Your budget proposes a cut of $578 million in this funding for districts that do not adopt your proposed policies.
We are going back to bad numbers. We have to go by what we have approved, what current law is.
This cut is $578 million less based on current law, real world. And, you know, that cannot be played around with.
Thank you, Secretary DeVos, for joining us today.
So you are going to be creating new regulations, so let me be very clear, for this voucher program, correct?
So this question cannot just be left to States.
It is a new $250 million private school voucher program.
We cannot play math with this. This is real world.
But they lose Federal dollars.
You and I disagree on basic math. But let me just say----
You not only cut the legs out from the bipartisan ESSA law with these massive cuts, you also propose programs similar to...
Will you commit to responding to the letters that we have sent to you?
It is extremely important we implement this in a way that we all understand.
Sometimes it is really helpful to us to have answers in writing so we have that as a record.
I hope will not be approved over the opposition of parents and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
Taking away public safety grants from cities like New York and Los Angeles--including critical law enforcement support a...
We had a NASA explorer school in my district, and I got to visit, and the kids were mesmerized.
I have to say the elimination of these programs I think would be very pound foolish, I can't even say it is penny wise.
