We begin with an unforeseen impact of the trade war. It is hitting home in places you may not expect colleges and universities. Many foreign students pay full freight for college tuition. Now there are fewer and fewer enrolling. How are colleges coping . One school came up with a new approach to ensure its future. Tuition 101 is our cover story robert frank has more. Reporter as colleges and universities brace for a decline in the number of Chinese Students one school has found a solution, insurance. There are more than 360,000 students from china who study in the u. S. Every year a number that is now under threat as the trade war makes visas and jobs for chinese nationals harder to get. University r the university of illinois is prepared two years ago, a school bought an insurance policy that would pay out if there is a substantial drop in revenues from Chinese Students. The insurance was the brainchild of jeff brown, an economist Whose Research focuses on insurance and on Risk Manage
On the item . Any comments from the board superintendent . Thank you. [roll call] six ayes. May i make a request . It would be nice if we could, as commissioners, have a list of all the parent advisory committees, because i know there is a variety of them. A list of those and then a list of the members so that and the contact, the liaisons for those, because i want to make sure were all communicating with them and theyre all in different locations. Thank you. President cook section e, consent calendar. A motion and second . So moved. Second. President cook thank you. Any times by the superintendent . None. President cook any items by the board . Any items severed. Seeing none. Roll call vote. [role call] [roll call] six ayes. Thank you. Section f, discussion and vote on consent calendar resolution severed for separate discussion. There is none tonight. Section g, proposal for action. There is none tonight. Section h, i call approval of the efficiency of textbooks as required by the edu
Neglect and our policies, thats what is actually happening. So, we need to turn this around. We need to rebuild our system. Mental health sf is going to give it a good, hard shake. And really make sure that people have the care that we need. I also want to mention that them being arrested was not ok. That was stupid. No warning about know chance and they arrested them and ive been here in a lot of protests and ive never seen that. Good afternoon, supervisors. The reality is clear that when you see on the street and theyre screaming and they need Health Treatment you get arrested and that is the response and if you are in city hall and you are treatmenting and chanting we need healthcare, you get arrested. Thats why its so important because we dont need changes because if the system is broken and you are telling the people who are effected by the system the most, that we just need a little tweak here and a little change there, then that is a slap in the face. And the only way that we ca
There is just some requirements ive worked around it a little bit. But i do think that child care would be very important. We do have some onisland services already, but were expecting the island to have a lot more families in the future. And we just want to make sure were not repeating some of the same issues that we have, you know, in the mainland of San Francisco where we have child care wait lists, and the wait lists are 2,000 people. Okay, great. And then lets see. Im also curious you cited examples, like mercy and other existing commercial uses on the island. And ive often wondered about whether or not those existing restaurants, which are great, and i go to them, but i wonder what the proportion of local islanders residing on the island are really using those restaurants and retail versus people who are coming from outside of the island . And just be cognizant i think it would be very important for us to make sure we have retail and restaurants that caters to the island resident
A new trade agreement with a night of states this week one that notably did not address u. S. President donald trump past complaints about a legit unfairness in terms of u. S. Japan trade on cars and auto parts the decision to accept some modest incremental progress for now leaves the auto issue to perhaps be revived in the future depending on the increasingly impulsive u. S. President here to situate that news and. The world is the car coach lauren fix welcome back lauren 1st thank you and yeah 1st on this many deal on trade thats sort of sets aside the 2 issues the japanese Prime Minister says the President Trump assured him that he will not carry out the threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on japanese exports to the u. S. But with mr trump becoming increasingly erratic you have to wonder how much that pledge is worth is this deal just pushing off a fight until later what is the new status quo on ottos between the u. S. And japan and how long will it hold. Well i think what were look