Good afternoon. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, for turning out on a cold, late fall day. I can assure you its going to be worth your time. Im daniel disalvo, an associate professor of Political Science at city college of new york and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute here its my pleasure today to introduce our speaker, beth akers. So first things first id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute wishes result become a fellow. Prior to joining us she was a fellow at the Brookings Institution center on children and families. And before that she was a staff economist at the president s council of economic advisers, and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second, i like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D in math excuse me, her ba in math and economics from suny albany at a ph. D in economics from columbia university. So beth is here today to talk about her book, game of loans the rhetoric and reality of student debt. Recently published by
Spent by Education Departments you are going to miss some services that are provided in a Community School concept, maybe by social services. You might not count some of the services that are provided by a boys girls club. Excuse me for interrupting. I want to make sure everyone has their five minutes. Go ahead and wind up. Winding up now. If you count dollars district make in teacher placement decisions based on specific salary or benefit costs so things look, you will worry about things looking equal, instead of saying are we actually giving services to our students, all were saying is why in the world would you want to cut off reasonable flexibility that a district might have in giving something creative and meaningful to it our students and discourage districts from finding those creative solutions. We hope you will make your intent crystal clear. And in closing i would just say we are ready, willing and able to find those creative solutions. Were excited being at the table and app
Air. This was what kids walked by on the way to classes, the proud home of the lawrence lancers trashed. For like people to just throw their garbage all over the floor and not clean it up or at least some of it it bothers me. There was a truck emblazoned with the billboard. The city towed it. Whoever receptacled the field and trashed it, shamed of yourselves. Like an ocean full of trash. What happened to the field . It was the aftermath of a sunday brazilian festival which this neighbor could hear three blocks away. Thats how loud it was. I thought it was coming from the house next door. How late . Garbage, wrappers, bottles everywhere. Reporter the smell of alcohol hung from the air. A former city councilman was on the committee to restore the stadium a decade ago. Lawrence doesnt have a lot. And what we have we try to make it good and better for the kids. Reporter the mayor is vowing to do what he can to make those responsible this. We give someone the privilege of using the field, a
Took them nine months to put together a memorandum of understanding how they would all cooperate. They couldnt even agree how to cooperate. That is always, rice bowls and stovepipes and always a problem in the government and are always a problem. Would i like to see export enforcement, particularly arms export a greater priority within the department and department of justice. Department of Homeland Security really wants to do this. I mean, you know, in terms of these operations theyre the funding source. They are the ones who sum ply most of the travel and all of the rest and department of Homeland Security as you know, think a strong and sincere interest in pursuing this. I think they could get more support from the department of justice, and i think, you know, part of the department of justice has many, many things to worry about. There are lots of different kind of crimes and everybody who is advocating that a particular crime should be a priority thinks sincerely his particular cr
This is an example from the washington post. That aside from the story on the president speaking to reporters yesterday taking a look at syria. Saying they dont have a strategy yet. If you go to the pages of the New York Times on the same thing. Serious being its lead story story today story in story today on an alice is a story by peter baker this morning. The headline obama urges calm. A little from peter baker this morning as he writes about the two situations that dominated the press conference, but you can see in total he said probably be for the program and you can see it on cspan. Org what he writes in both cases mr. Obama took a strikingly different tone than his own advisers. The prime military officer at security adviser both talked in sharper terms over the last week at the possibility of striking in theory and what mr. Obamas ambassador expressed outrage on thursday at russias latest actions in ukraine on both theory and ukraine. The visuals are having separate parallel deb