With us. And today, as you know, we are going to examine the president s department of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget materials, madam secretary, this much was clear to me. That you are seeking to privatize Public Education. I believe, and ive had this conversation before with you, i believe its the wrong direction for our students and for our country. Instead, we ned to be moving toward expanding Public Policies, lake Early Childhood education, that we know helps students to succeed. We see this in our countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support, but in fact, are expanding it. Ill get more into the consequences of the cuts that you are proposing, but i want to start by examining your privatization philosophy. The false premise on which it is built, and the research that it ignores. Contrary to your claims, the nations Public Education system, which 90 of our children attend, has witnessed significant progress for all
Protection commissioner mark morgan is among the witnesses scheduled to appear before the Senate Commerce aviation subcommittee. Education secretary betsy devos testified on the 2021 budget request, members asked about Public Education resources and nondiscrimination policies. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, secretary devos. Welcome to the subcommittee. This is our second Budget Hearing of the year and your forth on hearing with us and we are going to examine the president s the permit of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget material, this much was clear to me. You are seeking to privatize Public Education. It is the wrong direction for students and our country. We need to be moving toward expanding Public Policies like Early Childhood education. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking but standing it. Im getting more into the consequences of the cuts you are proposing. I want to start by examini
Of Credit Recovery or because of their grades, and if we dont get their grades on track and they still wont have access to that. Similarly, during the summer, they have to go to Summer School so summer jobs arent available to them. We are trying to build up about 5 million that has been put into the oh, ew d. Budget. A good portion of that is, around a million of that is specifically for the Service Providers to be able to help with Community Outreach and engagement. The studies that we are seeing show that young people and people in general, in terms of moving from moving out of poverty, need to feel valued in their community, and we want to make sure we are also valuing the Community Partners that lead that work. There is a little over a million that is put in for education liaisons and support. There is also money specifically for hope s. F. Students and africanamerican achievement Leadership Initiative groups to get yearround. We found, the last two summers, just through during the
Specificity of what is budgeted, but it is a very coordinated effort of which h. R. C. Plays a main convening and implementation role. Thank you. Supervisor mental him in . Do you currently have any vacant positions . We have three. How long have they been vacant . They are actually connected to the office of sharp, so it is part of a process. They have been vacant since we were given them, but there was a process to go through hiring, which is which has slowed us down. How long has that been . A year basically, because funding was given last fiscal year, but it would have actually been higher a arm starting in october or november. Wow. To the chair, can i answer . Yesterday at the board of supervisors we passed an ordinance to fix a hiccup that came up in the hiring process, because it is a very special, new department. We wanted Community Involved in the hiring process, but there were laws that conflicted with that that we overwrote in that legislation yesterday, which is partially w
From the white house, it is just under an hour. We are here to discuss the tremendous threat of ms 13. One of the most violent and vicious gangs anywhere in the world. We have not seen anything quite like this, the level of ferocity, the level of violence and the reforms we need from congress to defeat it. I am honored to be joined by secretary nielsen. Top officials and federal Law Enforcement and our local sheriffs, her great sheriffs. Were also joined by congressman peter king. Peter, thank you. Congressman lee zelman, good to have you. We have barbara. Thank you barbara. Nice to have you. Callongressman mike Mullen Michael mccaul. To our broken immigration system, by letting our borders and it comes right through whatever they want to come through. It has been much tougher since we have been there. We need much better border mechanisms and much better Border Security. If we dont have the while we will never solve this problem. Without the wall, it will not work. State of the union