The Story

Dick talks to two California mothers about the parent trigger law, which allows parents to vote on the fate of their children’s school.

Amy Braun loved her job teaching at an historic two-room schoolhouse in Vermont. She says the 209-year-old school was an ideal learning environment for her 8 students. But the town voted to close the school.

Manoj Rana came to the U.S. from India in 2004 to study computer engineering. But one month from graduation, Manoj was caught in a devastating apartment fire that burned 90 percent of his body.

Lindsay Morgan Lockhart, a designer for the Halo video game series, tells host Dick Gordon: "I'd love to get to a place where women don't exist to be sexualized in games, but at the moment, I'd even take more games with female protagonists."