Small rural town in oregon and i just ponder how in your professional career, youre traveling the world and living in a different environment completely but you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of different reactions and some of the worst tragedies in the planet but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon, why . We were running around and covering mandatory crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown where my mom is still on the family farm and we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my old Number Six School bus were on drugs and alcohol and suicide and carol and i tried to process that in the kids who got on the bus right after me where the kids and their sisters and smart talented kids, farland died of drug and alcohol abuse, zealand died in a house fire when he was drunk and farland blew himself up cooking meth and regina died from hepatitis from drug use. For a while we wondered is this something about yamhill, we reali
Crisis and we would periodically would go back to my hometown of yam hill and we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding there, you know, a quarter of the kids who were on my old number 6 school bus are now gone from drugs and alcohol and suicide and sheryl and i tried to process that. The kids who got on the bus right after me were nathan, sister regina, smart talented kids. Farland died of drug and alcohol abuse, zeland died in house fire. Regina died from hepatitis of drug abuse. We wondered if this is about my bus, about yam hill and we realized this is a National Problem that we have despair, Life Expectancy is falling or was falling for 3 years in a row for america and that yamhill and my old was with pain across america. So you saw this through the lens of returning home and i think it almost could have been titled School Bus Number 6. So many stories drawn from the friends you had there and expanding from there and sheryl you grew up in manhattan, upper west side, i believe, its a wh
Education for the unified School District. Tonight is january 14, 2020. This meeting is now called to order. Miss casco, roll call, please. Clerk thank you. [roll call] clerk thank you. President cook tonight, id like to start this meeting in honor of one of my greatest professional heros, malcolm x. Tonight, well have a leadership change, but i wont read a quote in particular. Ill just say, i appreciate his legacy and what hes done in this city, and i hope to continue it in the years to come. Lets see. Section a, general information. Number 1, accessibility information for the public. Number 2 is teleconference information, and there is none tonight. Section b, opening items. Number 1, readopt the board of education rules and procedures as stipulated in series 9000, the board shall adopt its rules at the first regular Board Meeting of the year. Thus, may i hear a motion to readopt the board of education rules and procedures series 9000. Motion. Second. President cook there being no ob
Read a quote in particular. Ill just say, i appreciate his legacy and what hes done in this city, and i hope to continue it in the years to come. Lets see. Section a, general information. Number 1, accessibility information for the public. Number 2 is teleconference information, and there is none tonight. Section b, opening items. Number 1, readopt the board of education rules and procedures as stipulated in series 9000, the board shall adopt its rules at the first regular Board Meeting of the year. Thus, may i hear a motion to readopt the board of education rules and procedures series 9000. Motion. Second. President cook there being no objection, miss casco, roll call, please. [roll call] clerk seven ayes. President cook number 2, election of officers of the board of education. As a reminder to the board and the public, this type of election is by voice vote. A second is not needed for nominations, and it is permissible for a member nominated to vote for him or herself in this electio
Information for the public. Number two is teleconference information. There is none tonight. Section b, openended items. Number one, approving of the board minute approval of the board minutes of aoctober 22, 2019. May i have a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Thank you. May i have a roll call please, miss casco. Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk five ayes. Thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and for closed session are necessary. If y are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Individuals are reminded that they can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called by miss casco. Speakers have two minutes or the amount set by the board. Speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. Number two, superintendents board. Doct dr. Matthews. Good evening, everyone. October is National Educators month, and id like to take a minute to National Principals month. Id like to please join me in thanking all of our principals. [applause] l