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During a tour of the West Jefferson High School with coronavirus precautions it can be seen that each desk in the classroom has a grey or red sticker on the top corner in Harvey, La. Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Each period, students will be asked to alternate their use of desks and to clean them off after each class. The school is scheduled to open on August 26. (Photo by Max Becherer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate)
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dowdell a parent of a new york city charter school student. also, steve bar, founder of green dot schools and the future is now as well as university prep high school in the south bronx university and dan cantore, executive director of the working families party which might be the most progressive thing on the ballot. this is an all-star panel for a very important discussion. i want to start with you, pedro. your view of this battle, both how it relates to students because we care about policy and why it s attracting such political heat this week. well, it s attracting heat because charter schools have emerged as an alternative to the traditional public schools. some of those schools are quite good. i m sure we ll hear more about that later. we should keep in mind that 95% of kids are not in charter schools. it s ironic that the governor would weigh in so heavily on this when we know that most kids are not in charter schools. there s been no policy set for what role charter schools s
anti-abortion activist community are taking on people from clinics to schools, abortion ban without exceptions, and they re not afraid to shock or offend in the process. what do you think should happen to women who have abortions? well, when it s made illegal, their death should be treated like the death of other people. so we want the laws for murder to apply to all people. more of that reporting and more nerdland at the top of the hour. when jake and i first set out on our own, we ate anything. but in time you realize the better you eat, the better you feel. these days we both eat smarter. and i give jake purina cat chow naturals. made with real chicken and salmon, it s high in protein like a cat s natural diet. and no added artificial flavors. we ve come a long way. and whatever s ahead, we ll be there for each other. naturally. purina cat chow naturals.
charter schools have the financial capacity to physical space and the government s support to thrive and to grow. mayor de blasio led his own rally two blocks away returning to push his plan for universal pre-k. we are closer than ever to opening next school year with 54,000 full day pre-k seats in new york city. that s tens of thousands more full day seats than we have today and that is a game changer for our children, a game changer for our families. joining us now to talk about the schools, the drama and the students we have a professor of sociology at nyu and regina
they say they re trying to add safety requirements. and yet we can t as citizens or journalists look at this and not see the incredibly disparate impact. as i said before when we were thinking about the war on poverty. this is not only a war on poverty but war on women. it s a conflation of the two. these are the same legislators who will not keep these clinics open yet they don t want to provide health care, they don t want to provide head start, they don t want to provide condoms in school. they don t want to provide good schools. they re anti everything that would provide good decisions. it s frustrating because it is this conflation of this constant attack on people who don t have as. , right? and we do know as amy said, people have to take things into their own hands. this is not the 1960s, right? why are we rolling back so many democratic provisions that we ve worked so hard to get. let me go back to amy to get