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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:19:54:00

bureaucracy has controlled our school system and imprisoned kids in terrible schools. just six years ago when i first did a show, unions were so outraged that someone would dare challenge their rules that competition would be better. hundreds of them showed outside my office to scream at me. stossel, shame on you. >> educators all over the country feel that they have been kicked in the teeth. >> she was upset that i called k-12 a government monopoly and they don't serve customers well. i don't think she heard the system called a monopoly. when i interviewed people that say that don't like children. yet now few years later, lots of people call the current system a government monopoly, millions of kids get to escape it through charter schools.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:17:48:00

on city sidewalks even but there is on school grounds. this is inappropriate. i think it should be obvious we can't have strange adults wandering around the schools doing whatever they like as children are arriving. this has religious purpose and it was promoted and advertised by the principal who said, quoted that the first amendment applies only to christians and that is the antithesis of the first amendment. >> the principal since said he was quoting someone else. otede was promoting the big idea that rights only exist for christians. what message does this send to juicisjewish parents and their children and that nonchristians. >> shannon: thank you for your time. we understand the prayers are

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:03:15:00

sort of like people thought during the housing bubble and you have to realize as glenn reynolds told us on the opinion show this week, there's a difference in value in the marketplace, whether you have an engineering degree or gender studies and this may be some of the occupy wall street people, you come out of school, a lot of debt and not an immediately marketable skill, you're in trouble. >> all of this is sold to us, in the name of making college more affordable, has it done that? >> no, what happens when the government subsidizes a good in order to encourage more widespread consumption, it creates an artifical demand and simple economics and drives prices up. >> the schools have been rising tuition right along with the increases in subsidies for education? >> of course, and it's a money machine for these colleges and universities. >> what's the solution here, james, briefly? >> well, you've got to get the government out, it's not just the loans. the obama administration-- >> you mean not guarantee any loans, not making any loans. >> you want to get them out of that business and out of the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:19:49:00

they were complaining about it. that really set me back. >> john: your mother was going to send you to trinidad, they do well, compared to american schools? >> my mom got to the point she was fed up with the system. the public school system and was really tired of it. their only option was sending me back to trinidad and get an education. that is how she felt. she wasn't going to continue to let the system fail me. she wasn't going to let that happen. >> john: but you did get the voucher. you gotten a good education. despite the data showing the kids are ahead of reading that went, that got the voucher, biggest union says that d.c. voucher program has been a failure. it's yielded no evidence of positive impact on students' achievement. >> how state failure when the public school system is failing

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:19:47:00

expansion of private school voucher programs. federal government should focus its attention on improving the quality of public schools for all students. >> i understand you want to focus your attention on improving the public school system but what are you going to do about the students that are failing schools now. >> john: promising to fix it. >> so that is why we have the d.c. scholarship program. >> john: before you got a scholarship through a lottery, in your opinion the public schools and there was a big difference? >> huge difference. academically, also with safety, that was a big issue. >> john: there were lots of fights? >> there were lots of fights, there were shootings. it was really unsafe for us. my mother basically she wanted

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:19:21:00

vouchers and going to better schools and protestors want to abolish all private schools. people are uncomfortable with free choice. >> let's abolish elections, cadillac and the fords and just sell trebants. there are always people let's just have the government run a monopoly and so forth. i'm sure there were people in east germany that did not want to see trebants delivered. >> i want to ask you one last question, what is with the suit. is this overstock? >> i'm with the chinese look. >> john: do you like it? >> i will say yes zbloojtsz next we feed a guy that went to be anti-charter school union boss to running a charter school. how is that possible? [ applause ] we're america's natural gas

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:16:57:00

distillery. >> charles is leading the push for a $10 a barrel local tax on the famous, tennessee whiskey. that would bring another $4 million a year to a county strapped for cash to build new schools, roads and bridges, even a new sewage plant. he calls it a fee for using the image to build jack daniel cache. >> who is using who? jack daniel is the county's largest employer, provides a third of its tax base and nearly 60% of the price of a bottle is already in some form of tax. general manager tommy bean says enough is enough. >> we have been able to hire 25 or 30 people here in the last four or five months and if our costs go up $4 million or $5 million, you know, that is probably going to make aus little less competitive so we

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111023:12:50:00

trade practices from the chinese, or currency manipulations, or tools like tax credits, and part of what i propose and part of the agenda has to be, for example, providing a $4,000 tax credit to people who hire people who have been out of work for six months or more. it needs to be as mary kay says, it has to be in the private and public sector, and we have an obligation to provide better schools and roads and ports and bridges, because we will fall behind the rest of the developed or undeveloped world. >> i will keep you in one more break, and then can you get back to your saturday right after this. covergirls -- set your lashes free.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:19:33:00

you don't knows add is. you might have gotten a trebant and thought you got a good education just like the russians or east germans thought they had a good car. right? so i want to plant that idea in your head since most of you got a good education in government run schools. yes, sir. >> shouldn't we at least consider selling our public schools and making them private? with the high technology that we have now, shouldn't the cost of an education should be going down? >> not in america. we spend more money. i cost more to educate a child or a car. [ laughter ] $55,000 for incarcerate a person in oakland it's $18,000 a year. you only spend six and a half hours a day per hour it's cheaper to have someone in prison. >> john: who is next. >> will durant stated that

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111023:19:50:00

students. it is failing its students. how can you say that a voucher program is a failure. i continues to understand that. >> john: i don't understand that either. >> we have data on graduation rates. d.c. public schools, 49% graduation rate. now, we put voucher losers and winners on the graph because perhaps people like your mother who apply for the vousmer are a different group. that a pretty basic study. ones who got the sloucher, 70% graduate versus 90% of the voucher winners. 91% from your school do better. >> it's proven. it really is. >> and we asked the nea to say how can you say this and they didn't call us back. i'm glad its worked out for you. thank you for joining us. next, more good news very

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