the same judge tried to stop us from doing the tenure reforms in a parish with desegment orders. fortunately we went to an pellet court and we temporarily won there. we ll have a full hearing in the appellate court. it shouldn t be about the race of the kid or politics or teacher unions. it should be about student achievement. there s two visions here. one is that you give every child a chance to work hard, get a great education, pursue the american dream. then you ve got the president s view which is all about redistribution. it s about equal outcomes, and not qiewl opportunity. that s what is despicable. martin luther king said every child should have an opportunity to pursue the dream. my dad is one of nine, got past the fifth grade. i wouldn t be here today without him. that starts with a great education. that s what makes this so pernicious. all these kids want is a great education. who are they heart yo hurting? they re saving taxpayers money,
moment. let s listen to what the teachers are asking for. 13 years of experience, this make about $71,000. among the highest paid in the country. only 3% of health care costs. what they re fighting about is they don t want to be evaluated. the average family earns 47,000. the unemployment is 10.5% and these guys are on strike. 18% of fourth graders are proficient in reading, so their results stink. 20% of eighth graders are proficient in math. gretchen: bad. brian: this is an opportunity for leadership, i believe, cast the union aside. we re watching the suicide of the teachers union. they were hurt when they went up against scott walker in wisconsin and failed to recall him. this is absolute suicide because they re striking over issues where people overwhelmingly oppose them. people want tenure reforms so they can get rid of bad teachers. they want paid based on student performance, not on seniority. they don t want automatic salary
to have that. and one last thing i d like to say about mitch daniels, he he he did the thing that few governors had the courage to do, took on the teacher unions and put in tenure reforms and elevated not based on seniority, but based on performance, what a concept. well, i think that the other states which i would mention is andrew cuomo, the government of new york, with a democratic legislature in part and a republican state senate has really resisted what has been the tax and spend model, putting a property tax cap of 2% and cutting spending, without a tax increase, but here is the question, dan, politically. if these governors are so successful in policy terms, why are they so popular politicalically. most of the approval ratings are well under 50%, i think it s in large part, paul, because people in the abstract are for all of this, but when you get down to the details, everyone finds out they re being hit by this stuff somehow. and they don t like it. i mean, as i said, in flor