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Culture." you have outlined what you have called the achievement discipline gap among african-american students. you say african-american middle school students are three times as likely to be disciplined as other groups of students. they make up only 20 persh of the student population but account for more than 40% of suspensions and expulsions, two thirds of which go to males. why? >> well, i think, first of all, i think theres a lot of overlap between what were talking about here and what we h...

Revenue to go towards edge indication. the idea being here that democrats can convince voters to pass higher taxes for more i e. >> amendment 56 puts the money in the class room. big change, small price. >> to give you an idea of some of the organizations spending money on both sides of this referend referendums. its against the ballot initiative and yes, thats a real committee that registered. the second tax measure to support education is proposition 88, which would put tax on the sale and pur...

♪ jawm jake this next story needs to be discussed even further because theres new questions after a louisiana substitute teacher gets caught on tape launching into a profanity-laced tirade aimed at a misbehaving eighth grade class. listen. jamie: well, its unclear if she just uses profanity or if she was frustrated in that class room, but she was taken away from teaching in that district yet again, and the school board has yet to reveal whether shell be disciplined. bob bowedder is the founder...

A faith-based organization that serves 300 students throughout the school year. providing supplemental classes in math, science, creative writing, and most importantly, reinforcing character. >> someone tell me the four -- >> prudence, fortitude, temperament, justice. >> honesty stands all religions and when we teach honesty, it is not just telling the truth. it is about personal integrity. thats going to guide them in the class room and guide them in life to realize their full potential. >> as ...

Signs are and in this case there wasnt much oh than he did not fit in, in the class room, he seemed a little bit odd. but there is nothing there that law enforcement could have done or would have probably foreseen that we know about so far. >>neil: we could go the other way in an environment and you could look at it and say, well, we dont want to go on a witch hunt, do we? >>guest: you cannot go on a witch hunt for odd kids. even in order to get him in voluntary outpaint treatment which has been...

Multiple shooting events in connecticut history. jenna: its interesting, jon, here we are nearing three hours of watching this story develop, and for the first few hours we had no reports of any fatalities other than the gunman, and very quickly the situation has changed where we have learned now of multiple fatalities and getting some more details about who may have been targeted or affected by this shooter. according to a local newspaper, the artford current -- which weve been relying on heavi...

Been taken out of that class room temporarily, but as you saw, the parents would like to see it permanently taken out of the class room. by the way, again, not a political science teacher. megyn: even the janitor? >> reporter: a math teacher. yeah. [laughter] the janitor apparently said something. megyn: hey, i hate that t-shirt too. do you mind? [laughter] wow. all right. thanks, trace. >> reporter: okay. megyn: im sure a lot of folks are not laughing. well, a big time surprise on the campaig...

Offering them everything. can you occupy yourself? if theyre the 1% they should occupy their own offices and protesting there. unions are great if youre running them. >> eric: dana, we dont have a problem with union membership paying the leader a lot, right? >> dana: this is a weird thing. im going to defend them and they right to be paid what their members think is worthy of their responsibility. if you look at the associatio associations in washington, d.c., the salaries to me people lower for...

Offering them everything. can you occupy yourself? if theyre the 1% they should occupy their own offices and protesting there. unions are great if youre running them. >> eric: dana, we dont have a problem with union membership paying the leader a lot, right? >> dana: this is a weird thing. im going to defend them and they right to be paid what their members think is worthy of their responsibility. if you look at the associatio associations in washington, d.c., the salaries to me people lower for...

>> dana: that is the guy, the young student. >> greg: i would come to his cause if he got a haircut. >> dana: maybe you should offer to do -- >> greg: ill cut his hair. >> dana: freedom of expression. >> eric: here is the thing -- >> greg: that is not good hair, dana. >> eric: he taped a teacher going bananas on him because he disagreed with president obama. that is going on in the class room. there is a pro-liberal obama agenda going non-the classroom. this kid has to go back his senior year --...