audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. for our c-span and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. i would like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. we have jamaal, senior staff writer in higher education. we have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the illinois state society in washington. we have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. we have star scholar, graduate of the harry truman college in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. we have lisa matthews, vice president of media relations, coleader of the headliners team. the guest speaker for a moment and washington bureau chief for the chicago sun-times, doctor gregory jones, printable it can what academy high school in chicago and bob weiner, president of weiner public news, op-ed columnist and mpc headliners team member who helped organize the luncheon. michael smith, ceo of green smith public affairs and contributor to campaigns and elections magazine. caroline hendry, executive director of the education writers association. thank you for joining us today. i would like to acknowledge additional members of the headliners team responsible for organizing the event, betsy fisher martin, kristin, eleanor herman, press club staff liaison lindsay underwood. thank you all. [applause] >> long before today's guest became a politician, he attended sarah lawrence college, spent his first two years studying to become a preschool teacher before politics and long before he was president barack obama's chief of staff, chicago mayor rahm emanuel taught preschool. maybe manual's love of education followed him throughout his political career, into his tenure as chicago's mayor where he oversees the third-largest system in the united states. he is credited with adding more than 200 hours to the school year taking chicago from having the least educational time of any of our school district in the country to being on par with his peers, he implemented full day kindergarten for every chicago child and fought for and won new accountability measures. during his tenure the districtwide chicago public school system graduation rate has grown by 16 percentage points, 3 times the national average. mary manual made chicago the first city in the country to offer free community college for all high school graduates who earn a b average or better. chicago change hasn't been easy for this big city mayor. early in his first term chicago endured a historic teacher strike and the state budget impasse now entering its third year has had a devastating financial impact on chicago schools. he has also had to confront the city's persistent gun violence and grapple with the police department facing questions about its treatment of african-americans. even with this challenges, the mayor who is known as rambo in some circles has kept a steady eye on education. this year he introduced a plan called moving forward in chicago. it use graduation not is an end point but as a pathway to further education and employment. mary manual's initiative will require high school seniors to provide proof of college, a job offer or military service in order to graduate which starts in 2020. the atlantic called plans like the mayor's a seismic shift in american education. .. please join me in welcoming chicago mayor rahm emanuel to the national press club. [applause] i just want you to know i started this job 6'2 and 250 pounds and now i'm 5'8 and 148 dripping wet after hearing that. thank you for that introduction. a little over 30 years ago secretary william bennett of education for ronald reagan called the chicago public school system the worst public school system in the united states of america. let me give you the results today. our graduation rate when i first became mayor was 57% and our freshman on track is for 87%, a growth of 52%. second, our act scores after being flat are up over the last five years 1.2%. third, 42% of all our students today graduate with college credit. while 85% of our kids are at or below the poverty level as defined by the federal united states government, 42% of our kids go on and accepted to college equal to the united states of america, and trust me our demographics is not the united states of america. another 21% go on to community colleges where the rate is 22% nationally. so even though the demographics for the city of chicago is different, we match the united states of kids going from high school to college and community college. third, our eighth graders led the united states in math gains. our fourth graders were third in overall reading gains. there were only three school districts in the entire united states of america whose math and readings for fourth and eighth graders went up, cleveland, washington, d.c., and the city of chicago. every measure of the city of chicago's educational gains are pointing in the right direction and surpassing, and i'll go back to high school for a second, our graduation rate for the last five years every year was triple the national average. so, if william bennett could get through tsa i would like him to come back to the city of chicago and see what is happening. but every measure on high school, college acceptance, college attendance, as well as in reading and math scores at fourth and eighth grade levels, chicago is exceeding the norm of the united states progress, while the demographics of the city of chicago students are not the norm for the united states of america. now, some of the things that were noted earlier point to that direction of what was happening. when i became mayor half our kids had a full school day, i mean half our kids had a full day of kindergarten, half did not, and if you looked at the map the ones that were getting the full day could have deserved to get a half day and the ones that were getting a half day needed a full day. i did not think it was determinate upon the fact that you should have parents lobbying on your child's behalf for kindergarten. every child in the city of chicago today has a full day of kindergarten. we have had a 60% increase in our pre-k, full day pre-k for all our children. we ran the first race to the top for our early childhood so parents can compare educational models of early childhood education, and we have dramatically also increased the funding, as i said, for full day pre-k for the city of chicago for all four year olds. and the reason is we could see all the data of full day pre-k, what it does for kindergarten, kindergarten what it does for first grade and onward. now i have a fundamental view, shared also by our schools, that kids drop out of college in third grade. they do not drop out freshman year. and if they're not reading and doing math at third grade level in third grade it's not like fourth grade is a lot easier. what chicago is now expanding upon is i do not believe that the kindergarten to 12th grade model, it's an anachronism from the 20th century. we are going towards a pre-k to college model. i have told you a couple things that we have done on the earlier side, universal full day kindergarten, a race to the top model for pre-k, a 60% increase in our education for full day pre-k, one of the online portals that is now being praised by the united states government for its ability of transparency and appearance to evaluate quality, and we give quality scores on early childhood providers. i have and asked with me so you'll understand on the other side, which is where i want to get to the high school and post-high school, because we're in a process right now of a major reinvention of our high school education and what it prepares for. i just finished graduation. i did about five or six different schools across the city of chicago. crane high school, which is on the west side near our illinois medical district where rush presbyterian hospital and another, stroger hospital, cooke county hospital which is stroger, 100% college acceptance. fenger all the way on the far south side in the rosalind community 100% college acceptance. chicago bulls noble charter 100% chicago acceptance. we have with us armando from sarah goode. it's a p-tech school associated with ibm. ibm, to graduate they have a little over 90% of their students have graduated, seven of their students have graduated already with their associate's degree in hand, they have won over 4.4 million dollars in scholarships for their students. and we can go on another time. but all of them are going on to post-high school education to college. that's on the far south side. i have also gregory jones from kenwood. kenwood is also on the south side of the city of chicago. it's just north of the university of chicago. 94% of their freshmen are on track to graduate. more than half the students are earning college credit while they are in high school. he said to me 72%. they earned this year 70, they earned $35 million in scholarships at their school. they have the largest dual credit, dual enrollment in the city of chicago. now, what we are about and what we're trying to do is take our high school graduation, which was at 57%, by the class of 2019 we're on track for 87%. that's a 52% growth rate. we're triple the national average. we have a series of things we are doing to ensure that every child is college ready and college bound. we live in a period of time where you earn what you learn. you get a high school degree, that's probably going to be your income. you earn a two year associate's degree. you earn a college degree. you own a post doctorate degree. we live in a period where you earn what you learn. and the question in front of me as mayor, in front of the principals that are here is what are we doing to better prepare our students for that economy? over 60% of all future job openings will require a minimum of two years post-high school education. we all know this. it's studied ad nauseam, which is a high school degree is not ready for the 21st century economy, yet every educational model at the urban level, i don't care where you are, is in a 20th century prism of time, k through 12. we're a pre-k to college model. first and foremost, while you're in high school we have the largest international baccalaureate program in the united states of america, and it's a fancy way of saying a liberal arts education. in fact we have more desires now for people to get, have schools become ib in chicago than we can keep up with, because when you take that test you already graduate with college credit under your belt. your parents don't have to pay for it and you're better prepared for college. second, dual credit, dual enrollment. the chicago community college system in our city, mayoral directed, is the second largest in the united states of america. so we, when i became mayor there was about 400 to 600 students in dual credit, dual enrollment; today we're north of 4,000. so kids are already graduating not only in high school getting a high school degree, they're graduating with college credits under their belt. in fact, at kenwood greg has more students involved in that dual credit and dual enrollment than any other of our high schools, over 110 of them, in the country, so they're not only graduating with high school degrees, they're graduating with college credit already under their belt. third, advance placements. we have one of the largest programs, and by data points i think it's a 60% increase in people passing that test. so through dual credit, dual enrollment, international baccalaureate, as well as with ap, advanced placement, we are ensuring that the kids of the city of chicago graduate with college credits already under their belt and unless your parents went to school the college experience under their belt. and i can't say enough about what that means for kids who with 80-some odd percent of our children are not only kids of color but kids who are at or below the poverty level. they're not only getting college credit, they're getting that college experience so that first kind of six months is already they're familiar with it and they're familiar with the rigor of that effort. today right now in the city of chicago 42% of all our children not only go to college but 42% graduate with college credit underneath their experience at high school. we have set a goal by 2018 to grow that to 50%. at armando's school, which we have five, four of them rather at that level, they're not only doing high school, he had seven graduates, as i mentioned, that graduated not only with a high school degree just last week, seven of them graduated with an associate's degree already under their belt, done, free. have i mentioned free yet? parents don't have to pay for it. in the same way that greg's class, i think it's 72% graduating with college credit free. and if the big challenge, which as we all know is cost for higher education, chicago has got a model in which every child, regardless of income, zip code, background can graduate with college credit under their belt free where cost is not the prohibitive factor. i do not believe parents should pay, take a second job or a second mortgage to give their kids a shot at the american dream, and that's what chicago has embarked on. and then lastly what we have done is, not lastly but an additional that is, what was just andrea talked about, which is if you get a b average in high school we're the only city in the united states, we make community college free. two years of your education is free. and then we have what is called the chicago star, that program is called the chicago star, the chicago star plus, which is what tony is part of in the first cohort, chicago star plus is if you maintain your b average in community college, so high school b average community college free, you maintain the b average in community college every one of the universities in the city of chicago, northwestern, university of chicago, depaul, loyola, roosevelt, columbia, northeastern, every one of them will give you anywhere from 25 to 45% off of your tuition. tony went to pierce elementary on the north side, rogers park, went to north side college prep, best high school in the state of illinois, that's just not me, that's u.s. news world report, got into university of illinois, could not afford it, even with the scholarship. he went to truman community college with a b average for free, maintained his b average, and now he is going to northwestern university with a scholarship for his education. he will come out with a degree in neuroscience from northwestern university and basically, basically have no college debt. put that in your pipe and smoke it. and that's our educational plan in a nutshell in chicago is go from kindergarten to 12th grade to a pre-k to college model. and finally what we have established and embarked upon is what was just described, and let me give a full description of it, which is today if you look at college acceptance and community college acceptance in the armed forces, and i want to get back to the armed forces, because i forgot about it, chicago has 65% of our kids already going to college or community college. they're taking college credits in high school. they've got international baccalaureate, ap, or dual credit, dual enrollment. and we match the united states, as i said, in both of those categories, even while our population is different than the overall united states demographics. what we want to ensure, and then 42% of our children are graduating with college credits under their belt, even though we match that altogether, we want to make sure by the class of 2019/2020 every child has a post-high school educational plan that the economy is already requiring of them. so we want you to have a letter from college or a letter from a community college, these are acceptance letters, a letter from a trade, or a letter from a branch of the armed forces, and a letter from a job. it's essential to make sure that while kids are in high school they have a post-high school educational plan. one, in a 21st century economy, you know the data already, basically 80% of all of the future jobs are going to require a minimum of two years post-high school education, so we have to restructure our educational system to meet the demands of what the 21st century is going to require of our kids, in the same way that the high school education of the 20th century met the demands of the 20th century economy. second, we already got 65% of our kids getting there. i cannot in good conscience as a mayor allow the other 35% to not have a plan that the economy is going to require of them when you have all the support system in place in a school rather than if they graduate, oh i'll figure this out when i'm 18 or 19. that other 35% are the ones that need the support to have a post-high school, because they're more likely to execute it. and fourth, while i don't know everybody in this room, i can say this as a father of three, to all the parents in this room, do any one of you leave it to chance for your kids? raise your hand if you leave it your own. okay? okay, well, honey, if you got seven i'm building you a bridge in grant park, because let me just say this: on the first two you didn't leave it to chance. on the last five you said, i'm over this. i got three, okay? we do not leave it for our children, and as a mayor, as our two principals, we don't leave it to chance, not when you have the support in place, not when you're the first child in your family to make it to college with a chance, not when the economy of tomorrow requires that an education today equals it. so while you're in high school we're going to ensure you get college credit and you graduate with the confidence you can do it. we graduate with not only the confidence but your parents never have to pay for it. it's the number one thing that is stressing parents out is how to figure it out. third is, as i said, it's what the economy required. we would not only want to have 65% of our kids going to college, going to community college, or the armed forces, but also make sure that the other 35% don't just happen to have it play by the russian roulette table. and so we have given ourselves three years to prepare the system and prepare the expectation of all children. i would let you know it's not just in high school. across the city of chicago in elementary schools we have teachers and schools who put up college banners in the hallways and in the front door of the classrooms from kindergarten forward, so kids get the expectation and the awareness socially at school about expectations. you raise those expectations and, trust me, the two principals here and the student will tell you this, not just me, if you raise those expectations and then support the effort kids will meet those goals. everything i'm telling you if i told you about crane school, sarah goode school, bull school, kenwood school, the fenger, all the cynics, all the naysayers, all the doubters would have said, not those kids, not from that background, not from that socio and economic class. fenger, 100% college acceptance, crane, 100% college acceptance, chicago bull, 100% college acceptance, sarah goode, 94%, 4.5 million in scholarships, kenwood, 35 million dollars in scholarships, 72% with college credit already. and by every measure with some person, some propeller head out here would tell you based on background, race, income, neighborhood, family, socioeconomic class, those kids couldn't do it. it can be done. it should be done. it must be done. now you just don't put a requirement on it. you support kids and you raise their expectations and you help them all the way. there is not one of us who are parents in this room that wouldn't do it for our own children. and by ensuring that the other 35% while they're in high school and elementary school they have the support to prepare. it's not like we're going to drop it on them on senior year. we prepare them. we work with them. we give them the support to figure out how to apply to college or community college or a branch of the armed forces, a trade or a job. now i left out of my litany of what we're also doing besides the largest ib program, the largest ap, every branch of the armed forces in chicago runs a high school. it's the only city in the united states. every branch. their high school, they have basically seven applicants for every seat, 80% graduation rate, when i just told you already we just last year, not the year that closed but the year before where it's nearly 74%, and they have a 90% college acceptance. every school is a one or level one plus school. so the branch of the armed forces, so it's not just when we say it, we have also the largest junior rotc program in the united states of america, 10,500 kids. and lastly let me close on one thing when i talk about all that we have done and what we have accomplished. i believe firmly in the power of education. none of us would be in this room if we didn't have two things in common, the love of our parents and a good education. and as mayor i have a responsibility to ensure that every child has a chance to succeed, and i have to make sure that the system and the structure and the support and our principals have what they need to succeed. we did expand the school day. we had the shortest school day and the shortest school year. these data points are not mine. they are what our principals, our teachers, our students, and our parents accomplished. the gains being associated with graduation rate, college acceptance, college completion, community college acceptance, math gains, and reading gains are because once you took away the impediment of the shortest school day and the shortest school year our principals could design a structure and academic schedule to allow our students that always could have succeeded to succeed. not one point is going in the right direction and the others are going the wrong way, at the elementary level, the high school level, the testing into college, and the college acceptance are all pointing in the north end. now i'll close on this one point, because we're in a big debate. i think the debate is wrong. it is not a debate of neighborhood versus charter, although both principals here are from neighborhood schools. it is about quality versus mediocrity. i think the entire debate that is happening nationally, and even in my city, is not on target. if you're a parent and you're sitting around thinking about schools you don't think about, oh is this a good reform school? you think about quality versus mediocrity. my responsibility as mayor is to ensure whether you want a military school, a stem school, a neighborhood school, a selective enrollment school, like our student here went to, tony, or any one of our high schools, international baccalaureate, it has quality, and then you pick the right school for your student, your child. it is quality versus mediocrity, not charter versus neighborhood. we have expanded charters and closed failed charters. we have expanded neighborhood schools, crane high school is a perfect example, and also turned around neighborhood schools, and we have consolidated those that didn't work. and quality was our north star. that's where this debate must go. and i'll close on this other point. it's also a mistake to have an entire debate around just teachers. one, you've got to have three things, an involved parent, a teacher that will motivate you, and a principal that will be held accountable and is not scared to be held accountable. every child is homeschooled, every child, and their jobs are easier when that is happening. when it's not we need to make sure they have all the support from early childhood education to highly motivated teachers to principals that not only are not scared to be held accountable, want to be because they want the independence to be held accountable. and i would say to you that the principals and the parents have been left out of the discussion of the last 20 years, which is always about just teachers, as if the other two don't play a role in the education and socialization of our children. and we're missing a debate. and you think, go back to your own experiences, that is what motivates, that is what changes an education, and if you're going to make fundamental reforms that is what has to happen. now we may be, and a last point, i suppose to the other last point i made, we may be the first school district in the united states to embark on a post-high school education model, but mark my words we're not going to be the last. new york has their deal, arkansas has their deal, oregon has their deal, tennessee has their deal, city of chicago has ours, but everybody is going to be going this way, because that's what the economy requires, that's what our children need if they're going to succeed in the 21st century. thank you for being here and i look forward to taking your questions. [applause] thank you, mary manual. how are you funding, starting with questions from the audience, how are you funding the education add-ons you've described? and how to convince your constituents in the anti-tax, antigovernment area to make the investments? >> well, if you left of my bio i was a dancer. i'm tap dancing my way through this. serious note. let me walk to a couple things. just as examples, et cetera. the chicago star, which is if you get a b average community college is free. we spent today at community colleges around, i'm doing this round, 30 plus million dollars on remedial education, so we took a portion of it into you to get a b average or better you get free community college. why? why? i'm reporting success rather than purchasing an insurance policy unfairly. so we just channeled the dollars differently. second, on greg's basis at kenwood which is again as i said just north of hyde park and university of chicago, it is actually present obama's neighborhood, they have the largest used in the city of the dual credit dual enrollment so kids are in the high school getting college classes with a go up to any other community colleges and they take credit. that is split between chicago public schools and the community colleges. in that sarah goode model, that's done with ibm and also dual credit dual enrollment but they're in the high school taking qualified already college classes. so that's examples of how we are funding it. i'll just say this. i am pro, once i think we have proven, and i've raise taxes for public schools, not for the teachers pension, or school modernization facility. and i have no gumption. you wanted 21st century education? i cannot have kids in hallways, stairwells, without air conditioning. i'll give great credit for we once had a meeting, he's going to laugh about this because he a seventh and eighth grade which is called academic excellence, and plus high school, and we're going to take another school over for the seventh and eighth graders there, so he held a meeting with me in the alderman at the time in a row that had no air conditioning. let me just say by the neck starting at the school year they got air-conditioning. it was in the middle of summer but by this summer will complete every classroom in the city of chicago, it hadn't been done since 63, one of air-conditioning. i have raised taxes pay for modern facilities. what else want to be upfront about him you want more revenue, i want more quality. i think that's a fair trade and people will make that trade and i've been up front and it has been succeeded in finding revenue. i'm for more revenue that succeeds quality versus mediocrity. >> the latest spate you might use some of the revenue to hire more guidance counselors to increase the ratio of guidance counselors to high school students? >> i think, what, you could always use more. we are going to have to get to our goal. it's going to be a combination. we have, and i don't know, putting both my principles on, but you know one goal, i don't know if they're in your school, it's a not-for-profit, one goal is a not-for-profit does superb work. there's another group called 1,000,000° that works on completion rates that we work with. but we're going to have to invest in this now. that's why in our policy we give ourselves to 2019-2020 class. we are already at 40% of all counselors trained to this, so over the next three years will get ourselves to 100%. there's two goals to remember. by 2018 we want to be a 50% of our kids graduating with college credit already under the belt and by 2019 to graduate, and will support you, a letter of acceptance from one of five things, college, community college, armed forces, a trade, or a job. >> how are you preparing your community college system for the influx of students? i imagine that you anticipate more students registering with community colleges. >> i'm very proud of this. so when i became mayor we were one of the worst systems in the united states. the world bank came out three years ago and wrote a report that chicago has got the best college to career program in the united states. so, chicago's most diversified economy and the united states of america, one of the most diversified in the world. no sector of our seven sectors controls more or contributes coe than 13% of our employment. we copied, ready, the german model. malcolm x on the website is all healthcare. the lead is rush presbyterian hospital with children's memorial, storage or hospital, walgreens, abbott, baxter. they help us on the curriculum. without going to the mall, downtown that by a uninsurance all professional services. all his heart beat southwest side, transportation distribution and logistics. i.t., advanced manufacturing, human services. every school is aligned with the fastest-growing part of our economy with the fastest amount of jobs with industry helps us on curriculum. it was written up as best college career program. they are getting an influx but first of all i don't mean to do this to you, tony, but tony went to the best high school as i told you in the state. north side. it's also one of the top 30 in the united states of america. trust me, truman community college never had a north side graduate. they have a north side graduate who is now going on to become an alumnus the next two years at northwestern university. he always wanted to go big team, couldn't afford, but because of chicago star scholarship, which is free, have i mentioned free yet, is free, not because of the partnership with the star plus he's going to northwestern and basically graduate debt-free. i'm only a city. i would love to the state budget and the united states government backing this up. that's how we're going to do it and we will increase the quality of our students and, more important, for the students that don't going to northwestern they are not just coming out with an associates degree. they are coming out with a degree that was designed by the industry, so they know the credentials, and they are not just getting a job but if they're in healthcare they're getting a job that's a career that leads them to the middle class. key difference. you're in healthcare, you want to be a nurse, we've got a way to do it. second, you want to bounce yourself up in a higher grade of a nurse, we have an educational system. so we are more than just a job. we are a career that helped get of the economic ladder. >> with the new requirements for students starting in 2020 if a student doesn't present these qualifications -- >> they go to that women's families house. we're just sending them over to her home. [laughing] >> will they be considered a a dropout or what are there alternatives? >> look, let me say this. it is a requirement but let me do two things. first of all it's not like we just tell you senior year in september this is a requirement that we're doing this all and helping kids. we are going to support them and ensure they get there, and given the support to they get there. i'm going to tell you this, outside of you, nobody in the show doesn't do this for their own children, both subtly and directly. and i'm going to make sure that the other 35% are not just by chance but have a plan and a support system, and we're going to help them get there. today to graduate you have to do 40 hours of community service in chicago. you have to do for credits worth of science. to graduate sarah goode you take four years of i.t. we have a whole host of requirements. i don't think it's, and our kids graduate and a graduation rate is going up. i do not think it's a stretch to, yes, it is a requirement but we are going to support you to also ensure you have a post high school educational plan. you have to do 40 hours of community service in the city of chicago to graduate. you have to have science requirements. you have to have arts requirements. i'm a former dancer as a told you. i'm for that. the idea that you're going to actually have a post high school educational plan and all of a sudden we're putting a burden on our kids backs, i'll guarantee you the kids in chicago are going to be better prepared for the future than any other child. every other school system today leaves it to chance. i'll tell you this, i would readily the interest policy of the kids that go to kenwood high school to greg jones and the support he is giving them than to say, well, good luck. figure it out. at sarah goode where armando went, i concur with all the schools us imagine, these are kids at calder overwhelmingly on free and reduced lunch. i don't know the percentages but a good percentage who are the first ones in a family to go to college. now i and amy have five degrees between us. that's my wife. we have all the support we can give our kids if they want a college counselor, advice, tutor. i'm supposed to leave to chance a child, the first one in a family to go to college outside of the support of sarah goode and all the infrastructure around? it would be morally reprehensible of me to do that when we could do the opposite. so that's what we are doing. it's a requirement. when they get there we're going to ensure that they have a plan. >> excellent. given your priority on education, what would the government administrations proposed cuts in college loans and grants do in chicago? how would that affect -- >> you mean the u.s. >> yes, the u.s. government. >> it's hard for me when you say cats not to think of the state of illinois. >> we will get there. >> lisa and i just talked about this. she has talked about a group. they are talked about the return on investment of a college education and on the overall lifetime. i bet you the return on investment of a higher education is better than the return on investment of a home, yet we do full subsidies for homeownership. when you look at your mortgage right off, i'll take a stab at that, if it's not equal it's better. that is an education over a home. now, i'm telling you guys, i mean i grew up in a home, this is in, this is engulfed in the and beaten into my dna, and i had a father who was an immigrant, so couldn't have been cheaper about everything in life except for one thing, education. that's true of how i raised my kids. don't talk about, if it's education there is just not a sacrifice. i just think we are nuts of the country, given what we know about the world, what we know that the competition is getting more fears and a 21st century, not just from china but from whole host of countries, that we would not make access to higher education affordable. i think it is morally wrong to ask parents to take a second job, a second mortgage, and if i'm asking you to get a second job it's usually the third job and help of two parents, not the second job, or a second mortgage to give their kids a shot at the american dream. i'll just tell you this, i left it out, the chicago star scholarship, which is the free community college, is the only public scholarship in the united states that's open to dreamers, and every one of the programs i mentioned, meaning the chicago star and the chicago star plus is open to everybody, and dreamers included, meaning northwestern, usc, they do the add-on, northeastern, columbia. i think it's crazy to cut funding and leave it just to banks. again, i'm using tony as an simplexample but there's hundref students i know the substance because i took, at sarah goode graduated not only with high school degree, their associates degree. these are working families. tony's parents could not make, he could not go to a state university, university of illinois, because of the aid, this school basically even with aid was too expensive. he's going to northwestern now. i think this is crazy what we're doing as a country and we're taking our sta staff at joint reports that and make it better. >> so coming to illinois state administration. >> you guys got another hour? >> i wish we did. i really wish we did. >> so do i. it would be more therapy for me than anything else. go ahead. >> so too related questions. do you think that the state of illinois will enact a budget before the 2018 gubernatorial election? and with the chicago public school open on time this fall is the state of illinois doesn't pass a budget? >> we have already answered number two. we are opening up on time. i'm not going to take all the anxiety. parents don't need the anxieties about that. we are opening up on time. we are going to be a responsive. it's the time the state of illinois meets the responsibility. let me say a couple of things. first, illinois is dead last in funding public education in the united states. we beat out mississippi, alabama and louisiana for dead last.e fs state. chicago is a second most competitive economy in the united states, seventh in the world. that last in funding education. and if you're poor we really whack you. it's not only dead last, it's one of the most inequitable funding systems in the united states of america. we're going to open up on time. we have gone 700 plus days without a budget. the governor has gone 700 days without introducing a budget. you will never have a budget until the chief executive of a city or state, in this case the state, introduces a budget. i can't make a prediction. i can tell you i hope it does. it needs to. the governor has an obligation to introduce a balanced budget that shows all his priorities. our students are going to school. that's where they belong. we will do whatever it takes to ensure our kids go to school. our doors will be opened, they would be learning, and we will be beating records. i didn't mention this. in the last three years every game in the state of illinois on either graduation, reading, or math has come out of the city of chicago. if you take the city of chicago out of illinois, which i'm telling you everything i want to do, but if you take them out the state of illinois graduation rate either fell flat or decline, the reading scores flat or decline, or the math scores flat or decline. the entire games for the state of illinois by any governor has been because of the men that are sitting in front of you and their 600 plus colleagues. illinois without chicago would be falling backwards. we're opening our doors. the government will have to figure out what every of the school district does that is poor or represents minority kids, but chicago will be open for the future. i can't say that about illinois. >> including education, what has been the biggest disruption for the city of chicago from the budget impasse? >> from the budget impasse? well, i'll give you, there is two things, but look, let me give you a couple of the points that you may not know. for five years in a row chicago is the number one city in the united states for corporate relocations, not one, not two, every year for five years. for five years in a row chicago is the number one city for direct and foreign investment in the united states, and in 2016 with the only city in the united states on the top 20 and our entire investment was greater than miami, atlanta, and montréal all combined. for five years in a row chicago's economy, this is jay leno economist, grew faster than the united states, fashion than new york and faster than d.c. i do not have wall street or the federal government in my backyard, thank god. no, i'm getting to my answer. i wish is giving you data point. the reason is is because we have created certainty. 36% of the kids in the city of chicago at a four-year college degree or better. in the united states it is twice have a pacific we have the largest capital investment in the united states in transportation system both public and aviation. we are also home to the largest amount of graduates from the big ten. we have a committee called system as i already outlined to you. we have a transportation, technology, training, transparency, and also what is what i said in the effort of the transportation system, talent, training, transportation, technology and transparency. we have created certainty. the biggest drain on the city of chicago is the uncertainty without a budget. i think this is, this debate about taxes, as if that's everything, what businesses, big, meeting, small company sizes looking for is certainty. you create certainty around how come you create certainty around the pool and resources of talent, in your grace or erratically for century transportation. certainty around public finances and you'll get investment. you create uncertainty and you'll get the net result of that. and so the biggest drain for chicago which is already told you in a global standards, a. t. kearney just came out two weeks ago, said of the most competitive economy in the world, second in north america, is uncertainty. there are other human resources as it affects the homeless, domestic violence shelters, taking care of the indigent and four. and i can't tell you what it means not just in the sense of funding a budget, the actual infrastructure and human supports is atrophying. for all these people that say government is the enemy, go look at the city, add a state that doesn't find basic operations. it's in another, it's in the third world place. so i would say on the human side it's been tremendously draining. on the kind of business environment it is, i mean chicago is doing what it can, but i would rather have, just don't be a drain, if you can't be a net plus to the state, just don't be a drink anymore, okay? >> thank you. >> i could go on and on. it really felt really good there for a second. let me close on that one. the governor is about to give, he called a special session cookies about to give a speech. i just want a budget. just make the, look, harry s truman signed. did it say go see sam rayburn or a buck stops here? every chief executive, it's responsible of the office the sisters of the budget, here's where i'm going to best come his ongoing to cut here's a choices ongoing to make. we can't 7-u seven up plus daysh her chief executive never once introducing a budget. everyone walks are scratching their heads and says you don't have the budget. we haven't had one introduced. introduce it and we will get, and a legislative body, and i've been in congress, we will get to work on it. >> do you plan to run for a third term as mayor of chicago? and what will your campaign there to be in a nutshell? >> first of all i plan on running for a third term, and the first person that i'll talk to will be my wife, not you. i'm joking. so i plan on running for third time. i've always, always said that before so it's not a big surprise. i've got to be honest. look, i've been honored to work for resident clinton, president obama. i've been honored to represent the north side. no job is been more intellectually and emotionally rewarding, in a mayor will tell you that. it is emotionally also challenging, but i look at what we've done, i can't say we got it when hundred% right, but i can tell you we are trying. now i was at the other day at a committee college. we did our first cohort of what we call the chicago star plus. a young man just like tony introduced me. he is a star, he got a b average in committee college and is going onto dominican school, dominican. andy says i'm going to graduate debt-free. he said i'm the first in my family to go to college. an immigrant, dreamer, andy says i could not get without what you did, mr. mayor, and i want to thank you. i got to the podium and i could barely hold it together. i cannot think of anything better in public life and you know that you can make an imprint, put your thumb on the scale and tippet towards justice and equity. and i will say to you is in a time in which we live with greater polarization, a tree of time where people want more sense of ability to influence their own lives and the democratic process, local government is where that is possible. right now the rest of us look at the city as disneyland on the potomac, and i will just tell you look around the world there is a hundred cities that are driving the economy, intellectual, cultural energy of the world economy, in chicago is one of them and i plan on intensity keep it in the top ten as a global leader economically, culturally, intellectually. and then my measure as a mayor, my measure as amir is to make sure, i got it, that the kids of rogers park where tony went, they kids of ravenswood where i live and the kids in rosalynn park on the far south side that go to fenger, when you look at this crazy and they see the power, the energy represented by the city, that they all share the same sense that that is my city. and if they do, berlin, london, beijing, tokyo, new york, watch out, chicago is coming for you. not going to hold us back. that's the measure of our success. >> thank you. >> i'm going to try to more questions. as someone often credited with being one of the architects of the democratic takeover the u.s. house in 2006, what will it mean for your parties prospects in the 28 midterms if jon ossoff wins tonight in georgia six? and if he loses? you helped lead the last democratic takeover of congress. can it happen in 2018? >> look, sure it can happen. anybody that tells you it will happen this sort out hasn't been in campaigns. it's too far to predict. a lot of things happened. i would rather be a democrat today going into 2018 than a republican, and you didn't pay me to say that, okay? every time house of representatives has ever flipped it's been in a midterm election, so that's a fact. no party has gone into the midterm with the president this unpopular at this point, remember there is 18 months, or 17 months, without a severe consequence to that parties position in the house. you have three factors, maps, voting rights, and many that are different than any other time before. we don't know the consequences. in 2006, in the 60th of the presidency, which is not the first time when we did last time he had beginnings every session, to unpopular wars, an unpopular president and a corruption scandal. it was enough and enough candidates and all the places to create a wave and major ride that wave. i don't know what's happening across 18. 18. but i also want to say as somebody who is my life building the party we are 1000 seats shoulder today today than we were in 2,092,008. this is not about one election. if the building a party, building an apparatus. what a mean by that, chris murphy out of connecticut, the class of 2006 to congress, kristen gillibrand, the class of 2006. 2006. joe donnelly, the class of 2006. i'm about building a party. so if it's not about one election it's about making sure that we went statehouse seats in north carolina, georgia, and new mexico, in all these areas, and other people, and promote them not just to congress. anybody who says what's happening in 2018? i say what's happening in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024, we are doing what is necessary to make sure we're is necessary to make sure we prepared for the next decade, not for the next election. >> thank you. before you leave we have a small gift for you. it is a long-standing tradition at the national press club to present all of our luncheon speakers, each one of them, with a mug from the national press club. we hope that you use it in good health. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. and very, very briefly i wanted to ask you who was your favorite teacher and why? >> larry gould, history teacher in high school, and also my homeroom teacher in high school. >> wonderful. thank you so much. [applause] >> before we close today's luncheon i would also like to invite all of you to join us on thursday july 2 july 27 when wel hear from army chief of staff general mark millie. the national press club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. for more information about the club or to apply for membership please visit our website at press.org. to donate a program such as scholarships for training opportunities for journalists, offers to the nonprofit national press club journalism institute please visit press.org/institute. we are adjourned. 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