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The cost of not educating those children are enormous. and thats what were involved with in this country. we have to make the mechanism, in which a child can, if they dont have access to a quality school, to go somewhere else, to cross county lines or well see the types of devastations were seeing throughout the country. >> take us back to brown versus board of education. which i know is a desegregation case, but ultimately, was itnt found that access to a quality education is a basic and consti...

Why we have counties and parishes across the country saying were going to have open enrollment counties is because they understand that if you have limited options in your county, you have to go somewhere else. the cost of not educating those children are enormous. and thats what were involved with in this country. we have to make the mechanism, in which a child can, if they dont have access to a quality school, to go somewhere else, to cross county lines or well see the types of devastations we...

Over the years, so rather than ending up using a scalpel to do this, piece by piece, now theyve got to take it by an axe. >> im glad you moade that poin that so many students will have to be packed into other schools and classrooms will be overcrowded. people are saying no, poo this will fill up some classes that were half full in the first place. another point, i was shocked to read, less than a third of the elementary kids in this district were reading at grade level and the scores, the testin...

City, what happened? >> no some cases or many cases people left the urban core and went to the suburbs. in 1995 the united states supreme court reversed or -- a desegregation case which led to the loss of approximately 8,000 students. and then in 1995 the missouri state legislature allowed for charter schools. >> right. >> and then in addition to that, in 2007 some of our schools were annexed by a neighboring school district. the independent school district, where we lost additional students. >>...

Worked to make education a priority by improving the schools and you were integrating your districts. this resulted in olympic-size swimming pool, a recording studio, a lot of kree yay ti things you put together for the students. do you think maybe the district was a little too aggressive on its spending and now the students are suffering? >> well, that happened almost 15 to 20 years ago, i guess, as a result of the desegregation case. schools were given, you know, olympic-sized swimming pools, ...

Constitution understands the philosophy of the constitution. to be as defender of the constitution doesnt mean you just want limited government, it means you want to protect individual rights as much as you want to limit government. so you have ronald reagan. today wed call him a social and economic conservative. in other words, he wants deregulation, wants them doingma farther and business encouraged and prosperity. it comes from the free enterprise. thats all good. he wantsri less regulation a...