host: what would you say to his question what the nea salaries? guest: nea as well as other salaries are available as we are required to make them. host: gary in philadelphia, independent. caller: i wanted to address the amount of fraud that goes on in special education. my wife works for a district in a special education. i think they are paying more like $17,000 or $18,000 per kid. and her boss'boss got let go because they kept tapping into the flesh -- special education fund and using it for other things. she always strived very hard for the kids to get those services and never got the services because the principal and the assistant vice simple word embezzling funds until they got fired. host: becky pringle on waste, fraud and abuse. guest: school districts should always have protocols to make sure the money that is being sent to them from whatever level of government is being expended in the way that it was designed to be, whether it is a program or whether it is going to hire teachers or paraprofessionals, or whether it is going to the direc

thank you, becky, thank you nea, for all of you do for our children. i am a product of public schools. how many of you are here went to public school, raise your hand? so, we're going to protect the public schools for the children that are here today. is that ok? >> yes! >> my mother was a public school teacher after she spent -- had six of us in a great big town of -- in florida near cape kennedy if you never heard of mims. she put black history in public schools. and so, we have an administration that is decided that black folks don't matter, hispanic, latino folks don't matter, the apia folks don't matter that women don't matter, that poor folks don't matter, that -- tell your neighbor, you matter. i'm going to say it again, tell your neighbor, you matter. our children matter. >> our children matter. >> our nation matters. >> we are the united states of america. we are not the divided states of america. and so, the last thing i want to remind us of is yeah, elon musk, he'll be gone afterwhile because some egos only take so long. but there are some f

nea de otro rehÉn.mundo. las imÁgenes de aterrorizada madre abrazando con sus fuerzas a sus pequeÑos hijos cuando fueron secuestrados por los terroristas de hamas, se convirtieron en el sÍmbolo del brutal ataque del grupo terrorista el 7 de octubre. quien tiene un hijo secuestrado por los terroristas dijo que ha sido uno de los dÍas mÁs tristes despuÉs del 7 de octubre. la gente se volcÓ las calles para recibir los cuerpos. >> hoy ver esos cuatro ata y des en medio de una lluvia acÁ en el paÍs, y la gente parada en la calle. llorando. en silencio. muy duro. >> el grupo terrorista hamas dijo que el sÁbado primer a seis rehenes vivos, cuatro capturado en 20 23 y otros en durante una dÉcada. >> el presidente de ucrania zelensky continÚa educacion hasta servicios de salud de emergencia. romi de fÍas esta en los angeles con mas# top banner en medio de la temporada de impuestos, el servicio de recaudacion de impuestos , o ir >> >> el presidente antÓn firmÓ una orden ejecutiva para evitar que fondos federales

host: what would you say to his question what the nea salaries?st: nea as well as other salaries are available as we are required to make them. host: gary in philadelphia, independent. caller: i wanted to address the amount of fraud that goes on in special education. my wife works for a district in a special education. i think they are paying more like $17,000 or $18,000 per kid. and her boss'boss got let go because they kept tapping into the flesh -- special education fund and using it for other things. she always strived very hard for the kids to get those services and never got the services because the principal and the assistant vice simple word embezzling funds until they got fired. host: becky pringle on waste, fraud and abuse. guest: school districts should always have protocols to make sure the money that is being sent to them from whatever level of government is being expended in the way that it was designed to be, whether it is a program or whether it is going to hire teachers or paraprofessionals, or whether it is going to the direct ne

right now we're beginning to see some of that rainfall develop nea the coastline, but nothing overlyeavy right now. it's just going to take a little bit of time here for that rainfall to start picking up. so by the time we get into 9:00 tonight, we'll see some rainfall near the coast. also the peninsula and the south bay. not a big deal. then as we move through tomorrow morning, just some spotty chances. we'll start to see it pick up here as we head through wednesday night about 6 p.m. but the main event getting here around 1:00 in the morning on thursday, and this will be several hours of some extremely heavy downpours as we move through that thursday morning commute. and that's why i think thursday morning is going to be the roughest of this weather, no doubt out here across the bay area. we then undergo some drying and then some more rain kind of moving back in as we head through thursday afternoon. that could have some thunderstorms with it and we'd hang on too the chae here. some on again off againin chance rain on friday's forecast. so the totals for tomorrow only trace amounts

doubled from 2400 acres in 2011 to now more than 1200 acres that are deemed very high hazard homeowowners nea glorietta elementary school and the orinda oaks neighborhood are just learning. their neighborhood is now considered a very high hazard zone for wildfire. hearing that we are now in a red zone certainly gives an added layer of anxiety. i'd like to educate myself more about the new rules. cal fire rolled out phase one of its updated fire hazard severity maps two weeks ago and monday. phase two, including the bay area and the entire northern california coast, was released. the updated fire risk assessment is based on decades of fire behavior and weather data. just so mh in the last couple of years, what we've experienced, but over the last 30 years, what these areas have experienced. the map is interactive, so you can search an address and see what zone it's in. and then there's an extra layer if you're in red, very high hazard areas outlining requirements for clearing proper defensible spaces. we're providing defensible space inspections currently for those areas that are listed as ver

i spoke earlier this morning with the head of the nea, who says parents need to convince their congresspeople to oppose those cuts. they can use their voice, individually and collectively to say, no, you will not take money out of public schools. no, y will not diminish the department of education that ensures our students with disabilities get get the supports they need. no, you will not harm our students. you will live up to your promise that you made to them, and you will protect and promote and help us strengthen public education. now you can call your congressperson, but members from congress almost to a person oppose the cuts to the department. it's the members of congress in red states who would need to take action. there is a parents and teachers rally scheduled for later this afternoon in sacramento. but again, marcus, they're largely preaching to the choir. all right, scott, thank you. well, just in the senate is agreeing to move ahead on the vote of robert f kennedy's nomination. this is the head of the department of human health and human services that is expected to take place to

and the best, the brightest and i want them in the towers keeping americe nea safe.l we will releasef the infrastructure with vacancies that, you know, are so important to make sure airplanes don't hit each other. d we have seen cracks in the system, laura. near misses continuously .eported air traffic controllers, ands, let's upgrade our air traffic control system. we will need congress to give us money.ve u they should have been done decades ago. i think everybody's onboard to make this happen, democrats andi republicans. the president wantmes it down. let'es fix the system that make it more efficient and i'sim sick of the delays as well. more efficient and less delays ca n make it work. s >> lauraom: mr. secretary, some people are afraid to fly now ani i'm nongt saying it is logical because of the statistics, but this rattles people. would you support president trump taking aco commercial flight as symbolic gesture of confidence in the commercial aviation? >> listen, that is the decision of the president would have to make but i know his administration, i do go to everyone at the

the nea and aft brand to there would be known affirmative education without the teachers union. from the very beginning that affirmative education has been the department of education has been a creation of the teachers unions. and if you get rid of that, you are anti-education. that was the problem of many other week need republican senators and congressmen of that area who were not willing to make that move. i hope that we are at a point where how corrupt the unions are after covid, something like being against the department of education can be decoupled from being against education. they have corrupted it so much they created an opportunity to expose it. >> we have time for one last question. we will go over here. >> thank you. by grandkids are homeschooled. i have learned a lot about it. my granddaughter is a sophomore at hillsdale. our youngest provides courses to kids through high school. he has online courses you can take no charge. it is amazing. the college is hard to get into. they have a tremendous student body. they have a code of honor like the military academies.

. >> john avlon is the new head of the nea. >> congratulations. wow. >> wow.hings happen really fast around here. >> i'm going to stick with the pop culture. i'm going to talk about the grammys, but not kendrick lamar. beyonce. congratulations to beyonce on finally winning album of the year. she is the greatest entertainer out of. this is not up for debate. she is for the greatest entertainer of our lifetime. she announced her cowboy carter tour. i've seen her nine times already. i do plan on going to this tour, miss tina, since she's the one who's always on social media. if you would like to get beyonce to send me one of them really nice gift boxes. i understand y'all don't like trump, but this trump supporter likes beyonce a little box, and if she got a little ticket in there, i am pulling up. get it up. >> get it. that's you know, i'm still stuck. >> on because i was waiting to hear the greatest entertainer of. >> our. >> lifetime because some people would say. >> that's my unpopular opinion, though. >> some people would say it's michael. i think beyonce mi

we also previously had we get a we historically have received nea and cac funding and previously i believe that was also reflected in the administration budget. but really that money is supporting programs at the gallery so we've more accurately depicted it in this year's presentation of the budget. >> i have a very simple question and that is when you were talking about the civic art collection right we obsession pieces into the airport and using that as an example for all of the departments rec park power and water, dpw, puc etc. does the maintenance of those collections fall within their budgets and then is transferred to us? where is that money generated? and you had on one of your slides the alicia piece that was restored so somewhat fragile piece that had been up you know the one alicia piece how track the money for that for me with you yes so for new or well for artworks that are funded you know created using funding from the art in richmond ordinance there is a component of that funding so 70% of the funding goes to the artwork and there's a component of it i think 10% that is reta

. >> i believe we had -- a -- 25 or 50 thousand dollars nea grant. i think we may not have assume today in the fiscal 27. those grants are -- largely the melon grant we received. >> thank you. why other comments. mii ask for a motion. i like to ask for a motion to approve the proposed fiscal 25-26 and 26-27 art commission budget. knowing this is proposed and there will be revisionss we move through the finalization expect in the july. of this year. >> so moved. beltran. >> second. >> schnair. >> is there public comment on the budget discussion? is there anyone withhold like to comment on the current item? >> public comment is closed. >> now the motion all in favor? >> aye >> opposed >> motion is approved unanimously. i calling item 6 which is our consent calendar are there recruisal from thes commission at this time? regarding the consent calendar? >> number two. item two. okay. can we get a reason why. >> right. yes item 6. subnumber two. i work for them. >> thank you. >> we take that. >> so commission secretary how would you like us to proceed? >>

police say 19 year old myles gerald wilkerson, from oakland, jumped out of a car nea pepboys on redwoodn see it right there. this happened around 1 p.m. friday. he snatched a bank bag from a pepboys employee who had returned from the bank. officers tracked the car to daly city. the car fled and eventually crashed in san francisco. four people inside that vehicle were arrested, including wilkerson. police say they found the bank deposit bag in the car. an update now to a stabbing in santana row in san jose. officers say the man who was stabbed friday night near the shopping area has died. officers were called to santana row in stevens creek boulevard just after 7:00. the victim was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries but did not survive. san jose police say this is the city's third homicide of the year. >> three. top u.s. foreign policy officials plan to meet with russian leaders in saudi arabia later this week. they're scheduled to discuss a path toward ending the war in ukraine. the meeting marks the first time the u.s. and russia have sat down for formal, high level t

street project artist studios sfmoma seca award finalist and the 2018 and 2020 artist fellow of the neajapan u.s. friendship commission. he's also has very close ties with a number of projects that are focused in this neighborhood commercial and otherwise just close connections to the to the community itself. >> the work was installed in two mobilizations by outdoor fine art services and is permitted through a use agreement with recreation and parks as owners of the sidewalk zone at lower grade highway and a major encroachment permit with public works as owners of the judah and 43rd avenue sidewalk. >> a few words about the artwork itself. pacific transit evokes san francisco's unique western edge where the geometry of the urban grid meets the wild openness of the shoreline and the ocean. the work is composed of concrete pedestals supporting organic forms cast in bronze from found objects are carved from stone quarried in the california foothills. each object bears traces of movement and transformation like wave tossed driftwood or stones washed from the mountains. >> the work is design

and let's go to the nea general assembly did not focus on student excellence, but do run things like abortion, foreign policy and things like that. we have teachers unions, leaders that have sold out their members, prioritizing restorative justice over actually educating children and keeping teachers safe. the teachers, they are emotional support animal, a counselor, like $250,000 a year job, not a $60,000 a year job and that's not what they're hired for. >> i'm a physician and when i talk to my patients who are teachers, they don't want to do any of that. the great majority of them. some are idealogues. and some are paying the pipe and the tune. i yield back. >> i recognize the gentleman from new york, welcome. >> thank you, mr. chair and thank you ranking member scott and thank you to the witnesses that are joining us here today. i was a former teacher of almost 30 years, i taught science, physics, astronomy, geometry, 15 to 1 environment. i worked directly with students, families, other teachers. education is the great equalizer and stabilizer and our public schools are the cores

let's think back to the nea's annual meeting several years ago where the general assembly vote did note through to focus on student excellence, but they do on things like abortion, on foreign policy, and things like that. and so we have teachers union leaders that have sold out their members, prioritizing things like restorative justice over actually educating children, keeping teachers safe. and teachers right now have taken on such a large load. they are an emotional support animal. they're a gender support transition counselor. that's like a $250,000 a year job. that's not a $50,000 a year job. our teachers deserve better, and i think they want to get back to to the basics, because that's what they were hired for. rep. onder: you know, and when i talk to teachers in my district, and i'm a physician, when i've talked to my patients who are teachers, they don't want to do any of that. the great majority of them don't. some are ideologues, but the great majority don't. they're doing it because, as you say, the federal government is driving this train. they're paying the piper. they're

if you have a family with a disabled kid like my sister and you live in nea bay in farther northwest corner of 48 states, you have to drive hours and sometimes wait for a ferry that's two hours delayed in order to get to a specialist in seattle to get your kid life-saving care. what will happen if this budget resolution becomes reality, if a trillion dollars is cut from medicaid programs, we will see potentially per capita caps. what that means is we will decide how much the lives of children like my sister are worth. how much would we be willing to pay for the equipment and specialists and the surgery to keep alive medically fragile kids. .. . it will mean people without disabilities, low income seniors, children, people without insurance, will struggle to afford health care in communities like mine, in communities across the country. we are facing a real crisis in our health care sector already. we should not be adding to it by cutting a trillion dollars from poor people and people with disables. from children. from seniors who are often dual-eligible for medicare and medicaid. who

it was at the nea building and i met student students, parents and teachers from around the country. one thing they all had in common. they all used their districts all use this to come student outcomes governance model. this model was instituted as if you a state after a recall. and what did it do? it took away our monthly oversight committees to make sure that our moneys would be spent property properly. maura coletta, who is the national director of alliance to reclaim our schools, said the ultimate goal of the students outcomes focused governance model is to dismantle public education. the realignment and transfer transformation school closures and privatization. and we see this as a continuation of things you're trying to do like the combo classes. we need these oversight committees back. we need them back. that we need them back now. i hope that the school board will do what the los angeles school board did the clark county school board. they just voted to discontinue this model because it takes away democracy. it takes away oversight. it means that we as a community have less