See more on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the National Rural Education Association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. What is that association and what do you do . Our association is the voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a Digital Divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. That is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or areas outside
[indistinct conversations] good morning. Thank you for joining us, whether in person, on our webcast, or on cspan. I am john, a fellow here at the center for education policy. We are here today to talk about education policy and the 2020 election. Education doesnt always grab headlines during president ial campaigns. That is certainly the case this time around. That being said, there are truly consequential issues and big policy ideas being talked about as part of these campaigns. To help us make sense of what is going on we have a wonderful , group of panelists. Arne duncan served as education secretary from 2009 through 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary. He is now a managing partner at the emerson corrective and a nonresident senior fellow at brookings. Dr. John king served as secretary of education through 2016 into 2017. I think he was number 10. Dr. King is currently the president and ceo of the education trust. To help guide our discussion, we have allison klein, her cur
Disempowers places like vermont, oregon, oregon, california that want to do more. That i think is unfortunate. Unfortunately we are out of time. I hope youll allow me a minute or two to say it is rare opportunity for a moderator to say and be completely truthful, when he says, we have been so lucky tonight to have the two best experts in the country, two of two of the finest people in the country to talk about in credible issues. I want to thank you both for sharing your time and expertise with us. [applause]. On the next washington journal. An update on afghanistan operations with Major General bird and davis, in kabul. Then brendan duke of the senate for American Progress and stan bowyer, of the American Enterprise institute on the state of the u. S. Economy. That is followed by a look at the working congress to update the no child left behind legislation. Our guest is Allison Klein of education week. Washington journal, live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern, you can join the conv
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The minimum wage. How much is that in maryland, harriet . Itler i believe right now is 7. 45. Host tell us about your experience. Caller im going to tell you my concern. Because there is going to be more competition in jobs. I am also an older worker. And there is credits given. I am not sure what, but when you fill out your application, they give credits. The government gives credits if you have ever been on welfare and for certain things they give the employer credits. They lower the wage for those people. And we are already and competition. We are getting older. We cant here as well, we cant well, well, hear as can see as well, and we cant compete as well. We cant live on social security. We didnt even get a raise this year. Host lets get a Quick Reaction to her experience from kendall fells. Guest i agree. You know, we have some politicians down in florida that took what the workers called the minimum wage challenge, which was essentially politicians trying to live off the weekly s