For the president and congress. So you can submit them to the u. S. Commission on civil rights by either mailing them to the commission to the office of civil rights, 1331 pennsylvania avenue, thats 1331 pennsylvania Avenue Northwest suite 1150 washington 20425 or via email at Public Comments at usccr. Gov. Thats publiccomments uscc r. Gov. With that out of the way i would like to introduce and swear our panelists in and Stella Flores from vanderbilt university. Peggy carr from the u. S. Department of education and dr. James t. Minor also with the u. S. Department of education. Will you each raise your right ha hand, please. And i ask that you swear or affirm that the information youre about to provide to us is true and accurate to the best of your believe and belief, is that correct . Yes. Professor flores, please proceed. Thank you, commissioners, for the opportunity to speak on the civil rights implications on College Access, persistence and completion for underrepresented minority
In all four states, there was some amount of difficulty with either the online portal or the oncall center. In the statebased, navigators had backend access into the portals. And really make sure to assist a consumer all the way through enrollment. Furthermore, they had direct contact and regular contact, sometimes daily, with the state exchange leadership. So they could get realtime results back. A federal portal and call center for states. It was a huge task. Our primary lines of communication were through our grant officers and regional offices. The information had to kind of travel through different level also to the folks working the call centers. The challenge, my colleagues also talked about is low health literacy, the complexity of choosing a health plan is the greatest challenge a navigator faces. Both statebased exchanges and federal exchanges received some combination of training that was required. But felt committed our n navigators needed more. Both in advance of open enro
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Good afternoon. This is the second of a series of tamils on College Athletics. Thank you for joining us here today in washington, d. C. , online, and on cspan as well. The numbers in College Sports are staggering. Something easily be we are talking in terms ofs of points scored, yards gained, or a number of things ushered quantitatively attendance, participation, and money. According to filings with the department of education, in 2011, the most recent year for which the numbers are available, College Sports generated 12. 6 billion. Last year, the university of texas alone took in more than 265 million. Espn is paying in excess of 600 million a year to televise the College Playoff system. The price tag for the ncaa basketball tournament, march 10 20 billion for a 14 year deal. Athletic departments at many schools, and in fact most schools, operate in the red. The star player on the Championship Team that won the mens basketball tournament last year said that some nights, he goes to bed
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