Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin will lay out key principles for tax reform. He will also discuss the potential implications of House Majority's approach to tax reform for working families, job creation, and our nation's fiscal health.

A progressive view of the role of government supports the notion that governments should act affirmatively to create and protect the conditions necessary for all families and children to thrive. Developing policies to support and stabilize families should go beyond a narrow focus on marriage promotion and unmarried childbearing; policies should reflect the fact that decisions related to family structure, relationships and parenting are inherently personal, and are made complex by one’s life and economic circumstances. Progressive policies must recognize and address the reality of today’s complex family dynamics.

This discussion will examine the challenges facing low-income families in today’s economy, while discussing tangible policy goals that will help strengthen all families and create positive outcomes for their children. Additional topics will include strategies to help build strong family connections through supportive environments, economic support, and safe relationships and how these approaches can help reduce poverty in the United States.

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The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, is a ripe opportunity to encourage education reform across the nation. A series of delays has prevented ESEA from reaching the finish line, raising the question of what Congress can accomplish in the current environment. What is the current state of progress on ESEA? What actions and inactions have brought us to this point? And what is at stake should the law be revised (or not) this year?

Join us as we hear from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Rep. George Miller, and former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings on the stakes of ESEA reauthorization. Their comments will be followed by a response from Randi Weingarten and Amy Wilkins.

At the event the Center for American Progress will release, "A Way Forward," a new document outlining the case for reauthorizing ESEA along with specific federal recommendations for improving our nation's schools.

Large numbers of schools across the country are low performing and have been for years. This longstanding, widespread problem reveals that districts and states, as well as schools, wrestle with how to turn around struggling schools. Federal policy can play a key role in rectifying the systemic failures that allow schools to flounder. The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is a ripe opportunity to revise the law’s main program that supports school turnaround, the School Improvement Grant fund.

Join us as we release two new publications on school turnaround. One explores how four states have responded to the federal turnaround program. The second explores how pioneering districts have called on charter schools to turn around chronically low-performing high schools.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) will provide opening remarks on the importance of school turnaround. A panel discussion will follow, drawing lessons from state and district turnaround efforts to inform the reauthorization of ESEA.