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A parent complained about the Black girl from the Honowai Elementary School, who made an "offensive drawing" of the classmate bullying her.
From a state that basically removes many of those iron union protections. >> right. >> the unions have been livid. they lost 30% of members in michigan and wisconsin and school choice and charter schools allow parents to make choices to do education the way they want. oh, my gosh -- >> i'm a little worried here about one thing. you tell me if you agree that school reforms, school choice has been for a large period of time bipartisan. i mean, president was for charters, at least he said he was, bill clinton, cory booker was for charter schools, the senator from new jersey voted against betsy de...
Down and don't forget she comes from a state that basically removes many of those iron union protections. >> right. >> the unions have been livid. they lost 30% of members in michigan and wisconsin and school choice and charter schools allow parents to make choices to do education the way they want. oh, my gosh -- >> i'm a little worried here about one thing. you tell me if you agree that school reforms, school choice has been for a large period of time bipartisan. i mean, president was for charters, at least he said he was, bill clinton, cory booker was for charter schools, the senator from n...
This development. if people want to help, what do they do here? susie, what do you think? >> well, one thing -- one other thing i wanted to say, don, is the money, you know, this is not -- it doesn't work in an election cycle. that's what i partly think is a huge problem here. it's going to take 15 years to show that this works and that it matters. and that's not very interesting to the politicians. you know, and that's a sad statement, but it's true. we are -- you know, there are all these great people working on school reforms. smart, good people who want the best for the kids. but if we don...
Moment. >> good for them. >> here's how come they won. the school has gone from a graduation rate of just over 50% a few years ago to a graduation rate of more than 80% last year. the president by the year 2020 has a challenge, he would like the u.s. to have the best graduation rates in the world. really pushing on schools to figure out way to do that. >> tennessee school reforms have been among the nation's best. one of those states that got that race for the top money. >> success story. >> one of the things they do for the freshman class, separate them into academies of women and men, girls ...