Carolyn McCarthy: “It’s like a cancer in our society. And if we keep doing nothing to stop it, it’s only going to spread.”

I think that, you know, while this committee can do some work to make schools safer from gun violence, you know, my personal belief is that we need to do something in tandem with trying to reduce gun violence outside the school.

I understand the purpose of this hearing is to discuss local and state efforts; however, PTA believes federal leadership is important to ensuring all districts and states are able to meaningfully partner with parents.

We have been working, and we did work, on legislation to have transparency and clarity on what caused the economical crisis.

We can not have 20th century ideas covering 21st century classrooms.