Thank you for calling this hearing.
And do you know how many people in-theater know that that exists?
Aloha, Mr. Chairman.
What we learned from that hearing led to provisions enacted within the 2008 Defense Authorization Act.
What we are really concerned with is people on the margins.
These are temporary.
I think we used your money already.
Tell me how many permanent jobs were created.
So how does that baseline follow that servicemember from medical facility to medical facility or in-theater?
I was very surprised to hear your comments about the fact that only 20 percent of funding is going to grades 7 through 12.
So, what do we need to do?
With 70 early-college high schools in North Carolina, I'm proud to be a cosponsor of the Fast Track to College Act.
I want to echo Senator Burr's welcome of Dr. Tony Habit to our committee today.
Simply put, low expectations are a cancer that can weaken a school enough to make significant changes in teaching impossible.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
To allow this to happen for 30 percent of our high school students is unconscionable.
If this were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic, and we'd do whatever we needed to, to fix it.
We have to fix education, we have to fix the economy, we have got to fulfill the promise we made to these kids.
