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Sen. Murray, Rep. Scott Call on Department of Education to Ensure “Robust and Multiple Opportunities” to Participate in ESSA Implementation
05.11.16 WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA), ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a letter to the Department of Education asking the agency to develop and implement processes to facilitate participation in the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the landmark legislation to fix the broken No Child Le… Continue Reading
King Pledges to Uphold Congressional Intent to Protect Educational Equity in ESSA Implementation
02.25.16 WASHINGTON - Today, the full Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing entitled, "Next Steps for K-12 Education: Upholding the Letter and Intent of the Every Student Succeeds Act". With the bipartisan passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), effort has now shifts to the implementation of the new law. This was the first full committee oversight hearing specifically on ESSA implementation, and Committee Democrats emphasized the Department of Education's constitutional duty t… Continue Reading
Scott Applauds Department of Education Action to Address Fairness in Special Education for Students of Color
02.23.16 WASHINGTON - Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for an 'Equity in IDEA' rule, aimed toward addressing widespread disparities in the treatment of students of color with disabilities: "I applaud today's announcement from the U.S. Department of Education (Department), which aims to address widespread disparities in the treatment of students of color with disabilities through a n… Continue Reading
Committee Democrats Urge National Attention to Increase Teacher Diversity
02.10.16 WASHINGTON - Today, Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Representative Susan Davis (CA-53), Member of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, Representative Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03), Representative Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training and Mark Takano (CA-41), Member of Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and … Continue Reading
Committee Democrats Challenge the Effectiveness of Private School Choice Programs
02.03.16 WASHINGTON - Today, the full Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing entitled “Expanding Educational Opportunity through School Choice.” The hearing focused on private school choice initiatives, which have proliferated throughout the country over the last 20 years. Research shows private school choice programs to be ineffective at improving student outcomes and provides little to no academic benefit for a select few at the expense of all students. Committee Democrats emphasize… Continue Reading
Scott Statement on Senate Passage of Bipartisan Bill to Fix No Child Left Behind
12.09.15 WASHINGTON - Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement on the 85-12 passage of S.1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act - a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replace No Child Left Behind: "I commend Senator Alexander, Senator Murray, Chairman Kline and our respective staff for their earnest and diligent work to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replace No Child Left Behind. The Every Studen… Continue Reading
Scott Statement on Passage of Bipartisan Bill to Fix No Child Left Behind
12.02.15 WASHINGTON - Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement on the 359-64 passage of S.1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act - a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replace No Child Left Behind: "Today's bipartisan vote to reauthorize the ESEA affirms the principles of Brown v. Board of Education, which held that 'it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an e… Continue Reading
Scott, Kline Applaud House Passage of Every Student Succeeds Act
12.02.15 Bipartisan bill replaces No Child Left Behind, Improves K-12 Education WASHINGTON - House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott and Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statements today after the House passed a bipartisan, bicameral bill to replace No Child Left Behind and improve K-12 education. Known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177), the bill passed the House by a vote of 359 to 64. "Today's bipartisan vote to reauthorize the ESEA … Continue Reading
House, Senate Education Committees Release Final Proposal to Replace NCLB
11.30.15 WASHINGTON - Today bipartisan leaders on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions released the final legislative text for improving K-12 education and replacing No Child Left Behind. The final bill is being released after legislative proposals passed separately by the House and Senate in July and embodies the reforms agreed to by members serving on a joint conference committee earlier this month. The House-Senate confer… Continue Reading
House-Senate Conference Committee Approves Framework to Improve K-12 Education
11.19.15 WASHINGTON - Today, the House-Senate conference committee reached agreement on a proposal to improve K-12 education and replace No Child Left Behind. The agreement represents a compromise between the House-passed Student Success Act (H.R. 5) and the Senate-passed Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (S. 1177). "No Child Left Behind has been failing students, parents, teachers, and state and local education leaders for far too long, and today we took an important step in replacing this flawed law,… Continue Reading
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