Everyone know what i want to do is let everyone know that i know we have a lot of young people here tonight. Ordinarily i would be able to accommodate to make sure people can speak. There is a lot of people in here tonight. I will do the best i can to get to the agenda and try to get the young folks out as early as possible. If you look around the room you may see constraints. I love you, some will text me to speak earlier. That is why i want you to know there is a reason why that may not happen. With that said, section 8 has accessibility information for the public. Section b approval of board minutes. None this evening. As announced at the past few meetings, members of the public are reminded if they wish to address the board they can complete the speaker card prior to item being called and present it to the executive assistant. Speaker cards will not be accepted for an item before the board. Item two resolutions. There are none this evening. Item three, superintendents report, docto
Now vital for her to use that moral capital and that authority to make the point about the suffering of the people being persecuted. Nobody wa nts to people being persecuted. Nobody wants to see, nobody wants to see a return to military rule. In burma. Nobody wants to see a return of the generals. But its also vital that the civilian governments and that is, for whom i say, i have a great deal of admiration, but it is vital for her now to make clear that this is an abomination and that those people will be allowed back. Those people will be allowed back. Those people will be allowed back to burma, and the preparation is being made, and that the abuse of their human rights and the killings. Hundreds, perhaps even thousands, that the killings. First, with respect to the administrations of the nuclear deal with iran, the Trump Administration is continuing to review and develop its policy on iran. Its under way. There have been several discussions internally among our nsc along with discus
I mentioned who is not here but in my brief introduction, i would like to share with you how i, we, mcgraw hill education, got here. At the third annual academy, and with the opportunity to introduce our next keynote speaker. The role that we work is to identify Strategic Partnerships with National Alliances that also align to the core values and mission of our company. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science company, we identified with one of our longtime partners with their work and as a result we took a lead role and active participation with their digital and personalized learning symposiums. Maybe its me being a proud and honored son of two cuban orphans that instilled in me the need of always. Wanting to do more and to do good. We continued our conversations with asa and our partnered districts and recognized the significance and issue in addressing the needs within our districts. So three years ago, t
Matt murray, the executive editor of the wall street journal is going to interview betsy devos, the u. S. Secretary of education, who is very much focused on this particular aspect of your agenda. So please join me in welcoming them. [ applause ] secretary, good to see you. Nice to see you, matt. I think its fair to say, first of all, that education for this audience over the years is probably always the number one concern for many people whenever we poll our executives. So i know theyre keenly interested always in the state of education. And weve already had a lot of talk at the conference over the last day and a half on things like a. I. , things like the digitization of the workplace, and disruption and changes that already are happening and that we all think are going to accelerate in the coming years. I want to start by asking you, you have been on the job now almost a year. Whats your overall assessment of the preparedness of u. S. Workers today for this world and the world thats
Agenda, dwight jones, my counterpart with mcgraw hill education, who is not here as he is currently serving on his Civic Responsibility of jury duty. I mentioned who is not here but in my brief introduction i would like to share with you how i, we, mcgraw hill education, got here. At the third annual urban Superintendent Academy with asa, and with the opportunity to introduce our next keynote speaker, dr. Mark fidel. You see the role that dwight jones and i work is identify Strategic Partnerships with National Alliances that also align to the core values and mission of our company. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science company, we identified with one of our longtime partners, aasa, with their work on Digital Learning and transformation and as a result of this alignment we took a lead role, an active partial with their digital and personalized learning symposiums. So our partnership continued and quite hone