By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. Brangham good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im William Brangham in for hari sreenivasan. We begin with a major legal victory for ousted egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. An Egyptian Court today dismissed charges that mubarak was responsible for killing hundreds of demonstrators during the arab spring uprising in 2011. The 86yearold appeared in court on a stretcher. The courtroom erupted in cheers when the verdict was read. Mubarak and his two sons were also acquitted of corruption charges. The verdict means mubarak could go free for the First Time Since he was removed from office three years ago. Hes also approaching th
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. Brangham good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im William Brangham in for hari sreenivasan. We begin with a major legal victory for ousted egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. An Egyptian Court today dismissed charges that mubarak was responsible for killing hundreds of demonstrators during the arab spring uprising in 2011. The 86yearold appeared in court on a stretcher. The courtroom erupted in cheers when the verdict was read. Mubarak and his two sons were also acquitted of corruption charges. The verdict means mubarak could go free for the First Time Since he was removed from office three years ago. Hes also approaching th
It is very hard to see which ones are right. The Polling Institute themselves say we have the best methodology but it is hard to assess them. What we usually do is the average. Doesnt mean the average is right but it gives us the best you. If lot of polls from different institutions in the same direction we understand what is happening. In that period the question was agreed here. The yes and no vote, taking out from all these polls, in 2013, nothing happened. About 61 or 62 , the opposite, in the end of 201314 when we saw the biggest shift of 3 to 4 , and it was all yes. The subsequent months, there was very Little Movement involving april, may, not much happened, not very much. Much more flat process. In july and august we saw a bit of an increase most crucially this is the view of all the polls that have been conducted in august, nine polls conducted in august. It looks like a lot of volatility but that is the difference between the Polling Institutes. Remember some polls closed to
M announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. As schools all over america reopen for the fall, teachers, policymakers and administrators are caught in what seems like a neverending battle over how he educate our children, every decision from common core standards, generation equally passionate count argument. Joining us tonight dr. Diane ravitch profess at new york university, author of 25 books on education and advised both president george h. Bush and bill clinton on education policies. Diane ravitch, good have you back on this program from new york. Wonderful to be with you, tavis. Let me start by asking, i want to talk to dr. Deasy the head of the l. A. School district in just a second more than a second but later on this program. I want to start by asking you a question about teacher tenure, dr. Deasy, as you know, was a witness in that case. He spoke for the plaintiff in that case. And what this decision basically said is that were going t
A lesson in school. That will also help the process move faster. Ok. Thank you. Ok. Thank you. I think we have worked extensively with community groups, all of that, but one of the things on the other side of this is, from all the voter Interest Groups, political parties, media outlets, blogosphere bloggers now before we get to the next round of elections, tried to work out something so we can get the Accurate Information out to your voters. That is the goal of the Election Officials, get them all the information they need. One of the most significant problems was unusual reports that were inaccurate that had this Ripple Effect throughout the county that caused huge problems throughout the election. I urge everyone to start working those relationships out now. Get out the information. We have less and less and less information for voters, for media, for everyone. Build this relationship now. Ok. I want to take all little personal liberty here. I hope when i get back to work i will not