including the department of education. the federal government eat fish and accountable to be a top priority for all members of congress. sadly, this committee is committing an opportunity for serious oversight issues. we could investigate the widespread lawmaking by the united auto worker union leaders who betrayed hard-working americans in favor of self-enrichmentd. a tax fraud bribery and embezzlement. this committee has taken no action. we could investigate the potential fraud. a recent reward from the government accountability office there was an income fabrication. impacting the individual's eligibility. we could investigate how potentially tens of thousands of people may be committing student loan fraud as a gao report found borrowers may have understated their income or overstated their family ties to reduce the student loan payment. there are real opportunities for the serious issues that require honest oversight. instead committee democrats will choose to use their time today attacking the secretary for delays and

process. >> -- my colleague miss davis referenced from yesterday internal communications department of education from january 10th, 2017, conclude, given this extensive well documented pervasive and highly publicized misconduct, the department has determined that the value of the itt education like corinthian is likely either negligible or non-existing. accordingly, it is determined no give more rborrowers full relie. do you believe those loans july 2017 are subject to the bar and defense fund standard? >> they certainly are subject to the borrower defense rule, but they're not subject -- they are not automatically subject to full and complete forgiveness of every single loan. >> okay. >> that is there -- even the prior administration individuals acknowledged that there were up to 40% of the corinthian claims filed that weren't even eligible for consideration. and so -- again, i go back to the fact that there was no process. >> i have limited time. >> there was no way to really consider these claims i inherited no process. we had to create a process. >> but the 1994 standards -- >> i understand

the department of it education to promote students activities i don't see that consistent with the message and the mission of the department with so many hundreds of thousands of students, including thousands in my home state of oregon, stuck with low ballot loan balances and a worthless degree, if they got a degree, i'm a former consumer protection lawyer for the federal trade commission, and i know fraud when i see it. these students were misled, and cheated the fact that some of them maybe making money doesn't mean that they weren't defrauded. if somebody went into one of these programs hoping to become a nurse, for example, and now you're selling clothes at a department store, it doesn't mean that they weren't defrauded. i hope you can put yourself in the shoes of some of these borrowers. i know it's challenging, but they went to try to find a better path for themselves, and instead of getting a good education, they got collection notices in wage carnations. and in september the department admitted to violating a court order by illegally deman

what the department of education money from the federal government to local communities. my percent of what we spend on k-12 education. we have an important and vital federal role and national role to make sure that the civil education ise of not lost. we need to be there to protect kids against inequities based on their skin color, based on the circumstances of their birth. we still have an important role to play their. that represents the origins of the department of education. >> you have been at administrator, you are a senator. how do you make a decision? how do you structure the decision-making process for the white house? >> when people asked me, how have you done what you've done, i say, i find people that are better at doing their jobs than i would ever be. help put them against a challenge together that we face that is mutual. that's what i would do as president. we need to have somebody in this job that can attract the most talented people out of government and out of the private sector. that's what always done. i didn't have a quick 12 background. i found the b

host: there's an ongoing debate in republican circles whether we need the department of education put in place by president carter. what is the role of the federal government when it comes to education? do we still need the department? sen. bennet: it's a great question. it's important because it administers our student loan program. i wish we used that program to incentivize universities to keep their cost low. college has gotten so expensive. and i think from a k12 perspective, what it could do, it doesn't do this under betsy devos obviously, but what it could do would be to help people on the ground learn best practices from other places and transmit them across the country. basically what the department of education is is a passthrough of money from the federal government to local communities. i do think we have an important and vital federal role and national role to make sure that the civil rights impulse of education is not lost. in other words, we need to be there to protect kids against inequities based on their skin color, based on the circumstances of their birth. we still

and the department of education for the purposes of verifying income applicants requesting or renewing eligibility for income driven loan repayment plans. state of washington ranked miest in -- ranked table. of grants on the with the high cost of education that's unacceptable. of borrowers and income driven repayment fail to ecertify their income on time, resulting in payment spikes and nterest capitalization for approximately 1.3 million borrowers. this important legislation is reducing the in burdensome verification process or students and parents filing for aid. addressing a drive challenge many students face accessing and affording higher education. i'm honored to be working with y colleagues in the senate, chairman alexander, and ranking member murray, to simplify and fafs if an he application -- fafsa application process and help students across the country. this bipartisan approach to fafsa simplification has been a time coming. i am pleased we're able to get the entirety of my bill included i urgefuture act where i my colleagues -- which i urge my colleagues to support today. t

if you look at certain agencies, the department of education and the last 20 years, the beginning of the century, it has grown more than 100%. federal spending. the department of education is not social security or medicare. politicians are spending twice as much now as they were 20 years ago. , a bipartisan vote with mitch mcconnell on the wrong side. have mark saying can you your guest answer how many loopholes were removed from the upper class taxes so they could get this tax cut? limit some ofere the deductions. that is partly responsible for why they paid more individual taxes. it is good for people at the lowest and of the income scale. i'm not sure it is good for people in the middle class. the american dream is to work hard and make more. to try to be more successful and make more money. why should the government inhibit that by penalizing people for making more money? we aree more money, going to take it away. then your kid is going to have to pay interest on the money we borrow. we will go to baltimore next. good morning. caller: how are you today? i have a question in refer

this is a comprehensive review from the california department of special education. it is something they do each year and they look at the entire state of california and look at some data reports and derm a score for each district. there is a cutoff point of 62%. unfortunately for us this year we scored 61. they had to look at us. we are moving to the next slide to tell you what that review entailed. >> what we wanted to explain is how it is that san francisco unified got selected for the comprehensive review. there are a number of monitors systems. data informed noncompliance. you have probably heard of it. it is called think. it is a black and white do we do ieps on time and/or transition plans are they done completely. they collect that data. another one is performance indicator review which has 14 different targets that the state is looking at that are fed have you cal pads or the dashboard. where we have failed to meet the targets is on the english. the ela and math achieved participation. it brings us to th us to the pe. we are disproportionate in the number of

i did the analysis, and if you look at certain government agencies -- the department of education, and the last 20 years, since 1999, the beginning of this country, it has grown more than 100% in real terms, federal spending on the department of education. it is discretionary spending. politicians are spending twice as much now as they were 20 years ago. congress -- there was a bipartisan vote with mitch mcconnell on the wrong side. saying,rk from new york can you please have your guest answer this, how many loopholes were removed from the upper-class taxes so they could get this magnificent tax cut? guest: there were. i did not memorize all the details, but they did limit some deductions and removed some deductions. i think that is partly responsible for why people pay more individual income taxes last year. they increased the standard deduction which is for the lowest end of the income scale, but i'm not sure what it did for people in the middle class and people moving upward. the american dream is to work hard and make more. be more successful and make more money. why should the gov

instead of fighting a losing battle for medicare for all, i would rather fight a winning battle for education. ongoing debate in republican circles whether or not we need the department of education. what is the role of the federal government when it comes to education? sen. bennet: it is a great question. i think it is important because it administers our student loan program. i wish we've used our student loan program to incentivize universities to keep our costs low because college has gotten so expensive. itm ak 12 perspective, what perspective,2 would be to help people on the ground learn best practices and transmit them across the country. a pastor of money from the federal government to the local communities. about 9% of what we spend on k-12 education. we have an important and vital and national will to make sure of civil rights impulse education is not lost. we need to be there to protect kids against inequities based on their skin color, based on the circumstances of their birth. we still have an important role to play. that is representative of the origins of the department of education. >> you have been an administrator, you are a senator, so how does mic

we brought folks over from the department of education. we now have a school resource guide working with the department of education here at the white house on this issue for teachers, educators, staff, so they have examples of curriculum to use with their students. one thing is very clear, we are not going to have a one national curriculum on drug prevention for eighth-graders. we have to let local communities decide how to work this best. that is how we do it with the drug-free community programs and that is what we did with the school resource guide it so that people can go in, teachers, educators, to see curriculum other teachers have developed. they can see what has a fifth grade teacher done? they can see examples. , andu go visit the website you will be able to find that it won't be the world's flashiest, prettiest website. it will get there in another month or so, bright now it is useful. don't let perfect become the enemy of the good. it is a useful site. it works. you can go to it and use the resources. right now, it is available

it matters what is going on in the departments, from the department of education, which needs to makeure that acceptance is being promoted, to make sure everyone is able to go to the bathroom. barring a medical miracle, everyone is going to need that as long as i'm alive. and making sure people understand the culture and the history -- a lot of trans people are being defined out of existence by the message that comes through. in addition to making sure that all kinds of policies across health and human services for example reflect the medical and health needs of trans americans. hate crimeswe need laws in every state in the union. unfortunately, we do not have the right now, including in my state. part, bute policy there is something else. that is what i am getting at with this crisis of belonging. -- we need aent president who is invited to the table. a lot is through what you do not do. a lot is how we lift up people who have been made to feel -- a lot of us here have been made to feel like we are taking up space. like you are not sure if there is room for you. we have to turn that

they defrauded everyone in sight, when they were sued by state attorneys general and the department of education, when it turned out they were big frauds and the students saw the schools crumble in front of them, the students end up with a debt, and we say under the law the federal government has some responsibility. we should have done a better job accrediting these schools. that isn't the way secretary devos sees it. as far as she is concerned, these kids are on their own. and they're not kids anymore. they have been hanging on to the student debt for so long, they don't know which way to turn. despite secretary devos' excuses, the reality is montgomery is legally preventing her from providing these discharges to these students, to loans that they took out at these for-profit colleges and universities. she could do it tomorrow. she would clearly -- clear the backlog quickly if she did, if she wanted to, but we know she is using her legal authority to provide relief to defrauded borrowers. it says it gives her extreme displeasure to do that. we know that because she wrote that on an order that

budget committee hearing, i did review the financial reports as produced by the california department of education for the first four years of the charter school's operation, and i noted that they had indeed met all of those lofty fund-raising goals for those years and the staff found they had positive fiscal performance. our finding takes that into account, but also looks at the fact that they have declining enrollment, don't really seem to have a convincing plan for reversing that decline and would continue to rely on $1 million each year in local fund-raising. that might happen, it might not, but it is up to us to make sure we point out that is an issue of concern. that is my report. >> thank you, mr. davis. we have a number of people signed up for public comment. then we will open it up to commissioners for questions. we do have 19 cards here. we typically have two minutes. if you could limit yourself to a minute. i am not going to limit you to a minute, i am asking you to limit to a limit considering the length of the meeting. you have two minutes. i will read your names. bear in mind the len

about sex ed in schools but without a standardized sex education program sanctioned by the department of education will have personal and religious by. this is coming in and sometimes you have a teacher who doesn't know enough about sex talking about how to prevent teen pregnancy you'll have a case of the blind leading the blind and that's why it's very important to have standardized sex comprehensive sex ed curriculum we have to deprive the messages of abstinence only and go to the science which tells us that you know how guns work better than telling prayer when it comes to preventing unwanted pregnancies i'm a scientist thank you that's all for now remember there's more on our website e.w. dot com for slash asia thank you for watching see you next time and goodbye. what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore this amazing world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 get here now. welcome to the book is leading to a detailed. plan to talk about. this coverage. 3 more poor. people we have. let's have a look at some of the other much around the still shaking in their

unfortunately, the current department of education is more education privatizing than on making sure that the states fully implement the law. holding states accountable for improving outcomes of disadvantaged is most and this notable in the department's approval of state plans that performance of subgroups altogether and the and information available to help the every students succeeds act. we reflect on the passage of the every students succeeds act and the opportunity it provide, the department of education and secretary devos to support states and hold them implementing r this law with fidelity. my colleagues on the education and labor committee will our robust oversight of the department's implementation student ure the every succeeds act fulfills a promise we made to all students when signed it into law. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentleman from mississippi, mr. kelly, for five minutes. speaker, i ask for unanimous consent to speak or five minutes and to extend and modify my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without

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has been downloaded more than 900- thousand times. ( james )(ááávidboxááá) the california department of educationg more than 21- million dollars in federal money ... to help students and schools affected by last year's wildfires like the camp fire. state superintendent átony thurmondá announced the grants yesterday. part of the money will be used to hire additional staff to provide behavioral or counseling services for students. ( will) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news-- two people are without a home-- after r-v's were forced out of an east bay neighborhood. more on this when we come back. welcome back to the kron four morning news... lets start the half hour of weather and traffic... no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 mateo bridge maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 toll to 101 min from the less than 20 min from the toll to 101 weather.weather.weather . ( james

to have options by 2020 or in middle of 2020 to deal with student debt, in statement from department of educationwith white house and other stake holders to fix an unsustainable system without unfairly burdens taxpayers with another bailout, trying to untangle a web of complicated lending options for parents and students, to get that student loan there, in addition to that, unwinding of complication, white house, president, wants more acted taction to be done. david: thank you, is it smart for the president to smokin focn student debt. >> we have an election coming up, bottom line, you cannot file -- put it in bankruptcy number one. they look to lower interest, not worst idea, i don't think they look to forgive thing like you hear in from others, i don't want that, i just think be careful about this. people sign contracts, on loans, you are supposed to pay them, this talk that owno owes 200,000, average 4 year graduate owes about 26,000, that is a lot but not the end of the world, go to work, pay it off. they paid it off over time, they did not whine. >> gary is right, this is a big issue in 2020

maxine is co-author of the book he senior fellow for education at the new york city-based manhattan institute of former program manager of the education policy study department of the american enterprise institute and has a ba from yale university. andrew pollack's unlikely political activist, entrepreneur and businessman with experience in scrap metal and real estate but everything changed when his daughter was murdered by nikolas cruz on february 14 of last year. he now dedicates his life to making schools safe again.he sounded a nonprofit americans were children's lives and school safety Ãbget answers and justice. to begin, ladies and gentlemen, andrew pollack. [applause] >> hey everyone. i'd like to thank everyone for coming. i'm going to tell you a little bit about my story, which is kind of rough for me to do but i want to do it for you. i was never into politics before this happened. actually, the first time i voted was in 2016. all i wanted to know was why my daughter meadow was murdered at the school. how i could bring my daughter, i moved from long island, to an upper-middle-class neighborhood in broward and i thought like every other parent that t

(ááávidboxááá) the california department of education is getting more than 21- million dollars in federal ... to help students and schools affected by last year's wildfires like the camp fire. state superintendent átony thurmondá announced the grants yesterday. part of the money will be used to hire additional staff to provide behavioral or counseling services for students. as we head to break. here's a live look outside ... at the san francisco international airport. ( james ) an earthquake in monterey county this week triggered the state's earthquake early warning system ... and sent an alert to people through an app. kron four's philippe djegal talked to berkeley seismologists who are calling the program a success. ( james )( darya ) checking bay area weather before you head out the door.. ( will ) the 49ers are getting some help on defense for tomorrow nights game at levi's stadium. cornerback richard sherman is cleared to play against the rams after missing one game with a hamstring injury. however, defensive end dee ford will not be playing as he recovers from his own hamstring issu

clause i'm not of course because there are precious few rain deals and talking and to finish department of education of just made it official because they have read just a picky that's the finished celebration of christmas with unesco so it's all there and the greed and i mean it is education that it's led the way in funny social services it's not the real reason for finland being the happiest country on f. l e education and then continuing education through life. i know you wrote the you're head of innovation the the national board for education and from one. to the charge occasions do spectacularly well by piece a standard spent on national measurement. part of those one of them is that phyllis children spend less time in school they do less homework than most comparable countries yet they seem to do better at school so how do you explain the the products that phyllis shows seem to not to be asked to do as much in formal schooling but end up with better results well we believe that it's important that children have time to play and have healthy sense spend time with their parents so we don't belie

of gender identity or sexual orientation. i will sign it the moment it gets to my desk. third, it matters what's going on in the departments, in the agencies, from the department of educationwhich needs to make sure that acceptance is being promoted in everything from policies to make sure everybody can go to the bathroom, because barring a medical miracle, everyone will need that for as long as i'm alive. and all the way through to making sure people understand the culture and history and meaning, because a lot of trans people are being defined out of existence by the message that comes through. in addition to making sure that all kinds of policies across health and human services, for example, reflect the medical an d health needs of trans americans. and by the way, we need hate crimes laws in every state in the union. unfortunately we don't have that even now, including in my state. [applause] mr. buttigieg: so that's the policy part, but there's something else. that's what i'm getting at with this idea of the crisis of belonging. we need a president who, both through representation, who is invited to the table and put in positions of power and through the language. a l

unregulated products could put your health at risk. ( james )(ááávidboxááá) the california department of educationng more than 21- million dollars in federal money ... to help students and schools affected by last year's wildfires like the camp fire. state superintendent átony thurmondá announced the grants yesterday. part of the money will be used to hire additional staff to provide behavioral or counseling services for students. ( christina ) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news-- travel day of the holiday season is underway. i'm live at s-f-o with details on what its looking like so far. ...6, 7, 8 ♪ ♪ ♪ big dreams start with small steps... ...but dedication can get you there. so just start small... start saving. easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. ♪ ♪ chase. make more of what's yours®. ( will ) lets start the half hour with a check of weather and traffic... weatherweather.weather. our top story this morning. a young boy is dead after a playground accident at a private school in san rafael.( james ) the school says classes will be in session this morning

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these nominees have sided with shady for-profit colleges like the president's department of education. trum's nominees have followed his footsteps on health care, ruling and speaking against expanding affordable health care for families. they've allowed major corporations to skirt rules intended to help address the urgent threat of the climate crisis. about you perhaps most consistently, president trump's judicial nominees have adhered to rigid, backward, deeply harmful ideology when it comes to reproductive health care. one called roe v. wade quote radical abortion rights. another pushed pseudo science claiming birth control can lead to suicide. mr. president, the vast majority of women and men in our country would agree these aren't positions you want a supposedly impartial judge to espouse. but unfortunately what i've just laid out pails in comparison so what we know of the judicial nominee we know of today, sarah pitlyk. miss pitlyk who the american bar association raifted as unqualified, unqualified as actively worked to erode women's access to birth control and abortion. she eve

semitism and i essentially the order extends part of the 1964 civil rights act it allowed the department of education to withhold federal funding from any college that discriminates on the grounds of race color or national origin that no is extended to religion and critics say that effectively suggest use of people who share the same race or collective national origin the new order could significantly impact the b.d.s. movement it are just a ploy caught divestment and sanctions campaign against the israeli government for its treatment of palestinians living in the region some have claimed b.d.s. is anti semitic while supporters say it's not targeting a religion but political action but as the group has grown on american campuses it's been accused of creating a hostile climate for jewish students by conflating it clear the criticism for israel and make it equal to you know anti semitism they're trying to censor any the free debate here in the u.s. when it comes to the israeli policy is donald trump is aggressively back to israel since taking office he moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem in the face of

having help from the department of education. department of education working on options here for the white house to help students possibly with that crushing loan debt they get when they leave college. some 44 million americans have $1.5 trillion in student loan debt. that is second only to mortgage debt. the president has not made any decisions on this but he is looking for a way to deal with this issue. there could be changes to the higher education act that would allow student loan debt to be refinanced or dealt with in bankruptcy possibly. in a statement, white house press secretary judd deere says this, president trump recognizes sear rugs situation many americans find themselves in with rising student loan debt. it has already taken significant administrative and regulatory action to undo the damage from previous administration. the administration hoping to have options related to this in 2020. in a statement from the department of education, their press secretary says that secretary devos is working with the white house an

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semitism and i essentially the order extends part of the 1964 civil rights act into law the department of education to withhold federal funding from any college that discriminates on the grounds of race color or national origin that no is extended to religion and critics say that effectively suggest use of people who share the same race or collective national origin. the new order could significantly impact the b.d.s. movement it are just a ploy caught divestment and sanctions campaign against the israeli government for its treatment of palestinians living in the region some have claimed b.d.s. is anti semitic while supporters say it's not targeting a religion but political action but as the group has grown on american campuses it's been accused of creating a hostile climate for jewish students by conflating it clear the criticism for israel and make it equal tool you know and the senate isn't trying to censor any the free debate here in the u.s. when it comes to the israeli policies donald trump is aggressively back to israel since taking office he moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem in the face o

it interprets judaism as a race or nationality not just a religion, a step that gives the department of education broader authority over anti-semitic incidents on campuses. jared kushner defended the executive order saying it does not define jews as a nationality but merely says that to the extent they are discriminated against for ethic, racial or national characteristics, they are entitled protection by the anti-discrimination law. critics are also raising concern about free speech but a trump administration official says the executive order clearly states it should be applied consistent with the first amendment. >>> we also have new information this morning about that deadly shooting at that naval air station in pensacola, florida last week. sources say investigators have determined the shooting was likely a terror attack inspired by radical islamic ideology. investigators say the shooter had posted radical content online. he killed three service members before being killed by officers. he was a member of the saudi air force in the u.s. for training. >>> we turn now to washington where the hou

the other thing we can do is make sure the irs and department of education talks to each other becausethe hard to navigate system. not this. you fill out a fafsa and your time is waisted. the systems are not talking to eachte other. the part where you and i part ways is the idea it should be free for everybody. there are a lot of good k through 12:00 education. e everybody in my fission should finish at least high school. i just don't think everybody wants to go to college. cost shouldn't be a barrier. we are sending a massage that you can't get ahead unless you go to college. i think every single american access to it. we should make sure you have that responsibility whether you have been to college or not i guess my instinct is for those who need it the most. i'mth hoping you feel there is a lot more overlap even if i can't n win you on the overlap. [ applause ] >> i'm really interested in hearing you talk about addressing and identifyingt mental illness. also yourth response to the opid crisis, also with the more adcontroversial treatments. >> yes, it could be devisive but leadershi

will do a focus review on the latest data available for sfusd students from the california department of education schools dashboard. we will be joined by myong lee, deputy superintendent of policy and operations. this meeting will go from 3:30 until 5:30, and we encourage anyone who is interested to attend that meeting. sfusds assessment committee update. the assessment committee will be held -- will hold its first meeting on sunday, december 19 from 12:30 to 2:00 in the irving g. breyer room, here in this building. we will be looking to see what will be prioritized for this school year. >> so the p.a.c. priorities for this year include several items, and we're still building that list. we have a new coordinator, michelle, so we are a new team this year. and we are doing student health and nutrition as a focus. in november, p.a.c. members attended two different tasting services provided by the nutrition services. we hope that a diverse array of students are also provided with the opportunity to sample more foods and give meaningful feedback. we are impressed with the comprehensiveness of thought