We are still about $5.7 billion short in the Pell Grant program.
The status quo is not acceptable, and it is not acceptable during economic downturns to say that we are just going to take a lot of this out...
I can't think of a more important thing to do in the immediate timeframe than that.
That is why later today I will introduce a bill--the Keep Our Educators Working Act.
We are going to do everything we can, and I am going to ask for your help and the President's help in getting this done.
Thank you very much, Mr. Cortines.
I hope that we can count on your active support and the support of the administration in getting this emergency funding through because it i...
We must remember that education begins at birth and that preparation for education begins before birth.
I look forward to working with you to see how we can shoehorn this in some way.
We have to make sure we don't go south. We have to make sure we are not seeing hundreds of thousands of people laid off.
But this is going to have to be changed, in my view.
I wonder from whose schoolchildren we are going to borrow this money? Because we have a looming debt crisis in our country, and we will need...
I think it would be better if we are going to take it over and create so-called 'savings' if we give the students the savings.
Secretary Duncan, thank you very much for your testimony and for answering questions.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Look forward to working with you.
I support this bill and ask all to support for the teachers, the principals, the counselors, school nurses, and other essential public schoo...
I applaud members of the House of Representatives for including an additional $23 billion in education aid through the State Fiscal Stabiliz...
The education jobs crisis is not only about adults. It is about children, who get only one shot at an education.
