Course, were covering the possible teacher strike today. A short time ago all of the students got out of school here. Teachers and students obviously going about their business and everyone hoping that this strike never happens. [ cheers and applause ] reporter it was the first day of school in cleveland and there was all the usual excitement. Melissa scotts 8yearold daughter loved her teacher especially. Oh, it was beautiful. She loved it. She had a very good day. Denise teacher strike could be looming in the next several days. The big Sticking Point really is around evaluations and how that is fair for our members. Denise there have been a lot of broken promises in something called the cleveland plan was crafted in the last contract. Were not looking at changes state law. It mandates that you use whats called value added. Evaluate teachers. Were simply not asking that they be eliminated because thats in the state law. What were asking to do is make them fairer by putting the weightin
Harvey Rice and Jackie Cole are authors of "Flight of the Bon Monks: War, Persecution and the Salvation of Tibet’s Oldest Religion." which details the harrowing escape of the Bon monks from Chinese persecution, oppression and occupation of Tibet. Harvey Rice spent 18 years as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, where he covered the 2003 Gulf War from Qatar, and was part of
'The site of the concentration camp drifted as the nomads followed their herds of sheep, yaks and ponies grazing from one area to the next until it was more than a day’s walk from Tenzin’s tent.'