Bushs legacy, where the bush exhibit chronicles their love affair with maine, president ial years, and the bush connection with une. Withare the wisdom insightful individuals who visit. Today, we had the Incredible Opportunity to examine a Pivotal Moment in american history, and of americas educational system. We gather to learn about and to commemorate the 30th anniversary of president bush convening all 50 u. S. Governors to create a unified set of National Educational goals. This work brought data and research at long last into the process of crafting educational policy. Our event today will undoubtedly shed light on the strides we have made since september 27, 1989, when this historic meeting took place. Oo on thehed light t work left to be done. To introduce the event further and to introduce our special guests, i invite the chairman of the george and Barbara Bush Foundation and a nephew of president and mrs. Bush. [applause] thank you, president herbert. Lovely moment of remembra
Into the great beyond. We lower our heads for a moment to reflect on the void left by the passing of these two iconic americans and how lucky we were to have befriended them. [no audio] thank you. Throughout the year, we honor president and missions bushes legacy bushs legacy, where the bush exhibit chronicles their love affair with maine, president ial years, and the bush connection with you wendy that she would any une. Today, we had the Incredible Opportunity to examine a Pivotal Moment in american history, and of americas educational system. We gather to learn about and to commemorate, the 30th anniversary of president bush convening all u. S. Governors to create a unified set of National Educational goals. This work brought data and research at long last into the process of crafting educational policy. Our event today will undoubtedly shed light on the strides we have made since september 27, 1989, when this historic meeting took place. We will also shine a light on the work left
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Charlottesville, virginia, was hosted by president George H W Bush and laid down education standards that are still in effect today. The george and Barbara Bush Foundation founded this hosted this gathering. [applause] George H W Bush said he wanted to be the education and environment bush and oneofakind look, gentler america. How better to tell us his vision for this summit than George H W Bush himself. The spirit of this summit is how can we get results . We are here to put progress before partisanship, the future before the moment, and our children before ourselves. And now it is time to defined goals. This is the time for action. I value your advice and ideas as we continue to refine the federal role. To those who say money alone is the answer, i say that there is no one answer. If anything, hard experience teaches that we are simply not getting our moneyss worth in education. Our focus must no longer be on resources. It must be on results. This is only the third time in nation tha
School choice in the states and what freedom scholarships might mean there. So i have three state policymakers here today. Kimberly yee is the 36 treasurer of arizona, and were grad to have you here. She stewards a 40 billion state budget and makes sure that the checks go to whom they need to go to. Treasurer yee has a number of firsts under her belt that are worth mentioning. Shes the first asianamerican elected to statewide office in arizona. Shes the first chineseamerican republican woman to win a major statewide office in the United States. She was Senate Majority leader in arizona and not the first, with but notably followed Sandra Day Oconnor about four decades later, so thats worth mentioning. She also, as i said, she chaired the Senate Education committee and helped create the nations First Education savings account in 2011. And interestingly, has a little bit of a pattern, i think, that you worked on the executive team of the former Arizona State treasurer, dean martin, and no