Join us for a conversation with author and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, the Honorable Ken Blackwell.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 at 12 p.m. (ET)
Dial 667-776-9181 (no code needed)
Whether we are talking about crumbling buildings, lack of resources, violence in the classrooms, or overcrowding, all of these issues plague our inner-city public schools.
And what is the solution from the teachers’ unions and the leftist educational establishment? More money! If we just poured more financial resources into these failing schools, we could turn all this around!
How long has it been since we have been throwing more money at the problems in our public schools, particularly in the poverty-stricken communities in our urban areas? What has been the result? No improvement whatsoever; in fact, things have gotten much worse.
We need new buildings. We need more teachers. We need more textbooks and more technology. So we pump more dollars into these communities and it seems to simply disappear into thin air. Where does it go?
Part of the problem we are dealing with is that simply throwing more money at a situation doesn’t solve it. How do we solve the problem of violence in the classroom where teachers are afraid to discipline students? More money isn’t the solution.
How do we solve the problem of high dropout rates and illiteracy? If we don’t work at the root issues, such as fatherless homes and teen pregnancy, adding more to the school budget will not solve anything.
Until parents and families in these communities are permitted to send their children to better schools, until they are given options for how their children are educated, nothing will change. There will be no improvement. It will continue to be business as usual.
Ken Blackwell served as a senior transition official for President Donald J. Trump’s White House and was appointed to the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.
Blackwell is the Senior Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance at the Family Research Council. He is a national bestselling author of three books: Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building The Wealth Of Working People, And Ending Welfare; The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency; and Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America.
He serves on the Board of Directors of various high-profile organizations including the Institute for Pension Fund Integrity, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (Co-Chairman), the United States Air Force Academy Foundation, the Club for Growth, Columbia International University, the National Rifle Association, the First Liberty Institute, and the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. He is Chairman of the Council for National Policy Action and on the Board of Advisors of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).
Mr. Blackwell has had a vast political career. He was mayor of Cincinnati, Treasurer and Secretary of State for Ohio, undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He was a delegate to the White House Summit on Retirement Savings in 1998 and 2002. During the 1990s, he served on the congressionally appointed National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform and the board of the International Republican Institute. He was Co-Chairman of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board from 1999-2001.
He married his wife Rosa in 1969 while he was in college. They have three children, Kimberly, Rahshann, and Kristin.
Please join us for this stimulating and informative conversation.
