Real education reform means giving parents, teachers, and childrenmore options and empowering parents to make the decisions involvingtheir children's education.
The walls of Rev. Dr. Shelley Best’s office at the Greater Hartford Arts Council are lined with her own artwork and prayers, which, in her estimation, amount to the same thing.
“When I paint, I pray,” says Best, pastor of the Redeemer’s A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion church in Plainville, and, since April 2022, CEO of the Greater Hartford Arts Council.
This Lecture was held at the Heritage Foundation on March 11, 1998. It's a pleasure for me to be here. I want to talk a little bit about the basic character of the American people: Who we are; who we have been; and how that ought to shape public policy.