Specialist and the president of the national. Teacher association. This is 2. 5 hours. The subcommittee on Early Childhood elementary and secondary education will come to order. Welcome, everyone. I know that a quorum is present, and i note for the subcommittee that mr. Courtney from connecticut, ms. Mcbath of georgia, ms. Underwood of illinois, ms. Lee of nevada, ms. Trahan of massachusetts, mr. Walberg of michigan. Mr. Johnson of south dakota and dr. Murphy, north carolina. They are permitted to participate in todays hearing with an understanding that there questions will come after all members of the Early Childhood, elementary and secondary education subcommittee on both sides of the aisle who are present, have had an opportunity to question the witnesses. The committee is meeting today for a hearing to hear testimony on underfunded and unprepared examining how to overcome obstacles to safely reopen Public Schools. As this is a hybrid hearing with members participating both here in
Wide range of covid19 topics but none more timely than getting our children back to school. Throughout the last two weeks i have spent countless hours talking with educational leaders around the state. Everyone agrees for the future of our children we must do everything we can to have them back in a learning environment again this fall. Working with States School superintendent woods, educational administrators and School Boards around the state we have guidelines for schools that i am very proud of because it took the assumption we would open schools what do it very safely and ensure that schools have the tools they need to protect students, staff, teachers as well as the community as a whole. We fully expect some cases of covid19 among students and teachers and we are doing what we can to provide the resources that need it to protect everyone in the setting. Working with fema, schools receive less in the coming days. To go back to school, we know schools need to be prepared to respon
Different. Weve had to adapt to different circumstances. That is the theme to this years event, wisdom, justice, adaptation. We believe adaptation is the right focus for this years session. Circumstance. In fact that is the theme for this years event, wisdom, justice, adaptation. As you probably know the playoff motto that we believe adaptation is the right focus for this years session. Speaking of the session today is only the opening events over the next several weeks well be back here on tuesdays at 11 00 a. M. To explore the way the families their businesses and their government are adapting to a changed world. We will covering the following areas, education, the budget, land use and transportation, the economy, housing, and healthcare. With exciting panels of experts lined up for each of them and we hope you will be able to join us for many of those as you can. We are grateful to be joined on this journey by some key sponsors without which our work would not be possible. They are
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Foundation on behalf of the entire staff and our board of trustees we are very glad you joined us. If you have attended this event in the past you are well aware this years edition is quite different. Like so much in our society we have had to adapt to the current circumstance. In fact that is the theme for this years event, wisdom, justice, adaptation. As you probably know the playoff motto that we believe adaptation is the right focus for this years session. Speaking of the session today is only the opening events over the next several weeks well be back here on tuesdays at 11 00 a. M. To explore the way the families their businesses and their government are adapting to a changed world. We will covering the following areas, education, the budget, land use and transportation, the economy, housing, and healthcare. With exciting panels of experts lined up for each of them and we hope you will be able to join us for many of those as you can. We are grateful to be joined on this journey b