[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] good evening. Welcome to the historical society. Im louise, the president seal. This evening i have the pleasure of interviewing Eva Moscowitz. Ceo of the Largest Charter School Network in new york. The Success Academy. Tonights program is part of the speaker series. I want to thank mr. Swartz for his great generosity and leadership which has enabled us to bring many prominent speakers to the stage. Our chairman emeritus was hoping to be with us this morning but his travel schedule conflicted with the programming. Im delighted that susan who has advised us is here and i would like to thank her and welcome her father that she has done on behalf of the New York Historical. [applause] tonights program must about an hour. Questions will be written on notecards. You should have received this as you entered in this morning. My colleagues are going up and down the island c can get a no card for them. The cards will be collected later in the program. So be a
There is water and coffee in the back so feel free to partake. The restrooms at the end of the hall. If you leave the building you can come back in but you will have to go through security. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you. You do need to turn them on when you are about to talk. I think theres a button that says talk. Turn it on, the red light will come on which will tell you the microphone is active. Were not speaking, please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you probably prefer we dont hear any private conversations as well. Those were speaking, we appreciate you being here. We ask that you keep your arm remarks to about ten minutes but i will be sitting with the secretary and try not to be obnoxious but i may waive or give you an indication if youre getting close to the ten minutes and asked that you wrap up quickly when that happens. We are looking forward to a great conversation talking about innovation in k12
School choice advocates discussing the same topic. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im Deputy Director of education policy studies. I am pleased to kick off todays event on the future of educational choice. Following jeb bushs remarks, i will have a brief conversation. Following that, my former join the will distinguished group of panelists. Thell let him introduce others. Event is being live streamed. It will be available at the end of the day. We also have our friends at cspan broadcasting. We appreciate their service. For those watching from home we jebbush aei. To posee who would like a question for later, we will be monitoring on twitter. This is National School choice week. About education savings accounts. And what our education savings accounts . They are a mechanism for educational choice in six states where parents can withdraw kids from schools and into accounts where parents can control and use those funds for restric
Good afternoon. I am pleased to kick off todays event on education savings accounts and the future of educational choice. Our event today is straightforward, and in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, jeb bush. I will join him on stage freight the conversation together, and following that, my former colleague, now the executive director of the center for advancing opportunity will join the distinguished group of panelists, which i will let him introduce the details. Todays event a little housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. We also have our friends at cspan broadcasting, and we appreciate their service. For those watching at home and online, we have a for the event. It is jebbushataei. Will pose questions for later and monitoring on twitter. This is National School choice week, and in ideal way to wrap up the discussion is education savings accounts. I am aware some of you are wondering why we should care about education s
Where are parents can customize the learning experience. It could grow by the way probably to 100,000 if we had the budget to be able to make that happen. In states that are focused on this for special needs kids and for in the case of nftd adef and oth nevada and other place, my vision of this with the right policies in place, the most open system, would you have a half day, perhaps mom could pick a half day of of a traditional Public School, take an ap calculus course thats not available in that classroom setting online from one of the Virtual Schools, take an online music class from juilliard and a spanish course with a local retired school teacher. In that system, my guess is that our education outcomes would be much stronger and more sustainable to be able to deal with the world that were moving towards. So the question is, what are the issues at hand to implement this vision . And its complicated. Theres a lot of things that have to be worked on. What does accountability look lik