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I want to actually start with the phone call here on the charter school issue, relevant to

where we're headed next.

Rebecca, you're going to be up next.

Welcome.

How are you?

I'm good.

Thank you for having me on your show.

Sure. What's going on?

I just think it's so funny that they want to end the charter schools because originally, and I went to one in making Georgia, they created, quote, magnet schools, which they now called charter school.

And those schools were located in gang neighborhoods.

And what they wanted to do is racially balanced the school.

And so now that they've done that, they're going to close them and make them a regular school.

I mean, I don't believe that the neighborhoods have really changed that much to not create back to the imbalance.

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