Bedeviled the world and this could be a sign they had been long waiting for. Hope springs eternal here and you obviously need something beyond just phase two trials that look promise. Well get into that with a top doctor. Meantime look what is going on in wall street here and why everything is looking green thus far. Jackie deangelis on that. Hey, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, neil. Everything is green as you said. Moderna seeing a huge pop on this news today and the dow is up more than 800 points and the point here is weve been talking about therapies, weve been talking about treatments but there is Nothing Better in terms of reopening the American Economy than a vaccine that would prevent people from getting the coronavirus. That is why you have this kind of optimism today. Now this was data from a phase one trial as you mentioned. So it is still very early here but it does mean, that the company can move forward. It is saying the goal to get to phase three in july. If everything
During president ial elections. There are big policy ideas talked about in these campaigns. To help us make sense, we have a Wonderful Group of panelists. E duncan served as educator education secretary and was the ninth secretary. He is now a managing partner at and aerson corrective senior fellow at brookings. John king served as secretary of education through 2016 into 2017. Dr. King is currently the president and ceo of the education fund. Klein, herison current b is workforce issues. For many years she has covered politics and policy in washington and beyond. I will welcome the three of you to our stage and hand it over to allison. [applause] allison thank you for joining us. We are going to dive right into questions. I know you have been following the campaigns. I know you have both been supportive of charters in secretary king, you are an attorney and civil before, during, and after your time at the department of education. Choice has hurt constituents . It is not about the curr
Against one another, and to try to weaken us from within. Announcer 1 watch afterwords, sunday night at 9 00 eastern on book tv on cspan2. Former education secretarys discussed education policy and the 2020 election at an event hosted by the brookings institution. This is an hour. Good morning. Thank you all for joining , thank you for joining us, whether in person, on our webcast, or on cspan. 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 doesnt always grab headlines during president ial 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
[indistinct conversations] good morning. Thank you for joining us, whether in person, on our webcast, or on cspan. 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 doesnt always grab headlines during president ial 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 klein, her cur
To allow puerto rico to restructure its debt. We begin this morning with the debate on capitol hill on whether to impeach the irs commissioner. Republicans held a hearing yesterday where the commissioner declined to show. Republicans laid out their arguments for impeachment. We want you to tell washington what you think. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also go to twitter or cspans facebook page. Lets begin with yesterdays hearing before the Judiciary Committee, which would have the oversight, the authority for impeachment. They heard testimony from the government oversight and Reform Committee and its chairman, Jason Chaffetz p. Chairman toldhe the Judiciary Committee. The irs targeting scandal was unamerican. The most powerful and feared entity in the United States, the first him and meant rights of citizens were trampled upon. The chairman was not there for the initial targeting. He worked handinhand with congress to fix the problem.