Succeeds act, the 2015 law that change the way the federal department of education oversees state boards of education and local School Districts. The House Education Committee held a hearing. The committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays full committee hearing. I think our panel of witnesses and are Committee Members for joining todays discussion on the application of the every Student Succeeds act, essa. Essa can be considered a milestone for k12 policy because of the monumental shift in the role states and School Districts would have in the future of education. Essa sought to achieve to specific goal for k12 education, autonomy and accountability. State and School District were given independence when creating a k12 Education Program that works best for the own students, ending a washington knows best approach to education. Additionally, essa specifically prohibited the federal government from influencing states adoption of particular sta
The ones who remain in place, would say that the president s mind is focused on the policy issues at hand of which parents just want in infrastructure and a tax code overhaul on the other. Obviously, theres plenty going on to subject more on the president s mind. More going on inside the white house to hold the ceremonial the president had this last week. Louise radnofsky live on this sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. Her work is available at wjs. Com. Appreciate you being with us. Now state and local officials testify at a house hearing on tefr Student Succeeds act. They changed the way the federal department of education oversees state boards of education and local School Districts. This is twoandahalf hours. The committee of Education Workforce will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to todays full committee hearing. I want to thank you or panel of witnesses and our Committee Members for joining todays discussion on the implementation of the
The committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays full committee hearing. I thank our panel of witnesses and our Committee Members for joining todays discussion on the implementation of the every Student Succeeds act, essa. Essa can be considereded a milestone for k12 policy because it was a monumental shift in the role and states and School Districts would have in the future of education and it sought to achieve two specific goals for k12 education and autonomy and accountability. States and School Districts were given new independence when creating a k12 Education Program that works best for their own students, ending a washington knows best approach to education. Additionally, essa prohibitively influenced the states adoption of particular standards and repealed federal mandates for teacher performance and protected a states right to opt out of federal Education Programs. Part of this is goal for state and School District autonomy was to for
Federalist society were hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society, dean righter and julie nix who are with us today, for their assistance in organizing this forum. I also want to welcome those who are seeing us through cspan and our Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book from encounter books by the Goldwater Institutes tim sandefur. Subtitled, how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways, especially since the progressive era, that the presumption of liberty, the freedom at the heart of our founding principles and documents, has been extinguished in favor after presumption for government, with individuals having to obtain permission from government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this reversal of course. Today they often find before they can make any ch
Six terms. I represented for counties in southcentral kentucky. In 2011i filed for the commission of agriculture, which is an elected statewide position. I won that year, i was the top vote getter in the state, the only republican to win that year. I served four years as kentucky commissioner of agriculture. Then congressman whitfield announced he was retiring, so i filed for congress because i felt like i can make a difference, and i won the primary and general. You have been serving already. Host you have been serving already. You were sworn in earlier . Congressman comer i was. And i was very lucky to get to start immediately. Congressman whitfield resigned so i was actually on the ballot twice in november once for the regular twoyear term which began this week and then once developed the remainder of his term. That was a big deal for seniority because i started after the election, i was dead last in seniority and then on january 3, i moved up 51 slots in seniority. That was a big d