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ADVISORY: House-Senate Joint Conference Committee on K-12 Education to Hold First Public Meeting
11.18.15 WASHINGTON - TODAY, November 18, 2015, at 2:30 p.m., a House and Senate conference committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will hold its first meeting in HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center. At the first meeting, members of the conference committee are expected to deliver opening statements. WHAT: Meeting of a House-Senate joint conference committee on K-12 education WHEN: Wednesday, November 18, at 2:30 p.m. WHERE: HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center … Continue Reading
ADVISORY: K-12 Education Joint Conference Committee to Reconvene, Consider Amendments
11.18.15 WASHINGTON - TOMORROW, November 19, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., the House and Senate conference committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will hold a second meeting in HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center. At the conference committee’s next meeting, members are expected to consider amendments to the House-Senate proposed framework. WHAT: House-Senate joint conference committee on K-12 education to reconvene WHEN: Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. WHERE: HVC-2… Continue Reading
Scott: Conference Framework “Lives up to the Promises of Brown and the Intent of the Original ESEA”
11.18.15 WASHINGTON - Today, Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) delivered remarks at a joint House and Senate conference committee meeting to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. At today's conference committee meeting, Ranking Member Scott emphasized the need to advance student-centered policy solutions that both fulfill the ESEA's civil rights legacy and move public education forward. Remarks by Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott: 2:30 P.M. EST Mr. Chairman, I would lik… Continue Reading
Pelosi Names Conferees to Elementary and Secondary Elementary School Act Bill Conference
11.17.15 WASHINGTON - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today named seven House Democratic Members to serve on a conference committee to complete a final ESEA agreement. "Fifty years ago, we enacted into law the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act because, as Americans, we recognized that education is the single most important investment a nation can make in its future and a family can make in its children," Leader Pelosi said. "Nothing returns more money to the Treasury than investments in … Continue Reading
House, Senate Education Leaders Discuss Efforts to Replace No Child Left Behind
07.30.15 Agree to recommend House Chairman John Kline to chair the conference committee to reconcile House- and Senate-passed bills WASHINGTON - House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), House Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Senate Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today met to discuss proceeding with a conference committee to resolve differences in the House- and Se… Continue Reading
Scott Statement on Senate Passage of ‘No Child Left Behind’ Update
07.16.15 WASHINGTON - Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott issued the following statement after the Senate passed the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015, the Senate bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965: "While today's Senate passage of the Every Child Achieves Act (S.1177) moves us one step closer toward our collective goal of fixing No Child Left Behind, the bill remains unworthy of the President's signature. The Every Child Achieves Act fails to require stat… Continue Reading
Scott Statement on Passage of Partisan Bill to Reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
07.08.15 WASHINGTON - Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA) issued the following statement on the 218-213 passage of H.R. 5, the bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA): "Sixty one years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which established state-funded public education as 'a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.' Recognizing that funding education through local property taxes meant that p… Continue Reading
Statement on the 61st Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
05.15.15 WASHINGTON - Committee on Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), issued the following statement on 61st Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education - Topeka, Kansas on May 17, 1954: "As we commemorate the 61st anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision to desegregate our nation's schools, we remember the reverberating impact the civil rights case had on our children, our communities and our nation. … Continue Reading
Revising the Management of Native American Schools
05.14.15 WASHINGTON - The full committee held a hearing today to address the deteriorating state of Native youth education. The hearing entitled "Examining the Federal Government's Mismanagement of Native American Schools" is the second hearing the subcommittee has held this year to facilitate tangible and long-lasting change in the management of American Indian/ Alaska Native (AI/AN) schools. Ranking Member of the full Committee on Education and the Workforce, Representative Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (V… Continue Reading
Investing in the Future of American Indian and Alaska Native Students
04.22.15 WASHINGTON - Today, the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing to discuss the educational challenges impacting American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students and schools. The hearing entitled "Examining the Challenges Facing Native American Schools" is the first hearing exploring this topic since 2008. Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) joined the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Ear… Continue Reading
Scott Statement on the Senate’s Every Child Achieves Act
04.16.15 WASHINGTON - House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA) released the following statement today on the passage of the Every Child Achieves Act by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: "Today's unanimous passage of the Every Child Achieves Act by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions should serve as an example of bipartisanship for the House of Representatives to follow. "While today represents anot… Continue Reading
Ranking Member Scott, Tri-Caucus Chairs Push for Stronger ESEA Bill
04.14.15 WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) considers the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015, a bi-partisan education proposal put forth by Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and leaders of the Congressional Tri-Caucus - comprised of the Congressional Asi… Continue Reading
Scott Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of ESEA
04.10.15 WASHINGTON- House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA) released the following statement today honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: "On April 11, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, providing schools with targeted federal dollars in order to offer equitable educational opportunities to all American children. The 1965 enactment was intended to address … Continue Reading
Scott Statement on Senate Education Bill
04.07.15 WASHINGTON- House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA) released the following statement today after Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray released details on their agreement on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: "I commend Senators Alexander and Murray for their efforts to bring forward a bipartisan Elementary and Secondary Education reauthorization bill in the Senate. While we recognize this as an important st… Continue Reading
Republicans Pass Bill to Rob Funds from Poor, Give to Rich Schools
02.11.15 WASHINGTON—House Republicans today voted to turn back the clock on American public education and harm our nation’s neediest children. Along strict party lines, Republicans on the Education and the Workforce Committee pushed through a bill that reduces funding, eliminates and weakens protections for disadvantaged students, fails to provide a quality education for all children, and neglects our public school teachers. Committee Democrats offered several amendments to fix the legislation’s glaring … Continue Reading
ESEA Rewrite Must Ensure World-Class Education for All Students, Committee Learns
02.06.15 WASHINGTON-Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, Ranking Democratic Member on the House Education and the Workforce Committee held a forum to hear from teachers, researchers and other education experts to inform the committee's work on rewriting the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Committee Democrats believe any ESEA reauthorization must reflect current research and best practices, and must protect students' rights in the process. The forum follo… Continue Reading
***MEDIA ADVISORY***: Ed and Workforce Committee Dems to Hold Forum on ESEA Reauthorization
02.03.15 WASHINGTON-Rewriting No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), is one of the most significant challenges before this Congress. Unfortunately, the Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce have chosen to move forward with their reauthorization process without holding a single committee hearing or seeking any input from Democrats. The Republican majority has introduced legislation that would dismantle … Continue Reading
Scott Criticizes GOP’s ESEA Bill and Partisan Process, Announces Forum to Examine ESEA Reauthorization Issues
02.03.15 WASHINGTON-House Republicans today began a hasty, partisan push to rewrite one of the nation's most important education laws by introducing H.R. 5, legislation that would undermine equity and accountability in public schools. Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA) criticized the bill and the scheduling of no related hearings. For that reason, Rep. Scott announced he will be holding a forum to more thoroughly examine the issues and policy solutions per… Continue Reading
Rep. Scott: ESEA Reauthorization Must Support High-Quality Education for All Students
01.12.15 WASHINGTON-In response to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's new proposals for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), ranking member on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, released the following statement today, the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the nation's cornerstone K-12 education law: "The Elementary and Secondary Education Act remains one of the most significant civil rights achievements of ou… Continue Reading