Thank you. My name is pam [speaker not understood]. Im the president , board chair of the Chinese Progressive Association and i want to be able to speak in support of campos supervisor campos legislation. I want to be able to speak in terms of the Community Perspective and as community, people always have access to expressing their views when we have our elected board of trustees. And now we dont have that kind of access any more. And we have a lot to say. And some of the things that we really care about in preserving, not only in terms of the credit classes ill go back to that in just a moment. But the value of city college to be able to provide education and services that fall under the category of noncredit classes. And im very concerned that our ability to be able to communicate, the richness and importance of these kinds of courses will be denied us and we will lose them. The second party want to as a Community Representative to speak of is of the access, Affordable Access and acc
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young people that are taking advantage of these different programs will leave with much, much more debt and that is something that everybody left, right and center on this board in the state of california should oppose. We should [speaker not understood] agenda.
The continued limiting of the access and finally, city college made a difference in my life. And i want to be able to maintain that and to be able to have access for everybody to the kind of courses that changed my life in areas of humanity, et cetera. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young peo
Indeed this was foreshadowed. It is an assessment conducted by the oecd in 24 countries so we are being compared to the countrys you see in yellow. Russias data will come in next year and will be added in and there will be another round of countries that will be added to this database, looking at this every ten years. This first report is a baseline to see how we are doing. It has a lot of sample in it. You can see how many hundreds of thousands are in the database. It is looking at skills in three domains, literacy, numerous sea and problemsolving in a Technology Rich environment, it also has some of what we call employability skills, cooperation, teamwork, persistence kind of skills listed in the assessment as well. In the u. S. The first wave of samples was 5,000. It is nationally representative but not large enough to drill down into some of the smaller subgroups you may be interested in but we have another way of being collected by the department of education so we see they are ad
Broadcast for october 28th and fast forward about 42 minutes in, you can hear me. And its really quite easy to determine when the sixth trumpet will sound. It may not be that easy in regards to the end of the world. But the sixth trumpet is quite easy, it really is. Now, id like to read a portion here from john 8. Jesus said the i bear record of myself yet my record is true for i know whence i came and wither i go, but you cannot tell whence i came and wither i go. [speaker not understood] for i am not alone, but i and the father that sent me. It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. I am one that bear witness of myself and the father that sent me bears witness of me. Hes referring to a law in about ron am i where if somebody was guilty of murder, for instance, and, you had to have at least two witnesses that that guy was a murder error somebody was guilty of being a lesbian or a homosexual, male homosexual, you had to have two or three witnesses to confirm