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That you have. We do this out of respect for our panel and each other. We do not want these things going off in the middle of our meeting. I am when to start by introducing our four panelists in the order in which they will speak. On this, socided there is no significance to be read into the order in which they will speak. Our first speaker is to my immediate left, david bender. He is well known to many Conference Attendees for his involvement in public issues and political activities. He also has been a broadcaster and an author. One of the things you may not know about david is that his inte...

And he, in seventh grade, took a leave of absence to participate in bob kennedy, Robert Kennedys president ial campaign. So [applause] [laughter] it is called truancy. [laughter] i was trying to be diplomatic, here. Leave of absence. Second is mary hughes. Mary is a seasoned political strategist and author, who has focused her efforts on increasing the number of women in congress and state legislatures, especially california. [applause] fromhould know that 19842008, in the nine bay area counties in california, they sent six women to the house of representatives, 2 to the u. S. Many of us know,...

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...

Without some additional funding, both locally and at a state level. We need to advocate at a state level. You cant expect us to do 21st century schools and do all the assessment online, if theres no specific funding to help our School Districts do this. Were launching that campaign. Well be focusing on talent and theres a number of initiatives there to support our teachers. Were doing exciting work with high schools and creating a much more sdi verse portfolio of high schools. Were going to do a partnership about a whole International Service learning model. With marshall were looking at worki...

Much more sdi verse portfolio of high schools. Were going to do a partnership about a whole International Service learning model. With marshall were looking at working with microsoft to make this a 21st century academy. 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 t...