Good morning. And i want to thank the witnesses for joining todays hearing on the implementation of the faa reauthorization act of 2018. One year ago, this committee wrote comprehensive Bipartisan Legislation to raise the bar on aviation safety, improve the flying experience for the traveling public, better prepare and diversify the aviation workforce and foster innovation in the u. S. Airspace. Todays hearing is a critical milestone in the subcommittees oversight work to ensure the timely implementation of the law in accordance with our intent and to address new challenges. Although the faa has made some progress on fulfilling the laws directives, ongoing implementation delays threaten the important work needed to advance u. S. Aviation and aerospace and maintain our global leadership. Our first panel of witnesses are dan ellwell, faas deputy administrator and joel savat. Mr. Elwell and zavt, i expect your testimony administrations efforts to swiftly implement last years law. I would
Vice president sanchez thank you for your commitment to the program. I can attest to your handson when i was principal at cleveland, you came to the school. Toward the end of your presentation you talked about lowincome families. Can you go into that . Does that mean there is going to be more of an initial deposit for those families . Well still describing what the incentives are going to look like. Were still trying to figure out how to get the data we need and distribute them as a equity measure. Were still working and having conversations with the School Districts about what we can do moving forward. There is funding we might be able to place into the students. So we initiated for this year in our student formula that we were going to support more students who reside in Public Housing. So i think if you havent already gone down that road, i think that would be worth while endeavor to see if the students who reside in Public Housing merit having an extra amount deposited into their a
Wrote comprehensive Bipartisan Legislation to raise the bar on aviation safety, improve the flying experience for the traveling public, better prepare and diversify the aviation workforce and foster innovation in the u. S. Airspace. Todays hearing is a critical milestone in the subcommittees oversight work to ensure the timely implementation of the law in accordance with our intent and to address new challenges. Although the faa has made some progress on fulfilling the laws directives, ongoing implementation delays threaten the important work needed to advance u. S. Aviation and aerospace and maintain our global leadership. Our first panel of witnesses are dan ellwell, faas deputy administrator and joel savat. Mr. Elwell and zavt, i expect your testimony administrations efforts to swiftly implement last years law. I would note theyre joined by staff from faa and d. O. T. And the staff will be available to help us answer any of our questions as well. Witnesses on todays second panel ref
We offer field trips for grades kindergarten through grades 3. And id love to have each and every one of you come on one of those field trips with me. Im telling you, there is no better time to be had. Its such a great event that the pbs news hour a few months back came on one of the field trips and did a piece they put on the news hour and will be forwarding a clip of that to you so you can see it for yourself. But you got to come on one, i promise you. K2c is designed to equity in mind. I want to do everything i can to get those people who face barriers to the starting line. Organizations including felten institute, mission graduates, parents for Public Schools of San Francisco, family connections, 100 college prep, and the urban ed academy. Other partners like meta, and richmond promise neighborhood have been instrumental in getting students and families to engage with the kindergarten to college accounts. Some of the organizations are here with us this evening, but many are with us
Campuses and the programs they develop for families to contribute. Im a designated deposittaker, so i can ive been trained to take deposits and hold onto them and get them to the bank for my families, but not every school has that capacity. Thank you. Vice president sanchez thank you for your commitment to the program. I can attest to your handson when i was principal at cleveland, you came to the school. Toward the end of your presentation you talked about lowincome families. Can you go into that . Does that mean there is going to be more of an initial deposit for those families . Well still describing what the incentives are going to look like. Were still trying to figure out how to get the data we need and distribute them as a equity measure. Were still working and having conversations with the School Districts about what we can do moving forward. There is funding we might be able to place into the students. So we initiated for this year in our student formula that we were going to