from my right to left, heather harding is executive director of the campaign for our shared future and her work focuses on the intersection of access to high quality education on racial equity. frederick hess is director of education policies here at aei. he is an executive editor education next and senior contributor to forbes and that is just the beginning of where his writing can be found. to his right is the director of education freedom and parental rights initiative at the defense of freedom institute. ginny is a lifelong school advocate. thank you for joining us this morning. then preston cooper, senior fellow here at aei in education policy studies. he focuses on the return to investment in higher education student loans and higher education reform. and last but not least, derrell bradford, who leads our communications and policies trains and recruits look a little loose nationwide -- leaders nationwide. with this panel, which is an event part of the james q. wilson program here at aei we have a relatively simple show. i will give a quick rundown of the results so far from the

from my right to left, heather harding is executive director of the campaign for our shared future and her work focuses on the intersection of access to high quality education on racial equity. frederick hess is director of education policies here at aei. he is an executive editor education next and senior contributor to forbes and that is just the beginning of where his writing can be found. to his right is the director of education freedom and parental rights initiative at the defense of freedom institute. ginny is a lifelong school advocate. thank you for joining us this morning. then preston cooper, senior fellow here at aei in education policy studies. he focuses on the return to investment in higher education student loans and higher education reform. and last but not least, derrell bradford, who leads our communications and policies trains and recruits look a little loose nationwide -- leaders nationwide. with this panel, which is an event part of the james q. wilson program here at aei we have a relatively simple show. i will give a quick rundown of the results so far from the

from my right to left, heather harding is executive director of the campaign for our shared future ander work focuses on the intersection of access to high quality education on racial equity. frederick hess is director of education policies here at aei. he is an executive editor education next and senior contributor to forbes and that is just the beginning of where his writing can be found. to his right is the director of education freedom and parental rights initiative at the defense of freedom institute. ginny is a lifelong school advocate. thank you for joining us this morning. then preston cooper, senior fellow here at aei in education policy studies. he focuses on the return to investment in higher education student loans and higher education reform. and last but not least, derrell bradford, who leads our communications and policies trains and recruits look a little loose nationwide -- leaders nationwide. with this panel, which is an event part of the james q. wilson program here at aei we have a relatively simple show. i will give a quick rundown of the results so far from the to

today is this wonderful panel i'm going to introduce them now move it from my right to left, heather harding executive director of the campaign for sharede future. heather's work focuses on the intersection between access to high-quality education and racial equity, heather thank you for joining us in. rick next to the right is the director of education policy studies here at aei. rick is the author has a straight up is executive editor of education next. i contributed editor at national review senior contributor to forbes. that is just the beginning of the places were at rick's rick'g can be found. to his right is jenny gentles director of education freedom and parental rights initiative at the defense of freedom institute. jenny is a lifelong school choice advocate and a former state and federal education policy leader. jenny, thank you for joining us this morning. one more to the right is preston cooper senior fellow at aei. it education policy studies. he focuses on higher education reform. thanks is good to see a precedent last but not least the president of 50 cayenne, the 50 state cam

heather harding: as a k-12 girl and may be the only democrat on the stage, i want to say something. oh, you two? i didn't even know. [laughter] growing jobs is probably a good thing at this point in our country. in fact, we need more men to speak in the gender gap in care work and education jobs and for 50 years we have seen a feminization of the profession. we also need more diversity in our teaching ranks and a tax on de i, however poorly done, will not get us there. we have to be committed. also an unbundling of the system will also not get us there because a variety -- vast majority of kids are in public schools and your point about funding is i think an open question about if we are fully funding our public schools. go get a voucher in arizona, you can afford a trampoline. can you afford a high quality education? and i think that is really important before we just settle that because we have a lot of hand -- [crosstalk] nat malkus: the research -- the whole thing about bundled or unbundled in diversity is worth taking on and what we have organized is the best way to segregate e

hard by this storm. let's go now to ktvu. alex savidge with a look at some of the stories we're working on for west coast rap at 7:00, right here on ktvu. >> yeah. heatherthey are seeing a lot of damage from the storm systems up to the north of us. and coming up tonight on the show, we will continue our coverage of the severe storms slamming the west this week. hundreds of thousands of people remain in the dark across the pacific northwest tonight after hurricane force winds triggered widespread outages. we'll tell you just how long it could take for service to be restored with more storms closing in on that region. plus, an ongoing work stoppage by hotel workers in las vegas is threatening to disrupt a huge formula one event that kicks off tonight and runs through this weekend. coming up on west coast wrap, we'll tell you about the actions planned by the culinary union as they escalate this strike, and how it possibly could affect the thousands of racing fans all descending on the strip as we speak. we'll have those stories and a lot more coming up tonight at seven on west coast rap. and of course, that's followed by the ktvu fox two news at 730 with c