Next, Jesse Hagopian, editor of more than a score, and history teacher Garfield High School in seattle, washington, takes a look at standardized testing. Thank you. So welcome everybody for braving the elements and making it out here. My name is brian jones, im an educator and activist. And as jason said im going to moderate our event. Just a few words about the event and then we will kick off. I will introduce the panelists and let them kick it off and then well have discussion after that. We are here for a very important reason. Eight, to mourn the decision to not run Marchand Lynch on the one yard line last night. [laughter] b, to protect Jesse Hagopian from future pepper spray incident last night c to talk to pineapple or d to celebrate the launch of this book more than a score the new uprising against highstakes testing. Now obviously c is a distractor question. Theres nothing relevant. Just eliminate that one right off the bat but a and b are plausible. Either those make sense bu
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If it pushes greece out of the euro it would hurt itself. Olivia Chuka Umunna Chuka Umunna soros says. An american educated former world bank official. The Obama Administrations use him as an improvement over his predecessor. Gone he wants the u. S. To slow down its military withdrawal. Israel was spying on the United States talks with iran over the countrys nuclear deal. The wall street journal says the white house was not that upset because both countries regularly spy on each other. Israel shared the information with u. S. Lawmakers in an attempt to sink any deal. John kerry returns to switzerland to continue talks. Brendan Deutsche Bank shrinking trading businesses to groove to boost profits. Higher Capital Requirements have cut into the profits and wait on the inc. s stock prices. The nfl making moves aimed that those who do not go to the stadium to watch games. Huge news, all games will be televised in local markets even if they do not sell out. A pro Football Game will be broadc
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Owned homes is falling short. The consensus among economists we surveyed was four point 4. 9 million. Economists were looking for a 1. 7 rise. That had been ratcheted down from last week. Existing home sales are tallied only when purchases are closed. They do account for more than 90 of the u. S. Residential market. Perhaps harsh weather played a role for the disappointing read. When it comes to effect on the market stocks are not showing much change from this latest report. The dollar remains weaker. The 10 year yield is pretty much where it was before. Off its low, certainly. This kicks off a week of lots of housing numbers. We will have that for you throughout the week. Matt thank you so much. We will dig deeper into that story in just a moment. Olivia lets start with the bulletin. The top business stories that you should be watching. This week could prove decisive for greece. Prime minister tsipras is meeting with Angela Merkel this week. The bailout money is not likely to happen u