kevin chavez, who's language supervisor with english learner support services. darlene limb, the educational director of the placement center. julie pong. and richard koranz will also be sharing some information tonight. i also want to thank yong lee. this is the tale presenting tonight. it's actually multiple departments that have been work ing on this. i also want to thank the parent advisory council and the parents for public schools for all the work that they've done in partnering with us to gather feedback from the community. so we can, as the superintendent said, have an understanding of what the feedback is and make modifications to our proposals based on that. and they are modifications. and as we go through our presentation tonight, we will highlight the areas where we've modified based on the feedback and we'll also highlight areas that there might be a divergence in perspective, but there's some shared belief. a lot of shared belief around the work that we're doing here. and so tonight's agenda, we will go through our staff presentation and then the p

kevin whitaker. mr. chairman, let me be clear from the outset. with respect to global efforts to counterterrorism, developments in venezuela over the last decade have been deeply troubling. instead of meeting his international obligations, hugo chavez has chosen to develop close relationships with iran and syria. senior members of his government are directly implicated in providing support to u.s.-designatessed foreign terrorist organizations, particularly the farc and eln. the administration has significant concerns about connections between members of the venezuelan government and eta as well. all of these issues have been reported on this press. and as we have report inside the past, hezbollah has a presence in venezuela, and the department of treasury has done much to reveal these connections. i do, however, want to emphasize that the information available to us indicates that hezbollah activity in venezuela is limited to fund raising. we remain alert to indicationings of other activities, particularly operational activity, but to date there's no information to support any such connection. venezuela must fulfill its obligations under 1373 and 1540 which forms part of the legal basis of international counterterrorism efforts. th

kevin whitaker. mr. chairman, let me be clear from the outset. with respect to global efforts to counterterrorism, developments in venezuela over the last decade have been deeply troubling. instead of meeting his international obligations, hugo chavez has chosen to develop close relationships with iran and syria. senior members of his government are directly implicated in providing support to u.s.-designatessed foreign terrorist organizations, particularly the farc and eln. the administration has significant concerns about connections between members of the venezuelan government and eta as well. all of these issues have been reported on this press. and as we have report inside the past, hezbollah has a presence in venezuela, and the department of treasury has done much to reveal these connections. i do, however, want to emphasize that the information available to us indicates that hezbollah activity in venezuela is limited to fund raising. we remain alert to indicationings of other activities, particularly operational activity, but to date there's no information to support any such connection. venezuela must fulfill its obligations under 1373 and 1540 which forms part of the legal basis of international counterterrorism efforts. th

kevin whitaker. mr. chairman, let me be clear from the outset. with respect to global efforts to counterterrorism, developments in venezuela over the last decade have been deeply troubling. instead of meeting his international obligations, hugo chavez has chosen to develop close relationships with iran and syria. senior members of his government are directly implicated in providing support to u.s.-designatessed foreign terrorist organizations, particularly the farc and eln. the administration has significant concerns about connections between members of the venezuelan government and eta as well. all of these issues have been reported on this press. and as we have report inside the past, hezbollah has a presence in venezuela, and the department of treasury has done much to reveal these connections. i do, however, want to emphasize that the information available to us indicates that hezbollah activity in venezuela is limited to fund raising. we remain alert to indicationings of other activities, particularly operational activity, but to date there's no information to support any such connection. venezuela must fulfill its obligations under 1373 and 1540 which forms part of the legal basis of international counterterrorism efforts. th