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This documentary by veteran NewsHour education reporter and Peabody award®-winning journalist John Merrow, explores the reasons behind California’s public educational decline.
The public schools of California were once the envy of the nation. Today, many of California’s schools are over-crowded, the facilities dilapidated and test scores are generally considered abysmal. Per-pupil funding is the fourth lowest in the nation.
This documentary explores the social, political and economic forces that led to the decline of the golden state’s power-house public education system, how the state is pulling itself back up, and the lessons the entire country can learn from California’s difficult journey.
Following the film, Merrow, Dean Karen Gallagher of USC Rossier School of Education and William Celis, USC Annenberg journalism professor, participate in a roundtable discussion led by Martin Kaplan, associate dean of the USC Annenberg School and director of the Norman Lear Center.
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