And with that, we will wrap up the panel. Thank you for all of our panelists being here today. [applause] [chatter] we will go ahead and bring up our next panel so we can keep on time. Welcome to the second panel of the day. This is entitled where are we now, a conversation about educational opportunity. We will have a scholar from the institute,ucational the generic secretary of dr. Gregnd forester, he is currently at the current foundation. He authored six books and book. Hored an additional he received his phd at yale university. Ceo of digitale pioneers academy. Yesterday they were given approval to open up a charter in washington, d. C. [applause] executive director for , and she started as a special Education Teacher as well. The stories you heard in the last panel, and the discussion you heard, we want to discuss and review the data as it relates to education, educational opportunity. Where are we, what does the data tell us . What are the issues we have to deal with. Gerrard wi
I think that the United States, we are positioned to be on the cuts edge where communities are not ethnically exclusive. Thats historically new. Its not something you find as you look back in history. Im very excited to help position us on a new kind of organizing society where communities are not ethnically bounded. I think its a great thing for School Choice to be doing. Thank you very much. Let me start here by saying thank you for inviting me to this wonderful conversation. As i was thinking about this panel i reflected on my own personal, how i even got here. I have an identical twin sister we were in new jersey which is a majority white community. My family had just moved out of philadelphia and they wanted a Better School option for us. My mother took us out of Public School and put us into private school. I think that has made all of the difference for us and its why im a huge proponent. I think every parent should be able to choose what school or what environment, like how do
Well go ahead and start our next panel so that we can keep on time and be as efficient as we can. Welcome to the second panel of the day. This panel is entitled where are we now, a conversation on Educational Opportunity and integration. Our panelist today will be girouard robinson, a resident scholar at the institution, the virginia secretary of education and the president of the black alliance for Educational Options. Girard has a long history in education. Dr. Greg forcester is the director of the oikonia network at Trinity International university, a senior fellow at ed choice and currently at the Freedman Foundation for educational choice. He is the author of six books and coauthor of additional three books and his ph. D. At yale. Michas is the founder and ceo recently given p up the approva to open up a charter. She served as the ceo of the Network Charter school fund and the Senior Adviser at new leaders for new skeels achools started as a special ed teacher as well. So the goal
I want to start her next panel. Welcome to the second panel of the day. This panel is entitled where are we now, Educational Opportunity and integration. Ur panelists will be gerard patterson, a scholar from the institute, commissioner of florida, a virginia secretary of education, and the president of the black alliance for Educational Options. He has a long history in education. Dr. Greg forster is the director oaken amia network at the center for transformational churches at Trinity International in a received. Freemanormally at the foundation for educational choice. He is the author of six books and the coauthor of three additional books. He received his phd with distinction at yale university. Founder ands the ceo of digital pioneers academy, which i learned was just recently . Yesterday a week ago yesterday . A week ago. Given a charter to open in washington, d. C. Senior adviser for Charter School policy at new leaders for new schools and the executive director for Charter Schoo
Getting live on cspan two. We have a Simple Program and after a few introductory remarks will going to have a brief video. A picture is worth a thousand words that will give you a couple of those. Through todays conversation about schools in liberia and then will turn it over to minister warner and hell get his keynote address. Following that we have a fantastic panel today with seth andrew from democracy builders, amy black from cultural and development and. [inaudible] from International Finance corporation. Ill introduce them in detail when the panel joins me up here. We will have about 45 minutes of q and a time with some opportunity for the audience to join as well. For those following on social media we have a for our event and its developing world charters. You can comment and send questions which ill be checking on during the q a time. The event, is being live streamed into the full video will be posted online after we conclude today event. Of course, we are here today to hear