Since azerbaijans independence, in 1991, u. S. Aid has spent 55 million on programs to make the country more democratic. The country remains more undemocratic and is becoming more and more authoritarian. The u. S. Government presses on with multimilliondollars programs in azerbaijan. In 2012 us aid issues a 1. 5 million call, i want you to listen to this. That would enable key Society Organizations to better respond to the president s vision and calls for more meaningful and state Civil Society partnership fulfilling the governments commitments to various International Human rights instruments, end quote. The idea of u. S. Taxpayer dollars going to implement the supposed democratic vision of azerbaijans authoritarian president reinforces the notion that foreign aid is a scam. Ill give you an example from kazakhstan. This is a typical program. Youll see this in every part of the world. Im a eurasia specialist. My examples from the region, usaid worked with the 1. 5 million to increase t
Thank you for being here. First were getting through our security system. Its great. If you have ever been to dca in august, you know this is not typical at all. We hope you had a great experience and we wanted to make it more special. I want to work i want to are excitedand we to have so many partners engaged in this work. It is an issue for me that is so vital, having spent the bulk of my career in education and having seen what occurs with students on a regular basis and all kinds of settings. I will talk more about that in just a few minutes, but it such a great honor for me to introduce our next guest who is at the white house and it has been an honor for me to get to know him. One of the things i want to share with you is ive never met a person in government who has more focus, more commitment to kids, but even more so who has more heart in the game. Every time i speak with roberto rodriguez, im reminded of why anyone of us wants to work with kids every day. It is a passion that
Headscarves in Public Schools is not compatible with religious freedom. That has been welcomed in germany as a step in the right direction. For students wearing a headscarf at school is not a problem, but for their teachers, it has been a different matter. In 2003, the German Constitutional Court issued a ban on headscarves responding to the case brought by a teacher who had been denied a promotion because of the headscarf. But they refused to remove the headscarves, and petitioned the top court for redress and now they have won. The judges said it did not constitute a danger by itself, neither for peaceful proexistence of the school or the neutrality of the state. It does not violate students rights per se, and it does not mean the state embraces the religion. The judges said the decision was too sweeping, calling the ban a violation of religious freedom. Schools can have the right to forbid headscarves, but only if it poses a risk of disruption. The court also overturned a part of th
The duke professor explores whether the social economic background of legislators affects their policy choices while in office. The program is about one hour. Host thanks for joining us. Whitecollar government, one thing that i just found out this morning because i was reading a book on my kindle is you have worked in various bluecollar jobs before you became an assistant professor. He wanted to talk about yourself and how you see your transition from working class. Do you see yourself come from workingclass to come here in the whitecollar profession now. Hostand the deathly a whiter job now. Been professor at the college is great, a lot of fun. But it dont do a lot of work with my hands. At the was a time in my life when i was, i worked at a pepsi bottling plant in tulsa, oklahoma. I was a cashier at the Worlds Largest walmart. I worked at a cashrich restaurant. I worked at dairy queen. So that was sort of a part of my life, i paid my way through college. I paid my way through a littl
Alt, delete. Obama frompresident last night white house Correspondents Dinner. We want to get your views from our first 45 minutes on what we would call beltway culture. Maybe events likes last nights dinner highlighted. Your thoughts and views on beltway culture. Numbers e information via social media. Our Facebook Page has 25 things posted right now. You can send us email too at 202 7370002 at journal cspan. Org. In the Washington Post, the headline she writes the rest of the world couldnt care about the dinner except it is out of touch with regular americans. Who would want to miss the scholarship awards . A couple of those thoughts from kathleen parker. We want to get your thoughts on the beltway culture. We are using the themes from last night in her to this. We will show you thats from this. The phone mines twitter is available to you. And if you want to send us thoughts on facebook you can do so at facebook. Com cspan. Off of facebook, Robert Wheeler says some of the thoughts on