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tell mark here on the news you need to know that's the nation's third-largest
school district is without teachers today after contract negotiations fell
through over the weekend the chicago teachers uniquely this strike
and walked off the job this morning
it's first time chicago teachers have gone on strike in twenty-five years
altogether twenty nine thousand teachers and school workers are joining in on the
strike
demand better pay working conditions
and stop the marsh toward privatization of the cities schools at the heart of a
striker several issues
one is a four percent pay increase teachers were promised last year but was
canceled by mer rahm emanuel
and said the mayor's asking teachers to work a longer school day
also teachers are asking for a state limit on classroom sizes
a law that's in place in thirty two other states
but not in illinois
bus teachers are trying to read to reverse the mayor's plans to slash
public education funding
and use that money to create two hundred and fifty nonunion for-profit charter
schools
chicago has now become ground zero in the battle over how we as a nation with
educate our children
well we embrace the public school system of thomas jefferson horace mann work so
hard to create
and support teachers who perform on the most important jobs in our society
or what we hand out educating our kids to the money changers in corporate
c_e_o_'s
the sea education as a get-rich-quick scheme
keep an eye on the windy city
in screwed his turns out there on the did like obama care after all
lease for a few hours on sunday and
benny flip-flop again
in an interview on sunday with n_b_c_ romney admitted that there are a number
of things he likes widow bamaca
thirty guaranteed health insurers can't deny people with pre-existing conditions
and reforms of a large children stand the parents health plans until the age
of twenty six salamander first created opa may care in massachusetts
and then disavowed it when he ran for president
now supports it again
graded for a few hours into his campaign released a statement saying ronnie
actually opposes all provisions of obama care answered believes that the
corporate free-market will find a way to cover those
with pre-existing conditions other words romney wants to roll back obama kya
so if the hundreds of millions of americans are pre-existing conditions
think they have a friend in their romney there clearly mistaken
uh... least unless romney flip-flops again
in the best for the rest of the news republican vice presidential candidate
paul ryan just moved to the left of president obama when it comes to medical
marijuana legalization
in an interview with a local colorado news affiliate a state which is poised
to become the first in the nation to legalize marijuana in november all ryan
weighed in on medical marijuana sane
my personal position on these issues has been let the states decide what they
want to do with these things
at state and puts ryan at odds with his running mate their romney who opposes
any certain legalization of marijuana from the distal purposes or not
it also puts separation between orion and president obama wiz cracked down on
several medical marijuana facilities operating legally under state law
this should be a wake-up call for the president
there are millions of votes at stake among looked young libertarians and
progressives who favor marijuana legalization
if the president can get those votes if he comes out support
appending nixon's failed drug war
vice president joe biden pushing out on gay marriage
assoc v_p_ candidate paul ryan pushes him to come out for federal medical
marijuana
decriminalization
more bad news for the technocrats and banks trees in the year is honest the
fate of the content a rest with judges sitting on the german constitutional
court
last week the european central bank about outst new plans to buy government
bonds and provide relief to classy nations like spain and italy
those plans could be scrapped
if the german court for bids that nation from contributing more money to the
european rescue fund
on wednesday the german constitutional court is expected to rule if it is
constitutional
for germany continue loaning money other struggling here is a nation's
if the court blocks more financial aid
and european central banks plan is
consequences for the europcar catastrophic
also with an election looming in the netherlands
chance a new dutch government could prevent further contributions to the
ural european rescue fund as well
europe's p u experiment maybe fast approaching and and game
all republicans are relying on billionaires to win the election this
year
democrats are enlisting the help of lawyers
response to a rash of voter suppression idealized and restrictions on early
voting and voter registration
president obama's re-election team in the d_n_c_ redeploying teams of lawyers
in states around the country challenge right wing antibody in-laws
voter protection teens as they're called are monitoring any news watching just
putting pressure on local election officials
and trained poll watchers to keep an eye out for any shenanigans come election
day
to crime such efforts are necessary in america the beacon of democracy for the
world
with the republican party committed to kicking millions of potentially
democratic voters off the rolls by november
for the choices there
and finally ran paul doesn't know what he's talking about
republican senator from kentucky had an embarrassing moment on sunday
is debating economist paul krugman about the size of government
senator paul claimed
size of government is enormous under president obama
which credentialing down saying
there are fewer people employed by government today than when president
obama took office
printpal refused to believe it even though it's absolutely true
or more than six hundred thousand fewer government jobs in america today
and when bush left office
yes republicans could telling their big live so long
the invader no one st
that's the way it is today monday september tenth
i'm tom hartman