George Miller

I encourage you and your colleagues to continue to advocate for not only school safety policy, but also for restoring resources for school safety in the federal budget.

Eliminating this program as proposed and acted upon to date results in a net reduction of over $180 million in federal school safety funding.

Thank you again for the opportunity to testify at the 'Strengthening School Safety through Prevention of Bullying' joint Subcommittee hearing on July 8, 2009.

I support that bill as I believe the best strategy for making a meaningful impact on school bullying would be to increase the number of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists.

Every student has the right to be protected from being bullied at school.

Thank you very much.

I'm encouraged that we're taking steps in the right direction.

I am extremely encouraged that as we expand this access, we will make more progress in closing the achievement gap.

Several years ago, Speaker Pelosi asked us to come together around an innovation agenda.

This is the first in a series of hearings on the future of learning.

They want workers who can work across companies, across countries, and across the continents.

I believe this is money well spent.

In this economy, it is more important than ever to ensure that every student in every classroom has the opportunity to grow, thrive and achieve to their fullest potential.

We're here today for the first in a series of hearings on the Future of Learning.

We talked about innovation and discovery, believing that discovery and innovation are really the only sustainable sources of economic growth in the world today.

They want workers who can work across companies, countries, and continents.

It is more important than ever to ensure that every student in every classroom has the opportunity to grow, thrive, and achieve to their fullest potential.

An estimated 365,000 students are on charter school wait lists today.

should we not be talking about the other 85? Should we not be talking about putting more money into traditional public schools to make them successful schools?

Charter schools are essential to turning around our nation's ailing public school system.

The charter schools strategy is helping transform public education in America.

They are lining up in the District of Columbia. They are lining up all over the country to ask for a better educational opportunity.

Outstanding charter schools are helping millions of students learn, grow and thrive.

For people to suggest that somehow we can wait with these children who are entering school or in pre-K, and we can wait for a decade of change or two decades of change is to sentence those 60,000 students who entered that stadium to…

It is not an accident any longer.