Joining us this week is lily garcia, the president of the national association. Guest i am thrilled to be here. Host also joining us is emily of the next America Project at national journal, thank you for both joining us. As we sit here, both the house and the senate have a version of the secondary education act and the school bill, which still has to be decided on, can you give us an update on not only what this act involves but the house and Senate Versions and what you see as what you like and maybe not like . Guest this is like history in the making for us. We have teachers all over the country on the edge of their little seats wondering what is going to happen to no child left untested or originally called the elementary and secondary education act. We loved it when it had a boring name. When Lyndon Johnson sounded in 1965 as part of the war on poverty and part of the Civil Rights Movement, lets give states some extra funding for tutors, libraries, teacher training and technology.
Last 27 years. We stand united that a safer city is a city that doesnt allow its residents to live in fear. I think families are both afraid and ready to push back. Reporter but todays action by the white house did not have any specifics. Still, because San Francisco is both a city and county, it stands to lose a large sum of money. The 1 billion in federal funds San Francisco receives a year makes up more than 10 of its 9. 6 billion budget. Schools, public health, law enforcement, transportation are among some of the many programs that receive federal funds. Lets say homeless funds are for veterans, as well. Do they want to hurt veterans . Do they want to hurt families. Reporter its hard to say how the city will make up for a possible short fall, or who will pay for it. Jason clark is with the San Francisco republican party. There arent enough rich people in San Francisco to make up for a billiondollar short fall. Its going to rely heavily on the middle and working classes to make up
If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It supports local jobs, supports our book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in a position to do so, please consider buying the authors books here today. So let me introduce kristen. Kristen green is an author who grew up in farmville, virginia, and thats important because its important to
Identified the cartels. [inaudible conversations] autho. Dionne, annette gordonreed, Juan Williams anymore. But first up christian green talks about her book, something must be done about Prince Edward county. Booktv on cspan2 live from the gaithersburg book festival. [inaudible conversations]. If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It suppo
Hello, good morning welcome to the seventh annual gaithersburg book festival. My name is gene taft khedama Committee Member the festival and the policy manager of Johns Hopkins university press. Please have you here but if i did make a couple of announcements here. Gaithersburg is a wonderful city that probably supports the arts and humanities will you please to bring the stay of this event thanks in part to generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. Our if you see our sponsors and volunteers please say thank you. Please silence all devices that might make any noise. If youre trading today pleasen use hashtag gpf really need your feedback. Surveys are available here and on our web site to give youan complete a survey you enter for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. A quick word about buying books even though this is a free event it does help if you buy a book our friends at politics and prose are here on site and we appreciate your support. Our it supports our jobs and book fe