For the president and congress. So you can submit them to the u. S. Commission on civil rights by either mailing them to the commission to the office of civil rights, 1331 pennsylvania avenue, thats 1331 pennsylvania Avenue Northwest suite 1150 washington 20425 or via email at Public Comments at usccr. Gov. Thats publiccomments uscc r. Gov. With that out of the way i would like to introduce and swear our panelists in and Stella Flores from vanderbilt university. Peggy carr from the u. S. Department of education and dr. James t. Minor also with the u. S. Department of education. Will you each raise your right ha hand, please. And i ask that you swear or affirm that the information youre about to provide to us is true and accurate to the best of your believe and belief, is that correct . Yes. Professor flores, please proceed. Thank you, commissioners, for the opportunity to speak on the civil rights implications on College Access, persistence and completion for underrepresented minority
Knight when the networks decided they needed a midweek game. Now it depends on what conference youre in, how many days of school you missed. You can keep defending it. I would work on changing it. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, for this hearing. I thank the gentleman. Im going to thank the witnesses. A lot of expertise, real knowledge, appreciate everything you had to offer. Quite a diversity and experiences and positions here. Somebody who was a toplevel College Athlete and then went on to play in the nfl has very strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently, mr. Eilers, that weve got problems out there as mr. Miller, again very passionately, pointed out that needed to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the actions of a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board who suggested that these athletes are employees and, therefore, could, if they chose, vote to join a union. And so we explored some of the possible down
Trauma risks. They are asking to prevent players from being stuck paying sports related medical expenses. They are asking that Graduation Rates increase. They are asking that Educational Opportunities for student athletes in Good Standing be protected. They are asking that universities be prohibited from using a permanent injury suffered during athletics as a reason to reduce or eliminate a scholarship. They are asking to establish and enforce uniform safety guidelines in all sports to help prevent serious injuries and avoidable deaths, and they are asking to prohibit the punishment of College Athletes that have not xhited a crime. Is in any one on that list thats unreasonable . Is there any piece of that that your institution would say, no, im awfully sorry, we cant do that. Or let me phrase it positively. Would you each be willing to lead an effort in your respective conferences to see to it that your fellow member institutions say, absolutely, guys. You are absolutely right. Were go
When it resumes shortly, as i said, about ten minutes from now. While we wait, more on education now as the new school year is just getting underway for many School Systems around the nation. We look at challenges facing Public Schools in a discussion on this mornings washington journal. Host guest at our desk is the director of the National School Boards Association. As we dive into the topic of local School Boards and todays education debates, first, tell us about your group and its mission. Guest well, the National School Boards Association really represents our state associations of School Boards, and theyre the ones that have the membership of the local School Boards. Local School Boards are comprised typically of folks out of the community who have an in Public Education. So while theyre usually elected, some are appointed. Typically elected, most frequently not paid, so they do this as a civic duty. And because they have a concern about good Public Schools in their communities.
Enough money, so they didnt have it. And yet theyve got this huge football field, you know . So i guess my question is how do we encourage, not only encourage the students to get interested in lieu of an active Human Exploration Program beyond low earth orbit, how do we bring that apollolike interest in s. T. E. M. That apollo generated kind of on autopilot, basically . You know, it just happened because everybody was interested in the program. Young students wanted to get involved in engineering and science and math. We dont have that, you know, at this time, at least not that im aware of. So how do we, how do we get them involved or interested in pursuing those things with a visibility that they see with the sports on tv and some of the other aspects of our society that arent, you know, that are more visible than the Space Program . So ill, ill start to answer that. I think theres two halves to the equation. I think one of the keys in getting more kids interested in the s. T. E. M. F