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Education and labor and Pensions Committee on topics including attracting high quality teachers and the impact of the law in rural areas. This is two hours and 10 minutes. 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 co...

Allegation occurs of misconduct, we investigate it. And as agent sullivan or director sullivan specified, one of the things that occurs on many investigations is the investigation does not find any wrongdoing. When it does, we take appropriate followup action to hold the employee accountable. Well, i would like to point out that this is not the only affidavit like this. There are several others. And you know, were not going to release them, not going to enter them into the record or use their names at this time. But do you believe it is appropriate for the epa personnel to pressure and intimid...

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 ...

Congress chose to leave unchanged a provision of culpability. This provision says School Districts have to provide at least Comparable Services with state and local funding to title i schools and nontitle i schools, but the law plainly states the School Districts shall not include teacher pay when they measure spending for of comparability. That has been the law since 1970. We didnt change it last year. There is an entirely separate provision known as provision, not supplant, that prohibits schools from using dollars for lowincome schools. Attempts to do is to change comparability by adding a ...

Undercover police admit to calling socalled radical muslims without trial, an al jazeera exclusive. And the simple technique saving the line lives of premate babies in india. We begin with breaking news from the past hour, that palestine status has been upgraded at the criminal court. It effectively opposit opens thr war crimes to be investigated in the territory. This comes on the same day that israel launched its own investigations into eight more alleged crimes by its forces in gaza this summer. We can speak to imtiaz tyab, but james bays is joining us from new york to tell us more about th...