Nomination of tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. You know, the decisions made at h. H. S. Touch the lives of every family in america. The secretary who runs this agency makes decisions about everything from the safety of the food we eat to the drugs we take to the Health Insurance we buy and the quality of the Nursing Homes that we live in. This is an extremely important job, and we should not hand over the keys to this agency unless we are certain that the person will put the American People first every minute of every day. President trump has nominated congressman tom price to serve in this job. Unlike many of the president s other nominees who are stunningly inexperienced in areas whether they will be where they will be setting policy, congressman price has a lot of experience in health care policy. Yes, he has experience, but it is the kind of experience that should horrify you if you care about medicare, if you care about medicaid, or if
Involved helping to craft the grand constitution which we put out to the community over six months ago and the response was overwhelming 500 institutions put in applications for innovative practices that they wanted to experiment with to try to improve access and outcomes and drive down cost and the fact that 500 institutions are responding so yes we have to do our part, too. So at the state level i think that our work is to help identify some of the things we are learning from the first in the world grantees and scale them up so they can become more common state practice. In the same vein, one of the areas in which the states and federal government and the k12 system have a common interest is in the teacher preparation. In a particular area of overlap working with the states now to create a set of regulations that will put more tools in the hands of the states to be be a lot of work with institutions to raise the level of the teachers which we think is a key leverage not just in the H
Moderator how do you bring that about . Catania that is one question but another is how do we make the schools that . Spent so much time talking about boundaries and what we need to talk about is how we set our schools up to succeed . The high school is a perfect example. Last year 36 of young men in this School Graduated on time and only 49 of young women. Only 43 of our kids are graduating on time. That is a state of emergency. Diversity is very important about what is also import is making sure schools are resources so they can beat the kids as we find them and have success. Moderator with all due respect to lot of people believe there is a direct correlation between lack of diversity and quality of schools. Catania people may believe that but among our Top Performing moderator what would you do to bring diversity . Bowser it is important and i actually think in talking about the outer boundary a lot less, schwartz is right in making sure we protect a fair out of boundary allotment.
Baker i supported the governors proposal for dcf in this past legislative session both the social Records Technology and for a variety of other pieces but i also think their management requirements set out to part of what happens there. I made reform proposals when Jeremiah Oliver case that tragedy broke earlier this year. I think in many respects dcf has a very difficult and complicated job. In some ways they are dealing with some of the most troubled families in the commonwealth of massachusetts and the fact that the commonwealth had an opportunity to move toward fixing this four years ago when they filed a case which was a very compelling case against the department and the attorney general and the governor chose not to move to fix that but instead to fight it was a problem. Clearly borne out by what happened after that and in addition to that, and i have said this before, you have a terrific record with respect to advocating for children. But to have that case in front of you and t
Tactical level, theres great communication. Theres always a challenge when things are unfolding very quickly and we even see that in the canadian incident. We know that in these situations. So, i think the Strategic Communication is great. The tactical information exchanges have proven while and we are working jointly training. There is a lot of interoperability so there is a good place but theres always room for improvement. Host we appreciate your time this morning. I listened to that date campaign 2013. It was between carl and representative peters end its just politics as usual but what we need is for the politicians to quit making decisions based on power money and votes and start working together at a higher level seeking the best decisions for the American People when theres any political events event both republicans and democrats that want to get involved should organize and start from the getgo learning to Work Together and at this event show their constituents and the Americ