[School Budgets\COVID-19]
Rep. Norton: “Many schools, like those in the District, have been forced to go virtual because of the pandemic…The delay in passing the Heroes Act, which contains $200B for schools, is unconscionably shortchanging our children .”
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[Trump’s Executive Order\Student Loan]
Rep Scott: “Trump’s executive order does nothing to address the crisis facing our education system. It does nothing to help state and local governments avoid deep cuts to public education, which could be as high as $300 billion over the next two years.”
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[American Economy]
Rep. Scott: “If President Trump and Senator McConnell continue to block a comprehensive relief package, our country will likely suffer a prolonged economic depression, which will have long-term consequences for local, state, and federal budgets.”
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[National Nurses United Protests]
Nurse Bonnie Castillo: “Nurses know that this country’s rampant social, economic, and racial injustice has been killing our patients all along. COVID-19 is just forcing us as a society to face these problems”
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[Betsy DeVos\Privatization]
House Education & Labor Committee: “The Department’s rule is both substantively and procedurally improper and will divert precious resources from the nation’s public schools that serve 90 percent of all students and 99 percent of low-income students.”
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[2020 Election]
Peace Voice\Moss: Donald Trump continually seeks to delegitimize voting by mail, characterizing it as a form of cheating. And, if this is not enough, U.S. intelligence officials again warn that other countries – particularly Russia…”
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[COVID-19 Relief]
Weingarten: “The funds proposed for K-12 public schools, colleges and universities are woefully inadequate given the expenses schools will face to reopen safely.”
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[COVID-19\”Heroes Act”]
Waters: “When asked by a reporter this week if a coronavirus bill would pass by the end of the month, Mitch McConnell reportedly laughed and said ‘no.’…There is nothing funny about any of this.”
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[COVID-19\School Funding]
Weingarten: “Our nation is at a critical crossroad, and the decisions Congress and the president make in the next two weeks will be felt for generations to come.”
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