These six men. Its taken so long for them to be charged. Theres no question what happened. Host im sorry, maybe you can call in again, we can get your comments again. Going to move on to virginia, independents line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Im from virginia where, you know the American Dream was born here. Jamestown in 1619, you had your first africans get here to this country, became the greatest nation on the planet in terms of talking about the ideal of democrat sifment and independence for all. It hasnt happened. And here in virginia, we have a place called fort monroe where that happened almost 400 years ago. And what were doing there is helping people understand how our founding past impacts who we are today. So we codified slavery in the constitution and now in 1865, supposedly it was ended with the adoption of the 13th amendment. But here we are in the 21st century, still fighting the ills of how this country was founded. What we are hoping we can do is help people
Common core. The idea is that this is common core that you have assessments is really not true and people have been opting out. Florida had the most meaningful accountability system in the country. We also have the greatest learning gains in the country. They go together by the way. Its a comprehensive reforms that create the rise of achievement. We were on the nape test, you cant teach for that test. We were 29th out of 31 in 1997 on the fourth grade reading test. Ten years later we were six out of 50. Florida hispanic kids do two grade levels ahead of their counterparts and equal to 33 states on this test. Low income are in the top five. Africanamerican are in the top five in these tests. The reason is that we have meaningful assessments and we have robust accountability and we have School Choice that puts pressure on a system that wouldnt otherwise move. Eliminating elements of the accountability system would get a bad result. When a third of our kids are 40 at the best or career re
Look weak. Walmart may have protesters outside its doors on friday. Deer misses earnings, and the market shrugs it off. Turmoil in israel with a bomb explosion on board a bus today and a rumored ceasefire that never happened. Crude is up 1 as the secretary of state has arrived in cairo. A big day full of planes, trains and automobiles with tens of millions of americans set to embark on their Holiday Weekend journeys. Our phil lebeau is in chicago with more on the Holiday Travel landscape. How painful is it going to be . You know, carl f youre traveling, you always need a little more patience thanksgiving weekend. For the airlines, theyre keeping their fingers crossed because if you look at a map of the United States, you really dont see any major storm systems. That means if its a smooth weekend, you talked about this being important to the profitability of fourth quarter, thats certainly good news for the airlines. Take a look at the number of people who will be traveling this thanksg
Deadly chaos in the country. Also coming up, french footballer is leaving newcastle united. All the details on the 24 millioneuro deal coming up and sports. China takes over france is the home of the most red wine drinkers in the world. It is as much about the color as the taste. Head to the united states, where president barack obama delivered his annual state of the Union Address. Speaking tuesday in washington, he put congress on notice that he is willing to go it alone. The president has made no bones about his frustration with partisan gridlock on capitol hill. He says he will use executive orders to pass legislation that is blocked in congress. Lets make this a year of action. Barack obamadent signaled he is not giving up on advancing key programs Like Fighting income inequality and Immigration Reform. Stymied the political gridlock the last 2 years, the president and congress on alert. Not stand still and neither will i. Whenever and wherever i can take steps without legislation
Pearson it was about the topic what we did for the final version instead of separate attendance stakeholders from the private and business communities given that mandate it would be better if this was clearly about their privacy considerations. Washington journal continues. Host joining us from austin, texas is dr. Deborah peel, founder and chairman of the board of a group called patient privacy. What is that group . Guest we are fighting to put americans back in control of their Health Information. We cannot control it anymore. Callerhost what does that mean . Guest i have been a physician for a long time. Thats why i found it patient privacy rights. Vacuum the agent age of paper, before any information about you was moved from one doctor to another, you had to be asked your permission to send the information. Today, with the new Technology System, Electronic Health records, Health Information exchanges, everyone else, everyone that holds their data controls it and moves it. We dont k