The six democrats voted last year in favor of this measure, most of them have left congress. There arent enough democrats to really that republicans can rely on to pass this over republican objections. Youve reported and others have reported the white house issuing a veto threat on this legislation. What would happen in the senate . The path in the senate is very uncertain. Mitch mcconnell hasnt given much indication on whether he feels it could pass the senate if it is scheduled and whether it could be scheduled. The senate obviously moves much scloe slower than the house. So even if a vote was held there it could be weeks or months before they go forward and they likely dont have the votes to override any president ial veto which could temper expectations in the senate they even vote on a bill. Follow lauren frenchs reporting on Twitter Twitter laurenfrench and politico. Com. Thanks for the update. Thanks for having very on. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on
Screeria nigeria. Later remarks by the chinese premier at the World Economic forum followed by president obama speaking at boise state university. Wednesday state and local education officials from around the country testified about changes to the no child left behind act which was signed into law by president george w. Bush in 2002. They appeared before the Senate Education Committee Led by lamar alexander, a former education secretary under president george h. W. Bush. This is 2 1 2 hours. I am the chairman and patty minded me she is a teacher so we will start on time. Welcome. Senate committee on Health Education labor and pensions will please come to order. This morning we have a hearing on fixing no child left behind testing and accountability. There is a lot of interest in this hearing. We have heard from people around the country ever since last week when we put a draft working paper up on the website. We have a lot of people in the hall. I would say to those in the hall who are
Discussion draft. I hope we can begin conversations about a truly bipartisan approach to help fix this broken law. I know the members on my side are anxious to begin work and to continue the long tradition of this committee tackling tough problems in a bipartisan fashion. Fixing no child left behind should not be a partisan issue. It should be one that we do work hand in hand not as democrats and republicans but as americans. This is an issue that is not about politics. It is about what is best for our kids. In our country we believe that every student should have access to a quality Public Education regardless of where they live or how they learn or how much money their parents make. That vision is a big part of what we mean when we talk about america, what makes our country great. Other countries in the world are investing in education. They are working every day to get it right for their students. China, india and others think they can beat us in the classroom. We know better. We kn
Our number of graduates by over 1,000 students a year, increased on time Graduation Rate for our africanamerican, latino students by over 60 . We have decreased dropout rates by over 60 . We have gone from a School District with our students having the lowest rate of year on year student progress of any major district in the state to being now the district for three years in a row where our students on a student by student basis are demonstrating the highest rate of yearly academic progress. As a result our enrollment is booming as families come back to and stay in our schools. In the last seven years our enrollment has increased by a remarkable 25 . Nevertheless we continue to have significant achievement gaps between our students based on income and race and ethnicity. We are determined to eliminate those achievement gaps. One key to our progress is our refusal to be imprisoned by debates and false conflicts that we often see around us. We need to focus on what works for our kids. We
Manufacture. We appreciate that investment. It says here we have 409 in this type of Research Going on. Does that 400 billion annually, does that calculate with individual inventors put into the mix, or they just not part of the calculation . Are probably not going to be significant percentage as measured by dollars but about 60 would come from private companies than 40 of the federal funded. Were talking about private inventors and their impact on new discoveries. How is she placed them in terms of Government Programs coming up with something new, corporations coming up with something new versus the individual inventor Community Coming up with something new. If you look at the types of recruiters over the past 50 years, the invention of the transistor or art or not tended to be basic Research Programs that werent in the minds of any one individual, even at the university, but typically a Network Universe be a people. The foundation isnt very significant portions made in creating somet