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It is predominantly female. Currently we have and i can send you the appointment list as well. We have one male this is something thats questioned as far as ethnic background. I want to go back to how people mark their application, but i do have that information. I was just curious as appointments come up if you could provide that information, it would be very informative for us. It is on the application as well, so if its not marked i can follow up. Not about the individual candidates, but the make up of the counsel. Commissioner wynns. Thank you. I want to really thank you for this. This is ...

To some of the private schools and the kind of things have access to and our stunlts are fall and kind of leapfrog. I mean, in some ways we have to stop doing the old things weve been doing and push ourselves to innovate more. We dont have ten years to do this. We have the next two to three years to retool oufrss and give our students and teachers the tools they need to innovate, which they dont have right now. Thank you for the great question. That gets to the last point. We need to raise the financial social and Political Capital to do this work. Its a real call to action to change condition...

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 test so well be rolling about 5400 devices out to school sites next year to support that. We have anot...

Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving to this 21st century vision. I think when tony smith was within the School District before he went to oakland he used the terminology that hes trying to disrupt patterns of sexism. Im curious if you brought up girls and l...

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 more about what that means in terms of sites and how quickly they can move on things. With this, is...