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District incorporated. so any time you siphon away money from public schools, when you take away what weve already taken away and give it to private schools, we have a real issue with our public school system. >> you know, senator taylor, what ive noticed is that every time they get one charter school that does better than a public school they try to make that the conversation. oh, charter schools, they outperform the public schools, weve got to keep going in this direction. why do you think the...

Is going to be very difficult if we continue this everybodys in their separate corners. weve got to talk about whats going to work for our kids to get us the quality education where outcomes are working and we need to start doing those things across the board and thats not happening. >> well, i think youve just described that theres a very different learning environment in an inner city versus the rural areas of wisconsin and i think its the same way in every state in america. >> you know someth...

Districts in wisconsin and are charter schools pushing that? >> well, across the board it really is the funding formula that we use in wisconsin. so, for example, ed, a kid thats in a public school, we might get about 10,000 to 15,000 depending on who you ask for that kid. in a charter school, about $8,000. in a voucher school about $7,000. well that $7,000 and $8,000 difference from the charter and the voucher, it goes back in a pot that all the other districts benefit from -- except my distric...

Milwaukee, senator taylor. how would you turn around those -- how would you turn around those test scores and performance that you just talked about. >> i think we need to create a reading program across the board that is not only until our after school programs but in every component of the curriculum. we have to put -- >> thats money. >> you could argue that its money, ed, but some of those things are not. some of those things is just getting a math teacher to engage reading differently. for e...

Cant get enough of private sizing everything they can get their hands on. now, my position on this is that i think that this is the big mission that they want to privatize all of education and theyre going to take what they can get early on. senator, scott walker has been pushing for a bill which would force low performing public schools to be closed or to turn them into independent charter schools. correct this for me, what is unfolding here? because i think that this is a major push to slam th...

can demonstrate. >> thats your assumption. >> he says definitely not a whitewash. >> i told them to find the truth no matter where it led. >> do you believe him? >> stop. you have to get the facts right if youre going to ask me a question. good to have you with us tonight, folks, thanks for watching. new jersey governor chris christie is, i guess you could say, in full whitewash mode over the bridgegate scandal. after his offices internal investigation cleared him of any wrongdoing, ...

over every rock that they were able to get to in order to get to the bottom of what hatched. >> the report was exhaustive except it failed to talk to many of the key players in the scandal, including david samson, the chairman of the agency overseeing the george washington bridge. at todays press conference, the governor said samson was resigning. >> i received a call from david samson who informed me that after reviewing the master report, that he completely supports the recommendatio...

but buried deep inside the report is this jaw-dropping news. christie was allegedly told about the lane closures while they were happening. if true, this account directly contradicts the governors public statements on when he knew. the report says that david wildstein, the port authority official who oversaw the closures informed christie about it at a september 11th memorial while the closings were under way. that seems like a big deal, right, that the governor knew of the massive tra...

>> does this end here? >> there are other investigations that will make findings after we are done. >> this is over. >> finished yet, guys? >> you were widely thought of as a strong presidential contender. >> mm-hmm. >> is it something you still think about? >> sure. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. well start with a number tonight because its a number that very few people in this country thought we were going to reach. the breaking news at this hour is ...

To go to november for five million people, what can be done? >> youre absolutely right, ed. the republicans callously cut off unemployment insurance benefits for two million people at the end of last year, right in the midst of the holidays and beyond how callous and inhumane that was, it was penny wise and pound foolish. think about the group of people that lost those benefits. beyond that, were leaving them in much more significant desperate financial straits than not having a job was to begin...