Good afternoon everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 9, 2020 meeting of the rules committee im supervisor hillary ronen. With me is supervisor catherine stefani. And gordon mar. I like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcement . Yes, due to covid19 emergency, City Employees and the public, board of trustees legislative chamber are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda both channel 26 and sfgov tv. Org. Our streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak unless comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone. Number is 408 4189388. You will hear the meeting discussion. Youll be muted and in listen mode on
So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b
November. Super excited about that and i cannot tell you everything we have coming up because i want to leave room for the people we have invited to speak tonight but i want to put one thing on your radar, which is our annual radical book fair pavilion at the baltimore book festival coming up november 1 through november 3 and its an incredible lineup of people both from baltimore and from outside of the city who are coming to present their work and talk about their book and be in conversation together somberly incredible folks some really incredible folks plus a whole bunch of really awesome critical engaged scholar activists from baltimore. We will do two panels on the book baltimore revisited which is amazing contribution contribution to Baltimore City so i definitely encourage you to come down to the inner harbor even if you dont normally do come check us out in a big tent all weekend. Tonight, im excited to be introducing stuart schrader. Someone who has been a relatively recent tr
Collection by criminal Illegal Immigrants, within hours of our reporting on that story last night, the department of Homeland Security announced it will be following the law and actively begin collecting dna and provide that information to the fbi and a crosscheck against Violent Crimes on record. Chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herridge has the report. After your show last night, fox news received this statement from a Homeland Security official confirming that they would now comply with the law and provide samples from Illegal Immigrants to the fbi Violent Crimes database. Under the direction of the acting secretary, dhs is working closely with the department of justice on a path forward for dna collection, for the combined dna index system. This is a Major Development after fox news first profiled the three Border Agency whistleblowers, who brought the case against Homeland Security. And a government watchdog sided with the whistleblowers telling the president that custom
Collection by criminal Illegal Immigrants, within hours of our reporting on that story last night, the department of Homeland Security announced it will be following the law and actively begin collecting dna and provide that information to the fbi and a crosscheck against Violent Crimes on record. Chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herridge has the report. After your show last night, fox news received this statement from a Homeland Security official confirming that they would now comply with the law and provide samples from Illegal Immigrants to the fbi Violent Crimes database. Under the direction of the acting secretary, dhs is working closely with the department of justice on a path forward for dna collection, for the combined dna index system. This is a Major Development after fox news first profiled the three Border Agency whistleblowers, who brought the case against Homeland Security. And a government watchdog sided with the whistleblowers telling the president that custom