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Year in education. I remember with fondness with my master teacher, taking the mimio and going to the staff office and putting in the mimio graph and smelling the chemicals and running my mimios for my class that day and thinking wow, i hit the big time. Then we got a xerox machine and before you knew it we had a desktop that we could keep grades on and i didnt have to use the slide ruler. Technology is contextual. The technology of that time was appropriate to that time. What i dont want us to lose track of, and mr. Ryan mentioned ive been talking about textbook adoptions. Im not advocating t...

Our current state. Mr. Ryans commented that teachers dont have a common place they can go for the curriculum. They dont have a place of materials embedded by the district that aligns to our curricula goals to access videos and documents and other artifacts that are used. Our employee system is over ten years old and it barely supports really the basic transactions of managing an employee. When i was a new hire i had 12 different forms and filled out the exact same information on moegs of those forms with a slight change here and there because there were so many Different Things on how to do th...

Were only at 7 percent right now. Devices need to be current and reliable. If theyre more than 4 years old, that the time devices start having issues and become unusable. We need to get one to one device ratio, right now were 1 to [inaudible] device ratio. At the early years prek through 5, we need a mix of tablets and laptops. Then sixth through eighth thats where the shift starts going. Then grades nine through 12 we allow students o bring their own device, however there will be a district funded option that will be equivalent to what the teacher gets as their device. All schools will have h...

Investment were incentivized to pay the lower tax rate, sell the investment and reinvest in a maturing developing investment rather than that hold on because they didnt want to pay a confiscatory tax. There is not one of us in this room that doesnt make decisions every single day on our personal financing where we dont consider in some part, in whole or in part the tax consequence of it. That is why you have a tax code. But we ought to look at fair and equitable Corporate Tax relief. We ought to do it for s corps and c corps. C corps tax rate are 35 . S corps are corporations where they file a...

Is that the u. S. Market share there has declined. I think that the federal government must continue its efforts to help develop small modular reactors, and i think that we can do this without putting International Security at risk or violating nonproliferation controls. Mr. President , the energy resurgence has fueled a beneficial expansion of u. S. Energy trade, and the evidence is clear that exports can help facilitate enhanced production by opening up u. S. Supply to global markets. Trade is creating jobs, its increasing supply, its enhancing our nations security, without doubt. Competitio...