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Teachers across the country relied on TEACH grants to pay for their education in return for teaching a high-need subject in a low income school. They upheld their end of the bargain but many had their grants converted to loans.
.@usedgov is giving teachers a chance to have their TEACH grant conversion reconsidered npr.org/2018/12/09/664…
.@usedgov will provide further instructions by January 31, 2019. Affected teachers can monitor this site for updates: studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/grant…
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It is an honor to welcome three talented new Representatives from IL as they are sworn-in as members of Congress in Washington: Reps. Garcia, Casten, and Underwood. In particular, Rep. Underwood’s arrival is historic as she is the youngest African American woman ever in Congress.
Rep. Underwood's career in nursing & experience with the Obama Admin prepared her for her new policy role in the House. Rep. Garcia brings a wealth of experience serving in Cook County & the General Assembly.
And Rep. Casten is a clean energy entrepreneur who brings that background to D.C. at the right moment. I look forward to working with all of them in the #116thCongress.
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Let me be clear: Dems support strong, effective border security. The type of border security that Dems have long-supported, including increased funds for tech, is what experts have said is needed & actually works. What doesn’t work is an ineffective, expensive & medieval wall.
But here’s what we should all agree on: large portions of the government shouldn’t be shut down while there’s a debate on border security.
Today, we urged the President and Republican leaders to pass the 6 other appropriations bills, which would reopen most of the government, along with a short-term bill to keep DHS funded and working while we continue to debate the path forward on border security.
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Democrats have made it clear to the President that there are much more effective ways to secure our border than a wall – like more screening technology and personnel to stop drugs from flowing through our borders. Democrats support smart border security that works.
For example, the DEA has found that the cartels transport the bulk of their illicit goods over the Southwest border through legal ports of entry using passenger vehicles or tractor trailers.
CBP Commissioner McAleenan told me directly in October 2017 that his top priority to secure the border was more drive-through inspection systems, known as Z-portals. He didn’t mention a border wall.
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Instead of Black Friday shopping, how about helping this teacher in a low-income SF school that just got its budget cut by $170K and lost its learning specialist get some basic classroom supplies? She asking for pencils and gluesticks ffs: donorschoose.org/project/our-sc…
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I recently tweeted about my time working in Obama’s mail room while in college. How he received a tremendous amount of hate mail, a disproportionate amount being racist (sometimes graphically). But the letters of hate aren’t what I remember most clearly.
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#Israeli Regime has cut off water supplies to a Palestinian school in Faroush Beit Dajan village
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This week, House and Senate Democrats are unveiling two bold, ambitious, new planks of our A Better Deal agenda: A Better Deal for Our Teachers and Students, and A Better Deal for Our Democracy.1 #ABetterDeal #BlueWave2018 #DemPartyPlatform
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Today, teacher’s wages are a full 17 percent lower than comparable workers – forcing nearly one in every five full-time teachers to work a second job to make ends meet. 3 #ABetterDeal #Education #Teachers #DemsWork4USA
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This NYT op-ed by Ellen Ruppel Shell cites my work w/ Brad Hershbein on how college returns vary for persons who grew up in families of different incomes. IMO, it draws the wrong conclusions from our work, and omits some important findings: nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opi…
First, here is the link to our working paper on this topic, which the op-ed did not include: research.upjohn.org/up_workingpape…
The op-ed says that we found "that for Americans born into middle-class families, a college degree does appear to be a wise investment. Those in this group who earned 162% more....than those who didn't. But for those born into poverty, the results were far less impressive."
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