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Budget. we're broke. we are broke in this state. we're broke. you really can't negotiate when you don't have money to negotiate. >> walker talks a good game on camera but he is trying to cut a deal behind closed doors. a new development. this afternoon e-mails between governor walker's aides and the wisconsin 14 were released to the milwaukee journal sentinel. the governor's office e-mailed a series of concessions to democratic senator bob jauch on sunday night. they include a concession to allow union bargaining over certain economic issues including mandatory overtime, performance bonuses, h...

I'm sure you spoke to a lot of public workers there. did they feel this was an important examination of how to fix our problems? did they feel it was a union story? or is this a teacher story or all of those things? >> i think it is all of those things, you know. talking to people who were there. it wasn't so much about the benefits, it wasn't about the financial impact. it was about getting rid of collective bargaining and getting rid of the right to have a say in working conditions and classroom size and things like that. there are a lot students and teachers who feel that education is under...

Fortunate to be attending our schools and we've had situations where they have groomed other students and in other case last year in seattle sexually assaulted a developmentally disabled parents without the parents knowing they had to information. >> uma: but do the school officials have the information? >> school has the information and what the school can do is notify teachers because of classroom size, you know, teachers can't watch for everything. and parents should have that information, it's knowledge of the very powerful school, especially dealing with the level three or level two sex o...

Reluctantly crouched at the starting line. engines pumping and thumping in time. the green light flashes. >> detroit may have to close down half of their public schools. can you imagine? half of their public schools. classroom size. that means we'll go from 32 students for one teacher to 62. >> yes, it will double from 32 to 62. and then how will the children learn math? >> time now to take a look at morning papers. "miami herald." at least four people have filed human rights abuse claims in haitian courts against jean-claude baby doc duvalier. officials for the former

City, public schools are certainly not palted. here is what i say. i'll leave the question whether to give rid of the department of ed to people with bigger sledgehammers than me. it becomes a political issue. what i do is hopefully the opposite of politics. what i know, however, is the idea of having the federal government setting education policies way down the line seems to not be a good idea. as you talk about here. when we look at test scores and r.o.i.s, you think like a business person look at r. oi r.o.i. and we are spending more money and getting less output. if you ask a lot of educa...