25,000 for my sons to go to one school. A school, snow school, that theyve never set foot in for any reason at all. If they were vouchered theyd only be paid once. If it was a scholarship, wed only be paid once. The reason why were in the situation that were in is were trying to keep the other school open so that the grown people can keep their jobs. But what even they neglect to understand is that the number of students doesnt change, its static, meaning if there are thousands of students that need teachers there are thousands of students that need teachers no matter where they are. So if you can halfway teach or at least convince someone for 45 minutes that you can halfway teach, then youre going to have a job as a teacher. We need to make it plain to our community that theyre being played by the system so that the people who dont utilize these urban schools, who send their kids to suburban charter or Catholic Schools, which is always funny, they send their own children to Catholic S
From smallpox to polio, we have learned that vaccines save lives. The troubling number of parents are not vaccinating their children. Last september, this Committee Held a hearing about the ebola virus. A brave and physician who worked in liberia and contracted people a and a brave father contracted people a e ebola. There was and is no cure. There was and is no vaccine. This produced a near panic in the United States. It changed procedures in nearly every hospital and clinic. Every member one chattanooga Public Health officer saying it is all people up all the time every day ebola all the time every day. Measles is too sick and up to 4 million americans each year. Many believed it was an unpreventable childhood illness. Introduction of a vaccine in 1963 changed everything. Measles was declared eliminated. Absence of continuous disease transmission for more than 12 months. From 20012012, the median number of cases reported in all of our country was about 60. Today is february 10, 2015
Cspan kiron skinner, coeditor of reagan in his own hand, what do people get if they buy this book . Guest they see unvarnished Ronald Reagan, long before the presidency, writing, reading, thinking about every major issue facing the united states, and also drafting a strategy, quite surprisingly for many, to end the cold war peacefully without a major hegemonic war. Cspan can you remember the first time you ever heard of all this . Guest what do you mean, the Radio Broadcasts, his writing . Cspan the Radio Broadcasts, where youyou got yourself involved in it. Guest i was working in the Reagan Library. Id written nancy reagan, i believe it was in 1996; i wrote her aa letter about my research on the end of the cold war, and i said, im deeply fascinated by the american side of the story. Most of the research in the 1990s that i saw in the scholarly literature focused on the soviet side and on Eastern Europe and, you know, for good reasons. The revolutions were fascinating to people, and al
Guest i was a postdoc at ucla and i was a fellow at the Hoover Institution. And so i wrote her and said, im interested in the american side of the story. I dont think theres enough reporting on it, and id like to look at the president s private papers. i didnt know what would be there, but i thought there might be something to help me to unravel the american contribution. And so she granted me access to the papers and hundreds of archival boxes. Into the project i came upupon a few boxes, actually storage boxes, filled with hundreds, reallyliterally thousands of pieces of paper of reagans handwriting. And it took a while to figure out what it meant. Some of it was disorganized. Some of it was organized in file folders, but not all of it. And it was fascinating. It was. Cspan whwhere are you from originally . Wheres home . Guest i was born in chicago, but i grew up in the bay area, so i have to claim the bay area i moved there at age three, so i grew up near stanford. First San Francisc