During president ial elections. There are big policy ideas talked about in these campaigns. To help us make sense, we have a Wonderful Group of panelists. E duncan served as educator education secretary and was the ninth secretary. He is now a managing partner at and aerson corrective senior fellow at brookings. John king served as secretary of education through 2016 into 2017. Dr. King is currently the president and ceo of the education fund. Klein, herison current b is workforce issues. For many years she has covered politics and policy in washington and beyond. I will welcome the three of you to our stage and hand it over to allison. [applause] allison thank you for joining us. We are going to dive right into questions. I know you have been following the campaigns. I know you have both been supportive of charters in secretary king, you are an attorney and civil before, during, and after your time at the department of education. Choice has hurt constituents . It is not about the curr
Against one another, and to try to weaken us from within. Announcer 1 watch afterwords, sunday night at 9 00 eastern on book tv on cspan2. Former education secretarys discussed education policy and the 2020 election at an event hosted by the brookings institution. This is an hour. Good morning. Thank you all for joining , thank you for joining us, whether in person, on our webcast, or on cspan. I am john, a fellow here at the center for education policy. We are here today to talk about education policy and the 2020 election. Education doesnt always grab headlines during president ial campaigns. That is certainly the case this time around. That being said, there are truly consequential issues and big policy ideas being talked about as part of these campaigns. To help us make sense of what is going on, we have a Wonderful Group of panelists. Arne duncan served as education secretary from 2009 through 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary. He is now a managing partner at the emerson
[indistinct conversations] good morning. Thank you for joining us, whether in person, on our webcast, or on cspan. I am john, a fellow here at the center for education policy. We are here today to talk about education policy and the 2020 election. Education doesnt always grab headlines during president ial campaigns. That is certainly the case this time around. That being said, there are truly consequential issues and big policy ideas being talked about as part of these campaigns. To help us make sense of what is going on we have a wonderful , group of panelists. Arne duncan served as education secretary from 2009 through 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary. He is now a managing partner at the emerson corrective and a nonresident senior fellow at brookings. Dr. John king served as secretary of education through 2016 into 2017. I think he was number 10. Dr. King is currently the president and ceo of the education trust. To help guide our discussion, we have allison klein, her cur
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For such a long, long time. I was a 29 year old kid. The first speech on the senate, i stood in between tom mcintyres desk and another desk it is a long story, anyway. I look back at that time and it has been a great pleasure to get to know so many people. And we know, we know finally you have earned the title granite state. You have 4 women running the show. [applause] mr. Biden that is solid. Sega god for small favors. All right. The amazing thing [laughter] thank you. You know, it is so nice to be back here again among so many old friends we have known for such a long time and i want to thank everybody for porting us through the throughout administration, through our tough time with beau and really, it has been our honor, such an honor to serve the people of this nation. Thank you. [applause] mr. Biden i would say to john like sounfortunately, many in the audience the thing i was not going to say, but jill said it, so many of you were so good to our beau, and the way in which you wr