Transcripts For CSPAN Rahm Emanuel Addresses The National Press Club 20170625

College for parabens. His remarks at the National Press club run one hour. Andrea welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. My name is andrea. Im part of the breaking newsdesk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started, id like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. Our viewing and listening four audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public so any , applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and Higher Education. We have jerry weller, former u. S. Representative from illinois 11th district and president of the Illinois State society in washington. We have mike henpin, supervisor for a. P. Radio here in washington, d. C. We have tony tran, star scholar, graduate of the harry s. Truman college in chicago and an incoming northwestern student who is planning to study neuroscience. We have katherine skiba, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. We have armando rodriguez, president of the sarah e. Goode Stem Academy High School in chicago. We have lisa mathews, Vice President of media relations, hager sharp and coleader of the npc Headliners Team. Were going to skip over our guest speaker for a moment. The only time we will do it, i promise. We have lynn suite, Washington Bureau chief of the chicago suntimes. We have dr. Gregory jones, principal at kenwood Academy High School in chicago. We have bob weiner, president of weiner public news, oped columnist, and the n. P. C. Headliners team member who helped organize todays luncheon. We have Michael Smith c. E. O. Of , Greensmith Public Affairs and contributor to campaigns and elections magazine. We have caroline hendry, executive director of the education writers association. Thank you for joining us today. [applause] andrea id also like to acknowledge additional members of the Headliners Team responsible for organizing todays event. Betsy fisher martin, laurie russo, kristen trinski, eleanor herman, and press club staff liaison, lindsay underwood. Thank you all. [applause] so long before todays guest became a politician, he attended Sarah Lawrence college. He spent his first two years there studying to become a preschool teacher. At college, before politics, and long before he was president Barack Obamas chief of staff, chicago mayor rahm emanuel taught preschool. Mayor emanuels love of education followed him throughout his career. In his tenure at chicagos mayor or he oversees the Third Largest School System in the United States. Hes credited with adding more than 200 hours to the school year, taking chicago from having the least educational time of any Large School District in the country to being on par with its peers. He implemented full day kindergarten for every chicago child and fought for and won new accountability measures. During his tenure, the district wide Chicago Public School System Graduation Rate has grown by 16 percentage points, more than three times the National Average for growth. And mayor emanuel made chicago the first city in the country to offer Free Community college for all High School Graduates who earn a b average or better. Chicago, change hasnt been easy for this big city mayor. Early in his first term chicago endured an historic teacher strike and the state budget impasse, now entering its third year, has had a devastating Financial Impact on chicagos schools. He has also had to confront his citys persistent gun violence and grapple with how to run a Police Department facing questions about its treatment of africanamericans. Even with these challenges, the mayor, or rahmbo, which hes known in some circles because of his tenacity and intensity, the mayor has kept a steady eye on education. This year, mayor emanuel introduced a plan called moving forward in chicago. Graduation not as an endpoint, but a pathway to further education and employment. Mayor emanuels initiative will require High School Seniors to provide proof of college or trade school acceptance, a job offer, for military service in order to graduate. This starts in 2020. The atlantic calls plans like the mayors a Seismic Shift in american education. Rahm emanuel served as a Senior Advisor to president bill clinton in 1993. In 2002 he was elected to illinois fifth congressional district. He served as president obamas chief of staff from 2008 to 2010. A year later he became chicagos mayor and was reelected to that post in 2015. Of course education is not the only issue that mayor emanuel has faced while overseeing the nations thirdlargest city, and we look forward to hearing him address other matters as well as he works to move the windy city forward. Please join me in welcoming chicago mayor rahm emanuel to the National Press club. [applause] mayor emanuel i just want to know i started this job 62, 250 pounds, now im 58, and 148 dripping wet after hearing that. Thank you for that introduction. A little over 30 years ago secretary William Bennett of education for Ronald Reagan called the Chicago Public School System the worst public School System in the United States of america. Let me give you the results today. Our Graduation Rate when i first became mayor was 57 . And our freshman on track is for 87 . A growth of 52 . Second, our a. C. T. Scores after being flat are up over the last five years, 1. 2 . Third, 42 of all our students today graduate with College Credit. While 85 of our kids are at or below the Poverty Level as defined by the federal United States government, 42 of our kids go on and accept to college equal to the United States of america, trust me our demographics is not the United States of america. Another 21 go on to Community Colleges where the rate is 22 nationally. So even though the demographics for the city of chicago is different, we match the United States of kids going from high school to college and Community College. Third, our eighth graders led the United States in math. Our fourth graders were third in overall reading gains. There were only three School Districts in the entire United States of america whose math and readings for fourth and eight h graders went up. Cleveland, washington, d. C. , and the city of chicago. Every measure of the city of chicagos educational gains are going in the right direction. Our Graduation Rate for the last five years, every year, was triple the National Average. So if William Bennett could get through t. S. A. , i would like him come back to the city of chicago and see whats happening. Every measure on high school, College Acceptance, college attendance, as well as in reading and math scores at fourth and eighth grade levels, chicago is exceeding the norm of the United States progress. While the demographics of the city of chicago students are not the norm for the United States of america. Now, some of the things that were noted earlier point to that direction of what was happening. When i became mayor, half our kids had a full school day. Half our kids had a full day of kindergarten, half did not. If you looked at the math the ones getting a full day deserved a half day and the ones getting a half day needed a full day. It was not determined upon the fact you should have a parent lobbying on your childs behalf for kindergarten. Every child in the city of chicago today has a full day of kindergarten. We have had a 60 increase in our prek, full day, for all our children. We ran the first race to the top for our Early Childhood so parents can compare educational models of Early Childhood education, and we have dramatically also increased the funding for full day prek in the city of chicago for all 4yearolds. The reason is you can see all the data, full day prek what it does for kindergarten, kindergarten what it does for first grade and on. I have a fundamental view shared by our schools that kids drop out of college in third grade. They do not drop out freshman year. If they are not reading and doing math at third grade level in third grade, its not like fourth grade is easier. What chicago is now expanding upon is i do not believe that the kindergarten through 12th grade model using an anachronism from the 20th century. Were going from a prek to college model. I have told you a couple things we have done on the earlier side. Universal full day kindergarten, a race to the top model for prek, 60 increase for full day prek. One of the online portals that is now being praised by the United States government for its ability of transparency and parents to evaluate quality, we give quality scores on Early Childhood providers. I have with me, so i understand, on the other side, the high school and Post High School because were in the process of a major reinvention of our High School Education and what it prepares for. I just finished graduation, i did about five or six different schools. All across the city of chicago. Crane high school, which is on the west side, medical district, rush Presbyterian Hospital and another hospital, cook county hospital. 100 College Acceptance. Finger all the way on the far , south side in the roseland community, 100 College Acceptance. Chicago bulls noble charter, 100 chicago acceptance. We have with us armando from sarah goode, a ptech School Associated with i. B. M. Ibm, to graduate, they have a little over 90 of their students have graduated, seven of their students have graduated with their Associates Degree in hand. They have won over 4. 4 million in scholarships for their students. And all of them are going on to Post High School education to college. Thats on the far south side. I have also Gregory Jones from kenwood, kenwood is also on the south side of the city of chicago. Just north of the university of chicago. 94 of their freshmen are on track to graduate. More than half the students are earning College Credit while they are in high school. He said to me, 72 . They earned this year 35 million in scholarships. At their school. They have the largest dual credit, dual enrollment in the city of chicago. Now, what were about and what were trying to do is take our high school graduation, which was at 57 , by the class of 2019, were on track for 87 . 52 growth rate. Triple the National Average. We have a series of things were doing to ensure that every child is College Ready and college bound. We live in a period of time where you earn what you learn. You get a High School Degree, thats probably going to be your income. You earn a twoyear associate degree, you earn a college degree, you earn a post doctorate degree, we live in a period we earn what you learn. The question in front of me as mayor, in front of the principals that are here is what are we doing to better prepare our students for that economy . Over 60 of all future job openings will require a minimum of two years Post High School education. We all know this. Its studied ad nauseam which is a High School Degree is not ready for the 21st century economy. Yet every educational model at the urban level, i dont care where you are, is in the 20th century prism of time. K through 12. Prek through college model. First and foremost, while you are in high school we have the International Baccalaureate program in the United States of america. And its fancy way of saying a liberal arts education. We have more desires now for people to get have schools become i. B. In chicago than we can keep up with. Because when you take that test you already graduate with College Credit under your belt. Your parents dont have to pay for it and you are better prepared for college. Second, dual creditdual enrollment. The chicago Community College city in our city, mayoral directed, the second largest in the United States of of america. So we when i became mayor there was about 400 to 600 students in dual creditdual enrollment, today were north of 4,000. Kids are already graduating not only high school, getting a High School Degree, they are graduating with College Credits under their belt. In fact, at kenwood, greg has more students involved in that dual creditdual enrollment than any of our high schools, over 110 of them. They are not only graduating with High School Degrees, they have College Credit under their belt. Third, advanced placements. We have one of the largest programs by data points i think its 60 increase in people passing that test. So the dual credit, dual enrollment, International Baccalaureate, as well as a. P. , advanced placement. Were ensuring that the kids in the city of chicago graduate with College Credits already under their belt, and unless your parents went to school, the College Experience under their belt. And i cant say enough about what that means for kids who with any our children are not kids of color but kids who are only kids of color but kids who are at or below the Poverty Level. They are not only getting College Credit, they are getting that College Experience. So that first six months, they are familiar with it and familiar with the rigor of that effort. Now in the city of chicago, 42 of all our children not only go to college, but 42 graduate with College Credit underneath their experience at high school. We set a goal by 2018 to grow that to 50 . At armandos school, which we have four of them at that level, they are not only doing high school, he has seven graduates as i mentioned that graduate not only with a High School Degree just last week, seven have graduated with an associate degree already under their belt. Done. Free. Have i mentioned free yet . Parents dont have to pay for it. In the same way that gregs class, 72 graduating with College Credit. Free. Its a big challenge, which is we all know is cost for Higher Education, chicagos got a model in which every child regardless , of income, zip code, background can graduate with College Credit under their belt, free. Where cost is not the prohibitive factor. I do not believe parents should take a second job or mortgage to give their kids a shot at the american dream. Thats what chicagos embarked on. Then lastly, what we have done is not lastly, additional, andrea talked about, which is if you get a b average in high school, were the only city in the United States of we make Community College free. Two years of your education is free. And then we have what is called the chicago star, thats the program called the chicago star. The chicago star plus, which is where tony is part of, and the first cohort, chicago star plus is if maintain your b average in Community College, so high school, b average, Community College, free. You maintain the b average in Community College, every one of the universities in the city of chicago, northwestern, university of chicago, the paul roosevelt, columbia, northeastern, will give you anywhere from 25 to 45 off your tuition. Tony went to pierce elementary on the north side. Rogers park. Went to north side college prep. Best high school in the state of illinois. Thats not just me, thats u. S. News and world report. Got into university of illinois, could not afford it. Even with the scholarship. He went to truman Community College with a b average, for free. Maintained his b average, and now hes going to Northwestern University with a scholarship for his education. He will come out with a degree in neuroscience from Northwestern University and basically, basically have no college debt. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Thats our educational plan in a nutshell in chicago. Go from kindergarten, 12th grade to prek to college model. Finally what we embarked upon is what was just described, let me give a full description of it, which is today if you look at College Acceptance and Community College acceptance and the armed forces, and i want to get back to the armed forces, i forgot about it, chicago has 65 of our kids already going to college or Community College. They are taking College Credits in high school. They got International Baccalaureate, a. P. Or dual creditdual enrollment. We match the United States in both those categories even while our population is different than than the overall United States demographics. What we want to ensure, and 42 of our children are graduating with College Credits under their belt even though we match that together. We want to make sure by the class of 2019, 2020 every child has a Post High School educational plan that the economy is already requiring of them. So we want you to have a letter from college or a letter from a Community College, these are acceptance letters, a letter from a trade, or letter from a branch in the armed forces. And a letter from a job. Its essential to make sure that while kids are in high school they have a Post High School educational plan. One, in the 21st century economy you know the data already, basically 80 of all future jobs will require a minimum of two years Post High School education. We have to restructure our educational system to meet the demand of what the 21st century will require of our kids in the same way as the High School Education in the 20th century met the demands of the 20th century economy. Second, we already got 65 of our kids getting there. I cannot in good conscience as a mayor allow the other 35 not have a plan that the economys going to require of them. When you have all the support system in place in a school rather than if they graduate , ill figure this out when im 18 or 19. That other 35 are the one that is need the support to have a Post High School because they are more likely to execute it. And fourth, while i dont know everybody in this room, i can say this as a father of three, to all of the parents in this room, do any one of you leave it to chance for your kids . Raise your hand if you leave it to chance, figure it out on your own. Ok. I have seven. Emanuel honey, if you got seven, im building you a bridge. Because let me just say this, on the first two you didnt leave it to chance. On the last five you said im over this. I got three. We do not leave it for our children. As the mayor, we dont leave it to chance. Not when you have the support in place, not when youre the first child in your family to make it to college with a chance. Not when the economy of tomorrow requires that Education Today equals it. So while youre in high school, were going to get you College Credit and graduate with the confidence you can do it. With not only the confidence, but your parents will not have to pay for it. That is the number one thing that is stressing parents out, how to figure it out. Third, that is what the economy requires. We do not only want to have 65 of our kids going to college, Community College, or the armed forces, but make sure the other 35 do not just happen to have it playing by the russian roulette table. We have given ourselves three years to prepare the system and the expectation of all children. I would let you know, it is not just in high school. Chicago, inity of elementary schools, we have teachers and schools who put up college banners in the hallways and the front doors of the classrooms, from kindergarten forward. Kids get the expectation and the awareness socially at school about expectations. Raise those expectations, and the two principles here and the student will tell you this, not just me. If you raise those expectations and support the effort, kids will meet those goals. Everything i am telling you, if i told you about crane school, sarah good school, bulls school, all of the cynics and naysayers, the doubters would have said not those kids. Not from that background not , from that socioeconomic class. Spangler, 100 College Acceptance. Crane, 100 . Chicago bull, 100 . Sarah good, 94 , 4. 5 million in 4. 5 million in scholarships. Kenwood, 30 5 million in scholarships, 72 with College Credit already. Measure, some person, some propeller head will tell you based on background, race, income, socioeconomic doss, those kids could not it. It can be done, it should be done it must be done. , you just dont put a requirement on it. You support kids. And you raise their expectations and you help them all the way. There is not one of us who are parents in this room that wouldnt do anything for our children. By ensuring the other 35 while they are in high school and elementary school, they have the support to prepare it is not like we will drop it on them senior year. We prepare them. We work with them. We give them the support to figure out how to apply to college or Community College, or the armed services, a trade, or a job. I left that in my litany of what we are doing beside the largest ib program, the largest a be ap. Every branch of the armed forces in chicago runs a high school. It is the only city in the United States. Every branch. Have high school they seven applicants for every seat, 80 Graduation Rate, when i told it was nearly 74 from the year before, and a 90 college except its. Every school is a level one plus school. Is not just when we say it, we also have the largest junior rotc program in the United States of america, 10,500 kids. And let me close on one thing. When i talk about all that we have done and accomplished, i believe firmly in the power of education. In other words, we would not be in this room if we did not have two things in common the love of our parents and a good education. I have a responsible and he sure every child has a chance succeed. And i have to make sure that the system and the structure and support of our principles have what they need to succeed. We did expand the school day, we have the shortest school day and the shortest school year. These data points are not mine. They are what our principals, teachers, students, and parents all accomplished. The gains being associated with Graduation Rates, college except in, college completion, Community College exceptions, math gains and reading gains are because once you took away the impediment of the short school day and the short school year, we can design an academic structure that can always cause our students to succeed. Not one point is going in the right direction and others going the wrong way. At the elementary level, high school level, the College Testing and the college except its our pointing in the north acceptance are pointing in the north end. Now, ill close on this one point because were in a big debate. I think the debate is wrong. It is not a debate of neighborhood versus charter. Both principals here are from neighborhood schools. It is about quality versus mediocrity. I think the entire debate thats happening nationally, even in my city, it is not on target. If you are parent and sitting around thinking about schools, you dont think about oh, is this a good Reform School . You think about quality versus mediocrity. My responsibility as mayor is to ensure whether you want a military school, stem school, selective enrollment school,ike our student here tony or any one of our high schools International Baccalaureate . It has quality. You pick the right school for your students, your child. It is quality versus mediocrity, not charter versus neighborhood. Andave expanded charters closed failed charters. We have expanded neighborhood schools, Crane High School is a perfect example, and also turned around neighborhood schools. And we have consolidated those that did not work, and quality was our north star. This debate must go, and i will close on this other point. It is also a mistake to have an entire debate around just teachers. One, you have to have three things an about parent, teacher that will motivate you, and a principle that will be held accountable and is not scared to be held accountable. Every child is homeschooled. Every child. Easier when that is happening. Makeit is not, we need to sure they have all the support from Early Childhood education to highly motivated teachers to principles that not only are not scared to be held accountable, wants to be because they want the independence to be held accountable. I would say to you that the principals and parents have been left out of the discussion over the last 20 years, which is always about teachers, as though the other two do not play a role in the education and socialization of our children. We are missing a debate, and youd say go back to your own experiences, that is what motivates and changes in education. If youre going to make fundamental reforms, that is what has to happen. Last point. Our as opposed to the other last point i made. We may be the first School District in the United States to typeon embarq on this of education model, but mark my words, we will not be the last. Their deal, arkansas has theirs, oregon has theirs, tennessee, the city of chicago has hours. But everyone is going to be going this way because that is what the economy requires, that is what our children need if they are going to succeed in the 21st century. Thank you for being here and i look forward to taking your questions. [applause] thank you, mayor. How are you funding, starting from questions with the audience, how are you funding education as you described, how do you convince your constituents in those antitax, antigovernment area to make the investment . Mayor emanuel well, you left out of my bio i was a dancer. Im tap dancing my way through this. Let me walk through a couple things. Just as examples, etc. The chicago star, which is if you get a b average, Community College is free. We spend today at Community Colleges around im doing plusaround 30 million on her medial education. So we took a portion of it into if you get a b average or better, you get Free Community college. Why . Im rewarding success rather than purchasing an insurance policy on failure. So we just channeled the dollars differently. Second, at kenwood, again just north of hyde park and university of chicago, its actually president obamas neighborhood, they have the largest use in the city of the dualcredit dual enroll. Kids are in their High School Get it College Classes Getting College classes, they go to any one of the 91 Community Colleges and take credits. Thats split between Chicago Public schools and Community Colleges. In armandos model, sarah good, thats done with i. B. M. And also dual creditdual enrollment, they are in high school taking qualified already College Classes. Thats an example how were funding it. Ill just say this, im once i think we have proven, and i have raised taxes for public schools. Not only for the teachers pension, for School Modernization facility. And i have no gumption. You want a 21st century education, i cant have children in hallways, stair wes, without stairwells without air conditioning. We once had a meeting, greg, he is going to laugh about this he had seventh and eighth grade, called academic excellence, plus high school. And we were going to take another school over and put the seventh and eighth graders there. So he held a meeting with me and the alderman at the time in a room that had no air conditioning. By the next starting of the beginning of the school year. School year, they got airconditioning. It was in the middle of summer. By this summer well complete every classroom in the city of chicago that hasnt been done since 1963 will have air conditioning. I raised taxes to pay for modern facilities. I got no problem. Ill be up front about it. What i also want to be up front about, if you want more revenue . I want more quality. I think thats a fair trade. People make that trade. I have been up front about it and we succeeded. Im not just for more revenue. Im for more revenue that succeeds quality versus mediocrity. Andrea do you anticipate you might use some of that revenue to hire more Guidance Counselors to increase the ratio of Guidance Counselors to High School Students . Mayor emanuel i think you could always use more. We are going to have to to get to our goal. It is going to be a combination. We have i am putting both my principles on this you know one goal, i do not know if it is you and your school. One goal is a nonfor profit that the superb work. There is another group in chicago that is called one million degrees, which works on completion rates. We work with, but we will have to invest in this now. Policy, we in our gave ourselves until 2019, 2020 class. Already at 40 of all of our counselors training services, so over the next three years, we will get ourselves to 100 . There are two goes to remember. A 50 ofwe want to be our kids graduating with College Credit already under their belt, and by 2019, two graduate, and we will support you, o acceptance from one of five things college, Community College, armed forces, a trade school, or job. How are you preparing your Community College system for the influx of students i imagine you anticipate more students entering Community College. Mayor emanuel i am very proud of this. When i became mayor, we were one of the worst systems in the United States. The world bank came out three years ago and wrote a report that chicago had the best College Career program in the United States. Has the most diversified economy in the United States of america, in the world. No sector of our seven sectors controls more or contributes more than 13 of our employment. So we copied the german model. X on the westside is all health care. It leads with rush Presbyterian Hospital to help us with the curriculum. Mall,t going through the carol washington is led by an insurance company, all professional services. Transportation, logistics. Id, advanced manufacturing, human services. With theool is aligned fastestgrowing part of our economy, the fastest amount of where the industry helps us on the curriculum. It was written up as the best College Career program. They are getting an influx. First of all, i dont mean to do this to you, tony, but tony went to the Best High School i told you in the state. North side. It is also one of the top 30 in the United States of america. Trust me, truman Community College never had a north side graduate. They have a north side graduate who is now going on to become an years atn the next two Northwestern University. He always wanted to go to the big ten, could not afford diversity of illinois, because it with a state school, but because of the star scholarship, which is free i mentioned free at . Free, we have gone on to northwestern and graduated debt free. And im only one city. I would love to have a state budget and a United States Government Back in the saddle. But that is how we will do it. We will increased quality of our students, and more importantly, for the students that dont just go on to northwestern they are not just coming out with an Associates Degree, they are coming out with a degree that was designed by the industry, so they know the credentials and , they are not just getting a job, but if they are in health care they are getting a job as a , career that leads them to the middle class. Key difference. Youre in health care, you want to be a nurse. We got a way to do it. Second, you want to bounce yourself up as a higher grade nurse, we have the educational system. Were more than just a job. Were a career that helps you get up that economic ladder. Andrea with the new requirements for students starting in 2020, if a student doesnt present these qualifications mayor emanuel they go to that womans familys house. Andrea will they be considered a dropout . What are there alternatives . Mayor emanuel let me say this. It is a requirement. Let me do two things. First of all its not like we , tell you senior year in september that this is a requirement. Were doing this all the way through and helping kids. Were going to support them. And ensure they get there. And give them the support to get there. Thats a. B, im going to tell you this, outside of you, nobody in this room doesnt do this for their own children. Both subtly and directly. Im going to make sure that the outlying 35 arent just by chance but have a plan and , support system. And were going to help them get there. Today to graduate you have to do , 40 hours of Community Service in chicago. You have to do four credits worth of science. To graduate sarah good you take four years of i. T. We have a whole host of requirements. I dont think its our kids graduate and our Graduation Rate is going up. I do not think its a stretch to yes its a requirement, but were going to support you to also ensure you have a Post High School educational plan. We have you have to do 40 hours of Community Service in the city of chicago to graduate. You have to have science requirements. You have to have arts requirements. Im a former dancer. Im for that. The idea that you are going to actually have a Post High School educational plan and all of a sudden were putting a burden on our kids backs, i guarantee those kids of chicago will be better prepared for the future than any other child. Every other School System today leaves it to chance. Ill tell you this. I would rather leave the insurance policy of the kids that go to Kenwood High School to greg jones and what hes giving them than just say, good luck. Figure it out. Sarah good, where armando is principal i could go through all the schools ive mentioned. These are kids of color. Overwhelmingly on free and reduced lunch. I dont know the percentages, but a good percentage are the first ones in their family to go to college. I and amy have five degrees between us. Thats my wife. We have all the support we can give our kids if they want a college counselor, advice, tutor. Im supposed to leave to chance a child, the first one in their family to go to college outside of the support of sarah good and all the infrastructure around . It would be morally reprehensible of me to do that. We could do the opposite. Thats what were doing. It is a requirement. When they get there, were going to ensure they have a plan. Andrea getting your priority on education, what would the government administrations proposed cuts in College Loans and grants do in chicago . How would that affect chicagos mayor emanuel you mean the u. S. Government . Hard for me when you say cut. I think of the state of illinois. Lisa and i just talked about this. I have not talked about a group, talking about the return on investment of a college education. And on over a lifetime. I bet you return of investment on Higher Education is better than return on investments of a home. You look at your mortgage write off. We do full subsidies for homeownership. Ill take a stab at that. If its not equal, its better. That is an education over a home. Im telling you guys, i grew up in a home, this is engulfed in me, beaten into my d. N. A. , and i have a father who was an immigrant. Couldnt have been cheaper about everything in life except for one thing. Education. Thats true of how i raised my kids. Dont talk about if its education, its just not a sacrifice. I think were nuts as a country given what we know about the world, what we know about the competition is getting more fierce in the 21st century, not just from china but a whole host of countries, that we would not make access to Higher Education affordable. I think it is morally wrong to ask parents to take a second job, second mortgage, if im asking for a second job its usually the third job in a home of two parents. Not the second job. Or a second mortgage to give their kids a shot at the american dream. And ill just tell you this. I forgot i left it out. The chicago star scholarship, the Free Community college, is the only public scholarship in the United States thats opened to dreamers. Everyone in the program, meaning the chicago star and chicago star plus is opened to everybody, dreamers included. Meaning northwestern, they do the addon. Northeastern. I think its crazy to cut funding and leave it just to banks. Im using tony as an example. There are hundreds of students i know the seven students at sarah good who graduated not only with a High School Degree, their Associates Degree. These are working families. Tonys parents could not he could not go to a state university, university of illinois, because the aid in a school, even with aid was too expensive. Hes going to northwestern now. I think this is crazy what were doing as a country, and were taking our staff and trying to reverse that and make it better. Andrea coming to Illinois State administration. Mayor emanuel you guys got another hour . [laughter] andrea i wish we did. I really wish we did. Mayor a so do i. It would be more therapy for me mayor emanuel so do i. It would be more therapy for me than anything else. Andrea two related questions. Do you think that the state of illinois will enact a budget before the 2018 Gubernatorial Election . And will the Chicago Public schools open on time this fall if the state of illinois doesnt pass the budget . Mayor emanuel we have already answered number two. Were opening up on time. Im not going to take all the parents dont need the anxiety about that. Were opening up on time. Were going to meet our responsibility. Its time the state of illinois meet their responsibility. Let me say a couple things. First, illinois is dead last in funding Public Education in the United States of america. We beat out mississippi, alabama, and louisiana for dead last. Were the fifth most populous state. The city of chicago by a. T. Carney is the second most competitive economy in the United States, seventh in the world. Dead last in funding education. If you are poor, we really whack you. It is not only dead last, it is one of the most inevitable funding systems in the United States of america. We are going to open up on time. We had gone 700 plus days without a budget. The governor has gone 700 days without introducing a budget. You will never have a budget until the chief executive of a city or state, in this case, the state, introduces a budget. I cannot make a prediction, i can tell you i hope it does, it needs to, the governor has an obligation to introduce a balanced budget that shows all those priorities. Our students are going to school. That is where they belong. We will do whatever it takes to ensure that our kids go to school. Our doors will be open, they will be learning, and we will be beating records. And i did not mention this. In the last three years, every game gain in the state of illinois, graduation, reading, or math, has come out of the state of chicago. If you take us out of illinois, the state of illinois, our Graduation Rate will fall flat or decline, everything falls flat or decline. The entire gain for the state of governor, isany because the men sitting in front of you and their 600 plus colleagues. Illinois, without chicago, would be falling backwards. E are opening our doors the government will have to figure out what every other School District does that is poor or represents minority kids. Chicago will be open for the future. I cannot say that about illinois. Include andrea including education, what has been the biggest disruption for the city of chicago from the budget impasse . Mayor emanuel from the budget impasse . Ill give you theres two things. Let me give you a couple of their points that you may not know. For five years in a row chicagos the number one city in the United States for corporate relocations. Not one, not two. Every year for five years. For five years in a row, chicagos the number one city for direct investment in the United States of america. In 2016 were the only city in the United States on the top 20 and our entire net investment was greater than miami, atlanta, and montreal, all combined. For five years in a row, this is from the j. Lo economist, j ll economist chicagos economy grew faster , than the United States, faster the new york and faster than d. C. And i do not have wall street or the federal government in my backyard thank god. , get to my answer. The reason is is because we created certainty. 36 of the kids in the city of chicago have a Fouryear College degree or better. United states, 27 . Largest Capital Investment in the United States in transportation system, both public and aviation. We are also home to the largest amount of graduates from the big ten. We have a Community College system thats already outlined. We have a transportation, technology, training, transparency, and also what i said in the effort of the transportation system. All the five ts talent, training, transportation, technology, and transparency. We have created certainty. The biggest drain on the city of chicago is the uncertainty of a budget. I think this also this debate about taxes, as if that is everything businesses, big, medium, small, any size is looking for is certainty. You create certainty around talent, you create certainty around the pool and resources of talent coming in, you create certainty around a 21st century transportation system. Certainty around public finances and ill get investments. You will get investments. You create uncertainty, youll get the net result of that. So the biggest drain for chicago by any global standard, a. T. Carney just came out two weeks ago, seventh most competitive economy in the world. Second in north america is uncertainty. There are other Human Resources as it affects the homeless, Domestic Violence shelters. Taking care of indigent and poor. I cant tell you what it means not just the budget, the actual infrastructure around human supports is atrophying. For all these people that say governments the enemy, go look at a state that doesnt fund basic operations. Its in a third world place. So its not just i would say on the human side its been tremendously draining. On the Business Environment it is in chicago is doing what it can. I would rather have just dont be a drain. If you cant be a net plus to the state of illinois, dont be a drain anymore. Ive felt really good therefore i will say this, let me close on second. That one. The governors about to give a special session. Hes about to give a speech. I just want a budget. Just make look, harry s. Truman signed, did he say go see sam rayburn or the buck stops here . Every chief executive has the responsibility of the office, heres the budget. Heres where i want to invest, here is where im going to cut. Heres the choices im going to make. We have gone 700plus days with our chief executive never once introducing a budget. Everybody walks around scratching their heads, saying we dont have a budget. We dont have one introduced. Introduce it and the legislative body and i have been in congress, well get to work on it. Andrea do you plan to run for a third term of mayor of chicago . And what will your Campaign Narrative be in a nutshell . Mayor emanuel first of all i plan on running for a third term. The first person that will ill talk to will be my wife, not you. Im joking, giving. I plan on running for a third term. I have already said that before. Its not a big surprise. I got to be honest. Look, i have been honored to work for president clinton, president obama, i have been honored to represent the north side. No job has been more intellectually and emotionally rewarding. Any mayor will tell you that. It is emotionally also challenging, but i look at what we have done. I cant say we got it 100 right, but i can tell you were trying. I was at the other day at a Community College, we did our First Chicago star plus. A young man just like tony introduced me. He is a star, got a b. He got a b average in Community College. Hes going on to dominican school. And he says im going to graduate debtfree. He said i will be the first one of my family to go to college. An immigrant. A dreamer. I could not do it without what you did, mr. Mayor, i want to thank you. I got to that podium and i could barely hold it together. I cannot think of anything better in public life than to know that you can make an imprint put your thumb , on the scale, and tip it towards justice and equity. And i will say to you is in a time in which we live with greater polarization, period of time where people want more sense of ability to influence their own lives in the democratic process, local government is where that is possible. Right now the rest of us look at this city as disneyland on the potomac. I will tell you if you look around the world, there is 100 cities that are driving the economic intellectual curl energy of the world economy. Intellectual Cultural Energy of the world economy. Chicago is one of them. I plan on attending to keep it in the top 10 as a Global Leader economically, culturally. Then, my measure as a mayor, my measure as a mayor. Just to make sure, i got it, that the kids of rogers park where tony went, the kids of , ravenswood, where i live and , the kids in Roseland Park on when they side look at this great city and see the power and energy represented by the city, that they all share the same sense that thats my city. If they do, london, berlin, beijing, tokyo, new york watch watch out chicago is coming for you. Nothing will hold us back. Thats the measure of our success. Andrea thank you. Mayor emanuel i got four minutes . Andrea yes. I will try two more questions. As someone often credited with being one of the architects of the democratic takeover of the u. S. House in what will it mean 2006, for your partys prospects in the 2018 mid terms if john ossoff wins in ga6. And if you lose do you you helped lead the last democratic mayor emanuel sure it can happen. Anybody that tells you it will happen this far out hasnt been in campaigns. Its too far to predict. Id rather be a democrat today going into 2018 than a republican. And you didnt pay me to say that. Ok. Every time the house of representatives ever flipped has been a midterm election. Thats a fact. No party has gone into a midterm with a president this unpopular at this point, 18 months, 17 months, without a severe consequence to that partys position in the house. You have three factors. Maps, voting rights, and money that are different than any other time before. We dont know the consequences. In the sixth year of a presidency, when we did last time, you had beginnings of a recession, two unpopular wars, unpopular president , and corruption scandal. There were enough candidates in places to create a wave and ride it. I dont know whats happening across 18. I want to say as somebody who spent my life building the party, we are 1,000 he seats shorter today than we were in 2009 or 2008. This is not about one election, its about building a party, building an apparatus. What i mean by that, chris murphy out of connecticut, class of 2006 to congress. Christine gillibrand, class of 2006. Joe donnelly, the class of 2006. Im about building a party. So if its not about one election, its about making sure that we win statehouse seats in north carolina, georgia, new mexico, in all these areas, and other people and promote not just to congress. Anybody says whats happening in 2018. 2020, 2024. Are we doing whats necessary intellectually . Organizing and Party Building to make sure were prepared for the next decade not for the next election. Andrea thank you. Before you leave we have a small gift for you. It is a longstanding tradition at the National Press club to present all of our luncheon speakers, each one of them, with a mug from the National Press club. We hope that you use it in good health. Thank you. Mayor emanuel thank you very much. \[applause ] andrea very briefly, i want who was your favorite teacher and why . Mayor emanuel larry gould, history teacher in high school. He was also my home room teacher in high school. Andrea thank you so much. \[applause ] \[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017\] \[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org\] before we close todays luncheon, would like to invite you when we will hear from army chief of staff, general mark kelly. The National Press club is a worlds leading professional organization for journalists. For more information and to apply for amber ship, visit our website at press. Org. To gain a two donate to programs and training for journalists offered through the Nonprofit Press Club Journalism institute, please visit press. Org institute. We are adjourned. [applause] tonight on q a i got interested in political power and i can see with these books, power in the city, urban power, studies in political i won a couple of really mild journalistic awards, but when you win an award at 24, you think you know everything. When he started talking to me, i realized i didnt know anything about power at all. Looking at the evolution and exercise of medical power in america. He shares his progress on the next part of his multiparty biography on lyndon johnson. He had compassion from the beginning. But the ambition was the over rising consideration with him. Compassion andn ambition when he was in the senate, he realizes he wants to be president , he has to pass the civil rights bill, but then you say what is he feeling for . Not at all . All of his life, he wanted to help poor people, particularly for people of color. Thats tonight at 8 00 q a. On cspans Center Republicans have released a discussion draft of their health care replacement. Senate floor debate will continue. A number of republican senators appeared on the sunday shows this morning reacting to the bill and the possibility of a vote this week. We begin with senators rand paul and Susan Collins from abcs this week program. We will also hear from ron johnson, pat toomey, and john barrasso. Repeal, and100 thats what i want. I might vote for 80 reveal. The obamacare subsidies are greater under the republican bill than the current obamacare law. Thats not anywhere close to repeal. So you are a no. If we go to a bill that is more repeal and less Big Government programs, yes, i will consider partial repeal. That means fewer subsidies. Obamacare made it illegal to buy inexpensive insurance. If i was a 27yearold guy and dont want pregnancy coverage, i cannot by and inexpensive coverage. Theyve priced me out of the marketplace and therefore i dont buy it at all. All that remains under this im not voting for something that looks just like obamacare and still does not fix the fund little flaw of obamacare. Let me say it makes absolutely no sense to eliminate federal funding for planned parenthood. There are already longstanding restrictions for abortions. Thats not what this debate is about. Planned parenthood is an important provider of health care services, including Family Planning and cancer screenings for millions of americans. That is one of the issues i care deeply about. There are several who have been meeting under the leadership of rob portman to look at the medicaid provisions and there are seven or eight in that group. I cannot speak for them, but that is whyo say the cbo announced quantifying the cuts and the impact it the impact is going to be so important to stop you cannot take over 800 billion out of the Medicaid Program and not expect its going to have an impact on a rural nursing home 70 relies on medicaid for of the cost of its patients. Is an access issue as well as one having to do with cost. What i find so disappointing is these bills are not going to fix the problem. They are doing the same in washington, throwing more money at the problem and of course all of the inflamed rhetoric. Down and goes to the problemsolving process and that have premiums been artificially driven of because of obamacare mandates. I come from a manufacturing base. I would ask myself if that have been artificially driven of because this is this better tomorrow than it was today . So you dont like this process but you are not willing to be the vote to force the process to get better . I would like to delay the thing. There is no way we should be voting on this next week. So you are not going to work to stop the vote next week . I have a hard time believing wisconsin constituents or myself what have the time to properly evaluate this to vote for a motion to proceed. Ive been encouraging leadership and the white house, lets not rush the process. So wehave the integrity can do it. Of myfar as some conservative friends who are concerned the bill does not go far enough, im sympathetic about the kinds of reforms they would like to make to lower premiums through Market Forces and greater freedom on the part of consumers, i see this bill as a first step. Those trends that we can makelize the market and important reforms to medicaid. Will you support this bill, senator . I am undecided. There are things that adversely affect my state. A couple of things i am concerned about, but if they can be addressed, i will and if they cannot be addressed, i wont. Obamacare has sabotaged the end the Insurance Market to the point where half the counties around the country, people are down zero, 1, 2 choices. You have zero counties where no one is selling obamacare insurance. Lets you made the case effectively that obamacare is in trouble. Even senator durbin would not disagree that something needs to be done. The question is whether you and the team of builders can find a way to bring over the senators you are going to need. Every one of them is committed to a fundamental andge in way from obamacare Central Government control and into local control and patients making decisions will stop we are going to continue to work through each of them. Everyone of them has very good points. Do you have the flexibility in the framework of the bill . I believe we will get it past him at the only way we can fundamentally change away from obamacare, get rid of the hated mandates and put it on a sustainable course longterm and cut down the cost of care and insurance. Recap, Senate Republicans releasing that discussion draft of their health one law replacement thursday. The Congressional Budget Office will score the bill this week Senate Floor Debate is expected to begin. We posted the bill at cspan. Org. You can follow live in it coverage on cspan2. You can follow it online at cspan. Org. Senatew on this weeks action about the Health Care Law replacement bill from todays washington journal. This runs about one hour. Continues. Host this week in the u. S. Senate debate on the gop Health Care Law or placement plan released this week by Senate Republicans, were joined this guests, samur berger, a senior policy advisor for the center for american jacobs, whod chris is joining us from the texas Public Policy foundation, a