college entrance exams this summer. many florida teachers will need to retake the s.a.t. or a.c.t. in order to qualify for a bonus. the state legislature, you see, set aside an estimated $44 million for teacher bonuses. educators who scored in the 80th percent tile or above on the standardized tests can qualify for an additional $10,000. the author of the bill funding the program says it will help recruit and retain top talent. well some teachers you may know disagree. quote this is idiotic, says one. it makes no sense. what does this measurement have to do with a teacher s performance in the classroom? especially when they took it 20 or 30 years ago. another blast from the past the 90s don t seem so far away with jurassic world in the theaters a clinton running for office. and when it comes to technology the federal government seems stuck in the past. house oversight and government
appears house republican leaders are waving the white flag on the stand off on the president s executive action on homeland funding. they approved a clean funding bill giving up the tie in to overturn the president s executive action. chief congressional correspondent where some conservatives are very unhappy. every house democrat and 75 house republicans backed this bill funding homeland security through september. the vote was 267 to 167 and supporters said it was time to get this done. it is time for the house to move past the corrosive pattern of self imposed cliffs and shut downs and get to the work that the american people expect us to address. issues like tax reform trade transportation and infrastructure, things that are going to help create american jobs and improve our economy. reporter: house speaker john boehner broke the news this morning that he would bring up the bill to fund dhs today.
to see that this actually will pass and that we will avoid that shutdown that we ve been looking for, the timing that we ve been looking for at midnight tonight, probably won t happen. but again, as we ve been saying, i don t want to be in the prediction business given what has happened over the past few hours. that would be a key development in this saga to be sure, dana. and you have information, i understand, just in, a key development in the future of speaker boehner s leadership. reporter: perhaps, but i think it s more of when it comes to understanding and explaining why we are where we are and why this speaker has refused to put on the house floor that clean bill funding the department through the end of the year. i ve spoken to a couple of senior republican sources in the house, people who are close to john boehner, like john boehner and they say they have become increasingly worried that if he did that, if he defied conservatives, that he could be
death. today marks three years since trayvon martin was shot dead in florida. history belongs to all of us. i want to go and meet the people. it s a politically charged situation. when does it air? oh it will never air. i don t know. let s just read it because it appeared right there. as you asked me i saw it right there and i thought, there s a reason you re leaving. for six weeks, house republicans have been clinging to a hopeless strategy for funding the department of homeland security. they have mistakenly believed until tonight that they could force president obama to sign a bill funding the department of homeland security, a bill which would include provisions that would nullify the president s executive actions on immigration. they foolishly believed president obama would sign such a bill because funding the department of homeland security is so important. of course house speaker john
trayvon martin was shot dead in florida. history belongs to all of us. i want to go and meet the people. it s a politically charged situation. when does it air? oh, it will never air. i don t know. let s just read it because it appeared right there. as you asked me, i saw it right there and i thought, there s a reason you re leaving. for six weeks, house republicans have been clinging to a hopeless strategy for funding the department of homeland security. they have mistakenly believed until tonight that they could force president obama to sign a bill funding the department of homeland security, a bill which would include provisions that would nullify the president s executive actions on immigration. they foolishly believed president obama would sign such a bill because funding the department of homeland security is so important. of course, house speaker john