coming up for you at 3:10, someone who is really ahead of his time, sell con, the founderr of khan academy, will talk about how to use and khan's take on what we can do as abc 7 news addresses learning loss this week. but first you heard today governor newsom announced that former mayor of stockton michael tubs will be his special adviser for economic mobility and opportunity. now tubbs was one of the face us behind the mayors for guaranteed income program. that's basically like uniform basic income. they tested it out in stockton as a pilot. so no doubt that experience has something to do with him stepping into this role from the newsom administration. now today we did talk to oakland mayor libby schaaf who supports the guaranteed basic income concept about this appointment on midday live. this week focuseding on building a better bay area in the efforts to address learning loss. let's check in on the latest when it comes to getting kids back in class in oakland unified, not just the elementary -- of course that's where it starts. but what are the plans for middle and high school kids too

khan academy saw its districts grow from nine before the pandemic to more than 200 now. th perspective and predictions on education across the country and around the world, we have sal khan, founder and ceo of khan academy with us. i the past, you have warned about educational catastrophe as a result of this push into remote learning. in your view, has a catastrophe happened or did we dodge it? sal: we have dodged certain aspects of it. the data we have that came out last fall when some kids got some form of assessment is for certain groups, the learning laws has not been significant. the big asterisk is there are 10 or 15% of kids who did not show up for the assessment. everyone suspect those of the 10 or 15% who have suffered the most. i still hold by the fact there will have to be disaster recovery. even of 85% we were able to measure, we saw a degradation of 10 or 15%. the 15% have phone off the radar. when we get back to some form of normalcy, we will have to do a lot to make sure those gaps do not stick with them forever. emily: do you think the learning gap will cl

khan academy saw it school district grow from nine before the pandemic to more than 200 now. th prospective and predict -- with perspective and predictions, we have sal khan, founder and ceo of khan ac ademy. good to have you back here. you have warned about an education catastrophe as a result of this push into remote warning -- remote learning. has the catastrophe happened, or did we dodge it? >> we have dodge certain aspects of it. the data we do have that came out last fall, when some kids got some form of assessment, is that for certain groups, the learning loss is not been as significant. the day asterisk is there is about 10 -- 10% to 15% of the kids who do not show up for the assessment. everyone suspects they have suffered the most. i hold by the fact this will be disaster recovery. the very fact that even of the 85% we were able to measure we saw degradation by about 10% to 3 -- 1015% to 15%, and then that 10 to 15% has fallen off the raiment -- off the radar. emily: do you think the learning cap ultimately will close -- gap ultimately will close or will he get wider

so there's a strong showing from that group, but you call it big khan academy or regular khan academyentary, middle, high school, early character, into character calculus and physics. and we're the official practice for the sat, law school admissions test and even some of the teacher's certification tests use us to help the teachers prep. neil: how and what is the kind of response you're getting from school districts? we always had this impression that the teachers, you know, they've been reluctant to return to classes. i don't think a lot of times we're fair to them. legitimate things about their own safety and kids safety. i'm not here to debate that. but they might look at a service such as yours as a competitive threat. how do you ease their fears? >> you know, when we were getting on folks' radar maybe a decade ago, there was a little of that, okay, is this technology going to be a threat? and the technology help students get explanations at their own pace and practice and teachers can get the information historically. now that we've been out for 10 years, a lot of teachers were

schoolhouse.world compliments what you can do on khan academy. quickly as we can. >> how many people are using schoolhouse right now? >> well, that literally just got started in january so we have the states of new hampshire, rhode island and mississippi who kind of joined forces to make it a statewide tutoring platform. right now we have on the order of 10,000 students we could add several 10,000 more literally overnight. >> this is something that you started because of the pandemic but you think that this will be something that really has sticking power we're seeing all of these things that i don't think will change as people go back to school or go back to work. this sounds like something that will be helpful no matter what >> yeah. it's always been my dream for khan academy, not just to be the students people learn from the site, as you mentioned, there's 20, 30 million folks using khan academy to learn that, half of them in schools, half of them outside of schools there's been the notion why couldn't people tutor each other and that's the wa

khan academy and former mayor michael tubbs, n >>> tonight, president biden set to address the nation with major news tonight. the next chapter for america. the president expected to direct states to make all american adults eligible for a covid vaccine by may 1st, the latest. the president is expected to tell the country if everyone does their part to slow the spread and get vaccinated, that there's a chance that families, loved ones, neighbors, will be able to gather in small groups by the fourth of july. the news comes as the nation and the world marks one year since the world health organization declared the global coronavirus pandemic. but as america prepares to turn the corner, are these new goals from the president doable? dr. jha standing by, answering your questions tonight. >>> also tonight, how soon could economic help arrive for struggling american families? tonight, with the president signing his historic $1.9 trillion covid relief bill into law, the white house now saying tonight the first checks could land this weekend. with direct deposit. mary bruce and whit johnson s