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Trying to get rid of this education bill that we feel would hurt education more than trying to elevate it and make it better for students. >> reporter: last year was about funding your insurance program. now it's about not funding charter schools. why would charter schools in west virginia be a bad thing? >> part of the problem is with the charter schools they were wanting to make them public. so students that went to the charter schools would be pulling funding from our public education to help pay for those schools. as we lose funding in our public schools, you have less students so we'd hav...

Them much more than we have and we need to acknowledge the fact that people can go do other things. >> was the bond structure a good idea? >> i think it is a good idea to pay people more if they are working in a high poverty school where it is hard to attract teachers. it is a good idea to pay people more if they are bringing a special set of skills like special ed or english language acquisition to the classroom. it is good to pay teachers more for those kinds of things. i think it is completely appropriate that decisions we make 15 years ago should be changed and re-negotiated and reconsider...

Meeting, great things will happen, we'll see, we'll see. >> one of our experts is nodding their head. i'll explain i think more why, agreeing with your analysis. thank you, katy. >> thank you, ari. we begin with this special conchr coverage of the how-stakes precedence that donald trump is about to break. will it be a breakthrough or risky disappointment? we are three hours away from him sitting down with kim jong-un. the stakes involved nuclear ambitions as well as negotiations. after all the bluster and the tweets, we can tell you this. tonight is the time when these two men have to stop t...

In oklahoma, they raised taxes, for the first time in 30 years to give teachers a fraction of their demands but they say it is not enough. it has been too long. the cuts are too deep and they're tired of living like this. >> drum roll. >> reporter: for donna ross the goal is to fill her classroom with such energy that the kids never suspect that she works two other jobs to survive. >> i've been up since 5:00 this morning. >> reporter: she drives for uber and caters weddings because a master's degree and 20 years experience barely brings a living wage in oklahoma. >> you can see where my net pa...

Morning. >> reporter: she drives for uber and caters weddings because a masters degree and 20 years experience barely brings a living wage in oklahoma. >> you can see where my net pay was less than $1200. i was being liberal. >> just over a thousand dollars. >> correct. >> that's for -- >> that's one month. >> that's a month. >> reporter: the most desperate, sell blood, and some like this former marine and special ed teacher rely on church soup kitchens to eat. >> i've helped at food banks, i've helped deliver food. i've helped do all those things. i honestly never thought i would be on the re...