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 the hearing room and remotely i would ask all microphones for participants remotely be kept muted to eliminate b
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
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 ms. Mcbath of georgia, mr. Underwood of illinois, ms. Lee of nevada, ms. Trahan of massachusetts, mr. Walberg of michigan. Mr. Johnson of south dakota and up to murphy, North Carolina. The understanding the questions will come omafter 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 the hearing room and remotely i ask all microphones for participants remotely be kept muted to eliminate background noise. Members will be responsible for unmuting themselves when th
nbc has obtained a copy has already condemned systemic failures and egregious poor decision making on the part of nearly 400 local state and federal law enforcement officers on the scene. at robb elementary on may 4th. let s go to nbc news correspondent, priscilla thompson. priscilla, you ve been in uvalde speaking with parents and anticipating where we may hear from this report that they just released. what are some of the big takeaway so far? one of the things that you already mentioned, the sheer amount of the police presence that was here on that day. we re talking about hundreds of officers from nearly two dozen agencies, from federal, state and local law enforcement. the majority of them where texas department of public safety and border patrol. we are also learning about what happened in regards to the incident command. there was a lot of talk over the past several weeks over the school police chief, pete arredondo, being the incident commander. what is clear in this r
We can absolutely tear them down. I think on that encouraging note, i for anyone had a question that we werent able get to. We got were gonna have to wrap things up, but i want to thank all of you for coming in. Please help me. Thank megan kimple. Thank all. Have a great day. Thankas i mentioned, my name ise flores. I serve as chancellor for the alamo colleges district here in san. I was born in the rio. Most importantly, my father was born in san felipe and served, graduated from san felipe. A high school was a city in del rio and. Hes his past. But my mother graduated from Del Rio High School and were fortunate. Weve served and have lived here in san antonio for for many and in my audience, i have in the audience i have my wife, Marta Martinez flores, and my daughter mia. But you all are here to hear from Jesse Esparza. And so i want to provide an introduction. Dr. Hassells Jesse Esparza, who is an associate professor and interim chair of the of history at Texas Southern in houston.