i don t think it s the agenda for the center of american progress, a promoter for education reforms. i think it s telling the reason in chicago you are going to have the school closures is the expansion. nobody forces a parent to send their kid to charter school. if it s closed, then actually, the more charter schools and public schools the less choice you have. matt farmer, you want to add something here? one of the concerns teachers and parents have with respect is this. the mayor campaigned on getting a longer day for school children. he took forever to unroll the plans as to how they were going to be funded. the talking points included, you know, adding music, adding p.e., et cetera. the choice how to do it is left up to the schools. not a lot of talk how to fund that. here is the rub. the principals in the south and
uneducated. is it efficient not to address poverty first and educate kids who enter into kindergarten with 17,000 listening vocabulary. i agree poverty is a very big factor. if we can invest in early childhood education and make sure kids are coming to school fed and getting breakfast and lunch. if we can make sure there are community programs and arts programs to address the trauma of violent neighborhoods and things like that, it can happen on the same track to pursuing education reforms that lift up achievement. matt farmer, chicago public school parnlt, thanks for being here. julie cavanagh, thank you for joining us. what does it mean to be poor? coming up next, we ll talk about it. a thing that helps you buy other things. but plenty of companies do that. so we make something else. we help make life a little easier,