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When it resumes shortly, as i said, about ten minutes from now. While we wait, more on education now as the new school year is just getting underway for many School Systems around the nation. We look at challenges facing Public Schools in a discussion on this mornings washington journal. Host guest at our desk is the director of the National School Boards Association. As we dive into the topic of local School Boards and todays education debates, first, tell us about your group and its mission. G...

To do this tribute. Ultimately we came together and we had the assistance of auto desk and i want to make sure that people understand that this tribute would not have been possible without their assistance. They helped us find our artists, they helped us through communicating what our design and wants were directly to the artist and set up all of our initial meetings. We had roughly five different artists who came in with a broad base of different projects and we had a very clear mandate that we...

Much appreciated. Our budget in general items 7 and 8 will be considered by this committee after Public Comment at the end of this week. So, well move on next [speaker not understood] youre here. Department of technology is up next. Are you ready . We can push you back one if that will be easier. [inaudible]. Mr. Chairman, good morning, supervisors. Im going to give you a little just a scenario on what happened in the last [speaker not understood] fy 14 and talk about fy 15. [speaker not underst...

This administration has always been caught offguard by one thing or another, whether it is isis or ebola. It is always caught off guard, and we are always reactive. A lot of these problems happen because we have retreated as a world leader, and when we retreat as a world leader world leader , we leave a vacuum. You can be certain that vacuum will be filled by someone much less benevolent than we are. This is the president to calls the isis at the junior varsity, the president who makes all of hi...

I dont think youre at the age in your career when you want to move up the career latter. You dont need anything more to your resume. Youve done pretty well. In the midst of all of these problems in the midst of a dysfunctional u. S. Congress and bitter partisanship, why do you want this job . Thank you chairman sanders for the question. I think its a good question. Its a question my family and i have talked a lot about. Desperately want this job because i think i can make a difference. I think t...

To. One is theres a changing social compact between companies and the work force and companies are increasingly looking for individuals who have some important technical skill which is why Stem Education is so important. We were fortunate to see an 8. 6 increase in our enrollment of students in engineering programs and i think students are realizing that skrg these skills is important because its what employers are looking for. Were talking with james linder, the interim president of the univers...

Formal channel of communications that did not exist before between this administration and the Merkel Administration on these issues of intelligence. Since the precipitating factor was intelligence. Is that an understanding of what this opaque language actually means. I dont know if i would necessarily describe it as a new channel primarily because conversations between lisa monaco and her counterpart in germany are not unprecedented. There was a robust intelligence sharing relationship that has...

So i think it was that quality about him. And he had the ability to bring out the best in people by trying to figure out what do you want, what are your ideas, and i think it was that capacity to reach and he servedle, president s, regardless of party. He served president nixon. He served president nixon and president ford at the u. N. , and in the months before he passed away, he had worked on a commission that george w. Bush could together on social believe that it was that capacity to reach a...

Completion happens before the student never enrolls in college. Two issues from the Texas College success or lack of success. The first is growing latino demography. There is also the case12 Public Schools where latinos comprise the majority of all Public School students. Problems not that there is a growing latino demography, the problem is the growth in High School Graduates has not translated to enrollment in colleges and universities. With black students, its slightly different but no less i...

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