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Democracy. Threats against election workers. In a recent survey, one out of every six Election Officials reported receiving threats because their jobs are in the front lines of democracy. Many of these threats were inspired by false claims of fraud surrounding the last election. Claims that culminated in president trumps egg lie. Last summer the department of justice launched a task force to investigate the unprecedented threats that election workers across america are facing. This morning for t...

Point, yes, we have class warfare. Those who are poor are completely left out of the National Dialogue on poverty and hunger. That is a bipartisan effort, to keep people who are poor out of the National Dialogue. That is why i work with low income women to be able to take photographs and provide direct testimony on their experiences with raising children in poverty, how to break cycles with poverty, and there are so many conversations happening. This concept of violence and the trail. People hav...

Must seize this moment and reform are broken system. Families are being divided and migrants continue to die in the american desert. The suffering must end. We look forward to working with our elected officials and all of good will toward this end. Granted. Thank you. As you can see by this range of perspective, the differences are not great but the unity is clear. The Congress Must take advantage of the opportunity to pass broad Immigration Reform. I would like to take questions from the press....

These two witnesses, and yet the chief executive, the president of the United States has already prejudged the outcome of this investigation. So either its on going or its not. Either hes wrong or eric holder is wrong. In either case, it is time for special counsel, mr. Chairman. I thank the gentleman. Recognize the gentleman from virginia. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and through for this intriguing hearing. I will say at the outset my friend from South Carolina for whom i have great regard, we don...

In asia overnight, equities markets were a little bit mixed. The hang seng was up by 1. 5 . Oil prices are down another 1. 34. Thats probably because of what youre seeing happening in the dollar. Look at the ten year note before we get to the dollar. The ten year note is yielding 2 point poip 482 . The yield getting pressed down. Take a look at the dollar. The dollar is down against both the euro, the yen and the pound. Right now the euro is at 1. 3353. Oil would be going up. Oil is going down o...

Superintendent . Thank you president norton, i would like to call the director kevin chavez who will take us through item m. Good evening, commissioners, and superintendent, so this is regarding the title 3 Improvement Plan that we are required to submit to the California Department of education. San Francisco Unified School District receives title 3 funding from the federal government to help English Learners to speak, read and write in english. And to achieve success in reading and mathematics...

San francisco. Im speaking on behalf of this item as i think that it is important because it will help the Credit Recovery program become more efficient and it will help to see whether the program is working for students because we all know that we all learn in different ways, so like students may be learning like they may be able to learn better with a teacher as opposed to a different student, learning with independent study. So it will insure that students needs are being met and also that it...

Responsibility of all of us to be involved and i urge the evaluation of these programs to include Extensive Community input and i believe that i speak on behalf of the community that we are here as a resource for you guys and in order to have, you know, maximum success of this program and it is going to be necessary for this not just to be an issue here at the board of education but for you guys to work us even though the Youth Commission is an entity of the city of San Francisco we need to Work...

Hi, my name is paer and i am a senior at George Washington high school and also a member on the Youth Commission, i would like to thank the board of education for your time and work in highlighting how to best support students here in San Francisco. Im speaking on behalf of this item as i think that it is important because it will help the Credit Recovery program become more efficient and it will help to see whether the program is working for students because we all know that we all learn in dif...

But a road map in the direction that the district is pursuing will be discussed. I think that commissioners you will be getting more information and we are planning to be at the next board of education meeting to give you an update on the allow plan and so as you begin to see all of these different pieces and these different plans, coming together, you will see how this is related to the work as a whole and how we made it cohesive and coherent between the different times of plans that were requi...