I am a Kindergarten Teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] how many educators in the room today . Community supporters . Also San Francisco board of education if you see the others walkin and gabriella lopez. Happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane we have some housekeeping items. Retired school one social studies teacher is passing out cards on which you can write questions. The format will be diane and i will talk for a little while and then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. The questions will come from the cards and that way we will know five different people are asking the question then we can ask the question so with that would like to give a little introduction and a lot of people here been following her a long time but i would like to give an introduction. A champion for Public Schools across the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience and is one of the nations
And watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv. On cspan2. Good evening everyone and thanks for being here tonight at Balboa High School in San Francisco. I am susan solomon, i am a kindergarten and prek teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] thank you so how many educators we have in the room today . Okay, a lot of them. And Community Supporters . Those two. We also have San Francisco board of education member with this allison collins, glad you could make it i see others walk in, zero Gabrielle Lopez another school board member. So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane ravitch, i have a couple of housekeeping items. Can trade a retired social studies teacher in San Francisco, taught here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format is going to be diane and i are going to talk for a little while, and then we will open the floor to questions from the aud
So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b
Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the on ordering the previous question on House Resolution yeas and nays he are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. Numberrk house calendar 74, House Resolution 866, esolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 2339, to amend the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act with respect to the sale and marketing of Tobacco Products for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is on ordering the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 224. 189. Ays are the previous question is ordered. Th
Executive perry moore. I am also the cochair of the City County Task force on opioids that was done across the u. S. We had 20 elected officials at the city and county levels, ten city officials, ten county officials, the mayor of little rock arkansas was the cochair of the city side and i was the cochair on the county side. You will be hearing from one of those Panel Members today. When greg speaks. But our work that was done, was done it seems like ages ago. So much has happened since then we will be talking abed about that. The panel will be today. I want to thank those of you who are here in person as well as those of you that are here virtually. We know this is being broadcast live stream in a special thank you to arc for your partnership. What we do in county government is all about partnership. We partner with each other, we partner with various agencies, especially great partners like aoc. We are thankful for them. This event is the combination of a yearlong partnership to stre