norton >> yes. thank you all right. we'll move on to item b and the superintendents report. >> thank you, president norton and good evening to everyone both hear and listening and a watching at home. i'd like to take this opportunity to invite all families on saturday 200 second at the concourse exhibition theatre. all public schools will be there represent and you'll have an opportunity to attend yumz and get information ton special education and mid school feeders and also the admission process. you can attend the early bird process on thursday october 17th from 5 to 7:00 p.m. in the board of education room 555 franklin street or saturday october 19th from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the board of education meeting room at 555 franklin or also on friday, october 25th in the board of education room. i encourage all our families to please attend and gather the information for the enrollment process. i'd like to thank you for the opportunity to report at the fifth annual partnership recognition event the community partners

thank you, president norton. superintendents proposal and revision of board proposal employees sexual harassment is that the board of education revises policy entitled employees sexual harassment >> thank you there are no public speakers signed up for this item. may i hear are there any comments from the board or superintendant >> i'll to put in an additional. one of the things that gets overlooked is a hostile workplace like photos that creates a hostile environment. my proposed language is roman numerical 2 under conduct to add workplace hostile environment is prohibited in person or other means of conversation or through virtually or media. the language accounts for an increasing trend in social media being used to harass people whether it's texted messages or povrts things of that nature. i want to make sure that the policy addresses some of the changing ways in which people have found to harass each other >> are you making a motion to amend the policy. >> yes. i'd like to ask the superintendant to adopt the

so commissioner norton, president i think that perhaps we should refer this to the curriculum meeting >> i think it's a great idea i think we wholeheartedly need more parents involvement how that has impacted our work and we're interested to hear whatever we're interested to hear e l families voices those people to be appointed in whatever way ambassador our number one priority is that the e l families are recommend and enforced arrest they've done over the years and we continue to see this as a change of how we're formed and have concerned us. it's great to hear from commissioner fewer that there is a real concern that we want the e l families to continue to have a voice and we want that community to be strong so any discussions that you have we hope to be part of those and look forward to hearing how this is going to i understand up >> just one last thing. i think it's important that we have the parents liaisons at the school sites for a long time now. there's symshould be a functioning e lake at every school if not that warrants an investigation >> one last thing. and sandy fewer y

coming up, jim norton discusses what the holidays mean to him.poiler alert, family friends and eggnog. but first, does this video sum up the obamacare disaster? no, your face does. >>> her smile was frozen like tuesday, a day of the week. the obamacare website crashed on day whatever of -- >> obama-apacalypso gate. >> covered all of the bases there. the health and human services secretary was in miami to promote the program when disaster struck. >> i think it is great. it has been a longtime coming. >> i'm sorry but it is temporarily down. >> it will come back. >> it happens every day. >> it happens every day. well with news cameras rolling the system didn't work. can we watch this again in slow motion? >> it has been a longtime coming. >> it's temporarily down. >> uh-oh. >> it's okay it will come back. >> it happens every day. >> why is that 10 times funnier? they enjoy themselves more in slow motion. and americans have difficulties accessing the health care website. >> stupid cat. you always say to me when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

commissioner and vice president and any other members of the board that have comments >> no president norton i was listening in the back and appreciate you coming forward with all the details. if you came forward with all the good stuff you'd leave and we you wouldn't know the details and the struggles. the details and united states challenges i appreciate your sharing that. thank you rile appreciate that. and then i really appreciate my colleagues here wanting to take some action. we listen a lot of presentation in that mode and we hope something happens but you'll hear from the board of education tonight some action and some definitely placing. i'm laborer around the room and people are nodding their heads that will be part of the activity. i want to commend you again not on sitting on stuff that doesn't work but bringing it forward for families that want to be part of the community but role value everything that comes from all the history. by the way, when this is shared out at any time a beautiful thing. i'm so great deal of you came forward with the sharing and struggles and challenges.

. >> commissioner norton. >> all right. we will now move into item i. can you hear me mrs. winn. all right. we're moving on to item i. in support of a policy allowing students to eat breakfast during the first class of the day it was moved and seconded on june neiman >> curriculum committee credit card this on october 7th and came with a arrived at the positive recommendation for approval. >> at the. now the resolution i would like to i'm the adult sponsor of this resolution but our former speths megan wong wrote this. i wanted to ask the student delegates to help me read this into the record >> okay. do i read the resolution number? i've never done this before >> i can start in port of the policy. in support of the policy allowing the students to eat the breakfast during the first class of the day. we need the brains fuel whereas breakfast provides energy to lead to concentration and helps the students ability to learn. whereas students who don't eat breakfast have a harder time. and on demanding mental tasks eating breakfast attribute to hire group intact and daily vitamin inta

>> well, first of all, let's not miss the news that you got from eleanor holmes norton. no one has been more supportive of the administration on this than she has been, and yet she said there is no appetite to impose those penalties on americans for not having insurance if the website doesn't get fixed fast. you know, that is one of those key provisions that if there's not a willingness to impose those penalties, then why will young healthy people sign up? if they don't sign up, how does the system then become financially feasible? so i thought that was a significant point that she made in your interview. as to the clinton calculation, any time john boehner is praising bill clinton for what he said about barack obama, you know that is bad news for barack obama. and it's hard for me -- that doesn't seem like a mischievous interview to me, it sounded like he got asked a question and answered it the way he thought. the interview was a whole was quite supportive of president obama and the affordable care act. >> susan makes a good pointing picking up on what eleanor holmes n

ryan before you move on commissioner norton had a question. >> yes. >> didn't mean to interrupt, what is ngss? >> it's the next generation science standard led by the core, and the state of california adopted our own. so we have an adopted science standards for the state. >> it's like the common core? >> yes. we'll see if it gets adopted as widely. >> it's in the process of being adopted by individual states right now? >> yes. >> do you know how many states have adopted? >> the last one i have seen was 4-5. i was mostly concerned with california. if there are no more questions from me i'm going to hand it over to bauj for technology piece. >> i would like to present mr. bauj to present the middle school initiative which we are all very excited about. >> good afternoon commissioners and supervisors. i'm very excited to be here with my colleague to talk about the district emerging stem framework and mostly excited about the mayor lee school's initiative. the official launch was early this month but able to get the balance rolling in july. it came out of a shared partnership and a shared

. >> reporter: this is norton manor in potomac, maryland. >> welcome to our house. >> welcome to hourome. >> reporter: this is debbie and frank islam. the creators of this magnificent space. ♪ >> the total -- square footage is about 47,000 square feet. >> reporter: frank and debbie built their home along with a guest house and tea house as a tribute to their adoptive country. both come from humble beginnings. debbie the daughter of a canadian mechanic and frank the son of an indian farmer. together, here in the united states, frank and debbie made their fortune in information technology. >> we've been so blessed. that it would be a shame if we didn't give it back. >> reporter: norton manor is not only their home, it's also where frank and debbie host fundraisers for politicians and philanthropic causes. >> this is my library. >> reporter: u.s. presidential memorabilia is everywhere. the desk in his library is a replica of the one in the white house oval office. >> this is the seal of thpresident of the united states -- the president of the united states. ♪ >> reporter: the grant foyer

it was originally set up by joe norton. and his two companies come before the board, and they get a slap on the wrist. >> well, i don't think it's a slap on the wrist. we are comfortable in saying that through the gaming commission, they have done the investigation, saying that he didn't have a part in the cheating scandal. >> why didn't the commission suspend his license? >> well, they were afraid that if that was happened and the rug was pulled out from under them, so to speak, that the players wouldn't be paid. >> neither the gaming commission nor joe norton would talk to us, but in a statement, the companies said they were victimized by insiders and former employees and accepted blame for overlooking the security problems with its software. the only clarity in the investigation was provided by frank catania, a former director of new jersey's gaming enforcement division, who was hired by the tribe to look into the cheating that the players themselves helped expose. >> we owe it to the players themselves for finding this

he said, 'could you make it to such-and-such norton.' and i said, 'norton, norton, yeah.' i mean, you're always looking for an historical reference at this point, and i said, 'i rec--i recognize the name.' he said, 'yes, my grandfather designed the norton bomb site.' and almost everywhere you go and talk about the century--and i think this is going to accelerate next year for everybody. we're going to be looking for those, you know, memories in the family attic about the century. and more of us, of course, are connected to the past now, still, than we are to the, you know, hopeful technology of the future. c-span: in this next picture--photo, anything like this ever happen in canada? >> guest: i'm not sure what you're looking at. no. c-span: lynching at lawrenceville, georgia. >> guest: no. america--you know, canadi--canada's--for one thing, was at the end of the underground railroad and--and certainly not at this particular period of time, but canada escaped, for much of its history, the terrible racial experience of the united states. i'm not sure learned from it in ever

thank you, president norton and members of the board of education and everyone both present and at home. good evening. tonight i'd like to start off by celebrating the winners of the first impact and innovation waurtsdz the q t e a waks was passed and supports those wards and this was designed as a collaborative effort. the impact awards specifically aimed to recognize the strategies that impacts student achievement in our schools including the english electrons are awe aligned are with our qualities. etch winner shared awareness to help build student staff and more importantly community. 29 applications for innovation wards from over 40 schools in our district. we had 70 applications and once they were scored and the points tallied and the names revealed ultimately the top 10 applications were selected. this evening i'd like to congratulate you all and closing the achievement gap for our students. those strategies and practices will be shared across the district. that will take place in the next few months and will be an opportunity to learn the strategies and a practices. ladies and g

one of the attorneys for jeremy hammond, and foust, and andy norton. welcome to stream. and jeremy's sentencing is friday, and he faces ten years in prison. and you're advocating for him to get finally served. he committed the crime. and why should he get off? >> well, he made a huge contribution, and that contribution really shoulder how private security firms are carrying on for the government. 70% of government expenditures goes into private security firms, so it's very interesting to note that private security firms have absolutely no oversight. none at all. there's some oversight on government spying, but none on private security firms. so you have 70% spying of which there is no oversight. and jeremy exposed that without making any money. he did it as a political act. he took a risk, and he served enough time. >> andrew, was there any value to the hack of stratford? >> let's be honest. what he revealed, i don't know if it surprised him and it didn't surprise me. everything that he revealed, it was common sense. but the key aspect is the credit cards. it's not the f

norton nodding and cultural chin yet to play on monday its pre order your. story is about his teacher traveling around the country with the money. he believes magicians can go anywhere and make friends. self esteem help people and help people in trouble the letter the unit. i mean. twenty oh two the students to succeed the teachings on. it's all still in the kitchen. makes for good. in. the in that order. just try to heal up and you. cheating stealing and snow. his performance kits. every member of the audience watching a performance on its stage becomes a friend. it repeats to the wrestling school. this traditional fare the list you are. read the blog. i do judgmental. reading picture magick and shadow puppetry shows were performed in the cmc now every meal the roosters on going the statues all the money is the year. it's all greek form has continued to perform the traditional office holders to stay. make a living. the courts to injury the architects of the lights he's a little. wanna sleep on. richie benaud. be. i know i thus the oyster were rationed like

major vincent grey and eleanor holmes norton will be among those at d.c.link information and enrollment fair. it's this morning at the martin luther king memorial library. >>> today will be a traffic test for prince george's county police and the tanger outlets. this is day one for weekend shoppers. erika gonzalez braved the crowds to see why everyone is so excited. >> the tanger outlets at national harbor opened with a bang. >> parking wasn't fun. >> things got so bad people were seen parking along 259 to avoid this. >> it was crazy. the traffic was terrible. >> reporter: ruth shelton can atest to the traffic tie up. >> i live in maryland and of course it takes me 15 or 20 minutes but today took more than an hour. >> reporter: is it worth it, though? >> tell me about the deals? are you saving money? >> i think we are. most places are 40 or 50% off. >> reporter: leslie and her daughter braved the crowds to add new things to their wardrobe. >> we arrived about 11:00 this morning. >> you're leaving? >> yes we didn't even stop to eat. >> reporter: they're pum

. >> good evening president norton and superintendent and exceptionally aging less than and cooper logan. i want to direct your attention to this process report. as we begin i have a few introduce comments i'm the superintendent from the department. thank you for the opportunity for sharing this progress report. i said to start by offering a special thank you to dr. elizabeth for bringing this is u.s. sf. behavioral response is a major coordinating services to address the identification of african-american students in special education. they've tripled to the student department due to the critical residence provided to school communities through this department. in addition the focus of the departments and programs has been to view the support we offer students and families through a a lens of traumatic awareness and restoring the practices. this focus lions perfectly with the implementation plan and it's the reason we embrace this. speaking of the staff last year, i lived in denial of claude i can't see retirement. i honestly started to panic i wouldn't find anyone to lie down the work

i want to make sure that other board members - i'm sorry president norton that other board members feel free to attend the meeting. pardon me, ma'am, >> can i just clarify it's a standing item but i think what i've heard is that the standing item is not for q ta but for the process of all the board appointed adversities committees so as we heard earlier tonight there's a lot of questions on b cc and all of them it's a standing item. >> we're all starting at such a different place how many open seats and the process of them have their own process so we have 0 deal with each committee separately and what's legally mandated and how do we get here. do we need to craft expectation and the process of getting hero for each committee is different >> and here's the alignment with the board policy. >> sorry the conversation rather refer back to the rules committee since we're talking about a specific situation a situation in which we find ourselves that won't occur in the future. it's possible for us to wave the board policy and so we could wave the board policy to have a one year term or whateve

delegate eleanor holmes norton.ou so much, ma'am. >> always a pleasure. >> coming up, 50 years after the assassination and we remain one nation under the gun. >> they found the rifle, partly hidden behind some books. it was a bolt action model. we still don't know exactly what kind of rifle it was. so if you have a flat tire, dead battery, need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geico's emergency roadside assistance is there 24/7. oh dear, i got a flat tire. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right here. someone help me!!! i have a flat tire!!! well it's good... good for me. what do you think? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> according to the official report, in march 1963, lee harvey oswald clipped a coupon from an advertisement he saw in the "american rifleman" magazine published by the nra. he posted the coupon, as well as a money order for $21.45. the rifle he ordered, an italian car conta

. >> thank you, president norton i've got the web address. www dot u.s. sf d back slash unback slash about - u.s. d back slash - dot m t s l. i'm not going to repeat that >> and i also so i also want to comment about how much we appreciate the boards active involvement and how much we appreciate the comments we've heard from everyone from our teachers union to our students representatives to our community members who have taken a look around the room and saying who isn't in the room the only time i want to know absolutely certain is whether when i'm going under surgery. how do we make this best estimate and folks are thinking who should be part of this tells me that our stakeholders are very much invested so we thank the folks for the feedback and he hopefully, he folks are seeing what we're hearing our seeing in the development of the process. this is hard work and scarey work but the right work for the community. ms. way >> i wanted to thank you because of the great experience and some of the students and i agree school was just like the meeting we had.

another company we learned about makes private label belts for any belt out of macy's or norton's it's made in a company in united states bay view and trader engineering has a manufacturing capacitate has pretty much you've got belts you never think of food and beverage and beer is food and engineering >> and the biggest employer in san francisco it's not your member i mean, i presume there are tons of mustard here and i think we're a relatively small city we have about 90 percent or 95 percent of the manufacturers that are participating as made members but we have this new edge that companies see themselves as highbreds of manufacturing who that haven't affiliated with the group. i know that typing machines is a great example we're literally upstairs near to each other we warned over and wanted to know what you do. so we have a whole many sort of push to engage the newest mustards. we had a round table before this and one of the things that came up was maker didn't represent what we do their associated with hobbies and by the time you get to our scale we're manufacturing companies and

where it's televised i want to be able to have the community access this so i'm asking president norton will you help us to get this out into the community but let's have a deep conversation with a community. so well-taken. i want to remind the board we've had conversations about how we want to have the contestants where it's a little bit less formal and people feel more comfortable. it's a little bit hard for the board leadership to understand which way do we want to we want the discussions with the committee or here. >> i have a question aren't the meetings open to the public? >> yes. >> so you want to have if in a place that people come to. >> what's been suggested where we can have a deep contestants you're in presentation mode. we don't have this black or white conversation during a presentation that is at a testify visions meeting. we want to have it at community meetings but unfortunately people don't show up and we end up talking to ourselves. while i appreciate that >> i'll be there. >> but we want to make it. >> it's been (multiple voices). >> and the rest of the families that

neighbors spoke out against the construction during a town hall meeting with delegate eleanor holmes nortonoday. they say the work will bring hazardous materials into the area. csx trains run on the tracks underneath virginia avenue between second and 11th streets but the tunnel creates a bottleneck. the company wants to allow new track to allow more traffic >>> more than 20 d.c. children officially have new lovely homes tonight. dozens of a i adoptions were finalized today, the 27th annual d.c. adoption day in north we have. it's a sumoni that coincides with national adoption day every year. the event celebrates the joyce of adopting a child and encourages people to consider welcoming foster children into their homes. mayor vincent gray and news 4's barbara harrison were among those who took part in the ceremo. >>> bitter cold tomorrow and a we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even thou

and newshour regular presidential historian richard norton smith of george mason university.s formerly director of the abraham lincoln presidential library and museum in illinois. drew faust, i want to start with you. by the fall of 1863, the toll t suffering, it was all very clear. set the context for thinking about this speech. what was lincoln out to do in that moment? >> well, lincoln was out to commemorate. he was invited to come and say appropriate words to dedicate the loss of life that had been so extraordinary in the three days of battle at gettysburg the preceding summer. and this was a loss of life that motivated the representatives of northern states who had soldiers die in that battle to come together and acquire land on which to build a cemetery. and so lincoln was coming to dedicate that cemetery in a ceremony that included other speeches and music and so forth on that november day in 1863. when he arrived in the town, it's important to remember there was still unburied bodies piled in coffins in the street and so the aura of death was still very present even a