Students are getting the education they deserve. This is a large problem. Nearly a nearly 100 schools in detroit Public Schools, 60 Charter Schools in and around the city, 18 Educational Achievement schools, several adjacent charter and school districts, yet parents cannot find the quality education they seek. One of the issues is detroit Public Schools are in debt. By this summer it will be over 515 million in debt. To achieve the needed academic outcomes Financial Stability and detroit Public Schools must be achieved. Going1100 per student is to debt service, and not to classrooms. Problem lets solve this problem and help the kids. Prompt legislative action is needed to minimize the fiscal impact on both detroit, and the rest of michigan. The time to act is now. And avoid Court Intervention that could cost all this much more and be more detrimental. I want to thank senator hanson for the legislation and the input of many legislators that they provided over the last several months. I
Also, i am looking for tour conversation about our primaries and what they all mean to us because in a few weeks well be in the midst of it all. One one of the real questions i think is whether it will be a rare instance where this is a form policy election or an election that is driven in a large part by Foreign Policy rather than domestic issues. We have a number of experts with us today. Opens, charlie cook editor and publisher of the cook report, a colleague of mine, sam feist was senior vp of cnn who can entertain us with stories about organizing debates. , jim lindsay who is chair of the council. His long time partner. Well have an initial period where i lead a conversation but we will have ample time for you to ask your questions and make comments. I will get you out of here at 930 a. M. , as promised. I would remind you this is on the record, well simulcast of my casting this. This is not a typical cf our event where it is on what we call house rules. Let me start off by asking
Closer to a deal to escape going over the fiscal cliff. Good to see you this morning. Welcome again to the program. And we welcome your calls at 186655press. In other big news, the Supreme Court has decided to hear two cases on Marriage Equality but why even bother to hold a hearing . Hey, theres no doubt about it. Under the constitution, it is wrong to discriminate against anybody for any reason. So, of course, gays and lesbians have every right under the constitution to marry each other. There is no doubt about it. Well talk more about that today and a whole lot of other issues but first, we get the latest. Here she is with todays current news update, Lisa Ferguson standing by in our studios in los angeles. Hi lisa, good morning. Hey bill. Good morning everyone. Nothing on the president s public schedule today. He just has his usual briefing in the oval office followed by lunch with the Vice President. The first lady will be visiting the Childrens National Medical Center in d. C. And
Survived that remains quite the mystery this morning. Cnn brian todd has more for you. Reporter the ground crew noticed him wandering the tarmac in maui disoriented. Fbi special agent tom simon says this 16yearold boy claimed to have ridden to maui in the wheelwell of as 67 all the way from san jose, california. The spokeswoman says. Ease hes a very lucky boy. Reporter the teenager was seen hopping the fence at the san jose airport and walking across the tarmac towards the Hawaii Airlines plane. The maui airport has footage of him crawling out of a wheelwell. We went into the wheelwell of a 707. Smaller than the 767s wheel bay but this security expert was able to show us how he could have wedged in. The center could be key. With the setup here in the 707, this area here is probably the best location for him at this time, because that is where the space between the wheels would later on be positioned, and that ensures that there would be slightly, enough space for him to survive, and th
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