The evidence that I've seen suggests that there comes a point ... where the concentration of poor children in a school has a serious likelihood of impacting how well students will do in a school.

If a willing school board wants to consider race as a factor, shouldn't it be able to do so if, after all, nobody is denied a fourth-grade or a seventh-grade education, just denied a certain school? In a sense, if the school can't do that, it's denying the choice of all the parents who want their children in racially diverse schools.

It really did major things for the property-poor school districts in this commonwealth.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

There's a lot of research to suggest that achievement is tied to one's own socioeconomic status. On average a low-income child is not going to do as well on average as a middle-class child. If I am a middle-class child doing well and I'm attending a high-poverty school, I'm going to do less well on average.

There has to be a culture where students and parents know that if children come to school and act like that, they're going to be dealt with. I don't think we have that now.