The president s and the secretarys real commitment to this to ensure that we have some resources for innovative programs that are happening across the country for those local programs that are really changing the way their schools function and their communities see their schools and promoting those and scaling them up. Very quickly because i know we want to move on, the attorney general launched a defending childhood initiative, i know theres a lot of philanthropy in the room, we want to work in partnership to find those innovative programs. There was a jurisdiction in north dakota that got a grant to implement some of the restoretive justice programs, the superintendent mentioned those. Those have shown real potential for doing good things in terms of preventing recidivism in the bullying context. A grant to boston for statewide bullying intervention, so theres a number of different places, portland, maine and elsewhere. If you have ideas you should never hesitate to call us. Were not
It was remarkable to me because we did a questionnaire because the case had a lot of publicity. And id say 99 percent of the people noted, the potential jurors noted they have daily and meaningful contact with a person of another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring for mediocrity. When we have, and this gets back to your question, when we have leaders that embrace diversity and that build a culture that says, you know what, if you want to compete in the Global Economy tomorrow, pal, youve got to embrace diversity. Why does cocacola w
Another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring for mediocrity. When we have, and this gets back to your question, when we have leaders that embrace diversity and that build a culture that says, you know what, if you want to compete in the Global Economy tomorrow, pal, youve got to embrace diversity. Why does cocacola write a brief to the United States Supreme Court and General Motors and microsoft on issues of diversity and Higher Education . Because they know if they want to get ahead, theyve got to embrace that diversity. If they want
Celebrate, not just embrace, our diversity. Celebrate all our interesting diversity but also celebrate the things that bind us together. Ruslyn, does can urriculum need to change or is that not yet where you are. The federal government cant 10th amendment. Change it. That would be federal overreach. Well stated. No, but, but, so we are not funding or digging into can urriculum in that way. But you certainly have seen superintendent caranza happened about what happens with the kinds of conversations that happen with the movie bully and there are can urriculum packages being developed. I had visions, gary, to think about how if folks decided and we dont play in this but if folks decided there could be a class on this, how you teach, life skills class, right . If we try to make a onesize fits all click approach that doesnt really take people from where they are and get them to where they need to go. I have seen life skills work well and i have seen students literally filling out mcdonalds
And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring for mediocrity. When we have, and this gets back to your question, when we have leaders that embrace diversity and that build a culture that says, you know what, if you want to compete in the Global Economy tomorrow, pal, youve got to embrace diversity. Why does cocacola write a brief to the United States Supreme Court and General Motors and microsoft on issues of diversity and Higher Education . Because they know if they want to get ahead, theyve got to embrace that diversity. If they want to continue to be a fortu