Napolitano to Deliver Major Speech; Unveils Institute Task Force to Renew Public Education

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[hsmomx3]

Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz., and Goldman Sachs Senior Director Philip Murphy will join Institute for America's Future President Robert Borosage and Center for American Progress President John Podesta Thursday to deliver a major speech on restoring excellence in public education in America.

Napolitano and Murphy will introduce an initiative designed to create an agenda to renew public schools by engaging business, public policy, education and community leaders in a series of public hearings with people across the country.

TASK FORCE TO RENEW OUR SCHOOLS ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Thursday, April 22

TIME: 12 noon

Preset time: 11:45 a.m.

Final access: 12 p.m.

Throw: 40 feet

LOCATION: Mayflower Hotel, State Room, 1127 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington D.C.

PARTICIPANTS: Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.

Philip Murphy, Goldman Sachs Senior Director

Robert Borosage, Institute for America's Future President

John Podesta, Center for American Progress President

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-- NOTE: Media representatives who wish to cover the speech should pre-credential by contacting Andrea Miller at 202-955-5665 x108 or miller@ourfuture.org due to space limitations. Media should also bring valid federal- or state-issued photo identification and press credentials to gain access to the event.

[hsmomx3]

What does Butch know about children? Gag me!!

[valkyrieanne]

What a bunch of malarkey. It's not the schools, it's the *families* of the kids that send them to school unprepared, language-delayed, exposed to drugs in utero, victims of daycare since six weeks after birth, etc.

[reluctantwarrior]

Reforming education by liberals is an exercise in glossing over past incompetence. She will call for more money, more union teachers, no standards or floating standards based on ethnicity or socio economic level etc. This will not improve the life of one child. My suggestion is direct subscription of the parents of the children attending the school, pay for education and you darn sure will demand results. The balance of money would be raised by tax credit donations with specific schools with independently verified results getting bonus funds from the lottery.

[Kate of Spice Island]

Napolitano was told some time ago that children get lost every time a reading program gets changed and she has done nothing to make education better in Arizona for anyone. It sucks to be a student and it sucks to be a teacher in AZ.

She doesn't even know what her own job is. Local school children can tell you that!