And watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv. On cspan2. Good evening everyone and thanks for being here tonight at Balboa High School in San Francisco. I am susan solomon, i am a kindergarten and prek teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] thank you so how many educators we have in the room today . Okay, a lot of them. And Community Supporters . Those two. We also have San Francisco board of education member with this allison collins, glad you could make it i see others walk in, zero Gabrielle Lopez another school board member. So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane ravitch, i have a couple of housekeeping items. Can trade a retired social studies teacher in San Francisco, taught here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format is going to be diane and i are going to talk for a little while, and then we will open the floor to questions from the aud
There is Movement Towards him. Disney, moving down in the stock, the trouble with espn and thats disneys cash cow, its going to be down big. But the big money story, the long list of big names hitting record highs. Amazon leads the charge again and, yes, Varney Company is about to begin. Well, i wont back down. [laughter] you hear that, you know, the producers select very good music. No, i wont back down. All right. Bernie sanders is not backing down, he won another state. The economy, one of the big issues for democrat voters yesterday. A third of those democrat voters in West Virginia said theyd go for trump in november. How about that . More coming up on that issue, but right now, well check the market for you. Here is how were likely to open today, ever so slightly lower. But what do you expect after a 200 point plus gain yesterday. That was biggest gain in two months. It will open lower, but thats mostly because of disney, which is a dow stock, which will be down. That will cost t
Badges in airports. There has been some concerned that security of the bad population. It should be a trusted population. How do you determine whether they are to be trusted . What safeguards do you put in place, inc. Think there is work to be done there. Im encouraged by secretary johnsons reach, earlier this year prior to my confirmation, he asked the Aviation Security thatory Committee Members advised the department and the administrator, they took a hard look and came up with 28 recommendations, with which tsa is fully concurrent, and they are looking for an implementation plan. That said, it was a challenge. Having realtime access to the appropriate databases to screen people. That against the terrorist database. It taking off a lot of time to give me a little answer. Administrator neffenger the 73 members, 69 discrete individuals were not actually on the terrorist watch list. In what had incomplete is called a terrorist information data environment. That information was not suffi
No justice no peace. An autopsy sparking protests on the streets of los angeles the death of a young black man shot and killed by a police officer. I feel like rosa parks, you know. We need to get rid of discrimination. Breaking ground on gay marriage. A look back on the most progressive year in American History for same sex couples. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Indonesian officials have located dozens of bodies in the java sea from the missing air asia jet. An emergency door and other debris in the water came from flight 8501. A shadow of what appears to be the aircraft is underwater. This is a live look where indonesias president is set to speak. We have more on what they did find overnight. Good morning air asia has put out a statement only in the last few minutes confirming to the debris found is from the missing plane. Since it was discovered just a few hours ago an Indonesian Navy vessel has been recovering bodies. Reuters reporting that at leas
It is my privilege to introduce professor Elizabeth Barron from the university of virginia who will speak on the election of 1864 in confederate eyes. I think this is a really important topic to address early on in this symposium so that we dont forget that there is a whole other conversation going on in other parts of the country. Professor baron got her bachelors degree from swathmore college. And then went on to teach at wellesley and temple before coming to university of virginia where shes the langborn williams professor of American History. And her first two books were from a womans point of view about womens opinions and activities in the south and in antibellum virginia. Then the biography of a spy in richmond, both of which were extremely well received and the biography won many awards. Then her next book was on disunion which was about the whole debate about the discussion of strategizing about possible breakup of the union dating from 1789 onwards. Most recently her book is