Host theyve introduced us and told them who we are so we can just Start Talking about your book. The best way to do that is to talk about its author because its a book that makes an argument that depends on the life of the author so we need to know about who you are. But lets talk about that. Anyways, he might want to talk about how you think about your own life. Lets start with, you grew up in new jersey and you grew up and how did your parents get to new jersey and who were they . Guest im the son of a black man, segregated south and my father is 82 years old, born in 1937 in longview, texas and raised in galveston. This was under jim crow and segregation. He moved to the west as soon as he could and was running war on Poverty Programs under Lyndon Johnson Great Society initiative and met my mother who is nine years his junior and san diego where he headed up a Poverty Program and she was fresh out of College Grade she is the daughter of evangelical christians but her father is a min
They are also coming from distant countries where they have experienced hardships. They are older adult students. Many of my Child Development students work fulltime and full time and they also have spent years to get their degree so they can provide my name is janet. I teach ceramics. I think its time we took a magnifying glass to the way this administration spends money because we share your concerns about the money. We had and i think we need to go to the highest levels to look at this. So we are told students of color will be helped by these cuts, but we have been hearing that is not the case. When i look across my classroom, which is always full, i have 25 students in a small ceramics studio, and i turned away at least that many that wanted to take the class. I see a lot of black hair. I mostly see black hair when i look out across my classroom, and some grey hair. We are an ethnically Diverse College and we know it. Nobody needs to even prove that. We know that is true, and yet t
Will you please call the roll call . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. Please call the first item. Item one is a hearing on how the cuts of over 300 classes will affect low income in communities of color and to take in High School Students who take city college of San Francisco classes to meet college and requirements, and any proposed cuts need to be heard by the students in communities most impacted. Thank you, mr. Clerk. This is a hearing that was called by supervisor walton. I will turn it over to you to make an introductory remarks. You can feel free to run the hearing. Thank you. First i want to thank all of my colleagues on the board of education and also city College Trustees, as well as faculty from city college for coming out to have this important conversation. There is a rally going on outside to talk about some of the concerns about the college, so im pretty sure we will have a bigger crowd joining us in a minute, but i do want to open up with a statement. On decemb
The minimum wage. Tech entrepreneur Richard Wayne on the skills gap, the future of work, and rethinking traditional Fouryear College degree or rims. College degree programs. Host good morning. T is friday, january 3 u. S. Airstrike near the bank that airport killed the top corps. Er of the guard could stoke a cycle of retaliation with the islamic republic. We are tracking reaction and we want to hear from you. Let us know what you think. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Ndependents, 2027488002 you can send us a text message this morning. That number, 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from cspanwj cspanwj. On twitter, it is. On facebook it is, facebook. Com cspan. A very good friday morning, you can start calling now as we show you the Statement Released last night from the department of defense. This is how it read at direction of the president. The u. S. Military has taken action to protect u. S. Military abroad by killing the head of gua
Can you slain what it does . Guest thank you for having me on the program. Dojo, we of coding provide in demandtec training to anyone with no developing background, and train them for three months and get them ready for the economy. So after coming out of the program they will be ready to become a Software Developer, working with Tech Companies in the tech sector. You write a column for Forbes Technology council, you talk about the idea of a skills gap in this country, and how apprenticeship programs might be a way to bridge that gap, can you explain what the skills gap is . We are in the fourth industrial revolution, we are looking at virtual and augmented reality, bioscience, robotics, and different technologies that are happening. And everything underneath this poweringreally in the of the economy. Students coming out of Fouryear College are not getting trained on essential skills. What we are seeing in the private sector is that there are a lot of students coming out of Fouryear Co