Featuring the winds of our student documentary competition. Middle and High School Students answer question, what issue do you most want the 2020 president ial candidates to address. Second prize high school from goes to 10th graders James High School in oklahoma. Their winning entry is titled leveling the Playing Field. For every unit that got inappropriately, the students work hard, studied hard, went to school, took the test, studied for the test. All the things we told him or her to do and that still was not good enough. People like Lori Loughlin are under the spotlight because they use loopholes under the College Admissions practice in order to get their kids into prestigious colleges. This isnt the only kind of admissions corruptions over the years. Most High School Athletes are held to lower admission standards when their applications are considered. Thousands of hardworking kids at low income backgrounds are at disadvantages. They arent able to afford college prep programs. Acceptances and rejections, are they really fair . Are they hindering admissions of hard workers trying to get a quality Higher Education . What, if anything could the government do to help . We are consul he preparing ourselves for the future. Many of us, that means getting a quality education. All the corruption in college is disheartening, are we out of level Playing Field . Every student wants an equal chance at getting into a good college. Is that an outrageous request . Every College Needs a set amount of money to operate. Tuition prices fluctuate based on the amount of outside source of revenue. If a private college doesnt get a certain amount of donor revenue, their tuition prices go up. Lori loughlin. Lori loughlin. Newori loughlin facing charges in the College Admissions cheating case that could lead her and her husband behind bars for a significant period of time. Because private colleges are mainly funded by donor money there has been a lot of scandals and a lot of corruption. An example is the Lori Loughlin scandal. Overnd her husbands been 500,000 trying to get their youngest daughter into the university of southern california. Is disappointing knowing couldhe school i go to have that sort of corruption. To thenitely brought forefront transparency, honesty, equity in the College Missions process. Another loophole some would consider unfair is excepting a student based on sports performance. It is common for student athlete to not be as qualified as others. Student athletes spend hours training for sports, it is like a fulltime job. They have little time to work on homework and school extracurriculars. Is it fair for an athletic student to get accepted because of performance in sports rather than merit . [laughter] [applause] most admission scandals are products of accepting data him security obscurity. The government could have stronger transparency laws regarding admissions. Better recording transparencies from universities to state governments, i think we could track the status of students applying at the universities admixture is in alignment. Public universities use taxpayer funds to require oversight. Private universities also use public money. Many students receive government grants, scholarships, workstudy, and more. Required told be publicly report admission status. Programse readiness greatly benefit those who take it vantage of them. It is not possible for some considering how expensive they are. Toprep class could cost up 900. Exposure to these programs would help a lot of lower income students better prepared to get into college. That is a huge advantage if or private program high school, it is coaching for tests. Essay. Elp writing your the entire system is full of advantages for the wealthy. We think our president could do a lot to help with this problem. In order for our american High School Students to have a better 13th grade opportunity, our Public Schools need more state and federal funding to support programs. That way our students could be better prepared for standardized tests required for college admission. In many states, education is not funded nearly as well as it should be. Proper funding for our high schools is a necessary factor in making sure every student has the best chance of getting into a great college. We have a lot of programs in place for students who come into theyge to make sure that are both academically ready and financially ready to take on the burden of four years of school. As High Schoolers we dont have the power to white way the corruption. We are here to raise the issue. It has been here for a long time. Takese our new president big steps to level the Playing Field in College Admissions. Each winningtch student documentary online at stude the website. Coming up on todays washington journal, we will discuss the likelihood of an infrastructure bill as part of the coronavirus response. Talks about state and federal assistance for people who recently lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic. Jared joins us to discuss changes to alcohol laws in several states amid the coronavirus outbreak. Host good morning, it is tuesday, april 7, 2020. The number of coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Is now past 10,000. In new york officials expressed hope that the pandemic is in wisconsin voters will head to the polls despite efforts to cancel in person voting over fears of spreading the virus. British Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has been diagnosed with the disease and moved to intensive care. We are giving you the chance to talk about all of this this morning on washington journal. Our phone lines are spit up regional ash split up regionally