Schools officials today as coronavirus cases continue to climb at home and beyond here are the latest numbers tonight, globally there are now more than 930,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and over 46,000 people have died. The United States leads the world in the number of cases with over 213,4700 people in our country have died in california. There are more than 9,000 cases and almost 200 people have died. This according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker map. The ongoing outbreak is forcing state education officials to prepare kids across california to Distance Learning for the rest of the school year. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains how google is helping students finish out the hool year from home. The coronavirus will likely keep california schools shuttered for the rest of the school year state leaders announced wednesday Officials Say districts across the state have either already or will be launching formal Distance Learning plans screen that is not out for
Welcome to the april 6, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Im joined on this Video Conference with rules Committee Vice chair supervisor katherine stefani. Our clerk today is victor young and id like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 healthy emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors litingive chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotedly as in the same extent as if they were physically comment. Physically present. We are streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Commentses or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 8882045984. Access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial one again. Press 0 and 1 to be added to the queue. You will be lined up in the system i
Joining us at 10, im ken way and im pam moore. The decision is what many parents and students had read assumed was going to happen, but the governor does stress this does not mean the end of the school year. We are preparing today to et our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through Distance Learning. And other mechanisms to ke sure that were educatingour kids but not doing so physically on school sites. State superintendent Tony Thurmond held a News Conference today via zoom the same platform that many students have now been using to learn through virtually kron fours noelle bellow listen in on that News Conference and she joins us now live from the newsroom was more details noel on the instruction thats going to be given out. Thats right while more specific guidance on distancelearning was being posted tonight for district leaders, the information given during the press conference still left some questions to b
Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing a question and contacting us electronically. Thank you for honoring this request. Going forward, we urge the public to write the board at mtaboard sfmta. Gov or calling 4154464470. That information is also on our website if you need that. We usually ask for speaker cards
And were doing this for the first time using microsoft. Please excuse us if we have any technology issues. This process may be different than we normally do. If i may, i may move on to item 2, the approval of the march 3rd, 2020 minutes. Do we need to do a call to order and role call . Yes, thank you. So ill start with you, commissioner. role call . Well move on to item 2, the approval of the march 2 minutes. Reviewing the minutes of the previous meeting, does anybody have a motion to approve . So moved. Second. All those i in favor . Do we need to do a role call . role call . Thank you. Item 3, the directors report. The directors report is in front of you and i would ask that if you have any questions, of course, im happy to answer them, but given that the majority of our meeting with focus on covid19, i will not need whats in front of you, but im happy to answer any questions you see fit to raise at the time. Any commissioner questions . Im not receivining a Public Comment request. C