Hosting todays program she researches and writes on federal and state education issues as the fellow in our education policy here at the heritage foundation. She focuses on reducing federal intervention education and income earning families with School Choice. With that, i will hand it over to lindsay. Thank you, andrew and everyone for being here today and watching online as well. We are excited to welcome vicki. She writes the federal miseducation of americas children and she argues that it is time to end, not mend, federal intervention in education. As she explains in her book the federal government left education alone for about a hundred years, recognizing that it was the purview of state and localities. But gradually, federal free strained gave away and by 1979, weasel the first cabinet level agency for education established with the verse of the u. S. Department of education and today, that agency holds 5,000 employees, manages over 150 federal Education Programs and has a discr
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
Live look out here of whats going on right now with this search, you can see up on the side of the road lots of officers, theres also lots of brush on the side of the road, so thats something that police are having to deal with out here this morning. We have seen several officers walking up and down this area with flashlights as well looking into the woods, heard them also talking about a homeless encampment nearby. Live in san jose, Sandra Osborne, kpix5. Thank you. Our other big story this morning, the weather. We saw something we havent seen in a while this weekend, rain, this is what it looked like in the east bay yesterday. Other parts of the city didnt even see a drop. Take a look at what its like in the mountains. There is snow. Northstar tweeted this picture last night with the winterishere. Looking good, rain felt good yesterday in our area. We were at the park for a couple of hours and then as soon as we left the rain started falling. Perfect timing. I thought michelle gets r
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
Welcome, everyone to the Mayors Disability Council meeting here in room 400, city hall. February 19, 2016. We appreciate you being here with us today. We are going to get started with the agenda and cochair supanich will read the welcome and introduction. Thank you. Thank you, good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday february 19, 2016, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs or other mobile devices at grove, van ness and mccallister street ramps. The carlton b entrance is provided via chairlift. Our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciate. We welcome publics participation during Publi