Rights on school grounds. Then at 9 35, New York Times versus United States which restricted the governments power over the press and broadened journalists First Amendment protections. Watch landmark cases, tonight on cspan3 and any time at cspan. Org. Wednesday night on American History tv beginning at 8 00 eastern. Congressman john lewis. The 17term democrat from georgia recently died at the age of 80 and will be buried on thursday. Before joining congress he was influential in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In 2019 congressman lewis gave the keynote address at a ceremony offering pioneering africanamerican tennis player arthur ashe. Watch American History tv tonight on cspan3. All persons having business before the honorable, and the Supreme Court of the United States admonished who draw near and give their attention. Landmark cases, cspans special history series produced in partnership with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas be
Million families that are using these vouchers. I think the variability is a reflection of the fact that somehow the agencies are smaller, they have less of a case load, it may be easier for them to stay on top of these things. Host we talked about the Obama Administration requesting 220 million for the housing choice program. How has that been received on capitol hill . What is the politics surrounding that budget request . Guest that would be a large amount of money that this program has had in a while. The number of families that have been served by the program was cut down significantly by the sequester and is only just now getting back up to the number that it had been. The idea of spending more money i think within the broader context, a lot of antipoverty programs are a hard sell in washington right now, and this is one of them. The Section Eight Program in particular has the stigma attached that a lot of the people that benefit from this are just receiving government handouts,
You dont show that by counting out anyones child. You give them all a chance, and thats what we did in florida. [applause] a lot changed in those years. Graduations grea rates went up. The number of students passing exams increased four times over. We became the leader in Early Childhood education, and we still are today. Among minority children, florida saw the greatest gains anywhere in the United States, and what is that show . It shows that every child can learn, no matter the race, background, where they live. I know this can be done. The debate is changing. Old orthodoxies are falling away, but we can never forget that longterm reform does not help a child right now. Years of learning are years that are lost forever. I think of the kids in washington dc who receive opportunity scholarships, a couple of thousand boys and girls, almost all black, have been given a chance to leave the worst schools and go to the best. Yet every to leave the worst schools and go to the best. Yet ever
The bay bridge toll plaza has a couple of we trouble spots including one, which is very slow, a 15minute drive to make it from the macarthur maze into San Francisco. As we move over to walnut creek, southbound, 680, check out the brake lights, amazing. We have 14 minutes away from highway 4 to the 24 junction. In san jose, the drive is easing and we have delays away from tully road because of a four car crash. You can see it does ease from there as you move over to southbound with an accident blocking a lane and no delays. We have developing news this morning. We are talking about stock markets opening in 30 minutes and the wild ride on wall street may not be over after a 10 length night for changes in china. Outside the New York Stock Exchange in lower manhattan. We saw the force of katrina is a message on the board and company want to see how investors will react to the Chinas Central Bank cutting Interest Rates for the economy. Overnight, chinese stocks did tumble for the 4th datum
Saints. Hello there. Thank you for joining us. The battle for the iraqi city of ramirez is intensify ramadi with some reports that the city has fallen to isil fighters. 22 security officials. This amateur video shows what appears to be their forces driving into the city. The u. S. Led coalition is hitting isil positions in ramadi and in iraq. The council, sunni, is allowing shia malitias to join the fight. It is in the northeast of iraq and the capitol of Anbar Province which has been mostly under isil control. It is 100 kilometers from baghdad. More now from the capitol. Reporter isil is one of step closer to taking the whole city of ramadi. They are besieging Government Forces inside the anbar command center headquarters. Isil on the offensive, the government on the defensive. Now, the Anbar Provincial Council actsking shia Led Coalition to join the fight. This is not going to be welcome by many sunnis who it is allied to the government and the council is not representative of all su