Carolyn McCarthy: “I agree with our witnesses that we can not have 20th century ideas covering 21st century classrooms.”

One of the things that we are seeing with the charter schools, that they have the ability of not taking children with disabilities or special needs, which obviously is a burden onto our public schools because they bring down the test…

I believe a constructive way to help combat this two-pronged nutritional crisis is to provide regular healthy meals in our nation's schools.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of the federal government listening to what is working locally.

Most Americans don't save, those who should be saving don't save.