Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown congress stepped back from the brink of financial turmoil, at least for now, after the house passed a tax plan late last night and sent it to president obama. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, we look at how the vote came about and sort through some of the political consequences as a result of wts in the bill and whats not. Brown then, new killings in pakistan, we look at the uptick in violence against aid workers and women teachers with Washington Post Foreign Affairs reporter pam constable. Woodruff paul solman takes us inside a company that turns a profit by employing an unusual workforce. A massachusetts Manufacturing Firm founded in 1932 where the median age is 74 and Rosa Finnegan over there, is 100. Brown and ray suarez talks with journalist and author Claudia Kolker about what she calls the immigrant advantage. I began to ask foreignborn people what i call the question
Valuation and our John Gardener team is here, maria who is a researcher and monica lopez and laurel is here. This you thank you for coming ladies. I may call you if you have more to talk about. This is really an outcome driven data driven and outcome driven project. As you know our services are required by doe to be evidence based. We have established the common indicators and outcomes and now we are working with our Partner Agencies to ultimately ensure that we are all working in achieving what we said we were going to achieve. We partnered with stanford who has been working already with the School District for several years and several other agencies to create a research and evaluation design. We are entering the muddy waters and scary waters of data sharing agreement and working on consent issues and we are just required by doe to get an irb clearance, individual rights review board. Well be conducting a survey in the spring to get at a lot of the data that you just cant get with th
The schools were selected when we submitted the grant in 2011. They were some of the ones that were recipients of the School Improvement grants and i dont know the full story behind these schools but i think the School Improvement grant and some of the most in need. So thats so there is seven in the district but we only picked four and as far as the Community Hubs and maybe kevin and or car lean can address. I appreciate the way the schools were picked. I im more interested in how the schools were picked and how that plays out in the community. I guess well have to stay and figure out. We are just starting implementation on july 1st. Im not quite sure how to answer that yet because i think we are still building what that could look like, but over the next 5 years, we really want to address all the schools in the mission and start working with all the schools in the mission but well need Additional Resources to expand for the 5 years. I appreciate that and i trust that we are very dedic
Go into anyone of these sites you can enter into pipeline. Thats another way that we are looking at it. We are looking at what it means to be in a Community Hub and what are the logos and all that stuff so we can create that Community Within these organizations. I briefly touched on this family success coach that we talked about in harlem. These are meta staff that will be at these Community Hubs and really Service Ambassadors for the Mission Promise neighborhood. They are the connectors and work with families to further assess needs and goals with the Financial Capability lens and talking with our Partner Organizations and especially at the school site. We looked at, there are a lot of Services Available at the schools but the financial education, the financial coaching is something that they lack and so we feel this is a huge value to add to bring on site and their approach is around Building Trust around coaching and empowering families to meet their goals. So i will talk a little b
A massachusetts Manufacturing Firm founded in 1932 where the median age is 74 and Rosa Finnegan over there, is 100. Brown and ray suarez talks with journalist and author Claudia Kolker about what she calls the immigrant advantage. I began to ask foreignborn people what i call the question whats the smartest thing that people did in your home country that you want to hang on to while youre here and the rest of us ought to copy . Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff while much of the country kicked off the new year by going back to work today, washington said its goodbyes to the 112th congress, after a late night of final suspense on the fiscal cliff legislation. It gave the president much of what