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The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for p...

, pleasure and satisfaction of the graduates families and friends, who take this occasion to observe and celebrate a significant accomplishment on the part of those whom they love. In that respect a commencement is sort of like weddin a baptism. The primary participants in those events would rather be elsewhere as well. Since its for the benefit of the families, one of the wonderful things about graduation addresses is that you can talk about whatever you want. It really does not matter. What i decided to talk to you about this afternoon, briefly, and i promise to be brief, is whether to be bl...

When it resumes shortly, as i said, about ten minutes from now. While we wait, more on education now as the new school year is just getting underway for many School Systems around the nation. We look at challenges facing Public Schools in a discussion on this mornings washington journal. Host guest at our desk is the director of the National School Boards Association. As we dive into the topic of local School Boards and todays education debates, first, tell us about your group and its mission. Guest well, the National School Boards Association really represents our state associations of School...

Enough money, so they didnt have it. And yet theyve got this huge football field, you know . So i guess my question is how do we encourage, not only encourage the students to get interested in lieu of an active Human Exploration Program beyond low earth orbit, how do we bring that apollolike interest in s. T. E. M. That apollo generated kind of on autopilot, basically . You know, it just happened because everybody was interested in the program. Young students wanted to get involved in engineering and science and math. We dont have that, you know, at this time, at least not that im aware of. So...

To. One is theres a changing social compact between companies and the work force and companies are increasingly looking for individuals who have some important technical skill which is why Stem Education is so important. We were fortunate to see an 8. 6 increase in our enrollment of students in engineering programs and i think students are realizing that skrg these skills is important because its what employers are looking for. Were talking with james linder, the interim president of the university of nebraska lincoln, part of cspan buss big 10 college tour. We kicked that off this weekend. We...