Middle of the president s address. So well talk about that also, a new low for diddy, a new concerns for what Cassie Ventura went through after the video of him assaulting her. Will there be any legal accountability . Well discuss that in this new cdc shut study shows that theres an increase in people drowning especially people of color. The first black woman to make the Us Olympic Swim Team now has a mission to teach kids of color to swim Marissa Correia mcclendon is going to join us coming up in the next hour event just to have a good show. Thank you very much. Lets get started right now well first of all, black Voter Turnout influences president ial elections and well, Atlanta Influences Everything President Biden seems to recognize that. And this week, we saw a surge in outreach targeted ad buys interviews with black radio stations, a speech at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture immediate with leaders of the divine nine Historically Black sororities and frat
And minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Poe, for five minutes. Mr. Poe thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the president , quote, avoid the battle, complains, and misses opportunities. Those were the words of leon panetta president obamas former secretary of defense and c. I. A. Director in 2011. At the time panetta, along with military commanders and joint chiefs of staff, recommended that the United States leave 24,000 troops in iraq to prevent that country from falling apart and becoming chaos. According to panetta the administration was so eager to rid itself of iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve american influence in our interests. So the president ignored the advice of his own secretary of defense and top commanders and pooled troops out of iraq in 2011. The timing just before the 2012 president ial leaks to me appe
Opportunity to moderate and important conversation that impacts everyone and that is School Finance. Talk about the lot and the opportunity and the role ahead. I spoke with four attorneys today each person will have an opportunity to speak 10 minutes and then a moderated conversation then we will open to the audience. Let me put into context why this is important. The Supreme Court made an important ruling on finance and since then we have had a number of cases that the state level to make sure those set an underperforming schools and also money to pay for it. Does money matter . I want to say yes does matter what and and to spend millions of dollars of education so we will figure out what this means with new questions of the role of the federal government sold the first person to have an opportunity to talk about this subject is professor of law and has practiced in of private sector and a graduate of Harvard Law School and has gotten a lot of publicity we will invite the professor to
Policy issues that attack you. Ag up for you, aiken congressional discretion with people on what is left on until recess. Nal join the discussion. Education leaders from across the nation gathered in washington to discuss ideas on how to improve education for children and k12. In recruitingsted leaders are key components to success. Is one hour and 40 minutes. Good morning, everyone. It is great to see so many of you back up and at them. Ordered more coffee for this morning so we hope it it will help with the scotians. I want to take a moment to thank all of you for not only become to be for ans you make for the education of the state, but i want to take a special moment to take those who have worked tirelessly to put on this week of programming. Please join me as we congratulate the staff as we stand. [applause] our next speaker has had a very him for a very interesting route into the classroom. She is the 2015 teacher of the year. [applause] yes. She did not necessarily start saying
Families and eligible for free for reduced price lunches. A little more than a million nationwide. Today on inside story well look at that finding with the studies author, talk to teachers about what it means to work with a student body burdened with poverty does it change how you teach and run a school. And later well be joined by jacob ward, taking ugs inside the kids heads. How does prolonged poverty affect the brain of a youngster. We have a new time, and as you can see a new home. Poverty, its the inside story. The burden of poverty on states, students, School Systems doesnt land everywhere pt same way. Take a look at this map from the Southern Education foundations findings. There are 21 states shown in red where the percentage of Public Schoolchildren in poverty is above 50 . The numbers come from the National Centre for education statistics. They came up with the numbers by tracking which students were eligible for free or reduced fried school lunches. Well dig into that later