Savings accounts are made quarterly. So after a fiscal quarter ends, parents report back to the state department of education and what they use the cards for. They report the cards back to the seats. The department reviews them, makes sure everything is in line and then they make the next quarters dispersement. The county can intervene and withhold funding from the next dispersement is f. F there is a problem with the families using the card. They recently said there have only been five instances where there is a significant financial, you know, issue or misuse of the card which among which is now going on probably were getting close to 3,000 accountses. Thats pretty good for the first four, 4 1 2 years of the program. Were never going to have a perfect system. We should judge policies by their feasible alternatives as opposed to some idea we know well never achieve. For example, no child left behind in theory, thats fantastic. The fact is that not a single state met the proficiency st
Programs, or Education Savings Accounts, which were here to discuss today, provide families the opportunity to choose schools and learning options that meet their childs individual and unique learning needs. Instead of being assigned to a school based on where their parents live these models of School Choice and free people free children from assignment by zip code residential policies that bound them to a school in their neighborhood. Milton friedman says School Choice ensures children are free to choose and free to learn. It was in 1955 that friedman first outlined this concept of School Vouchers. Government administration of schools is neither required by the financing of education neuer justifiable in its own right in a pro dominantly Free Enterprise society. In other words friedman argued we should separate the financing of education from the delivery of services. That is apparently choose where a child attends school. He operationalized this idea of financing the education from d
Denied the emergency stay to keep the travel ban in place that was put forward by the department of justice. Right now they did not deny the appeal. Well wait to get filings from each side before making the final decision. Heavy opposition to the travel ban signed into order by President Donald Trump. You have lawyers with Washington State and minnesota who say the ban would unleash chaos when they say it was signed by President Trump last month. That opposition is supported by notable National Security vices. Madeleine albright and john kerry as well as former cia director o leon panetta. There is a coordinated effort by nearly a hundred Tech Companies including google, facebook and apple to name a few who filed a briefing opposing the ban saying it would be harmful to American Business and innovation. The travel ban on refugees and travelers from the seven predominantly muslim countries signed by President Donald Trump was suspended on saturday drying the ire of the president on satu
Ld th heading fora judges the Supreme Court . This as the president raises eyebrows with a new defense of russias vladimir putin. Putins a killer. Theres a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. You think our countrys so innocent . Explosive problem. Teenagers laptop bursting into flames, not once, but four separate times. All of them caught on camera. The apparent cause, the computers battery. Similar to ones that have caused hover boards and smart phones to explode. What you need to know. And commercial success. That was a rhetorical question, darrell. Which Super Bowl Ads crushed the competition . Were revealing the hits and misses from the big game. According to you, today monday, february 6, today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone, welcome to today on a monday morning. So happy to have Maria Shriver with us this week while savannah is on maternity leave. And i want to announce, she went to sleep after lady gaga
Of rock makes history. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, facing a host of women accusing him of unwanted physical contact, donald trump launched into an angry tirade today, lashing out at his accusers, the media, the clintons and decrying what he calls a conspiracy to undermine the will of sundays debate hes not done the lewd things to women that he described in that infamous audio recording, several women have stepped forward to say he, in fact, had, to them. Adding further turmoil to his troubled campaign. Nbcs katy tur joins us from philadelphia with the latest. Katy, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. Donald trump is blaming everybody but himself for the type of behavior that he bragged about both in vast clinton machine thats working behind the scenes to keep him from office. Donald trump is going nuclear. These claims are all fabricated. Theyre pure fiction and theyre out