ycf continued to provide services through job training, solar training, utilizing evidence based curricula to make sure our participants have the highest quality of training so they can go compete with everyone in this job sector. the job sector and employment game is about competition. we have been continuing to provide services to our youth, to the mairs implementation program through our school your academic and summer academic programs. we're providing tutorial services in the schools, life skills and job training in the schools. we -- you'll hear from our young people who are participating in our programs. again, this is over 150 used served in the past 18 years with quality services, we continue to place over 55% of individuals and connect them with jobs in small companies such as sunborn nursery and other nonprofits and with retailers such as lowe's and walgreens. we will be unmatched. we have outgrown our space which has been dilapidated for many years as many of you know. it is time for us to be allowed to provide quality services in quality facilities. i believe we have a total o

extension act and the smith-hughes vocational act of 1917, which funded home economic teachers and curricula across the country to train young women as future mothers and homemakers. more broadly, ms. lathrop and others helped restore health e famiy families throughout. speaking at her alma mater she call and university women to create a single center of training for research in the problems of the family. in order to give women in the home the status of a profession and to elevate into a national system strong, free and lasting, the cult of the american family. interesting choice of words. central to maternalist thinking was the concept of a family wage pointing to research showing that as the father's average income doubled, the infant mortality rate was more than half. julia lathrop concluded that a decent income self-respectively earned by the father is the beginning of wisdom, the only fair division of labor between the father and the mother of young children and the strongest safeguard against a high infant mortality rate. at the children's bureau, she pro pepped the first and simplest

university expansion plans, building new educational facilities, training teachers and developing new curricula at all educational levels. in the field of health care, another area where u.s. expertise is facing demand growth, over the next five years, the ministry of health plans to upgrade and expand existing public hospitals as well as to build a number of new medical complexes. kuwaiti health officials have already expressed an interest in working with u.s. hospitals and medical schools on these projects. including in the areas of project management, health care consulting. human resource development. hospital administration, and technology transfers. kuwaiti's regularly expressed to me their preference for u.s. medical services and treatment. many are aware that the government in kuwait continues to sponsor medical treatment services abroad for around 12,000 kuwaiti nationals every year and the u.s. is aim

the good news is that the schools are in place now, the curricula are coming online and we are building a noncommissioned officer and a junior officer that is steeped in the kinds of capabilities that we need for the ansf to have. and i believe that we all recognize that the afghan economy is going to for some period of time require assistance, international community assistance to sustain. there is as we all know and the task force civility operation has done a great job, there are substantial resources underground in afghanistan. it is going to take a number of years of the process of the industry to produce the revenues to support an ansf with capabilities. and so at this point, no. but the international community has indicated the desire to continue to support over the long term. >> that builds to my next question which is 2014 is the next presidential election. we have been talking about corruption, patronage networks. is the central government of afghanistan at a point now as we begin this draw down towards 2014 or as we set up the process, is the central government strong enough

that the curricula are coming online and we are building a non-commissioned officer and a junior officer that is steeped in the kind of capabilities we need for the ansf to have, and i believe that we all recognize that the afghan economy is going to, for some period of time, require assistant. ness -- just to sustain. there is and we all know the task force has didn't great work in this regard. there are substantial resources underground in afghanistan. it's going to take a number of years before the process ultimately of the extracted introduces can support an ansf with capabilities. so at this point, no. but the international community has indicated the desire to continue to support the ansf over the long-term. >> okay. that bodes to my next question, which is, 2014 is the next presidential election, and we've boon talking about corruption, paper orc, n paperwork, networks. is the central government at afghanistan at a point now as we begin this drawdown toward 2014, or as we set up the process, is the central government strong enough to sustain the infrastructure needed? obviously, w

expansion plans and building new educational facilities and training teachers and developing new curricula at all educational levels. in the field of health care, another area where u.s. expertise is facing demand growth, over the next five years the ministry of health plans to upgrade and expand existing public hospitals as well as to build the number of new medical complexes. kuwaiti health officials have expressed an interest in working with u.s. hospitals and medical schools on this projects including in the areas of project management and health care consulting and human resource development and hospital administration and technology transfers. kuwaitis expressed to me their preference for u.s. medical services and treatment and many of you know that they continued to sponsor medical treatment services abroad for 4,000 kuwaiti nationals and the u.s. is a primary destination for that group of patients. kuwaitis, like american doctors and hospitals and medical equipment in technology and medicine and given the preferences and u.s. competitive expansion contracts. in the field of i.t. an

the specifics of our course curricula are available in my written testimony. at the end of the day, when it comes to training, all of our crewmembers, mariner and nonmariner alike must know what to do in event of an emergency. not simply because they must do so under the law, but because so many lives depend upon their training and professionalism. and while we're confident that we can provide the best training in the world, and that the coast guard is there to ensure that our mariners have met all their legal requirements, we're less confident of this when it comes to vessels that are sailing under flags convenience. we believe that the proliferation of the use of focs, especially in cruise industry, creates a growing concern for safety. today the vast majority of cruise ships calling on u.s. ports are sailing under the bahama man, panama or bermuda flags of convenience, among others. now to be clear, the issue is not whether proper standards for crewmember training are available internationally. we feel that solas and stcw requirements are adequate, so long

university expansion plans, building new educational facilities, training teachers and developing think curriculat all educational levels. in the field of health care, another area where u.s. expertise is facing demand growth, over the next phi years the ministry of health plans to upgrade and expand existing public hospitals as well as to build a number of new medical complexes. kuwaiti health officials have already expressed an interest in working with u.s. hospitals and medical schools on these projects including in the areas of project management, health care consulting, human resource development, hospital administration and technology transfers. kuwaitis regularly express to me their preference for u.s. medical services and treatment. many feel that the government in kuwait continues to sponsor medical services abroad for about 12,000 nationals, and the u.s. is a primary destination for that group of patients. kuwaitis like american doctors, hospitals, technology and medicine, and given those presences i think u.s. companies will have a natural competitive advantage in bidding on health can

i've heard several cases where people are studying curricula that go nowhere. when teachers classes are too large, they have a hard time teaching. this is true. at least we've heard two different advice and were still going to talk about teachers, motivation for the next 10 years. >> whos next? you? [speaking german] >> translator: and a specialist in immigration problems. we are talking about identity. the is a problem when you're talking about violence against immigrants, especially anagrams of the third generation who have learned german fluently, and they've known german culture and still have a problem. and therefore, i think it is very important to talk about normalcy. it does not matter what you look like, but you should be considered a human being and not without these value judgments that areonsidered as an alien. i have a wish. i depend on projects financing. have a project, for instance where we are putting germans together with immigrants so66666 children do their homework, successful. we don't have any budget to extend it. it's a big problem for us

the curricula are coming on line and we are building a noncommissioned officer and a junior officer that is steeped in the kinds of capabilities that we need for the ansf to have. and i believe that we all recognize that the afghan economy is going to, for some greater time, require assistance, international committee assistance in order to sustain the ansf. there is as we all know and the task force stability operation has done great work in this regard. there are substantial resources underground in afghanistan. it's going to take a number of years before the process ultimately of the extracted industry coming online can produce a kind of revenue to support and ansf of capabilities. and so at this point, no. by the international community has indicated a desire to commute -- the desired state that goes to my next question which is 2014 as the next presidential election and we've been talking about corruption, patronage networks. is the central government of afghanistan at a point now as we begin this drawdown towards 2014, or as we set up the process, is the central government strong e

i've heard several cases where people are studying curricula that go nowhere. when teachers classes are too large, they have a hard time teaching. this is true. at least we've heard two different advice and were still going to talk about teachers, motivation for the next 10 years. >> who is next? you? [speaking german] >> translator: and a specialist in immigration problems. we are talking about identity. there is a problem when you're talking about violence against immigrants, especially anagrams of the third generation who have learned german fluently, and they've known german culture and still have a problem. and therefore, i think it is very important to talk about normalcy. it does not matter what you look like, but you should be considered a human being and not without these value judgments that are considered as an alien. i have a wish. i depend on projects financing. have a project, for instance where we are putting germans together with immigrants so66666 children do their homework, successful. we don't have any budget to extend it. it's a big problem

university expansion plans, building new educational facilities, training teachers, and developing new curricula at all educational levels. in the field of health care, another area of u.s. expertise is facing demand growth, over the next five years, the ministry of health plans to upgrade expanding hospitals as well as build a number of new medical pom plexes. the health officials expressed interest in working with u.s. hospitals and medical schools on the projects including in project management, health care consulting, human resource development, hospital administration, and technology transfers. kuwaity expressed their desire for medical treatment. the government of kuwait sponsors treatment abroad for 12,000 kuwait nationals every year and u.s. is a primary destination for the group of patients. cue kuwait likes american doctor, and u.s. companies have a natural competitive advantage in bidding on health expansion contracts. in the field of i.t. and telecommunications, there's a wealth of opportunities, particularly for u.s. companies that are able to provide the level of technical expertis

and we are talking about highways and because someone will put a lot more extra curricula, extraneous kind of stuff in this bill that doesn't relate to these highways, then -- but the progress that could have been made was really stymied by this very kind of propaganda and bad policy. the current transportation bill , offered by the majority, could invest in our nation's highways and -- won't invest in our nation's highways and kill jobs. we want to do something about the crumbling infrastructure in this country. mr. speaker, the american people are waiting for us to do something. we will sit here by our constituents to solve problems, not to create them and not to find excuses to displace the real reality. let's get back to work and repair our nation's infrastructure and get thousands of americans back to work, not to try to challenge this administration because you don't like the administration. we want to see something that's real and something that addresses real problems and not sit around with a lot of ideas and a lot of propaganda that simply does not relate to this bill. thank

he's partnering with companies like microsoft and a variety of others to develop certain curricula sose a field they want to go into and get a head start on training for that field. in l.a., the mayor spoke about how they're trying to expand public school choice to a level it's never been at before in l.a. they doubled the number of charter schools since he came into office in 2005. mayor bloomberg in new york got a lot of publicity for closing down some of the largest public schools and reopening scaled down smaller schools with smaller class sizes and greater interaction between individual students and teachers. so i think each city represented this morning, was getting it right in a couple of different ways. >> you mentioned that the main theme was a demand, a request for more direction from the federal level. that gets back to the reauthorization or the change in no-child-left-behind. where do things stand on that law right now? >> things are pretty dim right now. if you talk to leaders in the house and the senate on the education committees, i think everybody all privately acknow

i've heard several cases where people are studying curricula that go nowhere. when teachers classes are too large, they have a hard time teaching. this is true. at least we've heard two different advice and were still going to talk about teachers, motivation for the next 10 years. >> who is next? you? [speaking german] >> translator: and a specialist in immigration problems. we are talking about identity. there is a problem when you're talking about violence against immigrants, especially anagrams of the third generation who have learned german fluently, and they've known german culture and still have a problem. and therefore, i think it is very important to talk about normalcy. it does not matter what you look like, but you should be considered a human being and not without these value judgments that are considered as an alien. i have a wish. i depend on projects financing. have a project, for instance where we are putting germans together with immigrants so66666 children do their homework, successful. we don't have any budget to extend it. it's a big problem

an array of extra curricula and after-school activities, many of which are often new experiences for these students, including golf, chess, dance, classical music and creative writing. uniforms, meals and so many other necessities are also provided, and with tough love and important lessons about discipline, respect, anger management, goal setting and follow-through. all of this allows the students to meet their full potential and st. louis has seen positive results already. the academy has an attendance rate of over 90%. let me repeat that. the academy has an amazing attendance rate of over 90%, and we are seeing significant improvement in these young people's grades. and the students are responding positively. for example, at the end of the first semester at the academy, the suspensions of 40 of the students ended and the students were supposed to return to their home school. almost every student asked if they could stay at the academy because they knew that the academy is a special place where they can improve their lives. the innovative program has also garnered national attentio