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Students will have to be more diligent. the obama add minute vegas is saying lets put $4.3 billion in encouraging states to increase the standards, race to the top. link teacher pay to student performance. insist there be a higher number of students going into charter schools. up the ante on charter schools. also, increase the standards. instead of say, were going to lower the standards that our children can get for an a, were going to make them higher. >> right. >> because its unfair to kids to...

To student performance. some are concerned. does that blame punish teachers for what has happened in the classrooms. others are saying, like anything else, you have to have accountability in those classrooms. the president is saying, lets do it now. >> thanks very much, rehema. well keep her here and watch the president. while were waiting for him, the other big story were watching today is, of course, immigration. the first legal battle decided, of course, but the war is far from over as ariz...

>> i know some argue that as we emerge from a recession, my administration should focus solely on economic issues. education is an economic issue. if not the economic issue of our time. >> that was president obama speaking a short time ago at the national urban league on education reform and during that speech, the president acknowledged the controversy over his race to the top initiative, which among other things, links teacher pay to student performance. rehema ellis covers the education beat ...

Money. this $3.5 million that remains in this package for schools is that it requires states increase the number of charter schools. some say, well, when you do that, you take some of the best and brightest kids out of the public school system and put them in the charter schools and youre also taking money from the public schools. these are public charter schools, even though theyre not bound by the same regulations and rules that the public schools are bound by. so, they object to that on that ...

On student performance and close or improve failing schools. tough requirements and many states are saying theyre willing to do that in order to get some of this money. is a van? >> all right. nbcs rehema ellis, watching the speech later this morning, thanks for your report. lets do the trivia and the question is, which state had active oil riggs on the state capitol grounds as recently as 1989? answer is oklahoma. and if chuck would be here, he would be singing. coming up, chuck is gone so ...

Working for black kids and hispanic kids and native american kids across this country is the status quo. >> rehema ellis covers education for nbc news and joins us in the studio to talk about this. explain to us why some civil rights groups are a little angry at the president? >> frankly theyre concern that the presidents insistence and the race to the top criteria that these states that will get some of this money have to agree to certain things, such as an increase in the number of charter sch...

2009, the national education association, and the american federation of teachers gave 126 million dollars to the democratic party. 95% of their contributions go to the democratic party. you could argue that what david is doing is basically recycling campaign contributions, right, because a percentage of those dues get straight into the political funds of these, of these unions. >> what the unions are arguing, here, is that without this money there will be be massive teacher layoffs, we have to ...

2009, the national education association, and the american federation of teachers gave 126 million dollars to the democratic party. 95% of their contributions go to the democratic party. you could argue that what david is doing is basically recycling campaign contributions, right, because a percentage of those dues get straight into the political funds of these, of these unions. >> what the unions are arguing, here, is that without this money there will be be massive teacher layoffs, we have to ...

Perennial issues that have plagued school districts to date in collective bargaining agree agreements. those are tenure, lockstep pay and seniority. this contract addresses all of those by ensuring that we do not have a system that has teaching as a job for life regardless of performance, that teachers are recognized and rewarded for the incredible work that theyre doing, and that we look at the quality of the teachers and not just how long theyve been in the system. >> but how are you going to ...

Teachers unions in the national push to revamp schools. the move to tie tenure to student performance. lets bring in kate walsh, president on the national council on teacher quality whos for the changes and make your best case for us, why does this need to happen? >> were responding to years of allowing teachers to hold their jobs without any attention to whether or not they were effective in the classroom. so this is a response that was very much needed and very much sought after, the fact that...