[inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Thank you all for joining us today. I just want to take the opportunity remind everyone watching inhouse to silence your cell phones. For anyone who is watching online, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Hosting the program is lindsey burke. She focuses on reducing federal intervention education and empowering families with School Choice. With that, i will hand it over to lindsey. Great, thank you, andrew. Thanks for everyone being here and everyone watching online as well. We are happy to welcome vickie alger to discuss her thorough and newly interested new books in the failures of federal intervention and education and she doesnt miss words at all. The title failure, its time to end and not mend federal intervention and education. Dr. Alger explains in her book federal government left education alone for about a hundred years recognizing that it was purview of states and local
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
Hello and welcome to the arterton foundation. I am andrew parks the assistant director. Thank you all for joining us today at the Louis Lehrman auditorium. I just want to take the opportunity to remind everyone watching inhouse to silence your cell phones. For anyone who is watching on line, you are broken to submit questions via email link speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke. She researches and writes on federal and state education issues as a will skillman fellow at Heritage Foundation but she focuses on reducing and empowering families with School Choice. With that, Lindsey Burke. Thank you andrew and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching on line as well. We are really excited to welcome vicki alger to heritage today to discuss her thorough and really interesting new book on the failures of federal intervention in education. She doesnt mince words at all. She wrote failure the federal miseducation of americas children and she argued
David rolf on the movement to increase workers wages. And those are just a few of the programs youll see this weekend. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now we kick off the weekend with vicki algers critical look at the u. S. Department of education. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Im andrew parks, the assistant director of lectures and seminars. Thank you all for joining us today. I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone in house to silence your cell phones. For anyone watching on line, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke, the wills gellman fellow here at the heritage foundation. She focus on empowering families with School Choice. With that, ill hand it every to lindsey. Thank you, andrew, and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching online a
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