So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b
Cspan 2. Susan kay coles james, after many years, first as a scholar scholar and later as the trustee. You took over the reins in december of 2017, almost two years. What were your primary goals when you took the position . Mrs. James i have been given very specific instructions by our board. They were very interested in settling the organization down. Making sure that it had worldclass management. As well as taking the very important messages that we have from the Heritage Foundation to new audiences. Focused onhad been washington, d. C. And speaking to legislators and people within the administration. But we really felt like our conservative message needed a voice with some demographics that we had not been particularly active in. We needed to talk to women. We needed to talk to minorities. We needed to talk to the youth of this country. Our conservative values are so important that we cannot ignore those constituencies with our message we have to win them. Susan on your website, you
Favorite collaborator in one of the nations great independent bookstores, we pride ourselves of the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of her signature programming. Whether forms on those issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. We certainly did not intend on the particular timeline of todays presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporter calls, wrote a couple pieces for the New York Times and cnn business. They spent eight years and cook koshland and the extraordinary empire in the poem Political Network has put together by david coke and his older brother charles based hundred hours on the road in wichita. Anybody had a chance to read the book . So you will not understand, youll know immediately when you get into it as you get into it it is daunting when you pick it up. Its encyclopedic, 574 pages and thats before you get to the notes and the appendix and then acknowledgments. But they have written
Wall street Global Economy editor Jon Hilsenrath. Great to see you guys. We have a lot coming up. James carafano. Mohamed on the economy and markets, former pennsylvania governor on 2020 race and policy director Peter Navarro joins us talking trade, markets and the fed, dont miss a moment of it, big 3 hours, markets have a firmer tone, mix trading dayiest, we are waiting on crucial speech this morning from Federal Reserve jay powell, the central bank chief addressing commentary policy and future rate cuts, we have Jon Hilsenrath to tell us what youre expecting, jon. Jon itll be hard for powell to go on a limb, theres a lot of Division Within the fed itself. We talk about the pressure that powell is under from President Trump. President trump wants him to cut rates, theres some he is attendance as we reported earlier this week about half of the Regional Bank president s, one eager to move rates down at the last meeting, powell has to set the table carefully. You had exclusive and fantas
Welcome back to mornings on 2, it friday, august 23rd. Im Cristina Rendon in for pam cook this morning. Good to see you, too. Im dave clark. You will notice its cooler outside. Its nice. Steve is off today but Rosemary Orozco is here to talk about this. For folks that leave their windows open for the nice cool air overnight. Moving through this morning, hopefully you will feel it. Temperatures have fallen off a bit from yesterday morning at this time. As we get into the afternoon, we are expected to keep that trend with temperatures coming down by several degrees. A look at sfo, partly cloudy skies, San Francisco, 60 degrees. 55 to start your morning santa rosa, low 60s, oakland, livermore and 65 san jose. Dave said it was cooler and there is the proof down by 11 degrees over santa rosa, navado, 9 in napa. Down by five over areas of half moon bay. That moist air moved out. Its a drier day as well. A look at fairfield with a weak on shore breeze at 6 Miles Per Hour and the marine layer