Withhold have thought that after the 89 quake when everyone thought the city was destroyed things were over the waterfront is the most sought after death of the nations of san franciscans and people who visit who would have thought. San francisco, san franciscans we would have thought. We know what we are capable of. We know what we can do. We than when we come together anything is possible. So lets transform San Francisco and lets make magic happen [applause] thank you. [applause] 23 and 2. Order roll call mr. Steel. Commissioner alexander. Commissioner fisher. Here. Commissioner lamb. Commissioner sanchez. Here. Vice president ward. Here. President bog us. Here. Thank you. With that we will move to our next item going to be calling for Public Comment on closed session items. Thank you. None in person. All right. With that we will recess this meeting and go to closed session. There are none virtual either. Thank you, commissioner fisher for catching that. We have 91 virtual we will re
Until it gets into our heads. Thank you. So with that, we will wrap up the panel. And thank you to all of our panelists for being here today. [ applause ] so well go ahead and start our next panel. So that we can keep on time. Be as efficient as we can. Welcome to the second panel of the day. This panel is entitled where are we now. A conversation on Educational Opportunity and integration. Our panelest today will be gerard robinson. He has been in the education commissioner of florida. The virginia secretary of education. So gerard has a long history in education. Dr. Greg fors ter is the director of Trinity International university. He is a senior fellow at ed choice and is at the Freedman Foundation for educational choice. And he received his ph. D. With distinction at yale university. Mashea ashton is, just recently given its approval to open up a charter in 2018 in washington, d. C. She served as the ceo of the Network Charter school fund. The Senior Adviser for Charter School pol
Well go ahead and start our next panel so that we can keep on time and be as efficient as we can. Welcome to the second panel of the day. This panel is entitled where are we now, a conversation on Educational Opportunity and integration. Our panelist today will be girouard robinson, a resident scholar at the institution, the virginia secretary of education and the president of the black alliance for Educational Options. Girard has a long history in education. Dr. Greg forcester is the director of the oikonia network at Trinity International university, a senior fellow at ed choice and currently at the Freedman Foundation for educational choice. He is the author of six books and coauthor of additional three books and his ph. D. At yale. Michas is the founder and ceo recently given p up the approva to open up a charter. She served as the ceo of the Network Charter school fund and the Senior Adviser at new leaders for new skeels achools started as a special ed teacher as well. So the goal
Caller i wanted to make a couple of statements about the states rights. And that is sending things back to the states. Wo points. One the civil war philosophy of denying people their rights, primarily african americans. In Michigan State government has taken over the Emergency Managers School Systems have become resegregated under the uise of School Choice. According to marketplace programming, nationwide only 25 of the welfare money goes to the individuals needing it. And in michigan only 12 is returned to the people. Host we only have a few seconds left. I want to give jonathan a chance to respond. Guest theres a lot of good points i dont have a particular response to. Im a supporter of welfare reform. Its 20 years old and example of a reform that went well. The number of people on welfare slaverping. The number of people on jobs grew. It is not true that most money in welfare does not go to welfare recipients. It does. Host Jonathan Roush contributing editor to the atlantic and seni
Before we get started, can everyone please turn off their cell phones . Im sure your ring tones are great. Our guest is better. So we are going to do things a little differently today because this event is being broadcast. Most notably committee q a is going to bump off the bump off a microphone if not this exact microphone, very similar to this one. When we are done speaking, if you could hold your questions until i am interface with a microphone, that would be wonderful to make sure everyone can hear you and that it can be heard on broadcast. Thank you also much for coming to book people tonight. We are an independent bookstore. Your business is the single reason we exist. We could not put on events like this without you. Before we get dirty, for some energy, why do we give ourselves a round of applause . [applause] we are thrilled to be joined tonight by author and act to this, roxanne dunbarortiz. Tonight we will learn about roxannes eighth book, making us all feel lazy, an Indigen