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44 minutes past the hour. welcome back to "american morning." magnate school in hartford could have its state funding stripped and maybe shut down, even though it's one of the best performing schools in the country. >> reason is interesting, there aren't enough white kids enrolled. >> sollie dad o'brien tells us why quality education may be taking a back seat to quotas. >> this side is tighter than this. >> reporter: she is in tenth grade at preparatory school in hartford. her 12-year-old strir can't get in. at a school with 75 seats for 1500 kids who apply. a state-run lottery picks who gets ...

Path to excellence. >> 13-year-old eric hall is in the seventh grade at orchard gardens, one of boston's poorest performing schools. he says he's seen a lot since he started there in kindergarten. >> i've seen different teachers, different principals. i've seen students come and go. >> reporter: but this year is different. >> now it's gym, writing, reading, math, pretty much -- i'm pretty much enjoying all of my classes. >> reporter: that's because orchard gardens is one of 5,000 schools around the country getting millions of dollars from the federal government to turn around. the goal, become...

A crisis in american education. the race is on to transform terrible schools into top performers. president obama is taking drastic steps. his administration shelling out millions to fix the country's worst schools. cnn's suzanne malveaux visited a school in boston that's receiving some of that money. officials there say their once troubled school is now on the path to excellence. >> 13-year-old eric hall is in the seventh grade at orchard gardens, one of boston's poorest performing schools. he says he's seen a lot since he started there in kindergarten. >> i've seen different teachers, differ...

Donald trump is playing primary politics on the republican side, and the polls show that it seems to be working. >> errol louis, that has to be the last word. thank you. have a great rest of your sunday evening. >> you, too, don. >> up next, one of the lowest performing schools in boston attempts a turnaround. action. bring it. getting it clean again is easy with bounty. in this lab test, one sheet of bounty leaves tr than 3 sheets of the bargain. ♪ why use more when you can use less? ♪ super durable, super absorbent, super clean. bounty. the one-sheet clean picker-upper. no pills, no pain...

Politics on the republican side, and the polls show that it seems to be working. >> errol louis, that has to be the last word. thank you. have a great rest of your sunday evening. >> you, too, don. >> up next, one of the lowest performing schools in boston attempts a turnaround. ♪ [car horn honks] our outback always gets us there... ... sometimes it just takes us a little longer to get back. ♪