These educational tools generate tremendous amounts of data that are instrumental in improving a student's learning experience.

As data systems become more integrated into the learning and teaching process, we are seeing the impact that they can have.

With this explosion in on-line resources, there is a large amount of new data being generated by children using these services, which raises valid privacy concerns.

This is an exciting time in education, there is no question.

I think it is important to raise the minimum wage to get more money in folks' pockets.

And you can include apprenticeship programs, too, from labor unions, obviously, too, to train the skilled folks as well.

I have seen time and again where sector partnerships have been very, very effective in Iowa.

No, and I think it is important that, you know, while obviously most if not almost all of this is going to take place at the state and local level because it is about local communities thinking strategically for themselves about how they…

Thank you Chairwoman Foxx. I am pleased to introduce Peg Julius today, financial aid director at Kirkwood Community College.

Statement, dated March 6, 2014, of Hon. David Loebsack, a Representative in Congress from the State of Iowa.

I think they do deserve a better deal. And I think that is where unions come in.