keep them forever regardless of how their students perform, so in the long run, pretty decent system. in the short-term, this could be an epic disaster. juliet: yeah, basically what it does, kind of wipes the slate clean. so, here is is the numbers here. 7,000 teachers basically are off the hook, now, for problems that they ve caused. 2600 plus teachers, with one poor rating, not fired. so, basically, you ve grandfathered in. clayton: the issue is this won t take effect until 2014. and we ve got two years for the stuff you re seeing on the clean. wiping the slate clean so two years, in the meantime, 7,000 teachers off the hook and even includes those this even includes, sorry. dave: a party going on in the studio. clayton: and this even includes those rubber rooms. if you saw in waiting for superman the famous documentary of teachers basically this trouble and
says if he thinks, chris christie is going to bully me like he bullies everybody else, he doesn t understand who i am or the work that i do. this is a national issue, folks. this comes back personally to the white house quite frankly because the president sends his two children to private school. and yet does not agree with the voucher system for poor children in washington, d.c. to be able to go to the same types of schools. i think that this will become an issue as we move towards the election especially after that documentary last year waiting for superman. if you haven t seen it, you should. property taxes, go to schools. if you live in an area that doesn t require a lot of taxes because maybe it s run down or whatever else it is, guess what? your school is going to get less money and therefore your school can t be as good and therefore the education can t be as good. something has to break that cycle. did you say break that cycle? yes. it looked like something might br
you can t take your kid out of the public school. we would argue not and we would say let s work more closely and more harmoniously. they can t afford you know that, some of these kids can t afford to take their kids life isn t always fair and i m sorry about that. life s not fair. governor christie heard about this and reacted to it yesterday. i cannot express how disgusted i am by that statement. that level of arrogance, that level of puffed up rich man baloney is unacceptable in this state. he should resign! and it s important to point out that particular person in charge of the union apparently, according to reports, makes more than $500,000 a year. so maybe he can t relate to some of those people and remember that documentary last year waiting for superman that talked about the angst some of these families go through to get that one lotto number to go to a better school. keep in mind, this administration disagrees with the voucher system.
years and you know it. well, we ll go out to take the c train out to east new york and do one of the live shows out there. i would love to do it. and i just hope that more than just opening up a charter school for a pr for a nice little pr talking point, i hope the teachers unions will actually start talking about real reform nationwide and maybe, maybe they ll stop standing in the way of the plan to reward great teachers in new york city. right now, they don t want great teachers to be rewarded. joe, this is a ridiculous conversation. they have the contract you want. in washington, d.c., that contract exists today. in washington, d.c., in washington, d.c., the teachers union rejected a plan. and we saw it at the end of waiting for superman. they rejected a plan that would allow all teachers to keep their salary and just have the
been michelle rhee, the former chancellor of washington, d.c. s, public school system, one of the nation s worst performing school districts at the time she took over. in 2007 the education world went into a frenzy over the possibility that michelle rhee could actually turn around the school district. featured in the lightning rod documentary waiting for superman rhee turned the school system upsidedown, firing dozens of schoolteachers and closing 27 schools. you famously clashed with the unions while you were in office. do you think still in retrospect and looking forward, are teachers unions are a fundamental problem to educational reform? well, i think that teachers unions, but more specifically the contracts, the collective bargaining agreements that dictate a lot of the policies in school districts are extraordinarily problematic. one of the policies rhee has been fighting has to do with seniority.