Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100308:17:24:00
Ago to as you mentioned a moment ago, fewer than 18,000? how did that happen? >> actually about 20 years ago, the district was about 75,000. then ten years ago, 35,000, now we're down to approximately 17,000. >> how did that happen. >> 17,500. after the school district went through the desegregation period, white flight as well as middle class flight set in. and people began to move away from the urban core to the suburbs. and as a result of that, we experienced declining enrollment over the last 20 years. >> you've had some dollars over the years to try to get folks back. why haven't you been...
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