And very, very lucky to be in thejob. This week, this rebellion about benefits must have felt painfully familiar to you. You were political adviser to Harriet Harman when she was the Welfare Secretary Way back in 1997, just after labour had won a landslide. I remember it like it was yesterday. Tony blair and Gordon Brown outraged many of their own natural supporters by cutting lone parent benefit. And you were at the centre of it. Does it feel familiar . It does. But it also, you know, i know what harriet achieved. My god, she was a powerful champion for change. And if i look at our time in government, we had the first ever national childcare strategy. We had the new dealfor lone parents to help them get into work, family friendly working for the first time, Maternity And Paternity pay and leave. So i know how tough it was at the beginning. But i also know at the end of our time in office, the Big Changes we put in place, which really was a powerful feminist agenda. Is that the lesson
As we begin a new School Year, the Health And Safety of our students and our educators, our staff and families continue to be our utmost priority. At p. T. A. , we remain committed to making sure our families, our schools, and our communities have what they need during this challenging time. National p. T. A. Has done some wonderful work this year with the c. D. C. Foundation to conduct listening sessions, and have a national survey with parents across the country. To better understand what is going on in their mind, and how they fill in as the new School Year starts. Our Goals Today are to share the findings from the research and provide important information, resources, and professional experts that are joining us to support our families this year. Were so fortunate to have an esteemed group of experts with us today to address questions and concerns on how can Parents Partner with teachers to address misinstruction this past year . What can parents do to support their childs social,
This is precisely what the pentagon and the White House were concerned about there were a number of warnings before this attack happened and hours after it happened President Biden responded threatening to retali. Those who carried out this attack, know this. We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay. 13 u. S. Service members were killed in that attack and 18 others injured making it the deadliest day for u. S. Forces and i decade. Isis claimed responsibility for the attacks and it killed 95 afghans and left another 140 injured. This morning the u. S. Bracing for more attacks in the taliban is still providing security outside of the airport and there are 5000 people still waiting to Get Out at the airport you can see this one photo that we came across an evacuee from afghanistan was taking a Nap Waiting for a plane at a german Air Base that will take her to dallas but plenty of others wont make it that far in the u. S. Is sticking to the August 31
Getting people on planes and those planes in the air because there is nowhere to receive them . I will talk to you about just bottlenecks. I talked a little bit about that earlier. As we those that Depart Kabul and get to those staging bases within U Com or centcom, thats the coordination i was talking about earlier to insuring that we place, you know, evacuees in one of those 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck so as our increased throughput, increased that number that they are able to hold There Centcom and U Com are continuing to coordinate together and what the joint Staff And Trans com of where to put those evacuees to allow flights to continue to leave kabul. So as we look at those on kabul, there is no constraint of allowing flights to leave today. We still expect the throughput that We Saw in the last two days to be able to continue with no bottleneck at others. We continue to manage that on an hourly Minute Basis so we know where to fly people to. Do you have enough people in