South carolina governor tim scott. The hearing of the Pensions Committee will come to order to consider the nomination of betsy devos to be United States secretary of education. Openingmake an statement to introduce the nominee. We welcome senator scott and senator lieberman. He will make introductory remarks. Following the nominees comments, we will have a fiveminute round of questions. One note, we have capital will removeay who anyone who attempts to disrupt the hearing. This is the First Committee in our new congress. It has considerable differences of opinion on a variety of issues. We have found that we can sometimes resolve them in important ways. What was thee past most important bill in the congress, 21st century cures. The year before, no child left behind, which president obama called a christmas miracle, plus 33 other bills signed by the president. I want to thank senator murray and republicans on the committee for operating in that fashion. We have done that by showing cou
I should have known better. Department planning is on a path in state has won in the flexibility we have given them. The Current Administration is on a path to get your plans in. Of and we will approve them in the spring or in the summer. And then you can implement the plans and the school year that begins next year. Is your intention to continue on that schedule . Absolutely, senator, and if there is any confusion or question around transition, rest assured it it would be a high priority if confirmed, for me to ensure that the plan is adhered to and at the law is implemented. Plans are being circulated among various groups, and if you are confirmed people will be looking at signals from you. As you can tell we have considerable differences of opinion. And we resolved enough that 85 of us voted for we worked out some difficult issues. We even put with senator murray likes to call guardrails on the states, and we even put some guardrails on the secretary of education, which my colleague
New this Morning Police around the country are now grieiving the death of one Stephanie Johnson is at the breaking news desk with what happened overnight. Stephanie . Doraofficers are paying their respects to a fallen officer who was shot multiple times while on duty overnight in Tacoma Washington the suspect who killed the officer is still on the loose take a look at videoscene is active suspect has barricaded himself inside of his homeauthorities believe the suspect is armed and dangerous the neighborhood is on lockdown the officer on the police dept. For seventeen years. The officer died around 9 pm at a tacoma hospitalthats the latest from the breaking news deskill continue to monitor this story as it developsdora back to you. With deaths among Law Enforcement on the rise lawmakers in the us senate have approved a new bill co authored by Chuck Grassley. The Public Safety officers benefits improvement act hopes to reduce the backlog of familes awaiting survivor benefits. The Program
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Tried to do in new york was to leverage shared Regional Service providers to try to ensure that districts were able to get the students the services they needed in a sustainable way. But certainly, i want to make sure our teams connect on that and talk through that because we certainly want to be in the position of supporting districts and serving students with disabilities as well as possible. Thank you. And my final comment is that i hope you will have a listening session in a rural area. We talked about that in my office, as opposed to just large urban areas like l. A. And d. C. Yes. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, senator collins. Senator casey. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. King, welcome. Thank you for your testimony and your willingness to serve, and we appreciate that commitment. We want to commend and salute your family, as well, because when you serve, they serve with you, in one way or another. We appreciate the commitment your familys made to this high level of Public Servi