good morning, everyone. thank you for coming to this panel. eric, the deputy director or today we will discuss an issue that has been getting a bit of attention these days, school choice and especially private school choice. i know there is all sorts of forms of school choice in this country and a lot of conversation about charters. in particular as well, but given the recent conversation and recent presidential election i think this is where we will do our primary focus, but we will allow time for other issues and is so forth school vouchers and other voucher like programs, voucher cousins, if you will has been growing in numbers. the cousins would be like tax credit scholarships and education savings account and the latter is what one proponent yesterday called the cool new kid on the block. as most of you know president trump and secretary of education ours big fans of school choice and a secretary betsy devos was to talk about choice and it s made it the centerpiece of he
discussion on school choice and the process for charter schools under trump administration policy. this is a little over an hour. good morning come everyone. thanks for coming to this panel. i am eric roebling, the deputy director at dw eight. today we are going to discuss an issue that has been getting just a little bit of attention these days, school choice. and especially private school choice. that there is all sorts of forms of school choice in this country and a lot of precision about charters, in givenular, as well, but the recent conversation and presidential election, this is where we will do our primary locus. but we will have the opportunity for other issues. school vouchers and other voucher like programs, dr. cousins if you will, have been growing in number. the cousins would be tax credits, scholarships, and education savings account, the letter what one proponent called the cool new kid on the block. as most of you know, president trump and secretary of educa
standards. this is about an hour. good morning, everyone. takes for coming to this panel. m the deputy director at today we will discuss an issue that has been getting a little bit of attention these days, school choice, and especially private school choice. i know there is all sorts of forms of school choice in this country, a conversation about charters. but given so much of the recent conversation and the presidential election, this is where we will do our primary focus, but we will allow time for other issues if you have questions. school vouchers and other voucher-like programs, cousins, if you will, have been growing in number. the cousins would be tax credits, scholarships, and education accounts. the latter of which one proponent called yesterday the cool new kid on the block. president trump and his secretary of education are big fans of school choice, and betsy devos loves to talk about choice and has made it the centerpiece of her education agenda. said, these a
this discussion was part of a conference hosted by the education writers association at georgetown university. it s just over an hour. good morning, everyone. thanks for coming to this panel. i m eric, deputy director at ewa. today we are going to discuss an issue that has been getting just a little bit of attention these days, school choice and especially private school choice. i know that there is all sorts of forms of school choice in this country and a lot of conversation about charters in particular, as well. given so much of the recent conversation and the recent presidential election i think this is where we are going to do our primary focus. we will allow a little time for other issues if you have questions and so forth. so school vouchers and other voucher-like programs, voucher cousins, if you will, have been growing in number. the cousins would be like tax credit scholarships and education savings accounts. the latter is what one proponent called the cool new kid
wondered what would happen, was a very positive experience. what about boston at that sometime. yes. boston was mixed. by and large, going to boston i had read about paul revere and his ride some lexington and the concord battles and the boston tea party and also crispus attus was the first black to die in the revolutionary war. so i went to see the memorial for hem on the boston common. so i soaked up the hoyt the history of boston, so very positive. so my experience in boston really was very positive, but later in the late 50s the year i entered medical school was the year brown versus board of occasion, the supreme court decision, and so as this was implemented around the country, problems of not only in the south but in the north as well. and boston was one of those areas. so, my experience in boston was somewhat different from blacks who went to boston in the late 50s. they found with the political shenanigans of hicks i still remember him from south boston