it means that the teacher union boss haves a big say. too often the interest of these union bosses is placed ahead of the teachers and our kids and that's got to change. [ applause ] >> and one more. and perhaps the most important in some respects. and that is, the fifth i'll mention is restoring economic freedom. [ cheers and applause ] >> this country's economy is propelled by free people pursuing their dreams, working hard, and some cases starting small businesses. in some cases reaching for new job opportunities that they think will improve their lot or improve their family's lot. it is americans dreaming, building, creating, entrepreneurs, innovators that drive our economy. and that put us ahead of europe and the great populated nations of asia. this economic freedom was envisioned by the founders. they said that the constitution -- excuse me, they said that the creator endowed us with our rights not the -- [ applause ] >> and those rights of course were protected through the constitution. among those rights that they described in th

the defino more fund at any chase bank. >> an independent arbitrator is due out this week with his recommendations and a new contract for chicago public school teachers but both of the teachers' union in the school board are planning to reject the suggestions. we are outside of the teachers' union headquarters but what it might mean for contract talks and a possible strike. >> they are hoping the arbitrator will help but rejecting the report can make contract talks even more intense as of right now there will be no end in sight. the contract expired on june 30th and 90 percent of the teachers have already voted yes to a strike if an agreement is not met. the arbitrator will recommend a 15- 20% for the first contract year and that is to compensate teachers for a longer school day and it includes races based on experience and teachers working on a graduate degrees. compare that to the 2% increase that they offered last year. the school system says it cannot afford a double-digit rates it would lead to layoffs and larger class sizes. if either side rejects of the report contract talks will have to continue. we were denied an interview with both sides of the story. >> we have maintaine

the teachers union came to the table. nd we negotiated new jersey the tenure law, which is over 100 years old. the oldest tenure law for education in country harks now been reformed to say if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure. we're putting accountability back into the system. student test scores kaunted for as well as peer review. and now principals and superintendents are going to have the opportunity to manage their school systems in a way which allow them to put the students first. by putting the best possible teacher they can find at the front of that classroom and not tolerating failure. now, imagine that. that was accomplished also, in a bipartisan way, republican and democratic votes. it took a 2 1/2 year fight, but we accomplished it two weeks ago. i said around the state that the obligates obligation of the government is find that space between compromising your principals and getting everything you want. there is always a boulevard between those two. that's the

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

contract negotiations are back on for chicago public schools and the teachers union. ejected a fact finders contract recommendations yesterday. now, c-p-s and the teachers union have 30-days to reach a deal... or the teachers can go on strike. the leading issues are the longer school day, class sizes and curriculum resources. c-p-s negotiators are also trying to come up with 330- million dollars if teachers get their 15-to-20-percent raises in year one. the district faces a 665-million dollar budget deficit. oprah winfrey has cut one more tie to chicago. on tuesday... winfrey finally sold her streeterville condo for 2.75 million dollars. that's less than half of the highest listed price. she bought the unit back in 2006 for 5.6 million dollars. however... she changed her mind shortly after the purchase and never actually moved in. the condo was listed in 2008 for six million dollars. the buyer of the 4600 hundred square foot unit has not yet been identified. still to come this midday .... tom skilling has your full forecast! for as large an area as one would expect for

if you want the additional hour after the teachers work day, there needs to be some consultation with the union over adding that two peoples day. there has not been that consultation. we note with concern that despite the flawed reporting in the papers, central office has grown by 4.29%. and the human resources cut that was recorded in the paper as being 30% is actually 0.9 of one position and not the 30% that was quoted in the paper. there are things in here with -- that we would expect you to address. those other outgoes, the d.r.e.a.m. schools. we want with some clarity what is going on. >> good evening. i am a parent of a student. i am here because i heard about drastic cuts that are being proposed to the early education program. i need to speak up for my 4- year-old daughter because she is too young to speak up for herself about the quality of her education. i heard each classroom will have to change teachers dressier. i can imagine that would be -- twice a year. i can imagine that would be hard for young children to handle. that is difficult to make the kind of social and emotional projec

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it means that the teachers union bosses have a big say, and too often the interest of those union bosses is placed ahead of the teachers and the kids and that's got to change. [applause] and one more. and perhaps the most important in some respects, that is the fifth mission is restoring economic freedom. and this countries economy is propelled by free people pursuing their dreams, working hard and some cases starting small businesses, in some cases reaching for new job opportunities that they think will improve their lot or improve their families law. it is americans dreaming, building, creating, entrepreneurs, innovators the drive our economy. and that put us ahead of europe and the great populate nations of asia. this economic freedom was a vision by the found. they said that the constitution, excuse me. they said that the creator endowed us with our rights, not the, not the -- [applause] >> and those rights of course are protected by the constitution. and among those rights that they described in the declaration of independence were life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. tha

determine if instructional -- its instructional calendar subject to collective bargaining with the teachers' unions in each respective district. >> the reason for that or some of the reason for that in san proposal is that they're estimating the per pupil cut will be increased to $457 per student. i would like at some time, i do not know if you have that calculation now, to know what we would anticipate that would increase deficit to our budget should that happen. that is why, they're going to cut more out of k-12. we will give you more ability to deny more opportunity for your students. >> that represents an additional reduction of close to $900,000 for the district? that would bring our total cut if that were to be implemented to $24 million. >> any other good news? [laughter] >> we will leave it as that -- at that as far as the state is concerned unless the commissioners have questions. there are details of that specific provision. i do not think that anything aside from that aspect was particularly new or surprising. the last thing that i would like to say is we definitely noted all the comment

wealthy individual, donating $200 million to the school system to start charter schools, and the teachers' union and the school board there vetoed it, so i think detroit has had some real problems, and i think it will be awhile before the city of detroit can break out. the problems are not unlike that in greece, a country living on largess of some units of government, and it really has to get out of the basement. that being said, there is some hope. in the downtown area, there are a small group of 20 somethings moving in. it is not without hope. there has to be a fundamental change. i think the current mayor is really in the right place on this. tavis: we will see what happens in detroit in the coming days. i hope there is a renaissance as the automotive industry is starting to rebound. inside "engines of change," i referenced earlier that the toyota prius made your list. let us know what you're trying to make us understand about these 15 cards. >> i was trying to dig the automobile as a lens through which to view the ebb and flow of american culture, if you will, tavis. american culture is sort

of disadvantaged public school students or you can be the protector of special interest like the teachers unions. but you can't be both. i've made my choice. as president, i will be a champion of real education reform in america, and i won't let any special interest get in the way. i will give the parents of every low-income and special needs student the chance to choose where their child goes to school. for the first time in history if i'm president, federal education funds will be linked to a student so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school they choose. and i'll make that a true choice because i'm going to ensure there are good options available for every child. and should i be elected president, i'll lead as i did when i was governor. i'm pleased to be joined by the reverend jeffrey brown who was a member of my kitchen cabinet in massachusetts. that cabinet helped guide my policy and actions that affected the african-american community in particular. i'll look for support wherever there's good will and shared conviction and i'll work with you to help our children a

we are happy to have parents, community organizations, the president of the teachers' union, administratorsm the school district here. we have someone from the comptroller's office as well that can shed light on the public enrichment fund that can explain a little bit about the process for repaying the amount of money that was deferred over the past four years. i wanted to say that the impetus of this hearing was the city's announcement that, in the night -- in the nine month report, there were about $43.3 million of unexpected funds. now there are also announcements of additional tax money that was announced. i know there is an ongoing parallel, a budget process that will probably go on into the night. it was a timing to call this hearing so that we can show this situation, the dire financial crisis in the school district. i applaud the school district for approving the budget on tuesday night. i know it was not easy. $567 million for the 56,000 students had a number of really good things about it. i know that there were some tremendous cuts, from reducing the school year by 4 days if it g

. >> how would you like for he me to say the teacher's unions are putting guns to teacher's head -- >> let's stick to the substance of what is going on here. there was a republican poll out this week that showed that something like 84% of gun owners do not see a reason why ak-47s and assault weapons should be legal. >> ak-47 is not an assault weapon. it's a semi automatic weapon. it is allowed in -- it submits one round of bullets and so is an ar15 gun that -- >> clarification. let's get to the meat -- >> 53% of americans oppose lifting any ban on assault weapons. 53% of americans. so you were wrong about that. 49% of americans, according to the new poll that was in the wall street journal today, the charitable trust poll, 49% of americans believe we should uphold the second amendment rights and not diminish them. >> let's talk about second amendment rights because we are not talking about the rights to own a gun. we are talking about battlefield weapons. battlefield weapons in the hands of people like this young man who legally purchased the weapon. legally purchased -- ammunition in

the teachers unions weren't happy with the reforms.ur emphasis on choice through charter schools which is a great benefit to inner city kids trapped in underperforming schools. accordingly the legislature passed a moratorium or any new charter schools. in boston, harlem and los angeles across the country charter schools are giving children a chance. children that otherwise could be locked in failing schools. i was inspired a few weeks ago by the students in one of kenny gamble's charter schools in philadelphia. right here in houston is another remarkable success story the knowledge is power program, which has set the standard thanks to the ground breaking work of the the late harriet ball. these charter schools are doing a lot more than closing the achievement gap. they're bringing hope. and real opportunity to places where for years there's been none. charter schools are so successful that almost every politician can find something good ty

the tutelary power of the teachers colleges and lately the teacher unions. these are people who have taken the place of the local authorities who super intended the public schools for which much of the century after tocqueville wrote intended to require a more rigorous course of study and one that emphasized the special character of american life as described by tocqueville. the aim of progressive education is not to produce excellence. not to enable people to rise in life. they don't really like that very much. they want to teach basic -- they want to teach people enough and give them enough sense of observing the discipline of the ringing bells and the time clocks to work in henry ford's model t factory and vote for the kind of people that these people would like them to vote for. they could make enough money for food, clothing and shelter, enough time for leisure, radio or movies or tvs. facilitating their pleasures as tocqueville put it and to endorse in their occasional vote or as tocqueville puts it, citizens leave their dependence for a moment to indi

sending biden because he thinks i have got the teacher's vote sewn up or they are not as relevant. >> they are very relevant. i don't think the teacher's union blames president obama for the state budget cuts that has so many teachers being laid off. the stimulus for 2 1/2 years kept many teachers on the payrolls because federal government allocations reached the states and they were translated into saving jobs with teachers. they have since expired. the president would like more. this doesn't seem to me to be optically or in the way of a relationship to be any slight. the vice president is not bad. >> let me ask you quickly. do these kinds of gatherings, do they matter, do you think? i wonder, erin, we talked so much about how the money may favor and the advertising favor mitt romney and barack obama's ground game and the support he has with more traditional forms like the union member who is go door-to-door and run the phone banks and get the elderly people. do these things matter or is that kind of all very 20th century? >> they may matter some, but remember the white house is getting requests for the president and the vice president and

was a provision in the union contract which was interfering with the education of a child if the school got in trouble we could get rid of that provision. when i was governor the teachers union wasn't happy with charter schools. i put a moratorium on those. in my state the democrats had 87% of the legislature. you might think it's hard for my veto to be upheld in. this case the black caucus came to my aid along with a number of leading democrats. in the urban area our kids need school choice to get out of the worst schools. i'm convinced that school choice and the kinds of measures i described make a big difference. if i'm president the federal dollars in education, those are dollars that go to the poor, the disabled. the federal dollars are going to be attached to the child not to the school or the state or the district and so the child can go to whatever school they want and take those dollars with them so we empower school choice across the nation. thank you. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> back here. yes, sir. here comes the microphone. you've got a big voice, but this will help. >> thank you. something that's very important to the people of this area and s

disadvantaged public school students or you can be the protector of special interests like the teachers unions. but you can't be both. i've made my choice. as president, i will be a champion of real education reform in america and i won't let any special interest get in the way. [ applause ] i will give the parents of every low income and special needs student the chance to choose where their child goes to school. for the first time in history if i'm president, federal education funds will be linked to a student. so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school they choose. and i'll make that a true choice. because i'm going to ensure there are good options available for every child. and should i be elected president, i'll lead as i did when i was governor. i'm pleased today to be joined by the reverend jeffrey brown who was a member of my kitchen cabinet in massachusetts. that cabinet helped guide my policy and actions that affected the african-american community in particular. i'll look for support wherever there's good will and shared conviction and i'll work with you to

. >> laura: shocking story in california as the teacher's union defeats a bill designed to keep children safe from sexual predators. leslie marshall and janine turner will analyze. also tonight, congressman joe walsh under fire from the left about comments he made about his political opponents and her military service. >> now i'm running against a woman who, my god, that's all she talks about. >> are liberals missing the point? mr. walsh will be here. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone and the factor begins right now. >> laura: hello, everyone. i'm laura ingraham in i'm in tonight for bill o'reilly bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. no talking points memo as we have to get to the top story. i'm talking devastating jobs numbers for president obama and for the country. the unemployment rate remained at a whopping 8.2% with only 80,000 jobs added. well under estimates from leading economists. mitt romney pounced on the news. >> we have seen the jobs report this morning and it is another kick in the gut to middle class families. it's consistent with what i have hear

this is a guy who came in as a knight in shining armor for the teachers unions, to fight back and saym going to help you out. and here he is, involved in multiple, seemingly, corruption scandals. >> this was the establishment striking back. the democratic machine. teachers unions. to push back against adrian fency's controversial reforms. the clubhouse in many big cities is often corrupt and the allegations of corruption are unbelievable. in epidemic proportions now. the question is, when you've got this many distractions, and we now know he knew about the $650,000 shadow campaign infusion back in january, how long can you continue to govern? >> and let's talk about this. i mean, what does this mean for the unions? i mean, we talk about unions across america. right now, this battle. people like chris christie are taking them on wisconsin obviously. this guy goes. a place where they were seemingly gaining power. >> the broader point absolutely stands. when adrian fenty lost that closed primary to vincent gray, it was seen as a brushback pitch by the unions. if you live in a one-party t

. >> laura: shocking story in california as the teacher's union defeats a bill designed to keep children leslie marshall and janine turner will analyze. also tonight, congressman joe walsh under fire from the left about comments he made about his political opponents and her military service. >> now i'm running against a woman who, my god, that's all she talks about. >> are liberals missing the point? mr. walsh will be here. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone and the factor begins right now. >> laura: hello, everyone. i'm laura ingraham in i'm in tonight for bill o'reilly bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. no talking points memo as we have to get to the topto

the law does not allow us to do that. >> tester and administrators say that firing one teacher cost more than $100,000 and that the rules teachers' unionstect our and abuse of their power. >> it is very similar to the nra, they have taken an extreme position on this particular issue that they lost a lot of credibility. >> the california teachers association say that the bill would have eroded teachers' rights. >> it stripped them of to process rights, and took a process that was equitable and fair, and through it into the emotionally charged arena. >> the issue that could not be resolved at the state house could be resolved of the courthouse with a case that have been brought against the government and school districts all across the state. >> you're looking at a five-year process. >> this attorney says the current system violates students' rights of people protection guaranteed by the constitution. he addthat teachers are among the most protected workers and the states. >> the process for removing a teacher has become more difficult than the criminal justice system. next to impossible to get rid of an ineffective teacher. only 0.002% o

disadvantage public-school students, or you can be the protector of special interests like the teacher unions. you cannot be both. i made my choice. as president i will be a champion of real education reform in america and i will not let the special interests get in the way. [applause] i will give the parents of every low-income and special needs students the chance to choose where their kids go to school. for the first time in history if i am president, federal education funds will be linked to a student so kids can -- parents can send their kid to any school they choose. i will make that a true choice. i will ensure there are good options available for every child. should i be elected president, i will lead as i did when i was governor. i am pleased to be joined by the rev. jeffrey brown who was a member of my kitchen cabinets and massachusetts. i will look for support wherever there is good will and share conviction. i will work with the to help our children attend better schools and help our economy create good jobs with better wages. i cannot promise you i will agree on every issue, but