Report card prayer initiative. We are asking parents to make copies of their report cards and turn them in the offering goes around. We believe those are offerings. We want the congregation to pray over them and children see this intersection of faith and study. We will have educational liaisons that help churches and parents improve the educational success of their students. They can be contacted. It is a strategic move on our part. Those are a couple of new initiatives. The faith and education education website is new. We are emphasizing that we are not pushing Public Education away any longer. This is the first time in th history of evangelicalism that we are not embracing secularism if it exists, 95 of our students are educated in public schools. This is our system. We want to embrace Public Education and let them know that we are here to support you. How can we help . Can pastors offer their churches for afterschool programs . Thank you for the question. Thank you. I am caitlin fr
s youof people, the daca add a few hundred thousand people to the potential of recruits. They are u. S. Educated and a low risk population. So far, the president has not chosen to exercise the authority he has to allow the doing list allow them to enlist. I suspect that maybe president bush would have been less reluctant to exercise executive authority. Thank you very much. That is all the time we have you read these join me in thanking our panelists. [applause] good morning. R joining us it is not the calendar or the seasons that i sent it in terms of time a fall break, president s day or this time of year, you know, with labor day loomingly and august waning a bit. Its not the start of arkansas football. Its actually rigback to school for back to school, i think 15 years ago, i would be standing in front of a classroom of steward events, maybe not that different from this group here, teaching them english, and there were a couple of trends that impacted the classroom then that are re
They had beautiful skin. I noticed another trend. This is much more disturbing. The students were not prepared for what i was attempting to teach them. They had come to the classroom less and less prepared. There were these moments in the classroom they would look at me and i would think the same thing they were. Part of me as a christian, i felt the lord was impressing on me. These are your children. If they are going to love me with their mind, it is your responsibility make sure that they are successful. That is the spirit and the heart of what raising the standards is about. That is the initiative were here to talk about. We believe it is raising the standards as one of a initiative that can help not just those students but those of the coming today and tomorrow. If we fastforward 15 years, a collective minority will be larger than the white population in classrooms today. This is the first time in u. S. History. We have seen some progress among hispanic students in terms of high s
Master on how to get things to happen. Her grandfather was, is the legendary bob strauss who probably was one of the legends of politics in america. Before i asked mark to kick it before i ask mark to kick it off, a book is out that i just watched called the death and life of american journalism. The book is dedicated to bill moyers. There is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. You are experiencing it now. Thank you. Great to be here. I have met so many wonderful people already in this room. Thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. Im afraid i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. I guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. It is in flux. There is a thinker about journalism, clay sherkie, who wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, compared the phase were
Thanksgiving day. Is there your just in case umbrella temperatures range from the 30s to the 50s out there this morning. Is there your satellite radar. Seeing an increase in clouds first and then rain comes after that as part of the cold front that is draped a across the central part of pennsylvania at the moment. Expected to arrive later. So as promised a little bit of sunshine earlier in the day and through see it, sunrise official in a couple minutes a at 7 03. We are at 51 degrees. We expect to top off at 60, maybe more in some places by noon time today. Then showers will roll in. After midnight tonight some places will see a switch over to a slushy wintery mix. We will have more details on that, of course as we get through future cast coming up later on. We will give you seven day forecast and get you ready for next eagles game at home sunday. Hi there bob kelly. Just after 7 00 oclock. 7 01 on this monday morning, back to work and school. So a lot of unusual traffic patterns toda