event on education savings accounts and the future of educational choice. our event today is straightforward, and in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, jeb bush. will join him on stage freight the conversation together, and following that, my former colleague, now the executive director of the center for advancing opportunity will join the distinguished group of panelists, which i will let him introduce the details. a littlet housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. our friends at c-span broadcasting, and we appreciate their service. for those watching at home and online, we have a #for the event. jebbushataei. will pose questions for later and monitoring on twitter. this is national school choice week, and in ideal way to wrap up the discussion is education savings accounts. i am aware some of you are wondering why we should care about education savings accounts. and what our education savings accounts? they are
. . . . where are parents can customize the learning experience. it could grow by the way probably to 100,000 if we had the budget to be able to make that happen. in states that are focused on this for special needs kids and for in the case of nftd adef and oth nevada and other place, my vision of this with the right policies in place, the most open system, would you have a half day, perhaps mom could pick a half day of of a traditional public school, take an ap calculus course that s not available in that classroom setting online from one of the virtual schools, take an online music class from juilliard and a spanish course with a local retired school teacher. in that system, my guess is that our education outcomes would be much stronger and more sustainable to be able to deal with the world that we re moving towards. so the question is, what are the issues at hand to implement this vision? and it s complicated. there s a lot of things that have to be wo
good afternoon and welcome to the american enterprise institute. i m resident scholar and deputy director of education policy studies here an aei. i m pleased to kick off the event on education savings account and future of education choice. our event today is straight forward. in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, governor jeb bush. following his remarks on esas, i will join him on stage for a brief conversation together. following that, my former colleague, gerard robinson, now executive director of the center for advancing opportunity, will join a distinguished group of panelist, which i will let him introduce in detail. but who will include adam pishack, john thnathan beckham lindsay burke. a little housekeeping, this is live streamed, full video available by the end of the day. we also have our friends at c-span who are broadcasting. we appreciate their service. for those watching at home or on-line, we have a hashtag for the event. it s jebbush @aei. for
good afternoon. i am pleased to kick off today s event on education savings accounts and the future of educational choice. our event today is straightforward, and in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, jeb bush. i will join him on stage freight the conversation together, and following that, my former colleague, now the executive director of the center for advancing opportunity will join the distinguished group of panelists, which i will let him introduce the details. today s event a little housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. we also have our friends at c-span broadcasting, and we appreciate their service. for those watching at home and online, we have a #for the event. it is #jebbushataei. will pose questions for later and monitoring on twitter. this is national school choice week, and in ideal way to wrap up the discussion is education savings accounts. i am aware some of you are wondering why we should car
school choice advocates discussing the same topic. this is an hour and a half. good afternoon. welcome to the american enterprise institute. i m deputy director of education policy studies. i am pleased to kick off today s event on the future of educational choice. following jeb bush s remarks, i will have a brief conversation. following that, my former join the will distinguished group of panelists. thell let him introduce others. event is being live streamed. it will be available at the end of the day. we also have our friends at c-span broadcasting. we appreciate their service. for those watching from home we #jebbush@aei. to posee who would like a question for later, we will be monitoring on twitter. this is national school choice week. about education savings accounts. and what our education savings accounts? they are a mechanism for educational choice in six states where parents can withdraw kids from schools and into accounts where parents can control and use those