Today Joe Biden makes a final Campaign Pitch for the California Governor. Voters decide if Gavin Newsom stays or goes and even before the votes are counted, the top republican insists outcome is rigged. And former President Donald Trump spends the day, many are clearly worried a 2024 run would bring another defeat. We begin the hour, though, with the covid crisis and the nations biggest backtoschool challenge. New York City today, right now, 1 Million students back in the classroom for fulltime Inperson Learning. This as experts say there is hope vaccines will be authorized for Kids Age 5 to 11 by halloween. There is a Vaccine Mandate for teachers in new york, but the deadline is not by today. Polo sandoval is tracking this very Big Day for us in new York City. Polo. Reporter john, good afternoon to you, those students are well into the first days of classes. Some parents did decided to take the citys offer up on sending their children to school for Inperson Learning in the last semest
Children safe and healthy throughout the day. Even before covid, we knew that americans lacked access to childcare. The pandemic has only exacerbated these concerns. Until now, republicans and democrats have consistently worked together to provide additional support for childcare. Prior to the pandemic, congress had doubled funding for the Childcare Block Grant and increased funding for Head Start and preschool develop programs. In the cares act, congress divided muchneeded support for Childcare Providers and essential workers in response to covid, providing an additional 3. 5 billion dollars in funding. Last december, the bipartisan Appropriations Bill provided an additional 10 billion for childcare. Last year, democrats included 40 billion in stabilization grants in a permanent increase in childcare entitlement funding. Let me do the math. In less than 14 months, congress has provided more than 53 billion in new funding for childcare. That is more than the entire annual revenue of th
Clerk thank you very much, and welcome. Welcome, everyone, to tonights meeting. I want to welcome this Years Student delegates who are here for their first meeting, reminding us why we are here. We are excited to continue the work we are doing regarding Inperson Learning and student safety. I have been hearing from a lot of families and have been having thoughtful conversations about ways we can ensure safety while learning and decrease the amount of interrupted instructions. We hear your concerns. We are listening to parents, and staff, and students and want to ensure we deliver the highest forms of safety while learning for everyone. A resolution regarding covid is forthcoming. Thank you, President Lopez. I just want to say that as we know, theres been a lot of intense pressure to balance the needing of getting kids back to school and also trying to ensure adequate safety measures, and its sometimes difficult to balance all of that at once. We will be getting air purefiers in classro
Meeting. Section b is special order of business, may i here hear a motion to approve . So moved. Yes. Commissioner sanchez . Yes. I just wanted to see if we could let the record reflect that [inaudible] has joined us. Thank you for that presentation. Can we check if there are any public speakers before we begin our discussion with the board . Operator yes, we certainly can. Please raise your hand if you care to speak to this item. Again, if youd like to speak to this item, please raise your hand at this time. I see none, President Lopez. Okay. Thank you for checking that. Commissioners, do you have any questions or comments . Commissioner collins . I had a question. Im not very familiar with the program, but when i brought it up, i got a whole bunch of negative reviews. Theyre just online reviews, but im concerned about investing in a program that i mean, ill be honest. I know nothing about this program. People ask, is there a reason why edgenuity is so bad . This just raises questions
Masks indoors throughout the City Lookthe ate the ll election of governor gavin newsom. Reporter Jeff Nguyen is in los angeles county, where a lot of people are turning in their ballots. Reporter with less than a month until the Recall Election, we found a steady flow of voters using the Ballot Drop Box outside the l. A. County Registrars Office in norwalk. Somewhere willing to commute nearly 100 miles roundtrip, and in burbank people voted early as well. I prefer, it gives me enough time to look over and decide more conscientiously and informed. Reporter Dean Logan is the countys registrar recorder. The ballots have been out in the community for a little over a week now. As of this afternoon we have over a half million voted ballots back, returned logan says its too early to know if theres a trend yet. But karina and pascual arredondo have planned on using the drop box, but they chose to hand deliver their ballots to the Registrars Office after seeing News Coverage of 300 ballots bein