Hill. Kevin mccarthys inability to satisfy his farright members is leading to a move by matt gaetz to take away the gavel. The only way that Kevin Mccarthy as speaker of the house at the end of this coming week as if democrats bail him out. I think they probably. Well bring it on. Lets start governing. If he is upset because he tried to push a shut down, then lets have that fight. President biden speaking a short time ago for the First Time Since the vote with a clear message for republicans in congress. Enough is enough is enough. This is not that complicated. The brinkmanship passed and. There shouldnt be another crisis. So while there is no shot down, there is a crisis coming on two fronts today. You have the covid era subsidies for childcare, they are relieving thousands of families without the money for daycare. Also ending the freeze on Student Loan Repayment payments that threatens to show people back into financial and security if they cant come up with that money. Theyre cover
Educator jobs this past year. budgets are very tough out there. education is a local responsibility. states and districts need to step up. we are worried about teacher layoffs in the upcoming school year. i was in iowa yesterday, in des moines, they re looking at about 330 teachers being laid off. everyone has to rally together. people have to understand that education is an investment, not an an expense. even in tough times we have to invest. we have to educate our way to a better economy. i believe with that. donny deutsche has a question. mr. secretary, you know, overall there seems to be a shift from a definitive quantitative testing, you know, basically where people can dumb it down to get the grades to a more qualitative evaluativaluat the schools which is, in theory, wonderful, but with 100,000 schools in this country, some measures, softer measures now, how do you manage this unwieldy process? in no child left behind was due to political pressure, not right for students.
Last month we shed 14,000 educator jobs in local government. many of those are teachers. 23 out of the last 25 months, we ve shed public sector jobs. as the president likes to point out, the private sector has continued to generate employment growth. not fast enough. this is not a private sector is fine moment. not fast enough. but consistent growth. on the other hand, the public drag is exactly as you put it, and during the recovery act, one of the most effective, fastest-acting stimulus medicines we had was precisely this. fiscal relief to the states, so that they could retain those folks instead of laying them off. so, jared, to that point, these numbers were bad. they were very bad. but they weren t catastrophic. we weren t losing jobs. are we in a situation where it s kind of the worst of both worlds? we re not actually gaining jobs and getting ourselves in a forward-moving direction, but nor are we in such a bad situation that congress or the fed is forced to act? you know, i