What are the components . In a formal setting, when it credit, there is usually online content and a teacher you interact with. Ofis usually done as a Group Students that you are engaging. Ith, but it is at a distance some students attend fulltime online classes, and some parttime. A High School Student may take three classes at their high school, and two classes online. How extensive right now is online Digital Learning . Case12 in k12, there is probably 5 Million Students that took online classes. It is a significant percentage u. S. K12Million Students that are out there. It is growing rapidly. Most districts reported having or planning to add an online program. Inis becoming the norm higher education. Most students take at least a portion of their course load online. Book thatte in your we can improve the quality of education in the u. S. Without a big increase in investment. We do spend more than just about anybody in the world. Im confident that by incorporating new tools that le
House battle over a separate measure to allow remote approximately voting on future aid packages. Is. And new York Governor Andrew Cuomo will travel to washington today to meet with President Trump at the white house. The governor saying in the last hour its all about testing but he plans to talk to the president about the federal government helping his state and others with a supply chain they need to test. Our team is in place across the country, beginning with nbcs blayne alexander in atlanta. Bla a lot of objections from mayors to the governors planning to reopen. Absolutely, andrea. Perhaps none stronger than the mayor of albany, georgia. That is the area as we reported for weeks as the highest numbers of deaths anywhere in the state. The mayor told me this morning he was caught off guard by the governors announcement, he didnt expect it, didnt realize it was coming and called it, quote, irresponsible. I asked him this morning, i said is your city ready to be reopened . He told me
underestimated just how much work needs to be done to reform new jersey. remember back in 2012 he declared the jersey comeback has become and a lot of us raised our eyebrows at that particular time. why is that? if you look for instance, this is a state that has all kinds of legacy costs that have been built up. it s not just a question of oh, gee, we come in and have a recession, we cut spending a little bit and everything is going to be okay as soon as the economy bounces back. this is a long term project. new jersey is not the only one. in fairness what you have what the national government association called a few years ago the great reset among the states spending among the states and taxing them on the states is a huge challenge in this environment right now. is new jersey in a better place today than when chris christie economically became governor or worse? slightly better place in that the democratic legislature and the republican governor have gotten together and they
who gave him a fresh perspective on his portfolio. and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it s not rocket science. it s just common sense. from td ameritrade. president boem obama was in maryland this morning to announce the winners of the youth career connect competition. it was created by executive action, and it provides more than $100 million in grants for education opportunities, job training, and academic counseling. it s all part of the president s plan to get high school graduates ready to compete in a high-tech economy. we don t do it by just resting on what we ve done before. we got to outwork and out ino vat and out hustle everybody else. it s another classroom curriculum that s drawing backlash across the country. it s bringing together an unlikely coalition of conservatives, parents, unions, and teachers in the fight. adopted by the national
lindsey is a first grade mom. and she is interested in helping her daughter do her homework. and what we need is people like that. and she didn t getting the information from her teachers. now, you had some misinformation on your intro where you said it s a series of tests. actually what common core is a state-led initiative which is a series of standards. and so i think what everybody can agree on is the status quo in the education system is unacceptable. we are currently spending number one for people in the world. and our results are out of the oecd of countries, we are 20th in 27th in results. here in new york city, 25% of our high school students are graduating college already. so what common core represents is a state-led initiative started by the national government association and by the school education commission around the state to put in place standards to up our game. and these are standards, but not tests. tests are still being