and that the event was amazing. 1200 african-american students with a 3.0 gpa or better, including two dozen 4.0 students. that event needs funding so i'm hoping that colleagues or listeners, people who are interested in supporting the honor roll event will get in touch with myself or the va marshall. i would like to see that continue strongly. >> thank you. >> i just came back from memphis and i wanted to highlight two sessions that are germane to the sessions we're doing. it is important information for us to have. i have the background information. the first was a great presentation on labor law development in wisconsin and in new jersey, which was very interesting to me. i think that it was really great information. second was a wonderful session that was called, diversity, dead or different? about student responses in seattle and louisville and other member districts and that was really good. so in our ongoing discussions and interest in educating ourselves about this which is on our plate every minute, i hope that others will be interested in the information and materials are bro

no longer was it just about gpa and financial need. it was about understanding students and their circumstances and who could use a hand up. the students we recognize tonight were referred by guidance counselors and principles. we interviewed each of them to understand them. they have shown character and a willingness to support our community that is exemplary. i am reminded of a "buy my angelou -- of a quote by maya angelou. "if you do not like your path, cut your own swath." jasmine lives in the tenderloin in san francisco. her first two years of high school were not very good. it would be fair to say she was a failing student. on her own, she realized the only way she was going to get out of her environment is if she did it hurt -- did it herself. by her junior year, she was an a student. she continued that in her senior year. she is going to go to city college in san francisco and wants to go to san francisco state university and serving our community as a nurse. jazzman, welcome. -- jasmine, welcome. adrianna ferrerra ruiz has a s

the co-valedictorian had a half credit more and the difference in gpa is like .300 of a point.t's your take on this, is it who has the highest point? does she have a point here. >> we're looking at lots of magic math by the school district here. but they did announce her as the sole valedictorian and when it became known that she was an african-american and a teen mom, i think they should have exhaust kmau exalted her to saint status. the important thing about her suit is that she wasn't just discriminated against. the thing about racism is there are individual overt acts of racism that are tragic, but there's this subtle culture of racism. 46% were african-american but black kids were not encouraged to take the a.p. classes. >>> the wealth gap between whites and minorities has tripled over the past three years and it could get even worse if the debt crisis is not resolved. >>> >>> also ahead, a hefty speeding ticket for a man raising his pregnant wife to the hospital and this is one of the stories we're going to discuss with our legal expert holly hughes coming up. [ female an

no longer was it just about gpa and financial need. it was about understanding students and their circumstances and who could use a hand up. the students we recognize tonight were referred by guidance counselors and principles. we interviewed each of them to understand them. they have shown character and a willingness to support our community that is exemplary. i am reminded of a "buy my angelou -- of a quote by maya angelou. "if you do not like your path, cut your own swath." jasmine lives in the tenderloin in san francisco. her first two years of high school were not very good. it would be fair to say she was a failing student.

so they asked their peers to offer up some of their own hard-earned gpa points to some of the students who weren't scoring as high. take a look at what happened. >> glenn: mm-hmm. they're here in the studio audience. i love you guys. [ laughter ] fantastic job by the students that came up with the question. they have more of them. but when it comes to give up something that the students earned, the students aren't so willing to give them up. it sounds like a greedy students, doesn't it? they probably have privileges, you know, the lower performing students didn't have. now they're just greedy. maybe a mom or dad bought them a fancy laptop. why won't they share? the university of redland in california, students supporting the state prop 8 law, which doesn't recognize same-sex marriage, posted a sticker on her dorm room door. there it is. yes, on 8. she was to to take it down because it was hate speech. and stimulus dollar, they were trying to prove the money was worth as much as monopoly money. the school administrator said they never got the school ears permission because they never fi

. >>> if you have the highest gpa in your high school class, you're the valedictorian, right?g the school, claiming officials discriminated against her because she's blame. she claims because the school made a white student share the honor, because, quote, school personnel expressed concern that wimberly's status as a value ticket tornado might cause a big mess. well, they think it's more than a mess, they say it's racism. well, it brought me back to thinking about 60 years ago right in arkansas, the battle in little rock, the battle to deseg re gait schools. we've come a long way since then, and even though i have fall to civil rights. i'm the first so say we made a lot of progress, but we're not there yet. when we look at kimberly, it is not polarizing to bring up the difference in race, to bring up the difference in gender, to bring up homophobia. last year we marched. this year we're going to be watching again. i want to salute skip mason and others making it possible for us to have it at the monument in

of those kids, four out of five of them had a gpa of over 3.0. that's us, the educators. economy, that's us. we have to do a better job of giving the community what they pay for. >> and that makes it easy if you're not going that well for them to say hey why are we spending all that money? >> it does make it easy. in fact, it bears the question why then are we paying so much for our public education. >> here's the second part of it. if it was just money, we should send our kids to prison. they have the highest classes. however, they're not necessarily in a place you want to send a child. we have seen, unfortunately, that many of us in the public schools have become lazy. we're not producing the results that are expected even when we're talking about the suburbs. our kids internationally are getting whooped because we as a country are not putting enough pressure on our education system to produce solid schools. >> all right. chv)sxb you ib%ox9y1ñs lay it on the line. you remind me of the saying if you havefóv1!x solution, then money's not the problem. a lot of schools woul

. >> reporter: forget sats or gpa, some of these guys never even started high school much less finished it. the key criterion for admission is how badly do they want it? determined by an essay and interview. >> those students that are most intellectually ambitious, that are most curious are so often the same people as children who dropped out of conventional schools. >> how many people would you do in your survey? >> i would think what would be a representative number? this is a large study. maybe 1% of the population maybe. i don't know. i'll have to figure that out. >> reporter: the courses within these walls are nearly identical to those without. >> what is the decision-makg process. >> reporter: the professor teaches the same class to these inmates at woodburn correctional facility that he teaches to grad students at columbia university school of public health. yes, he acknowledges there is a difference. the students at woodburn are better. >> incredible. i have never had a student who reads everything. every page that i assign. and they do. >> how far in do we go on that issue? >>

consider its in the context of gpa, as we have always done in the past. do not hold these very important agreement hostage in order to get the taa through. that is really what is at stake here. if the administration will appreciate that the house republicans and senate republicans are resolved unanimously to broach the issue in this way, we can accomplish everybody's objectives. get these free trade agreement passed. take another look at taa. that is why it is so important to the republicans on the finance committee and why we want to have this done in the right way. >> in kansas, our farmers and ranchers depend on exports. we like to think of ourselves as the beef state. these agreements mean a lot. the trade agreement have been held up for 10 years. this has become an embarrassment. this is an issue of national security as well. it is with dupont -- deep disappointment that we are at this point today. in the past, this has been a bipartisan effort. this is a dramatic change from that. i do not support the majority's move to gm -- jam the taa into the bi

this wasn't a contest for basketball players but people with a 3.0 gpa.raw. you're a pretty good basketball player, a bit of a ringer? >> yes, i know it was -- it was a surprise to me that they pick mied na ed my name from the hat. >> but it was legitimate. you had those grades. that's why you got in. did you go in there, thinking i'm going to win this? >> no, i did not, because at first i was -- i was kind of sha shaky about getting in the competition because about -- i figure it wasn't right for me to just join in, because i was already a basketball player. i knew a lot of people was going to say it wasn't fair. >> so you have this full scholarship elsewhere. you now win this $40,000 scholarship. what happened then? how did you decide you were going to give this money away and how did you go about telling the other kids? >> i talked it over with my family, my mom, my father and also my coach. and we just decided -- i decided to tell them that it was the right thing to do, you know, give it away, because i also have a full athletic scholarship to go play