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What happens to kids when they dont have this in the school? >> its very frustrating. when these children have that kind of ability and we dont do anything to nourish it, they will never make it to the potential theyre capable of without help. its like an athlete. what would have happened to our great football players without a coach? >> this is a program that one could argue 90% of the population doesnt participate in. >> uh-huh. >> does it benefit the whole school? >> well, the way we have it ...

Like this. >> weve been working the recall efforts against the republicans. this is the beginning of a movement. >> people open the door gladly, say we heard you were out in the community, weve been waiting for you to come over here and get our signature. >> our governor decides to give $117 million in tax breaks to corporations. now they want to make cuts to education. i can see class size going up to 35 to 40 kids in a class. >> as a republican, my entire life, i am appalled at what scott walk...

Everywhere that republican governors are pushing union stripping measures, the public is not only pretty dramatically against that, but they are turning pretty dramatically against the republicans pushing for that, too. nationally, it is the democratic partys challenge to make that translate in november. this november and preferably next november, too. but you know, in wisconsin, november seems to be coming early. november coming early in wisconsin looks like this. >> im 85 years old. but i have...

Teachers. are you foss loosening up some of these rules so that maybe negotiations get reopened more frequently? >> i met with a group, i did a roundtable root at statehouse square maybe a month ago. police officers negotiate for bulletproof vests at the bargaining table. teachers negotiate for class size. if a school district is threatened financially, as is many are, i think they sit down with teachers through the bargaining process and they work through in questions. are you willing to give u...

Class size, problems for americans homeless vets and the rest, so be it. megyn: that is not what the american people want to hear. they dont want to hear one side condemning and attacking the other. they want to see both sides get their act together and get to work on this. megyn: its funny because the newly elected senator from west virginia, joe mansion a democrat he seemed to be pushing for that and has been pushing president obama more and more to load on this issue of the budget. you tested...

Job had to be shocking for you. >> it is. there are two main issues that were dealing with public education now in wisconsin. the first is the whole collective bargaining issue. take away our ability to meet with our employer in good faith at the bargaining table. as my friend carl glossier whos an english teacher at memorial says, our workplace conditions are our students learning conditions. and whether thats class size, whether thats hiring and attracting good teachers, whether thats getting ...

Incentives to continue in this job had to be shocking for you. >> it is. there are two main issues that were dealing with public education now in wisconsin. the first is the whole collective bargaining issue. take away our ability to meet with our employer in good faith at the bargaining table. as my friend carl glossier whos an english teacher at memorial says, our workplace conditions are our students learning conditions. and whether thats class size, whether thats hiring and attracting good t...

Would not meet their goals under nclb by next year. this is why we have to fix the law now. >> nowhere is that failure more evident than in detroit, where state education officials have ordered the immediate closing of half of the citys schools to help eliminate the districts $327 million deficit by 2014. im joined by chastity dawesey, reporter for the "detroit free press." the financial restructuring plan in detroit would increase class size, as i understand it, to 60 students. it includes the ...

All. its been a pleasure. thank you. and congratulations on the new book. >> thank you very much. >> erin brockovich, the book rock bottom out this week. just ahead here, rethinking the conventional wisdom about class size in america. should the classes be bigger? learning in groups. projects. solving problems. not smaller. do kids learn more from other kids than they do from the teacher anyway? that debate after this. and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbells. its amazing what soup ca...

For days when one or two kids were absent because she couldnt reach all the rest of kids in the class otherwise. what were saying right now is the best teachers cannot do their best in large classes. and if we really want to do right by our teachers and more importantly right by our children, we have to provide them with reasonable class sizes. because the institute of education sciences which is the research arm of the department of education say there is only four reforms that have proven to w...