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High, land fees, term fees, the seismic structure. you have got to be earthquake sound. they are saying the cost of union labor -- when was the last time you heard educators rap the unions. its not just crazy california. new york, and new jersey also building schools for hundreds of millions of dollars. those districts are not doing as well. megyn: we didnt have the fancy pizza oven. i did think or administrators to special. but perhaps im wrong. serous. powerful ts is brewing in the atlantic. i...

Persistence, the drive that gets them ahead. it wasnt that video game course that made them succeed and bill gates dropped out. >> stephane, to bills point precisely. what has gone up the most is the cost of administrators. weve had 40% increase in administrators and bureaucrats in college, only 18% increase in teachers. so they are spending money on the wrong things. >> yeah. you know, but we were talking about hot tubs earlier. my view is if you dont like the hot tubs and you cant afford them,...

Students who cant afford private colleges. tuition rates are on the order of $15,000 a year. their boards -- their appointed by the governor in most states. so its all, you know, cya all the time. >> neil: you know what i -- i think what is happening is that they can do this because then, you know, we always have a college loan program, you you can be covered and your parents go into debt because theres always a way to pay and it feeds the beast. >> youre right. the first root cause of this is t...

The central park campus in mckinney. we do have more than one campus in mckinney so i want to clarify that was the campus off of 380 drive in mckinney. the campus was locked down immediately, and is still on lockdown. these are the details we know right now, i think there was more than one suspect, and police are still on the scene. gregg: have any teachers, administrators, or importantly, students been injured in any way? >> not to my knowledge. but information is still coming in. the campus co...

Of -- >> neil: what would you use? >> well, wait a minute, wait a minute, due did you not hear mean when i said were only testing 15% of what is taught? parents are tired of this mind-numbing, program-scripted teaching. you want an evaluation system that works and we believe our evaluating system is broken but there are multiways. theres better observation by administrators. there is performance assessment. there are portfolios, there are teacher-driven tests, there are periodic assessments. >> ...

Overhauling public education but blaming teachers. most people who go into teaching dont go into it for the money. >> neil: but if theres some getting it done and why not -- fire the -- >> i disagree because if you look at the trajectory of test scores in l.a. unified and the academic performance index in the past ten years, its going up. >> neil: you dont think theres some losers? >> i think there are teachers who should not be in the profession but you free administrators and retrain them to b...

Long day, ill tell you. jenna: chris, well wish you luck with that maalox. gregg: whats your favorite burger? >> jenna: any burger! gregg: working on a school lockdown, ontario, california, this is about 43 miles east of los angeles, just beyond the claremont colleges out there and police got a tip at 6:20 this morning that a student at colony high school had a gun, they got about a dozen officers searching the premises for that individual, colony high school is home of the titans, has about 250...

Developments out of a shooting on a campus of colin college just north of dallas. >> yeah, located just across the street from the police department in mckinney. and so what police are saying now, and were getting this directly from the city as well, someone opened fire outside of the police station. that person is dead. we dont know if that was self-inflicted or if by police bullets. but because it happened so close to the college campus, they locked that down. that lockdown has been listed. we...

Reality of crayons and magic markers but when you scare kids and parents into thickening -- youre scaring them needlessly. >> with all due respect youre misreading the situation. theres a long tradition of principals and parents working to get to make sure kids and schools receive the full resources they need. the current circumstances are such that 42 states are experiencing severe budget cuts in funding for public schools. and when principals and teachers have to decide about textbooks as oppo...

Administrators went halfway around the world recruiting teachers from india. >> and if you look at this animation carefully -- >> reporter: of the 14 indian teachers that were recruited, a teacher with 14 years experience was one of them. >> i understand that there were focus on the academic achievement. >> reporter: it is estimated that 14,000 foreigners from india and the philippines are teaching nationwide and mostly in four states. by most accounts, students are responding to teachers like d...