If confirmed, do you commit to help try to find ways to reduce pollution problems caused by heavy metals in coal combust...
And last, do you know of any matters which you may or may not have disclosed that might place you in any conflict of int...
I think Tom Carper really did take time to talk about the fact that the States think it is so important, even in these t...
Do you agree if confirmed to appear before this Committee or designated members of this Committee...
I think, frankly, the fact that you have lived with this, we do not ever have to say to you, you know, do you care about...
Coming from California, and I know Mr. Silva and his family would agree, that our beaches, our ocean, that is what we ar...
I expect to know why because this has gone on and one.
a permanent national recession.
Waiting any longer to reauthorize ESEA amounts to shutting the door on thousands of American high school students and th...
The situation in Halifax County is quite frankly emblematic of the unfinished legacy of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Educa...
The common core of standards must be based on evidence as to what is truly and demonstrably necessary for college and wo...
I join Secretary Duncan and other education leaders when I say that education is the most important American civil right...
So clearly American education policy must change and it must change now.
We must shift our focus from credentials to demonstrated effectiveness in the classroom: from teacher quality as measure...
We cannot succeed if high school is a stopping point.
If we could improve only those 2,000 lowest-performing schools, we would be making significant progress towards the goal...
We need education standards that reflect that reality.
Fifty different state standards does not cut it anymore.
