as you said, arne duncan was the ceo of chicago public schools. under his watch in 2004, chicago launched a policy called renaissance 2010, which actually was designed by the commercial a chicago -- commercial club, an organization of the biggest ceo's and bankers in the city. arne duncan push through this agenda of closing neighborhood schools, turning them over to private operators or expanding charter schools and having a charter schools, in. increasingly, putting more pressure on teachers to respond to the high-stakes tests that phil was talking about earlier. so that agenda, which really has been devastating in chicago, had already been clearly very devastating in 2008 after four years, was the agenda that duncan took to washington when he was secretary of education. it is embedded in a race to the top. race to the top has a set of provisions that really basically means states are competing for $4.3 billion in federal funds. in order to get those funds, they must do certain things. and they are the kinds of things that have been done and fail

also this hour, education secretary arne duncan. new york city schools chancellor dennis wolcott and chelsea clinton on how schools in one state are finding solutions. the game change boys win big in hollywood. >> i share this award with mark halperin and john heilemann. just wanted to shout out for mark halperin and john heilemann. >> the hbo mini series based on halperin and heilemann's best seller nabs five awards including julie ann more for her turn as sarah palin. >> wow. i -- i feel so validated because sarah palin gave me a big thumb's down. >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in new york overlooking the new york public library, site of our education nation summit. all of the top newsmakers and policymakers in the field with us today. first our daily fix, politics, the campaign re-set for mitt romney is under way. romney and paul ryan are intensifying their focus on swing states, romney starting today in colorado before joining paul ryan in ohio where a new poll today has president obama breaking past 50%. joining me now,

also this hour, education secretary arne duncan. new yorkity schools chancellor dennis wolcott and chelsea clinton on how schools in one state are finding solutions. the game change boys win big in hollywood. >> i share this award with mark halperin and john heilemann. just wanted to shout out for mark halperin and john heilemann. >> the hbo mini series based on halperin and heilemann's best seller nabs five awards including julie ann more for her turn as sarah palin. >> wow. i -- i feel so validated because sarah palin gave me a big thumb's down. >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in new york overlooking the new york public library, site of our education nation summit. all of the top newsmaks and policymakers in the field with us today. first our daily fix, politics, the campaign re-set for mitt romney is under way. romney and paul ryan are intensifying their focus on swing states, romney starting today in colorado before joining paul ryan in ohio where a new poll today has president obama breaking past 50%. joining me now, chr

, arne duncan has done a great job. i would give serious consideration to keeping him. that's how you sound like a credible leader, someone that wants to bring the nation together. barack obama on foreign policy had he's made some mistakes but i would give him a c plus. that's how you keep credibilityp these guys are ruv snjuvenile. >> he said i think it's laudable had he's taken on the unions but could not get around to saying there was somebody i would keep in place. president obama kept bob gates in place. >> at a pivotal moment in the nation's history. someone said, i can't remember where it was, probably at the paper, but said if -- >> probably at "the washington post." >> yes. "washington post," that if mitt romney were to say he would keep arne duncan, that would be a bold move and figure that he would unleash, make that announcement during the debates to scramble everything. brian williams gave him the perfect opportunity right then and there to at least, you know, show a little leg and say, oh, well, he's a ter

i know you're talking to arne duncan afterwards. he made enormous progress with the top to raise standards. but we have a lot of work to do. so he set out a goal to train 100,000 new men. he set out a goal to create compact between the community colleges and businesses so we can train 2 million workers. to fill jobs that are available now, but for which people are not properly trained. he set out a goal to cut the growth in college tuition by half over the next decade. this is an enormous problem, the entry cost for young people. that's just one area in which he set goals in a speech that was really laden with them. so i appreciate the "washington post" editorial board. i agree with their assessment of governor romney's lack of specifics. but i don't think that was fair criticism. >> so on one other area, which i think we would all love to hear more on, and then i'll open up for panel. saving jobs, he did. i think we all could argue that he saved millions of jobs, but there's an argument that he's not showing the way, setting clear

. >> and the secretary of education arne duncan weighed in on this today. if you could tell us his involvement. has it helped or hurt? >> well, you know, as you know, arne duncan was the ceo here in chicago before he became the department of education secretary. >> is he part of the problem? >> his policies are harmful to children. i don't think they help.

. >> and the secretary of education arne duncan weighed in on this today. if you could tell us his involvement. has it helped or hurt? >> well, you know, as you know, arne duncan was the ceo here in chicago before he became the department of education secretary. >> is he part of the problem? >> his policies are harmful to

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arne duncan is speaking, the head of the department of education, in my opinion arne duncan is putting the race to the top on the table for education did one of the boldest and i think under appreciated policy moves inside the administration. >> eliot: i agree. i think arne duncan is spectacular in terms of what he has done and challenging the status quo $4 billion dedicateed forays to the top. we gave $12 billion to goldman sachs. it's 3-to-1 to give a blank check to goldman sachs. i think as much as this is spectacular, the numbers that we threw away. i want to come back to elizabeth warren. >> jennifer: i knew that. >> eliot: i am such a huge fan of hers. she's losing this race. before we have a run for the presidency we need to elect her to the senate. i felt some of the voters in massachusetts, i made a bet that she would win by 10 points. and i'm dead wrong. >> al gore: she's losing it, and she's still behind. but it's still an early september. >> eliot: she's going to win but i'm amazed that it's that close. >> john: let's see how her speech goes this evening. >> cenk: and i'm c

. >> and the secretary of education arne duncan weighed in on this today. if you could tell us his involvement. has it helped or hurt? >> well, you know, as you know, arne duncan was the ceo here in chicago before he became the department of educatn

>> well, you know, as you know, arne duncan was the ceo here in

it is a school system that is run by arne duncan. he was in charge of that school system. >> chicago teachers make $76,000 per year. but the average earner in chicago earns $47,000 per year. you get people earning x amount paying teachers who make 50% more and who were offered a 16% increase in salary and yet went on strike precisely because they do not want to be held accountable. i think rahm is right. and i hope he clenches this by sending the head of the teachers' union a dead fish. that often works in situations like this. >> we're here for one thing -- to let the governor and republican legislators know that the voter i.d. is wrong, based on a lie. >> president of the philadelphia naacp. the supreme court of pennsylvania hearing arguments against the new voter i.d. law. registered pennsylvania laws -- voters do not qualify under this law. what does this mean? >> it's hard to tell. in pennsylvania, unlike some of the other states have issued these things, that is a big swath of people. they are pretty diverse. you go from urban

secretary of education arne duncan hopes that this will guide students in a new era of global competition. >> all the way through primary grades to high school -- for the first time in a long time, students to graduate from high school will truly be college and career ready. >> for educators, however, success will mean finding solutions to problems even outside the classroom. jeffrey has been combating the effects of poverty and students in harlem for years. >> we have young people growing up in places in this country where everything is against them. they have terrible health care, violence, drugs and gangs in their community. we have got to get those kids and education. we also have to make those communities healthier for kids to grow up. >> it requires a system that focuses on the whole child, not focuses on the whole child, not just test scores. [ male announcer ] with ultra-filtered water from the first hands-free system, and micro-climate controls powered by twinchill technology, the new ge french door refrigerator puts fresh in a whole new light. come see the new ge french door ref

the school system was run by arne duncan, now the secretary of vacation. he was in charge of that school system. >> are caught the teachers make on average $76,000 per year. he wants longer school days and a longer school year. >> the average earner in chicago earns $47,000 per year. you get people earning x amount paid teachers who make 50% more and who were offered a 16% increase in salary and yet when on strike precisely because they do not want to be held accountable. i think ron manual is right. i hope he clenches this deal by sending the head of the teachers' union, as he once did in the past, a dead fish. that often works in these kind of negotiations. >> voter i.d. what challenged in pennsylvania. >> we are here for one thing -- to let the governor and republican legislators know that the voter i.d. is wrong, based on a lie. >> the president of the philadelphia naacp. the supreme court of pennsylvania was hearing arguments against the state's new voter ideologue. 758,000 registered pennsylvania voters do not qualify. what does that mean for the ele

. >> joining me is arne duncan. president obama even before he became president has talked about education as the road to economic recovery, economic opportunity but here's where we stan in the world right now and you know these numbers better than do i. 25th in math, 17th in science, 14th in reading. after a stimulus infusion of about $100 billion for education, why are we still behind? >> we have a lot of hard work ahead of us but we've made real progress. one of the thing we were able to do with recovery money is save the jobs of educators across the country. that was a huge step in the right direction. but we have to continue the invest at every level, in early childhood education, k through 12 reform, making college more accessible and affordable. we took $40 billion that were going to banks, stop subsidizing banks, put all that money into pell grants and this year we have almost 10 million young people with access to higher education because of the president's leadership. >> the u.s. ranks 23rd in the world fo

duncan, and former secretary of state, condoleeza rice, this is the second straight year and the need is great. americans are 14th in reading, 17th in science, 25th in math, among 34 countries at the top. this summit's focus is on solutions, one of the big topics today. how the curriculum in our schools is about to change in a big way. our chief education correspondent, rehema ellis is at the new york public library tonight. good evening, rehema. >> reporter: good evening, brian, the numbers you just mentioned tell a clear story, which is why the nation's governors adopted the common core curriculum. this new, tougher more demanding standard of learning is generating buzz at the summit, as teachers are gearing up to teach a new way. at this elementary school in louisville, all 361 students are encouraged to think big. >> every day at jba is one day closer to? >> college. >> college. >> reporter: ranking near the bottom on standardized tests, kentucky was quick to incorporate the tests, a blueprint for english and math, adopted by every state. while there is no common curriculum, this

we've had arne duncan, the education secretary on this show. i know that president obama's talked about performance in his reform package and here are these far left, far left, some of them are socialist teachers unions that will not be judged and the data is so clear how they screwed up. so obama's got the story right republican senator alexander, is that correct? >> well, that's right. that's right. this is the holy grail of k through 12 education. finding a fair way to relate teacher pay to student performance. these teachers are already making $75,000 a year on average, that's nearly $20,000 above the national average. if you pay the best teachers more, pay them $100,000, and $125,000 and send them into the toughest schools to where they need the most help is what they should be doing and the teachers don't want to do it even though the illinois legislature passed almost unanimously a law saying they should do it. >> they should do it. they should not do it. >> no, the illinois legislature passed a law as 30 states have done, to say we ough

. >> and the secretary of education arne duncan weighed in on this today. if you could tell us his involvement. has it helped or hurt? >> well, you know, as you know, arne duncan was the ceo here in chicago before he became the department of education secretary.

. >> joining me is arne duncan. president obama even before he became president has talked about education as the road to economic recovery, economic opportunity but here's where we stand in the world right now and you know these numbers better than do i. 25th in math, 17th in science, 14th in reading. after a stimulus infusion of about $100 billion for education, why are we still behind? >> we have a lot of hard work ahead of us but we've made real progress. one of the thing we were able to do with recovery money is save the jobs of educators across the country. that was a huge step in the right direction. but we have to continue the invest at every level, in early childhood education, k through 12 reform, making college more accessible and affordable. we took $40 billion that were going to banks, stop subsidizing banks, put all that money into pell grants and this year we have almost 10 million young people with access to higher education because of the president's leadership. >> the u.s. ranks 23rd in the world f

education secretary arne duncan talks about progress in k-12 education and his reform effort. following his remarks, questions from the audience. >> by the end of this decade to have the highest rate in the country. context of secured increase in pell grants and launched income based loan repayment student repayment program. secretary duncan has put in place and moved forward. and raced to the top and investing in education. secretary duncan has also led the department in investing substantially in low performance schools throughout the country. we have discussed today. secretary duncan has been immersed in public education throughout his career. he was chief executive officer of the chicago public school system and with the enormous success united the education community. not always an easy thing behind school reform in chicago. following his remarks secretary duncan will take questions from the floor. with that it is my pleasure to welcome the united states secretary of the treasury -- secretary of education arne duncan. [applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction. i

president obama and his education secretary arne duncan have in fact had a bit of a mixed relationship with teachers unions. yes, they are wholeheartedly, those unions, are in support of president obama's re-election as compared to mitt romney, but as arne duncan has implemented the administration's education strategy, teachers unions don't like some aspects of it. at some level the fact that a high-profile ally of president obama is seen taking on the teachers union, that deals, in some small way, with the criticism that president obama gets from republicans as being too pro-union. the other thing to consider in terms of the potential electoral implications is the state of illinois is not a battleground state in this election. it is safely in the democratic column so i suspect president obama is going to be content to let rahm emanuel work this out. as phil lebeau and kevin tibbles were suggesting, think they'll probably work it out in the next few days. >>> down here at the new york stock exchange, i'm looking up at the board -- the dow is up seven points on the trading session. does

secretary of education arne duncan hopes this prepares students for global competition. >> asking more of students in reading and math and the primary grades and in seniors in high school. students who graduate high school will be college and career ready. >> reporter: success will mean finding solutions outside the classroom. jeffery canada has been combating students in harlem for more than 20 years. >> we have young people growing up in some places in the country that everything is really against them. they have terrible health care, violence, drugs and gangs in their communities. we have to give those kids an education, but we have to make those communities a healthy place. >> reporter: the solution, educators say, requires a system that focuses on the whole child and not just test scores. in new york city, i'm danielle lee, nbc news. >>> to decision 2012. the election is just 43 days away. early voting by mail is under way in two dozen states. president obama meets with the united nations while mitt romney's camp is hoping for a fresh start. romney kicked off a tour of ohio this m

secretary of education arne duncan is in the bay area to kickoff a cross country bus tour to focus on the idea that education drives america's suspect. he will be in redwood city 9:00, students plan to show him an original music video they've created. >>> how is the weather going to be for that event? warming up, baby steps mike? >>> a little bit. let's open up the weather window and show you how hard it is to see coit tower, just see the blue, red and white covered by the clouds. you can see nothing coming out of these clouds, a little mist as that moisture hangs in the air possible. thickest santa rosa 3/4 mile visible. 50s everywhere to antioch 60. mid to upper 50s monterey bay and inland. sunshine we'll have it today, close to average, warmest afternoons thursday and friday, slow cooling trend saturday through monday. today three degrees warmer fremont 80 oakland 70, 87 concord, 68 san francisco two degrees warmer than yesterday many san jose one degree warmer 83°. santa rosa the same as yesterday. fog north bay and clouds low clouds around the bay going to hang around through th

>> well, you know, as you know, arne duncan was

then you also have the added benefit of finding out where in the hell has arne duncan really been? lori: well, that's a great point. just to finish my other point in addition, you have idle kids out there. what happens if god forbid there is accident or something, kid in trouble because there is nothing more dangerous -- >> still responsibility of parents. some of the children are responsible for themselves. i'm talking about those --. lori: i'm just adding a point. >> think about this. this is also part of the reason we're in such a quandary until this country when it comes to public education. school is supposed to perform the function of parental supervision. it is supposed to be providing nutrition. for crying out loud, many schools are simply open to serve free meals today. this is the ignorance that is overwhelmed union, driven public education in this country. and look at it. watch the nonsense. politics. mark my words. this is political theater. you're going to watch it resolve and it is going to be nauseating at the conclusion. you don't want to miss it. melissa: now you p

secretary of education arne duncan and secretary of agriculture and former iowa governor, tom vilsack. we will hear from north carolina luminaries the longest serving governor jim hunt and the former mayor of charlotte harvey b. gantt and leading later to the anticipated speeches from massachusetts democratic senatorial candidate elizabeth warren and from the former president, bill clinton. >> ray we will be coming back to you throughout the night. up here in the skybox again we are joined with -- by these two dedicated pundits they are analysts. mark shields and "new york times" columnnist david brooks. you can beat up on me later. so picking up we were talking about the democrats being a party of different interest groups. tonight as we said, david, we are going to>.b hear from busins leaders in this party. a head of a big company, small business people. where do the democrats need to say about business? >> what is next? what is the growth agenda? if we were growing at 4% a year we would be generating enough jobs. what do you do? there's been a lot of vague talk that you need to gro

secretary of education arne duncan and secretary of agriculture and former iowa governor, tom vilsack. we will hear from north carolina luminaries the longest serving governor jim hunt and the former mayor of charlotte harvey b. gantt and leading later to the anticipated speeches from massachusetts democratic senatorial candidate elizabeth warren and from the former president, bill clinton. >> ray we will be coming back to you throughout the night. up here in the skybox again we are joined with -- by these two dedicated pundits they are analysts. mark shields and "new york times" columnnist david brooks. you can beat up on me later. so picking up we were talking about the democrats being a party of different interest groups. tonight as we said, david, we are going to>.b hear from busins leaders in this party. a head of a big company, small business people. where do the democrats need to say about business? >> what is next? what is the growth agenda? if we were growing at 4% a year we would be generating enough jobs. what do you do? there's been a lot of vague talk that you need to gro

secretary of education arne duncan. it's great to have you here. mitt romney and others have accused of president of putting teachers unions ahead of school kids, the prime example what we've seen out of chicago that put some 350,000 students out in the cold with no classroom to go to. what do you say to the krcritic that are using that example? >> it's a false choice and we all have to work together on behalf of children. obviously no one wants a strike. teachers did not want it. but at the end of the day, chicago got to a great place. they have a great contract that honors and respects teachers and values as the professionals they are and it continued to help drive the reform movement in chicago. so we need to put politics and ideology to the side. we have to educate our way to a better economy and we need to stop pitting people against each other. >> would not thiromney said it t the state level, not the federal level. we need to get the federal government out of education. do you agree with that leadership vision and approach? >> i think there'

tom vilsack is working on this, the secretary of agriculture, and arne duncan, the secretary of education. with the programs that exist, but we think we could do this. >> kennedy said we could put a man on the moment and prior to that, people would disagree about the shape of the rocket and the fuel but once you make that commitment, all those arguments -- you want to figure out what is the best way. it is an exciting and positive thing that both parties are in on this. hopefully we can all come up with the solution to end childhood hunger. >> walk us through what we can expect over the next three nights. >> tuesday night is the big --an's night, michelle obama they will hit hard on that theme. wednesday night will be about the democratic party being united. there are reports that bill clinton is the only speaker who has not turned over his speech. it will be his night. he will not get out of the park and thursday, obama always rises to the occasion. -- he will not get out of the park -- knock it out of the park. at third there will be the big obama/biden opportunity. >> they get 90 minut

secretary of education arne duncan leads that. he's with me now. thank you nor joining me. we haven't heard much until this week, the president campaigning in iowa talking to students and romney campaign took out an ad. mitt romney said under president obama it costs more to go to college. he says there are fewer opportunities when students graduate, less likely to be employed, half of them unemployed or underemployed. tell me, why would this get any better if president obama has another four years. >> what president obama and i fundamentally believe we have to educate our way to a better economy. our children today aren't competing for jobs in their neighborhoods or districts or state. our young people are competing with jobs with children in india, singapore, south korea, japan. we have to have the most educated workforce in the world. we're so proud to see college enrollment going up. we're trying to lead the world in college graduation rates again. we used to lead the world a generation ago. today we're 16th. we have to invest. we're thrilled we have over 10 million you

arne duncan used to run the chicago public schools. they haven't commented at all on this case. where is the leadership. he is not a leader. stuart: do you think there's any hope whatsoever of true reform in public school system? if so how are we going to get there? >> i think so. we have to break the unions. we have to break the death grip these unions have on the school system. the kids are the ones who are suffering. not the teachers. average family in chicago earning $7,000 a year and average teacher making $76,000 before benefits. stuart: sitting with tracy byrnes, former school teacher nodding her head vigorously. that is a strong expression. break the unions. tracy: they're asking for raises you and i haven't seen in years. and some ladies saying -- parents have to bring their kids to school. there are ripple effects to this. stuart: is it about money or control of who gets hired or fired? charles: control and accountability of lack of accountability. i have to tell you something. the changes we started with public school teachers and none of them are public school teache

secretary of education on the duncan --arne duncan. under his leadership, the department of education has worked to increase college graduation rates and expect by the end of the decade to have the highest rate for our country. in that context of secured increases of pell grants and launched an income-based student loan repayment program. as you know, secretary duncan has put in place and moved forward a reform effort, raced to the top, and also investing in education. secretary duncan has also led the department in investing substantially in low performing schools throughout the country, a subject we have discussed today. secretary duncan has been immersed in public education throughout his career. he was the chief executive officer of the chicago public school system. he united the education community behind the school reform in chicago. following his remarks, secretary duncan will take questions. it is my enormous pleasure to welcome to the podium the united states secretary -- i almost said secretary of the treasury. [laughter] uni

it will include education secretary arne duncan who will give closing remarks. it is expected to start in just a moment here live on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> again, waiting for the start of this panel discussion on innovation and reform in k-12 education with remarks expected from education secretary arne duncan at the close. while we wait for this to get started, look at a "texas tribune" festival that happened recently. san antonio mayor julio castro and republican senate candidate ted cruz were some of the featured speakers. this will be the program that will start programming on our companion network c-span starting at 10 eastern. we will give you a quick look. >> the question was not is it an unemployment rate to the 8.8.1 or 8.3. is it any job creation today better than it was when the president took office. spent and the answer is actually not. when you have the lowest rate of participate workforce in years, that's ambiguous. let me tell you what the most important number is 1.5. into

. >> also denies educational -- arne duncan has given 10 maryland schools the prestigious blue ribbon school of accidents. ones in our area include -- whitehall in prince george's county. be parochial schools include norodom prep and st. augustine in -- notre dame prep and st. augustine in howard county. >> here is a look at some of our rubber -- other top stories tonight. the east.ed at michael phelps is back in town. this translates to tons of foot traffic downtown. add to that, the ravens already sold-out game monday, and it looks like orange plus purple could bring businesses a lovely shade of green. will this weekend be bigger than the grand prix? what's the grand prix is only one weekend -- >> the grand prix is only one weekend. but all these things are good for elevating the profile of baltimore. >> another big attraction -- michael phelps will be part of a ceremony before kickoff at the ravens opener. he will be there as an honorary captain. and the son of the original owner of the -- the sons of the original owner of the baltimore ravens are paying tribute to their father. th

we have researched from chicago and carried out while arne duncan was the superintendent which shows that many strategies didn't work. why didn't they work? because they didn't engage parents. they didn't really address the social needs of children and because they didn't provide the kinds of resources, social workers, psychologists that those schools need not to solve poverty but to mitigate the effects of poverty. >> there is one other question i have been dying to ask you before i open up for our panel. i want you to deacon struck on television at this point the ogbu thesis. the other piece of this story is not only should we clothse thes failing schools and walk away from public education that somehow black children and brown children and urban children are holding each other back. it is not poverty or dislocation. it is a culture of opposition. please pull that apart for me. >> you are giving me big questions. i am ready to take it on. >> you have got it, 90 sessions. john ogbu did very important work and showed the fact that your historical status has impact on the way you look

. >> reporter: arne duncan has one praise as a compromiser. he worked to expand charter schools and launcheded a performance pay plan for teachers. teachers. >>> the video made it national head heinz. a woman being bullied on a school bus. >> now, she is the recipient of a huge act of kindness. that is ahead in about 14 minutes. up next, all of our top stories. this is a live look at interstate 270. >>> coming up on 5:30 now on this wednesday. take a lock at the jefferson memorial out there. nice, peaceful, quiet, easy start to your day for the middle of the week. i'll take it. >> a little cool too. >> yeah. >> temperatures back in the 40s and low 50s outside of the beltway. that is chilly. >> that is fall. >> that is fall. >> moving in. >> and a little sliver of moon if you get a chance to see that. let's get right to the radar and your accu-weather forecast. we saw on the live shot, things hook nice and quiet. continue with high pressure. always a nice time of year here in washington. this is where we get really nice between about now and ea

arne duncan played. he's not 20 years younger but he played with the harvard basketball team i was so out of my depth. i assumed he would be too. he not only plays in it, he can function in it. he's weak, but he's close, really can function in it. what it tells you -- what the game told me about him, couple things, one was nobody defers to him. he refuses to let that happen. so he gets abused just as much as he should be abused given his ability levels. he'll be wide open for a shot but he won't get the ball because somebody else is a better shooter. you wouldn't knows he's the president. that tell use the kind of person he is. even if we're obviously not equal, he wants to feel like it's a relationship of equal, and -- >> is he very competitive? >> that's the other thing. it's not game. i mean it is game, it's fun, but it's game -- he really cares who wins, and so the first thing -- the first thing he said to me after he saw me, he said, we'll just sit you for a while until we get a lead and he benched