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obama won with 53% of the vote and you can see these swing states went solidly for the president this time around. where are we specifically with unemployment? nevada and florida have unemployment rates that are above the national average. its also right about where it was when the president took office. but take a look at this, nevada, 11.7%, when the president took office, it was 9.6%. now the rest of the battle ground states are doing better, they are stronger now than when the pres...

The regents required for graduation. what are you doing at your schools that public schools arent doing? >> its all about teachers. and what i mean is we were obsessed 10 years ago with one question -- how do you make teachers happy and great? how do you attract the best teachers and then bring out the best in them? and so we werent worried about the particulars, class size, school size, curriculum. it was all about the teachers and what we did was give them an enormous amount of freedom and tru...

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School board is borrowing $218 million to cover expenses. theyre going to go into hawk to pay for bare bones public education. the board says yes to borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars just to keep the lights on. they say they dont know what else to do. school districts across the country are in the same fight. parents and teachers have ral rallied across the south and midwest and back east today. the state shifted tens of millions of dollars to pay corporate owned charter schools and chur...

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to make sure we have a safety net that cares for people that are falling from the middle class into poverty. >> 99ers receiving an unprecedented 99 weeks of jobless benefits. >> fight, fight, fight. >> but 20 straight months of job gains have many wondering when do you cut the cord? >> when do it we want it? now. >> with no easy answers for the long-term unemployed, what can and what should government do? >> sometimes it means making sure that theres a safety net. >> by the end of the ...

Are the jobs that communities depend on. anyone with a kid in public school, i have two, knows how important it is to have teachers in front of that classroom so you dont have to keep kicking up the class size to deal with the layoffs. that would have made a ton of sense. i just want to the say a word about the idea of compromise. i appreciate what allen simpson said there. i think what would help the economy is if republicans and democrats get together and figure out this issue with the fiscal ...

Have to do with them is, perhaps, add more students to the classroom size and that was met with some resistance from teachers in west philadelphia saying wait a minute, i dont know too many teachers or parents out there that would want to add more students to the classroom situation to add more pressure on the student -- on a teacher, rather. so is governor romney totally in touch with the education program and how to change it? >> well, i think its -- its a tough one, kelly. look, if there were...

The candidate who has suddenly somehow found west philadelphia, somehow now wants to talk about education. romney has always opposed investing in our childrens education. again, i dont understand why hes here today. what he supports are policy that is hurts the ability to educate our children and prepare them for good jan >> welcome back. now, the irony here, of course, is that city mayor michael nutter -- and thats why the politics get so complicated. as both camps are trying to create distinct...

Certainly as mayor. so its interesting that he would decide to come to west philadelphia. this is a person as governor who cut funding for education, both secondary and postsecondary education, eight years ago while he was governor. he had the second highest per-pupil reduction in funding for students. he has come out and said he didnt think that smaller class size was the answer. as a matter of fact, he seems to think that it would be a problem. none of this makes any particular sense. >> how m...