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Talks about new testing. the testing is more rigorous. it has shown in places like new york city for example, are in much worse shape than anyone thought. first you have to know how bad things are to where it is going. you don't address teaching and dead wood in the classroom. there are great teachers. a lot who have been around a long time, frankly don't deserve there to be anymore. you have to have somebody to teach the standards effectively. >> that is a union problem as well. martha: that is what i'm getting at here. >> you need merit pay for teachers. you need school choice. you need bad ...

Wrist, suspended. >> which is wrong. which is why i'm saying the arbitrators and the administrators as well as the teachers unions i think have to be challenged. i don't think we should just deal with it as a union problem. >> there's a simple solution to this problem. okay. changing the teachers union contract. right now, the reason that the teachers union says we have a zero tolerance policy, we think -- what they're saying is wrong. there are -- the teachers union will argue that the chancellor is trying to get rid of people that aren't found guilty. that's not true. the teachers union's co...

The very people creating these policies choose the opposite for their own children. instead of investing hundreds of millions of dollars, the state of new york raised $700 million. that is being used for testing. we could be using that money to provide our teacher, provide music teachers, not just air-conditioning. that's, you know, we are talking the narrowing of curriculum and the lack of experiences that would really bridge that achievement gap or poverty gap. unfortunately, our policymakers are taking it in a different direction. we need childhood prevention. when they enter kindergarten, ...

Have a fair and balanced debate with joe trippi and karl rove. also getting attention today, our nation inching closer to a new benchmark finishing nationa6 trillion mark later this evening. on the housing front, construction spending fell in july by the largest amount in a year mainly weighed down by a drop in money spent on home improvement projects. 47 million americans received food stamps in the month of june. will any of this hurt the president's chances? and not karl rove, it's ed rollins and joe joe trippi toda. stay tuned for that. well, chicago mayor rahm emanuel is having to cut s...

overnight u.s. navy s.e.a.l. operation. this morning word that terrorists could use bombs implanted in someone's body. finding the missing. we have amber alerts, facebook, and now a new possibility to connect missing children with their parents. a crash landing in the desert. get this. it's on purpose. a new update on your facebook page that could change your life. this morning organ donation on your time line. "newsroom" begins right now. we begin this morning with new reports suggesting al qaeda could use so-called body bombs on planes in america. our affiliates in californ...