Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
First a few administrative matters. We have gotten advice from the sergeant at arms, the health and Human Services centers for disease control, individuals in the hearing room will he at least 6 feet apart. There is no room for the public and therefore but this is all streaming and therell be an unedited version of it that anyone can watch later. Witnesses are participating by videoconference today and some senators are as well. I like to Say Something about mask. The office of attending physician has said since we are 6 feet apart we dont need to wear masks although some may. Thats why my mask is off. Although i have one and i wear it outside because as dr. Redfield reminded us yesterday its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms the press gallery and the Capitol Police and chung check in the Evan Griffith r. Staff, all their hard work in helping to keep us safe in helping us do these conferences by video with wh
With doing just that. So far weve had about a dozen speakers really speaking from the heart not only about the difficulties of doing their job outside but also how important it is that they get to do their job back inside. Now, as a reminder, today in this county, San Francisco hair salons and barbershops, nail salons and massage parlors are all able to open but only outdoors. Now with the small victory of being able to open outdoors comes with some challenges. Today they discussed the challenges of opening in a small space inside of a city. Many of them are in a highrise and dont even have the space to open. The cost of trying to retrofit their salons for the outdoors and the fact that they still need their rent paid and being outside really limits the number of folks that can do their job. For one barber in the city that i spoke with, the process of waiting and being unsure of whats next is really frustrating. Take a listen to what that barber has to say, keeping in mind that he open
[applause] please welcome our county chair. Hello, iowa. Fellow democrats from across america. All 50 states of america, welcome to polk county. Celebration for our Democratic Party. Together, we will get to meet 17 candidates who are leading a conversation about the future of our party and our country. One of these 17 people will be our next president. They say bad weather brings good luck, and it rained like heck at last years steak fry, and then we won back the congress. I hope the weather we have today is going to win us back the white house next year. Before we get started, please join me in welcoming the elected officials and candidates who are here today. Usually, we read all their names at our events, but obviously this is a little bit eager, so we are not going to go through all hundred of them. Please join me in welcoming them here today. Welcoming join me in five of our newer steak fry leaders. Lindsay paulson and peter crane are our steak fry chairs. Our executive director
Pedagogical university. Grigoriev sergei georgievich, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of education, professor of the department of the institute of Digital Education of the moscow city pedagogical university. At the department of sochi state university. Mikhail vladimirovich, dear colleagues, a lot has already been said about this today, that modern technologies, including Information Technologies, are very actively penetrating into our lives, into the education system, but today, on the eve of teachers day, in the year of the teacher, mentor, who now it is underway, i would like to emphasize that how effectively these technologies will be used in education depends only on the professionalism of the teacher, our team has been developing appropriate teacher Training Systems in the field of what we call informatization of education for many years, and of course, i cant help but thank, our team ca nt help but thank the government, and the ministry of education, all colleagues,