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The same judge tried to stop us from doing the tenure reforms in a parish with desegment orders. fortunately we went to an pellet court and we temporarily won there. we'll have a full hearing in the appellate court. it shouldn't be about the race of the kid or politics or teacher unions. it should be about student achievement. there's two visions here. one is that you give every child a chance to work hard, get a great education, pursue the american dream. then you've got the president's view which is all about redistribution. it's about equal outcomes, and not qiewl opportunity. that's what i...

Moment. let's listen to what the teachers are asking for. 13 years of experience, this make about $71,000. among the highest paid in the country. only 3% of health care costs. what they're fighting about is they don't want to be evaluated. the average family earns 47,000. the unemployment is 10.5% and these guys are on strike. 18% of fourth graders are proficient in reading, so their results stink. 20% of eighth graders are proficient in math. >> gretchen: bad. >> brian: this is an opportunity for leadership, i believe, cast the union aside. >> we're watching the suicide of the teachers union....

Has a budget surplus right now and how many states would like to have that. and one last thing i'd like to say about mitch daniels, he he he did the thing that few governors had the courage to do, took on the teacher unions and put in tenure reforms and elevated not based on seniority, but based on performance, what a concept. >> well, i think that the other states which i would mention is andrew cuomo, the government of new york, with a democratic legislature in part and a republican state senate has really resisted what has been the tax and spend model, putting a property tax cap of 2% and c...