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City, public schools are certainly not palted. here is what i say. ill leave the question whether to give rid of the department of ed to people with bigger sledgehammers than me. it becomes a political issue. what i do is hopefully the opposite of politics. what i know, however, is the idea of having the federal government setting education policies way down the line seems to not be a good idea. as you talk about here. when we look at test scores and r.o.i.s, you think like a business person loo...

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You mean mitt romney has a worldly view of education and not american? in other words, forget the real life experiences of teachers in the classroom, mitt romney will liston what a think tank tells him. he doesnt have to do anything and he doesnt know anything about overcrowding or underfunding when it comes to schools and what it will do to them. romney doesnt seem to care, just like he didnt care when he was the governor of massachusetts. in his first year, romney cut education funding to clos...

Hes the current secretary of education. i hope thats not heresy in the room, but he is has a program called race to the top which is more testing of kids, more evaluation of teachers. those are things that make some sense. >> this week, romney touted his free market vision of educational reform at an inner city at a predominantly black charter school in west philadelphia. romney sat down for questions and tried to defend his previous claim that class size doesnt improve student performance. >> i...

Negotiate on that because were broke. >> its real simple. were trying to balance the budget. were broke. we are broke in this state. were broke. you really cant negotiate when you dont have money to negotiate. >> walker talks a good game on camera but he is trying to cut a deal behind closed doors. a new development. this afternoon e-mails between governor walkers aides and the wisconsin 14 were released to the milwaukee journal sentinel. the governors office e-mailed a series of concessions to ...