[indistinct conversations] good morning. Thank you for joining us, whether in person, on our webcast, or on cspan. I am john, a fellow here at the center for education policy. We are here today to talk about education policy and the 2020 election. Education doesnt always grab headlines during president ial campaigns. That is certainly the case this time around. That being said, there are truly consequential issues and big policy ideas being talked about as part of these campaigns. To help us make sense of what is going on we have a wonderful , group of panelists. Arne duncan served as education secretary from 2009 through 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary. He is now a managing partner at the emerson corrective and a nonresident senior fellow at brookings. Dr. John king served as secretary of education through 2016 into 2017. I think he was number 10. Dr. King is currently the president and ceo of the education trust. To help guide our discussion, we have allison klein, her cur
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We will leave this program at this. To take a life of the discussion on a new report on irregular migration on the smuggling of migrants in mexico. This is hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. It is just getting underway live here in cspan2. Is a gorgeous thursday afternoon before labor day. I think this is a really important topic and the really important report that we are putting out right now. I appreciate all of you taking the time out to do this. Before i give a brief summary of the report which i hope all or most of you were able to get, it will be posted online by the way right after this event. I wanted to say a couple of thank youse, first is to the Ford Foundation that we are just completing our second year of funding with the Ford Foundation, they have been a great partner with us. Thank you to the Ford Foundation for believing in us, slightly nontraditional partner for them on this. I want to thank my coauthor, the Carmen Garcia who is currently a