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Were not reaching. Commissioner maufus. Thank you. I had in regards, i just want to make a comment to what you said commissioner norton. I can understand that sort of thinking which would get us over a huge hump and serve so many families, but i also see that as disadvantaging the families, that really we need to get to as well because that puts them behind them again. And thats always sort of the balance were trying not to do thats not my intent at all. Of course not. I just wanted to note that...

The second thing i had a question on and we didnt talk as much about it, but in the beginning you say here actually the very first thing, move from decentralized site based technology purchasing to a centralized purchasing and budgeting strategy. Id like to know more about what that means in terms of sites and how quickly they can move on things. With this, is there some concern or what are we doing around ensuring that sites are supported with the need that they have as quickly as possible arou...

Officer at the School District. We will be planning a Powerpoint Presentation up here as we get this set up i will be asking superintendent carranza to kick off the the purpose of the Digital District plan is if i can get my password in here. Superintendent carranza, if you could explain the need for Digital District man. Thank you. Commissioners, in our public weve been talking about our vision 2025, which has been our yearlong process for identifying what is the vegs for educating our children...

The productivity tools that we shouldnt delineate between what the adults and students use. All students should be using office suites, all students should be using google apps. Those are things we should make traction on quickly. The next piece, the deep and expand, thats the idea that where we need to go, where students have not only the curricula available to them, but they have a box of tool, Digital Tools and they make the decisions on how they use the tools to solve the problems that are p...

The next thing we need to do is we dont really have a very clear picture of all the devices that are out there, which schools have which devices, which software is on there. So its critical we implement a comprehensive Management System. Our finance department has already started that work to roll out the system for next year and his teams already going to auditing to see whats out there. The other thing i want to do is that pretty much every School District has this history of they get one time...

Mark their application, but i do have that information. I was just curious as appointments come up if you could provide that information, it would be very informative for us. It is on the application as well, so if its not marked i can follow up. Not about the individual candidates, but the make up of the counsel. Commissioner wynns. Thank you. I want to really thank you for this. This is weve come a long way. I have to confess, i havent read every page, but i went through the assessment, its re...

It is predominantly female. Currently we have and i can send you the appointment list as well. We have one male this is something thats questioned as far as ethnic background. I want to go back to how people mark their application, but i do have that information. I was just curious as appointments come up if you could provide that information, it would be very informative for us. It is on the application as well, so if its not marked i can follow up. Not about the individual candidates, but the ...

Of temperament, he was a shy person. But it also had a political purpose. He knew that if he didnt talk a lot, people would stop talking. And, of course, a president or a political leader is constantly bombarded with requests, and his silence was his way of not giving in to special interests, and he articulated that quite explicitly. Amity shlaes will take your calls, emails and tweets in depth, live for three hours sunday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. This month the fcc voted 32 to proceed...

Timeframes, hopefully well go out for a bond. Its a 4 something on this scale which is 130 to 160 million. Were going to go to a bond, but to get there were working with our private funders to help us along those lines. Superintendent lee talked about qeta to funds were talking about 2,000 educators to try to get them devices. We have another sources of funds, the common core state funds, the commissioners approved approximately 2. 2 million next year to buy devices to help support the online te...

The Islamic State in iraq and the levant have been taking part in a rally. Therthere, there are fighters who have been in control there for a week now. Hundreds are moving out to join the fight against the rebels. These are pictures of zag bad taken on monday morning. Fighters are in army fatigues. Volunteers called by top cleric in iraq. Many are been forced to leave their homes because of the violence. Lets take a look at the latest take over. Reporter this is an important victory because they...