of the texas state board of education, and i am in the stream. >> welcome back.king about declining diversity in traditional public schools and the impact on charter schools. do you think that the success or failure of traditional schools and charter schools are mutually exclusive? or is there success tied to each other. >> they are certainly tied to each other. if we learn from each other, what the best practices are, then all schools can succeed, in addition we have always had a diverse pallet of school types. since -- and we often forget during reconstruction, the missionary groups that gave money to various groups they respond a great deal of traditionally black colleges and universities. and so it goes back to what are we going to do to get quality teachers and good teaching in these buildings so you can have a charter school with those things, and have success or have a charter school without those things and have failure. >> richard, what are we seeing in the youngest years? >> that's the encouraging news, more importants of all races are interested in div

joining us right now, a former member of the texas state board of education, cynthia dunbar, welcome.e example of bad textbook or bad curriculum in a sea of really good. this is a per vasesive battle that we fight all the time where they pervert the constitution, the bill of rights, the declaration. the second amendment is clearly not about just having military being able to bear arms. it's an individual right. >> steve: sure. the way that particular textbook makes it sound, it makes it sound like you can have a gun if you're in a state militia, when it means it's being necessary to the necessary of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms should not be infringed. what's going on? because this is not an isolated incident. >> no. it's not. and when i was on the state board, we fought it pertaining to the first amendment right. there is a pervasive agenda to rewrite our american history. there's a reason why. abraham lincoln was credited with saying the philosophy in the school room in one generation becomes a blasphemy of the government in the next. we have an attack

. >>> a texas watchdog group says textbook publishers are being pressured by the state board of educationrk said at least eight textbook reviewers for the board have come out publicly to say they want creationism in textbooks in addition to the theory of evoluti evolution. without the board's endorsement, it's harder to sell their books to districts. they plan to hold a public hearing on the issue next week. >>> and republican senator rand paul is taking aim at newark mayor and senate candidate cory booker. in an interview with politico, he called booker a politician with, quote, imaginary friend with imaginary problems. according to politico, that's a reference to a newark drug dealer named t-bone. booker says he has befriended. paul goes on to say, quote, if cory will introduce me to t-bone when i get there, i'd love to meet t-bone. if he's not real, maybe we need to get mr. booker to talk about a real problem. what? this is bananas. i'm done. i can't read anymore of this. i'm sorry. and those are the things we just thought you should know today. time now for the "news nation" gut check

board the plane died, while a man suffered severe burns. it's unclear tonight who was the pilot. a rising democratic star in the state of texas is hoping to fill the seat currently occupied by presidential hopeful rick perry. state senator wendy davis rose to national prominence last month after staging a 13 hour filibuster in an attempt to block texas' newly imposed abortion restrictions she's expected to make a formal announcment next week. texas hasn't had a democratic governor since ann richards in 1990. better stock up on those forever stamps...it looks like the price of postage is going up yet again. the u-s postal service is requesting permission to raise the cost of first class mail by three cents next year...taking it up to 49 cents. postcard prices would go up to 34 cents. it's hoped that those hikes would bring in an additional two billion dollars to the cash strapped agency. a sudden and massive dust storm closes down a 14 mile stretch of highway in arizona today. this massive wall of sand and dirt...called a haboob... caused multiple accidents on the highway, before it was shut down. dust storms like these blow t

board. the key witness at today's hear willing be the undersecretary for management, patrick kennedy. >>> grass roots organizations in texas are trying to swing the staterepublican red to democrat blue. the group called battleground texas was founded in february by veterans of the obama campaign. hyde -- heidi zhou-castro has the story. >> reporter: battleground texas says the crowd it's playing to . . . isn't as tough as it seems. ♪ >> would you like to do it? >> yes, sure. >> so we think that texas is -- is not a red state. we think there are just a lot of texans who don't vote. >> reporter: battlegrounds leader, jen brown helped obama win ohio in 2012. >> in more texans are involved in the process we'll see more competitive texans. >> reporter: less than 40% of eligible hispanics vote. battleground plans on changing that with 3,000 volunteers statewide who are registering new voters. >> so we feel if we can get more people to vote, we can actually get a government that is representative of the people of texas. >> reporter: democrats hope that might be wendy davis who energized the party this summer with a dramatic 13-hour filibuster against an anti

i was a panelist on a chamber of commerce board back home talking about the rollout of obamacare. and we have a couple of state representatives from texas on that panel with me. one said that he has heard that the navigators hitting the streets will have voter registration cards. have you heard that? is that true or falls? >> the federal voter registration law as public program like medicaid in application people be given, offered about voter registration. that will be a federal law requirement. because application covers medicaid and chip and subsidies under exchanges we are required to provide information about voter registration to people. >> thank you. yield back. >> thank you. i now recognize miscast store for five minutes. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for calling the hearing. mr. cohen, we're not even a, we're not even in the month of halloween and yet the republicans, one of their favorite scare tactics that we hear regarding the aca the affordable care act will lead to higher health insurance premiums and rate shock but while the my republican friend have made every effort to convince americans that everyone's hea