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Without parental approval or with parental approval. >> it's a pilot program. we've started it with five schools. expanded it to 13 schools this year and parents have an opt-out tradition. parents receive letters and have the ability to opt out for their child. roughly 2% of the parents, 1% or 2% have opted out. teenagers can go and be confidential around getting that type of access to the morning after pill. and what we've been able to do is show the importance of being really very aggressive as far as working with our students if they have a need to have that need available in these pilot sc...

The state government as the governor often complains. what's your message to arne duncan and the federal government in terms of what they can do to help? >> the message would be in the first-round california didn't qualify for race to the top money. there's no way that we can talk about race to the top and reform without california being included. the fact is we passed legislation to qualify for race to the top funds and my hope is that arne duncan and the white house are going to understand that reform is taking place here in california. that we are particularly here in los angeles where we h...