i m so thrilled to see all of you here in centennial hall. also i d like to welcome all of the people in the overflow area which is in the back of the second floor. and if any of you get tired of standing, there are seats still available there. actually, i am just absolutely thrilled that dale russakoff chose the newark public library to launch her brand new book, her much-anticipated, her absolutely fascinating, brand new book, the prize, with the subtitle, who s in charge of america s schools. this is the very first event that she will be doing. she ll be doing a series of programs and interviews as she travels across the country to introduce her book to the public, so we are really honored to be the first. and we re also honored to be the venue where an extremely important community conversation will be taking place tonight. after all, a critical role of libraries as you know is to invite community members to engage in discussions of important issues to that com
[applause] thank you very much. i must begin by apologizing for holding you folk up for almost 20 minutes. now that newark is revitalizing the traffic at this time [laughter] it is impossible. but that s a good thing, i think. so while i apologize, i m also happy that i got caught up in newark s overflow traffic tonight. it s my role to lay out the ground rules for our conversation. we will begin with the author, dale russ cough dale russakoff, making a presentation. she will then be fold by the three panelists who have joined us to, in effect, comment on what dale has written and what she will say to us tonight. dale s comments will be about, about 15 minutes. that means that the panelists will each get about ten minutes to respond. is that all right, panel? okay. we can have ongoing conversation after those initial remarks have been made. after they have made their presentations, then we will open the floor for comments, questions from the audience, and i
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