It is indeed a real pleasure for me to welcome all of you to Miamidade College and the 26th addition of Miami Book Fair international. This is your official opening for the book fair. Eight consecutive days and the street fair that will take place friday, saturday and sunday of next week. This is without question the finest and largest literary event in america. We are very proud of the college to be able to host these every year, now for 26 years. The community has been so responsive to visitors and residents of the Community Coming together. The book fair has been labeled in many different ways. My two favorite ones, the american author who said miami Fair International is the literary makeup of the western world. The other label is what former First Lady Barbara Bush said about book fair. She said an embarrassment of riches. I love that one. Between now and next sunday, we will have over 350 offers. Some of them coming from different parts of the world. Doing the street fair, hundre
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Betty ross talks about the 5 billion tax credit scholarship proposal which is pending in congress. Secretary devos is joined by white house advisor Kellyanne Conway at the event hosted by the American Enterprise institute. [applause] thank you. Good morning. Thank you to aei for posting this Important Forum today. Robert, thank you for your hospitality and for a principled conservative leadership, especially now in your new role. Its always a pleasure to be back here with so many friends. Our ideas are advanced by the work of the institute and there are many who worked for the cost of education freedom and for our nations students especially rick so im looking forward to our conversation today. We are here to talk about education freedom scholarships and let me say a few things about our proposal to set the table before our discussion. Heres what it is. A 5 billiondollar annual federal income tax credit for voluntary contributions to 5o1c3 nonprofit organizations that provide scholarsh
Mr. Doar good morning, everybody, and welcome to aei. My name is robert doar and im so pleased to have you all here this morning for this important discussion of education in the United States. We are particularly gratified and happy to have the secretary of education, betsy devos with us, her husband dick, couselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, a great honor to have them all here for this important discussion of a topic thats particularly important to aei and our education policy team. And were also pleased to have, i like to say that aei is a washingtonbased think tank, but were not a washingtonfocused think tank. And so we have three distinguished leaders around the country, from tennessee, arizona and pennsylvania, and they will talk about how some of the issues in washington affect the children and parents in those parts of the country, and really, thats what our discussion is all about. How can we make our schools better. Now, a little bit just to give a sense of how i come