I apologize, did not see you there. Go ahead. Is, we do suggestion everything. Congressmen, running for offices, only can run for one month. One month. That way we can get rid of all of this month. All of this money. All of this money. Senators, everybody, should be able to run for just one month out of the whole year. We get everything we need to know about them in one month. Then we need to do one other thing. All donated money should come from us. We should have it so that one a year, once everyone in the United States donate one dollar or two dollars. And that is it. That is all they get. Host last caller. I appreciate the call today. Will take our viewers to the Senate Health committee where education secretary john king is set to testify about the everyentation of the Student Succeeds act, which has been signed into law as a replacement to no child left behind. That is up now it we will see you back here tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] senators will have five minutes. You know i urged the senate to support a secretary because it was important to have a secretary accountable to the United States senate when the department was implementing the new law fixing no child left behind. Have sworn to discharge your duties faithfully. That is your oath of office and you said you would abide by the letter of the law. This hearing is about whether your employees are doing that or not. I do not think i need to rehearse the fact that this will test by huge margins, 35964 and. House the president signed it and called it a christmas miracle. The reason we were able to consensusch unusual is, to put it bluntly, that local school boards, classroom teachers, and states have gotten tired of the United States department of education telling them so much about what to do. It was not just republicans or governors complaining. When itn hear that comes to those closest to the children. This came from the school superintendent, the National Education association and the American Confederation of , almost everybody involved in education. There has not been a broader coalition in a long time. The department had become a , tellingschool board kansas what its academic standards had to be an telling tennessee how to fix failing schools and how to evaluate teachers. Gotlegislation that only rid of those things. We went further in a remarkable way and had explicit on what a future secretary might do. It is a dramatic change call the biggest evolution of responsibility from the federal government to states in 25 years. Permitted properly. This is the second in what be at least six hearings on the oversight of the implementation of the new law. We are seeing disturbing evidence that the department of edation is ignoring the law. It was not easy to pass the law. There were crocodiles lurking in the pond. One of those, because we have had bigger discussions, it was called the issue of comparability. That is a provision put into the law first in 1970 and it says School Districts have to provide at least Comparable Services to state and local funding to title i schools in nontitle i schools. Also said School Districts shall not include teacher pay when they have spending for the purposes of comparability. Debated several times whether or not it would be disclosed excluded. It. Ad a proposal to change it was not adopted. I offered an amendment to change it and it was defeated. Made twoy, we decisions about the issue as reflected in the law we passed. Not to change the comparability language and the law. The law still says it may not be included in that. Second, we added a reporting requirement. The School District should support the amount we spend, including teacher sally salaries, so parents and teachers can know what is being spent and make their own decision about what is fair and equitable, rather than the federal government mandating. The one thing the law the president signed in december did not do was change the law that says salaries may not be are computingyou comparability. Here is what your department did on april 1. You tried to do what congress did not do last year and you try to do it by regulating another separate provision in the law, in a proposed will making session, here is what you proposed. Forcing districts to include teachers salary and how they measure their state or spending. And to require that state and local spending in title i schools be at least local to the average and nontitle schools. If that were adopted, your proposal would require an of all andoverhaul the country, something we did not pass in the law. It would force teachers to transfer into new schools, something we did not transfer into law. It would require states and School Districts to move back the practice of detailing every individual cost when the purpose of the law is to relieve some of that burden. Council, yourhe proposed rule would cost 3. 9 billion just for the School District. Districted the School Spending in the school. Im not interested in debating whether or not it is a good idea to include teacher salad teacher salaries. The plain fact is the law specifically says the department on his own cannot do it. Not only is what you are doing against a loss, but the way you are trying to do it is against another provision in the law. Onaccomplish your goals comparability, you using the supplement plan provision that is supposed to keep School Districts from using federal title i dollars as a replace a replacement for low income schools. According to a political story, the former secretary of education said, candidly, our lawyers are much smarter than many of the folks who are working on the bill. That meansow whether the 22 senators on the committee or all of the staff sitting behind him. Smart wenot sure how are but we are smart enough to write a law in plain english and to anticipate that your lawyers would attempt to ignore what we wrote and try to move around it. So we included specific prohibitions in the socalled supplement provision that would prohibit you from doing the very things your posing to do. 118b4 says before nothing in this section shall authorize the secretary to prescribe the specific methodology the local Education Agency uses to allocate local funds. Sexton section 1605 said nothing in this title shall be construed to mandate equalized spending. I will have more to say about will ask you about it, but i want you to know and those lawyers who think none of us are very smart appear, i wanted to know that i am smart enough and i believe there are every power we have to make sure the law is implemented the way we wrote it, including our ability to overturn such rules when they became final. Including using the appropriations. If you try to force states to follow regulations that ignore the law, that i will encourage them to request a hearing. If they lose, i will encourage them to go to court. Im not the only one to read the law or you will go up against a coalition as broad as anything weve ever had in education. Chief state School Officers tired of your department telling them so much about what to do about the 50 million children in the 100,000 Public Schools. They already sent you a letter about that. The wisconsin superintendent is officerespected school congressional intent is not necessarily being followed here. The prohibitions in the law in tandem with congress deliberately in the act of leaving it unchanged, makes a tight case against expanding supplement. You have testified here that you will abide by the letter of the law. It is not abiding by the letter of the law to require a local School District to use teacher salaries and equalized spending between title i and nontitle i schools. It is not abiding by the letter of the law to use plan provisions to achieve your goals for comparability when congress debated the issue and chose not to make any changes in the law. I make in such a point of this today because we are at the beginning of an implication implementation of a law that affects 3. 4 million teachers and 50 Million Students and 100,000 Public Schools. States are busy working on her plans for title i money. Clear law that changes the direction of what federal policy is. I am determined to see it implemented the way we wrote it. At the beginning of the implementation, to make sure that all of you who work for this department understand that. You are confirmed by the United States senate execute the laws and you said you would abide by the letter of the law in your confirmation proceeding. I expect that to be the case. Senator murray. Sen. Murray thank you. This is an important time, from expanding access in prek for our youngest learners, to helping students and families with growing college costs. As you are working hard to implement the new law. I remember hearing from a parent last year. And he is at school ,n active member of the pta students from very diverse backgrounds. He says he saw up close and personal how no child left behind was not working for teachers and students in the classroom and not for schools or our communities. As important as education and a law as broken as no child left behind, we were able to Work Together and break through the gridlock and pass the other every Student Succeeds act. With strong bipartisan support. Here is what the law does. The every Student Succeeds act gives states more flexibly but includes strong federal designils as a state their accountability system. It apartments rule to implement and support the law and it reduces requirements on state testing and makes investments to improve and expand access to preschool for the nations. Oungest learners reauthorizing the law was not the finish line. It was a starting point for the department and our School District and states to begin the hard work of transitioning away from no child left behind and turn the page. The department goes through the process and the state develops new policies, i will closely monitor several issues to make sure our law lives of to the intent to with a all students highquality education. The elementary and secondary education act is at its heart a civil rights law. Strong that without accountability, kids from low income neighborhoods and students of color and kids with disabilities and Students Learning english too often fall through the. Usepect the department to the authority to make sure every student has access to quality education. While we were writing the law, we were deliberate on granting the Department Authority to hold schools and states accountable includes thatthat districts take action every year to improve student achievement for students not achieving academically. The use of simplified alternate assessment with cognitive disabilities and ensuring education programs. School teams have a thats the tools they need teams have the tools they need. For School Interventions and support that will be critical to helping improve. 54 civil rights organizations sent a letter to the department on the importance of accountability and the authority of the department to regulate on this and other Critical Issues. I want to underscore what they to make sure the law includes serious protections for students and create important leverage for parents, communities, and advocates to continue their push for equity and accountability for all students. Authorityment has the and responsibility to issue regulation and provide guidance and Technical Assistance for the implementation of every Student Succeeds act. Very focused on the competitive grant program. That means the department of health and Human Services should the departmentth of education so more students get the chance to start kindergarten ready to learn. It is up to all of us to uphold the legacy and the promise of the every Student Succeeds act and i look forward to hearing from you on the steps needed to implement the new bipartisan law in a way that will help provide quality education to all of our children. Thank you. I would like to thank him for being here p or he has a busy schedule. I am pleased to introduce dr. John king junior, confirmed march 14. He served as commissioner of education for the state of new york, overseeing on only the states elementary and secondary schools, but Higher Education and numerous other educational institutions. He served as a managing director. Or managing organization for curriculum and massachusetts charter school. Welcome. Much. Ing thank you so chairman alexander, and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to speak about how the department of education intent to implement the every Student Succeeds act. I commend congress for passing the law with strong bipartisan support. The passage of the law is a major a compliment as we build on efforts to expand excellence and equity with district communities. It presents us with a moment of opportunity and moral responsibility. Authorizes the act of 1965, which was a civil rights law and must review in the context of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Responsibility to ensure the implementation of a new law with heritage, and with all of us. It advances equities by withholding critical protections and maintaining dedicated resources for americas most disadvantaged students. The law maintains expectations and action will be taken to improve opportunities to our students and schools that chronically underperform, they do not improve low Graduation Rates and do not ensure progress for all student groups. The new law also embodies much what the Obama Administration has supported over the last seven years. Chosen learning standards that will prepare all students for college and careers. The law supports local innovation and bills on the administration passes historic investment in quality preschool. It also requires information on student progress is shared. Annual statewide assessments while supporting statewide efforts to improve state and local tests. Alreadys on work underway for expectations and for School Improvement for the state. The law rightly shifts responsibility for developing strategy to support the highest meetings could students and schools and decisionmakers. Creates opportunity for states to claim a goal of a rigorous and well rounded education for every child. At the same time, it maintains the role protect civil rights and we take that responsibility seriously. Is an important law related to accountability. At the federal level, our role to improve opportunities for students, invest in research and seeing what works, and showing transparency, implementing state guards to ensure equity. Ultimately, we all want quality and limitation of the law that build on the progress of the last decade and support state districts and schools in helping every student succeed. Implementation will require an incredible amount fork. To know how to best implement educators, we look at areas needing guidance and Technical Assistance and we receive a lot of feedback via the notice in the register, public meetings, and outreach to stakeholders. The department is engaging in the process with an andrstanding that we cannot should not attempt to provide guidance and regulation to every area of law where ambiguity exists or we are prioritizing and supports implementation is most needed. Plan to issue guidance in the late summer and early fall on the changes that impact our most vulnerable students. Students in foster care in English Learners and to encourage us practices, make use of the new funding opportunities in the law. Recently, the department engages on rulemaking, and assessment on the requirement of federal lawmaking funds to use the supplement and not to plan local investments in education. The department has proposed , including our students with disabilities in English Learners, by ensuring annual statewide assessment are valid, reliable, fair, and of high technical quality so schools can provide information for parents and educators. The Department Also proposed regulatory tax that would help ensure that funds are supplemental while also maintaining flexibility to choose their own methodology to allocate state and local funds. It will be a set of regulations to protect equity and transparency. We recently announced we will begin the regulatory process on accountability and include stateents related to plans commission and the new title i part d innovative assessment demonstration authority. On on which regulations would serve and support implementation. Reduce burden on states, and encourage them to think comprehensively about systems and supports across programs. At the type of approach i would have found helpful when i was the state chief. Guidance and Technical Assistance may be needed, we look forward to a robust discussion on the law. Implementation is the path to quality and opportunity that is at the heart of the american dream. We can ensure the dream is in reach for every child. Thank you. We w