[applause] members of the legislature, executive officers, tribal leaders, members of the judiciary and people of oklahoma. It is my distinct honor to recognize my friend the chief executive, our governor kevin stitt. Thank you, thank you. Thanks so much. [applause] thank you, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Lieutenant governor matt, mr. Speaker, mr. President pro tempore and members of the 59 legislature, members to have judiciary, statewide elected officials, thank you so much for your service to our great state, tribal leaders, to my cabinet, thank you guys so much for serving the state with sus distinction. Such an honor to serve with you. To my wife sarah, the greatest first lady in the country. [applause]. To my children who are here with me today and my soninlaw. [laughter] and most importantly, to my fellow oklahomans. First off i went to give thanks to my heavenly father for allowing me to serve in this position for all the blessings he has for our great state
To the present. This is an important book for fitting in how wisconsin story, especially milwaukee now, is part of a larger story of School Vouchers and School Choice in the country. And my own book suddenly diverse, which i the privilege of presenting earlier. It looks at how school them School Board Members and superintendents and to a smaller medium sized districts faced intensifying pressures as they had a demographically changing school system. And it deals with overlapping themes including School Choice policy, racial inequality and the undermining of Public Schools. So its really fun to put it also in this broader context and for reason, im really appreciative care for presenting today and helping us to kind of expand the stories that were telling about School Education policy and how think about equity at this moment. Thanks so much. Welcome, kara fitzpatrick. Thanks so much, everyone, for coming. Can you hear me okay . Just to make sure, are we good . Okay. I just have some no
For a series on school segregation. Shes been a new america fellow in 2019 and a spencer fellow at the Columbia University school of journalism in 2018. Her book the death of a the death of Public School conservatives won the war over education. America is a historical account of actors and sites across the u. S. From southern segregationist, famous to our own former state. Wisconsin legislator, democrat williams, who was motivated empower black families and black youth. Milwaukee and she looks at the roles these and many others in the rise of School Choice in u. S. And the u. S. From the 1950s to the present. This is an important book for fitting in how wisconsin story, especially milwaukee now, is part of a larger story of School Vouchers and School Choice in the country. And my own book suddenly diverse, which i the privilege of presenting earlier. It looks at how school them School Board Members and superintendents and to a smaller medium sized districts faced intensifying pressure
Morning, black smoke around 3 3 40, so no cardinal receives twothirds majority or 77 of the 115 votes. The longest conclave lasted five days in the 20th century. If this breaks all modern records there are new rules that allow for a simple majority if on pope hasnt been found after 12 or 13 days. Of course, tourists and locals have been crowded into st. Supports st. Peters. I am disappointed. I want to see the new pope at the window. Right now the cardinals have lunch. Afternoon voting begins at 8 00 a. M. Our time. The next time we could see smoke is around 9 30 a. M. And if no pope is choicen the final opportunity for see smoke today is around 11 a. M. With usually a pope chosen in three days which takes us to tomorrow. Stay with abc7 news for the latest developments from vatican city. We will break in to programming the second a pope selected and tweet the news. Preschool teacher will appear in court accused of spiking childrens drink with sleeping pills. Our reporter is live in san
What hes saying from insightful to funny and his unlikely relationship with Michelle Obama. We have a lot of news unfolding both here and overseas. Our team of reporters is in place with all the very latest. Lets start down in orlando, florida, where the president just wrapped up his first school visit since taking office. My colleague, rehema ellis joins us now. Youve been covering education in america for a long time for nbc. Tell us more about why the president was there, why he chose that school. Reporter he was here for about 50 minutes and he chose this school because this is a model of children receiving vouchers under the state tax credit Scholarship Program. 350 children in the school, about 300 of them are recipients of the Voucher Program. The tuition is Something Like 6,000 a year. These are lowincome children. There would be no way for them to go to this School Without some assistance. He came here. He visited the school. He got a chance to visit a classroom of fourth grad