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A parent complained about the Black girl from the Honowai Elementary School, who made an "offensive drawing" of the classmate bullying her.

From a state that basically removes many of those iron union protections. >> right. >> the unions have been livid. they lost 30% of members in michigan and wisconsin and school choice and charter schools allow parents to make choices to do education the way they want. oh, my gosh -- >> im a little worried here about one thing. you tell me if you agree that school reforms, school choice has been for a large period of time bipartisan. i mean, president was for charters, at least he said he was, bi...

Down and dont forget she comes from a state that basically removes many of those iron union protections. >> right. >> the unions have been livid. they lost 30% of members in michigan and wisconsin and school choice and charter schools allow parents to make choices to do education the way they want. oh, my gosh -- >> im a little worried here about one thing. you tell me if you agree that school reforms, school choice has been for a large period of time bipartisan. i mean, president was for charte...

This development. if people want to help, what do they do here? susie, what do you think? >> well, one thing -- one other thing i wanted to say, don, is the money, you know, this is not -- it doesnt work in an election cycle. thats what i partly think is a huge problem here. its going to take 15 years to show that this works and that it matters. and thats not very interesting to the politicians. you know, and thats a sad statement, but its true. we are -- you know, there are all these great peop...

Moment. >> good for them. >> heres how come they won. the school has gone from a graduation rate of just over 50% a few years ago to a graduation rate of more than 80% last year. the president by the year 2020 has a challenge, he would like the u.s. to have the best graduation rates in the world. really pushing on schools to figure out way to do that. >> tennessee school reforms have been among the nations best. one of those states that got that race for the top money. >> success story. >> one o...

Wholeheartedly endorsed that, harken couldnt get any republican votes and senate passed without that and over in the house, representative obi said maybe if i cut the amount i can bring some republicans on board and find offsets. >> its just he targeted school reforms that the white house cared about. >> why would he do that. why would he target-- >> something about the reform instincts of the democrats. yes, theyre lacking somewhat, i mean, the idea that this is the only place you can find to c...

Wholeheartedly endorsed that, harken couldnt get any republican votes and senate passed without that and over in the house, representative obi said maybe if i cut the amount i can bring some republicans on board and find offsets. >> its just he targeted school reforms that the white house cared about. >> why would he do that. why would he target-- >> something about the reform instincts of the democrats. yes, theyre lacking somewhat, i mean, the idea that this is the only place you can find to c...