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Use. and they are under resourced. i would argue that many of those buildings have not made warm, safe and dry for our children. to rel agate, those students in those schools, it's not something that we want to happen. we want to make sure that our children move to a higher performing school with the resources that teachers need and the tools they need to be successful. >> if you don't enough students to fill the schools, and that means it will affect staff and teachers, and are you letting the teachers go or keeping the teachers employed? >> when we look at the employment in the schools ident...

Many were transferred from a failing school to another failing school. >> what's different this time, i guaranteed that no child will go to a school that's lesser performing than the current school they are in. of the 54 schools we are proposing to the board for consolidation, the students will go to a school that is higher performing. to go to a lesser performing school, it would defeat the purpose. >> historically, that's what has happened. i'm sorry. go ahead. >> that's the difference with this procedure and preface. we recognize and i recognized what happened in the past and we ensure that...

Are providing support for it, but the community is up in arms over the closing of the school that was a high performing school, and prize winning school, and completely rebuilt after hurricane katrina and shiny new facility, and so we will still see it -- >> it was closed? >> it was closed on the protexturally for the reason of the declining populations after katrina meant they had to consolidate schools, and where did nthey consolidate but to th white community school. and at the center for justice, we trying to operate on three levels and just as chris in the delta is ensuring that the peopl...

Behind. >> the clarification is that unions like yours serve teachers, not students. >> if you look at our history, we have been out in the forefront of making sure that every student gets the kind of education they deserve. we've done incredible job focusing on our lowest performing school in which the national education soes calls our priority schools, to make sure that the adults in the building, the parents in the community, the administrators and the policymakers are all coming together to provide the resources that our stupts need. we are the -- you know, these kind of tactics have been ...

The contract we passed, which was groundbreaking could be a model for the rest of the country and we're excited to talk, you know, across the nation about it. >> what's the most important part of that model you laid out there? >> i think it's exactly what mika was saying, it's a contract that is focused on kids and student achievement first. so it priority sizes the performance and effectiveness of teachers above their seniority -- >> how do you do that in, let's say, really difficult districts with really tough schools. shouldn't teachers that go in and work with under-performing students be ...