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Students get paid back . Hello im ray suarez. In the run off to the president state of the union next tuesday he has been releasing policy proposals. One of proposals rolled out in the past week, making it easier for americans to get twoyear College Degrees by paying their tuition. At this, im announcing an ambitious new plan to bring down the cost of tuition. All the way down to zero. President obama made announcement last friday. The white house claiming the president s plan could help up to nine million students. Federal funding would cover threequarters of the cost with individual states p...

Performing students to help prepare them for college. We read philosophical tests ranging and wrote revised College Level essays. At the same time i worked with the lowest performing students who had yet to pass the state tests of the with them we did mindless test prep. Even though i was really good at it getting 100 of those students to pass their exams in my final year doing it i was doing the students no favors. I think about a senior who could hardly write and struggled to read. Sure she passed the test but she was still ready, she was not ready for the Community College work she encounte...

Dollars are well spent. From the standpoint about the concerns of the services provided, we think when you allow states to weaken the standards, and we have seen again, how states have used waivers to, in effect, create a day facto weakening of standards standards. We are deeply concerned. Well, i understand the need for flexzblety. But if the only principle here is that the states can do whatever they want, then they should raise their entaxes to pay for it. Throwing billions of federal dollars at the states with no accountability for the states of how they spend taxpayer money is not what we...

Its very helpful to us as senate xxs. And i thank senator murray and the staffs for working and having presented all of those points of views. You all get an a for sticking to five minutes. Well see if the senators do, as well, as the time comes. Ill take my five minutes and senator murray and then after that, senator collins senator warren senator robert, senator bennett will be first four. Well go by first arrival and conclude by noon. My my view theres a clear federal role i have to refresh myself. So seven tests in matt, three for reading once in years three through eight and then once in ...

Discussion draft. I hope we can begin conversations about a truly bipartisan approach to help fix this broken law. I know the members on my side are anxious to begin work and to continue the long tradition of this committee tackling tough problems in a bipartisan fashion. Fixing no child left behind should not be a partisan issue. It should be one that we do work hand in hand not as democrats and republicans but as americans. This is an issue that is not about politics. It is about what is best for our kids. In our country we believe that every student should have access to a quality Public Ed...