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>> its important, we certainly are committed to it part of that is a conversation with president obama, that "the today shows" savannah guthrie conducted. i want to play a portion of that about where the political debate is now. >> mitt romney said that president obama has chosen his side in this fight. that you sided with the unions. and another time last spring, he said he cant talk of reform while indulging in groups that block it. >> well, you know, i think governor romney and a numb of folk...

Are committed to it part of that is a conversation with president obama, that "the today shows" savannah guthrie conducted. i want to play a portion of that about where the political debate is now. >> mitt romney said that president obama has chosen his side in this fight. that you sided with the unions. and another time last spring, he said he cant talk of reform while indulging in groups that block it. >> well, you know, i think governor romney and a numb of folks try to politicize the issue a...

Lower rates. make it a better tax climate for everyone, for everyone and make sure that we get people to work. a regulatory climate where small businesses want to thrive and grow. its been the opposite as the president, i would say he tried, but his policies failed. >> let me end on one issue thats important to us as nbc news, thats the issue of education, a big summit were beginning, "education nation" today. >> thank you for doing that. >> its important, we certainly are committed to it part o...

Has become national pastime. i think part of whats important is this is the first time we have seen a teachers union to take a stand against that. i think you also see that when they do, you have parents and students supporting those teachers, which runs counter to everything i think we have been told and everything in this kind of strike that you have seen in the media. so i think it shows that this is the first in the step of fighting back against what has been these kind of scorched earth pol...

Enrichment activities, intellectual and social opportunities. i am seeing him trying to deal with this criminal justice problem by lengthening school days. >> you have hit on something that most commentators have not talked about. he has no answer of this. chicago is also the home of operation cease-fire where ex cons out of prison stop violence in the streets. put some more money into that. that will help stop violence in the streets. this is warehousing kids. i have fallen in love with karen l...

Because that is the role we play. >> and the teacher bashing is take a toll, because i meet teachers all of the time who are thinking of leaving the profession, because there is an obsession right now with increasing the use of high stakes standardized tests to measure teacher evaluation, and even though the research on that shows that they are highly instable and inaccurate and the obsession of getting rid of the low-performing teachers and when you look at the countries with relatively high pe...

Self-described union activist meghan berrent. and we were talking in the break that the fact that no one thinks that the broken system makes sense, and everyone is thinking that we are need reform, but there was a time when i was coming up where we had general a agreement across democrats and republicans and rich and poor that the teachers were underpaid, and we had a belief that the teachers were sort of good folks who were working hard and generally did not make enough, and that is why you bro...

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