And dave helping us keep the conversation alive. Tonight broadcast in a future close captioning services. Captions will be amenable once the city is uploaded to our youtube page which we will do as soon as we can. Upcoming events include tonight appearance by former labor secretary and noted economic explainer robert rush come Washington Post advice columnist eric thomas, joe on the future of nuclear u. S. Policy. Bearing witness to the end of the ice, another installment of our earshot jazz live at the foreign series this saturday as well as a few very exciting confirmations to be announced in the coming week. Were adding new programs every day as well as new releases being, news events being released as podcast. Many of our past talks are available in video a podcast form on our Digital Media library. In short look at the meat medip on her home page. As for two nights that katherine will speak about 25 minutes when shall be joined by david who will post his own questions before a q a
Charter schools as Public Schools. The difference between the autonomy and the ability to make different kinds of decisions as an operating charter versus the systems that we are trying to build as a district are very different. I worry regularly that as we start chipping away at the system of traditional Public Schools that we start chipping away at those other options and opportunities that our kids are committed that were committed to providing to our young people. I am going to honor what i have committed to for the bay view and i am going to support the leadership we have put in place there with nikki and dmitriious. I believe in the leadership. The commitment in the principal and teacher this is the four Elementary Schools in the bay view are going to do it is going to have the investments reflected in their success. I wanted to share my thinking process and to thank you for coming out and that the communities that you have built have been strong but i am not prepared tonight to
I am deeply invested as a School Board Member in the entire Bay View Community and what is happening in all of our schools. Over the last several years we made deep investments in our schools that are in bay view in particular. We have focus a lot of energy and resources in providing support to africanamerican students and the incrementals. There has been some progress made. Absolutely not enough. I think we see that over and over again across the country, and i feel like i am in a place where my commitment to the investment that we have made in the bay view schools is critical. I need to stick to that commitment that we have made and the resources that we are pouring into the schools to ensure that our students and their families and the teachers that are committed to those students and families in the bay view are well supported. As difficult as this is just in terms of the support i have provided to kipp over many years, i am not able to such port new school at this time. I just thi
Where my commitment to the investment that we have made in the bay view schools is critical. I need to stick to that commitment that we have made and the resources that we are pouring into the schools to ensure that our students and their families and the teachers that are committed to those students and families in the bay view are well supported. As difficult as this is just in terms of the support i have provided to kipp over many years, i am not able to such port new school at this time. I just think that we need to continue to provide the support that we have been giving to our students. I it is in a very unique position in terms of ensuring the city provides the support our families reserve and they get through the city services. My commitment lies there. That doesnt discount the work and efforts that you all put into building the community. I think one of the things that is difficult for me despite my support for some of the really high performing Charter Schools is that when we
Not only are we sort of observing the 25th anniversary of the First Charter School in america but here we are with the kind of magnum opus that is everybody everything they wanted to know about Charter Schools. And maybe a bit of an exaggeration. Indeed, when i refer to it, i often think that its core message is every school should be a Charter School, but in reality, you actually are painting a broader and slightly different picture than that. What you call basically reinventing the system, not just more Charter Schools. So talk a little bit about the difference between Charter Schools, lots of demand reinventing the system. Guest for the audience, we should probably be clea be cleat what a Charter School is first because it turns out to the polls say half of america doesnt do what they are. Are. So, a Charter School is just a Public School that is run independently of the district, usually by a Nonprofit Organization and it is usually a school of choice but it doesnt have to follow a