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
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. 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. A littlet housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. Our friends at cspan broadcasting, and we appreciate their service. For those watching at home and online, we have a for the event. 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 savings accounts. And what our education savings accounts . They are a mechanism f
Judge, thank you very much. Okay. Panel, we have spent a good bit of time yesterday and last night. We are interested in a number of issues and your presentation about the way you see the world and the product and you support that is why youre here today and quite honestly i respect the hard work that you do day in and k day out. People recognize that were up here long hours and late hours. You have been, too. And your product and your performance to your satisfaction is important. Mr. Calvert, ill start with you. The gentleman is recognized. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. As reported by the Appropriations Committee, the fiscal year 2018 interior environment bill is funded at 31. 456 billion, which is 825 million below the fiscal year 2017 enacted level and 4. 3 billion above the budget request. This legislation makes a concerted effort to prioritize critical needs within our reduced allocation. While also addressing specific interest and concerns brought to our attention through
President for research. He previously served heritage as Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies and director of our davis institute. Hes a Founding Editor of the annual index of economic freedom, which has become a signature heritage publication, from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organizations affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holmes. Kim. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Its a pleasure to welcome all of you here and to welcome our distinguished guests to talk about the refugee policy. We just recently were refurbishing this room, so youre one of the first guests to see how it turned out. The United States Refugee Admission Program has been, as all of you know, the subject of significant discussion and legal battles in the last year. Of course, some of these legal battles have ended up in the supreme court. Which well hear arguments this fall