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Singapore and around the united states and said, gosh, in the schools the highest performing in the world, their classroom sizes are about the same in the united states. >> did he say around the world? 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 wh...

Inside that philly school, mr. romney also faced some headwinds from some of the people his campaign set him up to meet with while the cameras were rolling. watch. >> a number of folks said, well, we need smaller classroom sizes. that will make the biggest difference. i said, lets compare the average classroom side from each school district with the performance of our students because we test our kids and see if there is a relationship. there was not. just getting smaller classrooms didnt seem t...

the truth if thats a promise he can keep or whether its his version of read my lips or ill close gitmo. this evening with presidential politic, and a focus on key battleground states. president obama is in iowa tonight. six electoral votes but a hotly contested tossup state at a wind turbine plant in newton, iowa, the president said he understood times are tough but he argues the republican agenda isnt the answer. >> when you hear somebody say, we should cut more taxes, especially fo...

Will get less and you are taking it out on them. your response, again? >>guest: not at all. i have two sons a junior and senior and their schools have been able to hire more teachers using savings to hire more teachers and lower the classroom sizes and many school districts were able to it is money aside to pay based on performance and award excellence in education to the public employees are paying a little bit more for pentagons and health insurance premiums but, far less than the middle class...

Robert menendez, democrat from new jersey. he joined with other democrats today to urge congress to pass the first portion of the presidents jobs bill. thank you for coming on the show tonight. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> what will it take to get this bill passed, senator? >> well, i hope voices from across the country. this is something that should be clearly bipartisan. teachers, 400,000 educators that wed save for our childrens classrooms across this country, and weve seen from paren...

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...

Accordance with the law, but it is giving people more of an inside game than more of the peoples game. >> well, if you put any of us in a position that chris dodd will collect a $1.2 million salary and if you are offered that money, it would be hard to turn that down to go back home to earning far less than that in your home district. >> do something less glamorous and less high profile and effective, so it is hard to resist this money. >> good to see you, major. we are waiting for apples ipad...

And the legislature came to an agreement. they used that money to displace state money so there was ale hole in the cost sharing grant which is how we distribute $1.9 billionle to local communities. there was a hole of $270 million. if i allowed that to go through a place like bridgeport, connecticut, one of the poorest cities in america would have lost 270 teachers and would be looking at classroom sizes of 40 children per class in a system thats in an advanced state of difficult if not failure...

Hole in the cost sharing grant which is how we distribute $1.9 billion to local communities. there was a hole of $270 million. if i allowed that to go through a place like bridgeport, connecticut, one of the poorest cities in america would have lost 270 teachers and would be looking at classroom sizes of 40 children per class in a system thats in an advanced state of difficult if not failure. >> i want to ask you about cutting taxes in a minute. a yes or no, if i could. do you worry that raising...