here in new york city, half of the public schools are more than 90% black and hispanic making new york one of the most segregated school systems in the country behind only dallas and chicago. segregation may no longer be the law, but it is in so many schools the reality. back here with me are lila leff, and jonathan alter, and megan behrent, and daniel denvir and once again, jonathan and i were in a shouting match over it. and that is where i want to go because it is a passionate subject, and nobody thinks that what is currently happening and this is the point, i agree with the first seven pages of the romney white paper and nobody thinks that what is happening at this moment is sufficient, and even as i was doing the introduction i looked around the table and i realized that my goodness in most of the cities in the country, even if they are white majority cities and the public school population is dramatically racial minorities and here we are having this conversation and where the
money to charter management organizations in the effort to privatize the city s public education. joining us to discuss charter schools and their discontent is jonathan alter, and lila leff, education reformed a voe kate, and first to daniel denvir of the philadelphia newspaper to tell us what is going on. well, like the rest of the country, pennsylvania in the fiscal year governor tom corbett cut $1 billion the public education statewide and in philadelphia that has led to an incredible crisis. we have 3800 teacher and staff positions eliminated this year, and the state controlled school reform commission, and we have been under state control since 2001 have taken control of the crisis to propose what is one of the most radical dismantlings of privatization of public schools
are one metric for measuring progress and they measure the progress that records how you will do on the next test you take, but the grade point average and the noncognitive skills like being able to think and reflect on the learning go to college completion and higher learning, so we have to align our schools around more complicated metrics and these are not impossible things to measure, but it feels really important, and by the way, we are failing the rich kids, too, because we are not creating the thinkers and not looking for the next entrepreneurial skills, but look looking for the right answer and that is dangerous. thanks to everyone for being here and having this conversation for me, and this conversation is not going away and thank you to lila, and daniel and meghan and jonathan. much more on the issue on
students and also at the table is daniel denvir who has been covering the biggest ongoing education story in the nation. thanks to both of you for being here. than foxer having us. here is mitt romney showing up in philadelphia quite in the middle of a night going on there and gives us a 35-page white paper. i read it. first seven pages, i totally agree wit. and the first seven pages the imperative of education reform and the fact that we are in a troubling circumstance and the fact that children and from minority and poor neighborhoods are having all of the problems, but how in page eight does it turn so different and what is going on in terms ofm rm romney conclusions that many of the reformers would agree on? what romney was doing in d.c. and later in west philadelphia is to stake out some ground to the political right of president obama when it comes to education. that s going to be a rather