Page 36 - School Better News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Opportunity to moderate and important conversation that impacts everyone and that is School Finance. Talk about the lot and the opportunity and the role ahead. I spoke with four attorneys today each person will have an opportunity to speak 10 minutes and then a moderated conversation then we will open to the audience. Let me put into context why this is important. The Supreme Court made an important ruling on finance and since then we have had a number of cases that the state level to make sure those set an underperforming schools and also money to pay for it. Does money matter . I want to say...

And so that sets of children to not have the resources they need to pass the benchmarks for proficiencies that are established in state standards so that is another challenge. There is low funding we can talk about about you and day so even if it is low funding, not providing great sources. And finally insufficient oversight of state funding, what does that mean . We dont have enough oversight of the system to make sure the money we are putting in is being spent efficiently and that is important as well, not just we have additional money for low income children but are we spending that money w...

Programs generally. They are supposed the educational programs. They help kids who do not get fat at home so they do better in school. There is no evidence they are actually doing that. Actually helping results and doing better at school. When we took your money from you, the way we justified it was these programs would help kids do better at school and to better at jobs. We cannot prove that is happening. We are saying no afterschool programs out there are doing their job. I dont believe we cut all the funding of those things. You were talking about the steelworker in ohio and pennsylvania an...

Talked about last week, 54 billion of additional defense spend, we have more details today on where that money is going. We have increases at the v. A. , increases at the department of justice, increases within the department of Homeland Security for things that include Border Security and immigration control. Increases within the department of energy. To deal with nuclear triad. And then corresponding reductions, similar amounts, offsetting dollar for dollar, in other programs. The largest reduction if youve seen the budget already is a 31 reduction in the Environmental Protection agency. The...

Affairs, and Homeland Security would see the largest increases. This portion of the White House Briefing is 25 minutes. Mr. Mulvaney thanks very much, good afternoon and happy day before st. Patricks day, also known as budget day. Most of you heard me talk about the budget before, im not going to say too many things in opening before we get to your questions. We will remind you this is what were calling the America First budget. We had an America First candidate, we now have an America First president and it shouldnt surprise anyone that we have an America First budget. Youve seen the details ...