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October 17th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today, im savannah guthrie. Im matt lauer. I love to paddle board. My whole body freezes up when ipad l over a jellyfish. Can you imagine what you would feel. Meantime, we show you a live shot from washington. Here is something we havent seen. Federal workers coming out of the metro center, returning to work. 400,000 of them will now that the shutdown is over. At least one gu...

Terms of the way they conduct their personal lives and i think if we could do that as a party more openly, we would have more representation directly in the northeast. All right, congressman nan hayworth, thank you very much for joining us. Cnn newsroom with Victor Blackwell begins now. Good morning brooke and john. Happening now, their homes in ruins, their lives in limbo. Frustrated victims of Superstorm Sandy lash out at congress and the latest delay to their longawaited help. All of yous sti...

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...

Approximately a zero percent Response Rate that had very high proportions of African American and latino students. We got about 900 percent more responses and about a percentage point or more each for the Response Rate for the latino and African American families. Our main finding is most households have internet. The district average is about 94 percent. It ranges from the high 70 percent for American Indian and alaska native families, up to 98. 4 percent for our white families. As you can see ...

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...

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