Whats keeping millions of children away from School Worldwide unesco says its poverty and discrimination and coronaviruses making things even worse so what should be done to secure education for all and can that gap be privileged this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter girls immigrants ethnic minorities and the disabled just some of the worlds children at risk of not getting any education the United Nations says poverty and discrimination continue to prevent huge numbers from going to school the total was around 260000000. 00 children 2 years ago and that figure will be higher now because of the covert 19 pandemic 40 percent of low and lower middle Income Countries fail to support teaching jurong the global spread of the coronavirus many students were cut off from online courses during School National lockdowns the uns Educational Organization unesco is urging countries to support those left behind as life does begin to creep back towards something approaching n
Whats keeping millions of children away from School Worldwide unesco says its poverty and discrimination and coronaviruses making things even worse so what should be done to secure education for all and cannot get the privileged this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter girls immigrants ethnic minorities and the disabled just some of the worlds children at risk of not getting any education the United Nations says poverty and discrimination continue to prevent huge numbers from going to school the total was around 260000000. 00 children 2 years ago and that figure will be higher now because of the covert 19 pandemic 40 percent of low and lower middle Income Countries fail to support teaching jurong the global spread of the coronavirus many students were cut off from online courses during School National lockdowns the uns Educational Organization unesco is urging countries to support those left behind as life does begin to creep back towards something approaching no
Up next a confirmation hearing for u. S. Postal service governors and other judicial nominations to the d. C. Superior court. During this meeting members of the committee asked nominees questions concerning the health and safety of postal workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. This morning we will consider two nominees for the governor of the United States Postal Service, don lee moke and william zolers. Well consider three nominees for the judicial system to be associate judges in the superior court of d. C. We do have brief introduction of each. Donald lee moke served as president of the Airline Pilots association and captain with Delta Airlines for 31 years. He also served as an officer in the United States marine corp. Thank you so much for that service. William zolers serves red stone llc, hes the chairman and ceo of yrc until 2011, prior to that served in Senior Leadership positions with rider incorporated and Eastman Kodak company. Mark robins serves in office of general counsel
Announcer sfgov tv. San francisco government television. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the june 8th, 2021 meeting of the rules committee. Im so sorry that we started late this morning. We were having difficulty with Public Comment. And i just want to advise any member of the public who is listening in, if you want to be included in the queue to be a speaker in Public Comment please press star three. Its a little different than other meetings. This time you press star three. Ill remind you when we get to Public Comment each time. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is supervisor catherine. Supervisor stefani and were joined this morning by supervisor Shamann Walton perform our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Before we get started, id like to ask that anybody thats not a member of the committe
San franciscans and our city safe. I also want to thank our city, our coordinating pardtners and organizations who continued to protect our businesses and community as a whole. Finally, i want to remind everyone that we do continue to be in a significant and very Serious Public Health emergency response, and so therefore, we urge everyone to continue to practice the mitigations and safe practices to protect yourselves and others, and this includes Wearing Masks and maintaining distance whenever possible. Finally, i am going to introduce our chief of police, bill scott. I want to thank chief scott for his leadership and for the leadership and work of his his officers and the department over the last few days to help maintain safety and calm in our city. Chief scott . Thank you, mary ellen. I am chief scott of the San Francisco Police Department, and i, too, want to thank mayor breed for her leadership in doing this during a time that weve endured over the past couple of months. To go an