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Gran grant. >> $# 00 million! >> yes. >> and joining me now is the former washington post correspondent and now author of "the prize" and who is in charge of the american schools. as you sit down, we were both recalling that moment, and everybody applauded, $# # 00 millio -- $100 million, and this is fantastic and it is going to turn it around. what happened? >> it has not turned around and they have doubled the number of students in the newark school, and the charter cools outperformed the publ...

Mistakes and make it better? >> first we have to look at transformational education. we still havent had the conversation in this country about what educational access looks like for everybody. >> what does that mean? >> that means high quality schooling regardless of the zip code. it means young people have the access to skill set, that their minds are being developed to compete. we dont have that high educational access. your zip code determines the level of education you receive. and thats si...

School, harlem central, weve had these kids since kindergarten. theyre amazing children. i was with them yesterday. he has announced that this school is closing down. >> bill de blasio, the mayor of new york, wants to shut down the highest performing school when it comes to math, who are fifth graders? >> its not that he wants to. he did. he announced thursday afternoon that those kids would be educationally homeless. >> de blasio said this in the campaign, talking about she has to be stop being...

Rapidly. thats the first take away, the second take away, this is not a problem with poor children or children who grew up in deprived environments, this is a problem across the board in america. our highest performing kids are not remotely getting the results that other countries are getting. were losing by two to one at the top of this challenge as well as at every other level below it. its no longer acceptable. we really need to change, fareed, and we need to change quickly and dramatically. ...

That we are striving for and trying to make sure that our young people are prepared. i think teacher evaluation has to include student performance. and working with a poor performing school in new york city, one of the frustrations expressed by the principal was that there was a particular set of teachers that would just say, im teaching these materials and if the students dont get it, ill going to fail them. the job of the teacher is to make sure that you are nurturing each individual student a...

Use. and they are under resourced. i would argue that many of those buildings have not made warm, safe and dry for our children. to rel agate, those students in those schools, its not something that we want to happen. we want to make sure that our children move to a higher performing school with the resources that teachers need and the tools they need to be successful. >> if you dont enough students to fill the schools, and that means it will affect staff and teachers, and are you letting the te...

Many were transferred from a failing school to another failing school. >> whats different this time, i guaranteed that no child will go to a school thats lesser performing than the current school they are in. of the 54 schools we are proposing to the board for consolidation, the students will go to a school that is higher performing. to go to a lesser performing school, it would defeat the purpose. >> historically, thats what has happened. im sorry. go ahead. >> thats the difference with this pr...

Are providing support for it, but the community is up in arms over the closing of the school that was a high performing school, and prize winning school, and completely rebuilt after hurricane katrina and shiny new facility, and so we will still see it -- >> it was closed? >> it was closed on the protexturally for the reason of the declining populations after katrina meant they had to consolidate schools, and where did nthey consolidate but to th white community school. and at the center for jus...

Behind. >> the clarification is that unions like yours serve teachers, not students. >> if you look at our history, we have been out in the forefront of making sure that every student gets the kind of education they deserve. weve done incredible job focusing on our lowest performing school in which the national education soes calls our priority schools, to make sure that the adults in the building, the parents in the community, the administrators and the policymakers are all coming together to p...

The contract we passed, which was groundbreaking could be a model for the rest of the country and were excited to talk, you know, across the nation about it. >> whats the most important part of that model you laid out there? >> i think its exactly what mika was saying, its a contract that is focused on kids and student achievement first. so it priority sizes the performance and effectiveness of teachers above their seniority -- >> how do you do that in, lets say, really difficult districts with ...