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When you see them -- i'm an english teacher and a public speaking teacher. when i see them have success in terms of writing clearly, in terms of becoming better readers, in terms of becoming better communicators, it just makes me so happy. i love working with students one-on-one. i love that individual attention that, you know, where i can work with them and really see their minds working. i truly believe, one thing i love about maury is we have students from all different types of walks of life, every sort of background, and i believe that every one of those children can be successful. every ...

Welcome back to the ed show. all across america our students and teachers are being asked to do more with less. that seems to be going around this country. doesn't it? here in my hometown in norfolk, virginia, things simply are no different. norfolk public schools serve 31,000 students but after republican governor bob mcdonald cut state education funding it's been difficult to make ends meet. just about every district in the state. last year the school district here had to lay up nearly 400 of the men and women who helped norfolk students get their education that they need. and there's no rel...

I'm not really sure who has the public will. i mean that's the difficult thing i think for being outside wisconsin right now. you had a lot of republicans voted in this last go-round so are the people supporting this? do they realize we have to close this budget gap somehow and we're willing to take whatever action? it's estimate -- it's pretty sticky, i'm not so sure you could say it was impractical or possible to contact the democratic senators and bring them back in for this. >> i want to say there's a lot of hyperventilating going on and talk about attack on workers' rights. wisconsin join...

That is actually happening in some places. look what they are trying to do in michigan. rick snyder proposed a tax increase. michigan has a budget problem. he is going to do the responsible thing. he is going to raise taxes. he is going to raise taxes on seniors and on poor people. $1.7 billion in tax hikes for michigan seniors and michigan's poor people, and for people that want to make tax deductible donation to public universities. sorry, michigan has a budget problem. we have to raise a lot of money from you, poor people, old people, people supporting public schooling, you have to take the...

Spending to address their state's budget short falls. that is actually happening in some places. look what they are trying to do in michigan. rick snyder proposed a tax increase. michigan has a budget problem. he is going to do the responsible thing. he is going to raise taxes. he is going to raise taxes on seniors and on poor people. $1.7 billion in tax hikes for michigan seniors and michigan's poor people, and for people that want to make tax deductible donation to public universities. sorry, michigan has a budget problem. we have to raise a lot of money from you, poor people, old people, pe...