And as we know, nonreligious private schools often cost four, five times that amount. So as a consequence, over 80 , close to 80 of students in the program are attending religious private school. So florida is not alone in that regard although it was one of the first off the mark. Florida s. T. O. M. P. Program has been implemented in a number of different states from indiana to louisiana to pennsylvania. So north and south, east and west. Such that the wall street journal called 2011 the year of School Choice. And 2012 had even more School Choice programs being implemented around the country. So at this point we are serving a dramatically altered cascade. So thats kind of a preamble to the types of world in which we are living right now. You may want to ask yourself okay, why are we doing this . What why might we have moved from a choice environment where students had, families had very little choice. The choice was essentially limited to the residential location for all intents and p
My grandfather was best friends with her father. At the same time, the president was someone very close with japan, obviously. But we do have the territorial issue between japan and the United States. Japan and korea, sorry. Even with those issues, the economic relationship is very strong. The people to People Exchange is very strong. The ties with japan and korea is something that cannot be severed. I think the relationship that we have which south korea is extremely important, the cooperation we can achieve between these two countries. We can try to work to resolve these issues and have a Good Relationship with three out. With korea. We are planning to dispatch the vice Prime Minister and finance minister to participate in the ceremony on the 5th of february. Thank you for a speech with so many good sound bites. Are there things you would like to have the United States say or do . Have you conveyed some wishes or perhaps something more, like actions or statements . [speaking japanese
Parents were trying to find alternative options for them. Whether or not they are succeeding is an open question. The second thing we have learned about this is kids who are participating in the Voucher Program are do we know better than average then the kids that would have done had they stayed in the publicschool to the extent we are able to tell. There are to the statistics involved in that. More to be that i would really like. My professional judgment says they are doing no better or worse than average than they would have done on the Public Schools. It can interpret that positively or negatively. People who interpret that as negatively say if they are not doing any better, when are we taking money away from Public Schools to give it to private schools where kids are not doing better . Maybe they are doing better in some of the different measures of types of things. That, of course, we cannot measure it. If we could, i would be measuring it. I know families are happier with their c
Forum Student Diversity program , now in its seventh year. 20 undergraduates, and for the first time, 10 graduate students, are here to gain insights into food and agriculture. So be sure to seek them out during the breaks. If you see them in the sessions , congratulate them for being here. Mentor them a little over the course of a couple days. That would be great. I know how important these young people are, because i have an alumnus of this program, johnnie jones, who works in my office. These are the people who are going to lead american agriculture in the future. Many thanks to our partner, the university of maryland, eastern shore, and the sponsors who make this possible, including the usda Natural Resources controversial and conservation service. Students, can i ask you to stand, please . There we go. Thank you. Congratulations. Without further ado, i am going to ask our chief economist to kick off this conference, with the traditional presentation on his economic and Foreign Tra
We opened up crp land, and changed premium payments, things of that nation that nature. It also got us thinking were there other steps, other things we should be doing, to provide help and assistance . It occurred to us perhaps we should be focused more acutely on the need to encourage multi cropping through the United States, in order for us to do a better job of conservation, to create biomass that could be a revenue source, and to potentially allow us to conserve precious water resources, which would in turn allow us to get through these drought circumstances in a more favorable circumstance. We have begun a process of looking at ways in which we could provide assistance. You will be fortunate to hear from a fellow by the name of david brant, who has a no till nutrient Management System he has put in place since the 1970s, that involves multi cropping. It saves about 100 an acre on nitrogen. It has increased its corn yield seven to 10 bushels an acre. That is something that ought to