9:00PM -
Be sure to join us right back here bright and early tomorrow morning for more live Education Nation coverage. Good night!

8:58PM-
Get mad and get busy - pledge to see Waiting for Superman when it hits a theater near you!

8:55PM-
Rhee hammers home the fact that words are all well and good, but it takes action to make a change. It can’t happen district by district, it has to go big and it has to happen now!

8:53PM-
Rhee –> Weingarten (et al.): Charter schools are public schools!

8:51PM-
Deborah Kenny: What happens when schools and teachers are given freedom - charter schools.

8:36PM-
(@ MSNBC crew): Knowing the odds as you watch Waiting for Superman (or any of the great education reform films out now) makes the experience all the more (potentially) crushing.

8:32PM-
Another live take, including great Reality Checks on the MSNBC town hall discussion:
http://bit.ly/aHt2or

8:30PM-
Attack of the blurry audience phone camera..

8:25PM-
(@ Randi Weingarten): If you are so proud of the teachers contract in DC, how was it your local affiliate turned right around and sued DCPS after they implemented the changes your members approved?

8:16PM-
Joe –> Randi: “You say no one wants lousy teachers, but there are a lot of lousy teachers protected by this system!”

8:10PM-
(@ Randi Weingarten): Is it a noble notion to want to fix a system that was broken by your own obstruction?

8:07PM-
Canada: “If we don’t fix this, we cannot remain a great country.”

8:05PM-
Michelle Rhee and Geoffrey Canada - even though (or perhaps because) they see scenes like the one playing on screen now every day, they can’t turn away.

7:50PM -

7:30PM -
Shot a quick video of the set-up for the town hall discussion @ Rockefeller Plaza:
http://bit.ly/biQaBW

Join us here tonight @ 8pm for a live rundown of all the chatter from MSNBC’s town hall discussion of Waiting for Superman…

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, TIME’s Joe Klein discussed the proposed stimulus package - with an early focus on the education portion:

KLEIN …Things I’d love to see in this: I think you have over a hundred billion dollars in education, but no quid pro quo from the teachers unions. If you’re going to give a hundred billion in education, at least we should get one extra month of teaching a year. Or, those funds should only be available to districts that eliminate teacher tenure.

Joe Scarborough jumped in with this sarcastic aside:

SCARBOROUGH …With a provision in there, as you suggest Joe, that says absolutely none of this one hundred billion dollars shall be spent to allow poor children to go to the same school that rich Senators send their kids to.

(The education chatter begins @ 1:20 in the video below.)