From a lot of what michelle has to say. Just to kickstart it deceiving, how did you come up with a fascinating and interesting book, radical, and where did this interesting income from . So i think the genesis of the name is an interesting one in that when it first got to d. C. It was the lowest performing and most dysfunctional School District and the entire nation. That was a pretty widely known truth. So i started doing things that were obvious for School District in that kind of state. I started closing low performing schools, moving out ineffective employees, cutting the Central Office bloated bureaucracy and have. As i was taking all these steps and measures, people started saying shes a firebrand, shes a radical, she so controversial. And i thought, really . After thinking about it for a while finally i just said you know what, its bringing some common sense to dysfunctional system makes me a radical, then im okay with that. So that sort of the embracing the concept was the idea
Getting the skills that they need. It makes no sense. Ladies and gentlemen, were going to have to cut it there with the questions im sorry because, again, michelle has to go on piers morgan i think you guys are going to be a little nice we are the questions than pix ers is. Before we close it out, i just want to make a couple of notes. Firstly, id really like to thank a old and dear friend for making this incredible event possible, and thats leslie cohen who anthony briefly mentioned. Also anybody that has any stake in education and if they want to get involved, its completely up to them, studentsfirst. Org is doing, according to many critics and others, is doing all types of interesting work. Also most importantly, the book i see theres a lady right h a question before, she has two or three books. The book has received incredible reviews. If you have any stake in education or if education means anything to you personally, your kids, your family, future of the country, according to man
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Public hospitals. The idea we just can do that with Public Education is hypocrisy. But people make the argument we shouldnt take the money out of the system but take that money and invest in the failing schools to make them better. This makes no sense because we dont use that logic in any other part of our life. If you went to a dry cleaner down the street and of every 10 shirts seven came back with a burn mark what would you do . You would stop going what is the people said you cannot stop giving us your business because we need your money to invest in new equipment to train our employees and if you take your business the way we cannot do that. What would you say . You would say now with my shirts. If were willing to take that much care with our laundry shouldnt we take at least that much care with our kids and not be willing to say lets continue to invest in the things that has failed and hope that maybe someday it might get better but meanwhile our kids are not learning how to read
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