I want to thank Senator Murphy, who is here today, in particular for his hard work and leadership on this.
Mental health is significantly--has to be significantly greater in how we educate our students moving forward.
Parents are the most influential and most important teachers that our children have.
There has to be an equal part, support and accountability.
We need to have additional staff to address this backlog.
We must renew that promise for today's students and those to come.
We do want to see that continue and continue to expand to close those gaps that were established.
I believe we need to fund public schools so that every student that attends a public school can have a high quality education.
Let's work together. The American Rescue Plan got us this far.
I will have my team, who has more specific information, reach back out to you about the timeline for that.
I firmly agree that--and the research shows that when students are bilingual there are more opportunities.