Hampering efforts further, forecasters are warning of more rain. One to two inches an hour in the hardest Hit Areas with the risk of more flooding. And Power Company is warning it could be the end of the month or even october before the power comes on for some folks. Of course, thats for people whose homes are even still standing. Right now our government and our response capabilities are on life support. We rely on generated power. Of course, to have generators, you have to have fuel. Fuel is short because our refineries, twothirds of our Refinery Tap capabilities were knocked out. And seven Louisiana Nursing homes have been forceded to close immediately after they evacuated nearly 850 elderly residents into one crowded warehouse. Where the generators failed. The Health Department says at least seven people have died since that move. In the northeast, many are just beginning to wrap their arms around the full scope of wreckage from the remnants of ida. A one in 500year flood that clob
Im john valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at brookings, its my privilege to welcome you for Todays Discussion on the future of early Childhood Education as education. As many of you are aware, kids experiences in early childhood are critically important in shaping their educational and life trajectories. Its a pivotal time for Brain Development and for building social emotional skills weve known for a long time that providing children with high Quality Care can have extraordinarily positive longterm effects and be a very good investment for government. The challenge has been in providing those high quality opportunities to as many families as possible and in the most equitable ways possible. With that context, this has been an especially challenging time for the early Childhood Sector as we will discuss today. We have a terrific group of panelists to talk us through these issues. Miriam calderon is the Deputy A
Brought back into session in order to be briefed by administration officials. Up next, a discussion on the impact of covid on Childhood Education. Experts explore the benefits of universal prek and the need to increase pay to attract a qualified workforce. They also talk about how the Education System will be impacted by the american Rescue Plan and the american jobs act. John good afternoon and good morning to those joining you joining us out west. Im john valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at brookings, its my privilege to welcome you for Todays Discussion on the future of early Childhood Education as education. As many of you are aware, kids experiences in early childhood are critically important in shaping their educational and life trajectories. Its a pivotal time for Brain Development and for building social emotional skills weve known for a long time that providing children with high Quality Care can have
No worries. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Thanks at home for joining us this hour. Happy to have you here. I will tell you in advance we are having slight technical difficulties in terms of the technical aspects of getting stuff on the show, so in Case Anything Looks hinchey are unlike it usually does, dont worry. Nothing is wrong. At least nothing wrong you need to worry about. Plenty is wrong, trust me. We start Tonight in marshall, Texas In East texas. Really, really east texas. It is close to the louisiana state line, not far from shreveport, louisiana. And she was born there in 1926 in marshall, texas, four east texas. After being born in marshall, texas in the 20s, when she was 12 in june 1939, she and her family moved 200 miles west all the way to ft. Worth. It was her and her two siblings and her mom and dad. They moved all the way from near shreveport, louisiana, all the way to ft. Worth to pay 165 for their house in new York Avenue in ft. Worth in the Fifth Ward in ft. W
But after being born in marshall, texas in the twenties, when she was 12 in June 1939 she and her family moved 200 miles was all the way to fourth worth. It was her and her two siblings and her mom and dad. They move all the way from the they paid 165 for their house on east any street and new york avenue. Its a Neighborhood Today that is hemmed in on three sides by a Zillion Lanes of interstate and major highways it has the effect of cutting it off from the rest of Forth Worth. Back in the late 1930s, that was before all the interstates and all of that. The most important thing to know about that neighborhood when it comes to young 12 year old opal and her family was that they were a black family, that was moving in from Way Out East by louisiana lake. That neighborhood the removing into was a mostly white neighborhood at least a street. And they move there in june of 1939, they had been told by a local real Estate Agent that it would be fine even though they were a black family movin