We Work Together when we were in washington 18 hours a day and there was almost no opportunity to no trust the people. What a remarkable story. You arrive never having been here born in india, granddaughter of the British Police officer, remarkable mother and father. Tell us a little bit about immigration that has been the policy that has infused your public service. Lets start with a little bit of what that was like. You say youve landed in the airport with two suitcases and that was it. Guest thats right. Thank you for taking the time to do this. It is a pleasure to be able to have an indepth conversation with a colleague, something we just dont get to do. I landed here two months before i turned 17. I came by myself. My dad had about five bucks in his bank account and he used of all to send me here because he believed this is the place i was going to get the best education and have the most opportunity. I show up at jfk airport with my two suitcases. We didnt have any money to pay f
Glad to have you here. She stewards of 40 billion state budget and makes sure the checks go to whom they need to go to. Treasurer yee has a number of firsts. The first asianamerican elected to statewide office in arizona. Will the first chineseamerican republican woman to win a major statewide office in the United States. She was Senate Majority leader in arizona, not the first, but notably followed Sandra Day Oconnor so that is worth mentioning. She chaired the Senate Education committee and helped create the nations First Education savings account into thousand 11. Interestingly, has a pattern i think that you worked on the executive team of the former Arizona State treasurer, dean martin, and now you hold the post. And you are an analyst for the Senate Committee of education that you would later chair. Some grassroots work and then heading. Thanks for being here. John deberry is a representative of the 90th district in tennessee general assembly. He represents memphis and he has bee
This is about one hour. Good morning. And i getnat malkus to take us through our panel with state decisionmakers and we have an excellent panel and im going to introduce them now and we are going to jump into a discussion of School Choice in the state and what education scholarships might mean there. I have three state policymakers here today. Kimberly yee is the 36th treasurer of arizona and we are glad to have you here. She stewards of 40 billion state budget and makes sure the checks go to whom they need to go to. Treasurer yee has a number of firsts. The first asianamerican elected to statewide office in arizona. The first chineseamerican republican woman to win a major statewide office in the United States. She was Senate Majority leader in arizona, not the first, but notably followed Sandra Day Oconnor so that is worth mentioning. She chaired the Senate Education committee and helped create the nations first edution savings account into thousand 11. Interestingly, has a pattern i
Mister donovan, before we get to july 1969, started 1957, what was the effect of sputnik on this country . Guest the first artificial satellite created a sensation in this country. We went crazy. Somehow they out science us. Started wondering what was next . Bombs coming down . Nuclear bombs . Space stations with Nuclear Missiles . And of course it created nasa a year later. Had to respond somehow at the height of the cold war. A lot of people now dont understand how tense everything was. A lot of people thought world war iii was starting. Host did the fact that sputnik happened, did we have a Space Program at all at that point . Guest space might be stretching it. We had a satellite program. You heard of werner von braun, the nazi in charge of the program in germany. We scooped him up and lots of other scientists and engineers under the auspices of a topsecret program called operation paperclip. He was in charge of one of the programs, air force, navy, army had their own programs for
We want the students to have the best professionals teaches and supporting them and this is important to retain the talented i see you indicators. I would like to acknowledge the School Health program and social worker volunteers who helped reopen the santa rosa schools following the Northern California fires. Following the call to action the San Francisco School District School Social workers stepped forward to provide support to students, families on the first day of reopening schools. Over friday october 27 and the 30th, 25 School Workers carpooled to santa rosa and assisted 12 school to welcome students back to school. The social workers partnered with staff and Community Volunteers to provide drop in support and to help out where ever needed. In all 25 staff who volunteered were able to lend expertise to support our santa rosa neighbors. I would like to celebrate recent accomplishments of our School District employees and departments. Congratulations to flores who is a local warri