Event Rundown
Does the American Middle Class have a Future? A Conversation with Eli Broad and Richard Riordan
| Thursday, January 27, 2005
Two of LA's most prominent businessmen and philanthropists, themselves products of the middle class, will discuss the fate of the middle class and the future of upward mobility. They ask whether mobility is still possible in an economically polarizing America, particularly in urban areas like Los Angeles.
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An Evening with Culture Clash:
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
The infamous Chicano performance trio joins us to discuss their two upcoming world premiers, Hollywood's relationship with Latinos, and the ever widening gap between art and politics. As irreverent, satirical, and edgy as ever, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza will share their deepest, darkest secrets.
Should LA's Mayor Control the School District?
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Caprice Young, President and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association, and LA Schools Superintendent Roy Romer join Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Andrés Martinez, columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan, and editorial board member Judy Dugan to discuss the prospect of mayoral control over the Los Angeles Unified School District. During his successful mayoral campaign, Antonio Villaraigosa pledged to use the power of the mayor's office to fix the city's public school system. Our ...
Patty Stonesifer, "All Kids College Ready: What Will it Take to Ensure that Our Public Education System Prepares All Children?"
Monday, November 28, 2005
Patty Stonesifer, the co-chair and president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will join us to discuss education reform. As the head of a foundation whose mission is to improve equity in global health and learning around the world, Stonesifer will share her thoughts on the strategies that we need now in order to prepare children for the future. Brilliant, witty, and down-to-earth, Stonesifer has also been named one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes ...
An Evening With Dean Baquet
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Dean Baquet, the new Editor of the Los Angeles Times, joins us to discuss his life in journalism and the future of the paper at a crucial moment in its history. A Pulitzer Prize winner who quit school at Columbia University to jumpstart his career, Baquet will share the story of his ascent from police reporter at his local paper in New Orleans to leading one of the largest papers in the country. Known for his investigative reporting skills, his popularity in the newsroom, and his ...
Tamar Jacoby, "Fixing America's Immigration System"
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Pointing the way beyond the outmoded, emotional debate between those who sympathize with immigrants and those who fear and dislike them – beyond “Fortress America” vs. “open borders” – journalist and author Tamar Jacoby will argue that we as a nation need to reassert control of the border and reestablish the rule of law, but that the only way to do so is with a more generous immigration policy. Drawing on reporting from the border, economic and demographic ...
