The accountable pool of students in order to avoid being sanctioned. And so there needs to be some mechanism in an accountability policy to account for that dynamic. One of the concerns, there also needs to be, if theres a cap some degree of flexibility to allow for natural variation in the share of students at a given school or even at a given district that might actually be appropriately excluded from the standard assessment. And so i think those policies have been a bit more rigid than they actually should be. But there needs to be some mechanism and im not the one to tell you the details of how to do it. Thank you, dr. West. I commended the committee. A suggest wouldstudy would suggest that half of the kids dont take the tests. But youre right. There are going to be variations. Thank you mr. Chairman. Thank you, senator murphy. I asked senator murray if she has any closing remarks. I would just say that there is tremendous interest on our side of the aisle in fixing the no child le
Situation room. Wolf . Thanks very much. Happening right now, an emotional and very historic day on capitol hill. A brand new United States congress is sworn in and with it a new hope for reaching across the aisle. Some of the cases may be knew, but many of the tough issues that have to be tackled certainly havent changed. So is is there any real chance of getting anything done . And nearly three weeks since the devastating massacre, sandy hook Elementary Students return to school. Well go there for a live report. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. An extra ordinary nar day here in washington. The 113th Congress Takes office ushering in, in a moment, what appeared to be a renewed push for bipartisanship on the heels of what has been an extremely tumultuous week of gridlock. One of the most striking moments of the day is this, a very emotional House Speaker john boehner taking the gavel after being voted in by his colleagues to another term. Put simply, worse than not to be s
Accident happened just before 8am new years day. Police say the driver of the black chevy was fleeing a traffic stop. When he t boned the white toyotasending that of a liquor store. Killing francisco who was on the sidewalk a 29 year old female passenger inside the toyota was also killed. The driver of the toyota18 year old Juan Fernando garciatunwas transported to sf general where he remains in serious condition. Police have now identified the driver of the suspect car as 19 year old David Moraleswho you see here in these imagescaught by a witnessas hes being taken into custody as well as being treated for the minor injuries he sustained. Police say moralesa felon and a gang memberhad just fired a handgun at three people inside a Housing Project at 14th and valencia. It was after being stopped by police in connection with that shooting. That he took offand caused this deadly smash up. A handgun was recovered inside his vehicle. Morales is now out of the hospital felony chargesincludin
I have to. I have a lot of powers with respect to executive orders, and we are looking at that very seriously right now. Harris meanwhile, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and white house chief of staff mark meadows headed back to capitol hill to try again to make a deal with lawmakers. However, House Speaker nancy pelosi is telling democrats in her caucus its doubtful they could move a coronavirus bill this week. Top senate democrat, Chuck Schumer, this morning blamed republicans for the stalemate. Democrats are fighting to meet the needs of a desperate nation. Our republican friends, however, President Trump, his aides, and republicans in the senate, do not seem to appreciate the gravity of the situation. This disease has washed over our country like a great flood, and republicans are acting like we need to fix a leaky faucet. Harris this is outnumbered. Im harris faulkner. Here today, host of kennedy on fox business, kennedy herself. Attorney and fox news contributor, emily compagn
Bring you this year. You can find a schedule on our web seifs. As the past debates on line in our video library. Solace on together, like us off on phase book. If if two years ago democrats 5425 of rematch between the two candidates in the northern suburbs of a large city. They debated last week in poughkeepsie, new york. This is an hour. Fast mac past lack pass back que to the debate. I will be moderating. Those candidates have represented the district in congress. She held the seat for one skyrocketing energy costs, obamacare. I fought to protect Social Security, medicare. Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney cut 716 billion in medicare benefits. This is the record. He is running one of the most vicious campaigns the Hudson Valley has ever seen. I stand with you. Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney stands with washington, and washington has failed us. Thank you. Moderator congressman. Maloney good evening. Thankyou to a Time Warner Cable news, congressman nan hayworth, and to all of you. He