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Look at this. united states rank theed number five in the world in per student spending. now, during national day of action you talked about teachers came out to reclaim public education. some of those opposed these common core standards american federation of teachers supports common core but cautions it's not a silver bullet. critics say the unions protect teachers at the expense of students. the center for union facts took out a full page ad in "new york times" attacking asd president randy winegarten saying teacher union continues to protect incompetent teachers. the fact is that unions ha...

Started, the backdrop was, one, tucson has never liked phoenix and phoenix overbares us politically because of numbers. we're kind of just left of center community while phoenix is very conservative. the legislature was specifically very conservative far to the right and getting very extreme. the cuts in education have been going on for a very long time. we used to be sixth in the country per student spending. we were last by the time we decided to take this action. but the kind of racist-tinged, anti-immigration bills that were coming out of the state legislature, nullification statutes sayin...

He's come to. one is that we have this continuous conversation over student loan interest rates. the big thing about that is that's a band-aid. putting more money into subsidizing student loans, which we've been doing for a long time, it's an important thing to do while costs are going high. at some point, we need to stop costs from rising so quickly, or we're never going to be able to afford this. the other thing, and this is the other piece, there are different stories for different kinds of colleges. one thing that happens a lot in the media conversation is people begin talking about harvar...

Like lawyers are business executives, this would be better. many people believe that. always complaining that we don't spend enough on education. but what he doesn't tell you is that we have, we have tripled per student spending since i was in college to the blue line of the chart. tripled student achievement in math, reading, science. they did not improve. how can that be? what happened to all that money? well, neil mccleskey -- neal mccluskey at the center for education for freedom. what happened to all the money? >> until a lot of things. the biggest thing, huge staffing increases. john: mo...

Policies for too long paid and hired teachers based on how long they'd been in the classroom rather than how well they're doing. the reason this is so important. this is critical to growing our country's economy. in america we're historically number one in the world in educational achievement and attainment as well as outcomes. >> now in the middle of the pack compared to other entry sized countries even though weez doubled per student spending since the 1970s even after adjusting for inflation. >> it's a political campaign. we're always supposed to find things that cause splits between presid...