the first is a book entitled "race in reunion" by david blythe. this came out in 2001. it is hard to underestimate how important this book has been in shaping the field of civil war memory. because of its centrality, it is important to try to summarize the book in a few of the main points. we can't do justice to it by any means, but we need to try to understand a few of his main points. he argues that there were three strands of memory that came out after the civil war, and each of these strands competed with each other in the public realm. the first of these is an emancipationist memory, which emphasized the civil war had been about slavery and that union victory brought freedom to millions of people in bondage, and obviously that is a strand of memory that african-americans in the south embraced and many northerners. the second strand is a reconciliationist strand that emphasizes the reunion of the two sections of the country by forgetting -- and this is important -- by forgetting the importance of slavery, by forgetting race. and then the last strand of memory he cal

.>> reporter: logan blythe of utah is once again on the path of becoming an eagle scout, should he choose to do so. >> they are doing well. it is bittersweet because logan was quite disappointed when this happened to him back in november. >> reporter: the 15-year-old with down syndrome earned 22 merit badges when the local boy scouts counsel told him that was enough to achieve scout status. the national limit -- advancement committee emailed his mother otherwise, saying the young man must do the requirements as written, including leadership responsibilities. >> he stopped going to meetings and is no longer willing to put on the uniform. >> reporter: the family sued for $1.00. the national commissioner for the boy scouts of america sat down with the family and their attorney to make sure the boy never lost any merit badges. >> the next step would be to evaluate what he had been doing and what he needed to do to get the eagle. >> we are inspired by logan and his family's commitment to scouting a we are so glad he will remain a part of our scouting community. it turns out, there is more pape

.>> reporter: logan blythe of utah is once again on the path to become an eagle scout, should he choose. >> they are doing well. it is bittersweet because logan was quite disappointed when this happened to him back in november. >> reporter: the 15-year-old with down syndrome earned 22 merit badges when the local boy scouts counsel told him that was enough to achieve scout status. the national advancement committee emailed his father otherwise, saying the young man must do the requirements as written, including leadership responsibilities. >> he stopped going to meetings. he is no longer willing to put on the uniform. >> reporter: logan's family sued for a single dollar. last month the national commission for the boy scouts of america sat down with light's father and his attorney to assure the teen never lost any merit badges. >> the next step would be to evaluate what he has done and what he still needs to do to get eagle. >> reporter: in a statement, the organization says we are inspired by logan and his family's commitment to scouting, we are so glad he will remain a part of our scout

central office, and so tonight, we have presenting to us our chief of communications officer gentle blythe with the development of the district service standards. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. we do have a powerpoint. i want to also say that joining me on my right is rid ta mace modevan and daniel manesas. they're on our design team, which is a group of cross-departmental staff members that are working together to address the issue of how to improve our services to our schools and our students and families. thank you. i'm going to bring this a little bit closer, and bring myself closer. i also want to thank joel schager and january -- j jan faraguna who have been working tirelessly to make sure we get a tremendous amount of input on this process. tonight i want to briefly highlight for you what's been happening and where we are in this process. i don't think it'll be a surprise to any of you that we do see in our superintendent's 90-day plan, our annual principal surveys, our l-cap stakeholder engagements, that we need a higher standard and higher quality for our services and