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Country with nothing, no special privileges, and as i argued in my book "an inconvenient minority," they still succeed in this country. they disprove critical race theory and they shed light -- you know, harvard discriminates against asian-americans. that is how successful they are. that is how successful they have become. >> laura: well, when you look at the controversy around education today, in washington, d.c., area, in fairfax county, there is a really high performing school, and that high-performing school, science, technology, the very big asian population in the school, enrollment, wel...

Only 10% of a school's budget comes from the federal budget. it's up to districts and states to stem the inequity. another thing they do really well in shanghai is they have sister programs so the higher performing schools take on a lesser performing school and take over the management to elevate it. >> you also talk about the respect the teachers had in the societies. now, that's something the government i suppose can't really do. teachers could be paid more, which i think is one of the tragedies in america. we think we pay teachers well. we don't. we pay them badly. what could one do about t...

Crisis. >> and also were failing academically. >> and that was a hugely controversial decision. >> yes, it was. i have extended the school day and the year, added years that never were provided for, and we took 49 schools that were not performing and underenrolled and continue to lose people and actually got every child, as the university of chicago said, to a better performing school and doing better academically and our graduation rate has gone from 56% to 78%. to me -- >> let's stipulate that. let's stipulate that you've transformed the community colleges, headquarters have come back. yet, ...

I would not send my child there. >> why do you think therefore there's such outrage about the possibility that students currently zoned for 199, the higher performing school, may, in fact, have to go instead to 191? >> think it is because we have the designation. people are afraid to send them there, because we have been stamped with that disignition. i also think they are worried because we have low scores, low test scores. i think there are many factors that are counting. i mean, we are across from the housing project. i think that worries a lot people. yes, i think that is a big, big factor...

>> yeah. our school day goes to 5:15. most public schools get out at 2:30. >> three more hours of lear up a student that goes to success academy from kindergarten to eighth grade gets two extra years of learning than they would have gotten in traditional public school. >> if i was a parent living in that neighborhood i would absolutely demand that my kid go to the charter school rather than the public school. it doesn't work that way, does it? >> unfortunately, the heart ache is we had 23,000 applications for only 2200 spots. >> 2300 -- >> 23,000 applications for 2200 spots. so parents have se...