Hosting todays program she researches and writes on federal and state education issues as the fellow in our education policy here at the heritage foundation. She focuses on reducing federal intervention education and income earning families with School Choice. With that, i will hand it over to lindsay. Thank you, andrew and everyone for being here today and watching online as well. We are excited to welcome vicki. She writes the federal miseducation of americas children and she argues that it is time to end, not mend, federal intervention in education. As she explains in her book the federal government left education alone for about a hundred years, recognizing that it was the purview of state and localities. But gradually, federal free strained gave away and by 1979, weasel the first cabinet level agency for education established with the verse of the u. S. Department of education and today, that agency holds 5,000 employees, manages over 150 federal Education Programs and has a discr
Districts and worked on have our white districts and they went for it. Now they realize they made a bad mistake because you have these safe black districts in these allwhite districts. You have a republican establishment that controls everything in the schools in montgomery its interesting. There are three target schools. And i visited two of them. In the schools they are about one third black, one third Asian American because there are a couple of career and automobile plants near there. So a lot of korean americans and a third white. People go there because they get a good education. I would have set my daughter there. They are great schools. I would not send my daughter to the all black schools that are just holding pens for these kids. So that is the trouble. And the trouble. In the educational system is so bad. Alabama state university, the allblack university is terrible. These people graduate from their barely literate. Many of them. Some get good education, good education, suff
[ ] im bonnie erbe welcome to to the contrary a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. Up first, women and the midterms. 15 female Senate Candidates are running in next weeks elections. Only two are considered sure winners. Maines senator susan colins and Shelly Moore Capito from West Virginia both republicans n iowa one of two states that never elected a female governor or sent a woman to washington, joni ernst is courting the male vote and gender is an issue in the tight race in kentucky between Alison Lundergan grimes and Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell. There are 160 women running for u. S. House seats and that doesnt break any records. However, depending on the out come a number of tight races the center for american women in politics says there may be a Record Number of women members come january 2015 and the next session of congress. 36 states are electing governors, nine women, six democrats and three republicans are running. 4 of them are runnin
Lobbiest turned around and supported the American People and passed policies that upset his former colleagues greatly. Host and gigi sohn is special council through the fcc and Gautham Nagesh and with the wall street journal. We look forward to having you back. I love the show. I will be back. Cspan created by companies 30 years ago and brought to you as a service by your local cable or satellite provider. Coming up, former graze congressman talks about his trip to iran and scott talks about education and then a talk about defense spending. On the washington journal tomorrow virginia congressman talks about International Issues like the conflict in ukraine and isis issues. And then indiana congressman talks about granting president obama the authority to fight isis arming the jordan forces and the defense budget. And we continue with our president of College Series with the president of nashville. Keep track of the Republicanled Congress and follow the new members through the first ses
Talk about a small world, though. It blows your mind. Back to your point, i arrived inat 3 30 in the morning and i think every light was on when i flew in. Was it thursday night . It may have been. Anyway every light that you can imagine was on and there wasnt a cloud in the sky so it was a great view as you arrived. We arrived and i should identify doctor here sitting in the front row and he was my guide as we landed there. One of the funny things that happened is we got off the plane and went through there passport area and they were short on vips because a lot were there to atened the conference. We had to wait and while why we waited i started chatting with the passport patrol people. One of them who spoke good english said i hope you can get this nuclear thing worked out because we are working forward to meeting american women here. I thought this was once again a reminder of certain things being universal. And i responded by saying to him you have to keep in mind if we do this th