Famous, the cat that brought the dead mouse to the president s door. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Announcer washington journal continues. Host we welcome representative sam bonamici democrat from oregon. Your first time on the cspan network. Were glad to have you. Welcome. Guest thank you, steve. Happy to be here. Guest lets talk about i. C. E. Agents and where they can and cannot go and talk about your bill. Guest sure. We introduced this act last week. Were very concerned, myself, the representative from new york, and others, about the fear that has increased in our communities. The district i am honored to represent in northwest oregon has a significant latino population. People have been afraid about going to school, kids have been afraid if they go to school maybe their parents wont be there when they come back. There is a lot of fear in the community in portland, in the county courthouse, i. C. E. Agents have been there in the courthouse. We are concerned people in
Performing students to help prepare them for college. We read philosophical tests ranging and wrote revised College Level essays. At the same time i worked with the lowest performing students who had yet to pass the state tests of the with them we did mindless test prep. Even though i was really good at it getting 100 of those students to pass their exams in my final year doing it i was doing the students no favors. I think about a senior who could hardly write and struggled to read. Sure she passed the test but she was still ready, she was not ready for the Community College work she encountered that fall. When we focus efforts only helping struggling students jump over a hurd definitely mandated exams the learning an opportunity gap widens. My Current School harvest collegiate is a member of new york performing standard consortium of a group of 48 schools that offer more alternative model. We use more rigorous Testing Systems than state exams. Highstakes assessments are not on demand
Let me me before you keep thinking about your answer to do something else. To frame the question we are talking about questioning and accountability and that goes off into education and i have to refresh myself with 15 minutes even though ive been fooling about it for years. The federal government under no child left behind requires 17 standardized tests today to seven tests, seven in reading. Grade three through eight and once in high school. And then three tests in since i intend once in grades three through five and six through nine and once in high school there are 17 tests that must be used by the law as a primary means of determining the academic performance of the state. Florida reported that. There are 183 state and local tests in addition to the 17 federal tests and when this report they start to make a spotlight on the test is that maybe that is too many tests and they started getting fewer tests. So if we are talking about what kind of tests. Its whether whether it is the fe
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
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