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Like khan academy exist. so the lab school that we developed is to be one of those. if you think about those who would send their children that most children experience in terms of education, it is pretty much one type of school system. good schools and bad schools but do you think theres something wrong with the whole system, something more fundamental. what is wrong with the way we think about education in america? >> what happened in traditional schools for the last 200 years including once w...

On their faculty. isnt that right? yes. but, you are aware that a school you just voted to close a few months ago had zero art teachers on its faculty in 2011, isnt that right? yes. your students also receive music education from day one at the lab school. isnt that true? yes. your students had physical education class every day at the lab school. isnt that right? >> yes. your students had libraries, beautiful libraries to study, research and right. isnt that true? yes. you are aware, maam, as w...

Better libraries for the lab school. as they know, they are important things for a childs education. two years ago, almost to the day, a group of mexican american mothers in the pillson neighborhood started a sit-in that lasted 47 days because they were trying to get a library for their kids grade school. they were threatened with the rest during a sit-in. the head of chicago public schools threatened to turn, in fact, did turn the heat off in the building they occupied as temperatures got cold ...

The teachers. i think if he would have handled this better, he could have avoided this confrontation. >> it feels like the politics, he is sort of a tough guy and tough to deal with. it is part of why he was the chief of staff. it also feels like there is somehow a bipartisan agreement at this point that unions are bad for schools, that you have got to break the unions in order to get school reform and that somehow teachers are uninterested in and, by the way, that the best way to assess whether...

A great school. the head of the lab school said at the beginning of the strike, believe in testing. i dont believe in these kind of tests for our children. his own kids dont have to work for that. >> this is the point. ive been at elite, you taught at elite universities, princeton and others, that have gone away from using s.a.t.s for their entrance requirements. this he recognize that the main thing that standardized tests tell us is about the educational and economic situation of the family. i...

that prompts a change in perspective. not wanting to somehow explain to your child why somebody should be treated differently when it comes to the eyes of the law. youve got joe biden, arnie duncan coming out for gay marriage. did all of this force the presidents hand. >> its sort of sped up the timeline, but they insist that the president had already made up his mind on this issue a couple of months ago, after as you pointed out, in that sound bite we just heard talking to family memb...

Him. >> i was being given an award by the lab school in washington and it was an annual award that they give -- im dyslexic and they give it to somebody who has achieved. and i suppose you get -- like to have red olson give me the award. >> im very honored to be here with my colleague david boies because he is the best. i can hardly talk about it because it was such an emotional event. that gesture of david asking me to be with him on the stand receiving that award in front of the 2,000, 3,000 p...