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A local fourth-grade teacher is creating buzz on TikTok by using Beyoncé lyrics to maintain classroom attention.

By holding up a sign at an nba game advertising his sons classroom performance. "thomas, get your grades back up and next time youll be here." a couple of days later, he was seen in houston with this message. "thomas, can you hear me now? student, then athlete in that order." later in the same game he held up another sign. "thomas, until you pass social studies, no staying up for "red eye" with tom shillue." there were some detractors. a college football analyst tweeted out a popular response fr...

Theres a direct correlation between family income and an s.a.t. score and that gets into the question of prepping for the test. if your family can afford it and, hey, junior is going to college, then theyre going to shell out money for, what, coaching on this test, hey, look, they tend to do it this way. this is the best guessing strategy. theres a whole element of that to this, too, isnt there? >> a more boutique industry in your business that people can get much more personalized one-on-one in...

Rutgers could lose major money -- per netty, thats better. why dont you -- well, should a familys welfare assistance be based on its childs classroom performance? thats the call from a bill proposed by tennessee senator stacy canfield. it says if kids do not maintain satisfactory progress in school, the familys assistance will be slashed up to 30%. he says it will help hold parents accountable for their kids work. the bill has passed committees in both the state house and the senate and could so...

Developing now, "the washington post" is reporting that the chancellor of schools has fired 241 teachers today for poor classroom performance. the president of the washington teachers union says challenges will be filed for each fired teacher. so still ahead, if your tax dollars at work. a new report shows how much banks gave their executives in bonuses while at the same time receiving billions in bailouts. left sialso what makes a sp sport? a controversial decision about where cheerleading ...

Angeles school district spent ten years trying to fire seven teachers for poor performance, it was successful in only four of the cases. >> paul: wow, so if a teacher, if the school closes, bill. >> right. >> paul: the teacher is out of work and goes back into the pool of teachers, the principal at another school in a big system like l.a. or new york, has the ability to say, to hire them at the schools, but if the principals dont want them and some of these teachers have reputations for not bein...

Almost impossible to fire them. in los angeles they tried 10 years successful in only four cases. >> paul: the teacher out of work goes back into the pool of teachers, in another school like l.a. or new york has the ability to hire them. if the principals dont want them age some of these teachers have reputations for not being competent they sit there, but they still get paid. >> the public school system we have in the big cities not a schools system it is a lifetime jobs program. jason mentione...

Angeles school district spent ten years trying to fire seven teachers for poor performance, it was successful in only four of the cases. >> paul: wow, so if a teacher, if the school closes, bill. >> right. >> paul: the teacher is out of work and goes back into the pool of teachers, the principal at another school in a big system like l.a. or new york, has the ability to say, to hire them at the schools, but if the principals dont want them and some of these teachers have reputations for not bein...

No, i dont think i support them. when theyre keeping people who are doing a bad job in good jobs, we got to stop. important jobs like teaching our kids, the union has to be broken. they are breaking the back of our society. theyre breaking the back of our state. in the past decade, l.a. unified school district officials have spent $3.5 million trying to fire how many teachers? seven. 3.5 of the district 33,000 teachers for poor classroom performance. seven. how many were actually fired? four. du...