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Out of free government schools and instead, pay typically as dollar a week so their children can attend private schools likee this one. >> there are six private schools. can you imagine that? small village, six private schools. what we found in my study was that in poor areas like this,t the majority of school children are in private school. and these schools outperform the government schools at a fraction of the teacher cost. >> stossel: in latin america? >> i think anybody who has the money to send their child to a private school in latin america will do it because they knowd that that's the...

Schools that just don't have the resources that other schools have, which puts double the pressure on the teachers to be able to produce the product that's going to score well on the test. do i have that right? >> yes, but in addition is that some teachers who don't teach subjects that are tested will get a school wide value added score. which again, not only do they not have any control over, it's really a big problem. you know how things are in terms of the violence in chicago and what we have been through this past summer. >> so is mayor emanuel putting his agenda in front of the teachers o...

Better and to improve, but also gives us an opportunity to work towards helping children go in a different direction than just test problems. >> but what you have in chicago are neighborhoods that have schools that just don't have the resources that other schools have, which puts double the pressure on the teachers to be able to produce the product that's going to score well on the test. do i have that right? >> yes, but in addition is that some teachers who don't teach subjects that are tested will get a school wide value added score. which again, not only do they not have any control over, i...

Gives us an opportunity to work towards helping children go in a different direction than just test problems. >> but what you have in chicago are neighborhoods that have schools that just don't have the resources that other schools have, which puts double the pressure on the teachers to be able to produce the product that's going to score well on the test. do i have that right? >> yes, but in addition is that some teachers who don't teach subjects that are tested will get a school wide value added score. which again, not only do they not have any control over, it's really a big problem. you kn...

Or something similar. >> gross misconduct. >> teachers unions who push these rules try align their interests with that of the kids. publicly. how does making it impossible to fire a bad teacher help kids? it clearly doesn't. >> 100 million dollars joel klein says in new york city, a year to keep paying teachers who don't teach. that's just the teachers that nobody wants to hire. there's also more money for the so-called rubber rooms, where people -- teachers stay who are accused of some kind of misconduct. >> i think the easiest way to understand this is that we're talking about the teachers u...