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160 points at the low of the session, and that was within the last hour or so. The s p down 16 and the nasdaq down 46 there. A lot of people watching the tenyear treasury yield as well, looking to that as they have for weeks now. Right. Kind of a broader reflected gauge of where we stand in the economy, where is this all headed and to what extent, if you look at the performance of these markets since the Federal Reserve meeting over the last eight sessions or so, thats really where youve seen th...

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...

The second thing i had a question on and we didnt talk as much about it, but in the beginning you say here actually the very first thing, move from decentralized site based technology purchasing to a centralized purchasing and budgeting strategy. Id like to know more about what that means in terms of sites and how quickly they can move on things. With this, is there some concern or what are we doing around ensuring that sites are supported with the need that they have as quickly as possible arou...

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...

Students to bring their own devices, obviously in places where we ensure that for folks who dont have their own devices, theres opportunities to offer those for students who theed them. Need them. Im interested to move forward with that. The second thing i had a question on and we didnt talk as much about it, but in the beginning you say here actually the very first thing, move from decentralized site based technology purchasing to a centralized purchasing and budgeting strategy. Id like to know...

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...

York attorney general gave some details in a News Conference yesterday. Our complaint alleges the marketing of safeguards was false, the lawsuit files today charges that it drew to one of the largest in the United States by telling investors it were diving into safe waters when, in fact, barclays dark pool was full of predators who were there at barclays invitation. Kerry geithner, lets take a to usack and explain exactly what this is about, these dark pools and barclays involvement. Dark pools ...

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