The urgency of this moment. First the majority wanted to take a pause. Then he sat said on the house passed heroes act for months. Then in july he introduced a series of inadequate piecemeal bills that went absolutely nowhere. And now the Majority Leader Senate republican showed their priorities once again by rushing to confirm five more trump judges and offering an anemic week covid will aimed at appeasing the most conservative members of their caucus and we just voted on that bill. While Senate Republicans have been waiting for the next covid bill Senate Democrats have been listening to our constituents and have a sense of urgency. Its a sense of urgency for well the four months that we have been waiting for dealing with the heroes act. We have been waiting for the majority leader to stop taking a pause that American Workers and families could afford a paws for four months and they certainly cant afford to take a paws now. In fact things have gotten worse for it while republicans sat
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
So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b
Restricted and it was even closed to its own citizens. Mid july, 2017. A graup from the United States arrives at rvlads have tok airport. They are a group of disabled dancers. They are welcomed by the founder of a dance group in vladivostok. He invited the americans it join in vladivostoks firstever inclusive dance show. He was born in 1974. His father was an it sailor. His mother an accounting clerk. In his boyhood, he loved sports. In h in high school he competed in Equestrian Events and played ice hockey. During his third year in college, however, tragedy struck. While riding in a friends car, there was a Traffic Accident. He suffered a spinal cord injury that left him pair lazralyzed fe neck down. However, he did not let the jar d injury defeat him. It made me think that im a man who should shed light on a small corner of the world. If it werent for the injury, my life ma life might not have been kwat as meaningful. Slowly he gained strength in his upper body. He formed an associat
Man goes down to the forest and cuts down a tree and all the animals whispering in his ear while hes sleeping and he wakes up and he has an epiphany and he doesnt cut the tree down. And its about power for one person to do good or harm. Lending herer talent as an artist, lynn has devoted much of her recent work to climate change, even publishing a book specifically designed for children and parents. I think thahat my interest i the environment grew out of my love for nature. I had an experience when i was a little kid where i had these woods that i loved and i came pack and they were bulldozing it. They completely destroyeded it. It was a realllly traumatic experience and thats when i began thinkiking the adults don really k know what theyre thinking. I began to question. When i was first illustrating childrens books and i would go out and d i would talk to kids about the rain forest or about rivers or about endangered species, sometimes they get really upset. Sometimes they would c cr