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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.

I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?