office, our state s leaders had come together to pass bipartisan measures that were making a difference. in reading and math, our student were in the top. that reveals what good teachers will do if the system will let them. the problem was, this success wasn t shared. a significant achievement gap between students of different races remain. so we set out to do our best to close it. i urge faster interventions and promote science and excellence skills in schools and propose paying bonuses to our best teachers. i refuse to weaken testing standards and instead raise them. students now many massachusetts have to pass an exam in math and english and i added a science requirement as well. i put in place a merit scholarship for all those students who excelled the top 25% of students in each high school in massachusetts were awarded a john and abigail scholarship, four years of learning. and not only did our test scores improve, we also narrowed the achievement gap. they were not hap
more than 50,000 people killed in the last six years. the candidates making their case for stopping the violence and keeping it in spilling over into the united states? william is streaming live from mexico. william? reporter: mexico s war against the cartels has been no more successful than america s war on drugs. voters are disappointed. they appear ready to switch forces, after 12 years out of power, political party known for cronyism and corruption appears on the verge of a dramatic come back and victory in sunday s presidential elections. it appears that voters are willing to overlook the revolutionary party and give them a second chance. but appear by a wide margin to overlook the inif i details of their candidate. the candidate admitted cheating on his first wife and having two
and how mad would the parents be to find out that the kid gave away some of their grade point average? and i know you would haven t done this, you would not have taken the grades. the fact that we have kids today that would actually accept somebody else s grades to help their own, that, i think is andrea: i was proud, i was so proud of my c-minus or maybe d-plus in a je back. you re right. i earned that d-plus. dana: i promise you, you would have taken it. greg: you re raising your hand. you would have taken it. bob: i said an degree yeah. looking at the ion tact. greg: it doesn t have to be grades. nif talent you have. bob: grades should not make government grow. alogy greg: grades get you the job and get blown dana: to help you graduate and then get a job. bob: we are not going to talk about the school that makes you not get in the aye i have league school? greg: want me to talk about it? bob: we re out of time.
to something else. but that would be a wonderful thing. that would be great. i was thinking about it yesterday. i was thinking this keeps happening, we keep debating women irks. how great if we had two presidential candidates who are women debating those issues. and as you know if you get more women into business, you get them into government, things go better overall for everybody. lesley, kelly, what a great conversation. and it is continuing. apparently all across america. thank you so much for coming in. and for today s tweet of the day we had to revisit newark, new jersey mayor cory booker s heroics, saving that neighbor from a burning building. the atlantic s jeffrey goldberg writes, cory booker was on the way home from sabotaging north korean missile program when he saved that newark resident from a house fire. comedian frank con nif tweets, not to be outdone by cory booker, chris christie just ran into a bakery and saved a tray of cinnamon rolls from burning. and ti
black child would go free. damning speculation. nif facts to back it up? new mexico, you are missing the actual reason for the trayvon martin feeding frenzy in the media. it s all for the purpose of getting the black vote out to support barack obama. i don t see this as a political story, brian. conspiratorialists do. glenn arnold, simpson, has, you keep referring to oil company subsidy. you should be apprised of the difference between a subsidy and a tax exemption. love being apprised, glen. love it. my statement is the american taxpayers are subsidizing the oil companies because the companies are saving on taxes that could go to the general welfare. eric kelly, jupiter, florida, bill the pharmaceutical industry is the biggest offender when it comes to subsidiaries. they pay big money to your bosses in ads so you give them a pass. rough mail segment today i have no clue what the adds run