Today is about dyslexia. One condition that affects the brain assesses, britain spoken language is considered the most important learning disability. I know senator cassidy is going into a large information in data that i want to again sad i wont say again. The reason the National Center for learning disabilities highlight the many challenges our country faces when trying to meet the needs of other learning disabilities. At following her dreams and her passions. So i want to thank you for your consistent leadership and look forward to hearing this testimony. Testimony. I will now defer to senator murphy to introduce the witness. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for thank you very much. Im eager to get a testament as well. I had to come back but im excited to introduce the expert of experts at the end of the table which is doctor Sally Shaywitz from Yale University where she is a professor in learning development at the school of medicine. Shows a long list of titles including t
Its often not in the parties briefs, but there will often be amicus briefs that do this. Yeah. So, again, a little bit on outside sources. Our friend on the seventh circuit who i believe is not here tonight so i get to say this judge richard posener, has recently published a book called divergent paths in which he argues that the a academy and the judiciary are rapidly drifting apart. So my question for you, Justice Stevens, is whether you think hes right, whether you agree with chief Justice Roberts that people in the Legal Academy are writing arcane and useless things like the state of the law in 17th century bulgaria, if there were a bulgaria at the time, which there wasnt [laughter] so, basically, are legal scholars just out there in their own corner useless to you, or did you find academic writing helpful sometimes . Well, academic writing covers an awful broad subject. [laughter] and i do share john roberts view that very often the law reviews are filled up with what happened in
2 3rds of exist continue to earn and off assistance and the only poverty out of poverty country is out of work by getting homeless families stable and wrap up with the childcare transportation and that job were seeing good successes thank you uhhuh. So supervisor yee. First of all, i want to commend your work on the fosters child serving kids and i know that is a lot of it operationally is also the advocacy from the city to the state and to the federal because 10 years ago it was a mess and you talk about some of the benchmarks for foster care system and for some of these initiatives youre talking about project 5 hundred and others what i hear how had had you measure the success. We have the strategy. Im not hearing how ill measure. Sure i talked about the outcome for families and childrens to supervisor kims question i did not go into the detail in the presentation but i certainly will in june the project 5 hundred the ultimate goal to get families out of poverty is that 200 percent o
Supervisor katy tang and norm lal yee. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cords included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will be on [inaudible] item 1 amending the administrative code requiring prepackage food and beverages sold in vending machines on City Property or served at city meetings have [inaudible] we amended a Committee Last week. Our city has a very strong record of prioritizingiment provement in Public Health by encouraging healthy life styles for employees and residentsment Healthy Eating is a key factor reducing a number of chronic conditions we see prevalent across the city and here in San Francisco including obesity, heart disease, stroke, cancer and other threatening disease. This cost the taxpayers millions each year in health car can you cost jz believe it should be a priority to lower the cost. I do believe we should dpoo everything in our power to im