With massachusetts representative Catherine Clark at a house appropriation subcommittee hearing on the 2017 Education Department budget. Now that hearing in its entirety. Good to have you here, madam secretary. Before we begin formally i want to recognize miss allard for the purposes of introduction. I would like to introduce tommy a former foster care youth for the congressional foster youth shadow day. Tommy is a resident of downey, california, in my district. His educational aspirations are to earn a masters in architecture and have a career in design i just want to thank him for coming to d. C. To help ensure that the our youth are involved in child welfare. His efforts to support the wellbeing, talent and educational aspirations of every child involved in foster care and tommy is the one with the blue around him. Why dont you stand up real quick. Yeah, stand up. There he is. Good morning, madam secretary. Its genuinely my pleasure to welcome you here to the subcommittee on labor h
All right. I think we are going to go ahead and get started. We are missing aft president randi winegarden. She will be joining us as soon as she gets here. Im the education reporter at u. S. News. Youre at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. Ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelis panelists. Theres nothing really going on in dc right now, right . I am going to leave the bio to you guys. You can look in the program and see it. I will quickly run down the line here. We are lindsay burke. For those of you who are sort of like outside the beltways here jeffreys is the president of democrats for education reform. He is also a civil rights lawyer. Next to him is marty west. The republican from tennessee. A quick housekeeping note, that is one of the first panels at ewa. Please tweet using so its fair game. Its a little warning. We want you to make news. This is also being live streamed on periscope. Because we have such big task today we want to provide lo
Mzae to get here. Maze. President will be joining us as soon as we get here. Im the education reported at u. S. News. You are at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. E w rankled a pretty awesome panelists tot discuss and answer your pressing questions, because theres nothing really going on in dc, right . I will leave the bio in your programs. I will run down the line. We have lindsey burke. She is the education policy director for the heritage foundation, which were those of you outside the beltway, it is a conservative think tank in washington dc. The president of democrats for education reform. Hes also a civil rights leader. Next in him is marty west, an education professor at Harvard Graduate School of education. He was also previously in education policy advisor to senator lamar alexander, the republican from tennessee, who is the chairman of the Senate Education committee. A quick housekeeping note. This is one of the first panels at ewa. Ewa2
Join the discussion. A discussion on the federal role in education and what is expected from the Trump Administration in the area of School Choice. An hour. Ust over all right. I think we are going to get started. We are missing aft president randi winegarden. She will be joining us as soon as she gets here. Im the education reporter at u. S. News. Youre at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. Ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelists panelists. Theres nothing really going on in dc right now, right . I am going to leave the bio to you guys. You can look in the program and see it. I will quickly run down the line here. We are lindsay burke. For those of you who are sort of like outside the beltways here jeffreys is the president of democrats for education reform. He is also a civil rights lawyer. Next to him is marty west. The republican from tennessee. A quick housekeeping note, that is one of the first panels at ewa. Please tweet using so its fair gam
Rarest actually is a german language printing here in the center. There are only two copies of this july 1776 printing of the declaration in german that had survived. This is been shared with us by Gettysburg College in pennsylvania. Its side by side with a salem, massachusetts printing of the declaration. We also explore the promise of equality, so this notion that all men are created equal endowed by their create where certain unalienable rights, thats language that each person has to decide, does that apply to me. So people who wrote those words maybe didntly recognize the revolutionary potential in them. Actually some people like john adams probably did realize that when you declare that all men are created equal, people might say, well what about women . What about enslaved people . Laboring men . We try to explore that story through this wall here where we look at the status of laboring men, of enslaved people, of women. Including abigail adams. More exhibits of the museum of the