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Do the state governments have the flexibility. >> and state and local government has grown. if you want to look at where the growth is -- >> economy did not grow at 8% -- >> right. >> its going to take -- >> well, the share of taxes as a percentage of gdp is the lowest level it has been since the 1950s. >> but part -- but part of that growth in state and local was about the unfunded mandates of the federal government to states in low tal teas. the localism, this idea that local people know bette...

Suppressing the teachers voice. ive been teaching for 29 years, and my voice is my students a voice. my students dont go to the administration to advocate for what they need. i do. i talk about increased needs for technology to prepare my students for the 21st century. more resources for special needs students. you know, really our voice is our students voice, and to silence and suppress us is taking away our students voice as well. >> mr. cokie, youre the president of the cleveland teachers uni...

Exactly how that was a precollective bargaining clip, and that passed in 1983 in ohio. thats the whole story, you dont see cops calling in with blue flu now, and you dont see the kind of labor strike that you saw before, because workers have an ability to sit down at the table with employers, and not with management, the cities or the counties or the state, the school boards, and not just to discuss wages, but as a teacher told me, in suburban columbus, when i sit at the table, we are bargaining...

Highest cut. twha does that mean? it means that art and music programs are going. it means that there will be increased class size. look, im from new york, so we have a term in new york called kutzpah. the biggest line that governor walker said was that he gave these districts tools. he wiped out voice. he wiped out collective bargaining. he basically shifted costs so that, for example, the wisconsin the janitor, custodian that we represent who makes $24,000 is now paying 16% more in terms of be...

That was basically number one in graduation rates throughout the united states. highest cut. twha does that mean? it means that art and music programs are going. it means that there will be increased class size. look, im from new york, so we have a term in new york called kutzpah. the biggest line that governor walker said was that he gave these districts tools. he wiped out voice. he wiped out collective bargaining. he basically shifted costs so that, for example, the wisconsin the janitor, cus...

The best example is an university down from green bay where they took a $400,000 deficit and turned it into $1.5 million surplus. they used the savings and the tools, and they turned that into more teachers they hired, lower class size, and about $200,000 for merit pay. its not just about the budget you can hire and fire based on merit, but pay on performance. >> your critics say youre an enemy of education. saying your budget cuts over $1 million from education. >> 40 states across the country ...

So we went out and did research with scholastic to get their views. and teachers really are saying, you know, they want some different things in the school than they have today. and all -- everything that the foundations trying to do is say, how do we put a great teacher in every classroom? because if you do that, a great teacher makes 14 times the difference in terms of whether that student will be prepared at the end of the year or not, which is much different than the class size. kids can adv...

recession fear. today the story is the health of the european banks. >> thats absolutely right, christine. what were seeing is conflicting reports today in a couple of newspapers about whether the eurozone and european regulators for the banking industry will move to try to recapitalize or shore up the capital that some of the banks hold. this is on the back of on going concerns about the health of the french banks after mohamed el arian said yesterday. he said that could undermined th...

>> from americas news headquarters, im ainsley earhardt. word just in from washington state of a tentative agreement to end a teachers strike in tacoma. the governor making the announcement just minutes ago. details of the deal still not known. the strike shut down classrooms for more than a week. teachers and the school district were at odds over salary and class size. but the main sticking point revolved around how the district was handling teacher transfers. two young american hikers held in ...

catastrophic failure of the justice system. georgia delayed the execution for four hours while the u.s. supreme court considered the case. davis declared his innocence until l the end. he lifted his head from the gournny and told the victims family they had the wrong man. >> and he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who were going to take my life, he said to them, may god have mercy on your souls and his last words were to them, may god bless your souls. then he put his head ba...