Roll call, please. I think shes muted. Im going to start over, thank you. Thank you. [roll call] all right. Thank you so much. We are going to get started. I want to welcome everybody from the public. My colleagues, superintendent and staff and student delegates. Section a general Commission Notice regarding Virtual Meeting ada accommodation and translation services. First item is approval of board minutes. We need a motion and second. So moved. Again. These are for the regular meeting of august 25th, 2020. Are there any corrections . Seeing none. Roll call, please. Thank you. [roll call] thank you very much. Item 2 is superintendents report. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. Good afternoon, everyone. This month were joining the nation in celebrating la inx heritage month. Schools strive to be places where every student can see themselves and be themselves where learning reflects both the familiar and unknown. Board of education policies adopted over the years, honor and supp
Actually, if people are lawabiding, they never think about endangering National Security, there is no cause for concern whatsoever. Is if therelegation is a National Security law in hong kong, the law should be enacted in hong kong by the Legislative Council. It should not be happening in beijing. The Hong Kong Government has been kept in the dark and the process. Again, this is wrong. Firstly, this is a national law. Of course if it is International Law it will have to be decided how to enact the law. Now, basic law states clearly that for matters of national , thise or Foreign Affairs is a matter for the cbg. No one would question that National Security is something outside the high degree of autonomy. Its a matter of sovereignty of the country. 18 after basic law, theres a process that allows National Laws to be added for implementation through hong kong through a specified procedure. The third point is the political reality. If you believe given the current political reality, given
From cbs news bay area, thi is the afternoon edition. It is back to school in oakland, whats different for teachers this time around. Thousands of San Jose City workers vote to strike, the services that could take a hit. And an suv ends up in the river after an east bay sideshow. We hear from fed up neighbors. Good afternoon. Im elizabet cook. It was the first day of school for thousands of student in oakland unified. Lets get right to anne makovec with how people in the district are feeling to start the school year. This is all in the wake o that teacher strike in the spring, anne. Yeah. Certainly a chaotic en to last school year, but like Many School Districts around th country, oakland unified is still facing budget deficits an staffing shortages, but there i a lot of optimism in the bay areas second largest district. Roughly 34,000 Students Attend School in oakland and we talked to a bunch of parents at school like hoover elementary and Claremont Middle School and the said as much
Union votes announced this morning. Joycelyn moran breaks down what theyre asking for. Reporter all morning we had been waiting for results of a key vote on whether city workers would go on a three day strike. We have the results. Two unions, members with unions have voted to go on strike august 15 through 17th. Striking is a last resort. Our hope is City Council Members and the mayor will finally listen to us and address under staffing crisis impacting libraries, the airport, affordable housing, Emergency Response times, and more. If they dont, we are ready tostring for our services. Reporter city workers say theyre under staffed and are asking for better pay. The contract expired june 30 and theyve been working without one since. Workers are asking for an increase of 7 for the 202324 fiscal year. The city countered with a counter offer of a 5 raise. City workers said its hard to live in san jose with the high costs including housing. We have been on this ride to the point where we ca
What were known as red legs. Jayhawkers. These are kansasians as he admits in his autobiography who feels the kansasans picked on them. To cross into missouri and get their revenge. So hes in an informal j jayhawking kansas regiment fighting in missouri. Then in 1864 he joins the kansas seventh which is the notorious jayhawking regimen. If you were a missourian and i said kansas seventh, you would know what that meant even probably today. And they had such a Bad Reputation for what they were carrying out in missouri that they got sent away from the kansas missouri border. He did see some service in the south and by the end of the war, hes back in st. Louis. Well, what did Buffalo Bills childhood in bleeding kansas and in his youth as a jayhawker in the civil war mean to him . You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Thats cspan. Org history. In 1911, the triangle shirtways factory in new york caught fire and 146 workers died