BRT President John Engler spoke Tuesday at a Washington Post Live conference, the Children and Families Summit. Engler joined Bruce Lesley. President of First Focus, in a panel discussion moderated by the Washington Post columnist, Eugene Robinson.

We’ve actually solved every problem that we have in public education somewhere in America. We just have a system that doesn't replicate our success very effectively.

So part of our strategy is how do you take what is working – whether it’s English as  a second language, very high poverty urban or rural areas, or kind of alienated communities – how can you take the success that we can document today and make it happen everywhere?

Accordingly, BRT has launched its Education Philanthropy Initiative, which we aim to identify and scale up a small number of high-performing K-12 programs that address critical education and workforce preparedness issues. For more, go here.