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District select committee, its me, sandra lee fewer, mendozmcdonnell, and wynns. Okay. So the Personnel Matters in labor is main, fewer and murase. Thank you. Thank you. Any other reports from Board Members . No. Yes . Yes. Thank you. Little confused. I just have a couple of things i wanted to announce. One is on this thursday were going to be honoring 33 students, 28 of whom are from San Francisco Unified School District and 5 are from students that graduated and we invite everybody to come out...

Charter schools are run by forprofit entities. That is a very different environment. In the environment there is so much mistrust so i think any time he gets into charter he brings in a chain and this is the beginning of a different sort of an effort. But from the outside it does not smell right. So much of the issue is localized so would his uniform if we create more space for a public Charter Schools and they are Public Schools with the autonomy they should be held to the same transparency sta...

Frustration and people that are struggling and communities that are struggling violence. I dont have a good answer. It takes some dialogue. Do you want to weigh in . I have thought a little bit about that before in one beginning of an idea i came up with is things need to be tackled in preschool because in preschool, preschool is a time where kids have the fewest ideas coming into conceptions about the world. Its the ideal time to try and encourage empathy through the structure of preschool and ...

[applause] questions . [inaudible] s James Taranto points out that the u. S. Supreme Court Decision that essentially outlawed the use of iq tests in lieu of College Degrees to permit people who are not College Graduates to get jobs that matched up with their iqs because in some way they were racially discriminatory i believe. I dont remember the name. It had disparate impact. Disparate impact case. It strikes me that when you speak of credentialing of some sort that is in a College Diploma you m...

That is much more intentional to help adults meet that developmental needs of children, it is important but anybody see in the wire on hbo . Great show. Maybe the best show ever. Truly. Lots of people say that but the reason i love that show there is lots of compelling characters but the primary character are the systems that are interacting in the city of baltimore and holding everybody prisoner the drug trade, public schools, and media, municipal government government, and police. We primarily...

Social entrepreneur, is that a knew term . I think it was coined by people like nicholas kristof, but it is widely used now for people like me who direct nonprofits and do Different Things in the nonprofit sector. How did you get involved with appalachian girls in middle school . That is a long story i write about in the road out. I grew up as a workingclass girl. The first in my family to go to college which was a big step for me and ended up, through a scholarship, going to college and doing s...

Postcode tv is on the campus of Duke University in durham, North Carolina, where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their book. Joining us here is Deborah Hicks. Her book, the road out the road out a teachers odyssey in poor america. What do you do here at duke first of all . Guest i have a couple of things that i do. I am part of a researching occult social Science Research institute and that is the unit composed of people doing research in the social science and discipli...

Here, to analyze another full week of news. Plus, recreating Freedom Schools of the 1960s to teach the history of civil rights to young people today. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afr...

Solutions for Small Businesses and major corporations. Hat can we do for you . And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america reporting from washington. A russian convoy rolls into Eastern Ukraine. I can ev calls it a direct invasion and the u. S. Issues a sharp warning to withdraw. Taking on the Islamic State, the white house warns of its growing strength. But is the u. S. Prepared to take the battle into syria . And these monkeys may think theyre the king of the rock. But resi...

I think that the love a parent has for their child is the single greatest and most underutilized Natural Resource in education. Woodruff and its friday, ruth marcus and Michael Gerson are here, to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it...