"this budget proposes strategies to get there."
"We recognize now that if we don't act with urgency, we are going to lose many of our students who are thinking about higher education as an opportunity to continue their growth."
"The increase in Pell Grants, which is significant under the American Families Plan, $1,400, and $400 increase here in this budget show the commitment that the President has toward ensuring equitable a..."
"This plan would allow 5.5 million students to have access to higher education who might not have had it previously."
"I think the transparency, what you brought up is critically important."
"the simplification process is critically important, but the reality is we walked into a system that doesn't have the capacity."
"We have to make it happen for our students, Senator."
"I do expect 100 percent of the students across the country to have access to in-person learning."
"We are addressing the issues that exist, where students are being taken advantage of, or sold a bill of goods and never delivered on."
"We really need to focus on early childhood education, and literacy skills early, science-based, research-based practices."
"The President made it very clear. You know, we don't--we are not going to be promoting a private charter school growth, but we are endorsing the programs that exist now where students are taking advan..."
"the opportunity gaps and achievement disparities and outcomes are significant, so much so that I have been an educator for over 20 years, it has almost become normalized."