I have always felt that the solution must be education.

Logic tells me that we ought to have a Morgan and a Morehouse and a Hampton and a Howard and a Fisk.

These school closures can be devastating for students, plunging them into financial and emotional despair while robbing them of the education and opportunities they deserve.

Congress and the Education Department must work together to crack down predatory schools that continue to cheat our students and our taxpayers.

Thank you Chairwoman Wilson, Ranking Member Murphy and Members of the Committee for this opportunity to share my experiences.

It's deeply concerning that the rate of school closures has drastically increased over the last decade.

DeSantis is failing to protect Florida students and educators and endangering our state's recovery and the safe reopening of schools.

People in my district die every day. We have lost dozens of teachers in Florida.

Our Governor DeSantis has forced districts to stop implementing mask mandates while the Delta variant surges across our State.

I enthusiastically supported this provision in both the HEROES Act and the American Rescue Plan.

Supporting Black men and boys in their path of higher education has been my life's work.