This is entertainment tonight. The tv legend who could turn the world on with her smile has passed on. Mary tyler moore felt like family. When it was a housewife in new york or a reporter in a dysfunctional minneapolis newsroom, mary broke ground and always stayed strong. The beloved icon passed away surrounded family and her doctor. Her longtime representative remembered her as a groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the juvenile Diabetes Association mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile. E. T. Confirms that moore, who long suffered from diabetes, died at Greenwich Hospital of cardiac arrest after she contracted pneumonia. Her health had been declining in recent weeks. She had reportedly been on a respirator and reportedly had lost her eyesight. This is one of the last times seen in public, leaving lax with her husband in 2013. A great deal of Mary Tyler Moore in them, especially the television character. Laura p
Mcconnell in a bad position because theyre going to have to fracture their confidence. This is what happens in washington. Its finding something that ewan fies your side and defies the other. The House Republicans felt good about this plan. Building stronger communities through schools. Thats a hard panel to follow from the first one i have to say. That was an amazing panel and we heard great information. And we will do the same here. By name is robert and im the president and ceo of the Freeman Foundation for educational choice. Were honored to be here with senator scott. Im excited about the panel for three reasons today. One, it features representatives from every sector of k 12 education. Public, private and charter. Two, its going to focus on the transformtive power of Educational Options at the Community Level for individuals and the community. And three, frankly, its a panel full of gift eded people who have been there and done that. People who worked in communities and made rea
25,000 for my sons to go to one school. A school, snow school, that theyve never set foot in for any reason at all. If they were vouchered theyd only be paid once. If it was a scholarship, wed only be paid once. The reason why were in the situation that were in is were trying to keep the other school open so that the grown people can keep their jobs. But what even they neglect to understand is that the number of students doesnt change, its static, meaning if there are thousands of students that need teachers there are thousands of students that need teachers no matter where they are. So if you can halfway teach or at least convince someone for 45 minutes that you can halfway teach, then youre going to have a job as a teacher. We need to make it plain to our community that theyre being played by the system so that the people who dont utilize these urban schools, who send their kids to suburban charter or Catholic Schools, which is always funny, they send their own children to Catholic S
Frankly, it is a panel filled with people who have been there done that. People who have done real change. One of these people is fitted is to my right. Sister john berry fleming. They go to person when it comes to Catholic Education and understanding Catholic Schools in america. Not surprising since she has been an educator. We also join by dr. Steve perry. Dr. Steve perry is the founder and ceo of one of the top Public Schools in the Country Capital repertory Magnet School in hartford, connecticut. Capital prep which is for mostly low income families, mostly children of color, graduates 100 of its children and has done so every year since 2006. Sending them to fouryear colleges. That alone is worth applause. [applause] dr. Parry is a regular education contributor for msnbc. Upa bestselling author. As soon as you hear him talk you will see him be one of the most passionate voices for education reform. Next to him is nina rees. The president and ceo of the National Alliance for public
Hope. I could tell you stories about looking in china to see theres some tea you might be up uphold about, but that was long ago. I think theres also it really is up to the companies. Fda has always to my knowledge at least in duchenne and other fields been willing to entertain and talk about compassionate use . I think for the Rare Disease Community is talks about and get us back to trial design but in general, trials are designed to test a sub set of patients. In the duchenne committee, the six minute walk test is standard outcome, primary outcome measure. That means a child with duchenne would have to walk six minutes and even further as learn more about the testing its in a very narrow subset of people in that six minute walk test. Program was put into place at te National Cancer institute. So with that longitude, that breadth of experience within your specialty, are there things that you want to share with others about what that experience has taught you . Well, let what we did ba