Panelists for being here. But when we started to think about this really broad topic at the Bush Institute, one of the things we knew as we talked to our Advisory Council and president and mrs. Push, we cant just talk about the international component. We need to look at the challenges in our own country areassert. This panel were all chosen not because they are smart thirst on this issue but because they are working on something to address this issue in our country. Mel marchday, we have Case Foundation and jeffrey rosen. Let me kick off the conversation with a question for the group, lets follow up on the conversation we were having, lets having trust about americans in our institutions of democracy. How serious is this challenge right now and what do you see in terms of the challenges we face here domestically . Senator martinez. Im inspired by what has been transpired. I believe it is great sweptism in our country and we underestimate of what happened during the financial crisis and doubt f people became to and the conversation began to be had h the next generation will be able to live the fruits of the American Dream that i was proud to live. I remember everything that happened after freddie gray and the riots that took place in baltimore and the fact that you know, you had this 25yearold young man who was arrested and he was in a coma and week later, he died. And there were two weeks of protests in Baltimore City and one night they were no longer peaceful. And i remember speaking to a friend of mine. And we were talking about Police Accountability and the institution. And he asked me, he said next time you go to the computer, go to youtube and look at freddie grays arrest. And he said, do me a favor, go arrest be and youtubes and next time, dont look at freddie and dont look at the Police Officers. Look at Everything Else. Look at the neighborhood that video was shot in, look at the homes in the background, look at the fact that the video was taken at 9 17 in the morning and how many people are just standing around, not on their way to work, not on their way to school and standing there with cell phones taking pictures. He point is, if we arent will to do something about the micro. I think this feeling of disi will ugsonment, its fair. Its justified. And i think its worth talking about rebuilding institutions and not building and rebuilding basic infrastructure of institutions, there has to be a rebuilding of trusts because i think that really begins the unraveling and that is the only thing that is going to give the foundation for rebuilding. So those are powerful words. But i will say, i think this mornings words that we heard remind us that every democracy is true in the United States as anywhere else in the United States and its citizens. So we select nine years have been running a poll around perceptions and attitudes towards cause engagement and the perceptions of melenials of where they think this country is going. 29 said the country is headed in the right direction. 29 . D you think that is really discouraging and i thank secretary albright and the Millenial Generation is field with idealism and taking it into action in many ways and there is a terrific opportunity to unleash and ignite Civic Engagement and engagement turning them from thinking about the problems to becoming part of the solution. And i hope the panel will talk about those things we are seeing that are uplifting like baltimore where citizens are jumping in and owning these problems that we are seeing in our communities. There is the direct connection between lack of squeags and lack of faith in institutions. Thats why ken is right to quote jefferson. And that is why mrs. Bush is exactly right that lack of Civic Education and knowledge of the onstitution leads to declining trust in institutions. A quarter of americans cannot name. People who do not know about the constitution are and not the support to rule of law. And dison studied direct he thought that only a representative republic where will citizens choose can protect liberty. Civic education are supporting is an urgent matter of the survival of the future of democracy. We need to teach children about the foundations of the constitution about pt historical stories and the bill of rights. The way we are doing it is to go bring together the leading liberal conservatives and liberals to explore every aspect describing areas of agreement and disagreement and we have this new platform called the interactive constitution that got 15 million hits. I want you to download it, not now because im talking about and its cosponsored by the leading liberal and conservative lawyers in america and the american constitution society. It is a thrilling exercise in Civic Education. We need working with the Bush Institute and lesson plans that we are creating to create videos, learning modules and schools are using and bring it to every kid from 880. This isnt a luxury or something that is at the outside. The future of democracy depends on Civic Education. Lets talk about the issues that came up about education and Economic Empowerment and the fact that our Education System isnt doing its job and number two, before the recession, but even more so since we felt that people arent part of the American Dream but talk about the dream first and i want to hear from you all where you see pockets of hope and where you are making your investments and how you are slowly changing that tide. I believe in education and i agree that an educated society will be a stronger democratic society. At the same time, there is tremendous potential where we check the box or education is in a good spot. Why do i say that . New Digital Tools coming along and a further divide in our nation and looking at communities that werent expressing some of the concerns and we say what if we could ask citizens to own it. We developed a program called make it your own. And think about the challenges in their local communities and we had a Grant Program that was competitive. But the key was, it was btnt one of those grant applications. You can see it and wrap it. Just give us your best thinking. And many of the people that won won the day really proved that brilliance is equally divided and opportunity is not, because it was amazing what we saw and in some cases didnt have a high school degree. When you challenge citizens and invite them in to shall part of the solution and any educational level with any background with bring. I have an idea and sometimes those are some of the best ideas. It can be a connection point. You do a lot toll invest in education. Talk about what you are seeing. So, one thing we have seen and first, i would be remiss if i didnt say how good it was to say how good it was to see secretary rice and Vice President bush and honor to serve under you in multiple different facets. What was interesting, at robin hood, it is one of the first organizations that came in early and funded Charter Schools and ok at uncommon success academies and how robin hood me in to support educational facets. Its not about the Charter Schools in particular. Its about the idea of are we willing to test and innovate mechanisms that really chang r challenge common conceptions about education p that were built and done hundreds of years ago. And so, for example, being able to look not only the use of technology but how can we raise expectations for all students so you have students who are finishishing schools. And how exactly are we thinking about the military we talk about this idea of border regions. Because the challenge is no one can take accountability for an area. And if we have a similar type of thing in the educational system here that should be border areas, transition between middle school and high school, high school and college, and what happens you have one side that blames the other with the product without trying to take accountability for the product. How do we think about education partment. Me where there are School Transitions and preparing students instead of looking while they move on from this area and the combination and the collaboration and the conversation between the work force and the education side. Because one thing we are seeing is the work force needs are changing rapidly. The things that our employers need now is different than 15 years ago and 30 years ago. Do we have an educational system that can prepare students for that. When secretary rice is talking about the retraining and talking about trade arguments. Do we need to have a conversation, yes and thats fine. But the bigger conversation, what about the 10 year agreements and are we preparing our work force for whats going to happen as the work force continues to change. When we are talking about this idea, a huge part of this is do people feel the training they are getting is actually going to prepare them for the next 50, 60 years of their life. And think critically about our educational processes does matter. The issue of bout the millenial challenge and Good Governance where we were investing our aid. I remember the diss i will usualonment of the investment of the government. The governance was not working. We dealt with poor governance and the federal government was not bearing fruit. Transform some years and now it is quite different. May governance, a terrific or who worked with different parties and both working together to bring detroit back. What did that do . That inviolated the largest bank the detroit area, jpmorganchase. We decided we were going to make an investment in detroit. And they were making progress to lay the groundwork of 150 million. That is a substantial amount of money but in participate with local players. So what the process was to try to build Economic Development so e candidates so they could flowish and can be in Community Development and job training, so there can be Community DevelopmentFinancial Institutions that could lend monies that were not bankable. And you couldnt get them started with a Little Corner business so they could revitalize a program because they werent bankable and finance them and provide the financing for these businesses that were beginning to flourish, you provide a potential for a job and dealing with the components and Work Force Training and fill the gaps in which a lot of the reports is not trained. Recreatell of that, a narrative where people want to come back into the dilapidated and abandoned areas of detroit and begin that cycle. It has been successful enough and we are looking to other baltimore would be involved as well to where we can make that kind of investment but in partnership, in partnership with a notforprofit, the governmental institutions and the private sector all working from my experience as a local mayor and Everything Else, that is the key to making it all come together, you have to have all these institutions upon together, working together and created the conditions that can love allow a child to go to school and flourish and the given in all of this is safety. Onhout police safety, lights the corner and intent of security, none of the others can work. Really important point about the role that partnership plays in it and the about this, i think about the role of robin hood as one example. For the new york to city your City Department of education office, lets say robin hood would put 59 into education, that is a real number. Is. 2 in comparison to what the department of education budget is. The point is that the innovation we can support, it is capital that foundations and thorough and professional activities can play. This will present things that you can send this thing is working, we tried it out, we funded it, we supported it and now it is something that is ready to present to the people who can take us to scale witches the government. That is city leaders, federal leaders and so there is an interesting marriage that takes place with all these different partners where part of the role is for each partner to understand what is your role in this and part of it is to help these things that are then eventually present them to a longterm effect of scale. Partnerships are crucial and content is crucial and you thought about risks and we have found that the biggest risk in Civic Education is how to take surveys in a polarized age. Every question from the First Amendment to the meaning of equality has been politicized and polarized. What we found the works at the National Constitution center is isolaterage students to their political views from the constitution of years. When i began constitutional law class i say were not going to talk about politics, we all disagree about whether gun control is a good idea. By insisting that you separate your politics from your constitutional views you might reach different conclusions, you might think that guncontrol is a good idea but the Second Amendment prohibits it or that it a bad idea but the Second Amendment allows it, that is the way to teach questions like hate speech. Of students understand that the Supreme Court has held the First Amendment protected hate speech. The way you teach students that is to begin with the text of the First Amendment to tell the story of why Thomas Jefferson believed that the First Amendment was a natural right that came from god or nature and not from the government. To tell the stories about the alien and sedition acts of 1978 and jeffersons insistence that it was unconstitutional, to drop questions. Rt this will likely cause in an environment. Must beat the standard in the well, the most inspiring constitutional beacon we have, you cant understand his principles unless you understand the tax history, case law and then to make it accessible. That interactive constitution is used by zuckerberg justices and law firms, it is very wonky and we need to make it accessible to elementary , high school kids, using videos and pushing it out there. The bottomline is if you have a product that both sides can converge around, it is completely nonpartisan and multipartisan, there is a hunger in this country to be elevated above these partisan battles and to converge around the one thing that really does unitas, the u. S. Constitution. Whatlk a little bit about you view as the role of the philanthropic philanthropic i want to say on the detroit model, we are watching very carefully because it is one of the first models we have seen that is so cross sector, there are a couple other elements at play and i must say the Citizen Engagement in devising these strategic plans for their own city ultimately is what will make a difference. The parties came on to enable that. Philanthropy is playing a usual and detroit. I think that philanthropy has a very Critical Role in calling citizens to action and enabling pathways for them to do that. Ill give you an example of the Case Foundation. In the obama administration, we work on something called contrast and grand challenges. They were stymied on some of these so what a radical concept, what if we could conclude that the smartest people in the world are not always in the hallways of federal agencies, could we passed the brilliant of citizens out there everywhere . We pull together 35 federal agencies and bring all sorts of experts to train on contests and grand challenges with the idea that we would take the challenges that the agencies have which they were trying to serve citizens and throw them out there to citizens. Most brilliant things to happen as ebola was threatening the nation, it the reliefous that workers and the doctors were female challenges. This was used for design so it came all over the team in baltimore. At aeam in baltimore Wedding Dress designer on the team. What did she do . She designs things that people wear. She had some of the most important designs that ended up in the final suit that todays changing lives, everyone who worked on the project will tell you including the former director of the a few idea. It was real citizen best, a real world out there in the front lines without her conservation to that, we would not have ends up with ebola suit. It is really caring for so many patients. Can i ask you to expand on the role of business . Are they doing enough . I think much more can be done and should be done. T is not to denigrate yes efforts of so many today. I think the role of corporate foundations and business at large can be so significant. Whether it is technology, helping education or talking about Economic Development, i have to tell you that this is an issue that is part of our domestic problem today. It is the issue of puerto rico. It will take more than government to rebuild puerto rico. This is a use problem that i dont think we have got into the National Conference consciousness. Forramifications communities like florida where tremendous, itbe will take at the role for government to tackle something as