Silence your telephones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience feel free to also follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of our general public. So any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer at diverse, issues in education. We have jerry weller, foformer u. S. Representative from illinoiss district and the state society in washington. We have mike, a supervisor here in washington, d. C. We have tony trem, star scholar graduate of harry s. Truman in chicago and an incoming northwestern student whos planning to study neuroscience. We have armando rodriguez. We have Lisa Matthews coleader of the npc Headliners T
Constitution. And the resolution of that battle is vital to the future of our country. Thats Arizona Supreme Court justice, clint bolick at conservative forum silicon valley. Can you see the entire speech tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Chicago mayor rahm emanual on his initiatives for education and college preparedness. One of them would require Chicago Public High School Seniors to have a postgraduation plan in place before receiving a diploma. So long before todays guest became a politician, he attended Sarah Lawrence college. At college, before politics, and long before he was president Barack Obamas chief of staff. Chicago mayor rahm emanual taught preschool. Mayor emanuels love of education followed him throughout his political career, into his tenure as chicagos mayor, wherever he oversees the Third Largest School System in the United States. He is credited with adding more than 200 Additional School hours in the year. Hes taken chicago School System to being on par with
As a student at Macalester College, Alex Gordon took quickly to his Physics and Astronomy courses. He realized, though, that teaching the subject was his passion.