mr. curbelo, for five minute. mr. curbelo: mr. speaker, i rise to congratulate miami-dade county public schools where the graduation rate recently reached an all-time high of 78.1% for the 2014-2015 academic year. surpassing the state average of 77.8%. this is a 1.5% growth from last year's rate, marking the highest graduation rate mdcps has achieved since the florida department of education began implementing new standards track graduation figures in the late 1990's. this is a landmark accomplishment considering the major challenges miami's schools face, including high poverty rates and a large population of english language learners. as a former member of the miami-dade county school board, i salute the students, teachers, faculty, and parents for their dedication and for their commitment to excellence. i also want to recognize school board chair hampton, my other and colleagues, superintendent kur bellow, for their exceptional -- curbelo for their exceptional leadership. i think of them frequently and constantly am reminded how

mr. curbelo, chairman of the subcommittee on agriculture, energy, trade and reports is recognized for five minutes last night. >> thank you for recognizing my unfortunate injury over the holiday. i reserve all my comments about hoverboards. thank you very much for coming in today. there are a lot of specific questions that have been asked and think they are all very important. i want to ask you more broadly. is this just a cultural issue that is going to have to be addressed beyond specific fixes that you may recommend. is there just a cultural structural issue here that we should really focus on? i don't think congress is particularly well-equipped to get into the details of how an organization is operating, but we can certainly lay out a vision, antilles suggest a structure. and wonder if you could give us some guidance in that regard? >> you ask the great question so i'm going to stand back for what i'll call the detailed auditing here and now pieces fit together, and some of them fit in with enterprise risk management and come and some of the other matters we've talked about. i used th

mr. cavallo -- curbelo. >> thank you for recognizing my unfortunate injury over the holiday. i will reserve all of my comments on hoverboards. thank you so much for coming in today. there are a lot of specific questions that have been asked and i think they are all very important. i want to ask you more broadly, is this just a cultural issue that is going to have to be addressed beyond the specific fixes that you may recommend? is there just a cultural, structural issue here that we should really focus on? i don't think congress is particularly well-equipped to get into the details of how an organization is operating, but we can certainly lay out a vision and that they suggest a structure. i am wondering if you could give us some guidance in that regard. >> you ask a great question. i'm going to stand back or what i will call the detailed auditing hearing of how pieces fit together in some of them fit in with enterprises and some of the other matters we have talked about. i used the word earlier and it has been used over the years with sba has been silent in the idea that you

mr. curbelo, chairman of the subcommittee on agricultural, energy, trade and hover boards, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for recognizing my unfortunate injury over the holiday break. i'll reserve all my comments about hover boards. thank you very much for coming in today. there are a lot of specific questions that have been asked and i think they are all very important, but i want to ask you more broadly, is this just a cultural issue that is going to have to be addressed beyond the specific fixes that you may recommend? is there just a cultural, structural issue here that we should really focus on? i don't think congress is particularly well equipped to get into the details of how an organization is operating, but we can certainly lay out a vision and at least suggest a structure, and i'm wondering if you could give us some guidance in that regard. >> you ask a great question so i'm going to stand back from what i'll call the detailed auditing here and how pieces fit together and some of them fit in with enterprise risk management, and some of the other matters we have ta