no. there is more money in being a failing school system. you have to close us down. we re doing our job for half the money, and. john: does not have the money if you give 6,000 some for per student in the district is seven dozen. but all the money, federal money, special-education, they get up 14,000. john: stay with us. the audience will have a chance to question you later. now that the blood as he knew, it is i refer more. wants to swallow the people would take care of kids outside of school. and once more money spent on their salaries for hiring, even though some already employ more bureaucrats and teachers. is your stay one of them? with state is worse? next. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? e carful?
often the attention paid to the single influential individual obscures what it really takes to create systemic change. the trap we sometimes fall into when we believe that reverend martin luther king jr. was more important than the movement that he led or act as though president franklin roosevelt was the sole architect of the new deal rather than an executive who worked along and in tan dem with a vigorous congress. that it is true in politics, but the thing is it s also true in problem solving. especially in something like education reform. we still seem to be hoping that there is one silver bullet teacher out there who has the antidote to our failing school system, but does overreliance on that heroic panacea get in the way of sustainable education reform? instead of saving metropolis, we all end up waiting on superman. joining my panel is america s most wanted educator himself, dr. steve perry, host of tv one s save my son, and teacher
the white house today rolled out the program to encourage new teachers that will give the top 50 teachers a $20,000 on top of their salary in exchange for a commitment to the profession. the president hopes to expand the program to 10,000 teaches. good start to the addressing why a large part of the american dream sun reachable for so many, because they start in poor schools. some say there s a way to improve our failing school system and they re going out and doing it. meet debra kenny a mother of three who responded to the death of her husband by quitting her job and starting a school in harlem where grades have been so stellar, president bush visited the school and students have gone on and gone to yale. debra is the ceo of harlem village academies and chronicles her journey in born to rise, a story of children and teachers reaping their highest potential. thank you for having me. why are your teachers successful at getting students
if you are a school why try to be better? bob: i think vouchers for schools that failed is a good idea. it has happened in a lot of places. most places they use vouchers in inner city school. with a history of failure. if you make everybody available for vouchers it hurts the public school system. andrea: why? eric: or make it better. bob: i m not sure. andrea: if the school district depended on the money and salaries you can bet that school would up the game to get that money. bob: most schools are good cools. taking the best students away from them unless they re in a failing school system. if you watch d.v., take them out of the school that fail. there are a lot of schools to go to. they put the emphasis on
if you are a school why try to be better? bob: i think vouchers for schools that failed is a good idea. it has happened in a lot of places. most places they use vouchers in inner city school. with a history of failure. if you make everybody available for vouchers it hurts the public school system. andrea: why? eric: or make it better. bob: i m not sure. andrea: if the school district depended on the money and salaries you can bet that school would up the game to get that money. bob: most schools are good cools. taking the best students away from them unless they re in a failing school system. if you watch d.v., take them out of the school that fail. there are a lot of schools to go to. they put the emphasis on