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>> kimberly: a good point. every child deserves an excellent education. it should not be predetermined by what your parents or providers, socioeconomic status is and whether you can afford to pay the exorbitant bills for private schools. they are not cheap. ronin was in public school but there are so many kids in the class i think one day they lost the little guy. you have don't stand out. if you need extra help it's difficult to get it. great teachers, mean well, but they are challenged by the numbers. you go to private school but who is able to afford that? some schools are financial aid ass...

>> kimberly: a good point. every child deserves an excellent education. it should not be predetermined by what your parents or providers, socioeconomic status is and whether you can afford to pay the exorbitant bills for private schools. they are not cheap. ronin was in public school but there are so many kids in the class i think one day they lost the little guy. you have don't stand out. if you need extra help it's difficult to get it. great teachers, mean well, but they are challenged by the numbers. you go to private school but who is able to afford that? some schools are financial aid ass...

Public schools because otherwise you're nibbling at the edges or we'll spend the next 100 years fixing it. how do you create choice through our public school system? what do we need to do? how would you do that? how would you change our school system so we have choice through our public schools for everyone and not the small minority maybe going to charter schools or vouchers or private schools? >> first of all i note each state and actually each district in each state has a different experience. in my state we had much more ample opportunity for choice in part because of the number of catholi...

High schools in miami. archbishop curly notre dame. i'm sure like a loft us, it was my mother, carlet, who really pushed for choice in my education. i'm glad she did. her devotion to my future has given me a chance to succeed. i've graduated from wagner college and am looking forward to a life of learning and serving my community. [ cheers and applause ] who knows what the future will have held if i didn't have a choice in my education? but i do know the numbers for failure and i probably wouldn't have a good chance. governor bush's school choice program gave me a chance to achieve academic su...

are reported to have collapsed, including a university dormitory. rescue efforts must compete with frequently strong aftershocks. so far, at least 138 deaths have been confirmed, many more injured. this part of the world is prone to killer earthquakes. a 7.6 quake hit western turkey a dozen years ago. at that time, 17,000 people were killed. cnn crews are now at the site of today's devastating damage. nefsen joins us by phone. can you see anything, or get a s sense of what's going on there? >> reporter: the situation is not good, as you mentioned, and this is one of the biggest earth...