dr. mitchell. i'm sitting here marv ling from your responses from one a very rural population and if i listened riggt and heard right, the magic word to both of you were flexibility. when you gave the answer, well, it worked for us. meaning it might not work for you and what we did in chamberlain. and making it a small school i think is a real testimony to one of the things we need to look to. and the senators and i were in the conference committee of no child left behind. in the end, a lot of the reason that it didn't have any teeth, is we couldn't pass wit teeth. you talked about the two keys being flexibility and budgeting and flexibility and hiring. and i would echo that when i was president of the the state board in georgia, we gay the system that were our top systems we gay them flexibilities. those who were not our best system we didn't give them any flexibility. what's your experience with the disagregation of the special needs children and n.y. schools? >> we are full inclusion and we serv

dr. mitchell. now we turn to mr.truzzi. >> i am here representing one of the most chronically underperforming schools in the nation. they had only a 25% graduation rate. we are on a past to move in that rate to 60%-80% by the firstendf the four years. all we operate in a district that is the second-largest in the nation. this is larger than 25 states in the nation. this is larger than a lot of european nations in terms of the number of students. the size of our high schools can reach 3500 students. a single high-school is probably larger than most of the districts in the nation. the problems are tremendous. we started with a mission to reform education in los angeles. this was very ambitious. we want to make sure that all students have access to education that insured their success and the ability to go to college. we built independent charter schools. we've built up 10 at first in the most property-stricken areas in los angeles and we had great success. these are areas where students were having a 60%-70% dropout ra