Bobby Scott

I urge my colleagues to support the legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

As I indicated, since the Brown decision, there is a constitutional responsibility to provide an equal educational opportunity.

It assumes you guys do not know what you are doing and that is really frustrating.

Those are where the concerns are coming from.

Should we be able to withhold school improvement resources?

Last month, the GAO released a study that I requested, along with former Ranking Member George Miller and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, on segregation in public schools K-12.

And then supplement and not supplant would mean that you would have to supplement over what your legal obligation is, is that right?

If a locality is chronically underfunding certain schools, is there not an obligation to come up with some appropriate equitable funding outside of the ESSA?

I am proud of our collective efforts to craft a strong bipartisan law that was worthy of the President's signature.

I look forward to dialogue with both Secretary King and the panel of expert witnesses concerning the Department of Education's ongoing efforts to provide states and school districts with the clarity and guidance necessary to ensure…

Every child in every school deserves an excellent education and the only way to achieve that, though, is to restore State and local control.

We cannot go back to the days when the Federal Government dictated national education policy. It did not work then and it will not work now.

No doubt you have good intentions, Mr. Secretary, but you do not have the legal authority to do this. I strongly urge you to abandon this flawed scheme.

We will keep fighting for through the appropriations process.

I'll continue to encourage stakeholders like all of those represented here today and many more to stay active and make their voices heard throughout the implementation process.

I've been frustrated to hear from many stakeholders that they don't feel like they have a seat at the table as their States work on implementation.

I hear from teachers and principals in my home State of Washington about how important Federal funding is to supporting their work.

I will continue to closely monitor several issues to make sure our law lives up to its intent to provide all students with a high-quality education.

CTE can be an effective strategy for keeping children engaged.

He focuses on improving access to CTE programs to ensure that students of all ages are prepared with skills necessary for the 21st century workforce.

I want to thank Senator Kaine for his leadership in the Senate to ensure that last year's bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act included provisions to strengthen school career counseling programs.

But the main reason that America remains strong and continues to attract business investment is because we have well-educated workers.

The globalization of the marketplace has altered the way the U.S. and other countries compete for business.

Investing in high-quality CTE and increasing access to these programs - through the reauthorization of Perkins CTE - must be a prioritized as a solution to bridge that gap.

As we move forward with reauthorization, we must prioritize robust investment in high quality CTE programs in each and every State in order to maintain our Nation's status as a leader in the global economy.