Their tax plan and unsurprisingly it is a giftwrapped tax cut to the rich. Christmas came early, mr. Speaker. From huge Corporate Tax cuts to the elimination of the alternative minimum tax paid by the wealthiest americans, this tax plan will hurt our economy and prioritize the top earners in our country. But there is one person, maybe a group of people, that are very, very thrilled about this tax plan, mr. Speaker. Mr. At person is moneybags. Here else. Mr. Moneybags is really going to benefit from this tax plan. And, first of all, the president himself will greatly benefit from the tax plan. Its impossible to know exactly how much, because we still dont have his tax returns. He has refused to release them. And we would really appreciate and we demand, frankly, that the American People know exactly how much hes going to benefit from this tax plan. Mr. Speaker, as the vice chair of the House Budget Committee, i saw firsthand how republicans rammed through a budget bill that paved the wa
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming to this panel. Eric, the Deputy Director or today we will discuss an issue that has been getting a bit of attention these days, School Choice and especially private School Choice. I know there is all sorts of forms of School Choice in this country and a lot of conversation about charters. In particular as well, but given the recent conversation and recent president ial election i think this is where we will do our primary focus, but we will allow time for other issues and is so forth School Vouchers and other voucher like programs, voucher cousins, if you will has been growing in numbers. The cousins would be like tax credit scholarships and Education Savings Account and the latter is what one proponent yesterday called the cool new kid on the block. As most of you know President Trump and secretary of education ours big fans of School Choice and a secretary betsy devos was to talk about choice and its made it the centerpiece of her educatio
Until it gets into our heads. Thank you. So with that, we will wrap up the panel. And thank you to all of our panelists for being here today. [ applause ] so well go ahead and start our next panel. So that we can keep on time. Be as efficient as we can. Welcome to the second panel of the day. This panel is entitled where are we now. A conversation on Educational Opportunity and integration. Our panelest today will be gerard robinson. He has been in the education commissioner of florida. The virginia secretary of education. So gerard has a long history in education. Dr. Greg fors ter is the director of Trinity International university. He is a senior fellow at ed choice and is at the Freedman Foundation for educational choice. And he received his ph. D. With distinction at yale university. Mashea ashton is, just recently given its approval to open up a charter in 2018 in washington, d. C. She served as the ceo of the Network Charter school fund. The Senior Adviser for Charter School pol
I think that the United States, we are positioned to be on the cuts edge where communities are not ethnically exclusive. Thats historically new. Its not something you find as you look back in history. Im very excited to help position us on a new kind of organizing society where communities are not ethnically bounded. I think its a great thing for School Choice to be doing. Thank you very much. Let me start here by saying thank you for inviting me to this wonderful conversation. As i was thinking about this panel i reflected on my own personal, how i even got here. I have an identical twin sister we were in new jersey which is a majority white community. My family had just moved out of philadelphia and they wanted a Better School option for us. My mother took us out of Public School and put us into private school. I think that has made all of the difference for us and its why im a huge proponent. I think every parent should be able to choose what school or what environment, like how do
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education related agencies will come to order. Good morning to everybody, particularly good morning secretary devos for you and thank you for appearing before the subcommittee today. This is a difficult budget request to defend. Last month the president signed into law an appropriations bill that included 161 billion in discretionary funding for this subcommittee. While that was a billion dollars less than we had the year before, we were able to eliminate programs and prioritize programs in a way that allows us to do things like return to year round pell. First time in nine years where students who begin this fall will have the opportunity to have the pell grant available to them year round. This year, the fiscal year 2018 budget request proposes a significant funding decrease in labor, hhs, approximately 24 billion below what were spending in the current year in the agencies that reflected in the work of this subcomm