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Union leaders say it is not just about the 1,500 jobs possible impacted here, but it is about the ripple effect. it is about the small businesses who may not see their revenue go up. in fact, go down. it's about the possibility that the school size of the student population may shrink. that may impact school budgets. all of that is on the minds of the community here today. we're hearing it loud and clear. this community has been reeling with lay offs for quite some time now. over 1,000 were laid off in 2007. over 1,000 were laid off earlier this year. it haes been a painful couple of years for...

Expertise especially if there's one or two in a school size of 3,000 people to deal with someone with this level of mental instability and violence. you look at major cities. los angeles would be one. with gang intervention programs. should there be intervention programs of kids at risk for violence? someone at school can refer them. and has a relationship with law enforcement. so there can be parallel conversation on that referral. about whether that person should be registered in the gun registry. there's a specific solution. what are intervention programs that the federal govlt can support ...

With a problem, i don't want to hear things are tough. i want a specific solution. let me give you one example among several i would offer. we talk about school resource officers. my guess, they do not have the expertise especially if there's one or two in a school size of 3,000 people to deal with someone with this level of mental instability. they have a relationship with law enforcement so there can be a parallel conversation on that ref referral. what are intervention programs that the federal government can report states on so we're not talking about this at the age of 19. you're talki in...

The regents required for graduation. what are you doing at your schools that public schools aren't doing? >> it's all about teachers. and what i mean is we were obsessed 10 years ago with one question -- how do you make teachers happy and great? how do you attract the best teachers and then bring out the best in them? and so we weren't worried about the particulars, class size, school size, curriculum. it was all about the teachers and what we did was give them an enormous amount of freedom and trust and respect and support and make it fun and nurture them and do everything they need. give the...