or 22, 23. now they are 41 and 32 and reading and math. jenna: there is a lot to unpack there. let me take some questions for my viewers. thank you for letting me. jenna: no problem, we are trying to focus before the hearing to understand the questions she might be asked. if the charter schools she is advocating for so bad, why are parents lining up in order to get their kids into those charter schools and not opting for public education? they are not lining up in michigan for them. frankly, what has happened is in michigan, if you talk to parents in detroit, there are parents in washington, d.c., today to say don t do this. michigan has some of the worst charter schools in america, but the reason parents want a school is they want it to focus on kids, and they want instruction, they want it to be safe. i run a charter school in
people amazed, others a little bit frightened, others have questions about this giant alligator at a florida nature preserve. we wanted to talk a little bit more about this guy come he deserves it, right? assuming it is a guy, we will find out from james. he is a researcher at the university of florida who focuses on alligators. i am calling him the gator guy, we are proud to have you here. when you see video of this giant alligator, what goes through your mind? not the largest alligator i ve ever seen. jenna: come on. they there have been some 1t mail alligators, probably 30 or 40 years old, but they get a lot bigger than that. alligators have indeterminate growth so as long as they are alive, they keep on growing and getting bigger. jenna: how dangerous is the alligator? part of the marvel is that you see all the people on the side taking photos of him. those people are not in any real danger.
i have said this many times on the election campaign, jenna, but it bears repeating. you just cannot make this stuff up. jenna: [laughs] i don t know what to say so i am not going to say anything, john. i will .1 thing out to our viewers prove they are used to seeing you in front of trump tower, you re in front of the trump transition office in washington, d.c. wanted to point that out. does that office shut down shop on thursday in move to the white house, what happens next? friday at 12 noon, the president will be sworn in on the 20th of january which is when the transition process is over and when the process of governing begins, all of the what are called beachhead teams put together by the trump transition will head to all of the departments to start running things until all of the confirmands are in place. they are expected to get the national security team in place, and that would include the secretary of state, secretary of
on earth that promises both opportunity and attainment. the only place to do that is in public schools. as a mean that public schools should not be better, of course they should be better. what we said on monday, i did a speech last monday and said to betsy devos, of course she did not respond except for her folks. jenna: she is a little busy. [laughs] what i am saying is they certainly responded by demagogue in today and adds. jenna: let me talk a little bit about the politics. there are those that are saying, and bill benefit talked a little bit, he is on one side of the aisle. he is saying there are too many politics involved in education in general, and we have to be focused on finding solutions for our children. i agree. that is what we did last year. jenna: we expect betsy devos to be confirmed. we expect the hearings to be tough, and we expect that nominees to be confirmed. where do you see potential
merrick city that has 100% graduation rate. parents flocked to that school because they say, i want that for my kid. what we have to do is we have to make sure all schools, all schools with public dollars are viable choices for parents. jenna: what is it about betsy devos you think will prevent that from happening and prevent parent choice? there are those who say that the unions are against parent choice, betsy devos is for it. as i just said, i run i am the president, and i run a blue robin public charter school in new new york city, so this is name-calling because they are trying to obfuscate the record. betsy devos is not free choice, she is for privatization. jenna: let me ask about privatization because bill bennett points at some statistics. when you look at our nations education compared to other developed countries, we are 19 out of 35 in science,