we are not ensured that in a time of divided government and in a time when there are a lot of different opinions. but there is no question that the house has made many strong improvements to the senate bill and the product we sent over there is much better. this package i will note because it is very important also includes national security priorities and many of them but it is the only way that we could have gotten democrats to support aid to israel. that s a fact. there is a lot of misinformation out there about the bill and i want to make one point about one issue that has been drawing a lot of the attention. could any of the funding go to hamas or terrorist organizations and we put safeguards in the legislation to ensure that unrwa is not funded, the u.n. amgancy that included participants in the october 7th attack on israel. we also had language that prevents the funding from going to hamas or any other bad actors. that is an important element of
there. it s artificial. fear of a black and brown planet? the ignorance is running rampant, especially in the united states of america. information, education always broadens the scope, makes you understand and that makes less fear. we would like to see funding go into culture as opposed to going into barricades like a wall and to build on like hate. hate comes from the ignorance of just not knowing each other. the music has brought people together. governments split people up. it s about humans and people and sports brings people together, music and culture brings people together and governments like the it vide. so they need fall back. why do you think the people in power, people in government have money, they have the conof force or violence and yet they are afraid of people in sports taking a knee or peepople in
but the state is pouring $400 million into a new prison. why can t that funding go into the school systems and other programs to get youth off the streets? there is month question we need more funding for education and use dollars we have in the best interest of children. what pennsylvania needs is a new funding formula that takes into account student population, whether english is your first language or not, issues of poverty and the like. much like 47 other states in the united states of america. i m going to to be focused on that particular issue. right now what i needed to do is to make sure schools on on time and safely. not withstand something of the personnel reductions. the focus has to be on education, young people, what goes on in school, after school, on the weekends, during the summer, and so we beefed up many of our after-school programs as well as summer programming to make sure our kids are safe and they are learning and they are working with caring, nurturing
system, there was case in recent months where the universities experiencing majoring teaching with the a s.a.t. it s not true that it true that it happens in public educations. you talk about pell grants? no, it doesn t. it does not dominate the universities system. if you are going to cheat whether you are a private school or catholic school or public school. it s human nature. i m just saying it happens a lot more in public schools versus private schools. how do we know that. you are talking about the test. problem is the test and you need to measure these kids somehow. we need to see how they are doing. eric: let me get julie in here. what about it. isn t kimberly right, shouldn t more of the funding go towards