We have 104 schools, and i think its interesting to see the 104 schools. Later, youll see a breakdown of what administrators look like and a demographic of our School District. I need a cue, right . And well talk about per pupil funding. We need finances to do amazing things. Our per pupil funding is 5,780 per kid. And when we look at what that looks like across the nation, i see some of your faces going whoa, right . We have to compete with everybody else, but this would be our per pupil funding. It does present some challenges for us as a School District. But we started off with the board of trustees and myself having a Building Block of successes. One of the things we talked about is the importance of teamwork as a superintendent with your board. Right . Because you have to go out with a United Vision and tell the story together. And the board of trustees and myself committed to each other that thats what we were going to do, and of course, like everyone else talked about, we have a
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
Celebrating Harriet Tubman. We get behind the wheel to sepa they would rather be killed. Reporter tubman bravely freeing a member of her own family. Hear from the remarkable woman. A yellow weather alert for tomorrow morning. Plan on wet commute, and dont freak out. Snow showers with your wet commute. Impacts . We think its a high impact for the welt morning commute. Not so much for the ride home. Low impact for the wet roads on the way home. Need an umbrella, especially if youre walking to the bus stop. Winds will pick up by evening, and windchill in the teens and 20s by 6 00 or 7 00 tomorrow night. 46 downtown, and 39 in frederick, and already a line of snow. Back to leesburg and winchester and martinsburg, and the 8 00 hour, approaching i95, and the good news, it was 75 degrees today, and temperat not sticking on the roads. Its e. If it snows hard enough, you may see enough accumulation on the mulch. Now we have snow down into southern maryland, Charles County into st. Marys county,
Like exxon, chevron, and pretty much nearly every other oil stock out there. Lets find out the reason and get to Jackie Deangelis at the nymex. Thats exactly right. Near 7 increase in oil prices on the day today. Remember, this is after the seesaw week here and, of course, we are near session highs at this point. Some buying the dip here, some technical buying, driving the price higher, but there is fundamental strength to because traders are looking at numbers out there, not just from the u. S. , but also in europe and taking them with a positive tone. Look at u. S. Production over the month of march. Ive got the numbers for you. A million barrel per day decline here in the United States, were just over 9 million as of april 1st. Next week could be that inflexion point where we drop under that level. Remember, this is down from 9. 6 Million Barrels june last year, so significant drop here. Those rig count declines that were going to hear about later in the hour starting to maybe have
Bush campaigns this weekend in New Hampshire, and at 8 00 on Craig Shirley former out his book on president ronald reagan. Our guests this week are Tennessee Republican senator Lamar Alexander. He was elected to his third term n the senate and took over the gavel of the socalled health committee, which is health, education, labor and pension. In your first deal with the devil, oversaw the rewrite of which child left behind, it had been 13 years since it was attended to. I want to tell our audience that perspective anis serving particular ly as the secretary of education, serving as the former president of the university of tennessee, so lots of experience in the field you brought to there. Thank you for being with us. Let me introduce our two reporters. Thank you for being here with us on newsmakers. Im wondering what you think your next project will be and get done hink you can in 2016, the project that you think youre right about senator murray. Shes very result oriented and i trust