Team. Dr. Matthews team with him and all those that supported the mou that well be voting on later today. I know it wases a lot o it was d i wanted to express my gratitude moving forward. The first item is approval of the board minutes for the meeting of july 2020. I need a motion and a second. roll call thank you. Thats five ayes. Thank you. First and foremost i want to welcome everyone back. We are so close to the start of the school year which is next monday august 17th. Our Student Learning will begin for the 2020, 2021 school year. You should know that our School Staff Members are working extremely hard preparing to welcome our students on monday. This past monday was the fifth annual Digital District day. This year was all online. There was overwhelming consent. When we needed to close registration on sunday night. Those that participated, it was thirst first time attending digital event. Teachers with a wide variety of other roles, including para professionals, substitutes, coun
Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
Going to be a beautification out here, which i guess never hit me, but i guess it might in a way. Because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do among others, besides give you a time line as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years which i think is one of obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life because, i mean, the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture im going to try to get across to you, if Park Services is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. And what i think a lot of us as mers tod americans today have forgotten is how far apart this country was in 1865. I think it is the view of a lot of people that lee surrenders and bam, oh, well just forget about it, you know, okay, well just hold hands and reunite, an
What were going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is were going to do robert e. Lee in the postwar years. And my coworker, when they were upstairs before we came down, asked me if this was going to be a beatification, which never hit me, but it might, because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture, im going to try to get across to you, the park service is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. And what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten is that how far apart this country was in 1865. I think it is th
Politicians divided over a new covered 19 aid bill there as the number of cases in the country edges closer to 4000000. 00 plus. Im going home reporting from the island which used to be the largest exporter of life in the world well tell you why the numbers appeared to do it before. But theres been a breakthrough in the race to develop a curve a 1000 vaccine the Lancet Medical Journal has published some promising results from scientists at Oxford University who have already been conducting early human testing Scientists Say its safe for humans and also triggered the critical immune response which could stop the virus in its tracks while the findings are encouraging larger trials still need to be done and has more from oxford. Phase one really couldnt have gone much better for the oxford team early positive signs now confirmed in the published research so this is an important milestone on the par but were now moving rapidly forwards to trying to evaluate whether the vaccine actually pro