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Play from 0:00[0:00] ..." This is John -- in the WBZ newsroom on speaking to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. And our governor if you would update us on I guess is essentially you would sent a letter over to -- legislature yesterday. Outlining. What you would like to see in the education reform bill won't what are some of the highlights."...

Play from 0:20[0:20] ..." we're looking war. Really a weigh in in the Indian schools the public schools. Introduce more innovate. To give opportunities for the school to align themselves with the college university. Museum but. Who put the parent"...

Play from 3:07[3:07] ..." up one side. Population and workforce in an act that science faculty. MIT's doctors. Housekeepers and look after a psychiatrist. In an armed forces. So this strategy is great values. Statement my position and in"...

Play from 0:00[0:00]" This is John -- in the WBZ newsroom on speaking to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. And our governor if you would update us on I guess is essentially you would sent a letter over to -- legislature yesterday. Outlining. What you would like to see in the education reform bill won't what are some of the highlights."

Play from 0:19[0:19]" Well we're looking war. Really a weigh in in the Indian schools the public schools. Introduce more innovate. To give opportunities for the school to align themselves with the college university. Museum but. Who put the parent teacher or. Really did try a new thing so we can get better achievement in -- in those areas where this was not perform analytics it -- stuck in the cheap. We also have proposed to increase the charter. Yen in those areas were at school district is chronically fail. -- and yet offer another opportunity another way. In the to innovate and you know it it's and that is important legislation. Can make -- more competitive and make that the tapped on. Yeah in the in the bill but beyond. We have a moral obligation. There it to work work especially need. Speak English as a second language who -- it that color. And -- those kids and the group that -- had been trapped in their in the achievement gap. For more than a decade now and we ought to be patient. About trying to address."

Play from 1:34[1:34]" You tell me governor if you would weirder at Charter Schools that in. In your proposal."

Play from 1:41[1:41]" Aren't they in some cases can't help you it. A chance to succeed in two performance yet who would use that innovation that's why we propose to raise the church. In those areas where schools a school district has been chronically underperforming. -- use that as another tool -- opposes."

Play from 2:03[2:03]" How quickly do you think you can get bill passed."

Play from 2:06[2:06]" Well frankly should have been -- by now with. Kudos to the Senate for acting last night until now most news yeah to oust great -- we are here. That the house may not take it out because they that the legislature. A section seven week. At the end of I knew it it's been awhile and if it means that the web -- at the state inspection mission in."

Play from 2:32[2:32]" And finally just a quick comment on the instate tuition bills for illegal immigrants. You know not necessarily a populist stance but to talk to me what is your stance in what do you say to the critics who say you know that -- there shouldn't be."

Play from 2:47[2:47]" Well first of all this is 131. Recommendation. Came from the group that develop an agenda for new there. And it's -- the agenda that the expanding more constructed and that school integration strategy. Two people who work -- this country and immigrants make up one side. Population and workforce in an act that science faculty. MIT's doctors. Housekeepers and look after a psychiatrist. In an armed forces. So this strategy is great values. Statement my position and in state to which which is one. 131. Recommendation is not new it's about treating all residents who attend public and state houses. Saying. I think there. The ethical and economic and that it is."

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