Thank you to them foror volunteering a today i am the workshop chair for the eastival for adults and teens. And also of the author of the back seat. You havear the announcement silence all of your devices and we hope you are following us on facebook and twitter and instagram when you folk post about the festival please use gbs. Your v feedback is valuable so when you areen done with your time here please drop those offse by submitting a survey you will get a 100 visa gift card. Rob will be signing books immediately after the presentation and copies of the s book are on sale at the politics and prose book and a quick word about buying books , this is a free event but it does help if you buy books from the festival because the more books we can sell the more the Book Publishers want to sell one send them to talk to us but also helps to support one of the greatest independent bookstores around so if you can please buy a book so let me tell you about rob i know him because five years ago h
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Question and then we have a number of other presenters and we have a whole host of people from the community that want to do Public Comment. So commissioner collins . Yes, i want to put this on the record that i still have a lot of questions when we are looking at data. I had asked for data around sieft transfers as a sense of how we can see if kids are feeling safe. And the data that show shared with me showed that predominantly the number of kids requesting safety transfers were black students, is that correct . Or black and brown students were requesting more safety transfers than more races of students for violent related incidents . What is your sense . I dont know. The safety transfers are down quite a bit because we have more criteria that were looking at for safety transfers because a couple years ago, of course, it was just a tsunami of transports that kind of blocked the system. This year weve had less safety transfers this past year than we have in a number of years. So i gu
So commissioner collins . Yes, i want to put this on the record that i still have a lot of questions when we are looking at data. I had asked for data around sieft transfers as a sense of how we can see if kids are feeling safe. And the data that show shared with me showed that predominantly the number of kids requesting safety transfers were black students, is that correct . Or black and brown students were requesting more safety transfers than more races of students for violent related incidents . What is your sense . I dont know. The safety transfers are down quite a bit because we have more criteria that were looking at for safety transfers because a couple years ago, of course, it was just a tsunami of transports that kind of blocked the system. This year weve had less safety transfers this past year than we have in a number of years. So i guess that i want to put this out as a request more than a question. If were collecting data on students committing violence we should also be
Question and then we have a number of other presenters and we have a whole host of people from the community that want to do Public Comment. So commissioner collins . Yes, i want to put this on the record that i still have a lot of questions when we are looking at data. I had asked for data around sieft transfers as a sense of how we can see if kids are feeling safe. And the data that show shared with me showed that predominantly the number of kids requesting safety transfers were black students, is that correct . Or black and brown students were requesting more safety transfers than more races of students for violent related incidents . What is your sense . I dont know. The safety transfers are down quite a bit because we have more criteria that were looking at for safety transfers because a couple years ago, of course, it was just a tsunami of transports that kind of blocked the system. This year weve had less safety transfers this past year than we have in a number of years. So i gu