Standards. This is about an hour. Good morning, everyone. Takes for coming to this panel. M the Deputy Director at today we will discuss an issue that has been getting a little bit of attention these days, School Choice, and especially private School Choice. I know there is all sorts of forms of School Choice in this country, a conversation about charters. But given so much of the recent conversation and the president ial election, this is where we will do our primary focus, but we will allow time for other issues if you have questions. School vouchers and other voucherlike programs, cousins, if you will, have been growing in number. The cousins would be tax credits, scholarships, and education accounts. The latter of which one proponent called yesterday the cool new kid on the block. President trump and his secretary of education are big fans of School Choice, and betsy devos loves to talk about choice and has made it the centerpiece of her education agenda. Said, these are complicate
Join the discussion. A discussion on the federal role in education and what is expected from the Trump Administration in the area of School Choice. An hour. Ust over all right. I think we are going to get started. We are missing aft president randi winegarden. She will be joining us as soon as she gets here. Im the education reporter at u. S. News. Youre at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. Ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelists panelists. Theres nothing really going on in dc right now, right . I am going to leave the bio to you guys. You can look in the program and see it. I will quickly run down the line here. We are lindsay burke. For those of you who are sort of like outside the beltways here jeffreys is the president of democrats for education reform. He is also a civil rights lawyer. Next to him is marty west. The republican from tennessee. A quick housekeeping note, that is one of the first panels at ewa. Please tweet using so its fair gam
This discussion was part of a conference hosted by the Education Writers Association at georgetown university. Its just over an hour. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for coming to this panel. Im eric, Deputy Director at ewa. Today we are going to discuss an issue that has been getting just a little bit of attention these days, School Choice and especially private School Choice. I know that there is all sorts of forms of School Choice in this country and a lot of conversation about charters in particular, as well. Given so much of the recent conversation and the recent president ial election i think this is where we are going to do our primary focus. We will allow a little time for other issues if you have questions and so forth. So School Vouchers and other voucherlike programs, voucher cousins, if you will, have been growing in number. The cousins would be like tax credit scholarships and Education Savings Accounts. The latter is what one proponent called the cool new kid on the block.
Rarest actually is a german language printing here in the center. There are only two copies of this july 1776 printing of the declaration in german that had survived. This is been shared with us by Gettysburg College in pennsylvania. Its side by side with a salem, massachusetts printing of the declaration. We also explore the promise of equality, so this notion that all men are created equal endowed by their create where certain unalienable rights, thats language that each person has to decide, does that apply to me. So people who wrote those words maybe didntly recognize the revolutionary potential in them. Actually some people like john adams probably did realize that when you declare that all men are created equal, people might say, well what about women . What about enslaved people . Laboring men . We try to explore that story through this wall here where we look at the status of laboring men, of enslaved people, of women. Including abigail adams. More exhibits of the museum of the
Importance of it. And you had people there planning to take down to them a very, very important statue and renaming of the park from robert e. Lee to the another name. And George Washington was a slave owner, and was George Washington a slave owner, and so now will George Washington going to be losing the status . Are we going to be takeing down statues to George Washington . How about thomas jefferson, what do you think of thomas jefferson, you like him . Okay. Good. Are we going to be take down the statue, because he was a major slave owner. And President Trump initially criticized the violence on many sides rather than singling out the white supremist, and many viewed that as an inadequate response. Yesterday, he stepped back into the front of the microphone to condemn the groups tied to them, but then he reversread the statement. The aep frank center released a strong statement a moment ago and said how much more proof does america need after todays president ial fright show. Presi