Danyela Testimony on the House Education and Workforce Committee
Danyela was invited to testify as a witness to the House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education during the June 4 session entitled: "The Consequences of Biden’s Border Chaos for K-12 Schools"
Watch the highlights below.
Opening Statement
NYC Independent Budget Office Asylum Seeker Cost Projections For Fiscal Years 2025 & 2026
US-Mexico Border Is World's Deadliest Land Crossing for Migrants
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli report: "Nation's Report Card" Underscores New York's Need for Academic Recovery
Huge increase on number of kids crossing the border alone in the past 4 years
NY is #1 in funding for education but has only mediocre learning outcomes
NYC Citizens Budget Commission report on NYC public schools funding and enrollment
NY Board of Regents changed the state tests standards to hide the COVID mandates learning loss
Read Danyela’s op-ed “New York Schools are Normalizing Post-Covid Low Expectations”
NYS changes minimum scores for student proficiency in math and English
Antisemitism
Principal Yu of Stuyvesant High School sent an email to all parents with a toolkit encouraging kids and teachers to walk out of school for Palestine