Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120224:04:43:00
In 1999, one of our neighborhood high schools was closed. it was called king high school. it was closed and turned into a college prepatory high school and received an investment from chicago public schools. that meant that students who lived across the street from king, can't go to king. they were shipped to dyett which was a middle school and transformed into a high school to receive the students that would no longer be welcome at king. they were so underinvested that when i joined the local school council in 2003, they had the first graduating class and those students never had honors class...