By Joe Lawlor
Locke said early childhood education is a key.
"If children are not reading by the third grade, we have lost them," Locke said.
White agreed, saying education needs to be improved.
"Most black children are two to three grades behind their white counterparts. Why do we tolerate this failure?" White asked.
Locke also talked about how some high schools have become "dropout factories." She said for many years schools tried to hide the dropout problem by using deceptive statistics, but she said the truth is that at some high schools more than half of the students do not graduate.
Crime was also a big issue.
Scott said the United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other country in the world, and that black males are especially likely to be imprisoned. He said all that does is skyrocket costs for taxpayers and increase the likelihood of recidivism.
"There's no downside for politicians to have simple-minded crime policies," Scott said.
Scott said if the incarceration rate were reduced to be more in line with other countries, a lot more money could be funneled to prevention programs that would help stop crime from happening in the first place. Read more...
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