Clerk thank you, very much. All right. We have quorum. Thank you. Greetings and welcome for joining todays board of education meeting. Knowing that we all know this, i would like to say these are stressful and strange times, times we never thought would be visited upon us. I thought it was strange enough trying to wait out and resist the person currently occupying the white house. But now things have gotten more bizarre with the same person trying to bully students, families and teachers and other staff back into school buildings. Thats what were dealing with. Thats what its come to. Today we will be absorbing our fall learning plan. I know many will find aspects they will object to but this will find solace in the approach. This is the time for us to pull together collectively to row lie upon one another to make this year as good and meaningful as it can be for our childrens sake. And to continue to find, within ourselves, a sense of grace and compassion and flexibility as we move for
About reopening schools which is on the top of the minds of mostly everyone in the country. We at the afc really want to reopen schools safely for our kids and for the staff that work with our kids every single day. And we didnt hear anything from the president about this for weeks and weeks until after joe biden spoke at the ada Convention Earlier last week letting him educators, pledging support for Public Education and now celebrating President Trump invested has woken up about schools and about reopening after being completely silent or months. But instead of doing what we can usually count on the president to do , in terms of leading with a plan that keeps teachers, kids , families say, trump is demanding schools and campuses reopen without funding any of the necessary measures to do so safely. Rejecting the cdc guidance and he and betsy devos are threatening to withhold funds if schools dont reopen area thats not president ial. Thats not nice. Thatsreckless and dangerous and its
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Meeting of the joint City School District and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, chair of the committee. Our clerk stood erica major. Madame clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, city employers and members of public, the board of spo ifs sortss legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee meeting will attend the meeting during Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item of this agenda. For both channel 26 and sfgov tv and the numbers are streaming across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Call in for opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 4156550001. The access code is 1457195549. Then press pound and pound again. Once connected, you will
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