Education

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath’s Early Head Start programs will receive $1,284,763 and the Shelby County Board of Education will receive $13,360,627 for Head Start programs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration of Children and Families.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Fort Pillow National Battlefield Park Study Act, legislation that would direct the Department of the Interior to conduct a resource study to determine whether the location of an infamous massacre of Black Union soldiers in the waning months of the Civil War qualify it as a National Park Service site.

WASHINGTON – On Friday, March 3, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will hold an event for the news media to discuss the $1 million he secured for the YMCA Before and After School Programs at Memphis and Shelby County Schools. Officials with the YMCA and the schools are expected to participate.

What: A News Media Event to Discuss funding for Before and After School programs

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Diversity Advancements in Accelerated Learning Programs Act, legislation that would authorize Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) funding to be used to create equity offices in state education departments or local education agencies. These offices would work to provide recommendations and develop programs to improve diversity in Advanced Placement (AP) and Gifted and Talented (GT) academic programs.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today reintroduced the Civil Rights Legacy Protection Act, legislation that would establish penalties for vandalism of Civil Rights monuments and memorials. The measure calls upon the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to create a list of monuments and memorials that should be protected.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will attend this evening’s State of the Union address by President Biden as the nation continues to register major progress in employment, rising wages, investments in infrastructure, ending the COVID-19 pandemic, slowing inflation, and addressing domestic and international threats to democracy. Prior to the President’s remarks, Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 78^th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945 and remember the horrific murder of six million during the Holocaust.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra seeking his assistance to ensure the health and safety of Tennesseans living with and at high risk for contracting HIV by providing HIV treatment and prevention funding directly to county health departments and community organizations after the Tennessee Department of Health’s (TDH’s) decision to discontinue its participation in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Prevention and Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiat