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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 ...

To some of the private schools and the kind of things have access to and our stunlts are fall and kind of leapfrog. I mean, in some ways we have to stop doing the old things weve been doing and push ourselves to innovate more. We dont have ten years to do this. We have the next two to three years to retool oufrss and give our students and teachers the tools they need to innovate, which they dont have right now. Thank you for the great question. That gets to the last point. We need to raise the f...

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...

Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving to this 21st century vision. I think when tony smith was within the School District before he went to oakland he used the...

Students to bring their own devices, obviously in places where we ensure that for folks who dont have their own devices, theres opportunities to offer those for students who theed them. Need them. Im interested to move forward with 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...

At the early years prek through 5, we need a mix of tablets and laptops. Then sixth through eighth thats where the shift starts going. Then grades nine through 12 we allow students o bring their own device, however there will be a district funded option that will be equivalent to what the teacher gets as their device. All schools will have high end mobile labs available to them to address the more specific requirements of some of the higher end, particularly our english language lerner software ...

Amount of money. So putting in people soft about ten years ago, somewhere in the 8 to 10 million range, so putting an hr system were anticipating 5 million and budget another 2 million. Thats significant amount of money to raise. We were planning next year the chief of hr and i have been talking about how we can join forces to start looking at what would a different hr system look like and what would we want it to do . Do we want to implement people soft or other systems or combination systems f...

Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving to this 21st century vision. I think when tony smith was within the School District before he went to oakland he used the...

Without some additional funding, both locally and at a state level. We need to advocate at a state level. You cant expect us to do 21st century schools and do all the assessment online, if theres no specific funding to help our School Districts do this. Were launching that campaign. Well be focusing on talent and theres a number of initiatives there to support our teachers. Were doing exciting work with high schools and creating a much more sdi verse portfolio of high schools. Were going to do a...

Much more sdi verse portfolio of high schools. Were going to do a partnership about a whole International Service learning model. With marshall were looking at working with microsoft to make this a 21st century academy. Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really gettin...