Featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middleton High School Students answer the question what do most 2020 punta cana it is to address. Our second Prize Middle School winners were hunter tabor, caden smith and dylan stegemoller, 8th graders at Lora Batchelor middle school in bloomington, indiana. Is titleding entry educating americas youth, our top priority. Importantsingle most part of our democratic society. Where the most important things about america as we are an open, inclusive society. Great publicave schools. This is where than 90 of young people are and i think it is going to stay that way. It is important we take care of it. The First Public School in the 13 colonies was opened. Time, Public Education has become desegregated and more inclusive. It is bringing everybody together. Not only do we educate students within the classroom walls, but the Important Role of Extracurricular Activities and athletics. There is plenty of research that shows when students engage in this world, academic achievement levels go up and their sense of belonging is increased. Currently in the u. S. , schools are funded by tax dollars. Allowed to enter the school and selecting adoptive curriculums. Sometimes we confuse Public Education with publicly funded education. To get to know through education free to many families. They arent antipublic school or for privatization. They couldnt care less about how a school is legally a. Tructured how the funds flow they care about their kids. An explanation for the School Choice is [inaudible] schoolsmakes public all can take advantage of. The no child left replaced by the every student succeed act. It helps students have an equal education. Our teachers arent paid enough and our schools are funded enough. [inaudible] you hear about teacher shortages and math teachers ing a hard time attacking attracting teachers. Now are having a hard time attracting Elementary School teachers. Classrooms. G into if we could move that even 1 , we could give every teacher in indiana a 2000 raise. [inaudible] too many people into many places still resist the idea of any accountability at all. They everybody the same whether the teacher is doing a great job or a poor job. That is a terrible disservice to students in this country. [inaudible] this isnt the place to do that. There is no space in our testing system and that is not a good idea. This is the biggest waste of taxpayer money i can identify. We have to know how students are doing. It is the interest of the students themselves and we want to know what is working in our schools tell that the best schools can be imitated by those who are measuring up. To walkway from standardized testing. [inaudible] years, i was a fan of standardized testing and it took a long time for me to i got older and wiser. [inaudible] incredible challenge that doesnt shop on standardized tests. And other hot button topic, the amount of money being spent. Be used in different ways to lower class size and expand opportunities for children with special needs. Scoresould find out test not looking at their Family Income and they think that testing is a way of teachers measuring schools. We need to encourage our students say enough is enough. We are the future of america. We should protect the future of mankind. Equal opportunity to education. Teach studentcam entry online at studentcam. Org. Coming up in an hour, Kaiser Health news chief washington correspondent julie robin or on how u. S. Companies are responding to the coronavirus. Bipartisan policy Center Economic policy director on washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this mor