Sitting in front of a t. V. We look at the impact of school staying closed for months. Education shared learning and the opportunity to engage with their peers barely anything is more important for children but the coronavirus pandemic has turned things upside down frog lopes 1500000000 school kids schools have led to home schooling and online Remote Learning its a highly improvised situation. But education generally has long been a pressing global issue 164000000 Children Worldwide have no access to it at all and the pandemic has made things much worse currently around 463000000 children are not receiving any form of education neither in the classroom nor at home. Better to have a bit of school than on a tool thats the motto of the Mexican Government its current Education Program centers around something found in the most living room. A kitchen for a classroom and instead of pen and paper a remote control. Its a way of learning that calls for a lot of discipline. Rather then it feels
Association and what do you do . Then our association is voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve rural schools and communities. We are looking at a digital divide. We are looking at reopening schools in a very different way. Thats what a lot of our work has been focused on the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit in rural, remote areas or areas outside of urban, suburban areas. We have connectivity issues with cell phones and wired access as well. We have a 40 beauty issues affordability issues. We are looking at the lack of access and affordability of the surface. How many students are we talking about . Allen overall, you know, rural represents about 9. 7 million students. But you ar
My term runs through 2023. That can hold over for a longer period of time and i will continue to serve regardless of the outcome of the election. With Michael Orielly not being renominated by the president , if there was a change in the administration, you would be the two republicans, correct . Michael orielly has served for a long time. His term expired a year and a half ago. We are allowed to stay on until the end of this congress. When we are in this situation, that will push his term will come to an end. Pye and myself will continue to serve. To the policies. In an election year, are you able to get things done . The sec has been incredibly busy. This interview right here goes the part of it. We are in three different haitians right now. Locations right now. Covid changed the lives of so Many Americans in different ways. Overnight, our lives shifted onto the internet. Whether it is for work or educating our kids or accessing telehealth. We saw it human despite. The fcc immediately
Truce between armenia and azerbaijan is pushed to its limits as russia warns turkey will not have a place at the negotiating table. For more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route from africa to europe via the Canary Islands. And a planets transformed into an uninhabitable hell a un report says World Leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. I know we start in the United States where divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Kearney Barrett just 3 weeks before the president ial election she was nominated by President Trump and her confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the Supreme Court and fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d. C. The goal to have him equally bonneton the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election the 1st step the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing kicking off 16 days after her formal nomination from the Committee Chair a
Criticism and as i am barked on my own legal career i resolved to maintain that same perspective theres a tendency in our profession to treat the practice of law as all consuming while losing sight of Everything Else but that makes for a shallow and unfulfilling life i worked hard as a lawyer and as a professor i owed that to my clients to my students and to myself but i never let the law define my identity or crowd out the rest of my life a similar principle applies to the role of court courts have a vital responsibility to the rule of law which is critical to a free society but courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life the policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made. The people the public should not expect courts to do so and courts should not try that is the approach that i have strived to follow as a judge on the 7th circuit and every case i have carefully considered the arguments presented by the parties discussed th