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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...

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...

Editorinchief, james bennet. Thank you, commissioner, for being with us today. [applause] i thought id open with a familiar, oftrepeated statistic that i thought i should repeat again. Youll correct me if i have it wrong. In 1990, there were 2,245 homicide in the city of new york, which i think was the record mark. And last year there were 333 homicides in the city of new york. Though the population had grown by a Million People in the meantime, and there are however many millions more visitors ...

Changes in fed policy in the meantime. Or will they . The eternal question remains. Or not. Yes. Someone joining us says the feds next move, jim grant will join us. No big fan of the fed and its policy the last six years. Well get his take on the fed policy. His take is always controversial. Contrary. But its fun and very wise, too. We love talking to james grant. Thats coming up. After the bell, elon musk joins us for a special, rare interview. His spacex firm he founded in 2002 was just ranked...

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...

The former world cup goalkeeper for the u. S. Talks soccer over the next hour. First lets get headlines. Thank you. Barclays is in legal hot seat being sued over allegations they gave traders unfair advantage. Eric schneiderman is accusing the bank of falsifying marketing materials. In after the bell earnings, they are tumbling. This after the home good retailer profit fell. The u. S. Economy shrank 2. 9 in the first quarter. That is more than forecast. The worst reading in five years. Gdp was h...

Goalie. The former world cup goalkeeper soccer over talks the next hour. First lets get headlines. Thank you. Barclays is in legal hot seat being sued over allegations they gave traders unfair advantage. Eric schneiderman is accusing the bank of falsifying marketing materials. In after the bell earnings, they are tumbling. This after the home good retailer profit fell. The u. S. Economy shrank 2. 9 in the first quarter. That is more than forecast. The worst reading in five years. Gdp was hurt by...