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Students are falling behind in online school. Where's the COVID-19 'disaster plan' to catch them up? Erin Richards, USA TODAY © Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel DO NOT USE - PHOTOS FOR FUTURE ERIN RICHARDS STORY - Ruby Rodriguez, a 9th grade Milwaukee Public School student at St. Anthony High School, who attends school 100% virtually, takes part in an English class from the dining room of her home in Milwaukee, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, - Photo by Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORK ORG XMIT: DBY1 MILWAUKEE – Ruby Rodriguez rememb...

violence against women intervention and prevention grants [inaudible] 35 thousand individuals and of these 98 were transendered. the rec was able to expand their program supporting transgender clients. i know you'll be hearing from other department agencies of ours who all have services for transgendered clients, but it's not formally under our violence against women prevention and division grants program. >> i think with challenge comes opportunity, my office has been working with domestic violence departments and how to work to prevent violence against transgender women. i know gro...

say it comes because of the support from a number of city agencies. >> thank you. next like to call upon a very important player in all of this and that is our human rights commission and i see our executive director. i think we're all aware of her tremendous and historic leadership in the fight for equal rights and certainly especially for the transgender community. we were talking about the /phrafrpt earlier and of course you were the first transgender member of that commission. >> thank you. before i start i'd like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background...

of that commission. >> thank you. before i start i'd like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background on what's been going on from our perspective [inaudible] would like to say a few words about what we're doing now, the direction we're going and some of the -- like to praise the police department, the da for their work over the last few years, particularly the school district, but i think there's things we can do differently to address this population. >> thank you for having this /haerling. this is an issue that has been in everybody's minds and hearts for a ...

historic leadership in the fight for equal rights and certainly especially for the transgender community. we were talking about the /phrafrpt earlier and of course you were the first transgender member of that commission. >> thank you. before i start i'd like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background on what's been going on from our perspective [inaudible] would like to say a few words about what we're doing now, the direction we're going and some of the -- like to praise the police department, the da for their work over the last few years, particularly the s...