Class learners is our mission and we answer it in our classrooms every day. Thank you secretary duncan for your advocacy of authentic learning and service for our students and your support of teacher leadership. Thank you to my wonderful family. Im nothing without you. Thank you to kayla, my student to the texas delegation and to my administrators. [ applause ] finally, thank you to the talented passionate and remarkably goodlooking group of state teachers of the year with whom i am privileged to join today. Each of them is a study in excellence and each of them is a representation of what a great teacher is. I am honored to stand here today. As a teacher of refugee students, i have been privileged to see Public Education through the eyes of students from countries as diverse as berm a, somalia, iraq, and cuba. Being here today makes me think of my student. She was a shy teenage girl who had little formal schooling and much suffering in her native berma. One day a snowstorm shut down t
Used. And the reality is sometimes it does go in the wrong place. But we find it collectively, and then we bring people to justice, either through the and people are actually going to jail for first time for corruption in the health system. In many countries around the world. Theres actually really exciting to see this is something that these Health Programs we dont talk about much has driven accountability in a way that really never existed before. Doctor let me ask you a different version of that question. We should really care about corruption when our dollars are on the ground. But we should frankly care just as much when our dollars arent on the ground because we wont need to use as much money if the systems arent efficiently run. In those cases whos the right Government Entity to try to build that capacity . Is it our Global Health dollars or should those be reserved for programs or other pieces of the state department who are more in the business of working with governments at l
Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Lead us this day in your ways that our nation might be guided along the roads of peace, justice and good will. Grant strength and wisdom to our speaker leaders and members of both the peoples house and the senate, to our president and his cabinet and to our Supreme Court. Bless as well the moral and military leaders of our country and may those who are the captains of business, industry and unions learn to Work Together toward the Mutual Benefit of all, walking in the ways of righteousness and working for the highest good of our beloved land. Bless us this day and every day and may that is done within the peoples house be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approl erf. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the distinguished gentleman from michiga
This pioneering and forward looking spirit is alive in San Francisco government as well. The new headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13story building and office ablation. Instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more than a building. Thats a living system. When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the building in 1999 for 2. We wor
Lead addresses five categories that enhances environment. Indoor air quality, energy, water, materials and resources, and sustainable sites are the five categories for the lead. You can go for several gold or platinum certifications. The city wanted to be silver lead status. Maybe gold was a stretch. And people said, if were going to be a Sustainable Organization that the pucs this has got to be the top of the line. Its got to be a lead platinum building. What does that mean to us . We run water, power, and sewer. So, those are some of the biggest things involved in lead platinum. By late 2008 the project, as we got the contractor on board and we were able to start pricing it, were a multi, multi, multimillion dollar over budget. The story a lot of people dont know after we got select today do this project, the first price we came in with was 180 million. And the city said, you know, this is a great building, but we just dont want to spend that much money. So, the project was on the ve