Senator bill frist, former education secretary john king, pennsylvania education secretary pedro rivera and Healthy Schools campaign ceo Rochelle Davis. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning, everyone. I want to welcome all of you to the Bipartisan Policy Center. Im chief medical advisor here. The title of our event today is education in health, twin pillars for thriving students. Good to see you. For those of you new to bbc, our mission here is to actively seek, to take the best ideas from both political parties, to promote health, security, as well as opportunity for all americans. We drive principles and politically viable policy solutions through the power of analysis, negotiation and advocacy. Todays event focuses on the bidirectional impact of education and health. It is part of a project bpc is engaged in looking at quote unquote health in all policies, the idea that policies outside the Health Sphere in fact have a profound impact on health, and therefore Health Impacts
Pennsylvania education secretary pedro rivera appear Healthy Schools campaign ceo Rochelle Davis in this discussion. Well, good morning, everyone want to welcome all the title is education and health twin pillars for driving students. Good to see all of you. For those of you new to bpc the mission is to actively seek and take the best ideas from both parties to health, security as well as opportunity for all americans. We try principles and politically viable old policy solution through the power of analysis, negotiation and advocacy. Todays event focuses on the bidirectional impact of education and health. It is part of a project bpc is involved in health and all policies. The idea that policies outside the healthcare have a profound impact on health and therefore Health Impact should be a consideration for policymaking in these areas. To this and it is understood that education is important for health outcomes. In addition, it is a that facilitates learning and is the Education Secto
Of first 5 of california, jacky wong. Thank you so much for joining us. [applause] she wanted a piece of the action too, so she came all the way down from sacramento, because im really proud of everything we have been doing in San Francisco. It goes back to 2018 when the voters of San Francisco passed proposition c to invest more resources into Early Childhood education and i want to acknowledge someone who isnt here but a leader in the effort and thats former supervisor norman yee, who did a really great job of focusing on child care and making sure we have support and resources. As a result, San Francisco has been able to do some transformative work and im really proud of it. We knew that there was a need to recruit and retain Early Childhooded educators and we have been able to provide increase in salaries with subsidies that lead to over 1600 early educators receiving raises of 12 thousand, which helps us with not only recruitment, it helps with retention. We have been able to doub
Visit by the executive director of first 5 of california, jacky wong. Thank you so much for joining us. [applause] she wanted a piece of the action too, so she came all the way down from sacramento, because im really proud of everything we have been doing in San Francisco. It goes back to 2018 when the voters of San Francisco passed proposition c to invest more resources into Early Childhood education and i want to acknowledge someone who isnt here but a leader in the effort and thats former supervisor norman yee, who did a really great job of focusing on child care and making sure we have support and resources. As a result, San Francisco has been able to do some transformative work and im really proud of it. We knew that there was a need to recruit and retain Early Childhooded educators and we have been able to provide increase in salaries with subsidies that lead to over 1600 early educators receiving raises of 12 thousand, which helps us with not only recruitment, it helps with rete
Funding. Was that your experience too and if so is that something thats on going or petered out by now . Senator shut off funding i dont know. I mean, hes a more prolific fundraiser than i am, so he may have felt more of a difference than i did. Youd have to ask him. Im not aware of any conspiracy to shut us out of anything and im not aware of any one person or one group of people who has the ability to do that. Senator paul has this legislation that lets states implement their own medical marijuana laws and make these states no longer breaking law. Is that something you support on the Judiciary Committee . What is your stance on that . Senator is this the one that hes running with senator and had a long conversation with senator the other day. As i recall it would move marijuana from a schedule one to a schedule two; is that right . Right. It has some medical benefit and allows states that legalize it to regulate it. Senator one of the reasons for doing that that senator told me about