Budget. He was asked about cuts to programs in a such as education, science and satellite servicing technology. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing is about one hour. The hearing will come to order. Im pleased to welcome acting administrator Robert Lightfoot to the commerce of justice and science appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine nasa fiscal year 2018 budget request. Mr. Lightfoot and i worked well together in his tenure as director of Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center in huntsville, alabama. Mr. Lightfoot, thank you for serving as nasa leader during this time of change and appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 for the current year level. While this overall cut is lessening of agencies that have experienced in the present budget request, it still reflects a significant reduction of 561 million. His budget request attempt to navigate a challenging fisc
Budget. He was asked about cuts to programs in a such as education, science and satellite servicing technology. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing is about one hour. The hearing will come to order. Im pleased to welcome acting administrator Robert Lightfoot to the commerce of justice and science appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine nasa fiscal year 2018 budget request. Mr. Lightfoot and i worked well together in his tenure as director of Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center in huntsville, alabama. Mr. Lightfoot, thank you for serving as nasa leader during this time of change and appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 for the current year level. While this overall cut is lessening of agencies that have experienced in the present budget request, it still reflects a significant reduction of 561 million. His budget request attempt to navigate a challenging fisc
Some schools that the majority of students are english only. Its not the balance withhold to see also. I think thats also sort of an issue what we are doing and then i wanted to know so we had those lc s fund we have an opportunity to invest in our English Learners i believe thats what the money is designated for. Optimum wondering how we are going to use 80 this data and money to close the gap and id like to see some data comparing our e os with the e ls and the gap. So were seeing if both the students come in those students e o and e l these it should mean then by 7th grade theyre at the same level for math. Im wondering about the language target language how bilingual are they you know what is the level of i saw something in this room or something else. So i think its sort of the question is i hope theres not a skunk in the board room. Id like to see sort of that data if we are having those students and getting the same instruction; right . By the Language Proficiency level will tho
Publishers only look at programs that are going to yield for money for them. Again looking at other districts were again looking at, you know, just anywhere were looking at other countries as well to look for material. Weve brought our psa together for the teachers to create some of the materials in the meantime but thats something weve struggled that. One last question we were not looking at the new come forward but has it made a difference when we took our new conforms and put them into schools mainstream having them in our homes separately did it change the movement of the academics unfortunately, because wisp focused on the students entering in kindergarten there were never enough students entering candid we started the new comers path so weve never done any real analysis of the new comers. This is my last question are rethinking at all but we have that do not available. Oh, id like to see that. We run that data. Did it look better. Yeah. Go. Definitely greater access to credits an
Id like to see the comparisons and id like to see what kind of schools that we know there are some schools that the majority of students are english only. Its not the balance withhold to see also. I think thats also sort of an issue what we are doing and then i wanted to know so we had those lc s fund we have an opportunity to invest in our English Learners i believe thats what the money is designated for. Optimum wondering how we are going to use 80 this data and money to close the gap and id like to see some data comparing our e os with the e ls and the gap. So were seeing if both the students come in those students e o and e l these it should mean then by 7th grade theyre at the same level for math. Im wondering about the language target language how bilingual are they you know what is the level of i saw something in this room or something else. So i think its sort of the question is i hope theres not a skunk in the board room. Id like to see sort of that data if we are having those