Team. Can i comment . Yes, please. I did leave it high level to work identifying who would sit on that task force. So, i did not specify it but depending on the discussion here with my colleagues, they feel it would be best serving. Its the super inten department is creating the task force, not lowell in and of itself. So, just president sanchez, i would be supportive of examining and evaluating the letter that i had read into the record including evaluating the culture. Sorry if im dragging this on. Since its made by the superintendent, would it ensure student representation is on this task force . Yes. Yes, is this dated in the amendment. It has including but not limited to students, families, educators, administrators and communitybased organizations. Students are first mentioned. So, to clarify, like, im just, theres a letter but im not clear on how specifically the staff is supposed to implement the task force based on a letter that was not written for this purpose. So im confused
Honouring black excellence as a value in all of our schools, so i want to know what you think we should do differently. I will start a response, but i am also going to see if leticia and anthony may have anything to add and i will tell you why specifically the two of them in a moment, but first, i know you know all of this as well, but i want to provide some context for the audience. In terms of what is currently happening around that expectation for celebrating black History Month, for example, for the last couple of years now, the leadership of the organization, we pull together a toolkit, or set of resources to share with schools that identify different activities that they can take on during black History Month to properly celebrate it from the perspective of our parents. The last couple of years, it has come out specifically as a letter from dr. Matthews that has gone out into our cohort bulletin, so the information that goes out to all school principals, and we have had the suppo
Thank you. Thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and foreclosed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. You can present it to the executive assistant at my right, to your left. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or the time as set by the Vice President. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board deputy superintendent . Thank you, Vice President sanchez. Good evening, everybody. Good evening, commissioners. I am standing here for dr. Matthews tonight whose youngest son, anthony, is in a commencement ceremony, he is graduating at San Francisco State University, so we extend our congratulations to matthews family. [applause] with that, i will mention a few items. This past thursday, students in the John Oconnell high school help
To hear. We must have fewer schools than we do now. Maybe not surprising but still upsetting. More schools on the chopping block in the bay area. The reason elementary, not enough student, not enough money. And with 30,000 palestinians now killed by israel protesters come out by the thousands to protest. And a few mixed it up with the police. At 11 00 on this saturday night, it is blowing a bliz nard the sierra and still dumping rain in the bay as this massive winter storm continues for a Third Straight night. Five feet of snow have fallen in the sierra so far, shutting down interstate 80 for more than 24 hours as the National Weather service characterized the conditions as impossible to travel in. Kelsi thorud drove up to truckee before the snow started coming down. Now shes among the thousands stuck on the mountain but with nothing to do but wait it out. Reporter well, the snow is continuing to come down here in this sierra. Its been like this pretty much all day. The Road Conditions
Melanie newport newport. Shes the author of this is my jail local politics the rise of mass incarceration. Newport teaches urban and criminal justice history at the university of connecticut. Hartford. She is series editor with the chicago visions and revisions series at the university of chicago press. Newports research has been supported recently by university of connecticut humanities. University of, illinois at chicago libraries and, the black Metropolis Research consortium. She received a ph. D. In history Temple University in 2016. Newport hails tulsa, oklahoma and tacoma and lives in west hartford, connecticut. Dr. Amanda klonsky is a lecturer at the university of chicago crown school of social work and the author of the forthcoming book pandemic of punishment to be published by beacon press. This pivotal work chronicles the experience of people in american jails and prisons during the covid crisis. Until recently, she served as a at the ucla law covered bars data project. Amand