I am lily garcia. We represent 3 million passionate educators. What we have to say about the needs of Public School students and their families and communities should be important to elected officials, who will make the decisions that we all have to live with, that our students have to live with. That is why we have come here together on this special red day. Ead red for ed ed is all about the voice of educators and our responsibility to protect our students. And the integrity of our professions. Red for ed is a movement that has spread across our great nation. We are marching this Movement Straight towards election 2020. We intend to stand up and be part of the democratic process that will choose the next president of the United States of america. [applause] we are doing something very different. We talk to a lot of candidates this time. The questions you are going to hear will come from our nea members, educators who have submitted their questions through our website on either video,
I am lily i am Lily Eskelson garcia, a sixthgrade teacher from utah. [cheers and applause] and president of the National Education associaton. We represent 3 million passionate educators. What we have to say about the needs of Public School students and their families and communities should be important to elected officials, who will make the decisions that we all have to live with, that our students have to live with. Our students have to live with. That is why we have come here together on this special red day. Ead red for ed ed is all about the voice of educators and our responsibility to protect our students. And the integrity of our professions. Red for ed is a movement that has spread across our great nation. We are marching this Movement Straight towards election 2020. We intend to stand up and be part of the democratic process that will choose the next president of the United States of america. [applause] we are doing something very different. We talk to a lot of candidates thi
This is about two hours. Hola. You certainly know who i am. There are some very special guests backstage and we are livestreaming this all across the country. I will take a moment to introduce myself. I am a six great teacher from utah. E teacher from utah. [applause] coincidentally, president of this nations Largest Labor union, the National Educational [applause] represent over 3 million compassionate, caring professional educators. We have about 3 million in this room right now. What we have to say about the needs of Public School students and their families and their communities should be important to elected officials who will make the decisions that we all have to live with, that our students have to live with. That is why we have come here together on this very special red for ed day. Red for ed. It is all about the voice of educators and our responsibility to protect our students and the integrity of our profession. Red for ed is a movement that has spread across our great nati
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d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers