga and alexandria, virginia, and even across the seas in london and south america. hewlett aspired to be a pure shakespearean actor. he played the lead role in richard iii and also gave solo performances of scenes from othello. much like other budding actors of the day, he honed his craft by imitating famous shakespearean performers like edmund keane. some of hewlett's other roles were more explicitly subversive, however, indirectly hinting at the subordination and resistance of black americans. the warrior native chief in the ballet pantomime osama, the rebel leader of king shod way, the anticolonial lyrics of national scottish ballads. black new yorkers flocked to performances at the african grove theater. so it might not have been hewlett's acting or even his politics that his family found so offensive. they might well have -- and because of that, they drummed him out of the family. so there's a note in, um, in harry williamson's papers saying he was a play actor in his day and was drummed out of the family. um, so it's not necessarily his acting or even

south. this is sort of like a missing link in between the two that i was totally unaware of. >> back home in the united states, agrocology teacher jessica naugle of philadelphia's for agricultural studies draws on what she observes in costa rica and presents it to her students. for jess, the trip was a career- and life-altering opportunity. >> the trip to costa rica gave me a new level of energy, and it allowed me to bring international and global issues back to the classroom. the students love it, because the students love experience. they love to hear your story. and when you're able to provide a firsthand experience for kids, they're listening and they're paying attention, and they become interested because you're passionate about it. they're able to tune in a little bit more because there is a personal connection there that you cannot have without experience. and that's why toyota's so important. without toyota sponsoring such a trip, i myself and the other teachers necessarily would not have had that experience. >> all good things that go around, come around. when teachers and students benefit, our environment stands to benefit, too. >> the ultimate goal f

south florida. strong thunderstorms, heavy rain parts of i-75 and i-4. two parts of the northeast, heavy rain from pittsburgh, back over to new york, washington, d.c., and philadelphiahe west, combination of rain in the san joaquin valley, up to the foot of snow in the 8,000 mix of sierra nevada. across the nation in 81 degrees for houston later this afternoon, atlanta 68 degrees, new york with 70 degrees and miami with 87, so as far as the flood zone is concerned, awful news in terms of what's coming but we're not adding to it with more rainfall. >> that's something at least. reynolds we appreciate it. >>> thousands of people as many as seven states still in limbo after deadly tornado slammed the south last month, left behind the path of destruction. they need help, so country music's finest came together to raise money for the efforts, the event co-hosted by hln anchor robin meade. >> by the time you're watching, this the stage is coming down at the grand ole opry house for the special, the telethon that ran on cmt. it's hard to imagine this entire special for all of your fellow viewers who were affected by the recent storms and the flooding came together in seven