local community over in yonkers the state supreme court recently ruling that the charter school of excellence in yonkers must admit 50% of its students from outside the city which not only hurts neighborhood families but drives up transportation costs for the school specifically. our next guest has a personal experience with how broken the system is and the difficulty of running a new york charter school and having unbelievable success when it comes to students ian rowe joins us: good morning. brian: when you heard about the struggles of yonkers, what was your take away. why would they force them not to take people in the area and go outside the area? brian, this is such a tragedy. this happens just a couple weeks after the charter school of educational excellence actually graduated its first senior class. 98% graduation rate. almost $8 million in college scholarships for their graduating seniors.
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double digit gaps. take hispanics not much better. texas, 52% of graduating seniors are hispanic, compose just 29% of its freshman class. colorado, arizona, kansas do slightly better. the worst is berkeley which cannot use race in admissions. through my entirety of being at berkeley i have only met two other black students within all of my classes i ve been in. everyone agrees, the fact is that this is in colleges, blacks are underrepresented especially at a place like berkeley. asian students that test higher than all students represent 43% of the class at berkeley, blacks just 3%, point is, if other states adopt the california model they ll use class rank and grade and zip codes, poverty and crime rates family education to account for race. bill: we wait for some of the
where some of the top public universities currently are. georgia, 36% of high school seniors are georgia, but u.g.a., smaller. texas, 52% of graduating seniors are hispanic, compose just 29% of its freshman class. colorado, arizona, kansas, do slightly better. asian students do score higher and perform better academically than all students, whites to a lesser extent. california has spent $500 million on outreach and recruiting and yet even drop the standardized act and sat tests to level the playing field but it has barely moved the needle. william, thank you. sandra. sandra: and coming up top of the next hour, we are going to have more from our panel reacting to the supreme court