we will begin with the author, dale russ cough -- dale russakoff, making a presentation. she will then be fold by the three panelists who have joined us to, in effect, comment on what dale has written and what she will say to us tonight. dale's comments will be about, about 15 minutes. that means that the panelists will each get about ten minutes to respond. is that all right, panel? okay. we can have ongoing conversation after those initial remarks have been made. after they have made their presentations, then we will open the floor for comments, questions from the audience, and i think we have a microphone here, we may have another mic somewhere in the room, but i don't see it. i'm assuming then that folk who are interested in posing questions should approach the microphone, and your questions will be entertained by either the author or the members of the panel. so let's get into this conversation as quickly as we can given the time i've wasted getting here. dale russakoff spent eight years as a reporter for "the washington post" covering politics, education, social -- d

spoke to author dale russakoff who recounts the newark education reform effort from the beginning andecounts it in her new book, "the prize: who's in charge of america's schools?" she talked about how concerned newark parents organized against the educational changes, and described the role they played in electing our guest, mayor ras baraka. >> the political uprising ended up almost -- well, not single-handedly, but significantly helping to elect ras baraka, who was a high school principal who ran for mayor almost exclusively on a platform of stopping these reforms. and even of the education reform movement over finally and dollars into the campaign of his opponent, he won significantly just because of this grassroots uprising. amy: what happened? >> i think that is partly true, kind of simplifying it, but that is ultimately the case. they did put $5 million or more in my opponent's coffers will stop we kind of pushed for more democratic-controlled not over just education, but over the city period. more say so by those in newark, more control over our lives in the city and education

i want to thank dale -- [applause] i want to thank dale russakoff for a very accessible treatise on what has been going on in the public education sector in newark over the last several years. her book is a very interesting read, and i think the opportunity to meet her here and to hear her talk about her book was also very, very important. .. >> dale will be signing in the gallery, so if you will line up the right-hand side you will be in line for the book signing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> you are watching the tv, television for serious readers. watch any program you see here online at the tv.org. next on the book tv, investigative journalist joe domenick chronicles america's policing from the 1990s. follow the beating of rodney king in the late rights through 2014, that even some new york city and ferguson, missouri. >> we are here today to talk about and interesting and extremely important subject, policing and the relationship to read i cannot think of anything that is more timely. you cannot pick up the

i want to thank dale -- [applause] i want to thank dale russakoff for a very accessible treatise on what has been going on in the public education sector in newark over the last several years. her book is a very interesting read, and i think the opportunity to meet her here and to hear her talk about her book was also very, very important. .. >> dale will be signing in the gallery, so if you will line up the right-hand side you will be in line for the book signing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> you are watching the tv, television for serious readers. watch any program you see here online at the tv.org. he's got stuff over his mouth and he just had to me a pile. i said that's it. he's mumbling something. get on the radio. now i'm the incident commander of that fire. that's what we do. we are there to know. we do a lot of different things. if we need to feed you, give you water, we have that as well. >> does the military have smokejumpers? >> do you want to get that? right here. >> does the military have smokejump