This is about one hour. Good morning. And i getnat malkus to take us through our panel with state decisionmakers and we have an excellent panel and im going to introduce them now and we are going to jump into a discussion of School Choice in the state and what education scholarships might mean there. I have three state policymakers here today. Kimberly yee is the 36th treasurer of arizona and we are glad to have you here. She stewards of 40 billion state budget and makes sure the checks go to whom they need to go to. Treasurer yee has a number of firsts. The first asianamerican elected to statewide office in arizona. The first chineseamerican republican woman to win a major statewide office in the United States. She was Senate Majority leader in arizona, not the first, but notably followed Sandra Day Oconnor so that is worth mentioning. She chaired the Senate Education committee and helped create the nations first edution savings account into thousand 11. Interestingly, has a pattern i
Pleased to have i like to say that its a washington based think tank. We have from arizona, tennessee and pennsylvania, and they will talk about how some of the issues in washington affect the children and parents in those parts of the country and really, thats what our discussion is all about. How can we make our schools better. Now, a little bit a sense of how i come to this issue and why i think its so important. Some of you may know i spent 20 years in the social services in new york and working on the ways we help people get into work and out of poverty and move up economically. Personal responsibility, work, work supports, those things were important, but i always knew there was another domain, another domain of activity that was equally important to our safety net programs. Maybe more important in our safety net programs in helping struggling families moving up and helping their children move up economically and that was the world of education. And no one has done more, it seems
And then streaming on into the east bay, so you will be encountering at times and if you do see it getting especially thick, you know what to do to slow down a bit temperatures more than just a bit cooler than yesterday a big drop in temperatures, San Francisco hayward in livermore down 15 degrees from the same time 24 hours ago nap and fairfield each down 13 degrees and its not just this morning but into the afternoon today that youre going to notice those very much so cooler temperatures. The coast will be in the 60s bayside 70s and inland areas in the 80s today, im talking more about what to expect for the days to come still ahead robin expect a visit commute into San Francisco if youre using 80 right now. The drive at the bay bridge toll plaza or through the toll plaza, its filling in and quickly as expected right so no big problems here just more folks on the road heading into San Francisco. Right now youre averaging 11 minutes, were heading over to 92 a pretty a busy bridge as we
In the 50s and 60s right now san mateo at 58 conquered in hayward each at 60 degrees with oakland at 61 degrees right now nevada in petaluma up in the north bay in the midfifties now take a look at these temperatures remember were at yesterday because this is a big drop in temperatures concord is 15 degrees cooler hayward san jose in livermore each down 13 degrees, San Francisco down 12 degrees from the same time 24 hours ago, theres your fog hanging hour right above San Francisco, some morning fog and in the 50s were at right now by noontime today, mostly sunny skies already starting to clear out 60s and 70s and were still hanging on to the 80s for inland areas this afternoon. Hey that sure beats 100 degrees if not warmer than that were at just daysgo, im talking more about what to expect for the rest of the weekend eventually the weekend to head to still to come robin. Thank you john starting off with a strain we have pg e crews on scene in the livermore area theyre dealing with a ma
Hi, everybody. Here is a look at live doppler 7. A lot of neighborhoods are working their way towards you. Can you see t camera here. Were staying in the 50s at the coast. We hit 76 to 80 at noon with increasing sunshine. 79 to 83. No 90s. No 100s. Get outside this evening. Well, no. Dont. Stay here and watch us f you have to go outside to get refreshments or food, it will be in the low to mid 70s. Here you go, sue. Ill take it away. Here we go with a problem coming out of tracy. Yep, we have the road work in the westbound and eastbound direction. Youre slow and go. Over to marin county near paradise drive, a car is off the roadway. It went through the fence. Once again, no Ace Train Service at all this morning due to major gas leak in livermore. So make plans accordingly. Get over to a bart station if you can. If you make your way on west 580. Youll find yourself in that slow and go traffic bridge. Thank you. Bart ridership is down. One board member plans to put forward a new solution