Jared Polis

I am proud to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on the Budget. {time} 1400

I would like to inquire if the gentleman has any remaining speakers on his side.

We hope that we will have the opportunity to pass that bill on the floor of the house.

Many of your budget requests will bring us closer, but only a full reauthorization of NCLB will truly move the needle.

Thanks to Race to the Top, states and school districts, including my own home state of Colorado have built systems to evaluate and support teachers and principals.

Under your leadership, we truly are witnessing the transformational power of an innovative and disruptive federal role in our schools.

I would like to ask the gentleman from Utah if he has changed his mind and will yield for that purpose?

Well, Mr. Speaker, I think reducing our deficit by $900 billion is a good idea. I really do. I think the American people agree that reducing our deficit by $900 billion is a good idea; and if all that stands in the way of us reducing our…

I would like to inquire of the gentleman from Utah how many more of my colleagues need to urgently request that this bill come forward before he would kindly consider our unanimous consent request to allow this bill to be debated on, even…

I would ask the gentleman from Utah--and I will be happy to yield him a moment for an answer--how many of us need to come forward and ask for a vote on replacing the antiquity that is our broken immigration system until you will accede to…

We are going to continue to try until the gentleman from Utah allows our consent request. I am proud to yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), a true leader on immigration reform, for a unanimous consent request.

If we are serious about closing the achievement gap, we need to begin by ensuring that the achievement gap doesn't arise in the first place

The best way to reform high schools is to ensure that we have universal access to high-quality, early childhood education

It is my honor to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Napolitano), the ranking member of the committee.

I am prepared to close. I have 6 minutes, and I wanted to yield to the gentleman if he has remaining speakers who wanted to speak before I close.

I would like to inquire of the gentleman if he has any remaining speakers.

I want to talk about how being a portfolio district that values different governance models...

My All-STAR Act, which I introduced with Representative Petri and many other members of this committee, would improve this program by investing in high-quality charter schools...

This hearing is really helping to showcase the impact of public charter schools as a tool within public education.

I look forward to soon introducing the Great Teachers Leading for Great Schools Act, which will revamp Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to focus on intensive job-embedded professional development with transparency and…

Certainly I would have interest, and if there are any of my colleagues across the aisle that would, in a federal pilot program to support teachers and supplement salaries in STEM fields, particularly in areas that it is hard to recruit…

It takes the federal government to play a disruptive role to allow for choice and innovation.

I do see a role for the federal government there.

That is consistent with why I introduced with Congressman Petri the GREAT Act, which encourages the growth and development precisely of these types of teacher or principal academies.

Improving the quality of the teaching profession is key to student success, but we know that it begins with teacher preparation programs.