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>> you never want to see teachers fired or applaud that. i think what the president was indicated it you have to have courage if those situations where its simply not work for children, and that school has a long way to go. it has a dropout rate of more than 50%. 7% of students are at grade level in math. 93% are not. and so that community has to work together. and as of today, the union and the management are back at the local level, back to committed to bargain together. week that is very, ver...

Indicated it you have to have courage if those situations where its simply not work for children, and that school has a long way to go. it has a dropout rate of more than 50%. 7% of students are at grade level in math. 93% are not. and so that community has to work together. and as of today, the union and the management are back at the local level, back to committed to bargain together. week that is very, very important. those decisions have to be made at local level. but what the president and ...

Above grade level and 95% go on to graduate high school. students here come with no special advantages. half live below the poverty line. fourth grader kaitlyn rogers recently transferred from public school to cornerstone. >> at my old school, nobody really cared. they fell asleep in the classroom. >> reporter: at cornerstone students, teachers, and parents care enough that the school year is 11 months long. >> yeah, only get one month of summer vacation. >> reporter: does that bother you? >> no...

Enrollment and massive debt and some of the highest dropout numbers in the country. its not all bad in the citys classrooms. alan chernoff is looking at the group of schools that are actually getting it right. >> reporter: violin lessons for everyone begin in third grade. mandarin chinese is mandatory beginning in kindergarten and computer challenges reinforce whats taught in the classroom. cornerstone schools, one private and two charter schools part of the public system are overachievers, stud...

♪ ♪ >> reporter: violin lessons for everyone begin in third grade. mandarin chinese is mandatory beginning in kindergarten and individualized computer challenges reinforce whats taught in a classroom. in a city plagued with academic underachievement, cornerstone schools one prief and the two charter schools that are pat of the public system are over achievers. students on average test a year above grade level and 95% go on to graduate high school. students here come with no special advantage...

Little reward for success. we think we can turn that on its head and learn so much from the highly successful schools. >> so you are getting a lot of pushback from teachers, particularly the teachers union. i want to talk about that in just a second. first, let me ask you about something more specific. president obama just applauded the recent decision to fire an entire teacher faculty from an underperforming school. this is in rhode island. its a story weve been following closely on the show. a...

College and career ready standards for every child. reward success and growth. many show educators have the flexibility they need to do a great job educator. we have to raise the bar and have a well rounded curriculum and unprecedented investment in education as part of the presidents plan. >> the goal is the original goal in no child left behind was to have everyone reading at grade level by the year 2014. now you want to have them prepared for either college or career when they graduate high s...

In washington? we have been talking about health care the past year, but of course, education now taking center stage in d.c., right? >> sure, dave, a bit of a switch. tomorrow, president obama will spend the sweeping new education plan to congress. if he gets his way, no child left behind will be out the window and the measure of success for 100,000 public schools will be completely rewritten. the current law says all students have to perform at grade level. more than a third of schools is fail...

Over the years, so rather than ending up using a scalpel to do this, piece by piece, now theyve got to take it by an axe. >> im glad you moade that poin that so many students will have to be packed into other schools and classrooms will be overcrowded. people are saying no, poo this will fill up some classes that were half full in the first place. another point, i was shocked to read, less than a third of the elementary kids in this district were reading at grade level and the scores, the testin...

Teachers who arent educating the kids but they cant be fired because of the unions? >> this idea of higher standards, both national unions are absolutely behind that effort. theyre supporting that. youve seen the head of the aft say they dont want to protect teachers who arent making it. the majority of teachers are working extraordinarily hard. teacher evaluation systems in our country are broken. we need to reward great teachers, help those in the middle improve and those at the bottom where i...