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The law. which of course, is i will -- is illegal. you think it is appropriate for teachers to be breaking the law? >> our teachers are exercising their first amendment rights. what is important is to make sure our students have adequate funding and we can bargain for better conditions. we are making sure the democratic process works.bái >> judge jeanine: no question the democratic process and first amendment are important. there are laws that make it illegal for teach terse to strike. is about...

Take the 9 and 7, 16% of the time actually related to school. the study also found that 45% of students made no major gains in learning after two years in college. 36% showed little change after four years. 50% of those surveyed spent less time studying than their counterparts several decades ago. theres also this interesting finding. of the students questioned, they had an average gpa of 3.2. the study was based on transcripts, test scores and surveys over 2300 students at 24 schools across the...

Years. for the last year and a half what djhave you been doing? >> sitting in a rubber room. >> what did you do today. >> packed up stuff. played some spades. left. >> reporter: your salary? >> $85,000. >> reporter: together these teachers earned an estimated $30 million a year to simply show up and sit in a room for eight hours according to the citys education department. some of them claim they dont know what theyre charged with. >> i dont deserve to be treated like this. >> reporter: he says ...

Show up and sit in a room for eight hours, some of them, including this man, claim they dont know what their charged with. >> i dont deserve to be treated like this. >> he said he shouldnt be there but back in the classroom teaching his students. >> this process should have taken, at most, two to three weeks. >> so how could the nations largest school district afford to let a teacher sit in a rubber room? >> we didnt have an agreement with the union as to where we could put these people if they ...

Theyre in such disarray. you cant make heads or tails out of that e-mail. its hard to understand what hes saying. >> true, thats not directed to the kids and not standing in a classroom teaching them english. >> he was a substitute teacher, he worked throughout the ranks and. >> now is president. >> and detroit city schools are a mess, they are in shambles. i can understand some of the parents. >> absolutely. >> give credit to the man coming out and telling the story and coming on this program t...

More and this tax break would encourage them to do it. hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state budget costs. this bill has funldsing to put a lot of those men and women back to work. it has funding to prevent a lot more from losing their job. you had a chance to meet a young man named robert. he is an english teacher in boston who came to the white house a few weeks ago. he has two decades of teaching experience and he has a mast...

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