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-- negotiations broke down giving 350,000 children a day off for quiet reflection, presumably, in a city where the average teachers salary is over $4 million a year. both sides agree the walkout is not primarily about money. the union initially asked for a 19% raise, and the school board president said the city offered only 16%. the chicago mayor and my racket ball partner romy man -- ram emmanuel said they are about teacher evaluations and the ability to fire teachers. they say the proposed eva...

Profir yerrent in reading there is only a 60 percent graduation rate. and so once again, this comes down to the argument of whether or not states, specifically illnis whether they can afford the pensions. and not that teachers can deserve it but whether or not states can afford or is it more of a ponzi scheme that crumbles down. it is interesting to compare illinois to wisconsin and how scott walker took on the teachers unions there today. they are not it is interesting to point out the differen...

Where money is really not the issue. the biggest issue in this teachers strike by 26,000 instructors involves teacher evaluations. they are objecting to an evaluation system which they say would eventually lead to the elimination to thousands of teaching positions over the course of the next three or four years due to faulty evaluations. they claim they are unfair and based too much on student testing. now, at the same time this all comes on the heels of mayor rahm emanuel, the former white hous...

Ann and i watched those steps together on her parents sofa. like all americans, we went to bed knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. [ cheers and applause ] >> gretchen: ohio senator rob portman will eulogize armstrong. major mid mid breaking his silence in the courtroom. he told a judge that his muslim faith is what requires him to have that beard and that hes not trying to be disrespectful to the court. his hearing has been delayed since a judge ruled his bear...

Qualified forrer the job, and the very, very bottom percent and it is such an eye catching place that it is reasonable that people say, i dont get it, the union is not reforming itself and protecting people at all costs. >> so the focus goes to the bottom. >> and part of it is that you started with what other questions should we be asking, and the first question is not this bad teacher narrative but why is 50% of teachers leave within the first five years and we are losing way, way more good tea...

♪ you give love a bad name >> oh, the jerseys coming out this morning. newark mayor cory booker joins our panel. you know if you signed up the whole political thing you could coanchor the show. if you decide presidential bid is not that interesting, we would love to have you. >> you dont get love a bad name. >> thank you. see, he flatters me. you guys dont flatter me. you are back. we love having you. youve advised the buchman campaign and romney campaign. ron braun seownstein, youre...

their grown-up children? and whats really driving those gas prices were paying at the pump? were operating fact from fiction. but first, more than 3 million public school teachers head to the country every day in this one. parents usually dont know how their child ranks compared to others until recently. new york citys department of education released ratings for 18,000 of its public school teachers and 217 charter school teachers and 50 special ed teachers. those ratings are based on ...

Seniority and one thats not meeting the grade, and when its time for a layoff, the best teacher in the world is let go just because of seniority. and theres study after study. just a couple weeks ago columbia and harvard economists came out with this 20-year study that was over two and a half million kids, and it said the most critical thing for a childs education is an effective teacher, not demographics, not race, not income status. it was an effective teacher in the classroom. so we know, all...

And what they say is that this new measure in massachusetts requires the school district to base it decisions on, quote, merit and ability which sounds good in theory, but they say those terms are not defined, and that winds up giving too much discretion to the administrators. >> yeah. and, you know, we really want to see that student achievement through a value-ed mod o el be at least 50% of the evaluation. we actually want to make the evaluation system more concrete so it is less arbitrary. so...

>> lets continue as we normally do, okay? >> new teachers are given lots of training and on on-call professional mentor so they have a real chance to succeed. >> heres what i want to do. >> teachers are graded in three different ways. evaluations by a peer up to six times a year, observations by the school principal up to four times a year, and a complex formula that measures their students performance. under the old evaluation system, a whopping 99% of teachers were given a satisfactory rating ...