ms. jordan, i am going to open the meeting with a quote from her, where she said to tell the truth is to become beautiful. section a is accessibility information for the public, section b opening items. can i have a motion and second for approval of the october 9th board meeting minutes. thank you. as a reminder, speaker cards for the regular meeting. okay. roll call please. [roll call] >> that's four ayes. >> thank you, speaker cards, if you wish to address the board of education, members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and presented to the executive assistant and importantly according to board rules and procedures, speaking cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. superintendent report, dr. matthews. >> thank you president cook. good evening everyone. october is national principals month. i would like to take this opportunity to thank all our hard working and dedicated site leaders here in the san francisco unified school district. let's give them a big round of applause. principals and ass

jordans -- georgians get better health care. that's about all i have to say. moderater: you are right on time. ms.brams, 75% of georgia voters favor expanding medicaid. you said you want to expand the program on day one. how likely is that with the republican state legislature? how would you be able to achieve that during your first year in office? ms. abrams: my day one priority is expansion of medicaid. i have been 311 legislative sessions, i know it takes longer than one day. having worked across the aisle, i know we care about georgia families. i know we do not want to see more rural hospitals closed. there is only one solution in georgia. despite the misleading information from my opponent, i am not promoting anything other than a program proven to be bipartisan. governor mike pence expanded medicaid. we know that it works, we know it is a bipartisan solution that will cover half a million georgians, will create 56,000 jobs, will cost the proximally $250 million, will draw down $3 billion, and will help stabilize the rural economy. there is no other solution. my opponent will say something ab

jordan mcnair. the school's athleti director will also stay but the university's president plans to retire at the end of the year. moments ago we got refraction the mcnair family. >> ms my son every day. and today, this didn't help at all. >> the school says it accepts responsibility for the dysfunction in th athletics department. and is implementing changes. darcy spencer is live to break down all these things for the university. >> reporter: this was a bombshell. i canell you, n one was expecting to happen. the presidenve of the uity of maryland announcing he is retiring. the headl footb coach is keeping his job definitely the president decide to believe the protestse the football coach is staying? i asked that question. other reporters asked the question at the press conference. he did not give an answer. the university of maryland board of regents expressing unwaering support for dj durkin. he was cch when jordan mcnair collapsed fm heat stroke during practice and died two weeks later last june he was placed on administrative leave. >> we believe coach duringin has been unfairly blamed. and while he shares some responsibility, it is not fair to pce allf it at his

ms haspel had heard audio recordings of the murder. at least 18 children have died after their bus was swept away in flash floods in jordan.t washed away on the shores of the dead sea. a rescue operation involving helicopters and army troops is under way. the parent company of british airways has admitted that a further 185,000 customers may have had their data compromised in a cyber attack. it comes after the airline said this summer that hundreds of thousands of card payments had potentially been leaked in a data hack lasting over two weeks. among the details feared to have been compromised are card numbers and billing addresses. the gender pay gap has fallen to a record low. figures from the office for national statistics show that in the year to april 2018, the gap for full—time workers was 8.6%. that's down from 9.1% the year before. and back in 1997, women earned 17.4% less than men. with me now is ann francke, chief executive of the chartered management institute. things are moving, gradually, in the direction most people would like. yes, i think it is good progress but it is far too slow. if we look at some of the