I am a Kindergarten Teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] how many educators in the room today . Community supporters . Also San Francisco board of education if you see the others walkin and gabriella lopez. Happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane we have some housekeeping items. Retired school one social studies teacher is passing out cards on which you can write questions. The format will be diane and i will talk for a little while and then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. The questions will come from the cards and that way we will know five different people are asking the question then we can ask the question so with that would like to give a little introduction and a lot of people here been following her a long time but i would like to give an introduction. A champion for Public Schools across the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience and is one of the nations
And watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv. On cspan2. Good evening everyone and thanks for being here tonight at Balboa High School in San Francisco. I am susan solomon, i am a kindergarten and prek teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] thank you so how many educators we have in the room today . Okay, a lot of them. And Community Supporters . Those two. We also have San Francisco board of education member with this allison collins, glad you could make it i see others walk in, zero Gabrielle Lopez another school board member. So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane ravitch, i have a couple of housekeeping items. Can trade a retired social studies teacher in San Francisco, taught here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format is going to be diane and i are going to talk for a little while, and then we will open the floor to questions from the aud
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. I am pleased to be joined by diane rav itch, a former assistant the education secretary under bush 41. Ten years ago, she published a scathing critique of the standardized testing system she once supported in programs like no child left behind. Since then, shes become a defender of Public Schools. I am honored to have Diane Ravitch on this program. How are you holding up so far . Im glad to be with you. How are you holding up so far . I went paragliding the other day, im holding up really well. Youre paragliding, obama is water surfing, how can you be so calm at a moment like this . Im not calm, i hate whats going on. I theres a full scale frontal attack on our Public School system. Its an outrage, close to 90 of the children in this country go to Public Education and Public Education is the bedrock of our democracy, doors open to all. Taking in kids who are english language learners, kids with disabilities. Kids who are t
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. I am pleased to be joined by diane rav itch, a former assistant the education secretary under bush 41. Ten years ago, she published a scathing critique of the standardized testing system she once supported in programs like no child left behind. Since then, shes become a defender of Public Schools. I am honored to have Diane Ravitch on this program. How are you holding up so far . Im glad to be with you. How are you holding up so far . I went paragliding the other day, im holding up really well. Youre paragliding, obama is water surfing, how can you be so calm at a moment like this . Im not calm, i hate whats going on. I theres a full scale frontal attack on our Public School system. Its an outrage, close to 90 of the children in this country go to Public Education and Public Education is the bedrock of our democracy, doors open to all. Taking in kids who are english language learners, kids with disabilities. Kids who are t
Amy president elect donald trump is filling his cabinet with bankers and billionaires including many with ties to Goldman Sachs. Wall street celebrating, but what about main street. We will speaking with the leading public intellectual cornel west about the 2016 election. The Police Killing of Keith Lamont Scott, in charlotte, North Carolina, the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline, the death of fidel castro, and more. The we look at betsy devos, billionaire Charter School and education privatization advocate tapped by donald trump to be education secretary. All told, together we have helped more than one million kids in private School Choice programs and we are just getting started. Since we last at, nevada, montana, tennessee, mississippi, arkansas, wisconsin, south carolina, maryland, and south dakota have all passed private School Choice programs. Amy we will speak with former assistant secretary of education Diane Ravitch, lisa graves, and Tawanna Simpson. All that and more,