the u.s. they're union states, if you look at the nations that have the ighest performing school systems like finland, the 100% union, the teacherscipals all belong to the same union, unions are nottthe problem. what we need to do to improve public education is to bring people around their schools, to bring the parents, the teachers, the kids, working together, and also to have the public recognizing that the schools alone are not responsible, families bear a very large responnibility for making sure that their kids are ready, and society bear as responsibility to make sure that there's good health care and frankly that we do something to act on poverty and segregation which are toxic elements in our society. >> are you hopeful, about the future, you know, this fight -úwill continue. >> you know what makes me -- i mean it sounds strange to say this. i believe. i don't know if it's hopefulness, but i believe that all the things that are being done now under the name of accountability, and also the privatization movement will fail because othing that they're doing succeeds, the charter schools don't outperform public school, the vo

saying that like the teachers union quote, the n.r.a. membership, if you do the polling, doesn't agree with the leadership. the teachers union no surprise demanding a public apology from mayor bloomberg. sandra, first to you, i think those remarks in illinois were a joke. and i think they should be treated as a joke. she was being tongue in cheek and flippant. >> three strikes you're out. she, back in 2011, made some comments about education secretary mocking the education secretary's lisp in public and forced to apologize for it saying she was just trying to make light of the situation. you know what? enough is enough. stuart: you won't cut her slack. >> no slack for that one. but on the mayor bloomberg thing, his team has come out and spahned and basically said that the teachers union is exaggerating his comments trying to create a side show because they're walking away from the negotiation table. so, now what? it's just, it's just a whole lot of mess in my opinion. stuart: charles. charles: and lewis is fickle. stuart: it's a strong w

of teachers the biggest teachers' union in the u.k. has commissioned a survey which says that morale among teachers has dropped dramatically they talked about the highs and lows of life in the classroom incredibly low morale but also frustrated at continual criticism and interference from the government they said and the figures are quite staggering actually fifty five percent of teachers surveyed said that morale was either very low and that's up from forty two percent just eight months ago so it's really on a declining trend seventy seven percent said that they didn't feel that specific education policies of the government's a specialist schools free schools were taking education in the right direction in this country and just five percent felt that this current coalition government impact on the education system was positive and had more specific about what the teachers don't like about the government's policies. well there are specifics that they don't like they don't like this continuing interference they say that every new governm

the l.a. teachers union agrees to new teacher evaluations using student test scores, course completion, and soation, which in the past, your union has been opposed to. the l.a. teachers agreed to this. >> right. once again -- >> is it going national? >> again, just like some of the other so-called facts you had in the beginning. >> come on, wait a second, where at the beginning of the interview where my facting were wrong. tell me. >> about me moving out of new york city. i paid every single bit of the taxes. >> that was a public report. that was a published report. >> actually, it was wrong. the publication was wrong. >> was i wrong about the $194,000 check you got lump sum for unused sick pay and vacation days. was i wrong? >> yes. it was over the course of several years that i received that. >> it was not a lump sum check? that was the total you received? >> not a lump sum check. >> again, quoting a published report. >> i understand. my point is -- >> real fast, teachers evaluations, go. >> the teacher evaluations all throughout the country, teachers have been saying let's have different ev

the pressure. he'd been trying to get rid of poor teachers for years. >> i walked into a teacher's room before and the teacher was asleep. i wrote the teacher up, and the teacher still called the union on me. within the first four months, i had, like 12, grievances from teachers, just because i was going in, asking to see their lesson plan, making sure they were doing their job. >> do you have a sense of a percentage of teachers who are really in need of drastic improvement? >> in this building, we have like six teachers. that's, like, 20, 30 percent of the staff. >> we're actually going to hold them accountable to say, "if you say you have five ineffective teachers, then you either have to show us the plans for how you put in place a professional development program for them and they improved, or you've got to show us what you did about that." >> in the past, nobody had the guts like chancellor rhee, nobody had the mindset of, "i'm going to do what needs to be done to improve the quality of instruction, even if it means i have to get my hands dirty a little bit." what are you doing? what? >> nothing. whose room are you supposed to be in? >> miss lewis. >> miss lewis? let's walk dow

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

. >> reporter: the teachers union president said a lack of suspension concerns her. almost daily she rereceives emails from teachers who are frustrated with students who violate the school of conduct and nothing is done. some deserve suspension. she said by in the suspending students, it sends the message that you're not being punished. we're saying that bad language and being respectful to others is okay. meantime, at calverton green, they have reduced suspensions and grades have improved but they will suspend if they have to. >> the code of conduct is always followed. teachers are continuing to report these be i'ves. what i found teachers doing more rather than writing an officer referral, they're owning how they support the consequence. >> reporter: green says this year principals are not eligible for any bonuses under this prarnlings something she whole heartedly agrees with. out of 13 turnaround schools that were in the program last year only two schools including two were eligible to reef any bonus. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >>> let's take us south. this is

. >> the president of the teacher's union said she's concerned about the program and students not being disciplined for bad behavior. >>> the orioles made their first road trip of the year sort of up to aberdeen tonight. the speaker was -- jim johnson also made an appearance. this place was packed. darren daniels brought his son out to see buck. >> it came from out of nowhere. my family is -- since the 70s and we just had no idea that it would be so successful and we really think it was buck that brought -- he. >> absolutely. we are still trying to confirm whether buck picked up the entire tab tonight because of that new contract. >>> run from 11:00 to 6:00 at the convention center. current birds, former birds will be running around. kelly. >> well, the pes president said the 2nd inaugural eventually be scaled down but it still takes a lot to get ready for an event like this. it's about half as many as last time. if you are heading to -- metro is selling special one day passes. if you won't be on the mall, abc2 will be your complete home for inaugural coverage. we have a team of reporte

the teachers. that is the trend. i heard about the chicago teachers union. i flew to chicago the day they went on strike, and they were right to go on strike. i am in schools all the time, and when i was a young teacher, the teachers are overwhelmingly women. if you go to a convention, if you are a guide it is wonderful. -- a guy it is wonderful. when they scapegoats teachers' unions, they are ruthless. they are attacking some of the largest unions in this country of the vote did, -- of devoted good female human beings. it is an attack on women. i remember dr. king's words about i have been to the mountain. some of that is look back on all the time. it is as the symbol of hope. it is a biblical. we would like to get there again. the dialogue just like the dialogue in health care, there is nothing transcendental in it. there is nothing courageous in it. it is like they are tinkering around inequity. six the schools they say, which is a suggestion of word, region -- fix the schools they say. our kids are commercial commodities. i hate that word. it is not worki

the most bombs and we drop them. in this state unions larger than the teacher union and building first class jails and second class schools and [inaudible] stop the problem. each out and convene the family is the first step in the right direction. mr. mayor at this table must be disk jockeys, athletes, artists, ad agencies, all those impacts must find a place at this table. we spent $3 trillion on the war in iraq and it was the wrong target. you spend $3 trillion on the budget and tax cut for the wealthiest americans and took their money to the camen islands and not in america and having huge threats and medicaid and medicare and threaten the scpeerns that is violence. number one and must commit ourselves to the ban on assault weapons. we lost about 6,000 americans in iraq in 10 years. lose 30 to 50,000 a home at home. 100,000 are injured and didn't die and the highest cost in any city is the emergency room hospitals in those cities where they're shot. [inaudible] shot by ak47's. we have a lot of role in the killing of syria. 9/11 /12 in benghazi. [inaudible] yards away. we must revive the ban on these adult suspects. i d

dollars if the news is incorrect then you give the account number for a pension account somewhere the teacher's union the fireman soon and you bury that pension account and you of course bribe the compliance officer and you bribe the sales manager and it's a case of paine webber you'd have to bribe actually the c.e.o. at some point to cover the tracks of all of this what's called look back trading so it's no lose trading it's insider information diner is a wealthy man because he's a fascist pig and he works for a fascist pig run out of a big giant house in washington full of fascist pigs so the next day august friday aug seventeenth two thousand and seven at eight am they announce that they're cutting the discount rate is shocked the markets they did it before trading here is flip out friday from market tickers carl down injure he was short the market because it was due a massive fall as we know despite all of their intervention despite all of their insider trading the markets did crash mightily over the next eighteen months well he lost thirty thousand dollars and he goes over there are only two pos