the teacher's unions are about teachers and not children. you point out how the unions moved away from an education initiative and teacher protection. what can we do about it? >> we can give teachers freedom. i don't know if you realize this. teachers of the year in jersey and nevada and michigan were let go and teachers who had terrible track records were kept because of union teneurrules. you can't get rid even if ther doing a lousy job. you can't keep a job in 22 states that has union in it unless you pay the union. >> i think that is it call would last in and last out kind of thing it is it a disaster, because what you just mentioned young teachers filled with joy and zeal of teaching and get let go. and teacher who is don't care they end up staying around forever and ever. i want to get into something after the break. i want to talk about how teacher unions are not only injecting themselves in the public classroom but in areas like home schooling when we come, teacher unions who are not satisfied with messing up public ed, how they are g

they believe in teachers unions. esident of the american federation of teachers. it's good to see you. you know convention speeches aren't just for those there. they are for the undecided voters watching this on tv. and this speech would suggest that mitt romney's campaign believes those voters will be influenced by attacks on unions, especially teachers unions. what do you make of that? >> well, look. that's been pretty consistent in terms of mitt romney's position throughout this campaign. remember, he said a few months ago that he would keep the department of education just to use it as a club against teachers unions. and, you know, for chris christie to say that yesterday when at a couple of weeks ago, he actually gave teacher unions great props for that bipartisan overhaul bill he took tremendous credit for yesterday. in fact, what he said a couple of weeks ago was you don't get anything done without teacher unions because that's critical to the input -- to get the input of teachers. so i think this is what's goi

the head of the teachers' union says to prepare for a strike. it has been 25 years in a sense chicago teachers have gone astray. he says he cannot afford to offer more than 02 percent raise. >> and would come back off the backs of our employees and i am talking about massive layoffs of for people to pay that kind of salary. >> no one could dispute that the school system has financial trouble as they are facing a $600 million deficit. and the schools achieve it needs it to cut a deal with the teachers' union. she says that time is running now after months of negotiation. the teachers' union says there are too many differences with many students and back in school on monday and the rest of the system is returning to school after labor day. they are recommending a larger pay increase to teachers . >> and are written statement the teachers and in saidunion said. >> under law the teachers' union is required to give advance notice about a possible strike. the schools the alt insist that progress is being made and that he is confident that the deal will

could do ♪ classes will start for chicago public school students on september-4th as the chicago teachers unione required 10-day strike notice today and doesn't intend to tomorrow. however, the union could still do so and whether it will remains to be seen. union president karen lewis... doing informational picketing at the 95th-street red line station with other union members... said just because an intent to strike would be filed... does not necessarily mean a strike would actually occur. >> technically if that's what it takes, that's what it takes. we have a democratic process. so it's not like a one-on-one let's make a deal and patted each other on the back. that's not how this process is going to work. mayor rahm emanuel is now saying he would get involved in has to in order to assure a settlement. ctu president lewis says she doesn't know what good that what to do anyway. more and more, people are standing-up and taking notice ofjust who is this firebrand of unionist? here with a profile of chicago teachers union president karen lewis. karen lewis has led the 30,000 teachers unit for the

if the deal is ratified by the teachers' union, all school employees would take 1.5 furlough days. dennis kelly is the president of the teachers' union, he says all 210 teachers laid off last spring will get their jobs back. >> the agreement doesn't speak about layoff, but we believe there's enough money given back so there should be enough positions to bring the people back who were laid off in the spring. there is no raise. it's going to be i believe since 2006 the teachers have gone without a raise. >> reporter: another tax plan is also designed to help skooshlgs prop 38, but -- schools, prop 38, but if both are rejected, the school district will once again have to make massive cuts. >> it will become even worse in the second year. we'll move up to 10 furlough days if it doesn't pas. >> temperatures were certainly still warm out there today. right now, wee looking at cooler -- we're looking at cooler condition, near the coastline especially as the fog settles back in. 55 in oakland, same thing in hayward. 60 in san jose. fairly mild in antioch. you can see the reduced visibility

lawmakers' head but i do know on average it's striking that lawmakers who receive more money from the teachers unionthis case tended to vote more with that union, and what that correlation shows is that the money is having an influence. >> reporter: we also don't know what's in the lawmakers' head. we got no response when we asked for sit-down interviews with the four who were silent so we went to sacramento to see them. >> can you take the camera out? >> reporter: kicked out of one office to another, staffers saying their bosses couldn't talk. when assembly member carter wouldn't answer our questions in the hall, we followed all of them to the assembly floor where rules state interviews may be granted if you send a note. can we first ask assembly member carter? assembly member carter who received more than $7,000 since teacher unions in 2009 ignored the note. mike ang, received 18,000 from 2009, barely glanced at the note. assembly member butler. betsy butler, who received more than $11,000 from teacher unions visibly reacted to my note but still ignored the request. assembly member williams. only

our liberal teachers unions and indoctrinating our youth? guess who really runs our public schools? will be talking about public lou: low with the "chalk talk" we laid out howtaxpers taxpayers finance union's therei and health care law was and to the effort to unionize ismiion c health care workers. packe with these packets of thetogethr information's shuttle buses, buses, control america to rob taxpayers blind. >> what a "chalk talk."overnmt l lou: we have more to cover. this is a significant part of the true agenda. the government employee unions list united healthcare. and government starts paying more and more to health care services they will unionize.dent you'll see nurses, doctors, every 1 million members islou: >> sing.on in dues. lou: that is standing. what about the obama agenda?>> i >> the president was anan organizer. obama's is the first union labor president. lou: i did not think of that although the newt gingrich was a food stamp president but there is a lot of history coming into int collision one is the right to work when most people arebega relegated to the dustbin

>> i don't know what is in the lawmakers' head but lawmakers who receive more money from the teachers unione more with that union. what that correlation shows is that the money is having an influence. >> we don't know what is in the lawmaker's head. we went to sacramento to see them. >> can you take the camera out? >> kicked out of one office to another and staffers saying the bosses won't talk. when assembly member carter wouldn't answer our question fos the hall, we followed them to the assembly floor where rules state interviews may be granted if you send a note. can we ask assembly member carter. received more than $7,000s since teacher unions in 2009. ignored the note. mike ang, received 18,000 from 2009, barely glanced at the note. betsy butler, visible reacted to my vote but still ignored the request. assembly member williams. doss williams, received nearly $30,000, walked right over. >> i thought the bill was too much of an overreach. >> an overreach. >> reporter: but he couldn't elaborate what that means nor would he talk about what his decision was to not vote. because he said the

[applause] the teacher union said, we do not mind you evaluating teachers. this did not try it closely to student achievement. -- just do not try to tie it closely tstudent achievement. we're very proud of what we're doing in louisiana. some people sathis is ambitious. but i am here to tell you that are many governors doing similar things. bob has done great things. he has an education summit coming up. chris has been fighting for school choice in new jersey. we look at what nikki is doing in south carolina. this is extremely important. if we want to compete economically with other states and other countries, we have to improve education in america. we cannot be 16th in the world. [applause] the teacher unions stopped by and nounced they were suing schools participating in this program. they try to fight us every step of the way. you are trying to recall others. they are the coalition for the status quo. it cannot be about the adult in the school system. it has to be about the kids. >> thank you, governor. governor chris christie, i want said thank you. he d

the teachers union says it's raising the bar too far too fast, but the chancellor disagrees. >> reporter: it is a bold plan aimed at making teachers better and greatly improving the education of students attend d.c. public schools, new teaching standards even higher than the standards implemented a few years ago. >> teaching is very different in 2012 than in 2008. >> reporter: schools chancellor kaya henderson says it's time to expect even more out of her teachers. what was considered effective now won't be enough under the new plan. >> if we want radical results and move our young people from 43, 44 percent proficiency to 70 percent proficiency, then we have to do something radical. >> reporter: but some worry these radical changes could mean even more teachers are fired in the future. >> i'm just very concerned, don't like to be in this position. >> reporter: nathan saunders leads the washington teachers union. he says these new teaching standards could throw a wrench in contract negotiations scheduled to begin next month. >> it's job security. the money doesn't matter anymore. >> repo

our liberal teachers unions and indoctrinating our youth? guess who really runs our public schools? we will be talking about public employee union powers the author of "shadowbosses: how government empoyee unions control america." it is deadly and it is making history. we met this is the worst west nile outbreak in the united states. it has been in 43 states. >> what we have right now is a very serious outbreak in what we need to do is interrupt the transmission cycle as quickly as we possibly can to try to save lives. lou: new reports from the cdc and we will have the latest. seventy-six days until the election and president obama in las vegas. >> hello, las vegas. it is good to be back in nevada. lou: be careful, mr. president. one famous vacationer gave new meaning to the strip and i guess. sometimes what happens in vegas doesn't really stay there we have big dreams. one is for a clean, domestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar.

they believe in teachers unions. we believe in teachers. >> greg: what do you think?eric: it was really, it was a big entrance. he came out and people were standing. there was a lot of people looking for, you know, the attack, the chris christie attack, taking apart whether it's a journalist or teachers union. they didn't get that. they got chris christie who talked about himself for a good 15-20 minutes and went on to talk about leadership. telling the american people what they need to hear. not what they want to hear. fantastic speech. we'll make note of one thing in the whole speech, he did not mention barack obama's name once. not once. >> greg: i hate to say it, but bob predicted that. i disagreed with you. >> bob: it was strategically, smart thing to do. it will get through the romney campaign head here at one point that people decided about barack obama. it's done. you're not -- few people undecided. first, half of them aren't going to vote. there are some weak voters on each side that may move. this is thousand abmitt romney make -- this is now about mitt romn

. >> i want to spend the next few minutes just beating up on the teachers' union. [laughter] the mayor has had a tremendous 10 years, 11 years, a lot of it pretty tense when it comes to the teachers' union, and he has made a lot of progress. you can bet that his successor will undo all that. it is a tremendous problem. for instance, they have managed to get themselves into position, and think this is probably true across america, where all the teachers bargain for is a pension and how early they can retire, how soonhey can get tenure, etc. so when the education authority comes to look at the books, they've got very little money for hiring new teachers what do they get? they get the lowest -- they draw from the lowest 20% of university graduates. other countries make it legal that you have got to draw from the top 30%. it is all sort of self- perpetuating, and there has got to be a showdown sooner or later on this matter because they then charge their members q deduce, and they throw money at every politician -- they charge their members huge dues and they thr money

it is the amount of support that governor romney receives from black voters. >>> are liberal teachers unions indoctrinating our youth? guess who really runs our public school. >> mighty mighty union. lou: we'll talk about public employee union power with with the author of, "shadow bosses". >>> it is deadly and making history. >> that is the worst west nile outbreak in the united states. i mean, for the whole, it has been in 43 states. >> what we have right now is a very serious outbreak here. what we need to do is interrupt the transmission cycle as soon as we possibly can to try to save lives. >> new reports from the cdc. we'll have the latest. 76 days until the election and president obama in las vegas. >> hello, las vegas!. [cheers and applause] oh, it is good to be back in nevada. lou: but be careful, mr. president. one famous vacationer gave new meaning to the strip in vegas. sometimes what happens in vegas, doesn't really stay there. t really stay seems they haven't been moving much lately. but things are starting to turn around because of business people like you. and regions is here

when the mayor announced this plan he was criticized by the teachers' union and the complaint was was that there was not enough detail on the plans about how the teachers were going to utilize the extra time but ironically the strength of this plan according to the mayor and the principle here at spencer is that they have flexibility that they can decide what they would like to do the extra time should the kids need more help with massacre science they could devote the time to that flexibly fifth across the city of immigrants the flexibility to adapt to the needs of any particular community the illinois house is voting right now and they are expected to expel state representative derrick smith ... he is facing federal charges of taking a bribe to help a day care center get a state grant under state law even if the house expels him and he wins in november he can return to his job in january the expulsion vote could come anytime derrick smith plans to speak to reporters at 2:00 p.m. here in chicago hirsch also in springfield illinois lawmakers are holding a special session to try to wor

you can get your teachers union to agree to stagger the school day. some teachers come in early and you have study hall, some come in later and you have sports after school. there is a bunch of ways to address education. great teachers more than parent involvement or anything, you put a great teacher in front of a kid, they work miracles. i think our goal is to say that we're going to fix education. we're working statewide to begin to implement. we do not want them filling out multiple choice tests but you have to measure the effectiveness of a teacher. our goal is sitting down with the union and having them at the table to say, how do you help us figure out, i was a geologist. i thought i would be a great geologist. i got laid off. i would still be a geologist. it turned out i was not that good a geologist. not too much fun to say but the facts are the facts. i was 20 times better running restaurants that i was a geologist. i had a much happier -- i tell a lot of my friends by not being willing to allow natural turnover, competition and success, it yo

. >> edward's success is also due to not having to fight a teacher's union in this right to work state. >> you have the ability to let bad teachers go? >> that's correct. >> that's different than most school districts who have a strong teacher union. >> i haven't worked in a state with unions but i have colleagues who talk about the processes. i do believe when any organization teachers unions or any one else you defend teachers that no one would want to have for their children it's wrong. >> we are sharing success and inviting others outside of the community. >> the mayor is miles adkins. >> he is putting moorsville in the forefront. they are allowing children to have access to the technology and closer to the environment that the school district offers. >> you have had companies designed to come here because of the school? >> absolutely. >> a lot of it is (inaudible). >> my daughter recently did a project on pakistan. she had image, she had music, she had her own voice over. >> the temperature here can get really hot. 1200 degrees fahrenheit. >> it's a 2 minute movie. she wrote the s

class size is irrelevant if you make smaller, you need more teachers increase the size of the teachers' unions any governor will tell you is the most potent democratic force in his state that's why obama wants to increase the size of the -- to decrease the size of the classes. >> in chicago on class sizes too some of the best schools are the ones with the largest class sizes something logical. parents look at districts where schools are doing well and say why i don't an -- why done i rent over there and go to that district. the class sizes are doing just fine. >> president is trying to make an issue of pell grants which are the federal aid to college students. something like 60% of all college students now get some kind of pell grant at least in 2009 and 2010 and it cost 36 billion dollars that year this program started to help the poor it has become a vast entitlement now for -- >> i think is right. a lot of our viewers think of pell grant as probably something for under privileged kids. but it has become this huge middle class entitlement, similar to the stimulus spending blowout that collin

the teachers' union said this is a rush to judgment and the district's own investigation found no wrongdoing. >>> there's nothing that's been found she was never the teacher was never a reprimanded. never disciplined by the district. and they have done their investigation and have done well. they've paid out 30,000. did we them all settlement that is not uncommon again it doesn't show there was wrongdoing but the district likes to get things going. get things settled. for allison is a sense of relief. >>> restated by the assembly and other safe. and nobody will hurt them. two months ago the state education committee struck down as be 1530 a bill sponsored by democrats states and other alex the ad that would put the final decision in the hands of the school district's money came to violent sexual and some drug- related cases involving students or teachers. the california teachers association argues the bellwether eroded teachers' rights. less than an hour ago president's obama's declared federal emergencies in areas of louisiana and mississippi hit hard by tropical storm ida dick right now ey

. >> they believe in teachers unions. in teachers. >> bill: that got a lot of applause, but what does that mean? right? what is a teacher's union? teacher's union are teachers banded together to fight for better working conditions better tools, better salary better benefits. if you clamp down like mitt -- chris christie did on teacher's unions, you are clamping down on teachers. let me tell you something -- and i know i'm going to get in a lot of trouble this morning because everybody this morning is supposed to say isn't ann romney wonderful. she was so good. she was tremendous. i'm sorry. i thought she was terrible. i know she had an impossible task which was to humanize mitt romney. but i thought she was so overboard and so giddy like a teenage girl you know -- she would laugh at her own lines i found it very awkward, and the stuff she said didn't make any sense either. like mitt romney yeah he is wealthy, but he wasn't handed his wealth. >> as his partner on this amazing journey, i can tell you that mitt romney was no

[applause] the teacher union said, we do not mind you evaluating teachers. this did not try it closely to student achievement. -- just do not try to tie it closely to student achievement. we're very proud of what we're doing in louisiana. some people say this is ambitious. but i am here to tell you that are many governors doing similar things. bob has done great things. he has an education summit coming up. chris has been fighting for school choice in new jersey. we look at what nikki is doing in south carolina. this is extremely important. if we want to compete economically with other states and other countries, we have to improve education in america. we cannot be 16th in the world. [applause] the teacher unions stopped by and announced they were suing schools participating in this program. they try to fight us every step of the way. you are trying to recall others. they are the coalition for the status quo. it cannot be about the adult in the school system. it has to be about the kids. >> thank you, governor. governor chris christie, i want said thank you

. >> edward's success is also due to not having to fight a teacher's union in this right to work statety to let bad teachers go? >> that's correct. >> that's different than most school districts who have a strong teacher union. >> i haven't worked in a state with unions but i have colleagues who talk about the processes. i do believe when any organization teachers unions or any one else you defend teachers that no one would want to have for their children it's wrong. >> we are sharing success and inviting others outside of the community. >> the mayor is miles adkins. >> he is putting moorsville in the forefront. they are allowing children to have access to the technology and closer to the environment that the school district offers. >> you have had companies designed to come here because of the school? >> absolutely. >> a lot of it is (inaudible). >> my daughter recently did a project on pakistan. she had image, she had music, she had her own voice over. >> the tperature here can get really hot. 1200 degrees fahrenheit. >> it's a 2 minute movie. she wrote the script but it's not open a

the chicago teachers union flexing muscle outside cps headquarters this morning. ctu president karen lewis says teachers are prepared to take serious action if a compromise isn't agreed upon soon. she says the current proposal on the table for teachers' health care and compesation are - at this point - unacceptable: >> "none of us wants a strike, but if it's necessary to do this, we will" tonight union leaders gathered at lane tech high school. the ctu then gave its leadership the *authorization* to give the board of education a 10-day notice to strike. >> "i guess that says a lot about how our members feel and where they are right now" during today's board meeting, cps chief jean claude brizzard argued the longer school day is working, and that he is optimistic an agreement will be worked out. >> "we must work together... give all our students the education they deserve" today the district approved a 5 billion dollar budget for the coming school year - which drains the district's reserve fund to help cover its 665 million dollar deficit. also - in preparation for

the washington teachers union says it's raising the bar too far too fast, but the school's chancellor. fox 5's matt acklund has the story. >> reporter: it is a bold plan aimed at greatly improving the students learning at d.c. public schools. new teaching standards even higher than implemented years ago. >> teaching is different in 2012 than 2008. >> reporter: it's time to expect more out of the teachers. what was considered effective now won't be enough under the enthusiasm plan. >> if we want radical results, if we want to move our young people from 44% proficiency to 70% proficiency, we have to do something radical. >> reporter: some mean that could mean even more teachers are fired in the future. >> i'm just very, very concerned. i don't like to be in this position. >> reporter: nathan saunders leads the washington teachers union. he says the new teaching standards could throw a representch in contract negotiations scheduled to begin next month. >> job security and money doesn't matter anymore. >> reporter: so you're willing to strike? >> i won't say we're willing to strike, but i

the next day, school officials unveiled a new evaluation process and washington teacher's union says ing too far, too fast. fox 5 has the story. >> it is a bold plan aimed at making teachers better and greatly improving the education of students attending d.c. public schools. new teaching standards even higher than the standards implemented a few years ago. >> teaching is very different in 2012 than it was in 2008. >> schools chancellor said that time to expect even more out of her teachers. what was considered effective now won't be enough under the new plan. >> if we want radical results, if we want to move our young people from 43, 44 percent proficiency to 70% proficiency, then we have to do something radical. >> but some worry these radical changes could mean even i'm just very, very d in the concerned. don't like to be in this position. >> nathan saunders leads the washington teacher's union. he says these new teaching standards could throw a wrench in contract negotiations scheduled to begin next month. >> it's job security and money doesn't matter anymore. >> so you are willin

they hope a strike can be avoided if there is a compromise the teachers' union house of delegates will vote to cancel the strike and also vote to suspend the deadline passed september 10th negotiations continue tomorrow and wrap up next week and if nothing happens teachers walked off the job one week from monday. still had the drew peterson murder trial winding down. and a sign that summer is not done with yet tom skilling says he could see another day in the upper 90s. >> with hotwire's low prices i can afford to visit chicago for my first big race and l.a. for my best friend's wedding. because when hotels have unsold rooms, they use hotwire to fill them. so i got my hotels for half-price! >> men: ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ ♪ hotwire.com ♪ you know what i love about this country? trick question. i love everything about this country! including prilosec otc. you know one pill each morning treats your frequent heartburn so you can enjoy all this great land of ours has to offer like demolition derbies. and drive thru weddings. so if you're one of those people who gets heartburn and then treats day

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they believe in teachers' unions. we believe in teachers.eers and applause] we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pinnace we see in washington, d.c. we believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise and stand up for our conservative principles. [cheers and applause] you see, because it has always been the power of our ideas, not our rhetoric, that attracts people to our party. we win when we make it about what needs to be done. we lose when we play along with their game of schering and dividing. [applause] make no mistake about it, everybody. the problems are too big to let the american people lose. the slowest economic recovery in decades, and an education system that is failing to compete in the world. it does not matter how we got here. there's enough blame to go around. what matters is what we do now. [applause] i know. i know we can fix our problems. when there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than worrying about reelection, it is possi

i think they felt what he feels about teachers' unions. i think they felt what he feels about the country. he is a lot like ralph cram den. people like jackie gleason, and there was a bit of jackie gleason in him tonight. i thought it was a barnburner. i thought it was a big success. i was looking at john sununu who was going crazy, he loved it so much. i looked at the faces of the delegates when they stood up, they loved it. and once again, the wooden candidate himself was so out of place. romney looked like prince charles visiting new guinea, like he was coming into some other culture where people were all excited about something, and vaguely bemused by what they were all excited about. he's not a republican in his gut. republicans in their gut love that big guy tonight. romney was an observer, an observer like prince charles. all he didn't have was the kilt, coming in and watching the dancers as if theorem in some other culture. it was bizarre. his presence doesn't match the p.r. howard wants to jump in. >> the objective tonight was not

jordan joins us live from the school board headquarters in the loop with more on the top story the teachers' union is making noise outside of school board headquarters letting it be known that union officials are unhappy about the way the negotiations are proceeding >>none of us wants a strike none of us ... none of us wants a strike but i will say this if it is necessary to do so, we will. >>a consensus has been agreed upon and the teachers are working on an interim agreement but certain items remain unresolved: >>we have not heard anything about pay ... they are still stuck on merit pay we told them when not interested ... they want to pay us without acknowledging experience in these teachers >>at today's school board meeting ceo jean-claude brizard is praising the longer school day effects ... >>the kids are getting a better quality education with more of the balanced curriculum >>this is about providing our students with a 21st century education ... >>we must work together to put the kids first as we move our position forward we will give these kids the education they deserve them and the unio