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On testi okokracy is for lack o better metric, for a lack of a better definition. until we have that discussion, a lot will play out exactly as weve seen. >> i keep trying to argue what we actually need to do is redefine what constitutes a quality school or good school. as you go on realtor.com or whatever to buy a house or look for an apartment it will have the rating of the school. what if we shifted so the rating of the school included the level of racial diversity. where more racial diversit...

I are agreeing a lot. >> were not a nation of rightest and left -- >> well go to amy, go ahead. >> its never enough. the other point i want to make, obamas redistribution of wealth doesnt work. he talks about a level playing field. he doesnt support school choice. it will benefit children, get them a quality education and restore hope for their future. his daughters go to a quality school in washington but hes blocking the door for kids who need a quality education. >> it goes far beyond tax pol...

Though -- and so we dont even take integration into account as part of how you would define a quality school. so youre saying is this a good school, does it rate 1 to 10 or four apples or something. we dont even ask whether or not integration in the classroom is part of that. >> its not that theres this madness from white chirp sitting next to black children, but poor children sitting next to middle-class children and the resources theyre afforded does wonders. when you look at a situation like ...

They were learning algebra in trigonometry. >> eventually the stress got to eric and he dropped out. how do you compare that to the moonbound schools? >> definitely america is in the moonbound category in most places, so when we think kids are taking high-stakes tests, theyre nothing like what asia is dealing with. a much healthier model is a place like finland where when the kids are in school, theyre doing pretty high-quality, challenging work and theyve got quality-educated teachers who getti...

Age of segregation. somehow its as though we pursue one goal, we miss the rest of it. as you hopefully get an audience with the president or as you are in d.c. with parents from 18 cities, what is the big story? what are the solutions you have here? >> there are quite a few. we are clear on the shoulders of which we stand. the young people there and the parents and community members there from all over the country. we get that. on the anniversary of roe v. wade. black history month approaching. ...

hes claiming hes raised a million dollars in less than 24 hours following that south carolina win. so no big surprise that the attacks on both sides are ramping up. weve got congressman bob mcewen joining us. hes a newt deng grich surrogate. sir, welcome to you. also produce you to our pan panelist. we have bob grobrownstein. i just called you bob. im going to make up names. and will cain and roland martin. and also this morning, we are being joined by tom, thank you for being with us....

Candidate. and hes, you know, managed to cobble together a very odd coalition of fringe support thats going to get him a fringe win in iowa, and then hes going to go away. >> and the thing is, alex, the thing thats so damaging if youre a republican about this all is that your independent voter whos not pleased with what president obamas done is thinking that hes not going to vote for president obama and then he sees whats happened during this primary. he sees a gay soldier get booed. he sees exe...

The cost associated with the kids being in school. >> the father that lives there is paying taxes. >> thats right. but still there is estimates about how many kids are in a district, and how many -- and theres a match to those potential schools. but with that said, the reason 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 ...

Public schools. third grade, below state standards, fifth, sixth, below, seventh below. below, below, below on everything except for four of the 24 things they measure on. dr. perry, ultimately what is this saying about our state educational system? i mean, is this woman someone who should have been sitting in jail as she tried to do not what most people complain about parents which is theyre not involved at all, but was sort of overinvolved in her kids education. >> certainly she should not hav...

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...