Protection commissioner mark morgan is among the witnesses scheduled to appear before the Senate Commerce aviation subcommittee. Education secretary betsy devos testified on the 2021 budget request, members asked about Public Education resources and nondiscrimination policies. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, secretary devos. Welcome to the subcommittee. This is our second Budget Hearing of the year and your forth on hearing with us and we are going to examine the president s the permit of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget material, this much was clear to me. You are seeking to privatize Public Education. It is the wrong direction for students and our country. We need to be moving toward expanding Public Policies like Early Childhood education. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking but standing it. Im getting more into the consequences of the cuts you are proposing. I want to start by examini
The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, secretary devos. Welcome this morning. Welcome to the subcommittee. This is our second budget hear ing of the year. Today as i was reviewing the budget materials, madam secretary, this much was clear to me. I believe and ive had this conversation before with you, i believe for our student and our country. Instead we need to expand things like childhood education that we know helps students to succeed. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support but, in fact, are expanding it. Ill get more into the consequences of the cuts you are proposing. But i want to start by examining your privatization philosophy. The full premise on which it is built and the research that it ignores. Contrary to your claims, the nations Public Education system which 90 of our children attend has witnessed significant progress for all groups of students over the last 30 years. Average mathematic scores have improved for
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Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Washington journal continues. Host back at the table, congresswoman gwen moore. Your state is a key battleground just like it was in 2016. Remind our viewers how many vote. Illary clinton lost by and why vote, butut 22,200 who is counting . It is heartbreaking when you think that wisconsin used to lead and compete with minnesota for having the greatest turnout in the country. 2016 andseachange in there was a number of factors so it is hard to attribute it to one thing. We are concerned about the voter disenfranchisement that occurred. Legislator, iate fought strenuously with an representative scott walker who was in 2016 the governor, over voter id requirements. Battle andwon that we had this onerous voter id requirement. That was one element we think contributed tremendously. Host in which counties, when you look at the map and see all this red from 2016, in which counties do you believe there would have been higher turnout and the redwood ha
Up next, texas senator ted cruz, education secretary betsy devos discussed the future of education and workforce development. We got about 20 minutes here to help a great conversation going about where we are. I indicated this morning some of the earlier comments that you are not able to get on but were at an important entry point for the United States which is the most successful economic democracy yet to have evolved on the planet is sitting with huge opportunity where the competition of the world is now risen beyond our heart is beating harder to do better and compete harder and we are at an educational moment where now we realize 330 Million People weve got this opportunity through the diversity of our population to become something that no one else has ever become before which is this highly educated, highly adaptive, highly creative population coming in from everywhere around the world and now can do things that are off the charts. We have an opportunity to facilitate the birthin