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John Merrow began his career as an education reporter for NPR in 1974 with the weekly series Options in

John Merrow: We got lucky.

John Merrow: December 14, 2005.

John Merrow: The raging river whose waters destroyed New Orleans begins here, 1400 miles away in northern Minnesota.

John Merrow: What Shanker was proposing was unheard of.

John Merrow: Shanker and others hope that every school district would create at least one charter school as a laboratory for other schools to learn from.

John Merrow: Insurance executive and recent mayoral candidate, Leslie Jacobs, served on the Orleans Parish school board for four years.

John Merrow: At the time was the education reporter for the Times-Picayune.

John Merrow: The problems weren't just academic and in the district's central office, corruption was rampant.

John Merrow: In an unprecedented move, the state seized control of 100 of New Orleans' worst schools; 90 percent of the entire district.

John Merrow: Some people have said, "Well, Katrina was in some way a blessing".

John Merrow: In spite of the obstacles, the ambitious plan was for the state to fix the schools.

John Merrow: But Jacobs, then on the state Board of Education, did not want the local school board to run the show, either.

John Merrow: Six years later New Orleans is still rebuilding.

John Merrow: That's the rough first ten minutes of the film that

John Merrow: They're charter schools.

John Merrow: Those are two terrific questions.

John Merrow: Acting white yeah.

John Merrow: There are two sort of complicated thoughts.

John Merrow: Oh, wow -- you have to tell me about studio schools.

Female #2: John Merrow: Yes, it's in terms of race.

So please join me in welcoming John Merrow.

Jimmy Fahrenholtz: Yeah >> John Merrow: I was in New Orleans to report on the city's beleaguered public school system for the PBS

Female Presenter: I'm honored to introduce John Merrow one of the most influential education reporters in the nation.

John Merrow: Thank you very much.

Female #1: The rich and the poor >> John Merrow: Rich and poor?

John Merrow: Business as usual was out the door.

John Merrow: In New Orleans, charter schools were not going to be competing with the traditional public school system.

But one of the things we do at Merrowvista is they get into this place where they feel like they can do anything,

He served as a host of the Merrow Report, an award winning documentary series, and is currently as the education correspondent for PBS News Hour.

John Merrow: For those who have been championing drastic reform, the opportunity was irresistible.

John Merrow: In November 2005, with most New Orleanians still displaced, lawmakers in Baton Rouge took action.

OK. So at my school, every year, we take our kids to this camp in New Hampshire called Camp Merrowvista.

So we ask them to think about, OK, if you are going to be this person that you're here at Camp Merrowvista, if you were going