"Elimination of title II-A would result in thousands of layoffs and inhibit local and State efforts to improve teacher, paraprofessional, and school leader supports."
"Despite promises to implement the law as Congress intended, Secretary DeVos and President Trump proposed the elimination of bedrock ESEA programs."
"Lastly, Trumpcare's proposed cuts to Medicaid, if enacted, will devastate services for students with disabilities and undermine state and local efforts to educate all students to high standards, as re..."
"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."
"We need to provide a workforce for global economy that is changing at warp speed."
"Elimination of Title II-A would result in thousands of layoffs and inhibit local and state efforts to improve teacher, paraprofessional, and school leader supports - defunding this program most certai..."
"I share the concern expressed by the chair on these mega-projects."
"We need to find out what changed, or what the difference was, because it was a clear, unequivocal response to a question I asked him."