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. . . . . . spent by education departments you are going to miss some services that are provided in a community school concept, maybe by social services. you might not count some of the services that are provided by a boys & girls club. excuse me for interrupting. i want to make sure everyone has their five minutes. go ahead and wind up. winding up now. if you count dollars district make in teacher placement decisions based on specific salary or benefit costs so things look, you will worry about things looking equal, instead of saying are we actually giving services to our students, all we re saying is why in the world would you want to cut off reasonable flexibility that a district might have in giving something creative and meaningful to it our students and discourage districts from finding those creative solutions. we hope you will make your intent crystal clear. and in closing i would just say we are ready, willing and able to find those cr ....
education and labor and pensions committee on topics including attracting high quality teachers and the impact of the law in rural areas. this is two hours and 10 minutes. the senate committee on health education and labor and pensions will please come to order. senator murray and i will each have an opening statement and then introduce our witnesses and senators will have five minutes of questions each. i am delighted to have the witnesses here. this is an extraordinary group of broad individuals of broad perspective about children and elementary and secondary education and we welcome your comments on how we implement the the new reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act. this is our third of six hearings to discuss the implementation of the every student succeed act which the president signed in december. it is the second opportunity for this committee to hear from states, school districts, teachers and principals and others that helped us pa ....
the senate committee on health education and labor and pensions will please come to order. senator murray and i will each have an opening statement and then introduce our witnesses and senators will have five minutes of questions each. i am delighted to have the witnesses here. this is an extraordinary group of broad individuals of broad perspective about children and elementary and secondary education and we welcome your comments on how we implement the the new reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act. this is our third of six hearings to discuss the implementation of the every student succeed act which the president signed in december. it is the second opportunity for this committee to hear from states, school districts, teachers and principals and others that helped us pass this overwhelmingly bipartisan law and are today working together to implement it in a way that is consistent with congressional intent. i want to focus my remarks on the ....
between salary level and teacher effectiveness. does anybody want to defend that? there is no relationship between the expenditure of 80% of what we spend and effectiveness of teachers. randy? i mean what i want of course there s a relationship. i mean, i won t speak for who is an amazing superintendent in des moines, but there s much evidence that there is relationship between the experience of teachers and the stability of schools and frankly part of what we re trying to do in schools that are struggling is how do we nurture and secure great teachers to stay at those schools. so, obviously, there is both on a macro and a micro way, there are real both correlations here and things like that. i think what my colleague was saying is that the dollar-for-dollar piece that the that the department is proposing doesn t get you doesn t get you to the equity issues that you have spent your life, senator, fighting for. and you as well. and what i m saying is whet ....
want in both the presidential candidate and a president. the man who did get it, a man called charles evans hughes, governor of new york and a supreme court justice, all but won the election in 1916. in fact, when president woodrow wilson went to bed the night, election night, he thought he was beaten. if he d have been elected, how american history goes in several different directions, on suffrage for women, civil rights, what does he do on foreign policy, germany sort of baited us into war. would hughes have avoided that. he is the one you could write novels about. he had charles evans hughes who was on the supreme court, and then left the supreme court when he ran for president and then went back on the supreme court. one of the finest minds on the court. a fellow justice called charles evans hughes the greatest in our great line of chief justices. why hughes? robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. jackson said that hughes l ....