Thank you cook, here. Haney, here. Mendozamcdonnell, here. Murase [inaudible] [off mic] thank you norton, here. Mr. Sanchez, here. Thank you mr. Walton, here. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] we have one special order of business. As stipulated in series 9000 the board shall we adopt its rules the first regular meeting at that year. Thus my promotion and second for annual we adoption of board of education rules and procedures series 9000 second. Thank you commissioner. Those speakers signed up. No comments i believe from the board. Roll call cook aye haney aye mendozamcdonnell haight dr. Murase, here. Norton aye walton spirit six aye so our next item is the election of officers of the board of education. Before i do that and still might meaning to chair for couple of minutes. I have a few things i want to say very quickly. The first is 01 wish everyone a happy new year. This is our first Board Meeting back after the new year we hope you all had a joyfu
Mendozamcdonnell, here. Murase [inaudible] [off mic] thank you norton, here. Mr. Sanchez, here. Thank you mr. Walton, here. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] we have one special order of business. As stipulated in series 9000 the board shall we adopt its rules the first regular meeting at that year. Thus my promotion and second for annual we adoption of board of education rules and procedures series 9000 second. Thank you commissioner. Those speakers signed up. No comments i believe from the board. Roll call cook aye haney aye mendozamcdonnell haight dr. Murase, here. Norton aye walton spirit six aye so our next item is the election of officers of the board of education. Before i do that and still might meaning to chair for couple of minutes. I have a few things i want to say very quickly. The first is 01 wish everyone a happy new year. This is our first Board Meeting back after the new year we hope you all had a joyful and restful holiday and new year.
Difficult experience and that actually was not the case for me this year. I think this is a group of people who even though we spend long nights together and dont always agree, was never a moment in which we questioned each others commitment to the work, to our students, to our schools. The integrity of the people who are on this board and the commitment that all of you have i think inspired me every day and really made it so i did not have to fear coming here and sharing these meetings. Im incredibly grateful to have the opportunity that this was a year of tremendous change in significant challenges for us as a School District. Our superintendent left over the summer. We had an election and the affordability crisis in our city continues to place tremendous strains on our families come out on our students, on our educators and schools. I think it is not an understatement to say this a critical time for our School District and for Public Education. Some of you may have seen that earlier
President obama says its time for a new approach. In pakistan the Death Penalty has been reinstated after the deadliest attack by the taliban in pakistan history. Today funerals began for the Staff Members and 132 children killed. U. S. Movie theaters fearful of hackers threat of violence is pulling the movie the interview, a film that mocks north korea. We begin with a historic day in the relationship between the United States and cuba. Today the Obama Administration said it would normalize relations with the communist country breaking with 54 years of the policy of isolation. The deal came together after alan gross had been held for five years in are a cuban jail. Gross and an another man was released. Alan gross thanked the people who made this day possible. They would arrange for my release. To president obama and the staff, thank you. Alan gross lost more than 100pounds and several teeth while in confinement. He said that he would begin working on his health. The president said th
Freed member of the cuban five, Rene Gonzalez and the late filmmaker saul landau, his film exposes u. S. Support for u. S. Violent anticastro militants. Andhey were disobedient they did not ask permission to take away property. They took it away. They nationalized it. The u. S. , on the one hand, has never forgiven them. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The failed u. S. Policy against cuba which has for more than half a century stifled relations between these neighboring countries, and inflicted generations of horror upon the cuban people may finally be collapsing. On december 17, the two countries announced a series of moves to normalize relations. Cuba released alan gross, a u. S. Government contract or and a cuban who spied for the ca. The u. S. Released the three remaining jailed members of the cuban five. The cuban five were arrested in the late 1990s on espionage charges here in the u. S. But they were not spying on the u. S.