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Nine blocks. we've had a front row seat on the way these nine blocks have become the very center of an education controversy. the issue at stake, which student will be assigned to which school. a new york-style microcosm of an enormous and emotional issue facing families across the country. in our family here in new york city, one of the schools is ps 199. it's a k-to-5 public elementary school where they rate higher than the citywide average in readinged an math. students at ps-199 don't just do better than the city average, they trounce it. 87% of third through fifth graders score. and 74% s...

Household income of less than $25,000, the unemployment rate is way above any at 20%, the truancy rates a at high school is 45%, bad for middle schoolers around 20s%, and domestic violence is 50% above the city average. that is devastating. here's my question to you, council councilman. >> i'm listening. >> if this root cause is going to change and those young people and young adults because many were upwards 30 years old, up to 200 or so upwards of 30 years old, if that is to change, then investment and changes need to happen with those statistics. you are part of the leadership. and stephani...

The baltimore city health department issued a profile of that neighborhood, just so folks get a sense of the back ground context. the unemployment rate is double the city average. there are twice as many liquor stores and tobacco outlets per capita. the worst violence of any neighborhoods and among the worst rates of homicides. a quarter of the juveniles had been arrested over a four-year period from 2009 to 2014. it is an intensely concentrated area of urban poverty. >> reporter: that's right. a few of the young people we interviewed talked about freddie gray as if he was one of their own. on...