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Experimentation. it has failed. >> i challenge you that new orleans is, in fact, ground zero. >> detroit! >> okay, but, listen, daniel, were going to stay on exactly these issues. coming up in about two weeks, ill do my student town hall. well have some young people from philadelphia. thank you for your continued reporting. and when it comes to politics, this may be an off year for elections, but that doesnt mean that there isnt a very well-orchestrated and very loud campaign going on. what all ...

Including ending arts and music programs and cutting librarians and counselors. fast forward to now where this is a reality for philadelphia public school students. 23 schools have been closed. nearly 4,000 teachers and support staff were laid off over the summer, that includes all 270 school counselors in the district, even though 1,000 were hired back, including 126 counselors. in philadelphia, its about asking teachers to teach and students to learn with a whole lot less. joining me now from ...

Its outrageous. >> daniel, i want to come out to our panel for a minute. before we went, we had this conversation about government doesnt create jobs, but it does create these jobs. guidance counselors and teachers work for local government. and the idea that we as taxpayers are underwriting the waltons. were not underwriting the education of poor children to generate the kind of mobility that, matt, you said is key. this seems criminal to me. >> so the resources being shifted the to parents and...

Franklin. benjamin franklin is not closing, but it would be merging two more schools next year. the classes are going to be overcrowded. the teachers wont be able to teach. we dont even have the right resources, the books and computers and stuff like that. we dont have that. >> youre a junior. what are your plans after high school? are you thinking about going to college? >> yes, i want to go to college. i want to succeed in life. we need the schools to stay open. >> do you feel like youve gotte...

Student activists staged a massive walkout in philadelphia. they were protesting planned cuts. looks a lot like the students have their priorities straight. if only the adults could meet them halfway. at the table, doug wilder, former democratic governor of virginia. alice kel kenny, reporter for the nation who has been covering the chicago school closings. daniel denver at the philadelphia city paper writing about the protests in philly and a junior at benjamin franklin high school in philadelp...

Using polident on a daily basis will make sure that you are as confident as you can be in that denture. >> this beak as i was reading the "atlantic" one passage jumped out at me. it is a piece from daniel denver examining the trayvon martin case and publicized and the less jude kated cases of young black men. denver writes that it takes a remarkable degree of excess to spark public anger, and even then spectacularly excessive force does not guarantee a widespread public response or ultimately ju...

turn this week himself with the first name check of the man he will likely be facing off against come november. >> one of my potential opponents governor romney has said that he hopes that a similar version of this plan from last year would be introduced as a bill on day one of his presidency. he said he is supportive of the new budget, and he ven called it marvelous, which is a word that you dont often hear when it comes to describing a budget. >> in other words, mitt romney, game-on!...

one of his presidency. he said he is supportive of the new budget, and he ven called it marvelous, which is a word that you dont often hear when it comes to describing a budget. >> in other words, mitt romney, game-on! and i suspect that former governor mitt romney is glad that the turn has arrived. the nominating contest for the last few months was unfamiliar for him, and social issues are shaky ground for him and now he can find more sure footing on the territory and the jobs and the...

That big rally and march. it seems that they have just left all of that in place here. again, its unclear specifically what thats for. but it seems to be mostly for containment. in terms of clashes with the police, there were some minor scuffles yesterday after that rally and march took place. dcpi, the public information arm of the nypd tells us that they made 23 arrests. most were disorderly conduct. if you put that in the grand scheme of things, 23 arrests when thousands of people came out, t...

Assembling there? >> yes. on tuesday night, more than a thousand people packed into a church in center city philly and planned it. they decided on city hall. not to protest against city hall but because its kind of the central point in the city. so far, mayor michael nutter has said that he is sympathetic to the protesters demands and is eager to work with them. were hopeful that we wont see the police violence that weve seen in new york. >> all right. daniel, denvir are salon.com. coming up, il...