He makes a really good point, which is that its hard you got to have skin in the game, you know. You really do. I am always curious to ask people, and we have a poll coming out soon that does ask this question of parents, if money were not an issue, would you send your child to your Neighborhood Public School . If you had a choice and you could send them, you could take them out and send them to a private school, or any school of your choice, would you do it . And it was astonishing to me how many people would. And the fact is they cant, and thats what is frustrating. You know, he is right, politicians and people in power do have a choice, and if you are at a disadvantage and you dont have the money to choose a private school or you dont have Educational Options where you live, you dont, and thats not fair, that goes right to the heart of the inequality piece. If some of our viewers want to check out the poll that you are talking about, is that on the website, the we just completed it,
This is what we like. Happy friday. We have an accident on the roads. Just blocking one lane earlier. Earlier it was blocking two. This is at 116th street. The left lane is still shut down there. Delays are minor heading through the area. Outside, better news. The new jersey turnpike by Newark Liberty airport, in great shape as you head out the door. The next weather and traffic update on the 4s. Lauren, thank you very much. It was a dramatic scene inside a brook lip courtroom. A now former nypd officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed man. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is in East New York where the shooting happened. A shooting that the officer claimed in court was a terrible accident. Reporter he always maintained that, michael, that it was an accident. As for the verdict, residents, some of them here at the pink houses where that shooting happened, they expressed surprise. As you mentioned, michael, peter liang buried his face in his hands. The jury convicted h
Jeff, good morning. Caller bobby jindal do not back out because of politics. Out because once he seen what common core was all tryingnothing more than why dont you ask these people on your panel to give you the document that they ask all the questions of their students. Just ask them for that document and i guarantee you that she will be able to get it. They are not allowed to. One other thing. If they come out with a new law that says that money follows the ill guarantee now that our Education System will get better in a heartbeat because then the best education the best teachers would come out, and the ones that couldnt teach would be fired. Host darlene, can you take the second part of that. Guest money does follow the student. Going back to where we started with esea, when i said at the beginning would the child benefit . The money is given to School Districts for children in poverty. So, the money in that sense follows the child in many states and districts. Their funding formulas
And other minority groups. Host we are asking if you have questions about what is happening in iraq right now, specifically the efforts of the kurdish people, we are joined for the 35 minutes or so by the head of the Regional Government for the kurds in d. C. U. S. ,re outside the the curtis tend government held kurdistans dan Regional Government, what are they asking right now . Guest we are confronted with a lot of challenges right now. Verse, you mentioned the military and crisis. We have a population of about 5. 3 million. About 1. 5 million. Theyre coming in the tens of thousands, if not the hundreds of thousands. This has been a huge burden under the leadership in providing for and assisting these refugees. On top of this, we have not received a single penny that we are entitled to from baghdad as a result of the oil revenues. Us 9 billion. There has not been a single penny that has come since the beginning of this year. Without revenue coming in, we try to upset and making up fo
Certain citizens. And here when youve got citizens who have a liberty interest, their marriage already their marriage is done, children,e now got and those children deserve to have two parents and the state is now saying because of our commitment to democracy, were say no to you, and were just going to wait for you to come up with 7 million and reverse our constitutional amendment. In a few yearsou when you can pull off that kind of raising and that kind democratic action. The reality is that these rights very profound, and we know from Supreme Court case law a verymarriage is significant thing. Its solemn, its precious, its attributes that allow you to have the relationship with your children or with your spouse, and this cant be just subject to vote. I understand that in this early a state is trying to figure out whether recognition im just curious why youre about the better path. Community getsay to pick the path, can you get your Supreme Court decision in june of next year or can y