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Ramon Romero Jr.: “What we're doing wrong in the schools that are the poorest…”

Featuring: Ramon Romero Jr., Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 90

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Published | Video Starts at 19:45

Less than 10% of Hispanics, Latinos that enter a four year university graduate while their white counterparts graduate over 50, almost 60%. And what does that tell you about. What we're doing wrong in the schools that are the poorest, in the schools that are generally people of color or persons of color in those communities, we have not got that figured out. And while it's easy for Goldman to say or Representative Goldman to say that, you know, that we, that it's not about the dollars and point out, well, some schools are doing it correctly. (19:45–19:57)

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Asserts that schools in poorer, predominantly minority communities are not adequately addressing educational challenges.

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