So as you spend time with family and friends this afternoon, take a quite moment to reflect and give thanks. And feel lucky that we live in the United States of america. I will be remembering my grandfather today. The brave pilot of a b17 during world war two. Thank you grandpa. james lets get a check of weather this morning. anny hong dry weather and seasonable temperatures are forecast today and tomorrow. Cooler conditions along with a slight chance of showers can be expected on wednesday. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Fatal accident eb 580 at first in Livermore James breaking news we are following this morning. A deadly officer involved shooting in vacaville. Police say one man is dead and one officer has been taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries. No other details have been released this morning. We have reached o
So we will 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 . Our panelists today will be a resident scholar of the American Enterprise institute. He has been the education commissioner of florida, and president of black lines for Educational Options. Dr. Greg forster is the director sorry, cant get it right. Network at the center for informational churches at Trinity International university. He was formally at the Friedman Foundation for educational choice. He is the author of six books and the coauthor of three additional books. He received his phd with distinction from yale university. The founder and ceo of Digital Pioneers Academy which i learned was just recently was it yesterday . A week ago was given approval to open up a charter and 2018 in washington dc. [applause] prior to that, she served as ceo of the Network Charter school fund. And the executive chart
And with that, we will wrap up the panel. Thank you for all of our panelists being here today. [applause] [chatter] we will go ahead and bring up our next panel so we can keep on time. Welcome to the second panel of the day. This is entitled where are we now, a conversation about educational opportunity. We will have a scholar from the institute,ucational the generic secretary of dr. Gregnd forester, he is currently at the current foundation. He authored six books and book. Hored an additional he received his phd at yale university. Ceo of digitale pioneers academy. Yesterday they were given approval to open up a charter in washington, d. C. [applause] executive director for , and she started as a special Education Teacher as well. The stories you heard in the last panel, and the discussion you heard, we want to discuss and review the data as it relates to education, educational opportunity. Where are we, what does the data tell us . What are the issues we have to deal with. Gerrard wi
Educationrelated agencies will come to order. Good morning to everybody, particularly good morning to secretary devos and thank you for appearing before the subcommittee today. Blount blount this is a defend. Budget to 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 allowed pell eturn yearround where students will begin this fall to have the opportunity to have a pell grant available to them year round. His year, the fiscal year 2018 budget requests proposes a ignificant funding decrease in laborh. H. S. , 24 billion below what we are spending in the current year in the agencies that are reflected in the work of this subcommittee. That is 15 cut below the bill we passed just last month or past the end of april. For the department of education, the proposal includes 59 billion whi
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