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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...

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 so...

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 whe...

Programs, or Education Savings Accounts, which were 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 and free people free children from assignment by zip code residential policies that bound them to a school in their neighborhood. Milton friedman says School Choice ensures children are free to choose and free to learn. It was in 1955 that friedman first outlined this concept of School Vou...

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