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Would mean that everyone who sought gainful employment would get it and if they dont get it, unemployment benefits certainly higher education and a poverty safety net, especially for homemakers. we dont value them and so if they are taking care of children at home, i think its very important that we provide resources for that. >> bill: okay. let me stop you there. you believe that the government should pay everybodys health care cost? all 320 million of us? >> well, i think we, the people, who p...

Other statistics that were really shocking including the low percentage of even though who do graduate who go on to get a college degree, but heres another one, and i think of all the numbers i saw in this report, this one was perhaps the most disturbing, its the eighth grade reading stores that measure whos reading at highest levels. the highest number for black hails the highest was 15% in kentucky and new jersey, the lowest, 5% in mississippi and nevada. only 5% of eighth grade black boys wer...

Insisting these celebrations will be very low key to avoid sparking outrage again. however, some of what theyre planning involves young people wearing the same kind of white baseball caps that megrahi wore when released and its the holy month of ramadan so gadhafis son will be visiting megrahis home to pay for the food and drinks guests will be having on the day after the day of fasting. >> nbcs tazeen ahmed in london, thanks much. weve been covering americas education crisis all week and toda...

Remarkable feat, despite the fact that many students interseed three grades below grade level. >> how many kids are graduating? >> we have 100% of our students who are graduated. >> reporter: and how many are going on to college? >> 100%. >> reporter: how do they do it? tough love, hard work and teacher who is give more. >> they may be facing, some of our children, abandonment, living with other family members, maybe living in single family homes. >> reporter: with three meals a day, this is a b...

But its absolutely right that there has to be reform of the education system. that is something obama is pushing. >> can you reform the teachers union? can you demonize the teachers union the way it gets demonized and still save the great teachers, save the integrity the teachers union created preventing the political patronage that was so popular before this? can you move some place new without going back to some place weve already been that we dont want to go back to? >> well, i think you can ...

D.c. this is a system where 8% of 8th graders were performing at grade level en masse. despite the fact that the district was spending $14,000 per kid which is more than double the national average. >> so the system, the political system was ready to change and bill, there are a lot of districts around the country where the schools are-- maybe not quite as bad, but are really awful and theyve not been able to do this. what makes her and washington different. >> well, id say i agree with brother ...

Was fired for performance at d.c. this is a system where 8% of 8th graders were performing at grade level en masse. despite the fact that the district was spending $14,000 per kid which is more than double the national average. >> so the system, the political system was ready to change and bill, there are a lot of districts around the country where the schools are-- maybe not quite as bad, but are really awful and theyve not been able to do this. what makes her and washington different. >> well,...

Screwed it you have, the media. the superintendent of schools said -- this is a quote. when you talk about the condom policy. she says the media so badly misrepresented by the media. it says condoms will be available upon request to provincetown students. and it sets no minimum age or grade level for students to ask for receive condoms and it werent be overruled by the parents. the school committee voted unanimously for keeping this wording open-ended because the onset of sexual activity was dif...

Grade level and keep them on grade level. we as the adults, we have to take responsibility and accountability. in the end this work is too important to let our children fail. we can accept no failure. in my organization we just dont accept failure. if the kids arent learning its our fault as adults which means we have to do something different. i think thats how we have to approach this problem across america. >> what about teaching, what about the teachers and their accountability? >> teaching ...

Dysfunctional school district in the country where only 8% of our eighth graders were on grade level in mathematics, if you can believe that. 8%. if you were to have looked at the performance evaluations of the adults in the system at that time what you would have seen is that 95% of them were rated as doing an excellent job. >> and the kids were getting nowhere. >> the kids -- it was absolutely dismal results for the children. >> youve improved the results. >> we have. we only have two years of...