With massachusetts representative Catherine Clark at a house appropriation subcommittee hearing on the 2017 Education Department budget. Now that hearing in its entirety. Good to have you here, madam secretary. Before we begin formally i want to recognize miss allard for the purposes of introduction. I would like to introduce tommy a former foster care youth for the congressional foster youth shadow day. Tommy is a resident of downey, california, in my district. His educational aspirations are to earn a masters in architecture and have a career in design i just want to thank him for coming to d. C. To help ensure that the our youth are involved in child welfare. His efforts to support the wellbeing, talent and educational aspirations of every child involved in foster care and tommy is the one with the blue around him. Why dont you stand up real quick. Yeah, stand up. There he is. Good morning, madam secretary. Its genuinely my pleasure to welcome you here to the subcommittee on labor h
With massachusetts representative Catherine Clark at a house appropriation subcommittee hearing on the 2017 Education Department budget. Now that hearing in its entirety. Good to have you here, madam secretary. Before we begin formally i want to recognize miss allard for the purposes of introduction. I would like to introduce tommy a former foster care youth for the congressional foster youth shadow day. Tommy is a resident of downey, california, in my district. His educational aspirations are to earn a masters in architecture and have a career in design i just want to thank him for coming to d. C. To help ensure that the our youth are involved in child welfare. His efforts to support the wellbeing, talent and educational aspirations of every child involved in foster care and tommy is the one with the blue around him. Why dont you stand up real quick. Yeah, stand up. There he is. Good morning, madam secretary. Its genuinely my pleasure to welcome you here to the subcommittee on labor h
Week to testify on the president s 2018 budget request for her department. The proposal would reduce funding for Public Schools while boosting federal support for private school vouchers. The hearing is two hours. Good to have you here, madam secretary. The forward begin to good to have you here, madam secretary. The forward begin to recognize for the purposes of an introduction. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I would like to introduce tommy diaz. [indiscernible] for the fifth annual foster youth shadow day. These are my 40th congressional district. His educational aspirations [indiscernible] i want to thank him for coming to d. C. To ensure the voices are heard [indiscernible] are involved in Child Welfare reform. Particularly efforts to support the wellbeing, talent and educational aspirations of every child involved in foster care. And tommy is the one with the blue around him. Why dont you stand up real quick . Yeah, stand up. [applause] there he is. Good morning, madam secretary. It is
Which is a 1 billion title i loan. In light of your request to cut 578 million from other parts of title i. Portability was soundly rejected by congress during negotiations for every Student Succeeds act. During the debate, numerous nonpartisan experts and stakeholders ranging from the Brookings Institution to the association of School Superintendents concluded that portability would result in more funding for wealthier School Districts as the expense of poorer districts. My first question is, in your view should high poverty schools receive more Funding Resources than schools that have lower levels of poverty . Congresswoman, yes, i think the reality is that they do receive higher levels of funding. And if i could just actually refer back to one of the Ranking Members comments, the question around title one funding and the assumption that vouchers was going to be a part of title one. Its a voluntary School Choice program. Its not any kind of a mandatory or imposed program. I just want
Thank you for being here to join us to talk about title 9 protections for students across our country. Leader pelosi, thank you for being here. You have been a tireless advocate on this issue throughout your career. And representative franco thank you for your leadership on the democratic working womens group. Youve led this group to confront tough and very important issues that weve been facing here and e certainly want to thank all of my colleagues as well. Under title 9 law schools are legally required to remedy hostile education environments. After years of reports from students that their schools are not responding appropriately to cases of Sexual Assault, the department made a push in the last few years to enforce this critical law. In recent days weve been shocked by comments by the department of education that seem to downplay this trauma of Sexual Assault and undo the progress weve made. Comments like this are disqualifying for me public official, but its appalling to hear thi