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Washington, D.C. — On Monday, May 20, 2013, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Cecilia Rouse, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, will join CAP Action’s Neera Tanden for a conversation about how access to quality pre-K, grade schools, colleges, and worker-training programs are the building blocks for a strong middle class both now and in the future.
Creating equal educational opportunities is our best chance at countering growing income inequality and the widening chasm separating our nation’s richest and poorest workers. America’s education system, however, allows too many students to slip through the cracks—or never even make it off the starting blocks. From a shortage of funding for quality early-childhood programs to flaws in programs designed to prepare low-income students for college, there are myriad weaknesses in our education system. Identifying the most urgent of these gaps, as well as the strategies to fix them, must be a central tenet of any viable plan for growing the middle class. New research can help us identify where policymakers can make the biggest impacts.
WHO:
Featured speakers:
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Cecilia Rouse, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Moderated by:
Neera Tanden, President of the Center for American Progress; Counselor to the Center for American Progress Action Fund
WHEN:
May 20, 2013
12:30 p.m. ET – 1:30 p.m. ET
WHERE:
Center for American Progress Action Fund
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
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For more information, contact Katie Peters at [email protected] or 202.741.6295.
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