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And vouchers, i believe are common sense, they would save millions in tax dollars and good for the poor children who don't have a choice and tuck in low performing schools. >> and the dues of the union member do they support political candidates? >> yes. here's, i say funny for a lack of a better term, we sit in the teacher's lounge every time there is a election psyche and he will there is a magazine called magazine educator and list all of the cappedidates and initiatives we should vote for. and my colleagues and i sit there and laugh, because we say, oh, i use this guyed as a way not to vot...

And vouchers, i believe are common sense, they would save millions in tax dollars and good for the poor children who don't have a choice and tuck in low performing schools. >> and the dues of the union member do they support political candidates? >> yes. here's, i say funny for a lack of a better term, we sit in the teacher's lounge every time there is a election psyche and he will there is a magazine called magazine educator and list all of the cappedidates and initiatives we should vote for. and my colleagues and i sit there and laugh, because we say, oh, i use this guyed as a way not to vot...

A federal minority skin detector that determines in a multiracial world what is the definition of black or white, it is a murky thing. and it is absurd from the start fuask me in that record. and by the standard, 91 percent of the kids are black. >> or hispanic. >> and the point being, that if a judge which is what they want. a federal judge said certain districts can't participate in the voucher plan that's what they want. and they decided these districts can't do. it it is inevitable a lot of them will not get out of failing schools and under the guise of racial sensitivity. >> and that's wh...

12%. we're making headway. there's a lot of momentum in the city. >> no one wants to believe that more than me. i live six blocks from where the mother's day shooting happened. no one wants to believe we're getting this under control more than i do. couns councilwoman i wonder about rallying with the police department and moving forward. in part i feel like there's massive distrust in the nopd in communities of color that tends to be impacted by this violence. not just new orleans but chicago, detroit, a lot of cities that have this gun violence problem. >> the bottom line is we do have ensure...

Closing those 50 schools doesn't quite hold water. you've said reassigning students from closed schools to higher performing schools is intended to make sure every child can get a quality school with a quality education, but the university of chicago's consortium on chicago school research found no demonstrable improvement for students when their schools are closed. in fact in the short term the stress and anxiety of being displaced actually causes students to perform even worse academically. as for the need to close that billion dollar budget deficit? funny how that need is pressing only when...