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The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to the this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and mediCare Services. Welcome. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the W...

Spent by Education Departments you are going to miss some services that are provided in a Community School concept, maybe by social services. You might not count some of the services that are provided by a boys girls club. Excuse me for interrupting. I want to make sure everyone has their five minutes. Go ahead and wind up. Winding up now. If you count dollars district make in teacher placement decisions based on specific salary or benefit costs so things look, you will worry about things lookin...

We will be back. I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and als...

I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a dir...

All right. So i also want to thank everyone for waiting and sharing with us tonight are i nodded that was a late meeting and moved outside but you expressed our gratitude were not able to speak we thank you for your patience with us i wanted to because of a lot of the questions and things weve heard and heard leading up to tonight have lead to concerns about both how this program will operate and perhaps what some of the consequences abowill be how students awill react and effect the culture of ...

And i say that respectfully. I actually sent you that information on october 16th in regards to our schools demographics, breakdown ethnicities and sro and zone area and demographic and ethnicity as well as well as income. So that actually happened. The other thing is my understanding that a Charter School can actually work within its zone without permission but i dont think thats the type of partnership we want to have. And thats something we can do. But going and doing it unilaterally was not ...

Expulsions, significant disproportionate suspensions occur and they are going to be another critical step to be taken in order to address this concern. But i understand as folks have said that implementation is a difficult road,. There is a Long Distance between actual policies and what teachers and students on the ground actually looks like and thats a road that cant be walked alone which brings me to the second concern which is the limited attention paid thus far in schools implementation effo...

And sharing with us tonight are i nodded that was a late meeting and moved outside but you expressed our gratitude were not able to speak we thank you for your patience with us i wanted to because of a lot of the questions and things weve heard and heard leading up to tonight have lead to concerns about both how this program will operate and perhaps what some of the consequences abowill be how students awill react and effect the culture of the middle school i wonder if you might lay out how this...

District are for climate and culture change at school sites is to actively with the community in that implementation conversation. As weve seen here this evening in these very family and issues that have been presented t parents, community members, advocacy organizations are ready to partner in this effort and to call out the needs of their school sites so together all of us can work to make equity an actual reality. Forgive my frustration at the late hour but one very effective way to not engag...

Home from those extended duration shifts. Its been recognized in the Transportation Industry since 1907 when in the United States Congress Passed legislation saying anyone working for more than 12 hours would be considered that its illegal and the Supreme Court has ruled that theyre considered impaired by fatigue if theyre operating a train for more than that time, and yet we dont have any limits, even though we now have limits for commercial drivers, train operators, bus drivers, pilots, marine...