The ones who remain in place, would say that the president s mind is focused on the policy issues at hand of which parents just want in infrastructure and a tax code overhaul on the other. Obviously, theres plenty going on to subject more on the president s mind. More going on inside the white house to hold the ceremonial the president had this last week. Louise radnofsky live on this sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. Her work is available at wjs. Com. Appreciate you being with us. Now state and local officials testify at a house hearing on tefr Student Succeeds act. They changed the way the federal department of education oversees state boards of education and local School Districts. This is twoandahalf hours. The committee of Education Workforce will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to todays full committee hearing. I want to thank you or panel of witnesses and our Committee Members for joining todays discussion on the implementation of the
The committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays full committee hearing. I thank our panel of witnesses and our Committee Members for joining todays discussion on the implementation of the every Student Succeeds act, essa. Essa can be considereded a milestone for k12 policy because it was a monumental shift in the role and states and School Districts would have in the future of education and it sought to achieve two specific goals for k12 education and autonomy and accountability. States and School Districts were given new independence when creating a k12 Education Program that works best for their own students, ending a washington knows best approach to education. Additionally, essa prohibitively influenced the states adoption of particular standards and repealed federal mandates for teacher performance and protected a states right to opt out of federal Education Programs. Part of this is goal for state and School District autonomy was to for
Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item 4 approval of the minutes. Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes. No members of the public have come down forward wait herbert wiener. Mr. Wiener 2 minutes please. Herbert wiener id like the minutes to amend the following when stated i took you know the bus lets say i had to walk a block to the ophthalmologist on Mission Street yesterday id like to add this and it makes it somewhat rocky on the minutes i want to a traffics of the eliminates of the accumulation of bus stop and outlines mta can truly be called the broker of passengers they might as well be sold as commodities on the stock exchange. Thank you, mr. Wiener. Normally in the minutes would we include something that was more opinion than fact of what the comment was is that fine. Well, its distorted. Thank you, mr. Wiener thank you very
All right. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the to the special rules committee of monday, july 18, 2016, im kairng the chair our vice chair it scombhaifr and to my left is supervisor cowen and clerk eric and sfgovtv thank you jim smith and jesse larson proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Unless board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Call item one one pursuant to the file passes by the board of supervisors this item has been called from committee. We dont need Public Comment next item 2. Item 2 the chird Charter Amendment to require the office of Economic Workforce Development and the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to propose 5 year strategic plans for approval by the board of supervisors an election to be held on november 8, 2016. Supervisor cowen is not able to make it here today and so we have intended to have this duplicated version travel to the full board of supervisors al
All right. Good morning. Welcome to your plans and programs of the county Transportation Authority of tuesday, july 19, 2016, im changing the chair of this committee and lets see who do we have supervisor avalos and commissioner peskin and commissioner london breed and well see who else will be joined our clerk is steve stamos and thank you Nona Melkonian and Jennifer Lowe and any announcements. No announcements. All right. Please go to roll call. Supervisor avalos commissioner breed commissioner farrell absent commissioner peskin commissioner tang we have quorum. Thank you item 2 please. Item 2 Citizens Advisory Committee an informational item. Thank you. I see the c rc chris. Good morning, commissioners ill try to keep this brief item 6 on your agenda regarding the 45 million for various prop k and with a that was approved by all members in attendance regarding the van ness brt john wanted to know about the money from the puc were waiting for the update in mta the highway project it