There is no way a school should operate in a vacuum and not actually be deeply rooted in the broader context that our students live in. I see many examples across the city of where schools are really working much harder to do that. A lot of what i focus on the last four years has been helping both leaders who may not be from here but actually have good intentions figure out ways they can bridge more effectively within their community. Walter you have been a critic a times mr. Perry at times. Walter you always have Something Interesting to say. You are critical of two things. One, the expulsion policy which is if you are in one of these types of schools, you have an incentive to expel the back kids so that your scores go up and you dont the deal with it. And then there was the other criticism. Mr. Perry special needs. The way i explain it is that the development of what we have in new orleans occurs generally in three stages. The immediate aftermath. We were literally pulling schools to
Notices. So point three is everybody better exercise what can happen but also what might happen thats really dark and awful. And that requires leadership, that requires time and training. And a lot of people are not doing it. And thats worrisome. After that, actually a few years ago, rand had a sabrini panel. I was a member of that too. There were only two of us who were laymen. There were army generals, steve abbott, fourstar navy admiral, was the chair, i was the vice chair. It was chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological event. That was what was exercised. And we concluded, to our horror, that nobody law enforcement, National Guard, the local First Responders had a clue what a nuclear event, dirty bomb, what did it look like in terms of injured people or a chemical or a biological event. Now, have things changed since then . Certainly at the state level. But guess what . No Congressional Committee had a hearing. Amazing. We went to see one senator who said, god, this is really
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Two thousand one. We want to talk about the change in the nature of the investigation. The gag now looking at it as an act of terrorism. 1 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. For independents, 202 7458002. On social media, you can post your thoughts at cspanwj. At facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email on this topic as well at journal cspan. Org. Here is how the major papers are taking a look at the announcement by the fbi yesterday. The Washington Post calls the shooting and active terrorism. Journal eet probe focuses on on terror. You will notice, on the front page of the New York Times and put an editorial on this topic, the first since 1920. President obama made comments on this topic. We will hear from that shortly. Again, if you want to call and talk about the change in the investigation, 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7458002 for independents. The fbi changing the nature of the investigation, looking at it ofa possible act terrorism.
Who is going to be the leading force in the middle east come if you configure the policy because i have a hard time where are they in yemen and going after isis where are they in afghanistan come against us were with us. And i think theres a reason why they did so well for so many years in the business. We are not good trade deals. If i look at the trade deals that weve done i think tp p. Is a joke and there are people that are better by laterally. Our trade deal goes to show what weve done in the last ten years. Weve done three. Colombia, panama, south korea. China has done 30 including a 30 billiondollar deal with ukraine. Including many of the people we would never deal with. So i think that its a very dangerous precedent. I dont think we have nearly what we think we have. Theres no shame thats one mans opinion. That was a great talk. Very disturbing. It seems like there is so much to be done. But as we all leave this room what would you like us as individuals to take with us what c