Thank you for testifying at the Committee on Education and Labor's hearing on, 'Teacher Equity: Effective Teachers for All Children.'
I would like to know from our witnesses what is being done at the local level to recruit these specialists?
So we are in a competition economically that requires us to get these children an education.
I worked with my colleagues to see that language was added that would allow school districts to recruit content specialists from among mid-c...
there is nothing in the Race to the Top that says that you have to agree that a test will be the sole factor?
I think we have to recognize that there are differences and we have to allow, I believe, for some flexibility.
We really do want highly qualified, effective teachers teaching our children.
It is unacceptable that poor and minority students in schools that are struggling academically are twice as likely to be taught by inexperie...
I look forward to hearing the answers to these questions from our witnesses.
I am actually fairly optimistic that we can work together in a pretty bipartisan way.
The lesson to be learned is that the federal government ought to proceed with caution as we attempt to improve the quality of our teaching w...