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But it's not just in chicago. it's a nationwide attack. >> where is your mayor rahm emanuel? where is the former chief of staff of the obama administration? where is rahm emanuel on this? is he anti-teacher? >> absolutely. he's been clearly anti-teacher from the beginning. he came in, he went to springfield to try to take our collective bargaining rights away. he made it so that it would be 75%. it would take our union to strike. he was adamant about us not being able to strike. yesterday he goes on "meet the press" and says we're going to have performance pay. it's hard to have performance pa...

Been vilified. but it's not just in chicago. it's a nationwide attack. >> where is your mayor rahm emanuel? where is the former chief of staff of the obama administration? where is rahm emanuel on this? is he anti-teacher? >> absolutely. he's been clearly anti-teacher from the beginning. he came in, he went to springfield to try to take our collective bargaining rights away. he made it so that it would be 75%. it would take our union to strike. he was adamant about us not being able to strike. yesterday he goes on "meet the press" and says we're going to have performance pay. it's hard to have...

Reality? and how do you think you've done it? >> well, first of all, thanks for the question. i think that i'm proud, just to take a look at chicago this week. you have the second largest marathon, 37,000 runners. you have ideas week. we just had a major international dance festival. two weeks from now the humanities festival. now, i believe in government, and what i've been doing from day one is reforming it to better serve the taxpayers of the city of chicago. we have it now with our educational system. step one, we are going to have the longest school-day and school year in the country from...

Step two, where other cities and states are cutting back on early childhood, 6,000 more kids in the city of chicago will go to full kindergarten. step three, we have the first accountability from the corporate suite in the school system all the way to the classroom. everybody will be on performance pay, including principals, teachers, and the ceo of the school system. and it's the first time anywhere in the country a school system has accountability. third zsh -- second, safe streets. we've taken about 1,000 officers, from clerical positions, administrative position, unaccountable operations a...

Country, and there are some really good examples. number two, on the issue of let's call it differenttial pay. and some said it didn't work. a lot of other places have tried, fairfax county, other places, and most of these individual performance pay plans don't work to actually move the agenda. what does work is actually paying additional money for skills and knowledge. so if you want -- like what we did with the chancellors. pay people for additional time and to use that time. >> what about a longer school day? >> the place that i talked about in terms of the edwards school is a longer school...