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Things ive want bud have gotten more than that, so you know, its all about reading the situation and the only way to get there is to be clear with what youre position is. >> chris: letsz talk about education. you want to end tenure for teachers and put them on five-year contracts and you had to cut aid to lok kalts for schools by $1 billion this first year. the teachers union lets put it on the screen says results of the cuts of aid to schools was 10,000 layoffs and retirements, larger class siz...

Compromised on things i wanted. but, i got more than what -- more than less, so, you know, it is all about reading the situation, but the only way to get there is to be crystal-clear with what your position is. >> chris: lets talk about education. you want to end tenure for teachers and put them on five--year contracts. based on merit bit you, als-- b also wanted to cut aid to localities, schools $1 billion the first year and the teachers union, says the result of that cut of aid to schools with...

Kids fast enough. what we learned at explore charter school is in one year, we had double-digit gains with our students. thats because the grown-ups changed their minds and did different things. >> the teachers, the administrators? >> the teachers, the administrators, the entire staff worked together as a stof to change how we were using time, the change the material we use. we think we can apply the lessons to any public school. >> in science, you would use a control group. did anything else ch...

Next month, beginning september 26th, nbc news will be bringing you education nation, an unprecedented week-long event examining education. among the highlights, nbc news will host a two-day education summit on rockefeller plaza right in new york city. and democrats today are hailing the pass of a $26 billion aid package, saying lit save thousands of teachers jobs around the country. republicans are calling this a bailout for the teachers unions, which spent millions of dollars to lobby for th...

Fairly minor kinds of pensions so that people have retirement security. but let me talk about right now. right now, we have lost summer school in lots of districts throughout the country because the funding was not there. that means that kids have summer learning loss, which they will show up in september with that, with less kind of acquisition of knowledge than they had in the -- in the spring. what we are trying to avoid with every teacher layoff, with every teacher cut, you see a cut in serv...

We dont want to see class size skyrocket we dont want after school programs reeliminated. our children need a world class education and well-rounded curriculum. this will help keep our students in the classroom. >> pass the bill or hurt the kids. thats what arty duncan says about the $26 billion spending bill set for a vote tomorrow. he says its a $15 million packback so the union. why do you say that, karl? >> its -- thats a major component. when youre looking at dues dollars, we estimate $36 m...

Lose. larger class sizes, elimination of summer school and elimination of after-school programs and shorter year. this is not the time to wait. the time to act is right now. >> if they dont, what exactly happens? >> the fiscal year for school districts start today, july 1. without this bill they cannot hire these teachers back and districts are going to experience 50% more increase in class size and closing elementary school libraries and eliminating pe and music programs and congress has to act...

Most counties plan to close at least one school for the coming school year. what do you see as the solution here? >> i think one of the particulars has been the proliferation of charter schools. and i might add the vast majority of the charter schools in and around detroit by the state of michigan, the department of educations own statistics are not performing as well as the traditional public schools. >> but the charter schools remain so popular with parents. you and i both know the charter sch...

>> and, also, theres another shoe thats going to potentially fall and thats going to start in september. in new jersey. 2/3 of school board budgets were voted down. >> right. >> which means there are going to be even more cuts to teachers. >> right. >> were not cutting curriculum coordinators but people who are actually in the classroom with kids. >> right. >> and so youll see increased class size, so thats going to be a potential drag on these -- >> really important that the private sector sets...

Theres an inconvenient truth for the negative story on consumers with savings. the story weve all heard in the middle of the last decade savings went negative and really set us up for this recession. lo and behold they revised the numbers and there was no negative savings rate, it went down but it stayed positive. so what that means nor today that savings doesnt need to go negative in order to have some consumer spending, okay? >> you can spend money. you dont have to go into the hole for it. >>...