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In this excerpt from Stephen Talbot's 2001 documentary, "The Celebrity and the City," Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown pushes charter schools as a way to improve Oakland's long-struggling public school syste
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m. Brown's new military academy is particularly unexpected, given Brown's anti-war political history. But as Brown tells Talbot, "Listen, I believe that had I been sent to a military academy, as my mother and father threatened, I would have been President a long time ago."
In focusing on his military and his arts charter schools -- both thriving today -- Brown clashes with Oakland school superintendent Dennis Chaconas' efforts to improve public schools in general.
As governor of California, Brown has earned a pro-education reputation. He won voter support in 2012 to pass Proposition 30 authorizing a tax increase to fund education. And last year, the National Education Association presented Brown with their "America's Greatest Education Governor" award.
"The Celebrity and the City"
Producer & Writer: Stephen Talbot
Co-Producer: Rachel Raney
Editor: Amy Young
Camera: Fawn Yacker, Howard Shack
Narrator: Anasa Briggs-Graves
Executive Producer: Sue Ellen McCann
Produced by Talbot Productions for KQED (2001).
