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Person by person. this was nitty-gritty and looking at a child in a high poverty community and tayloring your approach. >> i have to think ty is a role model. if you can do that, i can too. where do do you go from here? >> hopefully still doing service. >> teaching is on the horizon for sure. >> i appreciate it. appreciate the break. tim ryan is taking on nancy pelosi for the top spot with house democrats tomorrow. he is within striking distance of winning. i want to bring in congressman eric from california from washington. congressman, i know you disagree.

What's the point? >> it's a national educational nonprofit. our focus is helping all students succeed. we do that by recruiting thousands of young people like ty to go into schools and serve as tutors and mentors for kids in high poverty areas to stay on track and stay in school. >> you've been doing this for a couple years now? >> yes, this is my second year. >> what's it like? >> it's phenomenal. you get to work with students one-on-one and intentionally you get to create spaces for intelligence. it's incredible. >> what age kids do you work with? >> i work in the middle school in queens. >>...

Options. would it be easy for people to get involved? >> yes, very easy. if you're a young person, we encourage you to apply to become a ty, to work in the school every day. >> become a ty. >> that's our new hashtag. >> if you are someone who is not as young as him, more in my generation, come out and we do wonderful days where we beautify schools and create places where we want to learn and engage this. go to our website and learn more about the education crisis. >> give me a story. just one. you must have millions of a kid. >> i have a student in my seventh grade class and she was is den gau...

Near-peer role models and mentors for students. then they run after-school programs to keep kids out of trouble when the school day ends. >> you're pretty young, do they like that? do they like the energy that city year brings? >> yes. i think that's what makes city year unique is the peer-to-peer relationship, near peer-to-peer, i should say. the student love it because we're just old enough to know enough and been where they are and also old enough to know what's to come and how to prepare for that successfully. >> how do you recruit people like ty? do they come from all over the country? >>...

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