The chair will yield himself sometime for closing remarks. I want to thank the secretary for being with us. Mr. Secretary, i think its safe to say that we all, you, i, everybody on the panel, shares a goal to see that our kids, and not kids, Higher Education now the nontraditional student is the tradition. That is, the older students. We want them all to learn and to prosper and have the chance to achieve their goal here we have some differences in how we go about doing that. We are comparing budgets here today. A lot of discussion about the ryan budget, what it does and doesnt do, the president s budget. Frankly, if you have a budget like youre defending part of that never ever balances, adds to the debt every year forever, you can find some programs and some new programs. But the real world that youve been talking about such probably we shouldnt do that for ever, and for ever we should have a budget that eventually bounces and we need to set some priorities. On special and we had som
Ets that live 202 5853880 you can also email us. Veterans only this morning. Your experience with the ba system. The congressional reporter for the military times joined us on the phone now to talk ulk about the situation. Why are their calls for the secretary to step down . Caller there has been a lot of controversy lately stemming from the allegations against administrators at the phoenix veterans hospital. There are allegations and reports that they were keeping two lists. actualt had veterans waitt times actual times. Cnn did a larger board large report that 40 veterans died waiting for care. Bunch from the American Legion have called for his resignation. Host why is that . Caller the legion said it is not this situation. There is a list of things that they are frustrated with from how he has lived at the department. Information,lic and to punish folks who have made mistakes. We have heard a handful of scandals over the last 69 months. There were some deaths in pittsburgh and probl
The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for pet projects such as new teacher prep pardonness, which are redone ant of existing programs. Families deserve a better way forward. We needed administration to work with congress to advance Lasting Solutions facing schools nationwide. Instead of supporting ourests to strengthen education, the administration is implementing a con via luted scheme that has waivers to waivers that makes the secretarie
A bill aimed at introducing charter schools in Kentucky and supplying them with funding was vetoed Thursday by Gov. Andy Beshear, who said it would divert money from traditional public schools.