For nearly 1900 days. Some weeks they came to work without even getting a paycheck. But teachers at Chester Upland School district wonder how long they can go without a contract. Good people are leaving the School District. This is what really hurts. Good teachers are leaving us. Reporter there have been no cost of living races and teachers some of the lowest paid in the area are also forced to spend their own money on their classrooms. I have two kids in college. We pay for it on a credit card. Reporter in front of a surprised packed house the state run school board did announce progress is being made in recent contract negotiations. The School District absolutely is op mystic that we will be able to reach an agreement with the teachers win fairly short period of time. Reporter that could be welcome news for teachers who say theyve made a commit many to the kids. And i am told the stumbling blocks right now are non nonmonetary issues like teachers schedules and benefits packages. Both
For nearly 1900 days. Some weeks they came to work without even getting a paycheck. But teachers at Chester Upland School district wonder how long they can go without a contract. Good people are leaving the School District. This is what really hurts. Good teachers are leaving us. Reporter there have been no cost of living races and teachers some of the lowest paid in the area are also forced to spend their own money on their classrooms. I have two kids in college. We pay for it on a credit card. Reporter in front of a surprised packed house the state run school board did announce progress is being made in recent contract negotiations. The School District absolutely is op mystic that we will be able to reach an agreement with the teachers win fairly short period of time. Reporter that could be welcome news for teachers who say theyve made a commit many to the kids. And i am told the stumbling blocks right now are non nonmonetary issues like teachers schedules and benefits packages. Both
Good evening and welcome. Im ken ken weinstein, president and ceo of Hudson Institute. I apologize for the condition of my voice this evening. I really, really wanted to be here for the book form for Melanie Kirkpatricks new new book, the holiday at the heart of the american experience. I want to thank our friends at the historic Explorers Club in manhattan, especially the executive director and our good friend judas and i also want to thank the viewing audience on cspans book tv. Hudson institute is a policy organization that is based in washington, d. C. We promote International Leadership for the sake of security, prosperity, and freedom. Most of our work is in the Public Policy space. We do a lot of work on the future of security in asia, we look at fighting isis, talk about trying to overcome the challenges of the iran deal and so this book is an outlier of the product, will be thankful for many things as thanksgiving approaches like many of our its extraordinarily timely coming a
We will have votes in a couple hours. We want to make sure we move quickly through this. Before i start, i want to acknowledge that our good friend and Ranking Member of the committee, frank palone is not with us because his father died. We keep his family in our prayers. I did not personally know his father, i know he raised a good son. So we thank him for that. We will continue on from there. Next, joined today also with my colleague who is wearing Denver Broncos orange. Congratulations for a super they must be a good team, because they beat the steelers. Now on with our hearing. Good more than, wer good morning. Were reminded those that seek to do us harm through a variety of harms, including biological attacks. The threats are growing and every changing. We are ill prepared to detect and respond to the threats as rapidly as needed. We have been caught flat footed too many times in the past. We face a deadly enemy we cannot see. Our methods to find it are inadequate. We may know kno
Next, a Senate Hearing on u. S. Preparedness for biological threats. Then Gina Mccarthy talks about the clean water act and the clean power plan. After that, new mexico governor sus Susanna Martinez gives her state of the state address. Now a house hearing on the nations preparedness for biological threats. It comes following the release of recommendations from a special panel on biodefense. This is just over two hours. Good morning. We will begin this hearing. We will have votes in a couple hours. We want to make sure we move quickly through this. Before i start, i want to acknowledge that our good friend and Ranking Member of the committee, frank palone is not with us because his father died. We keep his family in our prayers. I did not personally know his father, i know he raised a good son. So we thank him for that. We will continue on from there. Next, joined today also with my colleague who is wearing Denver Broncos orange. Congratulations for a super they must be a good team, be