05/05/2021
https://congress.gov...
"Graduation rates started increasing. As a result, since 2000, 2.8 million more kids have graduated."
"ESSA is not - and never has been - a free for all, and it is the responsibility of the Department, as articulated by Congress in ESSA, to carefully scrutinize the quality of state plans and only appro..."
"If we had just continued to do what we knew is the right things to invest in 30 years ago for the past 30 years, we wouldn't have an achievement gap."
"Over 35,000 Americans lost their lives, one every 15 minutes. This is the largest increase over a 1-year period in 50 years of recordkeeping."