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Articulating these issues. this isnt just a chicago situation. this is a national and international problem we are facing with the privatization. teachers are in the best place -- we are seeing on the local level in chicago, a defining moment and hopefully the beginning, not the ending today at 3:00, the beginning to end corporate education reform. >> to come in on that, the chicago school strike was not just about chicago. its a very important point to reiterate. this conversation is taking pla...

We, in turn, were abandoned by caregivers that would leave without notice. i came home from my business to find my mother locked in her room. the lady moved out without giving notice. i was forced to close my business within two weeks of that event. so, i have never regained what i lost in that transition. my mother has since died, of course, but its something that stays with you. its terribly disruptive. and i mean, it carries over into many constituencies in our society. >> indeed. steve, as y...

Addressed. >> you have 70% of low income schools in need of modernization or repairs. when you are in a learning environment where the roof is leaking its hard to level the playing field to have the same shot of the american dream. >> what about the notion that -- i have noticed this in terms of charters in this city. we cant make a blanket statement about charters, but they are more rigid. they dont allow for the creativity you might see at a lab or experimental school. what, of that notion, cr...

Accord? >> i think they are, to some extent, interchangeable. they both matter. the president got much as he could out of congress. once it was clear he couldnt get anymore, he needed to pivot to plan b and he didnt do that. other things could have been done on housing. >> i want to back up to something that was said about the racialization of the poverty. i think it was gingrich that said if im elected, ill tell black people you dont need food stamps, you need a job, obama is a food stamp presi...

Internal dissenters making noise. something happened that allowed him to consolidate support. i think the message finally got through that were going to continue this limp recovery if the fed doesnt do something. if i were cynical, i would say that bernanke decided the writing is on the wall and the next president has to reappoint him. romney would want tight policy. obama i would want loose policy, although he hasnt said anything about it over the last four years. i think maybe -- >> gary young...

West side of chicago have things hanging over their heads. that is, if they dont get the test scores up, the schools are going to be closed and teachers fired. if you are a principal and you are told you have 45 minutes or an hour a day and heres a small pot of money to do something with it, are you going to start teaching kids how to work a pottery wheel or do more kill and drill testing? on the south and west sides of chicago, im not confident it means additional art and music. >> i think josh...

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Out. mcdonald decide to go do something, cashing in folks say will take the fight out of all businesses in america. find out what that is at the bottom of the hour. first, right here, hundreds of colleges and universities now making money after losing it during a recession. is it time to give some of those profits back to students and their parents by lowering tuition? we debate, you decide, coming up next bob... oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance spee...

Guy captured crooks and people that have committed crimes, whats wrong with that? >> john, whats wrong with that? >> oh, i have major problems with this. for one, he was helping individuals keep money from reaching the government, which is good for the economy. but beyond that -- >> i like that, go ahead. >> you have to look at whistle blowers as modern versions of ambulance chasers. do we really want disgruntled employees to be able to team up with the force of government that has unlimited mon...

University that says in-person voter impersonation on election day which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter i.d. laws is virtually non-existent, only century touch cases over a decade were reported. looks to me like voter suppression, looks to me like ringing in the election. what can a chunch like yours and the organization that you lead do about something like this? >> well, thank you very much. we certainly are trying to make the most out of a very terrible situat...