she's wendy kopp. this is overheard. >> wendy kopp, welcome. >> thank you. >> very nice to meet you, finally. >> it's nice to be here. >> let me ask you a broad one first. okay? what's wrong with public education today? ú&'s pretty broad. i admit. >> well, you know, the, the most fundamental problem is that still in our country that aspires so admirably to be a place of equal opportunity, where kids are born determines their educational prospects. >> yeah. >> that was the reality 20 years ago. it's still the reality today. and, you know, we have 15 million kids in our country poverty line.elow the >> right. >> half of them won't graduate from high school. the half who do, will have on average, an 8th grade skill level. >> yeah. >> so, you know, what we've learned innthe last 20 years is that it doesn't have to be that way. that we can prrvide kids who face all the extra challenges of poverty with an education that i would say, i would call transformational. like an education that actually changes the t