but the amount of courage and criteria we re seeing gives me great hope for where we can go as a country. at the same time we face the fiscal cliff and automatic spending cut the and with all the focus on defense and avoiding taxes from the republican side, what is going to happen to public education if it all comes out of domestic there s a clear choice and we are going to continue to invest in education at every level, early childhood education, k to 12 reform, making college more accessible and affordable or going to cut. we see education s expense. president obama and i think education is the best investment we can make in our young people, communities and country. not everyone in congress, particularly, you know, congressman ryan s budget, they think in tough economic times we can walk away from our commitment to education. i fundamentally reject that. arne duncan, thank you very much, mr. secretary. thanks. thanks for being part of the summit. guess who else is in t
that might come as a surprise to you since you ve been under fire from the teachers unions along the way as well. i think we should all be on the side of teachers. i think teachers are doing important work every day without enough resources, often without enough support. this is about how we get better together. stop playing politics, how we support teachers and principals to get better, parents step up and help them, challenge young people to get a good education all of vus a great deal of self-interest seeing america have a world-class public education system. what is your take away from the strike in chicago? rahm moon all in took a hardline, praised by mayor bloomberg the other day, and at the same time the teachers got a pretty healthy raise but they had to make concessions as well. we hear there is a huge challenge for the pension system. for the teachers in chicago. i think they got to a great place. may have been difficult getting there. but a deal that at the end of the
campaign trail talking about the economy. that does it for us for in special edition of andrea mitchell reports. tomorrow on the show my exclusive interview with christine la guard. to learn more about the education stories this hour, check out our website. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what s next on news nation. great hour. next hour we have excerpts from a brand-new interview peter a x alexander conducted with mitt romney where romney predicts a victory. do you believe that president obama was not deepedly saddened by the loss of four american lives in libya, speaking about policy in that region and not about the loss of lives that took place there at the consulate embassy. when the president was speaking about bumps in the road, he was talking about developments in the middle east. these fellas used capital one venture miles for a golf getaway. double miles you can actually use.
sides about education? we re not hearing enough. and i want to hear what are we going to do to finally solve this problem. people are now aware. can we give people, parents, better choices? we can t leave kids in failing neighborhood schools. if they have to go to a charter school, get a voucher and go to a private school we have to get it done because we cannot afford to leave children behind. it goes to the core of who we are as americans. it is the civil rights issue of our time. and up next, the reading revolution with chelsea clinton. you re watching andrea mitchell reports live from the education nation summit only on msnbc. sure wish you guys would bring layaway back. actually. that way i could split my payments into little bite-size chunks. i mean you feel me right? yeah. uh, sir. ah. [ male announcer ] layaway s back. earlier than ever. through december 14th. walmart. [ male announcer ] layaway s back. earlier than ever.
there was a little traffic jam back stage that was enjoyable. very exciting for you. exciting for all of your friends here. congratulations. thank you, andrea. it started with game change and we have to wait for game change two and when you decide who you re casting in that you know who your friends are. thank you, andrea. appreciate it. thank you very much. and new york, of course, returning to education nation, new york has the nation s largest public school system serving more than 1 million students with an operating budget of nearly $20 billion. that is $20 billion reasons and 1 million reasons importantly why what happens here is watched across the country. joining me now, the man in charge of it, new york city schools chancellor dennis wolcott. good afternoon. thank you for having us in new york. isn t that fabulous. the new york public library. a great message to the schoolchildren. and what education nation has done to us is tremendous. my education s