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The education Nation Student town hall. Education nation is now in its fourth year, and i am thrilled that for the second year in a row, we will be focused on what matters most to the students, the problems they face, and their ideas for how to solve them. Now, joining me on stage and in the audience today are students from across the country, ranging in age from about 13 to 25. And for the next two hours, we will hear from many of them. To help with that task, two of my colleagues are in the house. Working one side of the room is cohost of msnbcs the cycle. Krystal ball. Hi, krystal hey, meli...

Unfouled unfolding. I took what was outrage and horror about what was going on, and i realized that i had to take it somewhere with. Bonnie rains worked in a Daycare Center in philadelphia. Her husband, john, taught religion at temple university. They were the very picture of a golden couple. We had an 8yearold, a 6yearold and a 2yearold. We were family folks who also wanted to keep another track active in our lives which was political activism. That activism attracted the attention of the fbi. Its director, the powerful and feared j. Edgar hoover, received the Antiwar Movement which ranged fr...

Essentially we came up with 4 investments strategies thats park safety the first and active living keeping of our citizenry healthy and active and Customer Service. We have 25 with respect to park safety and 25 ftes. We run a high attrition rate thats a Public Safety and while the park patrol positions dont go through the rigorous training as a police theres a high attrition rate not everyone makes it through the probation period we have 18 boots on the ground and were getting a new came to cover others. We are a 247 operation we have temple to 12 which they recalled high needs or Public Safet...

Permit fees are important it insures a certain level of responsibility when we allow entities to user parks. So we have not i want to go back and is i think public space, Public Recreation is fundamentally important to a lot of other essential services. Were a Public Safety solution when weve got kids active were contributing to coping our city save weve got people in our recreational programming were keeping our city healthy were contributing to other essential serves that get loss in what people consider to be part of the recreation department. I think were a good investment. And more invest...

And the shipyard project. Just a little bit of a highlight in the budget solution our center has done a good job with our job costs a 350,000 from Workers Compensation its also, we do were pretty aggressive with tracking workmans comp and get back to work early its a do not have reduction in costs and do safety training. So you mentioned two of our Budget Priorities were reinvesting in recreation and we are trying to do our part to work on what we believe is a serious obesity or inactivity epidemic. Were working with the School District and working with lots of partners trying to provide more ...