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Good afternoon. I am pleased to kick off todays 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. I 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. Todays event a little housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. We als...

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. ...

Reproductive health at georgetown millions of dollars to look at the efficacy of fertility beads for Family Planning purposes and there has been evidence now that those do work, they are efficacious and we can fund those as a tool to use to reach our goals in Family Planning. Obviously were going to have a whole lot of other tools. But that particular tool is acceptable by many religious groups opposed to the other tools. And so i think that is one positive story that we might look at replicating. Do we have other questions from the audience . Right here in the middle. Hi. My name is jana carp...

Ive read of waivers that schools have to know the mpr piece. None of them have been approved. More on that later. One last question. Im annie martin from the orlando sentinel. My question has to do with the accountability for schools that are receiving either the Tax Credit Program money or voucher money. In our state it seems like the parents are the primary mechanism of accountability for schools and the philosophy is if the schools not getting the job done the parents will put their kids elsewhere, but theres also not a lot of Public Information available about the schools that receive this...

This discussion was part of a conference hosted by the Education Writers Association at georgetown university. Its just over an hour. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for coming to this panel. Im eric, Deputy Director at ewa. Today we are going to discuss an issue that has been getting just a little bit of attention these days, School Choice and especially private School Choice. I know that there is all sorts of forms of School Choice in this country and a lot of conversation about charters in particular, as well. Given so much of the recent conversation and the recent president ial election i t...