i respect, former florida governor jeb bush. michelle ree of students first. bill gates, his foundation gave 170 million dollars to common core. the u.s. chamber of commerce helped pay for this video. as teachers, we re on the front line, and we support common core. common core is not some washington mandate. that myth gets an f for misleading. john: maybe you just don t like change. well, i would argue to all of the proponents that the type of uniformity that common core or national standards creates assumes there is one best way for children to learn, and it assumes we know what that one best way is. but every child is different. every child has unique learning needs, and i think what we re seeing with common core is the standardization of mediocrity. john: standardized mediocrity. coming up, best-seller about income equality. why is it so popular?
choices and sometimes they re very hard choices so when the president of the united states says we re going to drop criminal cases and we re going to let criminals go free because the sequester, and the rehe alt is, you re he spending 70 million dollars on conferences, i was a federal prosecutor. i know what it s like to need training. i would walk to the room next door to mine and ask will and david stevens, two seasoned prosecutors what do i need to do. i didn t need to go to las vegas. i could go to the office next door. you have to make stuff decisions in times of austerity in prosperity, but in austerity when you ask other people to tighten their belts, cut out the conferences and $12 cups of coffee and don t buy a prison everyone warns, you didn t need and couldn t afford. clayton: in this case, there s no excuse, but is this
democratic senator chuck schumer s bill that would require universal background checks for all gun sales. near perfection in texas. the rangers yu darvish retired the first 26 houston astros he faced last night. not a bad way to kick off second his second season in the lone star state. 170 million dollars that s what he s got a japanese star has 14 strikeouts. overpowering needing just one more out for a perfect game. then up came little-known marwin gonzalez a career .234 hitter. perfect game, gonzalez a base hit! wish you could see berman s face. a clean single breaks up the bid for immortality and ends the right-hander s night. the rangers go on to win 7-0. we need to revel in this for a moment. he was one out away from being educate us berman. from being just the 24th pitcher ever in baseball
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patronage program, who are going to get those out of 130,000 plus schools, who is going to get the 1,000 people. we ve got 70 million dollars in there to get states to incentivize states to give the federal government data for their background check data base. why are we doing that? they re already obligated to give every piece of legal information. what does the 70 million do, is this a hand me out by the president to favorite governors? and then 14 million dollars in there to train 14,000 people, police officers, school administrators, school personnel, first responders, how to respond to mass gun shootings. now, let s assume just for the shake of argument that if each train episode you have about 14 people connected with any one school. that means we re going to have less than 1% of the schools in america participate in this training program, again, are these real or is this an attempt to look like they re doing something? or is this the opening step to spending a lot more money.