"Federal Government needs to be cautious that it does not impede on the work that States are doing to support education."
"I think the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program or Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program that did exist or kind of exists now is certainly a--it is certainly a benefit for folks who are interested in t..."
"And we all should bear responsibility from Congress on down for the fact that there are many, many, many teachers in America today who have never really been prepared to teach a child to read."
"Frankly, I wish we did more of this, in terms of really learning from other examples around the world."
"the Bureau of Labor Statistics in January reported that union membership among State and local government employees actually held steady."
"And other examples of compelling State interest would be, again, the access to healthcare, coverage for medically prescribed services."
"So basically what has happened is the compelling State interest has sort of then continued to be degraded..."
"So basically your experience is that replacement workers basically kind of enable employers to just drag out job actions and delay actually resolutions of these kinds of disputes?"
"Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, and thank you to all the witnesses for being here today."
"I just wanted to followup actually on the Chairwoman's opening comments about the value of unions in terms of the standard of living of workers."
"It was an 11 day strike and the company obviously calculated that they could outlast the union."