Thank you for spending a halfhour with us to talk about your 12 years in washington. It ended with the reelection of barack obama. If you could think of adjectives, what would they be to describe these seven years . Interesting. Challenging. Sometimes totally frustrating. Full of opportunities for the country. There were good times during these 12 years, laced together with some that were not so good. 9 11. The anthrax scare. There were also positive things. The election of barack obama i thought was a very positive statement for the country and moving forward in a way out of a fiscal of this. Abyss. Thi i could not have imagined a better time to have been here with all of the things that have happened. Let me ask you to look back over those 12 years and ask what the high point was. When we could Work Together. Maybe the single event that would and body that is the gang of 14. John mccain and i put together six other democrats and six other republicans to avoid what was then called the
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I am. And that is what i am committed to working with the folks and that is part of the process as well. And i have a few questions and, if i may, and i appreciate my colleagues patience. One of the questions that i have immediately was, can you or do you have any information on the decrease in the on track students that are white and instead do you have any indication on what that was . I dont have it right here. Sorry tha, is on the slide five. Yeah. I dont have it right here, but it is something that i can follow up and get on the reasons are, because we actually wanted to do these by course. Okay, thank you. And the next question that i had, so, again, i have to, and my information and my experience is long. And i want to know because i look for pockets of change and i am talking about Counseling Services. And counselors are so critical in this process how do we know and what you have said is happening . How do we know that how do you know . That what you have told us is happening
Sfusd and these numbers, for African American students are similar to what you would see in places like mississippi or georgia. And we are one of the highest performing urban School Districts and so it is unacceptable and i really just want to know how the board is going to address this and how we are going to create accountability to make sure that these things stop happening because they happened when i was in high school to now and even my older relatives, had the experience the same things, thank you. Sir, i know that you were waiting and you did not submit a card, did you want to make a comment . I feel like you were waiting for so long through everything that if you would like to comment. Please hand her your card, please and you can identify you. And identify yourself, and you have two minutes if you would like to speak. Thank you, scott, and ab bra hamelin con high school and i am pleasure to be here and i thank you guys for what do you and what i do is teach math, and so stati
Have that faculty are prepared to train teachers to be effective under the common core standards . I have the belief that this is new for everyone. There are no senses of immediate expertise but there is an individual expertise. Once again a great opportunity to build the confidence. Very quickly if we could do this together. I have confidence that our institutions learn and learn quickly. , the faculty lets remember that the productive relationship between high quality researchers and design brings together evidence. All of us here fear that trend to change call the institution by institution is daunting. Why dont we look at, in court . Telling people in with the College Board does, sharing high quality courses that are designed and built upon and refined through educators working together. I want to separate these four second. I could not agree with you more that Brilliant Minds helped shape a common core. As opposed to the construction it was a combination of mathematicians and educ