Doctor who recently returnrned from aleppo. I thohought we werere enterig hell. , it was 10not hell times worse than that. Amy then Hillary Clinton taps former interior secretary ken salazar to head her Transition Team. Salazar has backed the keystone xl pipeline, the transpacific partnership, a and the expanansn ofof fracking. I think hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary p part of the future of natural gas. Because without this new technology, the amamount of natural gas that we have available here in the country is a very diminished amount. Amy we will speak to investigative journalist david sirota in ken salazars home state of colorado. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Russias Defense Ministry says it has used a base in western iran to carry out air strikes in syria. The ministry reported the strikes hit targets in aleppo, idlib, and deir alzour provinces. The strikes are the first time russi
Secure a stable source of funding to ensure access to Quality Health care, preschool, child care, afterschool academic support, or all the children in marin. Since moving here she spends time every week at the Alameda County juvenile justice center. Please join me in welcoming dana king. [applause] thank you very much. It is so nice to be back in marin. It is sunny and warm over here. Who. I heard a gasp when someone said oakland. What . Do miss marin and i was here for 15 years and it will always, always be my home. My children were raised here and attended school year. Now they are grown, so when they flew the coop, so did i. Justts not that far, im over the bridge. Come and visit us. We have great restaurants in oakland, incredible art. Forgoing to do a little pr oakland. Thank you so much for coming out today. We have a very, very Important Program to discuss. Our agenda is to jumpstart the middle class. Shall we . Yes. Are incredibly fortunate today to have our esteemed representa
Standards that asks our students to do much more complex thinking and as the board has taken a strong stance an decreasing the amount of testing unnecessary testing in our city halls that is an excellent example an archaic testing not in modern time i want to thank the staff for supporting that as well. Commissioner haney i want to say thank you to ms. Fewer for bringing this forward i remember this of the first brought about but i think without a doubt at the canyon core changes what we should be testing for 12 graders it makes that more irrelevant i want to make sure we a lot internally it seem like there is agreement we will like this is not an ascertainment sunshine we should be doing if were stoougz it has in the past superintendent evaluation and in other places where it is were looking at the process so we may move forward and want to access an indicator or measure if at all if the agreement on the board has wealthy so ms. Wynns. Thank you. Im supportive of this ive not been sup
Emergencies like the miles outbreak if you have a perm belief you cant sit in the Council School or things of that nature so this is a serious issue and one the commissioners should weigh in on i ask you to urge you to come to the moot on the 18 in my opinion it is like first of all we recommend changing the policy that comes to the board it would have to come to the board but noement prior to that whatever input in the progress we urge you to speak to us or come to the month to month. Next for the report from the building ground and Services Committee ms. Fewer. Thank you. I chaired the meeting because ms. Mendozamcdonnell had a family emergency so we had one action item which was in support of the utility reduction in the San Francisco Unified School District titled we had an update so we had 3 informational items woman an update on the launch of the online permit application and fee schedule id like to thank Elizabeth Lee and others for working on this it is online and people can ac
For strong support were in a intriel new era of learning the cognitive learning for our students and continuing to administer this is like filling your gas tank with a horsewhip it is miss aligned it is the common core is a deeper set of standards that asks our students to do much more complex thinking and as the board has taken a strong stance an decreasing the amount of testing unnecessary testing in our city halls that is an excellent example an archaic testing not in modern time i want to thank the staff for supporting that as well. Commissioner haney i want to say thank you to ms. Fewer for bringing this forward i remember this of the first brought about but i think without a doubt at the canyon core changes what we should be testing for 12 graders it makes that more irrelevant i want to make sure we a lot internally it seem like there is agreement we will like this is not an ascertainment sunshine we should be doing if were stoougz it has in the past superintendent evaluation and