Of things. Its both available on amazon prime, a video series called a more or less perfectunion. As well as a companion book. If i can ask you judge ginsburg what was it that made you want to do this . Thank you tony for asking. This is addressed to what i think is a real crisis in our Education System in the us now. In that civics is not being taught as nearly and widely as it should be. Even American History is often neglected. So we have millions of students graduating each year from high school who have never been exposed to how our government works, what our constitution says. What our National Values are even. The younger person is these days, the more ignorant they are likely to be on these topics and we simply cannot have a functioning democratic republic with a completely ignorant population but we are heading in that direction. And i am, what im doing is part of a broader reaction to that in civics education. I think Sandra Day Oconnor started the ball rolling a dozen years
Also stay the same, as well. 41 counties in california are now in the most restrictive purple tier. The vast majority of our students are still in Distance Learning right now. Reporter under the purple tier, any class that resumed in person as of tuesday can continue, but for the majority of California School districts still doing Distance Learning be reopening plans are now on hold, until conditions improve or the school gets a waiver. Primarily this has the largest impact on districts that were putting their plans in place for a return in 2021. Reporter margaret represents 77 teachers from a School District in Contra Costa County, which is doing Distance Learning, but was consider league opening january 22nd. Thats not gonna happen. Reporter the Teachers Union president said the next opportunity to make a decision is in march, and she plans to push for not reopening at all this school year. Thats moving to the purple mix, even a stronger argument that we should not consider going bac
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Welcome sight for the bay area are top after capturing storm clouds filling our skies from San Francisco to the east bay as a weather system. Makes his way through Northern California rain in walnut creek, leaving seeking cover and streets pretty slick for the drivers out there good evening, everybody thanks for joining us at for kron 4 news at night, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus boy was it nice to get this much needed soaker really put an end to fire season at least for the time being. And this is a real storm gusty winds 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour in some areas as we take a live look outside right now this is the Golden Gate Bridge looking at the headlights coming from them are in direction still slick out there. But it was coming down pretty hard earlier in the day khief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow has been tracking this system all weekend. It delivered. The ad pack a little punch to it as it came through those wind
Good morning it is 8 00 a. M. At tesla headquarters in palo alto, california it its 11 00 a. M. On wall street squawk alley is live good Tuesday Morning im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla back again it is a busy day on wall street with the dow hitting an all time high making another run at 30 k. That comes as president elect joe biden is reporting tapping former fed chair janet yellen to run the treasury department. Tesla is continuing the record run now topping half a trillion dollars in market cap. Making elon musk the worlds second richest person on paper and apple making another concession, carl on App Store Fees a lot going on yeah. We talked about that early moving being the small crack that starts to widen as for tesla, i mean, whether its some of the reports about a hatch back in europe or longer range vehicles or just enthusiasm over the ev space as we gheet into a Biden Administration on top of the gm news yesterday, jon. So there is a lot happening in the ev space and then m
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