Congress. The white house is already trying to tout President Trumps accomplishments as he nears the 100th day mark of his presidency. The president signed over 28 bills already. Healthcare may happen next week. It may not. Were hopeful it will. So, he is fulfilling his promises and doing it at break neck speed. Reporter some democratic analysts believe though, the president isnt satisfied with the first three months. The hundred days yes, its an invented thing but it is something that matters a lot to him and when people say obama got the stimulus, bush got the tax cuts look at fdr for instance you know that its eating away at him. Reporter republicans are threatening to shut down the government if that funding for a border wall with mexico isnt included in a spending billy. Shutdown is not a desired end, its not a tool its not something we want to have. We want our priorities funded and one of the biggest priorities during the Campaign Reporter budget director Mick Mulvaney included
[inaudible conversations] and beginning now on booktv, heres mri pulitzer prizewinning author Lawrence Wright live from the texas book festival. [inaudible conversations] so it is wonderful to see a full house here, but if youll please take your seats, and well begin. Welcome to austin, texas, and the f x book festival texas book festival, the greatest book festival in the world. [cheers and applause] its terrific to see you here. My name is brian sweany, and i am the editor of Texas Monthly magazine, it is always a pleasure [applause] hey, thank you for that. Whoo hoo thank you for that. It is always a pleasure to be part of this festival. Its roots are so deep here in this city and in this state, and it is always a great honor to be part of it. I have to say today is very special because sitting to my right is a writer that i have long admired before i had the chance to become his friend but has produced some of the most important journalism in my lifetime for sure [applause] both in
Spent by Education Departments you are going to miss some services that are provided in a Community School concept, maybe by social services. You might not count some of the services that are provided by a boys girls club. Excuse me for interrupting. I want to make sure everyone has their five minutes. Go ahead and wind up. Winding up now. If you count dollars district make in teacher placement decisions based on specific salary or benefit costs so things look, you will worry about things looking equal, instead of saying are we actually giving services to our students, all were saying is why in the world would you want to cut off reasonable flexibility that a district might have in giving something creative and meaningful to it our students and discourage districts from finding those creative solutions. We hope you will make your intent crystal clear. And in closing i would just say we are ready, willing and able to find those creative solutions. Were excited being at the table and app
Between salary level and teacher effectiveness. Does anybody want to defend that . There is no relationship between the expenditure of 80 of what we spend and effectiveness of teachers. Randy . I mean what i want of course theres a relationship. I mean, i wont speak for who is an amazing superintendent in des moines, but theres much evidence that there is relationship between the experience of teachers and the stability of schools and frankly part of what were trying to do in schools that are struggling is how do we nurture and secure Great Teachers to stay at those schools. So, obviously, there is both on a macro and a micro way, there are real both correlations here and things like that. I think what my colleague was saying is that the dollarfordollar piece that the that the department is proposing doesnt get you doesnt get you to the equity issues that you have spent your life, senator, fighting for. And you as well. And what im saying is whether the department, you know, ends up wi
The Senate Committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our witnesses and senators will have five minutes of questions each. I am delighted to have the witnesses here. This is an Extraordinary Group of broad individuals of Broad Perspective about children and elementary and secondary education and we welcome your comments on how we implement the the new reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act. This is our third of six hearings to discuss the implementation of the every student succeed act which the president signed in december. It is the Second Opportunity for this committee to hear from states, School Districts, teachers and principals and others that helped us pass this overwhelmingly bipartisan law and are today working together to implement it in a way that is consistent with congressional intent. I want to focus my remarks on the administrations prop