Speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mcnerney, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, i rise to celebrate the life and legacy of my friend, w. Ron cole who passed away on april 17, 2014. He was a native of stockton, california. He went to local schools, graduated from Stockton College and acquired a teaching certificate in the field of distribution from the university of california at berkeley. He was a veteran of the korean war, serving
The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for pet projects such as new teacher prep pardonness, which are redone ant of existing programs. Families deserve a better way forward. We needed administration to work with congress to advance Lasting Solutions facing schools nationwide. Instead of supporting ourests to strengthen education, the administration is implementing a con via luted scheme that has waivers to waivers that makes the secretarie
Have jim fong and we have edgar right here and then i think that is all that is here tonight. So the board wants to thank you for your work. Thank you very much. Thank you. So, as i was saying we have had a number of Program Managers that are part of managing the funds here, and we are really appreciative of all of the work that they have done to present the material to us and we have at times in the past presentations from them and we had written reports from them this year and the first area that i want to talk about is professional development and this is an area that we as an Oversight Committee are trying to understand better and where the funds fit into the Bigger Picture for the professional support, and as you know there were budget cuts a few years ago where the state funding for professional development was it was flexed and so there more funding that paid for the three days of professional development and so essentially qta took over those three days and this year, back for
Called to order. Could i clear the room . Okay, excuse me. Excuse me. We would now like to start our meeting thank you very much. The regular meeting of the board of education, i dont want to have to clear this room so we can start our meeting. We have a lot of public speakers signed up today. We have a couple of awards also to be awarded. And i would expect you to be respectful to your colleagues, who are getting rewards. So, the regular meeting of the San Francisco board of education is now called to order. For april 22nd, 2014. Roll call please . Thank you mr. Haney . Here. Miss maufas . Miss mendoza mcdonald. Mubarak. Here. Wynns. Here. Fewer. Present. Miss wei. Here. And mr. Logan. Here. Thank you. Please, join me in the pledge after lee begans. Pledge of allegiance. Okay. I am going to ask you one last time, please, the meeting has been called to order. Approval of the board minutes. Can i have a motion. Can i have a motion and a second please . Move to adopt. Second. And thank y
They were 16 teachers from the high needs schools. This is the same . Assume so, yes. We actually just had a discussion with stephanie who heads the Master Teacher program and the first was concentrated in some of the zone schools as we have expanded we have added other critical need areas and there is an interest to go city wide and taken into consideration some of those same, critical need areas and as we go to the full implementation it is to encourage some of the master practitioners across the district. Okay. And the next area was the Study Network which was very, we were really drawn to this because, teachers are able to work in real time, and so they are forming goals, collaboratively, Planning Research lesson and conducting lesson and gathering evidence and using the evidence to improve the instructions and so it is live and collaborative but that is still happening in the same level this year, and we have 60 teachers participating, and this year, they were able to host a visit