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Community college, it reflects the level of education that were providing. and so you can have a wonderful home, but if youre going to a school that is providing an eighth grade education, youre not being educated to compete in society. we have to tackle it all. its a big issue but it is the issue for the country. >> i think everyone wants to make sure that this moment is seized. what is the one thing that can happen soon to change the way childrens lives are led in baltimore? >> there are many ...

No solutions, just give us more money. as if the federal government has not been writing big checks for the past 50 or 60 060 years. most americans are like me. do you have a solution that will not be repeating what weve been doing? great. well write the check. but you cant just keep saying were going to do the same things over and over and over again. just give us more money. because that is a copout. that is just as much of a copout as republicans saying hey, well cut taxes, grow the economy a...

Unemployed and disconnected from society. we want to focus on those intervention points. >> tell us about brotherhood sister soul. >> these are the issues weve been working on for 20 years now. we were created in 1995, were based here in new york city, but were a national model now helping people around the country to look at what comprehensive services look like for young people. what we know is that you need a multilayered approach to help young people transform their lives, to break cycles of...

Mistakes and make it better? >> first we have to look at transformational education. we still havent had the conversation in this country about what educational access looks like for everybody. >> what does that mean? >> that means high quality schooling regardless of the zip code. it means young people have the access to skill set, that their minds are being developed to compete. we dont have that high educational access. your zip code determines the level of education you receive. and thats si...

For america. >> he died a sad and tragic death. but in the moment of his death god created a movement a movement that will change schools and childrens lives all over this country. >> congressman elijah cummings joins the conversation next on "morning joe". [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts ♪ ♪ 800,000 hours of supercomputing time 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. whether its building the worlds most advanced satellite, the space sta...

Schools look like. why is it that we continue to have according to the bm administration 5,000 quote dropout facilities. we still allow that poor level of education to continue. so its a comprehensive approach but you cannot separate it from poverty. the two have to run hand in happened to alleviate the conditions that young people face. >> so city councilman scott, you caught a lot of peoples attention here. mark halperin was one, i was another, when you said its not just you enough to write a ...

Of transformational education and have them ask the deepest and important cay questions of what it means to be a human being and what is a good society and what is a good country? and a student encounter great ideas and great text and courses and content, and through an innovative design platform, they will go deep in their minds and transforpation will occur. that is the goal. >> can they get full degrees by never setting to the foot on campus and some day will college be free? >> well, our goa...