Which is a 1 billion title i loan. In light of your request to cut 578 million from other parts of title i. Portability was soundly rejected by congress during negotiations for every Student Succeeds act. During the debate, numerous nonpartisan experts and stakeholders ranging from the Brookings Institution to the association of School Superintendents concluded that portability would result in more funding for wealthier School Districts as the expense of poorer districts. My first question is, in your view should high poverty schools receive more Funding Resources than schools that have lower levels of poverty . Congresswoman, yes, i think the reality is that they do receive higher levels of funding. And if i could just actually refer back to one of the Ranking Members comments, the question around title one funding and the assumption that vouchers was going to be a part of title one. Its a voluntary School Choice program. Its not any kind of a mandatory or imposed program. I just want
We can communicate any change in direction or any new information at this point. Okay, well thank you. See the rest of education secretary devoss testimony online in the Video Library at cspan. Org. Back now to our coverage on the conference of the federal role in education. Remember to use the sign in sheet wherever that is going around. Please sign in. Right here. I think. I dont know. Should i pass it . Ill pass it down. Im going to hand it to you. Sign the sign in sheet. Awesome. Were here today to talk about the every students succeeds act. Im a reporter at politico here in d. C. , i cover education policy. And we are going to talk about this law that passed in 2015, that replaced no child left behind and where states are at right now. Were going to talk about that today. To bring you up to speed, essentially, there are two submission windows for states to send in their plans under this law for Holding Schools accountable for how they plan to intervene in schools. For how they pla
Mzae to get here. Maze. President will be joining us as soon as we get here. Im the education reported at u. S. News. You are at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. E w rankled a pretty awesome panelists tot discuss and answer your pressing questions, because theres nothing really going on in dc, right . I will leave the bio in your programs. I will run down the line. We have lindsey burke. She is the education policy director for the heritage foundation, which were those of you outside the beltway, it is a conservative think tank in washington dc. The president of democrats for education reform. Hes also a civil rights leader. Next in him is marty west, an education professor at Harvard Graduate School of education. He was also previously in education policy advisor to senator lamar alexander, the republican from tennessee, who is the chairman of the Senate Education committee. A quick housekeeping note. This is one of the first panels at ewa. Ewa2
Hi everybody. We are going to get stashted. I think everybody is still trying to find the room. So just a couple House Keeping things if you are tweeting, please use the ewa 17. Everything here is on the record. Remember to use the signin sheet. It is right here. I think. Shall i pass it . I will pass it down. I am going to hand that to you. Okay. Yes, sign the signin sheet. Were here today to talk about the every Student Succeeds act and the state. My name is caitlin emma. We are going to talk about this law that passed in 2015 that replaced no child left behind and sort of where states are at right now. So we are going to talk about that today. So to bring you up to speed, there are two submission windows for states to send in their plans under this new law for Holding Schools accountable, for how they plan to intervene in schools, and how they plan to intervene in groups of students who are consistently under performing. 16 states in d. C. Have submitted for the spring window. And a
Educationrelated agencies will come to order. Good morning to everybody, particularly good morning to secretary devos and thank you for appearing before the subcommittee today. Blount blount this is a defend. Budget to the president signed into law an appropriations bill that included 161 billion in discretionary funding for this subcommittee. While that was a billion dollars less than we had the year before, we were able to eliminate programs and prioritize programs in a allowed pell eturn yearround where students will begin this fall to have the opportunity to have a pell grant available to them year round. His year, the fiscal year 2018 budget requests proposes a ignificant funding decrease in laborh. H. S. , 24 billion below what we are spending in the current year in the agencies that are reflected in the work of this subcommittee. That is 15 cut below the bill we passed just last month or past the end of april. For the department of education, the proposal includes 59 billion whi