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Imbalanced. a study in north carolina found that 30% of students at the end p public schools, and 60% of chart ter schools at the end racially unbalanced schools, so when we come back to the question, and thinking of the charters and the valentine you of the charters and the value of the quality of education, shouldnt integration be one of the measures of how good a school is? >> well, the big argument in mississippi with charters is that they would become segregation academy ps essentially, and...

Immigration reform, we cant just not break up familyies and assume that we know what a family is, because the immigration reform is to be truly comprehensive, it must include all families including the lgbtq families, and so i want to bring up the broader issue of family, but first, i want to talk about a little bit about what we heard in terms of thinking about immigration fundamentally as an economic and sort of a policy around the social safety net, and it is both great and horrible, and make...

While integration is important and crucial in public schools, i think that right now, we will see that they are focusing more on exactly what can they target to immediately improve. what is the quickest point of entry to public education? >> well, it is something that makes me nervous to see strange bedfell bedfellows, and you see people in louisiana who are encouraging charter systems, and vouchers and i am thinking, that you have not been on the side of educating the kids for decades and now i...

You have to make do with that reality. that is part of where the sunflower freedom project came from. it was taking where the kids are right now and realizing that they deserve so much better, and so much more in terms of the educational opportunity, aioppo thinking about the things that we could do as eng kay tor the educators to give them the opportunities and that is how the freedom project developed and changed over the years, but it is interesting, because we have never had a white student....

>> this one. >> so -- is that solved by integration? >> you know, its -- i think that it would be very beneficial that we see in the reporting down there that it is beneficial when the children especially in low income communities have access to resources, and have more diversity in the experiences and the people they are exposed to. a lot of times we go to schools in the delta and the kids have never been outside of the delta and have very little, so immigration is important, but we see more im...

Located in sun flower academy they popped up after the 1960s and many people believe that "brown" started the desegregation of the schools, but in the rural community that is not true, because before the civil rights act, there were virtually no black children going to the schools, and then after the act, you had the force of integration, that is when you saw the academies pop up in sunflower and across the south, and then when the supreme court weighed in and saying in 1969 that you have to int...