Clerk thank you, very much. All right. We have quorum. Thank you. Greetings and welcome for joining todays board of education meeting. Knowing that we all know this, i would like to say these are stressful and strange times, times we never thought would be visited upon us. I thought it was strange enough trying to wait out and resist the person currently occupying the white house. But now things have gotten more bizarre with the same person trying to bully students, families and teachers and other staff back into school buildings. Thats what were dealing with. Thats what its come to. Today we will be absorbing our fall learning plan. I know many will find aspects they will object to but this will find solace in the approach. This is the time for us to pull together collectively to row lie upon one another to make this year as good and meaningful as it can be for our childrens sake. And to continue to find, within ourselves, a sense of grace and compassion and flexibility as we move for
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Washington journal continues. Host with this is congresswoma congresswoman representative bonamici before we get to phone calls on this issue what is a legislation considered this week wax what would you do quick. Protecting Older Workers against discrimination act very bipartisan bill that will correct the law passed years ago to protect Older Workers from discrimination we know its a problem we hear about it in particular from Older Workers in the tech sector but that its a problem across the country that aarp did a study showing three out ofng five workers over 45 are suing or experiencing themselves discrimination in the workplace. So had happened aboutha ten years ago, there was a case who actually came to our hearin hearing, brought a case of age discrimination went all the way up to the Supreme Court and they changed the burden of proof for the test an older worker needs to show to move forward with thear case. So this bill corrects that so right now its very hard for anyone to
Get done before the end of the year the deal would be to draw up something no later than but to resolve something by the beginning of december and sign it before christmas. Reporter dozens of antiprotesters leave a leading Hong Kong University after a siege that last the the last three days after carrie lam urges the remaining demonstrators to leave peace fully. They have to stop violence, give up their weapons and come up peace fully and take instructions from the Police France and germany grief eu c car regulations and volkswagen with a 30 jump in sales good morning, welcome to street signs. Lets take you to some of the market price action weve had in the past 24 hours. Wall street just about inking out gains. Tech and Consumer Staples seeing fresh closes no doubt aided by the positive commentary for once out of President Trump with respect to his meeting with the fed chair powell overnight, the mood soured a little bit and cnbc learned that china and beijing are turning a little pes
The communicators. Madam chair, thanks for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host before we get into some of the issues, some of the telecommunications and technical issues that your committee deals with, i wanted to ask you abot s. T. E. M. Education. You come from a science background, science education. What is your committee doing when it comes to s. T. E. M. Education and what do you think congress should be doing . Guest let me start with the committee. The committee has passed out two major pieces of legislation that was bipartisan. A matteroffact passed on a consent calendar but it has a long way to go in the senate. It is extraordinarily important that we not only just spread the word but also put in instruments in the empire but, the education environment, to make sure that women and minorities are told about the important of s. T. E. M. Courses. Innovation is our future and if we dont have the people educated and trained and we see a lack of the brainpower now wi