[no audio] thank you. Throughout the year, we honor president and missions bushes legacy bushs legacy, where the bush exhibit chronicles their love affair with maine, president ial years, and the bush connection with you wendy that she would any une. Today, we had the Incredible Opportunity to examine a Pivotal Moment in american history, and of americas educational system. We gather to learn about and to commemorate, the 30th anniversary of president bush convening all u. S. Governors to create a unified set of National Educational goals. This work brought data and research at long last into the process of crafting educational policy. Our event today will undoubtedly shed light on the strides we have made since september 27, 1989, when this historic meeting took place. We will also shine a light on the work left to be done. To introduce the event further and or millie introduce todays guest, il special invite the chairman of the george and Barbara Bush Foundation and a nephew of presi
Charlottesville, virginia, was hosted by president George H W Bush and laid down education standards that are still in effect today. The george and Barbara Bush Foundation founded this hosted this gathering. [applause] George H W Bush said he wanted to be the education and environment bush and oneofakind look, gentler america. How better to tell us his vision for this summit than George H W Bush himself. The spirit of this summit is how can we get results . We are here to put progress before partisanship, the future before the moment, and our children before ourselves. And now it is time to defined goals. This is the time for action. I value your advice and ideas as we continue to refine the federal role. To those who say money alone is the answer, i say that there is no one answer. If anything, hard experience teaches that we are simply not getting our moneyss worth in education. Our focus must no longer be on resources. It must be on results. This is only the third time in nation tha
To the present. This is an important book for fitting in how wisconsin story, especially milwaukee now, is part of a larger story of School Vouchers and School Choice in the country. And my own book suddenly diverse, which i the privilege of presenting earlier. It looks at how school them School Board Members and superintendents and to a smaller medium sized districts faced intensifying pressures as they had a demographically changing school system. And it deals with overlapping themes including School Choice policy, racial inequality and the undermining of Public Schools. So its really fun to put it also in this broader context and for reason, im really appreciative care for presenting today and helping us to kind of expand the stories that were telling about School Education policy and how think about equity at this moment. Thanks so much. Welcome, kara fitzpatrick. Thanks so much, everyone, for coming. Can you hear me okay . Just to make sure, are we good . Okay. I just have some no
For a series on school segregation. Shes been a new america fellow in 2019 and a spencer fellow at the Columbia University school of journalism in 2018. Her book the death of a the death of Public School conservatives won the war over education. America is a historical account of actors and sites across the u. S. From southern segregationist, famous to our own former state. Wisconsin legislator, democrat williams, who was motivated empower black families and black youth. Milwaukee and she looks at the roles these and many others in the rise of School Choice in u. S. And the u. S. From the 1950s to the present. This is an important book for fitting in how wisconsin story, especially milwaukee now, is part of a larger story of School Vouchers and School Choice in the country. And my own book suddenly diverse, which i the privilege of presenting earlier. It looks at how school them School Board Members and superintendents and to a smaller medium sized districts faced intensifying pressure
Not only are we sort of observing the 25th anniversary of the First Charter School in america but here we are with the kind of magnum opus that is everybody everything they wanted to know about Charter Schools. And maybe a bit of an exaggeration. Indeed, when i refer to it, i often think that its core message is every school should be a Charter School, but in reality, you actually are painting a broader and slightly different picture than that. What you call basically reinventing the system, not just more Charter Schools. So talk a little bit about the difference between Charter Schools, lots of demand reinventing the system. Guest for the audience, we should probably be clea be cleat what a Charter School is first because it turns out to the polls say half of america doesnt do what they are. Are. So, a Charter School is just a Public School that is run independently of the district, usually by a Nonprofit Organization and it is usually a school of choice but it doesnt have to follow a