And detroit, where hes aiming to rally up support amongst black voters. Thats a key demographic and recent polling shows him losing ground to former President Trump. The big problem for him, trump expect today speak later on this afternoon at the n. R. A. Convention happening in dallas. A very busy weekend it isment welcome to fox news live, im aishah hasnie. Good afternoon to you, griff. Griff and President Biden will deliver the Commencement Address at morehouse college. And Lucas Tomlinson kicks it off at the white house on latest on the president s plans. Hey, lucas. Thats right, President Biden just took off aboard Air Force One for georgia. A critical swing state in the 2024 elections, a state he lost in 2016, but won narrowly at 2020. And he took the motorcade over there and the president did speak yesterday at the africanamerican museum in washington. My predecessor and extreme Maga Friendsing going after diversity, equity and inclusion across america. They wants it for some no
Purr vie purview of states and localities. But gradually federal restraint gave away and by 1979, we saw the first cabinet level agency for education established with the birth of the u. S. Department of education. Today, that agency houses nearly 5,000 employees, manages over 150 federal Education Programs, and has a discretionary budget of 70 billion. I might ad its really the tip of the iceberg because we see this somewhat parasitic relationship with state education agencies as well, who have to be responsive to all of these federal mandates and dictates and as a result have also increased their staffing over the decades as well. So, what have we gotten for this federal large ess. Its red tape, bureaucracy and wasteful spending. The u. S. Has increasingly centralized education policy to increase spending through increased programs and through efforts such as common core. Its interesting, though, to note that other countries, high performing countries, have gone in the opposite direc
[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
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
Colleague lucy noland. applause . Thank you. Thank you all very much for joining us. We are thrilled to have you here iain thank you so much as well. You know the primary for philadelphia mayor is now less than one month away. Time flies. Only one republican is in the race but the field of democrats its a crowded one with six candidates all vying for their partys nomination. We have all six candidates with us for this debate. And a quick reminder for our audience please refrain from any applause in the end of our debate. We of course are very happy to have you here and weve dot to keep things moving of course. So now on to our candidates. We begin with Lynne Abraham. She served as Philadelphia District attorney for 19 years. Lynne abraham has 40 Years Experience as da, judge and head of philadelphias Redevelopment Authority. Next to her former Municipal Court judge nel see diaz. He serve as the judge for the Philadelphia Court of common pleas from 1981 through 1993. He has served as Ci