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Take the 9 and 7, 16% of the time actually related to school. the study also found that 45% of students made no major gains in learning after two years in college. 36% showed little change after four years. 50% of those surveyed spent less time studying than their counterparts several decades ago. theres also this interesting finding. of the students questioned, they had an average gpa of 3.2. the study was based on transcripts, test scores and surveys over 2300 students at 24 schools across the...

The violence and the shooting of our members of congress and little girl who was shot and all of that, he would say america, wake up. come back to love. come back to life. and so he would be very disappointed. would be right there in the middle encouraging people theres a more noble place and to find that place and that place is in love. >> i want to ask you about this because two georgia school systems today, public schools that are in northern georgia will actually be holding school today and ...

Mismarked, unmarked or that remains might be in the wrong plots. also, weve seen urns and headstones just dumped into creek beds and piles. we talked to one man over the summer who learned that his fathers headstone was resting in the water. when he saw a picture of it in the newspaper. and we talked to a father so determined to make sure his son was buried in the right place he had the body exhumed and he actually checked the remains himself. at least two top administrators lost their jobs beca...

Care. this was and know have aive solution mcdonalds came up with. you usually dont get any! >> is that an excuse for administrators to be taking 20% of revenue s? if you are eating a lot of mcdonalds you are going to need a doctor. >> the point is, the taxpayers may be picking up the bill. >> exactly thats what you dont seem to understand. this isnt real competition, when the government steps into a market, they are subsidized by your dollars and my dollars. it real competition. you have insure...

Test results every ag weeks. what does each kid need in order to achieve the standards? and then we had freedom as a charter school with resource allegation. change how teachers are using their time, change the number of kids -- >> you said as a charter school, we had freedom. could a public school under the system, without being a charter school, do what you did? >> we need the same freedoms. we need freedoms around human capital and resource allocation. >> theres a system that prevents public ...

Kids fast enough. what we learned at explore charter school is in one year, we had double-digit gains with our students. thats because the grown-ups changed their minds and did different things. >> the teachers, the administrators? >> the teachers, the administrators, the entire staff worked together as a stof to change how we were using time, the change the material we use. we think we can apply the lessons to any public school. >> in science, you would use a control group. did anything else ch...

Is that the implication? >> i think any teacher in the right environment and working toward the same mission to achieve to the goals we set for our kids. i think too often what we do in our country is blame the kids or the families if theyre not achieving when really its the adults in the school building who -- >> what part of a kids success is actually about the kids or the families? there has to be something. >> again, youre talking to a guy who believes strongly that schools have a profound i...

Children more than theyre getting right now. imagine a school achieving the following -- 90% of its teachers and other staff say they have satisfied. 100% of eighth graders who have been accepted to further their education at preparatory high schools. thousands, the numbers of scholarships the students have ser earned. the schools actually exist and are charter schools in brooklyn. founded by morty balin, the ceo and founder of explore schools. he joins me now. morty, welcome. >> thank you. >> w...

Their grades and test scores were good enough for them to get in, they could go to grand canyon for free. that was years ago and the school lost track of the second graders for more than a decade. so administrators made it their mission to track them down. joining us now is the ceo of grand canyon university brian mueller and student and control scholarship recipient jessica reyes. great to see you both today. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: i know that there wa...

State back $1.2 million. but ajo schools say those numbers are not right. they say that of those 105 kids, 60 were arizona residents. 25 were unknown. and only 20 of them were actually residents of mexico. so, instead of the $1.2 million that the state wants them to pay, ajo schools is offering to pay the state $300,000 to settle the whole thing, shep. >> shepard: all right. trace gallagher live in los angeles this afternoon. trace, thanks. there is another student issue. this one in washington ...