Little faint, like it was far. So we werent tripping. And then boom, boom, it was two more. And then everybody started running. The shooting happened at about 1130 tuesday morning, bringing dozens of Oakland Police chp officers and Alameda County sheriffs deputies to the school. The campus was placed on lockdown. Officers detained four individuals, two of whom were placed under arrest. Oakland Police Captain jake bassett says officers recovered a gun. Police would not say if those in custody are students at skyline. Investigators say they werent prepared to discuss what led up to the shooting. Officers conducted a methodical search of the campus and thankfully there were no reported injuries. Parents rushed to campus waiting for hours to reunite with their kids streets near the school were jammed as word spread of the shooting. Im just surprised that this happened, especially to my school. I didnt think this would happen. They might need to start looking into metal detectors for at lea
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the cynic in me to help education labor and pensions will please come at order. Im usually on time, especially for an education hearing and excuse me for being late. This is the first in his his appearance as we finished our consideration of proposals to reauthorize the Higher Education act. Today we look at ways to simplify the free application for student aid, or fafsa, to make it easier for students to apply for federal Financial Aid. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce the witnesses, and after your testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. A lot going on today so senators may be coming and going because of the tax bill. Nearly four years ago, in a hearing before this committee, an unusual thing happened. For witnesses from diverse backgrounds agreed that almost all of the 108 questions on the free application for federal student aid, or fafsa, are
School choice advocates discussing the same topic. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im Deputy Director of education policy studies. I am pleased to kick off todays event on the future of educational choice. Following jeb bushs remarks, i will have a brief conversation. Following that, my former join the will distinguished group of panelists. Thell let him introduce others. Event is being live streamed. It will be available at the end of the day. We also have our friends at cspan broadcasting. We appreciate their service. For those watching from home we jebbush aei. To posee who would like a question for later, we will be monitoring on twitter. This is National School choice week. About education savings accounts. And what our education savings accounts . They are a mechanism for educational choice in six states where parents can withdraw kids from schools and into accounts where parents can control and use those funds for restric
Good afternoon. I am pleased to kick off todays event on education savings accounts and the future of educational choice. Our event today is straightforward, and in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, jeb bush. I will join him on stage freight the conversation together, and following that, my former colleague, now the executive director of the center for advancing opportunity will join the distinguished group of panelists, which i will let him introduce the details. Todays event a little housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. We also have our friends at cspan broadcasting, and we appreciate their service. For those watching at home and online, we have a for the event. It is jebbushataei. Will pose questions for later and monitoring on twitter. This is National School choice week, and in ideal way to wrap up the discussion is education savings accounts. I am aware some of you are wondering why we should care about education s
Weather day by any means. Tracking showers on storm team 4 radar. We have had rain move into the area and its going to continue for the morning hours. Here is the latest now. The rain favoring parts of Northern Virginia back into western maryland and the panhandle of western virginia. Rain moving through Montgomery County Fauquier Frederick and howard county. Scattered showers for the morning hours. As we get into the afternoon hours, scattered showers and thunderstorms possible. You want the umbrella handy today. You have outdoor cookouts. Be ready to move indoors. Here is the morning planner, 73 degrees, spotty showers. 8 00 a. M. 10 00 a. M. Temperatures warm into the mid70s by noon. Limited sunshine is possible at that point. Coming up im going to show you future weather for this afternoon on into the evening, what we can expect for fireworks and timing out the potential for thunderstorms later today. All right. Thank you so much amelia. Happy fourth of july. There are so many thin