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all right. i think we are going to go ahead and get started. we are missing aft president randi winegarden. she will be joining us as soon as she gets here. i m the education reporter at u.s. news. you re at the changing politics of k-12 panel discussion. thank you for being here. ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelis panelists. there s nothing really going on in dc right now, right? i am going to leave the bio to you guys. you can look in the program and see it. i will quickly run down the line here. we are lindsay burke. for those of you who are sort of like outside the beltways here jeffreys is the president of democrats for education reform. he is also a civil rights lawyer. next to him is marty west. the republican from tennessee. a quick housekeeping note, that is one of the first panels at ewa. please tweet using so it s fair game. it s a little warning. we want you to make news. this is also being live streamed on periscope. because we have such big task today we want
join the discussion. a discussion on the federal role in education and what is expected from the trump administration in the area of school choice. an hour.ust over all right. i think we are going to get started. we are missing aft president randi winegarden. she will be joining us as soon as she gets here. i m the education reporter at u.s. news. you re at the changing politics of k-12 panel discussion. thank you for being here. ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelists panelists. there s nothing really going on in dc right now, right? i am going to leave the bio to you guys. you can look in the program and see it. i will quickly run down the line here. we are lindsay burke. for those of you who are sort of like outside the beltways here jeffreys is the president of democrats for education reform. he is also a civil rights lawyer. next to him is marty west. the republican from tennessee. a quick housekeeping note, that is one of the first panels at ewa. please tweet using
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