Thank you all for coming today. Im Education Research fellow at the American Enterprise institute. Thank everyone who is joining us here today, also, those who are joining on livestream and for our friends watching on cspan. Our event today, Charter Schools in the developing world with a keynote from the Liberian Education minister. George k. Werner. We have a Simple Program after a few introductory remarks were going to have a brief video, picture is worth a thousand words so well give you a couple minutes of those. The root of todays conversation about schools in liberian then well turn it over to mr. Werner for his keynote address. Following that a fantastic panel today with seth andrew from democracy builders, amy black from results from development and from the International Finance corporation. Ill introduce them in detail when the panel joins me here. Well have about 45 minutes of q a time with some opportunity for the audience to join, as well. For those following on social med
Thigh fank you for coming to. Im an Education Research fellow here at the American Enterprise institute. Also those who are joining on live stream and for our friends watching on cspan. Our event today Charter Schools in the developing world. With a keynote from Liberian Education minister George Werner. We have a simple program. Were going to have a brief video. A pictures worth a thousand words. To root todays conversations about school unles in liberia. Then well turn it over to minister werner. Following that, we have a fantastic panel today. With seth andrew from democracy builders. Amy black from results for development. And alejandro caballer from the International Finance corporation. Ill introduce them in detail when the panel joins me up here. Well have about 45 minutes of q a time with some opportunity for the audience to join as well. For those following on social media, we have a hash tag for our event. Its developingworldcharters. You can comment and also send questions w
Offeofficer of the academy. For those of you who were here who was here at the demystifying healthcare session this week . You will hear a little overlap. The academy itself is its 30th year of existence and 30 years ago wilbur cohen, bob myers, real legends in the area of a social insurance realized that we needed the academy for two purposes. One, to serve as a network of consisting social insurance scholars so they can support each other in advance the field. At that time 30 years ago we scoured the country and could come up with just about 100 people in this country who were legitimate social insurance scholars. Today, the academy has a thousand members so within 30 years weve had a nice growth. The second goal of the academy and this is the essence of what is today is a magnet to attract younger people and at that point the academy younger people were me. It was a fear that we boomers were not understand why we had programs like Social Security and medicare and workers comp. The f
Announcements . Clerk yes, please shut off any cell phones or any devices. Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items will be appearing on april 4, 2017. Would you like to take a vote on excusing supervisor tang for todays meeting. Yes. Do we have an approval to excuse supervisor tang. That is approved. Madam clerk, please read item 8 and 10. 170214 [purchase and Sale Agreement lendlease development, inc. 30 van ness avenue 70,000,000] sponsors mayor; kim reading code . Supervisor malia cohen all right. Thank you very much, supervisor kim has joined us today who is the sponsor for these two items. I will give her the floor now. Supervisor jane kim im only the sponsor to no. 8. Thank you, chair cohen and members of the budget and finance committee. We know this issue very well. This has been before the board of supervisors for some time. This is regarding the sale and acquisition of 30 van ness owned by the city county of san franciscans. In september when 2016 when we first
If you are interested in whats happening at 17 and fulsome klees, attend a meeting next thursday, march 23. On april 8 with another mclaren park workshop. This public workshop will be to plan trail and asked improvements. Saturday, april 8 10 am12 noon at his valley library. 201 cleveland ave. At this workshop you can learn about some of the eliminate human ideas and offer feedback. This is the second outreach event with the trails and paths focus area and is part of the overall clearing part Mission Planning process that don and her team are leading so effectively. A week later extravaganza. April 15 to make your taxes will have been filed so bring your family out to sharon meadow in Golden Gate Park where we are holding our annual spring extends a debit debt extravaganza 11 am2 pm. This is one of four familyfriendly events we host for the entire city to come together it will feature a cons, carnival rides, games, live entertainment, food trucks, and our annual rib cookoff that i thin