see more on demand at c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. your place for an unfiltered view of politics. joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the national rural education association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. what is that association and what do you do? our association is the voice of rural schools and rural communities across the country. thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. one of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a digital divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. that is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. when you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits? i think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or
[indistinct conversations] good morning. thank you for joining us, whether in person, on our webcast, or on c-span. i am john, a fellow here at the center for education policy. we are here today to talk about education policy and the 2020 election. education doesn t always grab headlines during presidential campaigns. that is certainly the case this time around. that being said, there are truly consequential issues and big policy ideas being talked about as part of these campaigns. to help us make sense of what is going on we have a wonderful , group of panelists. arne duncan served as education secretary from 2009 through 2015. i believe he was the ninth secretary. he is now a managing partner at the emerson corrective and a nonresident senior fellow at brookings. dr. john king served as secretary of education through 2016 into 2017. i think he was number 10. dr. king is currently the president and ceo of the education trust. to help guide our discussion, we have allison k
give the primary authority to state legislatures and then to police the possibility that that state legislatures which the framer news to be partisan is constitutions would engage in too much partisanship the framers chose a structural solution. mr. clement, that shipped has sailed. once we decided the one person one vote concept, we pretty much in all of our jurisprudence saying that certain acts lyingly are unconstitutional, including racial discrimination and others. it can t be that simply because the constitution says that a particular act is in the hands of one branch of government, that that deprives the courts of reviewing whether that action is constitutional or not. well that is one way of approving the question before the court today. you do not have a one size fits all solution. ofook the central lesson baker the car to be the same claim when the cyclic prevented presented a does one person have one vote? what s it take to be the message of those cases acc
thank you for staying for part two. i did not give you an option to leave so i m glad you didn t take it. [laughter] i could not do a very good job of introducing our next two speakers. i can do it a little bit better with matt. i will let you tell your own stories. i will give you a brief thumbnail in the beginning. first on my left, salwan al-toki, first one that served as an interpreter for five years. he worked with the u.s. army, the usaid and the u.s. marine corps. he s credited with saving the lives of at least four marines during his service. he s a graduate of the university of baghdad where he earned a degree in civil engineering. he s quadrilingual, i believe, if that s a word. english, arabic, french and russian. he s a native in southern iraq. he served with various american organizations and units. from 2003 to 2011, and he waited two years to get his s.i.v. maybe begin a little bit by saying, how did you get involved with these crazy americans and are you cra
general petraeus. [applause] thank you for staying for part two. i didn t give you an option to leave, so i m glad you didn t take it. [laughter] i could not do a very good job of introducing our next two speakers. i can do it a little bit better with matt. i will let you tell your own stories. first on my left, first is one who served as an interpreter for five years. he worked with the u.s. army, the usaid and the u.s. marine corps. he s credited with saving the lives of at least four marines during his service. he s a graduate of the university of baghdad, where he earned a degree in civil engineering. he s quadrilingual, i believe, if that s a word. english, arabic, french, and russian. he s a native in southern iraq. he served with various american organizations and units. from 2003 to 2011, and he waited two years to get his s.i.v. maybe just began a little bit by telling me how did you get involved with these crazy americans, and are you crazy as well? well, i d