Betty ross talks about the 5 billion tax credit scholarship proposal which is pending in congress. Secretary devos is joined by white house advisor Kellyanne Conway at the event hosted by the American Enterprise institute. [applause] thank you. Good morning. Thank you to aei for posting this Important Forum today. Robert, thank you for your hospitality and for a principled conservative leadership, especially now in your new role. Its always a pleasure to be back here with so many friends. Our ideas are advanced by the work of the institute and there are many who worked for the cost of education freedom and for our nations students especially rick so im looking forward to our conversation today. We are here to talk about education freedom scholarships and let me say a few things about our proposal to set the table before our discussion. Heres what it is. A 5 billiondollar annual federal income tax credit for voluntary contributions to 5o1c3 nonprofit organizations that provide scholarsh
Pleased to have i like to say that its a washington based think tank. We have from arizona, tennessee and pennsylvania, and they will talk about how some of the issues in washington affect the children and parents in those parts of the country and really, thats what our discussion is all about. How can we make our schools better. Now, a little bit a sense of how i come to this issue and why i think its so important. Some of you may know i spent 20 years in the social services in new york and working on the ways we help people get into work and out of poverty and move up economically. Personal responsibility, work, work supports, those things were important, but i always knew there was another domain, another domain of activity that was equally important to our safety net programs. Maybe more important in our safety net programs in helping struggling families moving up and helping their children move up economically and that was the world of education. And no one has done more, it seems
See Charter Schools as the only way out of educational and economic poverty. A new study seems to show sec staffers are selling stocks just before sec investigations of those companies are announced. Either way, heres the big question. Why are sec staffers allowed to trade individual stocks at all . All those stories much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Welcome to the kudlow report. Im larry kudlow. Were live here at 7 00 eastern, 4 00 pacific. Two in one crimea, the ukraine where 2,000 Russian Troops moved in and what new government in kiev is calling an arms invasion. Nbc news Steve Handelsman joins us now with more. Good evening, steve. Reporter good evening. Headline is definitely those Russian Troops, medium size force newly in ukraine. The question is, what is Vladimir Putins plan . The day began with just a few Russian Troops seizing control of a pair of airports in crimea, southern ukraine, an area historically linked to russia with mostly russian speak
that caused the united states to boost our investment in innovation and education, particularly in math and science. martha: this ceo and founder of the success charter network, a hugely successful group of schools here in harlem, and she is an amazing person in founding this and, is the best person to ask, and when luke at test scores, kids in shanghai or blowing us out of the water. they are kicking our butts and american children are losing the educational race. martha: what are we doing wrong and what do we do to turn the ship around. we need higher expectations and schools are preparing kids for tests with low bars. so, we are spending a lot of time but the bar is too low. the bar in shanghai is much, much higher. we have to expect our kids to do problem-solving in kindergarten, and mathematical problem solving in kindergarten and can t wait until algebra, because the kids
but, this is no attack from the right. guggenheim is the academy award-winning director and producer behind al gore s global warming documentary, an inconvenient truth and randy weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers, praises his attempt to get the country talking about education but is not happy about what she calls an accurate portrayal of teachers and unions. teachers, most of them do heroic work every day and we need to give the good teachers we have the tools and this conditions to support them, we need to support them, rather than scapegoat them. martha: boy, this is a huge story to take on, we ll take a piece of it now, dr. eva moskowitz was featured in the movie called the lottery a different documentary that highlighted the failures of school systems and her very successful harlem success academy and she has a whole advises, a group of large charter schools and is this founder and ceo of the success