Thank you for having me. Great to see you. Since being confirmed, i understand you traveled to 16 states plus Puerto Rico in a territory that doesnt come to visiting schools and students. What have you learned during those trips . I learned number one the students are resilient and educators are rock stars and that we want to come back to school safely but we missed the peer to peer interaction. We miss engaging with teachers and we want to come back to a system that is better than the one that we left in march of 2020. Thats what i heard throughout the country and im excited to be in the position to support that and influence that with the build back better agenda, i am confident that we are going to get it done. There were a lot of buzz we words, peer to peer. Lets talk about budget. You proposed 102. 8 billion budgets you said it makes good on president Bidens Campaign Commitment and would begin to address the on significant inequities that students of color and teachers confront ev
Variant on the rise. With another installment on our Opportunity And Crisis series this time investing in educational equity. President biden has made equity a central role of the administration and a central figure in that effort is our guest today. He is the secretary of education, mr. Cardona, welcome. Thank you for having me. Great to see you. Since being confirmed, i understand you traveled to 16 states plus Puerto Rico in a territory that doesnt come to visiting schools and students. What have you learned during those trips . I learned number one the students are resilient and educators are rock stars and that we want to come back to school safely but we missed the peer to peer interaction. We miss engaging with teachers and we want to come back to a system that is better than the one that we left in march of 2020. Thats what i heard throughout the country and im excited to be in the position to support that and influence that with the build back better agenda, i am confident tha
Mister secretary, welcome. Thank you for having me. Thank you, again, and great to see you. Since being confirmed, i understand you have traveled to 16 states, plus puerto rico, and another territory, that doesnt come to mind offhand. Visiting schools, and students. What have you learned during those trips . I learned, number one, our students are resilient, and our educators are rock stars. We want to come back to school. We want to come back to school safely, but we missed the peer to peer interaction. We miss the engagement with teachers. We want to come back with the system that is better than the one we left, in 2020. That is what i heard throughout the country, and i am excited to be in a position, now where i can support that influence, with the build back better agenda, im confident, we can get that done. There are plenty of buzzwords there, appeared appear, and other things that we will get to. In our conversation. But, lets talk about budget. You proposed, nearly, a 102. 8 bi
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