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Mcdonald who is here with us clapping and the heroes in my mind absolutely the folks that led the work effecting lives each and every day our entire Principle Group is here today. Can you stand so we can applaud you . Thank you. Thank you for being here. And obviously, we want to thank our principle here at Martin Luther King Middle School natalie for opening her doors to us clapping id like to okay as well as our assistant superintendant ms. Jean i didnt pond. clapping . Our director of middle ...

Inclusion, as well as our english language learners. I think there are much better ways to serve those families with this technology. And then i just wanted to congratulate the Family Technology survey. This is really great to have data on hand and be able to see and to really [inaudible] some of the myths weve maintained about the level of technology up take among or families. Our families. I would urge that we think about chinese language content and we now as a city have embraced [inaudible] ...

Digital district is that those become dynamic and so that students are interacting with them on a screen rather than simply printing them out and looking at them on the screen. Thank you. That was a good short answer, i appreciate that. And then the last question i had, which was on slide 15, which talks about the Digital District will be executed over a three year period. I guess im going to ask a couple of questions and maybe you can give me a paragraph of an answer. Im curious and maybe you m...

Were not reaching. Commissioner maufus. Thank you. I had in regards, i just want to make a comment to what you said commissioner norton. I can understand that sort of thinking which would get us over a huge hump and serve so many families, but i also see that as disadvantaging the families, that really we need to get to as well because that puts them behind them again. And thats always sort of the balance were trying not to do thats not my intent at all. Of course not. I just wanted to note that...

An putting it on a four year refresh cycle and i think we need to do that. One of my questions for you is have you identified actually funding for this or is it more like this is an ask as part of the fundamental development strategy. Ill take a first stab at it. Great question. Its a yes and yes. So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as wel...

So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were always getting the latest equipment in place, but its been a fascinating journey because it also requires you have a really robust acid Management System where you can track and account for that kind...

Timeframes, hopefully well go out for a bond. Its a 4 something on this scale which is 130 to 160 million. Were going to go to a bond, but to get there were working with our private funders to help us along those lines. Superintendent lee talked about qeta to funds were talking about 2,000 educators to try to get them devices. We have another sources of funds, the common core state funds, the commissioners approved approximately 2. 2 million next year to buy devices to help support the online te...

Amount of money. So putting in people soft about ten years ago, somewhere in the 8 to 10 million range, so putting an hr system were anticipating 5 million and budget another 2 million. Thats significant amount of money to raise. We were planning next year the chief of hr and i have been talking about how we can join forces to start looking at what would a different hr system look like and what would we want it to do . Do we want to implement people soft or other systems or combination systems f...

We the technological mess tampa of the world were going to make sure our schools are technology invite it was publicly minded at the kresh in the end clapping please enjoy this musical interlude. And id ask you to dance its nothing like the paying bells of yes, sir. Take care year; righ laughter okay. I think as principle mentioned this likewise, the students to transition from one class to another and i reflected upon the fact i forgot to introduce two important folks i apologize but id like to...

Way and create a movie and organ with the Opposing Side and figure out how that defeat would this become and how said that have influenced the committee and the scientific developments it stem from you can go on and on. Thats the power of the two students as i walked into the school today they videotape me and theyre taking notes and going to create a blog about this event thats the realtime power that our students need to have in the 2 to 3 environment. This engages our students not with about ...