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the committee on education workforce will come to order. good morning. welcome to today s full committee hearing. i thank our panel of witnesses and our committee members for joining today s discussion on the implementation of the every student succeeds act effort. as it can be considered a milestone for k-12 policy because it was a monumental shift in the role of states and school districts would have in the future of education. as it sought to achieve two specific goals for k-12 education. autonomy and accountability. school districts were given new independence when creating a k-12 education program that works best for their own students. ending a washington knows best approach to education. additionally, as the specifically prohibited the federal government from influencing states adoption of particular standards. it also repeals federal mandates for teacher performance and protected a state s right to opt out of federal education programs. part of the goal for st ....
reporte. next, hear from state and local education officials in a house education and the workforce committee hearing on the implementation of the every student succeeds act. the hearing runs two and a half hours. the committee on education workforce will come to order. good morning. welcome to today s full committee hearing. i thank our panel of witnesses and our committee members for joining today s discussion on the implementation of the every student succeeds act effort. as it can be considered a milestone for k-12 policy because it was a monumental shift in the role of states and school districts would have in the future of education. as it sought to achieve two specific goals for k-12 education. autonomy and accountability. school districts were given new independence when creating a k-12 education program that works best for their own students. ending a washington knows best approach to education. additionally, as the specifically prohibited the federal gov ....
on efforts to modernize the army was the focus of discussion covering concerns about increasing global threats to military readiness. this is an hour. all right. thank you everyone for sticking around while we made our transition. as i mentioned, we re going to roll into the second half of the event where we re going to focus on army modernization. and today rolling out a report on army modernization. called the army modernization imperative. a new big five for army modernization. i want to begin thanking the sponsors of that study because without sponsors we don t get to do studies. this was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics, d.r.s. technologies, part ofley nardo and l-3, as well. so we want to thank them for their support. i m going to briefly walk through the chief findings and recommendations of the report. it s about 80-ish pages but a pretty quick read with a lot of pictures. i urge you to read the whole thing. i ll hit the highligh ....
our panel this time around. the first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. to begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. i will start. one of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. i think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. it meant loyal to your country to the country founded in the revolutionary war followed through by george washington that is what northerners thought. to keep union hall and american exceptionalism was popular back then. i think we can look at the speeches of abraham lycan for that. the point is it was a country very well aware of the history and the importance of keeping that country together. not just the confederacy which harkens back meaningfully to the revolution. the ....
the first attacked happened last thursday when a man followed a woman, knocked her to the ground and groped her. same thing sunday night. neither victim was seriously hurt. lyndon public school district yanked a player for tape. the district says you can see a defensive lineman pull the helmet off and smack him in the head with it last friday night. the other player needed ten stitches. police are now weighing criminal charges. mayor de blasio is calling for all public school students to learn computer sooinz. overnight. plan. news 4 tracy strahan is there with the details, tracy. reporter: that speech wrapped up a short time ago to some eyebrows. not only did the mayor stress the need for initiatives that stress college-readiness, but also made the case for mayoral control of schools that he says is needed. here s a breakdown of some of the more headline-making initiatives that came out of today s speech. it calls for a push for computer science education. especi ....