reporting for the pbs newshour i'm john merrow, in otisville, new york. >> woodruff: stay with us.up on the newshour: the military's plan to replace an aging fleet of submarines armed with nuclear weapons, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news and how debates between gore vidal and william f. buckley changed television and political discourse in america. but first, schools for students with disabilities and behavioral issues in the state of georgia are under scrutiny. in a two-year long investigation, the u.s. department of justice found georgia is illegally segregating these students. some of the programs are even housed in dilapidated buildings once used as all-black schools during the jim crow era. alan judd is an investigative reporter for the atlanta journal constitution. he has written about the schools and the justice department's findings. alan judd, we welcome you. so who are these students that the state of georgia is putting in a separate educational program? >> at any given time, there may be about 5,000 of them. they are students who have -- of varying

for the pbs newshour, i'm john merrow, reporting from montclair, new jersey. >> woodruff: now, an unlikelyof a major literary prize, jeffrey brown profiles a poet that captured the details of daily life in verse. >> i was born in minutes in a roadside kitchen a skillet whispering my name. i was born to rainwater and lye; i spend so much time in the classroom, and then i come home and it's down to business, washing dishes, cleaning the kitchen, doing laundry. and i don't want to leave any of that stuff out of the poems. >> brown: gregory pardlo is a teacher, student, husband and father-- and now a pulitzer- prize winning poet. his reaction when he heard the news? >> the kind of cliche of "i'm sure they made a mistake." well, yes, i was absolutely sure there was a huge mistake. >> brown: he had reason: his prize-winning book, "digest", is just his second, and pardlo isn't well-known even within the small poetry community. he grew up in a middle-class family in willingboro, new jersey, near philadelphia. his father, an air-traffic controller, was one of those fired by ronald reagan during the