mr. brewer and encourage him for the work he is doing. i was touched when he said the young guys are looking for a leader, for mentors. this is really good. i also wanted to ask whether he has any program on the educational front. where i come from, a very poor background, i know what education has done for me. encouraging family values, encouraging young ones to go to school gives them a better view of life and gives them an opportunity. i just wanted to know if he had any educational programs for the kids when they come out. thank you. guest: yeah. one of our big focus areas is reading and math sufficiency. we did a study a couple of years back and looked at many of the children in our program. they were on average about three grade levels below their age group. we started to try to address those reading and math proficiency levels to different technology and training courses. inside of our classes, we delivered professional development skills, fatherhood development skills. we do full etiquette training in classes. we have pretty compr

mr. brewer and encourage him for the work he is doing.ouched when he said the young guys are looking for a leader, for mentors. this is really good. i also wanted to ask whether he has any program on the educational front. where i come from, a very poor background, i know what education has done for me. encouraging family values, encouraging young ones to go to school gives them a better view of life and gives them an opportunity. i just wanted to know if he had any educational programs for the kids when they come out. thank you. guest: yeah. one of our big focus areas is reading and math sufficiency. we did a study a couple of years back and looked at many of the children in our program. they were on average about three grade levels below their age group. we started to try to address those reading and math proficiency levels to different technology and training courses. inside of our classes, we delivered professional development skills, fatherhood development skills. we do full etiquette training in classes. we have pretty comprehensive

mr. donalds, she lives in naples, florida with her three sons, jack brewer is a chairman of the jack brewerion, recently jack was cochair of black voices for trump victory fund. he's a white appointee on the congressional commission for the social status of black men and boys and currently the lead independent director for the geo group. he was the nfl's minnesota vikings, the philadelphia eagles, you may have heard of recently. [laughter] and what i find to be the pinnacle of his career, at the new york giants. i can't help myself, being born in brooklyn. let's lay the foundation of you don't mind for this topic. erica, talk about the current state of particularly the public education system. >> public education system in america has literally failed the american people. it has not lived up to the promise where we, parents, were told if you send your child to this school for eight hours a day, we are going to teach them to read and do math and achieve their own american dream. that was a lie. we just found out a few weeks ago that only a third of our students are doing reading and math on

mr. brewer, i think it's wonderful what you doingr. for these children and the program you have, your foundation. i wanted to ask, do you've any programs for the mothers of these boys to help them guide them in the right direction? >> guest: yes-man wehe do. we work with young women in empowering women that we establish a mostly musical. once we get these young boys, we of uplift their families. we literally millions and millions of pounds of food we distribute every year to the families of our kids. we also support these children not just inside of the prison but when they get out. we stay in touch with their families. we do programming to help them build that relationship back with their son, with their child. we do a lot of family services around that. we are a full circle organization. once some of these are care if ever program that's inside of a prison, when they get out they become a part of our community, a part of her family. we have mothers that, anthology with us. we worship together, we pray together so we tried to make our