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national anthem national anthem good morning we have a fox news alert. first our thoughts and prayers are with thousands of people in the south this morning. in the aftermath of the devastating tornadoes that have claimed at least 26 lives. this is the worst i have ever, this is devastating. it was like scary, i wasn t that scared. i was trying to cover my sister. it was like a train sound. but it wasn t it was a tornado coming by. a lot of stuff everywhere. everything you worked for is gone. the historic outbreak of 24 tornadoes leveling homes and businesses leaving doesn t hurt. search and rescue teams are still looking for survivors in getting help too many people who are still misplaced. mississippi governor eight reeves declared a state of emergency after visiting the hardest hit areas. homeland security allie alejandro mayorkas will visit the devastated areas later today, fox weather correspondent from rolling port mississippi this morn ....
Where are parents can customize the learning experience. It could grow by the way probably to 100,000 if we had the budget to be able to make that happen. In states that are focused on this for special needs kids and for in the case of nftd adef and oth nevada and other place, my vision of this with the right policies in place, the most open system, would you have a half day, perhaps mom could pick a half day of of a traditional Public School, take an ap calculus course thats not available in that classroom setting online from one of the Virtual Schools, take an online music class from juilliard and a spanish course with a local retired school teacher. In that system, my guess is that our education outcomes would be much stronger and more sustainable to be able to deal with the world that were moving towards. So the question is, what are the issues at hand to implement this vi ....
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 ....
Okay. Well i will ask each of you on the panel youve done such an amazing work. And, you know have given us so much to think about. I would like to hear from you in summary what you would like to see as next steps as a result of your work. Been that youve put so much effort into the research and the writing, and not necessarily relating to the piece youve written, but how you would like to see this play out, so jill . As someone academy and immersed in evidence, that is what im hinting at at the moment. And its similar to the comment about the lanset by having these papers in here signaling something in terms of the broader discipline. And ill give you an example. We hosted a conference on the Health Systems conference in cape town and there were 2,000 people there and there were only two faithbased conferences and it is a signal to the fact that these issues come up in conferences, we have separate conversations about faith and f ....
Being here today. Today wouldve r3rd Milton Friedmans 10 birthday. He is considered the father of the modern day School Choice movement. And what a movement it has become. Today, 59 private School Choice programs operate in 28 states and right here in the district of columbia. These options, whether vouchers, tuition tax credit scholarship programs, or Education Savings Accounts which we are here to discuss today provide families the opportunity to choose schools and learning options that meet their childs individual and unique learning needs. Instead of being assigned to a school based on where their parents live, these models of School Choice free people and children from assignment by zip co polici ....