Regulations members are required to leave their cameras on the entire time they are in an official proceeding, even if they step away from the camera. This is an entirely remote hearing and as such the Committee Ruling will be closed and members who choose to sit with their individual devices in the hearing room must wear headphones to avoid feedback echoes and distortion resulting for more than one person in the room on the Software Platform as has been reported by the committees. They also are excited to adhere to social distancing and safe healthcare guidelines including masks, gloves and wiping down their area both before and after their presence in the hearing room. While a roll call is not necessary to establish a quorum, whatever there is an official proceeding with low participation the clerk will call the roll to help make clear who is here at the start of the proceeding. I will ask the clerk to call on the role. Madame clerk. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [r
[roll call] [roll call] pursuant to Committee Rule Opening Statements is limited to the chair and Ranking Member and this allows to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides members and adequate time to answer questions. I now trigger myself for an opening statement. Before i deliver the opening remarks i must first acknowledge the recent protests against Police Misconduct in in favor of Racial Equity and justice across the nation. Times are demanding and we address this countrys centuryold challenges and with todays hearing we can be prepared to answer the call to Racial Equity and justice in education. I want to note this hearing marks the committees first fully remote hearing pursuant to House Resolution 965 and accompanying regulations. To date we will examine how covid19 pandemic has directly impacted his state and local government revenue and how projected state and local government shortfalls to further exacerbate educational inequities rooted in a with the inequities rooted a
Just before we recess i would like to Say Something back i want to remind my colleagues i would like to stay something for the record. I want to remind my colleagues. Within 14 days. Following the last day of the hearing. They must address the subject matter of the hearing and only a member are divided. Documents are limited to 50 pages each. That will be incorporated into the record. You must provide to the community clerk within the prior timeframe. Recognized the years from now no longer work. The Ranking Member is here joining us. I would now begin by addressing our witnesses for the second pile. The commissioner of education is a former Elementary School principal. I used to visit his school. I was appointed associate education commissioner in 2012. Before becoming the commissioner of education in 2018. It is a native inquiry. Since 2012. She is the first woman to be elected president of 1826. For 23 years. She is an advocate for community engagement. She has a degree in Elementar
Would like to Say Something back i want to remind my colleagues i would like to stay something for the record. I want to remind my colleagues. Within 14 days. Following the last day of the hearing. They must address the subject matter of the hearing and only a member are divided. Documents are limited to 50 pages each. That will be incorporated into the record. You must provide to the community clerk within the prior timeframe. Recognized the years from now no longer work. The Ranking Member is here joining us. I would now begin by addressing our witnesses for the second pile. The commissioner of education is a former Elementary School principal. I used to visit his school. I was appointed associate education commissioner in 2012. Before becoming the commissioner of education in 2018. It is a native inquiry. Since 2012. She is the first woman to be elected president of 1826. For 23 years. She is an advocate for community engagement. She has a degree in Elementary Education from the uni
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