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The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. Good to see this morning. Welcome to the subcommittee. This is our second Budget Hearing of the year. , we are goingknow to examine the department of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget materials, this much was clear to me. To privatizeng Public Education. I believe it is the wrong direction for our students and for our country. We need to be moving towards earlying policies like childhood education, that we know helps students succeed. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support but are expanding it. I will get more into the consequences 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. , theary to your claim Public Education system, which 90 of our children attend, has witnessed significant progress for all groups of students. Scores haveematics improved for
Results and the negative but what about tastes for the rest of the country. Im anthony how to welcome to the program while authorities around the world take even more drastic measures to try and slow the spread of the corona virus the number of cases is rising a tally by Johns Hopkins University Counts more than 156400 cases will wide and over 5800 deaths at the same time at least 73900 people have recovered from the virus and some good news particularly from south korea with 76 new khurana new coronavirus cases reported today the country therefore has seen a fold in numbers to double digits for the 1st time in over 3 weeks a sign its tough quarantine measure is working. Oh joining me now is the elfish a professor of Infectious Diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the World Health Organization global outbreak and Response Network professor south korea and china have seen the number of new cases for only does that offer some hope. Yet most most definitely it does the
What about the tests for the rest of the country. And anthony how it welcome to the program while authorities around the world take even more drastic measures to try to slow the spread of the corona virus the number of cases is rising a tally by Johns Hopkins University Counts more than one 156400 cases worldwide and of the 5800 deaths at the same time at least 73900 people have recovered from the virus and some good news the take away from south korea with 76 new coronavirus cases reported today the countrys seen a fold in numbers to double digits for the 1st time in over 3 weeks a sign its tough quarantine measures are working. Oh joining me now is the elfish a professor of Infectious Diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the World Health Organization global outbreak and Response Network professor south korea and china have seen the number of new cases for only those that offer some hope. Most most definitely it does there are there are huge lessons to learn there
Of it is your fourth hearing yours with us. Today, as you know, we are going to examine the department of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget materials, this much was clear to me. You are seeking to privatize Public Education. I believe it is the wrong direction for our students and for our country. We need to be moving towards expanding policies like Early Childhood education, that we know helps students succeed. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support but are expanding it. I will get more into the consequences 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. And the research that it ignores. Contrary to your claim, the Public Education system, which 90 of our children attend, has witnessed significant progress for all groups of students. Average mathematics scores have improved for fourthgraders by 14 .