Good afternoon and welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im resident scholar and Deputy Director of education policy studies here an aei. Im pleased to kick off the event on Education Savings Account and future of Education Choice. Our event today is straight forward. In a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, governor jeb bush. Following his remarks on esas, i will join him on stage for a brief conversation together. Following that, my former colleague, Gerard Robinson, now executive director of the center for advancing opportunity, will join a distinguished group of panelist, which i will let him introduce in detail. But who will include adam pishack, john thnathan beckham lindsay burke. A little housekeeping, this is live streamed, full video available by the end of the day. We also have our friends at cspan who are broadcasting. We appreciate their service. For those watching at home or online, we have a hashtag for the event. Its jebbush aei. For those that would
Of seven books. Madison transformed the field more than anyone else. Its all constitutions everywhere. I thought, i was about to turn 40 and i thought i want something to really sink my teeth into federal spend my middle 40s on and win lose or draw, ive written something fat, and thats edited down considerably. The bottom line is, i wanted to do something i thought would be hard and long and maybe good and it was deathly hard and definitely long and now its up to you whether you think its good. I wanted to really dive in to the essential question of where did it all come from. Who were the key people behind it. Who made the world that we now live in. One of the fascinating things is that it turns out that although writing the constitution is the thing is most famous for, it was not the only thing of huge fundamental importance that he did and thats why called it the three lives of James Madison. The first life is the creation of the constitution and the other half to do with playing ou
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Event on education savings accounts and the future of educational choice. Our event today is straightforward, and in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, jeb bush. Will join him on stage freight the conversation together, and following that, my former colleague, now the executive director of the center for advancing opportunity will join the distinguished group of panelists, which i will let him introduce the details. A littlet housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. Our friends at cspan broadcasting, and we appreciate their service. For those watching at home and online, we have a for the event. Jebbushataei. Will pose questions for later and monitoring on twitter. This is National School choice week, and in ideal way to wrap up the discussion is education savings accounts. I am aware some of you are wondering why we should care about education savings accounts. And what our education savings accounts . They are a mechanism f
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