We have on tap so many people i need notes. My mom and my family. We have the roots of music with derek tab. Derek, get over here we have the hot a brass band. We have manny fresh as i introduced to you, the awardwinning music producer. The 50th Anniversary of hiphop is coming up tomorrow as a matter of fact. We will talk about that. Derek, lets talk about the rooster music. You come every year, you are the band for the rooster music. These are young people you are helping out. Explain what happens with the roots of music. Roots of music is an after School Program dedicated to serving the kids of new orleans. We take kids from all around the city, from over 30, 40 schools around the city, bring them to one safe location where they learn how to play music, new orleans music. They learn how to be friends before enemies, we teach them skills. You know what i love about this, i love about new orleans is the diversity here. Right. It is full of beautiful black people celebrating, and you ar
Has two ends and the churchs teachings on this and clear for many years. But the flourishing of the person here and now as a citizen of this world and their eternal and as a citizen of the world to come and so the mission and the vision of our schools we try to keep that very much within our minds because it matters to the children in front of us. That is what makes our schools different. [applause] im going to assume that is the same mission as the Charter Schools. What makes the Charter Schools unique and different . Again, it is a diverse committee. Depending on the state law that allows for the creation of Charter Schools you we will have different types. One of the things we do is Grade Charter School law based upon strength and last year we produced a document that looked at the movement and the quality how innovative. And the thing we base it on is whether as an entrepreneur or you are able to open a school and come up with different types of curricula, different modes of delive
Country capital, preparatory Magnet School in hartford connecticut. It is for the mostly lowincome families graduates 100 of its children and has done so every year since 2006. The contributor for cnn and msnbc about the bestselling author and host of his own documentary, and as soon as you will hear him talk youll you will see him be one of the most passionate voices for the education reform and change in the country. The president and ceo of the National Alliance for the public Charter Schools. She is has over 20 Years Experience in dc most recently as the Senior Vice President for the Strategic Initiatives in the universe, which is an amazing thing to help kids. Previously served as the director for the new york Program Senior advisor for the Charter School policy for new leaders for new schools and executive director for Charter Schools so we are to do the same thing that rick did. A bunch of the social media please get involved. Please use them. I will start following up with what
Mcconnell in a bad position because theyre going to have to fracture their confidence. This is what happens in washington. Its finding something that ewan fies your side and defies the other. The House Republicans felt good about this plan. Building stronger communities through schools. Thats a hard panel to follow from the first one i have to say. That was an amazing panel and we heard great information. And we will do the same here. By name is robert and im the president and ceo of the Freeman Foundation for educational choice. Were honored to be here with senator scott. Im excited about the panel for three reasons today. One, it features representatives from every sector of k 12 education. Public, private and charter. Two, its going to focus on the transformtive power of Educational Options at the Community Level for individuals and the community. And three, frankly, its a panel full of gift eded people who have been there and done that. People who worked in communities and made rea
Superintendent of the year by the American Association of school administrators. Following his time as secretary of education, dr. Paige served as a Public Policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars. In 2006 he authored the war against home. And in 2010, he published a black white achievement gap, why clothing it is the greatest civil rights issue of our time. Dr. Paige is the eldest of five siblings and has a son and a daughter. Dr. Paige resides in houston because he couldnt find a house in charleston, south carolina. Not so funny. With his wife, stephanie allens paige. Please help me welcome dr. Rod paige. [applause] thank you, senator. Thank you so much for that warm welcome. But he left out part of my history so i have to share that with you to begin with. I was also a football coach. Jackson State University of cincinnati and then again at Texas Southern. It was at Texas Southern where i learned humility. We were playing one game and at that time we had