Class learners is our mission and we answer it in our classrooms every day. Thank you secretary duncan for your advocacy of authentic learning and service for our students and your support of teacher leadership. Thank you to my wonderful family. Im nothing without you. Thank you to kayla, my student to the texas delegation and to my administrators. [ applause ] finally, thank you to the talented passionate and remarkably goodlooking group of state teachers of the year with whom i am privileged to join today. Each of them is a study in excellence and each of them is a representation of what a great teacher is. I am honored to stand here today. As a teacher of refugee students, i have been privileged to see Public Education through the eyes of students from countries as diverse as berm a, somalia, iraq, and cuba. Being here today makes me think of my student. She was a shy teenage girl who had little formal schooling and much suffering in her native berma. One day a snowstorm shut down t
Used. And the reality is sometimes it does go in the wrong place. But we find it collectively, and then we bring people to justice, either through the and people are actually going to jail for first time for corruption in the health system. In many countries around the world. Theres actually really exciting to see this is something that these Health Programs we dont talk about much has driven accountability in a way that really never existed before. Doctor let me ask you a different version of that question. We should really care about corruption when our dollars are on the ground. But we should frankly care just as much when our dollars arent on the ground because we wont need to use as much money if the systems arent efficiently run. In those cases whos the right Government Entity to try to build that capacity . Is it our Global Health dollars or should those be reserved for programs or other pieces of the state department who are more in the business of working with governments at l
Meaningful action. He was notified by Homeland Security advisor john brennan. He ordered flags lowered to half staff. This is about 5 minutes. I spoke with governor malloy and fbi director muller. I offered governor malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every resource he needs to investigate this crime, care for theirctimw and families. We have endured too many of these tragedies. Each time i learned the news, i react not as a president but as anybody else would, as a parent. That was true today. There is not a parent in america who does not feel the same grief i fail. Do. The majority of folks who died today were children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. They had their entire lives head of them, birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. Among the fallen were also teachers, who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams. Our hearts are broken today. For the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of t
Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privatization of high speed Passenger Rail has tried and failed to solve the problems it was intended to solve. These plans were almost always preceded by funding cuts, system i can safety and reliability problems caused a great deal of upheaval in the transportation and forced countries to renational lies a system. With that being said, we think that amtraks longterm next general plan for the northeast corridor provides a temp plate for a Public Private partnership that is worth discussing. If the par
Form 1040, they have a pie chart that shows this goes to defense, this goes to social spending, paying interest, but i really think it could be much more detailed. I think that kind of education, letting taxpayers know where their money is going, will make a more informed citizenry and update the debate on where you want your money to go as the tax paying public. That is something that i am strongly advocating. I think that will go far. That is the first step to saying, wait a minute, i do not want this amount of my money going or i am ok with this now that i understand. Host from one of our viewers guest i am not sure that taxes are going up for obamacare. There is a tax credit in the law that enables a large number, millions and millions of taxpayers, to be able to afford Health Insurance. There are tax credits in the law right now for Small Businesses to be able to Purchase Health insurance for their employees. We have an estimator on their website to help Small Businesses, on taxpa