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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 thats 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 were moving towards. So the question is, what are the issues at hand to implement this vision . And its complicated. Theres a lot of things that have to be worked on. What does accountability look lik
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. Im the education reporter at u. S. News. Youre at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. Ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelis panelists. Theres 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 its fair game. Its 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 to provide lo
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. Im the education reporter at u. S. News. Youre at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. Ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelists panelists. Theres 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 its fair gam