education policy and the need for better schools and health care for students. she also criticized president trump s decision to end the daca program. speaking at the national press club, this is an hour. good afternoon. i m pat host, i m the americas aviation reporter for james, and i m also on the board of governors here at the national press club. our sorry about that. welcome to the national press club. our guest today is lily eskelsen garcia, the president of the national education association. i would like to welcome our public radio and c-span audiences, and i want to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag npclive, that s npclive. for our public radio and c-span audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. now it s time to introduce our head table guests. i d ask each of you to stand briefly as your name is anno
proposed requirement beforehanding graduates in chicago their high school diplomas. introductions under way. welcome to the national press club. the place where news happens. my name is andrea. i m part of the breaking newsdesk at bloomberg news and i m vice president of the national press club. before we get started, i d like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. our viewing and listening audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag press club. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. so any applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now i d like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants stand up when i say your name. we have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and higher educa
college for parabens. his remarks at the national press club run one hour. andrea: welcome to the national press club. the place where news happens. my name is andrea. i m part of the breaking newsdesk at bloomberg news and i m vice president of the national press club. before we get started, i d like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. our viewing and listening four audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag # pressclub. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public so any , applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now i d 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 jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and higher education. we have
silence your telephones if you haven t already. for our viewing and listening audience feel free to also follow along on twitter using the #pressclub. for our c-span and radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of our general public. so any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now, i d 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 jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer at diverse, issues in education. we have jerry weller, foformer u.s. representative from illinois s district and the state society in washington. we have mike, a supervisor here in washington, d.c. we have tony trem, star scholar graduate of harry s. truman in chicago and an incoming northwestern student who s planning to study neuroscience. we have armando rodriguez. we have lisa matthews co-leader of the n
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