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What she tells me. neighbors who lived peacefully side by side for years are now screaming at each other, with one side saying, well, but the passage of this law, class size is going to go down and the schools, the emergency rooms will be empty. the state bunnell let go up. we will -- we will get nirvana. and the other side is saying this will be a police state. you will have gestapo on the streets. this will be the disaster that will end freedom as we know it. we can solve the immigration probl...

Thats what education should be like and thats what it will be in our government. >> quarterback gordon brown is right and you know there is a link to under performance in the class roo. it is that link that is holding back so many children. thats unfair. piling through the tax reports and giving 700 pounds back in their taxes fresh off the 10,000 pounds. people are not being helped and through our proposal we call it the slightly sort of -- we call it a pupil premium. it is extra money, $2.5 bil...

Legislature. he hasnt gotten in the way of stopping them from doing anything, he hasnt pushed them to do anything, outside of the casino gambling pact, compact that just passed recently, but that was because of hard economic times and not because of the strong arm of the governor. vetoing senate bill six the merit pay bill in florida, was not a good bill, he should have vetoed it and he did and because he vetoed it, folks feel there is some new life there. but i believe as it relates to those th...

300,000 teachers laid off. were pushing hard for an emergency jobs bill to protect children and keep reform moving forward. >> senator tom arcen is proposing this $23 billion federal education bailout. some republicans wonder where were being to find that kind of money right now. its throwing money we dont have at this problem. whats your response? >> we have to work with congress on this issue. we have a job to protect children. we have to educate our way to a better economy. thats the only way...

>> hong kong and this region, the confucius society is very test oriented. theres a heritage of that. but there are also some other pragmatic reasons why. you pass examinations, you get into better schools and you get into better universities. >> reporter: with such an intense emphasis on getting into that better university, actualering is huge in hong kong. according to a recent survey, more than half of hong kong students get private tutoring. >> the entire hong kong school community is very, ...

Society is very text oriented. theres a heritage to that. but there are also some other pragmatic views. pass examination, get into better school its, better universities. >> reporter: with such an intense emphasis on getting into the better university, tutoring is huge in hong kong. according to a recent survey, more than half of hong kong students get private tutoring. >> the entire hong kong school community is very, very competitive. when i go to the u.s., for example, or even the uk, i find...

Administration told senate democrats to drop that provision from the bill. rick. >> molly henneberg for us in washington. thanks. >> states across the nation are suffering from major budget deficits and among the hardest hit is the state of new jersey. residents there pay some of the highest property taxes in the nation, the highest property taxes. well show awe breakdown in a bit. now governor chris kristy is taking on the very powerful teachers union over how to close the budget gap. here is a...

About our kids that need to go to school and learn? you only get one shot at an education. and we cant afor to have that happen to us next year. woof got to keep the teachers employed. >> so what is the number one failure of the administration and congress in terms of education? what have we not accomplished that you view as a failure and needs to be changed immediately? >> well the number of things we are going to change i believe in education, one, how we measure progress. under the old no chi...

Also, their grades went up. you see this really interesting, incredibly cheap intervention compared to -- thats a much better result than if you lowered the class size or had done something else. >> now that we adequately explained this, could we now argue about this. almost every parenting expert, right, will tell you that we should not bribe our kids, starting at an early age where they think, i am going to be compensated every time i do something right is wrong. isnt that the wrong way to rai...

Days, the notion of kids not getting the education they need, is that your priority number one? >> it has to be our priority. i went to public schools in california when they were the envy of the nation. now were close to the bottom per people spending, were cutting teachers, cutting classrooms and class size. >> how bad is the situation in california? >> i think its very, very bad. its hurting our city. its hurting every part of the state. >> because, as you know, a lot of people look at califo...