Good evening everyone and welcome to i am interviewing Eva Moskowitz tonights program is a part of our Bernard Irene swarts Speakers Series and i would like to sake i like to thank mr. Swarts for his leadership which is enabled us bring 70 prominent speakers to the stage. I would also like to mention that our chairman emeritus had hoped to be with us this evening , but unfortunately his travel schedule conflicted with the programming. Im delighted to say that susan who has advised us at our history films is here and i would like to thank her and welcome her for all she has done on behalf of New York Historical. [applause]. Tonights program will last about an hour and will include a question and answer question session. Questions should be written on no cards. If you did not receive a no card my colleagues are still going up and down the aisle so good in no card from them. The questions will be collected later on in the program there will be a book signing this evening that will take ou
We want the students to have the best professionals teaches and supporting them and this is important to retain the talented i see you indicators. I would like to acknowledge the School Health program and social worker volunteers who helped reopen the santa rosa schools following the Northern California fires. Following the call to action the San Francisco School District School Social workers stepped forward to provide support to students, families on the first day of reopening schools. Over friday october 27 and the 30th, 25 School Workers carpooled to santa rosa and assisted 12 school to welcome students back to school. The social workers partnered with staff and Community Volunteers to provide drop in support and to help out where ever needed. In all 25 staff who volunteered were able to lend expertise to support our santa rosa neighbors. I would like to celebrate recent accomplishments of our School District employees and departments. Congratulations to flores who is a local warri
[applause] it will include a question and answer session there will be written on the note cards as you enter the auditorium this evening so you can get a note card from them the questions will be collected later in the program in the lobby at the door to the of auditorium. So now then with the interview. On august 21st, 2006 and to serve 165 scholars. And to start a revolution. And weld telesco belongs to 36 schools serving over 40 those callers from kindergarten she would say that is no cause for celebration and it is worth celebrating. Her schools rank first in math and english of all Public Schools in new york and head of the schools get into a block and i should add the average Family Income of students is 32,000 compared to 300,000. Having a b. A. From university of pennsylvania from Johns Hopkins in American History and mother of three children and a longtime resident with the of the more is the focus of my question tonight one of the schools very recently i may occasionally str
[applause] it will include a question and answer session there will be written on the note cards as you enter the auditorium this evening so you can get a note card from them the questions will be collected later in the program in the lobby at the door to the of auditorium. So now then with the interview. On august 21st, 2006 and to serve 165 scholars. And to start a revolution. And weld telesco belongs to 36 schools serving over 40 those callers from kindergarten she would say that is no cause for celebration and it is worth celebrating. Her schools rank first in math and english of all Public Schools in new york and head of the schools get into a block and i should add the average Family Income of students is 32,000 compared to 300,000. Having a b. A. From university of pennsylvania from Johns Hopkins in American History and mother of three children and a longtime resident with the of the more is the focus of my question tonight one of the schools very recently i may occasionally str
roll call thank you. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Good evening. Is great to see so many people this fight with education. We are excited to have a packed house. What i want to do is let everyone know what i want to do is let everyone know that i know we have a lot of young people here tonight. Ordinarily i would be able to accommodate to make sure people can speak. There is a lot of people in here tonight. I will do the best i can to get to the agenda and try to get the young folks out as early as possible. If you look around the room you may see constraints. I love you, some will text me to speak earlier. That is why i want you to know there is a reason why that may not happen. With that said, section 8 has accessibility information for the public. Section b approval of board minutes. None this evening. As announced at the past few meetings, members of the public are reminded if they wish to address the board they can complete the speaker card prior to item b