of civil rights and the federal government s need to step in to protect the civil rights of all americans and he spoke to the exchange that he had with senator harris. he noted that he respected senator harris and heard her and listened to her. what he wanted to make clear to the american people and also the people in the room at the rainbow push labor luncheon was that he did not believe that busing was basically a cure-all for the ills and issues that followed with segregation and to, frankly, address segregation. and that he was a very forceful advocate combatting red lining, of rezoning school districts. he believes he was an advocate of making sure there are good neighborhood schools and what he believes now that he spoke about, again, at the rainbow push labor luncheon, is we have to put forth education policies and have policies that deal with what young people and schools are dealing with now and to ensure that they are able to have successful futures. that s why in his educa
for the folks at home. so just to be clear, then, the vice president had not changed his stance on this issue since the comments he made in the 1970s. to be clear correct? just as the vice president said at the rainbow push coalition, that he believes today we have to deal with we have to deal with the issues and the issues that confront young people today which means good neighborhood schools, which means injecting money into title 1 funds. okay. which means universal pre-k. that s what the vice president believes okay. to be clear, he s always been a champion of civil rights so i think folks are complaining busing and segregation that s fair enough. he has a record. i want to be clear he s never been against he s always been for integration. he has been a forceful, forceful advocate in the united states congress as a okay. united states senator particularly when it comes to voting rights. symone, biden s debate performance reviews were mixed. c
wonderful pick, and what americans are going to hear from her is a message of hope and opportunity as opposed to fear and division. stacey is going to talk about her own life and how she worked her way up. comes from a family of faith leaders and understands the zip code should never determine destiny. understands that health care should be a right for all and not a privilege for a few. understands that we should be making sure that our neighborhood schools provide real opportunity for kids and that we have shared prosperity for everyone, not just prosperity for a few. i can think of no better person to articulate the values of inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every zip code than stacey abrams. bernie sanders apparently can think of someone better, and that is bernie sanders, because he s going to be giving his own rebuttal. what do you make of that when he s sort of he s potentially stepping on stacey abrams? what do you make of that in terms of projecting a unified party
they don t reach an agreement with the school district. no date has been set, pending a fact-finding report. oakland teachers are seeking a 12% raise as well a smaller class sizes. here is oakland education association president keith mitchell. without a very serious proposal by the school board, that addresses smaller class i, more student support, a living wage, keeping our neighborhood schools open, we expect to be answered by the end of the mont. harris: the monies big. they face a $30 million deficit, and it s one of several districts where they have had recent strikes and protests nationwide. just last month, we reported los angeles teachers reached a deal with school officials after a six-day strike. president trump is issuing a new warning to a migrant caravan from central america, as right police in mexico have lined up at the border awaiting the migrant s arrival.
in l.a. right now, it was never about the salary raise. that was always something that the two sides were close on. it was about the paradigm shift to make neighborhood schools important instead of talking about competition testing or all the reasons why you couldn t have a nurse every day in schoolschool s. how do we have the supports that teachers and can kids need so they have a pathway to success in public education and neighborhood public schools. that is what has happened in this agreement. what s happening this afternoon is that people are going back to the classrooms and going back to the schools and going to regional meetings and reading the agreement. it s online right now and they are voting electronically because it is a democratic union and people want to see if the board is voting and the teachers