Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am melanie newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the nacp Legal Defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. So i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am, ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood, was the first black School Superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you. And when he in 1987
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am melanie newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the nacp Legal Defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. So i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am, ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood, was the first black School Superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you. And when he in 1987
Week. Parents have to do something with the kid. Lets get tout Sabina Kuriakose with what is happening, sabina reporter parents are very, very upset by all of this and they made that known in an emergency meeting yesterday. We were at that meeting. Heres video, you can see, it was standing room only, parents angry, upset, demanding accountability from the school board, and now parents were going head to head with school and Public Health officials, wanting to know what the district knew about the mold issue and when they knew it. Last week holy glenn elementary one of the four Elementary Schools in the district was closed after officials detect mold prompting Serious Health concerns for the kid. Ths problem has gone on way too long and somebody knew about it and it was just forced under the rug. This board absolutely knew nothing. I want to thank task force built from the bottom up because it is clear to me that the top doesnt care. Reporter thinks an image of the mold found inside hol
Construction from the overnight picked up and gone. One accident south on the extension, it is approaching lansdale, so leaving quakertown be ready to hit the brakes but buses, trains, trolleys running with no delays, karen and thomas back to you. 5 01. Developing a School District off for columbus day, fall break at all, no school for the entire week in south jersey. It was just because of mold, the classes were cancelled in Monroe Township. Lets get tout Sabina Kuriakose with what we know, sabina. Reporter good morning, karen. School district had an emergency meeting yesterday to inform members of the public about exactly what is going on and it was fiery, we had video because we were there yesterday, lets take a look, completely packed, standing room only as parents angry, upset demanding accountability from members of the school board. It was a packed high school auditorium, parents going head to toe with school and Public Health officials wanting to know what the district knew abo
Have in common. Hmm. Wearing blue. Physically we dont look the same. Not much, no. Sue, you and him have js in your name, not sue. Yeah, yeah. I dont have his money. Ill tell you later. Sues perplexed. This is going to be good. It has got to be good. Today is good. Nine out of 10 in your weather number today. Bus stop budd any jacket required. Temperatures mostly in the 70 s this morning. Already warmer then the normal high for this time of the year and rain is outta here. We have 71 degrees in philadelphia. Northerly breeze at 3 miles an hour. Still humid at the moment but dew points are going down throughout the day. 7 06 is our havings sunrise time. 84 degrees is our high. Summery feel throughout the afternoon and nice night tonight with a low of 65 degrees and partly cloudy skies. That is your weather for tuesday. We will have a little roller coaster ride in the seven day forecast coming up but hopefully a smooth ride on the roadways this morning, bob kelly. Not bad at all yet. Fir