WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Andy Kim issued the following press release:

Today, Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ), member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP), released the following statement after Secretary of Education Linda McMahon canceled last minute on a planned, bipartisan roundtable with the Senate HELP committee scheduled for today:

"It is bad enough that Secretary McMahon won't come before our committee which oversees the Department of Education for a public hearing, but now she's canceled a bipartisan roundtable conversation with us. Thanks to her and Trump, parents and students are feeling anxious and abandoned right now. They see key disability and civil rights programs under direct threat, funding b...