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mmhm. i was perfect the way i was.r state farm agents are there when you need them. >>> welcome back. we're still here with barry schect, monifa and michael court, we're talking about the incar ration crisis and we're moving from analysis now to solutions. can you please tell me what can we do now, people will obviously say don't commit the crime, be responsible don't do drugs or steal. all of us i think are in agreement on that. but moving beyond that point, what do we do in terms of this mass incars ration thing? >> what's the solution? the solution is a multistep approach. first education, and not just education, but paid education. even if it's minimum wage to pay these folks to come in to learn reading, writing and arithmetic, but for the black folks not just reading and writing and arithmetic, but history and cultural courses to find out about african-american history and ancient african history and after that paid job training and then job placement. i think once you educate a person and give a person a job, 90%

mmhm. i was perfect the way i was. there when you need them. >>> welcome back to our world. we're talking about schools and school reform now. over the last ten years there has been a charter school explosion in every city and every state. people are talking about charter schools as a way of responding to broken education systems. what do you all say about this? >> to me the biggest thing we've gotten out of charter schools, they have elevated the level of conversation for us to be focused on education. >> for the benefit of our viewers, can you say what a charter school is? >> charter schools essentially are -- they are public schools but privately managed. >> publicly funded and privately run? >> absolutely. i think those schools have had a level of autonomy around their curricul curriculum, hiring and firing of teachers and staff that i think tes of the work they're doing. >> you're in trenton, i remember maybe ten years ago in trenton, there was one major high school. trenton central high school, and then there was

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