Im john valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at brookings, its my privilege to welcome you for Todays Discussion on the future of early Childhood Education as education. As many of you are aware, kids experiences in early childhood are critically important in shaping their educational and life trajectories. Its a pivotal time for Brain Development and for building social emotional skills weve known for a long time that providing children with high Quality Care can have extraordinarily positive longterm effects and be a very good investment for government. The challenge has been in providing those high quality opportunities to as many families as possible and in the most equitable ways possible. With that context, this has been an especially challenging time for the early Childhood Sector as we will discuss today. We have a terrific group of panelists to talk us through these issues. Miriam calderon is the Deputy A
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Discussion on housing policy with solutions when the Bipartisan Policy Center featuring the montana governor. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. Good morning everyone and welcome to the Bipartisan Policy Center. Im the executive director for housing policy here. This will be the eighth conversation in our housing leaders Speaker Series which aims to spotlight individuals who understand the foundational importance of housing and have made significant contributions to improving Housing Affordability. We are thrilled to have one such guest with us today and that is the 25th governor of the great state of montana. Prior to assuming the rains, the governor represented montana in the u. S. House of representatives after 34 years in the private sector where he was a highly Successful Software engineer and businessman. Assuring Housing Affordability is a National Challenge but it is especially difficult one in montana which has become one of the nations Fastest Growing states. Perha