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Florida schools will start progress monitoring next year.

But its also something that rattles them up to the polls like mask mandates, vaccine mandates, things around transgender students, what pronouns they should be called, house they should be treated. so its not an education plan per se in the way of thinking about it as an observer and voter, and apparent. its not like that. its more a rally up his supporters in an election that will be overwhelmingly determined by which side gets more of their people out. >> thats not to say its not an issue, obv...

Lisa, i want to start on sort of a meat and potatoes camping question. i followed this race like many national political observers but i havent followed it closely, and im not a virginian. people talk about youngkin and education is being important, but going through the website today, is there an education proposal, or platform plank that is not about the security stuff? is there some version of george w. bushs big, we will do this this and this, high stakes testing, etc, or is it just under th...

So it is not surprising to see a recently proposed republican bill in the north carolina state house announced that it aims to ensure dignity and non-discrimination in schools while putting strict limits on what schools can teach when it comes to race, including a ban on promoting, quote, the belief that the united states is a meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist or was created by members of a particular race or sex for the purpose of oppressing members of another race or sex. huh, the ide...

Kids books of all time, were going on a bear hunt, which, last time i checked, i think it sold more than 8 million copies. youve had time to reflect on something that youve written about and talked about a lot which is, you feel that the education system is failing to inject enough, sort of, fun and engagement with books amongst todays generation of kids. words and books are your lifeblood and it seems you feel that school is failing to make words and books accessible and fun for kids. why and w...

Time, we are going on a bear hunt, which the last time you checked i think it sold more than 8 million copies. you have had time to reflect on something that you have written about and talked about a lot which is, you feel that the education system is failing to inject enough sort of fun and engagement with books amongst todays generation of kids. words and books are your lifeblood and themes you feel that school is failing to make words and books accessible and fun for kids. why and what can be...

Which the last time you checked i think it sold more than 8 million copies. you have had time to reflect on something that you have written about and talked about a lot which is, you feel that the education system is failing to inject enough sort of fun and engagement with books amongst todays generation of kids. words and books are your lifeblood and it seems you feel that school is failing to make words and books accessible and fun for kids. why and what can be done about it? well, i think tha...

Testing, and testing in park he acknowledged his administration had some part in creating. take a listen. >> i believe that in moderation, smart strategic tests can help us measure our kids progress in school. it can help them learn. but i also hear from parents who rightly worry about too much testing. and from teachers who feel so much pressure to teach to a test that it takes the joy out of teaching and learning. both for them and for the students. >> now, the president is not calling for a s...

So much right now, because mitt romney beat barack obama, right? the way the general election polls showed this time in 2012. good luck with that. good luck with that. >> stay with me. >> i hope you bet on those general election polls. >> maria, buck, stay with me. you need a commercial break to calm down. were going to come back and talk about a very important issue to every single kid in america right now, high stakes testing. next, a surprising move made from the white house, the obama admini...

>> it is huge. im going to cheat and take two. >> okay. >> i think number one weve got to reform the criminal justice system. you heard the governor say that they had to build a city in order to save the city of baltimore. imagine instead of using resources and reaction to this challenge and using it proactively and progressive to invest in cities. weve got to reform the criminal justice system and make it less reactionary, less biased less private. i think that will address the immediate need a...