we won t leave. we won t leave. thousands of oklahoma school teachers are expected to continue their walkout for a sixth day tomorrow to protest cuts for school funding and low cuts to salaries. mary fallon signed a bill to increase teacher s salaries by $6,000, to many it wasn t enough. oklahoma teachers are among the lowest paid in the country. it s not just about needing a bigger salary increase, they re demanding more government funding to improve conditions inside the classroom. joining me to discuss is bishop william barber, cindy rolfton, a teacher participating and state senator anastasia pittman. i want to start with you, cindy. oklahoma teachers salaries average about $42,000. the median income in the united
your students on the way to the food pantry, being humiliated as a teacher, degreed teacher, this is the governor s response to the teacher s outcry. teachers want more but it s kind of like having a teenage kid that wants a better car. your response, senator pittman? yes, thank you for having me. i appreciate the opportunity to speak out. yes, the governor of oklahoma has said it very clear and cloudily, sent a message to all of our constituents by saying businesses don t want to come here and in order for us to promote business in oklahoma, we must have an educated work force. and so it s unfortunate that our governor doesn t respect the profession of education. so i encourage the teacher walkout. this is the sixth day we ve had this happen. we ve lost over $180 million over the last ten years. it s time for us to stand up, walk out, speak up for children.
wednesday. let me start by saying that i m sorry. deeply sorry. some have wondered why i haven t spoken out publicly. the truth is i ve had a mix of pain, shame, sorrow and fear over the consequences of my actions. i did not want to apologize to the press or to the whole country first until i came here to apologize to the community most directly impacted. since then critics have lashed out at him and the black leaders who took part in that news conference. they re calling the apology insincere. joining me now, oklahoma state senator anastasia pittman, the chair of oklahoma s legislative black caucus and organized wednesday s new conference. with a welcome to you, ma am. i understand you ve been getting a lot of pushback on all this, and it s been getting worse in recent days. absolutely. i ve received contact about how can you accept an apology on behalf of black america, and that s not what the reality is
funds support those institutions. we re looking for zero-tolerance policies. we re looking for sensitivity training. this is an opportunity for us to require and request more things like minority teacher recruitment and more diversity on a variety of campuses. but not one african-american constituent has come forth and asked me to propose a resolution to ban the chant. so if they re going to criticize me for accepting an apology, let s move forward and require some action in our local communities, in our state. well i thank you very much. oklahoma state senator anna stay that pittman. we have much more ahead in our next hour. bowe bergdahl charged with desertion. i ll get reaction from a man who served alongside that army sergeant. t i m going my way. i leave a story untold.
celebrate. hello, everyone. it s high noon here in the east 9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to weekends with alex witt. new details today of the terrifying last minutes facing the passengers and crew of germanwings flight 9525 as co-pilot andreas lubitz may have deliberately flown that plane into a mountainside in the french alps. a german tabloid today published a timeline based on the contents of the cockpit voice recorder. at 10:27 a.m. the plane reaching cruising altitude of 38,000 feet. the pilot tells the co-pilot to prepare for landing. lubitz says quote, hopefully, and, we ll see. after the landing check, lubitz tells the pilot, you can go now. the pilot leaves the cockpit. at 10:29, flight radar detects the plane is losing altitude. at 10:32, air traffic controllers try to contact that plane. they receive no answer from the aircraft. the sync rate alarm then sounds noises are heard like that of someone trying to kick in the cockpit door. the captain shouts for god s