Katherine Clark

We need to start looking at assessments as a positive tool to help inform instruction.

One of the most frequently criticized pieces of No Child Left Behind that I have heard about over the years is the high-stakes testing.

I am confident that the Every Student Succeeds Act will uphold the civil rights legacy of the original ESEA and be responsive to the needs of students in each community.

It bears repeating that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is really a civil rights law.

I am glad this committee is continuing its work to make sure that the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act delivers on the goal of Congress in providing State and local education agencies with the flexibility and the resources…

I strongly believe the Federal Government is responsible for providing educational equity and strong guardrails to protect the civil rights of all students.

Let me be clear: House Democrats would never have supported, and the President of the United States would have never signed, a law that revoked rulemaking authority or set a dangerous precedent when it comes to the federal government's…

I look forward to working with you. Thank you.

It's one of the reasons we have been focused on the income-based repayment plans for direct loans so that we can cap the amount of money that students need to pay at 10 percent of their discretionary income so that students can manage…

This budget season we will have tough choices to make as a Congress, choices that will reflect our values.

If the choice is between a Republican budget like last year's and the President's request, I'll take the President's request any day of the week.

I am very concerned with some of the aversive behavior punishments that we see, including seclusion, restraint, expulsion, suspensions, which disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities.

I could not agree more than with the gentleman from Indiana when he said that this is the civil rights issue of our time, access to quality education for every single student, no matter what their income, no matter what their zip code is.

Today 58 babies, 1 baby every 25 minutes, will be born suffering from the same pain adults describe as the worst pain of their lives, the pain of drug withdrawal. Over the last decade, the number of infants born experiencing withdrawal…

Thank you to all the panelists who are with us today for this really interesting and important discussion.

Here we go again. We are back here using valuable legislative time to make a doomed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Next week the highway bill will expire. The week after that we are facing the prospect of defaulting on our…

I'm very interested in the effect of trauma and toxic stress on kids and families and on childcare providers.

This is a tremendous conversation.

Thank you, Congressman Lieu. We appreciate your coming. The story that you shared is repeated over and over with the millions of women that count on Planned Parenthood for their healthcare services. I would now like to yield to my…

There has been a lot of talk about defunding Planned Parenthood. Some Republicans have made this such a priority that they are vowing to shut down our government, shut down our programs for veterans and hinder their ability to access…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Our Nation is experiencing a deadly opiate epidemic, an epidemic that knows no boundaries and destroys lives, families, and communities. Today 58 babies--one baby every 25 minutes--will be…

I just dropped a bill today looking at this, hoping to expand grants to States. one in seven new moms are going to experience this depression.

I introduced legislation called, Protecting Our Infants Act, which focuses on care for babies that are being born dependent to opiates, but it also looks at the effectiveness of programs specifically aimed at women and helping with…

I appreciate your leadership in so many areas, especially early childhood education and access to affordable high quality healthcare for all Americans.

Family-friendly policies like this actually help businesses recruit and retain.