Formal Testimony and Comment

Kati Haycock Delivers Testimony on ESEA Reauthorization to U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce

Date: 
March 1 2011 - March 1 2012

Chairman Kline, Ranking Member Miller, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you this morning on the role of the federal government in education and its impact on states, districts, and schools.

In his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last month, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels aptly captured the historic federal role in education when he said, “Our first thought is always for those on life’s first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.”

Indeed, from the first iteration of the Elementary a

Letter Urging Amendments to Keep Our Educators Working Act

Date: 
May 13 2010

Read the letter from Ed Trust and other reform advocates urging Congress to ensure the act's funds are used only to save educators' jobs, not pad states' rainy-day funds. 

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application/pdf iconAmend the Keep Our Educators Working Act.pdf

Letter to Senate HELP Committee on ESEA Reauthorization

Date: 
May 7 2010

Read the letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The document contains sections on Accountability for Results, Standards and Assessments, Ensuring Equitable Access to Effective Teachers and Leaders, Turning Around Our Lowest Performing Schools, Funding Fairness, Instructional Supports for Teachers, and Public Information and Reporting.

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application/pdf iconEd Trust ESEA Comments.pdf

United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor

Date: 
September 10 2007

Mr. Chairman, Mr. McKeon, and Members of the Committee, thank you for providing me with the opportunity to testify before you this morning on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, in particular about the teacher quality provisions.

This Committee has shown great leadership not only in confronting the achievement gap in our public schools, but also in recognizing that improving the quality of teaching at high-poverty and high-minority schools is the most effective gap-closing strategy.

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Written Testimony: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Date: 
March 6 2007

Others on this panel will talk with you today about the pressing need to dramatically increase the effectiveness of America’s teaching force. I could not agree more. For the record, though, I want to emphasize that much more is at stake than simply meeting the goals and timelines of No Child Left Behind.

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