Accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons hopefully and have a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their compatriots have gone through. We know the gentleman gentleman sitting here before us, and the other infants, we have a short the other infants, we have a short time. It is amazing they are sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure everyone in the audience has a chance to participate and ask questions of their own that you will find valuable in your classrooms and for your students. When you ask them, i will probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear and the cspan audience can hear and our honorees in here as well. Lets introduce our panel. First to my left in a handsome red blazer [laughter] charles mcgee, one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a career officer in the United States air force
Here. Ms. Norton. Yes. Are if student delegates with us . Thank you. All right. Here we go. Our Virtual Meeting is called to order. Before w we get started. I am gratified by the work that is being done throughout the district from our Virtual School at home to the admin working diligently, our teachers are amazing. Our families are teachers as well. The Leadership Team is amazing. These are unusual circumstances. It is a crisis and people are feeling it. I think our school board as well has risen to the challenge. We want to thank everybody and show our appreciation. With that. General information. Items of approval of board minutes of the regular meeting of april 14. So moved. Second. Any corrections . Roll call vote, please. Ms. Collins. Yes. Mr. Cook. Ms. Lam. Yes. Ms. Lopez. Yes. Mr. Sanchez. Yes. Thank you. Item 2. Is superintendents report. Thank you for the opening remarks. Tonight i want to highlight three of those areas that president sanchez was giving accolades to. I want t
Again, it is to address concerns that i have every confidence that if something comes up they will address it and i look forward to hearing back once this is passed. Thank you. Commissioner moliga . I just want to say thank you to president sanchez and Vice President lopez for introducing this resolution. I agree with all of the commissioners that it is our part in terms what we need to do for our city during this pandemic. Thank you both. Commissioner collins. I want to reiterate again appreciation for president sanchez and Vice President lopez in working with creating this resolution and thanks mandelman as well and the board of supervisors. For any folks. I want to note that the unhoused population is diverse. It including a wide range of folks. It also including families. I think there is a characterization of homeless folks. There are a lot of families that are either transitional or facing homelessness or maybe homeless because of this crisis. I appreciate the leadership in worki
Will be opened up for the homeless. The scene today reminiscent of this, the more rooms for housing protest in oakland late last year, a group of homeless mothers occupied a home for several months after being forcibly evicted in january, they were given the opportunity to buy the property. Developing news out of palo alto where smoky fire near the popular hiking area beneath the stanford dish could be seen for miles. You can see multiple patches of thick smoke coming up from the dry grass, fire crews aggressively attacked it, even cal fire joined the fight. Fortunately only vegetation burned, less than three acres per onto the other big story today, a Bay Area Company at the forefront of working to treat the virus just got fda approval from a promising experimental drug. Today the fda granted emergency use as a result authorization for Gilead Sciences remdesivir drug earlier this week, the National Institutes of health announced the results of a study showing hospitalized covid19 pati
Reporter he said that stay athome restrictions could be lifted cautiously. I think one of the things that we all know is there will be a Distance Learning approach and for some people its not working. We want to make sure that we are not setting up a one size fits all for the fall. Reporter the hope is to start next year with the higher number of students if the Pilot Program works. If county half lines do not provide that there would be a mix of classroom and online learning. The superintendent said that all essential workers will have access to covid19 testing. The California State University system will be holding online classes this fall. There will still be a small number of classes that meet. The schools are working to make sure that health and safety protocols are in place. The university of california may suspend the requirement of sat and act requirements. This is part of a complex plan making the tests optional for two years. There would be a custom assessment in your five. S