That we say in our community that you have to put worken and i have constantly put in work all my years and when we had Mendell Plaza presents, i always contribute to my community. I work with seniors and the youth and i get nothing. Im tired of people taking from me and using me as a network for people that come in the community. Its unfair. I have to get materials and costumes for the children and its just very unfair and they know what i do. Im wellknown in the community because im also an activist and i have taught over 5,000 and im getting a little tired. Its time for me to mentor teenagers. Its not just a performance, its a livelihood for us. What kind of unnerved me is one of the comments that was made that i lacked sophistication. Are you serious . Then they made reference to my son. My son was taken from me from hospitalized. It will be 38 years in november 7th. These people, i dont know who these people are, but its not right to attack people all around. We use performing art
The panel is paid for their time. They get paid 200. All of our grants panel receive 200 a day which they receive for their time. There is a policy that artist should be paid. I believe commissioners should be paid too. [ laughter ] we need a raise. Just to clarify, we have 5 panelist who if they so choose can accept 200. It was correct that it was 1,000 for all the panel. Nice work, mr. Williams. Its still 1,000. Thank you, doctor. You should hire mr. Williams as council next time. The next card i have is mr. Watson. Good afternoon. My name is watson, executive director of public glass. I got one of the grants, my organization got one of the grants in question. I just want to come and say that we from the bayview found out about it we had somebody from all organizations, i met people at the library and we sent a representative to the process. We are a very, we are a small organization, but we do a lot of work. There are about three or four of us on staff that have done i have done thi
M announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. As schools all over america reopen for the fall, teachers, policymakers and administrators are caught in what seems like a neverending battle over how he educate our children, every decision from common core standards, generation equally passionate count argument. Joining us tonight dr. Diane ravitch profess at new york university, author of 25 books on education and advised both president george h. Bush and bill clinton on education policies. Diane ravitch, good have you back on this program from new york. Wonderful to be with you, tavis. Let me start by asking, i want to talk to dr. Deasy the head of the l. A. School district in just a second more than a second but later on this program. I want to start by asking you a question about teacher tenure, dr. Deasy, as you know, was a witness in that case. He spoke for the plaintiff in that case. And what this decision basically said is that were going t
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