It explains its history and some of the traditions that we have. Texas a m was opened on october the 4th, 1876. But unfortunately, they did not have the student population to actually start classes. So on october 6, 1876, 2 days later, it actually opened its doors to 40 students. From that point to today where we are not only the Largest University in the state of texas, but we started as the Largest University in the United States. We have approximately 60,000 students here on campus, of which 2300 of those were members of the corps of cadets. From 1876 for the next 24 years, a m had to struggle in order to be able to maintain a university here in College Station. It was not until a former governor of the state of texas came here in 1890 that the university took off. At that point, his reputation allowed the mothers and fathers of the state of texas to want to actually send their sons here to the university. Because it was established under the morrill act of 1862, a m was an all male
Thank you. Thank you. Section a, general information, accessibility information for the public, teleconference information, there is none tonight. Do you want to do that . Okay. Go ahead. We are going to have an announcement about accessibility right now. Good evening, everyone. San Francisco Unified School District provides free cantonese and spanish interpretation tonight for this meeting. So if you know anyone that needs a cantonese or spanish interpreter, please have them find us. We have signs up right here. We also have childcare provided over at the e. P. C. Center. So if you need childcare, please head over to the e. P. C. Center. And the interpreter will repeat this in cantonese and spanish. [speaking Foreign Language] [speaking spanish] thank you. Section b, opening item, approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting of february 11, 2020. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Are there any corrections . Roll call. Thank you. [roll call] speaker cards for the
Slide 6. Locam i reading it correct its gone down when youre comparing the 18, 19 to the fall of 2019 . This is slide 6 . Yeah. Sorry. Yes. So what this is showing you is the yellow bar is what the 18, 19 school year chronic absenteeism rate and the blue bar is showing what it is in the fall. Right . So our goal is to keep steady at the blue bar which would mean that at the end of this year, our chronic absenteeism rate would go down. Okay. But if we have the jump that weve been seeing over the past three years, it will go up. Okay. Thank you. Does that make sense . We need to it shows how its gone up every year, that slide. This is last year versus midyear and they are trying to maintain yeah. Its a little bit of apples and oranges. Were doing a fall to a year. But this is what were saying is that this is were seeing here is an opportunity we have to hopefully turn back that chronic absenteeism and then for your question, commissioner norton, the last three years of data, and i would
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