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We represent 1. 7 Million People across the country, all of whom are teachers, bus drivers, professionals, public employees, nurses and other health care professionals, 200,000 of whom have been working in hospitals through this pandemic. We essentially represent the people who make a difference every single day in the lives of americans and have been working as essential workers to help people be safe through this pandemic. Your organization just did a survey of teachers, asking them what they ...

streets of san francisco. this time a former fire commissioner was allegedly attacked by a homeless man with a metal pipe. but the suspects attorney claims it was the fire commissioner who was the aggressor, after he sprayed the homeless man with bear spray. were going to go deeper into this story to see what it says about the homeless situation in san francisco. plus, teachers union president, randi weingarten is here after a contentious hearing on capitol hill afbout whether teache...

Big day for john boehner. Members of congress, of course, dont spend all that many official days in session anymore as you can see from their calendar. After today, they had no work days at all scheduled for month of august. Lawmakers who arent running for president go home and tell their constituents how much they accomplished in the capitol for the last year and two. With the midterm elections in november, boehners plans was to send his members home for the summer break equipped to tell everyo...

Of august. Lawmakers who arent running for president go home and tell their constituents how much they accomplished in the capitol for the last year and two. With the midterm elections in november, boehners plans was to send his members home for the summer break equipped to tell virp they had taken action, they had taken real action on the kris crisis of unaccompanied kids crossing into the United States. President obama asked congress for 3. 7 billion to help deal with this genuine crisis at th...

Would help people testing. and you needed clear guidance. >> when the trump administration wanted to reopen schools in i believe summer of 2020 for the fall, uhyou opposed that. >> no, i did not oppose that. what we said was -- and in fact in july 2020, the superintendents association, the -- i saw you raise your eyebrows. the superintendents association, the nea, the american pediatricians, and we said, yes, open schools n. fact, in april 2020, we came up with a first report about how to open s...

The united states is that much more time is focused on testing as opposed to teaching and learning. lets take florida. in florida you have almost 80 days a year where some testing is going on in any particular school district. in new york state where i served on the cuomo commission, we saw from some superintendents in rochester, monroe county, they told us in the first four weeks over 20,000 pretests were being given to kids to 4,000 kids in that district. >> all right. thank you so much. well ...