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Later this morning we should learn if lack of funding would delay the start of the school year. The superintendent will give a budget update later this morning. Ka katy zachry is live at School District headquarters with the latest. Well learn if teachers or other personnel will be laid off or if the school year will operate on a shortened time table. All options on the table according to district leaders because theyre operating with an 81 million budget shortfall. The issue here, were talking about it for weeks now is the cigarette tax. A 2 there per pack tax that would generate enough money...

Approximately 65,000 charter students. Hite also says he thought about parents, opening schools was the least harmful for families but the superintendent says tough choices had to be made. Implementing the following service reductions. High School Students who live within two miles of school will not receive transportation support. As a result approximately 7,500 students at district, charter and nonPublic Schools will no longer receive transportation support. Reporter hite also told us some 300 students will not have the multiple pathways to graduate program. He says preparation and professio...

Actions, not for bad preferences and desires. So then the question is, how do we take account for preferences and desires that may be outside of your control . That may be things like gray matter lighten kent showed us that showed us that people like psychopaths have decreased gray matter in particular regions of their brain. It could be Something Like the guy who he was talking about out of virginia who had the large tumor in his brain and chose to act on but didnt have control over having the tumor in his brain. How do we take account for that in law . Thats, i think, the interesting struggl...

Should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how...

You can. The law has a bright line. It says if you engage in a wongful action, there is a defense called the insanity defense which never works as most of us know because we dont recognize it. Should we recognize it, thats an interesting question. Should we have a more robust concept of diminished responsibility in light of the understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selection...