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We should continue to employ that teacher and continue to put children in that teacher's classroom when in fact the data shows that they're not able to move student achievement levels. >> i guess obviously at the heart of this question is what data actually shows that. let me read to you the way "the washington post" summarized the teacher complaints about the system. they say it's overly complex and dependent on unreliable stas tis kl methodology to certain teachers. >> if you look at the way that our school system and the evaluation system used to work in the past, 100% of the teachers' valu...

Wind gust would bring. they ordered evacuations, they have been pulling up pipe and other things that they have out there, moving them out of harm's way, you can see the venice marina here behind me is full of boats now getting out of the path of bonnie, which by the way is headed this way, should be here this time tomorrow. >> and when do they anticipate that they'll be able to start moving back into location, what will the total delay be? >> reporter: they say after the storm passes, they can get some of the vessels back out there within 48 hours. the first ones to come back on will be the o...

Teachers potentially from elsewhere in the country? >> i think that other superintendents have been incredibly frustrated because their contracts and their sort of bureaucracies lock them into a system where it's incredibly hard to get rid of ineffective teachers, in fact when you look at some of the cities that have seen the most progress like new york city and chicago, denver, ma places like that, the number of teachers who are dismissed every year are less than 1%. so you've got tens of thousands of teachers yet maybe one teacher a year is fired for poor performance and it doesn't line up w...

To be any better. >> we have been implementing the system for the entire year, so we have been preparing for this day and we have known all along that we would have to replace some teachers so we have been running an incredibly aggressive recruitment effort and we just recently passed a new teacher's union contract that has in place an incredibly generous raise and a performance pay system that will essentially double the pay of the most effective teachers in washington, d.c. >> is this the contract that raises teachers salaries by more than 20%, but it also lessens traditional senior protecti...

Louisiana is telling the people of louisiana to prepare for a category one. we don't think it will be a category one, but he just wants everyone to be on alert, it's already causing problems with the oil, they have had to pick up the booms, they're moving some of the boats, so it is causing issue. the waves could get as high as 12 feet. but the good news with this system is it's moving very fast. though it's organized, if it was moving slower, maybe five or six miles an hour, we could have had a major flooding problem on our hands. emergency crews in low lying louisiana are making sure all r...