The unions, and republicans being opposed to many of their initiatives . It would seem like they may be making a mistake giving exclusively to democrats. If they give contributions to republicans as well, it would weaken the republican position on moving on Something Like minimum wage. They said we are going to contribute to a handful of republicans because we think they could be the most open to working with democrats, and break some of the logjam weve seen in congress. It might help their effort in generating some goodwill here in washington. And moving on some of their top priorities. Can we speculate that this is since 2012,percent can we see more sense before election day . It seems to be working for them. They seem to be happy with it. Atms to be at list least making people talk about the minimum wage increase. It makes for great visuals, it has the potential to expand their membership. Im sure we will see more. Thanks for both of you being here this week. [captioning performed b
Teacher tenure that they only have to show up . I should admit that was bad language and it was not actually about them. You have a time in which it becomes very important and it is treated differently. I shouldnt have said it and i apologize for saying that. Lets go back to the reference to governor wells. What we are doing under my administration is what massachusetts did in the 1990s under that administration. The same thing. Access to prekindergarten, smaller classroom size. Extended days when applicable. Schools closer to where the kids are living. Holding people accountable. Not just teachers. At ministry was, kids, and parents. The point out governor wells success for something he started in the 90s and say massachusetts is making progress, youre absolutely right. It has been done over time. There is this other thing that tom sometimes uses when he describes educational reform. He says i am education reform light. He wants to bring in other systems that he hasnt said a single wo
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Today, our advisors to it. How we rank in the president s. We want to people to realize its not a scientific ranking. It is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various president s, and what what briley did or do its not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. President will be judged on Foreign Policymaking or on race relations. Or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. Its broken up into numerous categories. The newborn one ten scale and all those categories. At the end we add them up and there is the list. The key ingredient are the historians and scholars. There are only a few of us on air today. The top biographers, academic historians, journalists have written important biographies are all part of this survey. We really try to get around 150 140 people answering the survey. And we are very proud every four years because of the list. We can all quibble over somebody we think should be ra
Historian author smith by historian author and here in washington d. C. It is professional and that green bedford of Howard University. Thank you and for joining us this morning. Doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. How do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. How do you decide to make that comparison . Cspan is put together a group of all of us on the air today, our advisors to it. How we rank in the president s. We want to people to realize its not a scientific ranking. It is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various president s, and what what briley did or do its not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. President will be judged on Foreign Policymaking or on race relations. Or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. Its broken