Education and we welcome your comments on how we implement the the new reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act. This is our third of six hearings to discuss the implementation of the every student succeed act which the president signed in december. It is the Second Opportunity for this committee to hear from states, School Districts, teachers and principals and others that helped us pass this overwhelmingly bipartisan law and are today working together to implement it in a way that is consistent with congressional intent. I want to focus my remarks on the administrations proposed supplement not supplant regulation. This is a very first opportunity the administration has to write regulations on our new law. And in my view, they earned an f. The reason for that is that the regulation violates the law as implemented since 1970 and seeks to do it in a way that specifically prohibited it in the new law. In writing the new law last Year Congress debated and ultimately c
Congress chose to leave unchanged a provision of culpability. This provision says School Districts have to provide at least Comparable Services with state and local funding to title i schools and nontitle i schools, but the law plainly states the School Districts shall not include teacher pay when they measure spending for of comparability. That has been the law since 1970. We didnt change it last year. There is an entirely separate provision known as provision, not supplant, that prohibits schools from using dollars for lowincome schools. Attempts to do is to change comparability by adding a new regulation. It would include teacher salaries and how they measure state and local spending and would require the state and local spending anys title i school be at least equal to the average spent in nontitle i schools. This would be to violate the law as implemented since 1976 section 1605. The Administration May get an a for cleverness, but untapped for following the line my opinion. The ne
Shuster was touting the open process laid out a Leadership Conference today to reporters. Its boasting that this process, which basically splits consideration of the highway bill from the house policy portions today and the senate and other provisions tomorrow and for the rest of the week as a process that gives members greater time and greater levels of consideration on both bills. However, the house rules process limits amendments on the floor. So technically, this isnt the most open process but with a highway bill thats spanning hundreds of pages and over 200 amendments submitted from the house, leadership has to do something to try to kind of limit the floor procedure process. And you mentioned bill shuster. Heres a tweet that you sent out. Ive been waiting three years for this, so here we go, he tells the house rules committee. Why did it take so long and what is the current deadline . One of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the diffi
Respects it achieves the house goals. To shorten the time it takes to conclude education over federal we requiredecisions, litigants to present the substance of claims during their administrative reviews. The senate text 12 short in the third key respect. The Senate Language includes many important steps towards this goal, but multiple loopholes open the door for agencies to extend administrative deadlines without and and without standards. Byoffer to fix this problem establishing firm checks and balances through which the prevente director of owe can extensions. Bipartisan and has worked very closely with the white house. We would all like this to move a forward. The house version has already passed through the house and has been carefully negotiated with all parties and is ready to go. The other amendment i would like to call to your attention is this. Into deals with language to simply give states that are included in the interstate 73 and thent avenue i opportunity to band together
Theres no protection for those farmers, then that those farmers go under. They go bankrupt and that way of life ends. And so, yes, so my heart goes out to those farmers that that may occur to. But its a larger issue than just the farmers. Without Crop Insurance, without that protection, those farmers may lose those farms. That means we dont have a food supply that we can count on. That means that the world doesnt have the food that they need to feed the hungry. And i know most people get food from the Grocery Store these days, but it comes from the fields of kansas and illinois and places in between. So its my hope that congress, democrats, republicans, house, senate and the president will Work Together in the coming days to put a farm bill on the floor that we can all get behind, that can go to the president s desk and receive his signature. Weve got a lot of divisions but we should be united today, all of us, in protection, in fighting for the american farmer. And with that i yield b