Hello and welcome to the arterton foundation. I am andrew parks the assistant director. Thank you all for joining us today at the Louis Lehrman auditorium. I just want to take the opportunity to remind everyone watching inhouse to silence your cell phones. For anyone who is watching on line, you are broken to submit questions via email link speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke. She researches and writes on federal and state education issues as a will skillman fellow at Heritage Foundation but she focuses on reducing and empowering families with School Choice. With that, Lindsey Burke. Thank you andrew and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching on line as well. We are really excited to welcome vicki alger to heritage today to discuss her thorough and really interesting new book on the failures of federal intervention in education. She doesnt mince words at all. She wrote failure the federal miseducation of americas children and she argued
David rolf on the movement to increase workers wages. And those are just a few of the programs youll see this weekend. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now we kick off the weekend with vicki algers critical look at the u. S. Department of education. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Im andrew parks, the assistant director of lectures and seminars. Thank you all for joining us today. I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone in house to silence your cell phones. For anyone watching on line, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke, the wills gellman fellow here at the heritage foundation. She focus on empowering families with School Choice. With that, ill hand it every to lindsey. Thank you, andrew, and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching online a
Districts and worked on have our white districts and they went for it. Now they realize they made a bad mistake because you have these safe black districts in these allwhite districts. You have a republican establishment that controls everything in the schools in montgomery its interesting. There are three target schools. And i visited two of them. In the schools they are about one third black, one third Asian American because there are a couple of career and automobile plants near there. So a lot of korean americans and a third white. People go there because they get a good education. I would have set my daughter there. They are great schools. I would not send my daughter to the all black schools that are just holding pens for these kids. So that is the trouble. And the trouble. In the educational system is so bad. Alabama state university, the allblack university is terrible. These people graduate from their barely literate. Many of them. Some get good education, good education, suff
Help them to whisper a prayer for your wisdom. Remind them that you desire that they set their affection on the things above that will live beyond time into eternity. May they not forget that you expect them to be accountable to you, seeking to be responsible stewards of their talents and abilities. Lord, fill them with your spirit so that they will mount up with wings like eagles, running without weariness and walking without fainting. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell last week the senate took Decisive Action to address the Opioid Epidemic by passing the comprehensive addiction and recovery act. Its an important accomplishment for the
And do way that the bds movement is playing out on College Campuses is a function of that. Add to that the role that africanamericans are playing, and i think you have that shifting demographic on the issue that i noted. How long does it take to play out . I dont know. But what i do know is that a mass Nonviolent Movement be will serve to gal vannize and even accelerate that shift in attitudes. I can remember having this discussion with leaders in the plo over there years ago, and they would say to me but if we, if we mobilize the refugees in lebanon and march to the border, the israelis will shoot at us. And be i said theyre already shooting at you. The point is that you change the dynamic when you use nonviolent means and when you mobilize masses. The problem with hamas suicide bombers or the, you know, back in the old days the attacks on here, there or wherever is that they become demobilizing events. They become sort of the one person doing the one act, not to mention the fact that