Cspan, cspan. Org or listen wherever you are on the free cspan radio app. Senator Bernie Sanders held a roundtable with Public Health experts and leaders in detroit monday. The president ial candidate criticized the Trump Administrations response to the spread of the coronavirus and outlined the role he wanted the federal government to play in response. Later he took questions from the audience. Sen. Sanders let me thank everybody for being here and let me thank our very esteemed panel of people who have spent their entire life fighting for Quality Health care and disease prevention in this country. Let me just very briefly introduce some of our panelists before we began. Anddoctor is a physician epidemiologist and a Public Health expert and former Health Commission for the city of detroit. He was formally a professor at columbia Universitys Department of epidemiology and columbia universitys science program. The llison is director of yale center for Infectious Disease model and analys
Of it is your fourth hearing yours with us. Today, as you know, we are going to examine the department of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget materials, this much was clear to me. You are seeking to privatize Public Education. I believe it is the wrong direction for our students and for our country. We need to be moving towards expanding policies like Early Childhood education, that we know helps students succeed. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support but are expanding it. I will get more into the consequences that you are proposing, but i want to start by examining your privatization philosophy. The false premise on which it is built and the research. And the research that it ignores. Contrary to your claim, the Public Education system, which 90 of our children attend, has witnessed significant progress for all groups of students. Average mathematics scores have improved for fourthgraders by 14 .
The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. Good to the subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, secretary devos. Good to see you. Welcome to the subcommittee. This is our second Budget Hearing of the year. It is your fourth hearing with we are going to review the budget request for fiscal year 2021. Materials, this much was clear to me. To privatizeng Public Education. I believe it is the wrong direction for our students and for our country. We need to be moving towards earlying policies like childhood education, that we know helps students succeed. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support but are expanding it. I will get more into the consequences that you are proposing, but i want to start by examining your privatization philosophy. The false premise on which it is built and the research. , theary to your claim Public Education system, which 90 of our children attend, has witnessed significant progress for all groups of stud
The role he one of the federal government to play in response. Later he took questions from the audience. Sen. Sanders let me thank everybody for being here and let me thank our very esteemed panel of people who have spent their entire life fighting for Quality Health care and disease prevention in this country. Let me just very briefly introduce some of our panelists before we began. Anddoctor is a physician epidemiologist and a Public Health expert and former Health Commission for the city of detroit. He was formally a professor at columbia Universitys Department of epidemiology and columbia universitys science program. The llison is director of yale center for Infectious Disease model and analysis. Should this is the youngest yale school ofhe medicine. Dr. Victoria is a boardcertified Family Medicine physician and healthcare and has worked very hard to make sure that all people in michigan receive health care as a human right. Deborah burger is a National Nurses united president and
There. Thats right city leaders have not said if covid19 arrives but when. There are two patients who have tested positive in sphrafnlts at this time the city is not offering details. Heres what we do know. One is a man in his 90s listed in serious condition and another in her 40s listed in fair condition. No word if the families are being quarantined. Health officials said they are following federal cdc guidelines and no idea on how they contracted the virus. We do not know at this point how they were exposed to the virus which suggests its spreading within the community. We anticipated that. Our further investigating the circumstance of these patients exposure. Reporter city leaders also tracking the progress of the grand princess. At last check about 100 nautical miles offshore caring 2,83 passengers onboard and a number of crew. Tests were flown out to the ship. 35 people reported having flu like symptoms and will be tested. No word if the ship will be coming into San Francisco and