At can send us a text 202 7488003. If you do please include your name and where you are from, otherwise catch up on social cspanwj and on facebook. Happy thanksgiving to you and your family. You can start calling in now. One statistic down how americans are spending their thanksgiving. Only 27 plan to have the traditional thanksgiving meal with people outside of their household. The New York Times with a map trying to break down that data from a survey of some 150,000 americans. That map showing the share of people eating thanksgiving dinner with people outside their homes the darker the color shading. As the map illustrates there is a substantial regional variation with some people much more likely together with others. 14 ofs of vermont, only households will be celebrating with people outside their household. In parts of missouri, more than half of the residents plan to. We ask you this morning about thanksgiving 2020. What you celebrating, what are you thankful for, some responses a
Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
Process where families may apply to any Elementary School in the district. Despite our well intentioned efforts, the process has not worked as well as intended meeting goals related to diversity, predictability and proximity. In our Current System. Families must chose from 72 different schools and arent guaranteed an assignment to any of them. The families with the most time and resources are best able to figure out the application process, research schools, go on school tours, and ultimately receive one of the top choices. Despite the complicated process, our schools are just as segregated today as they were when we implemented the system. What weve heard we know that every family wants to send their child to a highquality school and that students assignment alone cannot create highquality stools but it does have a role to play in creating diverse robust enrolled schools. And sfusd our mission is to provide each and every student with the highquality instruction required to thrive in
You sit across from your grandmother, you are in complete silence, it is a sacred space. Listen andtes you ask questions. It is just two microphones and you look each other in the eyes. As you know i microphone gives you the license to ask questions you do not normally get to ask. From the beginning of storycorps people thought if i had 40 bits left to live, what i say to this person . At the end of the 40 minutes you get a copy and another stays with us and goes to the American Folklife Center in the library of congress. Your great, great, Great Grandkids can know your grandmother through her voice and story. Because of the nature of what happens in these booths, it started in Grand Central then expanded across the country, we are collecting the wisdom of humanity. We have about 650,000 participate so far. It is the largest collection of human voices so far. We are a Public Service and nonprofit. We are here to serve people. One of the things we are encouraging a thanksgiving, and if