Weve were been moving this process forward for the last month and a half now and so, definitely it wont were going to do our jobs and do everything we can to make it as smooth as possible, but from our perspective, past perspective, would it be further . Just to circle back one more time around, the works that theyve done about that work in the capacity to do this with us. My job is for the public and im here to support the superintendent and to guide the superintendent, but its to ensure that were focusing on the public and that theyre involved and we hear it all of the time, were not reaching out to them. If theyre developing a plan, and were the ones who execute it, why would we need them anyway . I want us to hole o hold on to. If were doing all of the work, that doesnt make sense to me. This is one were of the situations where, you know, this is something that i think that rachel has said before and it has come up before when we were asking the superintendent to do his job and hes
Before i introduced the amazing eve ewing. We have to think the organizers of this event they been doing 70 fantastic events like this. Theyre having a 50 off sale on our website. You can actually go to haymarket books. Org this is critical. It required reading in its 50 off right now. And what else i get to do besides read and turn off the netflix. They have other events lined up coming up this week. Check out their website for the full schedule. Haymarket books. Org. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern there will be a special homemade poetry reading. And then next tuesday may 19 at 5 00 p. M. Eastern there is an event about abolish eyes. It is not just a slogan immigrant justice with authors and activists. These are great events such act them out. Im also really excited to plug a new venture that weve been working on. Its a partnership with fax 32 fox 32 and my fox chicago. They help students in chicagoland who do not had access to online digital curriculum. They can tune in and see the occasional
Commemoration at the naval cemetery in vallejo. This is the oldest Military Cemetery on the west coast. It opened in 1858, nearly 1,000 are interred there, including three medal of honor recipients and veterans from the war of 1812, the civil war and world war i. Good afternoon. Im larry beil. And im dion lim. While memorial day is about honoring those who died for our country, for many its also the unofficial start to summer. The heat and holiday sent many people off to beaches and parks across the bay area despite recommendations to stay at home. Leeann melendez spoke to people who said they just needed to get out. She joins us live from the roof top of abc 7. A beautiful picture behind you. Reporter its beautiful up here. We often hear people say, im so tired of staying at home. I am really tired of hearing about covid19. Does this make them a bad person . Absolutely not. It makes them human. Today, humans had the heat, the holiday, and the will. Here at stern grove in San Francisco
Updated numbers. 157 people have tested positive for coronavirus. Thats up 24 from yesterday. Two people have now died. One in Santa Clara County. And one in placer county. The state is monitoring 10,300 people who came into california on evacuation flights. This afternoon, Contra Costa County joined other bay area counties and declared a state of emergency saying that the virus appears to be circulating in the community. Contra Costa Health Services and public recommend that Large Community events be postponed or canceled. That means gatherings where 50 or more people would be within arms reach of each other. Concert, sporting evens, celebrations, services and other community events. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. We begin with tom vacar, once again monitoring the situation at the port of oakland and that cruise ship. Reporter the news that you just told us about, all these various stories, suggest one thing. That this is nowhere near being over. It is a situation which is develo
Slide 6. Locam i reading it correct its gone down when youre comparing the 18, 19 to the fall of 2019 . This is slide 6 . Yeah. Sorry. Yes. So what this is showing you is the yellow bar is what the 18, 19 school year chronic absenteeism rate and the blue bar is showing what it is in the fall. Right . So our goal is to keep steady at the blue bar which would mean that at the end of this year, our chronic absenteeism rate would go down. Okay. But if we have the jump that weve been seeing over the past three years, it will go up. Okay. Thank you. Does that make sense . We need to it shows how its gone up every year, that slide. This is last year versus midyear and they are trying to maintain yeah. Its a little bit of apples and oranges. Were doing a fall to a year. But this is what were saying is that this is were seeing here is an opportunity we have to hopefully turn back that chronic absenteeism and then for your question, commissioner norton, the last three years of data, and i would