Genetically tinkered with, do you have the right to know, im imran garda, and this is third rail. If you want a future in this country you have to fix k through 12 education. Our schools are not failing, we are doing better than 30 years ago. I could fix the system if people have paying jobs. Wherever theres poverty, theres low test scoring. More focus on education. Therell never be one great way to solve a problem, why should there be one answer. We use test scores to assess kids and teachers. The standards are crippling. The program has supporters. Common core upping the ante. Higher standards is the right thing. A teacher wants to teach. Why do you do that job unless you love to do it tonight we have peter cunningham, former assistant of education, and jessie, a High School Teacher in seattle, the editor and author of more than a score, a new uprising against high stakes testing. Thank you for joining us. Is Public Education in the u. S. Broken beyond repair . Not at all. In many wa
This is third. If you want a future in this country you have to fix k through 12 education. Our schools are not failing, we are doing better than 30 years ago. I could fix the system if people have paying jobs. Wherever theres poverty, theres low test scoring. More focus on education. Therell never be one great way to solve a problem, why should there be one answer. We use test scores to assess kids and teachers. The standards are crippling. The program has supporters. Ante. Thing. A teacher wants to teach. Why do you do that job unless you love to do it tonight we have peter cunningham, former assistant of education, and jessie, a High School Teacher in seattle, the editor and author of more than a score, a new uprising against high stakes testing. Thank you for joining us. Is Public Education in the u. S. Broken beyond repair . Not at all. In many ways its stronger thanst ever been. If you look around you see record high graduation rates, test scores that are at an alltime high. You
Worldwide a big night for conservatives in local and state elections. For the second time in 40 years a republican won the governors race in kentucky. Many see it rahs a referendum see it as a referendum in the Affordable Care act. It was an offyear election, voters getting a sign of what may come in the 2016 president ial race. We begin in ohio, where voters struck down an attempt to legalize recreational and medical marijuana. Bisi onileere is there. This was an interesting mix of people that tweeted the measure. Yes, this is a huge upset for those who before legalized marijuana, there were a number of wealthy investors who backed this, spending millions to get the measure past. They were, in the end tweeted. There were a number of Law Enforcement agency suggests, hospitals, religious groups and schools, vocal against the legalization ofle marijuana, a lot taking issue with the term monopoly, that it was unfair that preselected wealthy investors had preference and had rights to 10 si
Of center is Carrie Banahan who comes to us all the way from kentucky pictures responsible for the implementation and operation of the kentucky exchange. Into my far right, mila kofman who want a shorter commute. Shes the executive director of the d. C. Exchange. If youre watching us live today on cspan2, we welcome you and encourage you to tweak your questions to us. Will try to get them to our speakers, to answer today. You can use the hashtag oe3, and you also we will be live tweeting today, so we welcome you of course to live tweet with a picnic in the hashtag is oe3. Im going to turn over now to sara collins with the Commonwealth Fund. Thank you. Enka, maryland dont have of pashtun thank the panel succumbed and also extend a warm welcome to the audience. In looking ahead to the 2016 open enrollment period, an estimated 29 Million People remain uninsured. Hhs estimates about 10. 5 Million People are eligible, uninsured people are eligible for coverage through the marketplaces. In a
Customers make better decisions. 136 year, we will have Group Health Plans and 26 different individual plans. When you have that many options, we know an shows that it is overwhelming. We heard that from our customers currently. We heard it from our broken partners broker partners, our navigators, and our assistance. Next year, we will be launching something similar. For 2016, we will also have new standardized plans. That means standardized benefits , as well as outofpocket expenses, that will help our customers make more informed decisions, compare apples to apples. In our first year of operation, we had semistandard products. The benefits had to be the same in the essential Health Benefits benchmark no substitutions. Copays and other outofpocket costs very. Although that was helpful, it was not the complete tools some needed to make good decisions. Same thingsed the as kentucky. Folks chose platinum when they had few opportunities to get medical care. They did not need it, they were