She took questions on Public Education, Student Loan Debt and Postsecondary Education for members of the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. Heres a portion of that hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] nonmac [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] a hearing of the Health Education Labor Pensions Committee will come to order. The hearing to consider the nomination of i. T. Training due to United States secretary of education. Senator murray and i will make an opening statement. Ill introduce the nominee. We welcome senator scott, member of this committee of distinguished former member of this body who will make introductory remarks. And following that nominee is comments, we will have fiveminute round of questions. We have capital officers here today who will remove anyone who attempts to distract the hearing. This is the first me
2005 by civil rights leader julian bond. It is about 90 minutes. Eleanor holmes welcome. When he heard about this decision, what did it mean to you . Dunbar high school is a stored high school were many africanamericans of no attended over the decades. It was the First Public High School for africanamericans in the United States so the race schoolusness and the which was for many the only high school for black children in the city. Consciousness civic consciousness was fairly high. It was high enough that had the todayle of still living that Charles Lawson charles was about to make one of the most in the role days. They were to the effect that the Supreme Court of the United States had just acquired schools ine the school to be violation of the constitution of the United States because the schoolis a segregated segregated by law. The Dunbar High School had many teachers with phds or other advanced degrees. Occasion when teacher teachers broke down. I know euro about teachers prior. I k
Of the school buildings. Inside, students and teachers, sheltering behind closed doors, a as officials ordered a lock down. Teacher stood by the door. If a gun came to me i would be like wow, wow, he but he stood at the door and we sat at our desk a and swat team took care of it. Reporter police said the the incident began help a man with the gun threatened a student outside of the school in a personal dispute, and then ran inside. That dispute, police em fattized not connected in anyway, to mondays Cyber Threats to local campuses. It doesnt appear that it had anything to do with the threat that we were talking about, yesterday, at all. These are individuals that had a beef with one another and one of them had a gun. Reporter after nearly two hours this 17 yearold man was taken into custody by police at a school adjoining the Community College. He was then, brought to central detectives to be questioned. Police say that the man was not armed, when he was arrested, offered no resist ten
Mcconnell in a bad position because theyre going to have to fracture their confidence. This is what happens in washington. Its finding something that ewan fies your side and defies the other. The House Republicans felt good about this plan. Building stronger communities through schools. Thats a hard panel to follow from the first one i have to say. That was an amazing panel and we heard great information. And we will do the same here. By name is robert and im the president and ceo of the Freeman Foundation for educational choice. Were honored to be here with senator scott. Im excited about the panel for three reasons today. One, it features representatives from every sector of k 12 education. Public, private and charter. Two, its going to focus on the transformtive power of Educational Options at the Community Level for individuals and the community. And three, frankly, its a panel full of gift eded people who have been there and done that. People who worked in communities and made rea
25,000 for my sons to go to one school. A school, snow school, that theyve never set foot in for any reason at all. If they were vouchered theyd only be paid once. If it was a scholarship, wed only be paid once. The reason why were in the situation that were in is were trying to keep the other school open so that the grown people can keep their jobs. But what even they neglect to understand is that the number of students doesnt change, its static, meaning if there are thousands of students that need teachers there are thousands of students that need teachers no matter where they are. So if you can halfway teach or at least convince someone for 45 minutes that you can halfway teach, then youre going to have a job as a teacher. We need to make it plain to our community that theyre being played by the system so that the people who dont utilize these urban schools, who send their kids to suburban charter or Catholic Schools, which is always funny, they send their own children to Catholic S