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thank you Mr chair uh we’ve just
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received the latest uh test scores for
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students across this country and they
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are absolutely uh alarming what we see
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is that the trend continues to be one uh
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of decline as you can see uh in this
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chart right here uh the bottom part of
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the graph shows from
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2013 uh to the present uh average scores
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in Reading uh and in math fourth and 8th
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grade and then the top of the chart is
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particularly interesting because that
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shows the level of spending uh the the
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gray curve there is actually inflation
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so you can see the spending uh line
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above that exceeds that it’s this is a
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steady growth in spending in in real
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dollars that is uh proceeding in tandem
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with a steady decline in student
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achievement so when we’re talking about
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the reforms that are going to be
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considered by uh the president uh as
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well as by this committee uh I certainly
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welcome uh any arguments against them uh
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that seek to identify what the
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implications of those reforms might be
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but there are two responses that I think
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are wholly inadequate and are frankly
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the only responses we’ve really heard
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today uh from the other side of the deis
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number one is defending the status quo
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this is the status quo it is failure
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continuing decline a continual dimming
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of the prospects of America’s young
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people and a diminished capacity of
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America to lead the world and the second
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response also inadequate is to say the
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solution is to just spend more money
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under the current system because as we
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can see there has been an inverse
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relationship between spending and
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student achievement so uh Mr Taylor you
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mentioned this earlier that simply
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spending more money uh doesn’t
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necessarily help matters why do you
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believe that is that we see this
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actually inverse correlation between
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spending and student achievement well
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because we ultimately refer to the K
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through 16 system as the people who
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produce the product that we employers
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buy and we are increasingly seeing a
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lower quality product come out of the K
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through6 system
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so sadly if we go back to the
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manufacturer the K through2 system also
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when the manufactures the parents but
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but when you get into the system and you
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ask them and they say well we’re
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spending more money on it and we are
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telling them but you’re not giving us
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what we need there’s not enough volume
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and the people who do do come through
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often your product oftenly often does
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not have the skills and some of those
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are what we call you call S soft skills
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we call power skills they don’t know how
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to interact with other employees they
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don’t know how to work on teams they
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don’t know how to show up to work on
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time and Starling statistic that 20% of
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of right now gen Z parents are showing
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up to the interviews with them like this
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is what’s happening in the workplace so
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we’re saying got it you’re spending a
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lot of money but we are going to tell
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you on the other end of this that the
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product that you’re receiving and
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delivering to us is suboptimal right and
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this is a characterization of the system
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as a whole uh however there are examples
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of schools and school systems uh that do
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quite well that have an excellent
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educational product uh and uh I’m very
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grateful that the chair has trusted me
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to lead the subcommittee that spans K12
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education as well uh as prek and uh our
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overarching goal is to look is going to
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be to look at how can we make it so
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these examples of really good schools
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and good school systems uh become the
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norm rather than the exception and I
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think that there are principles that you
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can clearly identify with successful
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school systems uh they allow flexibility
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in terms of how schools are operated uh
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they demand accountability for ual
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outcomes and then they provide parents
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and families with choices now this of
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course is generally a characterization
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of how Charter Schools work uh and
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Charter Schools uh are have been very
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successful in many states across the
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country so some of the priorities that
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our committee are going to is going to
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focus on uh are number one uh the
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question of funding how do we reimagine
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the role of uh the federal government in
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education both when it comes to the
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bureaucracies that exist and how funding
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gets allocated uh number two is how can
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we support school choice in States and
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whole states accountable for policies
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that run against school choice whether
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that be for Charter Schools or other
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forms of choice number three is how can
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we assist uh Educators across the
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country in incorporating the very
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powerful personalized learning tools
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that advances in technology have made
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available uh number four uh we is
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re-exam is examining uh how literacy is
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being taught across this country there
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are still way too many uh districts and
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states that don’t properly teach
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literacy
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number five is expanding the role of
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Career Education which I know is a major
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priority uh of the chair and number six
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is we need to look at the broken nature
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of special education funding which is
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clearly inadequate for many districts uh
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causing many districts to have to then
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dip into their general fund budget and
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isn’t giving uh students with special
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needs and their families the support
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that they need so I think that we have a
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tremendous opportunity uh Mr chair to
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catalyze uh absolutely uh amazing
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education reform across the country uh
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that will go a long way towards helping
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millions of kids and better preparing
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our country for Global Leadership in the
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future I yield back I thank the