The focus on the middle class and raising the minimum wage. This is about an hour and a half. Good afternoon. On behalf of the board of trustees, i am honored to welcome you to the college of marin. We are joined today by our esteemed board of trustees. Please stand. Please give them a round of applause. I also know were joined today by a variety of other leaders in education, both superintendents and various school board meetings. So if youre in the audience, please stand so we can acknowledge you as well. Dayna king was a familiar face in the bay area for 15 years as an em my volunteering on behalf of children and youth working to make Early Childhood education accessible for all students. Here in marin county, she is on an organization dedicated to improving access to education, housing, healthcare and knew frustration for youth and is also a Founding Member of the marin strong start organization which ensures access to quality healthcare, preschool, child care, and after School Aca
It help free political prisoners, and would not enter toll ticks a bomb exploded on a bus in tel aviv moments after it was evacuated. A passenger noticed a package, alerting the driver, who ordered everyone off. Emergency crews are certainlyinging for people trapped in homes after a train derailed on a slum. Six people there from hurt. It is on its way to uganda. Those are the headlines. Im jonathan betz. Ill be back in an hour, but first, america tonight weekend is next. You can always find us at aljazeera. Com. Have a great day. And good evening. Thanks for being with us for america tonight, the weekend edition. Im joie chen. There can be no morp intimidating, isolating environment than the walls of the prison system especially for those wh whom disabilities is challenging. Life behind bars for the deaf and disabled is difficult. Al jazeera spent years making contacts within the Prison Community and deaf and disabled community to get an indepth look. We begin a report with the story
Rival Mikhail Khordorkovsky is speaking out about his time in prin. He spoke about prison conditions. He said he was allowed brief visits with his family. He was locked up for so years before voout yin pardoned him. Clair davis, the 17yearold shot in a high school near denver died of her injuries. She was shot by karl pierson, fellow student, who turned the gun on himself. Those are the headlines. America tonight is up next and you can find us on aljazeera. Com. And good evening. Thanks for being with us for america tonight, the weekend edition. Im joie chen. There can be no morp intimidating, isolating environment than the walls of the prison system especially for those wh whom disabilities is challenging. Life behind bars for the deaf and disabled is difficult. Al jazeera spent years making contacts within the Prison Community and deaf and disabled community to get an indepth look. We begin a report with the story of a deaf inmates attempt to navigate the Justice System and his strug
Antiprotesters in ukraine are planning another massive rally on sunday. Angry at a decision to back away from a deal with the european union. The u. A sombre anniversary 25 years ago today, a bomb destroying pan am flight 103 over scotland. At Arlington National cemetery and around the globe mourners remembered the 270 victims. Those are the headlines. Im Jonathan Betz. America tonight starts now on al jazeera america. And good evening. Thanks for being with us for america tonight, the weekend edition. Im joie chen. There can be no morp intimidating, isolating environment than the walls of the prison system especially for those wh whom disabilities is challenging. Life behind bars for the deaf and disabled is difficult. Al jazeera spent years making contacts within the Prison Community and deaf and disabled community to get an indepth look. We begin a report with the story of a deaf inmates attempt to navigate the Justice System and his struggle to survive in prison. Theres no question
Indeed this was foreshadowed. It is an assessment conducted by the oecd in 24 countries so we are being compared to the countrys you see in yellow. Russias data will come in next year and will be added in and there will be another round of countries that will be added to this database, looking at this every ten years. This first report is a baseline to see how we are doing. It has a lot of sample in it. You can see how many hundreds of thousands are in the database. It is looking at skills in three domains, literacy, numerous sea and problemsolving in a Technology Rich environment, it also has some of what we call employability skills, cooperation, teamwork, persistence kind of skills listed in the assessment as well. In the u. S. The first wave of samples was 5,000. It is nationally representative but not large enough to drill down into some of the smaller subgroups you may be interested in but we have another way of being collected by the department of education so we see they are ad