This is not the end. nothing is more important than our kids education. having good teachers is critical. the education secretary is among those applauding this ruling in california. he called it a mandate to fix the system. let s bring in john, the superintendent of the los angeles unified school districts. you are happy about this decision? you think it s going to help kids. give us your immediate reaction. i m very pleased. i think this is a historic day for students rights here in california. i think it is a very pro public school, very pro teacher and very pro student decision. the same rights that teachers justly deserve, those rights are now clearly being provided for the youth. particularly youth who have lived in circumstances of poverty. the judge s ruling was staied pending an appeal from the teacher s union.
Talk about it last week about it on the show and frankly didn t think i could without completely losing it. and we ve had three wonderful dogs and jet was my inseparable companion, and my hunting and fishing companion and sat next to me during the books i ve written and i don t think the country is going to the dogs, that would be a good thing, jet was good and kind to everyone, especially children, but if there were a hundred people in the room and they were holding out a steak and i was standing there empty handed he would still come to me first. he didn t believe any of the nasty things people wrote about me in newspapers, blogs, or letters to the editor. and he never thought my speeches were too long, or my jokes were too corny or that i had made some student decision. he got up when i got up. he went to bed when i went to