Good evening everyone. My name is sarah clark. My daughter is in eighth Grade Student at mlk. She is also a product, i graduated from balboa high school. I went away, moved away, and actually the School District is what brought me back from houston. Prior to her transitioning over to mlk, we look into a Charter School. The Charter School did not have the Resources Available to her, that is why we chose mlk. Receiving a letter last night, from the school, indicating that the school was going to be losing 300,000 with the possibility of losing resources. To me, that means that my child, as well as other children are going to be losing precious resources that are afforded to them right now. Those resources could be counselors, could be School Nurses could be somebody to talk to at that school. Those resources will be lost if this funding is misappropriated somewhere else. I am asking you, you can tell by the number of individuals that are here from mlk, and the support that we do have. I
Good morning, the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. This hearing is entitled examining jewels role in the nicotine epidemic part one. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. After years of steady decline, use, nicotine use has suddenly reversed course, seemingly overnight. Between 2017 and 2018, a youth ecigarette use also known as vaping, rose 78 in one year to the point where over 20 of High School Students now vape. The lingering question is why and what was the role of jewel, the countrys dominant maker of ecigarettes with almost 80 of ecigarette market share in the dramatic rise in vaping . The panel assembled today will help us address these questions and frame our discussion for part two of this hearing here tomorrow at 2 p. M. When jewel founder will testify. Today we will examine what exactly about jewels advising and marketing makes it irresistible to kids . Th
Recess of the subcommittee at any time. This hearing is entitled in examining jewels role in youth epidemic. I recognized was over five minutes to give an opening statement. After users of steady decline, youth nicotine use has suddenly reversed course. Seemingly overnight. Between 2017 and 2018, youth ecigarette use also known as vaping, rose 78 percent in one year to the. Where over 20 percent of High School Students now they. The lingering question is why. And what was the role of joule, the countrys dominant maker of ecigarettes with almost 80 percent of market share in the dramatic rise in vaping. The panel assembled today will help us address these questions and frame our discussion for part two of this hearing here tomorrow at 2 00 p. M. When joule founder james pensees, will testify. Today we will what exactly about joule advertising and marketing make it irresistible tickets. Doctor robert jack clark, the preeminent tobacco advertising scholar in the country. He will help us a
We are creating the candidate pool doing selections from the candidate pool and bringing those staff in and selecting who we are going to offer employment to. Final category being staff that has been on boarded. That number is 84. That includes people and this number is much larger than it was two weeks ago. That including people who have either been offered a job and accepted and we have at least tentative start work date for people who have already started work. These are positions that have been onboarded from december 2022 to the present. Those 84 positions have started or will start work scheduled in january or february. We are pleased with that progress that we are seeing some movement in getting selections made and staff on boarded. As you can see from that middle column we have a large amount of work to do over the next 60 days to make those selections and get people onboarded in the system. I will pause and turn this over to dr. Cummings to answer specifically your questions a
We are creating the candidate pool doing selections from the candidate pool and bringing those staff in and selecting who we are going to offer employment to. Final category being staff that has been on boarded. That number is 84. That includes people and this number is much larger than it was two weeks ago. That including people who have either been offered a job and accepted and we have at least tentative start work date for people who have already started work. These are positions that have been onboarded from december 2022 to the present. Those 84 positions have started or will start work scheduled in january or february. We are pleased with that progress that we are seeing some movement in getting selections made and staff on boarded. As you can see from that middle column we have a large amount of work to do over the next 60 days to make those selections and get people onboarded in the system. I will pause and turn this over to dr. Cummings to answer specifically your questions a