it wrought led to this september 10 cover of the economist. the shaming of america. no other black american woman s face appears on the cover of the economist magazine in the decade before or after this image and yet this unnamed african-american woman apparently distraught, wearing the name of her home emblaze ne on her shirt shames the nation. it was shameful because it undermined our assertions that we are uniquely prosperous, just and fair, steeped in relative equality and uncompromised liberty, the televised deaths and suffering of thousands in america s most distinctive city did not fit the story we like to tell about who we are. perhaps that lingering shame is why so many elected officials have used the tenth anniversary of katrina to trumpet a good old-fashioned comeback. a website launched by city officials celebrates, quote, new orleans progress and creating a vision for its future. it s the kind of uncomplicated vision of this resilient city. meanwhile, katrina
theoretically, giving families money portable with kids allows them choices middle class and rich families have. it ends up not working that way. right? it s interesting. i feel like the rhetoric shifted over the last decade from voucher opponents saying it s going to improve academic outcomes for low in come students to this choice, choice, choice mantra. i think a large part of that academically it s been a fair bit of a wash. the places that had vouchers for a long time, milwaukee, cleveland, they are really not doing much better or worse than other families. not an abject failure. the critics said it would destroy public education as we know it. that hasn t happened. but at the same time it hasn t produced real or tangible gains for the families. sarah does an interest thing where part of what happens in the choice conversation we end up talking a lot about parents and the ability of parents to
board member at howard university. quote, howard will not be here in three years if we don t make some crucial decisions now. with me is the man i love to debate on issues of school vouchers and other things education, former louisiana governor. also the executive director of kids rethink new orleans schools. steve perry, dr. steve perry, educator and tv one host and sarah carr, education reporter and author of hope against hope. thank you for being here. let me start with you, dr. perry, because i know your effort is that k through 12 effort. you are getting kids college ready and out the door to college. how much does it impact them if they don t have the ability to borrow to pay for college. we re being crushed. we get 100% of our graduates into four-year colleges only to find out they are not going in the fall because their parents credit is bad, because they don t have enough.
this they tend to be together. you can have the most right wing republican and black nationalist on the same place on this one because they understand that choice is vital. when a child doesn t have access to a school for them, they fail because it doesn t meet their academic or social needs. i believe choice is the issue. as the governor said, it s not the only answer, but it s part of an answer. to throw it away because most people tend to throw it away, it will cost some people their jobs was their schools are underperforming and the students will not go back to them. at the end of the day, we have to understand that the money was never intended to keep a school building at the bottom of your street open, it was intended to educate a child, period. sarah, what about what your book does, hope against hope bring empirical evidence to how vouchers work. i get the choice argument. it makes sense to me
0 republican legislative agenda. they have grown from dozens of supporters when they began april 29th to thousands. demonstrators are protesting new limits on abortion rights which were approved by the state senate on wednesday, sharp cuts to unemployment benefits, which decreased the benefit amount time, which people can receive aid and repeal of racial justice act, which helps convicted murderers to get death sentences improved in sentence if racial bias can be proved in trial. if we look at attempts to suppress the vote in this state and states other than south carolina, june 25th, strike down a key part of the voting rights ac, a number of states moved immediately, and i mean immediately, to launch latest assaults on voting rights. states include texas, mississippi, alabama, virginia. governor rick perry was down right beside himself over the couldn t wait to issue a statement. he tweeted a fact he was going to implement texas voter id law. that doesn t allow students to use their