but, taking a lot at the management and leadership skills and the skills and values and competences of all of our military service members, that's what we want hr managers in a positive way. but jeff, talk about training corporations. go ahead. see, we've come up with these software programs that take a person's mos, military occupation. right. and convert it into a civilian job. so if you drove an eighteen wheeler in iraq, you're now an eighteen wheeler on the new jersey turnpike. that doesn't work! what if you want to be a chef? yeah,it doesn't work! so that's what you mean by cookie cutter? that's correct. what does work? speaking to the veteran. seeing what their heart wants to do with their future. and there is goals that these young men and women have that aren't necessarily military. and we need to be able to help them. send them to a university, to a college if that's that case, i'm now working with the new york shipping association for long sherman. we want to recruit women to offload the cruise ships. there's so many opportunities out there that are nontraditional employment.

manufacturers have skilled jobs they can't fill. vacancies that are growing now that rising labor costs in asia are encouraging many to bring work back home. work is what larry was looking for when he landed in a homeless shelter after 15 years of a checkered employment history. >> i wanted some kind of income. some kind of steady job. >> reporter: he found one at j.w., after a non-profit directed him to an industrial sewing class at the dunwoody college of technology. the program was designed at the urging of a manufacturing group, known as the makers coalition it promotes the trade of industrial sewing and hires apprentices. >> companies didn't want to focus on training, they wanted to focus on being productive. >> reporter: the six-month course costs just over $4200. the course launched last year, but only after regional firms it was decided would need 90 new hires over the next 6 to 18 months and more over the next seven years as retirement claims 50% of the work force. the first class hitting snags. the vice president saying th

david skorton weighs in as well on skills training versus traditional education. >> the vast majority of people are making a living doing fine in the country without a very advanced degree. >> the veteran administrator has spoken out nationally on campus suicide prevention. >> one year we had what we call a cluster, a suicide contagion. >> he is not just an ivory league president. musician. >> i had a chance to sit with billly joel. >> if that's not enough, in 2015, david skorton is set to take over the smithsonian institution, the world's largest museum and research center. not to worry if you are a fan of the black and white bear. >> we are the pandacam. >> i spoke to him at our studios in new york. >> for all of the ills in society and the economy, education, when done well in america is done really, really well. at universities like yours, you are seeing applicants each year more and more from other places who want to come to america because america does higher education the best. what's your take on it? >> first of all, i would like to think about education as a spectrum from ear

>> yes, people are under emptied taking a job as lessee skill to put food on the table, and part timeand temporary, and a large population has given up, they are saying they are not going to participate in the workforce, with a record high. charles: that goes back to participation rate to late 70s it was going up, it is dynamics has never been this bad. >> the skills gap thing bothers me, get whole notion i don't' to flip burgers, i would rather collect a check, but why doesn't a burger joints say, in 6 months, i will reevaluate you, and maybe get a raise, highway abouhow about a training thing. >> more and more business doing that? >> they are at skill levels as well, a client at monster they are having a difficult time finding nurses, a hospital comes a nurse with their degree and license but they can't get to work because they are not trained, starting a training program. >> a research, 75% of people get new jobs through networking, most people in the force have been out of jobs, networking is gone they don't have that ability 5% get in threw a job fair, they can't get a job. >> ge

so absolutely you can teach leadership skills. i don't think you can teach leadership qualities, and so this program is going to -- i assume the committee is going to screen for people who have shown leadership qualities by the age of 35 or 50 or however old the people are going to be. anyway, i learned a lot from my dad. i'm very fortunate to have watched a great man, and matter of fact this book i'm writing, i'm marketing now -- [laughter] -- which i think will be out november 11th -- [laughter] >> it's a love story. this is going to irritate people in washington, i suspect, or some. because it's a love story. but it's a story about finding -- seeing somebody you admire and learning from them, and maybe this program will be able to do the same thing. and i learned a lot of lessons from being able to watch him throughout life. i suspect that people are going to be able to say when they finished this program, i learned a lot about leadership when i studied the presidencies of the four people that are associated with the program. >

so what that mean even though there's severe impacts on the skilled nursing facility which according to medical raven will have a 1ku7b8 adverse effect those are included from consideration. another example is the line impacts at the skilled nursing facility there's a private third floor open space terrace he that's those the only open space valued to the skilled nursing facilities that has balance problems this is the only open space the definition of wind impacts is used in the eir excludes ail private only public situations so this is another impact that i think really is a significant in the case of the skilled nursing facility but it is included from the draft of the eir. there are a number of other examples similar to this like the air quality and construction noise and pedestrian safety i'm not permitted by the time to go into the details i want to thank you for a considering all our comments >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is kathy i'm a resident of the seyauz next door to the proposed project at 14 geary street i'm the current president

now, it certainly is the case growing emphasis n the kinds of skills that students are graduating with. and we have put in place -- in i announce this last year that i asked all of the students evaluate ensively opportunities for creative ombinations of degrees, certificate, associates, masters degrees, so on. ast week, we announced a new program between our very highly ranked kelly school of business and sciencesf arts acceleratedovide an masters degree that will provide bachelor's degree in a field like economics, mathematics, so on. degree in masters business. so that's an accelerated process. one-year master's can be completely completed on-line. you can see how you can place, , go to the work and complete another master's on-line in obviously a very practical applied area of is a skill that always going to be marketed by our students. we're looking at things like that across the board at the institution. have a program already that provides a certificate of usiness on top of a variety of different bachelor's degrees as well. mindful. we have a responsibility to have to be concerne

so skills will be addressed in all schools. they're going to be some kids that need more support and a few kids that need our most intensive best effort. so not only do the interventions move from universal to more intensive support. it also, the expertise in the school should move from a more universal expertise to a more directive and specific support for students. the students that have the highest needs should get our best not if opposite. it's also important to look within the triangle that not every kid fits everywhere. it's not always a most intepsive need or not always in the universal. this is a young man. if you were to plot his progress in his academic and social life in school, you can see here he does real well with peer interactions and homework and cooperative play. he's pretty good with attendance. and his technology. his issues are with anger management and problem solving. so when you're looking at this kid, you would set up the delivery of the resources interventions and supporteds for this kid based on these

, management, self-regulation, executive function skills. the rethink curriculum provides caregivers, teachers and parents, with fundamental questions with questions and follows instructions. i worked at the y mca and worked with people with disabilities. these little skills help me build a better relationship with them. beyond differences is by active middle school and trains student how to create an inclusive learning environment for the peers. it's interesting to see the youth from the main population how they build relationships with the youth. it's great to see how much that school is advancing compared to some. so there are also peer to peer program at sf usc. it's a club i'm part of at balboa high school and washington and mission mission and everrett middle school. the one on one friendship between students with developmental disabilities with the goal of breaking barriers. this program empowers you to engage with one another to change the system so that there is justice for all students. lastly there is the wellness center program.

just as reporters of had to learn new skills, photographers, videographers, they have skills. their there is a place for the traditional photography. i am seeing the fusion of those skills. if you're passionate about telling stories and being able to convey emotion and capture the heart beat of the story, there is a place for you. good luck. >> he stole the thunder was my question. we're all here to get better at journalism and to learn what we can do with it and we are all looking for jobs. what does the job market look like to you? what can we be doing now to prepare for that? >> i am often on university campuses, different laces at different times. it has been interesting to hear students. , looking come in great, rick, i am ready to work for the des moines register. name the publication. that is great. why are you ready to work for me? >> i know social media. i know how to facebook. i have 575 followers on twitter. i can shoot video and edit and post it and i can take photos and build galleries. great.tell them, that's how do you develop sources that will tell you things t

many are saying they are providing opportunity, teaching skills and providing intangibles. what do you say to that? >> i don't believe that logic. i don't believe that people with with disabout itaboutwith disabilities are unemployable. it's looking at what they have and matching the job to a person with a disability rather than taking a set manufacturing job and saying no matter what your disability is you're going to do this particular job and if you can't do it well given your disability we're going to penleize you by paying you less than we would pay another person. another thing i'd like to point out and your viewer that tweeted really got right to the heart of this. this law takes an entire class of people and says because of a characteristic that you have you can get paid less. that's flat out discrimination. imagine if we did that with skin color or with any other characteristic. it's simply discrimination. nothing makes it okay for these workers not to have the same protections that every other american worker has. >> here's anna: riley anna anna: >> does 14c make

make sure people have the skills for those jobs. that's why we started with the bill, the skilled iowa program, why the lieutenant governor has led the efforts for s.t.e.m., science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and we're working with every high state andthe community colleges to train the jobs of the require knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and we want to make sure the workforce of the future in iowa has those skills. i'm going to continue to work on that every day. recently proposed a center for human capital which would coordinate what we're doing in economic development with our workforce development so that we the workforce with the skills for those jobs that can incomes and better provide for their families and to the economic well-being f our state -- of our state. >> senator hatch, in the 45 ournds we have remaining in first half hour, your reaction to that. >> well, it's interesting, the governor said he would like to he's done.hat the state doesn't have enough than just onere orsco

so absolutely you can teach leadership skills. i don't think you can teach leadership qualities, and so this program is going to -- i assume the committee is going to screen for people who have shown leadership qualities by the age of 35 or 50 or however old the people are going to be. anyway, i learned a lot from my dad. i'm very fortunate to have watched a great man, and matter of fact this book i'm writing, i'm marketing now -- [laughter] -- which i think will be out november 11th -- [laughter] >> it's a love story. this is going to irritate people in washington, i suspect, or some. because it's a love story. but it's a story about finding -- seeing somebody you admire and learning from them, and maybe this program will be able to do the same thing. and i learned a lot of lessons from being able to watch him throughout life. i suspect that people are going to be able to say when they finished this program, i learned a lot about leadership when i studied the presidencies of the four people that are associated with the program. >

acquire the skills -- i'm sorry, fourth, acquire the skills needed to intervene, but you can be motivated and you see something that is wrong and you want to do something and if you don't have the skills, you often don't act and fifth is take action. transgendered adults experience the most bullying from any groups. do we know any about this in terms of the violence? know the statistics in terms of teenagers facing violence and transgendered teenagers experience more violence? >> i think if you go to loveisrespect.org, they have a lot of stats. >> they had a party. it was like a scavenger hunt. we had to go find stuff. it wasn't like anything like that. the football players had one but it was other stuff. at practice, they had to run and clean up the cheer busses. junior mercy players had come with us. >> it sound like it to me. i am glad you pointed out how the scavenger hunt may or may not behave, it is how it happens makes it hazing. question.a skillsd acquiring the was key if you want to do something. where do you acquire that? are applying what has been learned in violence, especiall

absolutely you can teach leadership skills. don't think you can necessarily teach leadership qualities. so this program, i assume the committee is going to screen for people who have shown leadership qualities by the age of 35 or 50 or however old people are going today. i learned a lot from my dad. i am very fortunate to have watched a great man and as a matter of fact this book i'm writing, marketing it now, which i think will be november the 11th. [laughter] it's a love story. this is going to irritate people in washington i suspect, or some because it's a love story. but it's a story about seeing someone you admire and learning from them and maybe this program will do the same thing. i have learned a lot of lessons from being able to watch them throughout life but i suspect that people are going to be able to say when they finish this program i learned a lot about leadership when i study the presidencies of the four people associated with the program. >> mr. president you clearly absorbed a lot of lessons from 41. i'm assum

they'll tell you they desperately need more people with skills. working hand-in-hand with them to train people in those construction, trades jobs. those are good careers. and we want to have more of them in iowa. hatch, 45 seconds. >> thank you. we're talking about the possibility over the next four to six years of an economic opportunity explosion in jobs. do it if we're going to put all of our eggs in the basket of large cooperations -- corporations and large projects. then you will have an inability to attract the workers to do the job in construction. on ise're going to focus in small business. in small business, i want to tom's -- southeast iowa's vision, when he brought seamen, anheuser-busch, when he widened highway 34 and the avenue developed of the saints. that's what's going to create southeastunities in iowa and all over the state, by our ability to focus on developing job opportunities for small businesses in the state. >> let's move now to the topic of minimum wage. danielle has a question for senator hatch. in youror hatch, campaign,

if you work in the office you get skills. yesterday we had a guest speaker talking about how important it was for a secretary to have the skills reading the facial expressions of the visitors that come to me whether. i don't think you are in the right quadrant. so the first one, and you can see the title. too many roles, not enough feelings. i am a big proponent. i broke every rule that there was. and while rules may be important to marbles for physical safety, what do we do for emotional safety, to create a healthy, emotional climate. what we do is start off with feelings and as people first how do you want to feel, the feelings that you want to have and use that as the driver for the behaviors. what does that look like? if you want to phil supportive. these are examples. as core they want to feel respected, important. this is a fifth grade classroom. included in confident. safe and supportive. this is a school that works in spanish. we want to feel happy, respected, and loved. they want to feel loved. the second is called t

barista, skills and baking skills and career training and then transition them into collaborative efforts with a non-profit partner, utilizing that school and would like the cafe to be in it the sheriff's department building that focuses on services for women. so that they could move from training in-custody to training out of custody, to real linkages with jobs. our next steps here are to tight-end a find a community partner to collaborate with us. so this concludes my review of the findings and recommendations. i would be happy to answer questions. >> we have no questions at this time. >> thank you. >> is there a representative from the department of human resources to respond to components? okay. come forward, please. >> good afternoon. chair greed, commissioner tang, i'm susan guard and this is my colleague peggy sugerman. >> thank you. >> would you like to address -- would you like us to address the issues in the report? >> yes, please. >> great. so one of the findings from the report states that more than 50 deputies are present ly out on disability and this results in overtime cost

again, it's not a matter of teaching skills. that will be a part of it. they have to learn the practical skills. they will receive a more in depth formation. there's two sides of it. one is it has an emphasis on music. the sacred music and tapping into the great treasures we have in our tradition. >> you yourself in a music person? >> yes. >> you're an accomplish ed musician and many people don't know that. >> i was once. not anymore. >> not 8 hours a day anymore. >> no. but helping people to understand how to use that music well and how it's not just music to be added on. how important it is though. another side is formation for people who exercise other roles, coordinators, all that. the idea is that they -- it's not just simply a matter of having skills. they need to know how to announce words properly and project. that will be a part of it. they need to understand bible history and theology. >> the very context. >> what was going on in this life to understand how they were persecuted for standing for god's truth by his own people. >> that's wonderful.

other skills. so fuse is yet another example after platform that can be scaled up to engage large numbers of youth in stem or steam fields. for industry partners, pot modular format that you see here and focus out of school time learning is often more appealing than inschool curriculum that can be very school and bureaucratic. the disem nation network, offered to use at growing network of 17 sites around the chicago metro area. rs so to wrap up, my key message today is that what has been missing from the recent discussions of federal stem policy is a recognition of the importance of creating robust dissemination mechanisms. the to support the sustainability of high quality testimony education programs vel woepd either federal or private sector support. >> to really engage students with high quality stem education, we need the leadership and support of both the federal government andbçasd private sector to create distribution platforms like the itunes app store or android play store for smart phones

bring your exceptional medical and health care skills to the veterans health administration.merica's heroes need you. join the conversation at #workatva or visit vacareers.va.gov >>> charles? >> the housic market will come back. i like democratic r horton. >> adam? >> gm, neil, despite some appearances, the automaker will be around for a long time. >> ben? s.p.y., go with the indexes, you can almost never beat them. just go for it. longer term, you like this market. >> longer term, your lifetime yes, my lifetime maybe no. >> oh, stop. it continues now. >>> hit i isis and putin where it hurts while helping americans here at home. pump more oil in the united states and export it overseas to push down energy prices eve everywhere. ronald reagan did something similar to that. would it work again? >>> welcome to "forbes in focus." sabrina, does it sound like a good idea? >> it sure does. not only would it bring the cost of oil down here at home, but putin's regime is largely made up of income from his oil and

i don't think we have to preach the gospel, education changes lives more educated people, higher skills, more prosperous economy. what we've got to do is get out and not only talk about that gospel but implement it on the ground so we are changing children's lives. and whilst a lot of progress has been made and we should be congratulating ourselves for that, more has to be done. i'm gad to chair, and to make a difference for the children who are still out of school and the children who are in school that the quality of their learning isn't really high enough. they are not coming out of school being able to read or right or do math. >> what is the impediment? >> the aid effort, the amount of aid money going into education go backwards by more than 6%. i think that's a very concerning statistic. when we know we're going to to make sustainable change, the glop global partnership for education, has made a real different will be out and about knockinknocking on doors in comg months as we move towards our replenishment round to try to galvanize more effort into education. i think there has be

skills. and we're working hand in hand with them to train people so we have more iowans with those jobs. those are good careers. and we want to have more of them in iowa. >> senator hatch, 45 seconds. >> thank you. we're talking about the possibility over the next four to six years of an economic opportunity explosion in jobs. but we don't do it if we're going to put all of our eggs in the basket of large corporations and large projects. then you will have an inability to attract the workers to do the job in the construction. what we're going to focus on is on small business. on small business, i want to vilsacksoutheast iowa's return to tom vilsack's southeast iowa's vision, when tom brought in seamens and anheuser-busch, when he widened highway 34 and he created and developed the avenue of the saints. that's what's going to create the opportunities in southeast iowa and all over the state, by our ability to focus on developing job opportunities for small businesses in this state. >> let's m

that gave less skilled workers bargaining power.y idea and my response to you would be that probably in china they got a really prosperous economy. it's really going gangbusters. >> keep in mind though that the minimum wage was enacted to keep evil honors from only paying the minimum wage so you are even admitting now factory owners don't have to have a minimum-wage to pay a market wage. >> the minimum wages too low and if you triple the minimum wage in china they would start to look more like -- i guess. >> suppose the minimum wage is $10.10 an hour and they were students at my university that enjoy getting internships and companies to get the experience, unpaid internships and there are a lot of people who want to do volunteer work. maybe they want to volunteer for politicians campaign. should these two things be illegal because they are below the minimum wage and if they are illegal what would you have them do with within? would you have them put them in jail instead? >> to him, right? >> both can answer it. >> do you want to go

clearly some of the issues with finding skilled workers is wa z wages. i'm sure in some cases they have tried to raise wages and it still hasn't worked, so the question is who is going to be training them? >> i was going to say that we'll be talking with someone from the me american trucking association later on about exactly that topic. there is a shortage now of truck drivers, will be an even bigger short aage later on which means ka-ching. an ability to make more money. >>> auto sales were, contrary to some expectations, up. will they continue to be a bright spot in the economy or will a little air be let out of that momentum? >> i think we'll see them remain at the current level or maybe even a little bit higher this year, mandy. by the way, within the next hour or so, we should get the sales pace for monthly auto sales and it could be over 17 million for the first time since july of 2006. here's the reason why. when you look at the major automakers, all of them reported better than ever sales in the past month, but nissan, toyota, ford, even gm, tha

the majority of the people are low skill workers who compete with our own low skilled american workersave a responsibility not to torpedo the employment chances and life chances who have enough difficulty in dealing with the dislocations of globalization. >> this is a zero sub world we hear from politicians all of the time. the immigrant takes a job. >> it is ridiculous. immigrants produce jobs. they create prosperity. they have seen it historically that's one of the reasons the united states surpassed the world in the 19th century in terms of economic prosperity. we should be embracing them not ostracizing them. >> nah jacob and mark. to comment you can go to facebook we would like to know what you think. >> next a simple cure for much of our immigration problems and the violent crime. a cure so sensible even usually clueless clinton administration and secretary understands it. >> they are coming from central america are not coming for no reason. >> right. >> more when we come back. [ breathing deeply ] [ inhales deeply ] [ sighs ] [ inhales ] [ male announcer ] at cvs health, we took

we are always kind of feeling good about the person in america >> there is the skills gap.do something about it creating a computer program. creating new talent. you and far between. charles: although i bet the people who qualify for the training have to have some sort of skills to begin with. >> i do not think that i can get a job and mild company right now you're my lack of computer skills a little self awareness issue. charles: there was a rumor that chanel was releasing a new product called the urban tied can't really just add to iraq for those who are unfamiliar people were shocked. the contour and fashion industry would try capitalized. even though it was a rubber, the fact that it was floating around was interesting to me. you know, upon further review. maybe if they did come out with something like this that you probably just two or 300 selig. what does that say about us? >> is says that we are obsessed with labels like the rest of the world. something has a fancy label on it. but just to clarify, backstage at the fashion show. the person was trying to the mat down

our veterans have some skills and they need other skills. there was another bill in the legislature that brad ashford could have pushed providing workforce training and skills for veterans but he wouldn't allow it. >> i think mr. ashford, you're up. >> i sup sorted job training bills in the legislature. i pushed vocational -- 21st century vocational education. i have supported certainly training for veterans and disabled veterans. we passed a bill in 2014 to do that. the bill that lee is talking about talked about giving further resources directly to employers. i wanted to see the money go for training directly to our veterans. but let me say this about the question. i think that we need to unleash our economy. we have spent now at least in congress for 14 years we have not had corporate tax reform in 14 years. we have to bring the $2 trillion that is located outside of the united states, it's lodged outside of the united states, bring it back to america, get our country moving again. >> do you want to comment on the corporate tax reform? >>

we have good job, and we can't find people with the right skills.at's where skilled iowa and investments in engineering and math for our students prepare them for our jobs. i'm proud of the fact that today, the unemployment tax rate is iowa is going down again in january for the fourth year in a row. this also makes iowa more competitive for business and jobs. in missouri, they're still in debt to the federal government in the unemployment tax fund. >> governor, thank you. senator, 45 seconds. >> thank you. it is clear that the top down approach that governor branstad has been following where des moines picks winners and loser is the wrong approach to use when recovering from a recession. our proposal is from the community up. our proposal is to ensure that local communities, stakeholders, city council, boards of supervisors have a chance to identify and empower their communities to get engaged and to value their own dollars and to be able to have an opportunity to leverage local dollars with state dollars. i think it's wrong to be able to say it's

so how are you magic skills?t will be magic. >> paper clips and a dollar bill. >> who doesn't get excited of the fact that money is involved in a magic trick no matter how old you are. this is one of the tricks we teach in the program. take the bill, followed is just past george washington's face and the first paper christian is on top of the number one. and then fold it backwards and this tunnel that is formed, put the second paper clip inside the tunnel. so one paper clip on this side and one on the side and they dope touch. when you grab the two top corners of the bill and pull, the paperclips jump up in$é the air and stick it to. it's million. you're working on kids' motor skills, they have to handle all the paper clips and then working on the processing, the sequencing of off ol' those steps, and then once you learn the trick, you want to show it to somebody. million doesn't work in a vacuum. for kids on the spectrum who don't have these natural occurring opportunities to engage in conversation, once you int

to attract capital or investment or economic visi activity if they can't offer workforce with the skills to do the jobs. which is why educating the population will help to attract that economic activity, and then in the lives of individuals will mean there is a pathway beyond schooling into something that pays well and helps to create a better life. >> is there enough of an effective dialogue between that very posh conference room in the ministry and the village where they're deciding whether or not to let their girl continue past primary school, whether or not they are thinking together to help their children. >> a developing country has to bring together everyone who has a stake in education, develop an education sector plan that everybody is buying in to, and they've got to be lifting their own efforts as well. and the global partnership for education has enjoyed success in that in the countries where we've worked. what you see as the amount of money going into education. it's share increases by 10% of gdp. now that's a fantastic achievement not only have you got donor funds but local

have this type of programming and being able to educate young people on sfpuc services and provide skill building and opportunities for them and really expose them to career exploration opportunities at the puc. for us we see these young people as the next generation as environmental stewards as they know we have a combined system. it matters what you put in your drain and down your toilet and that type of thing because they are the proctors of the system and we see them as the next generation of the rate payers. the second strategy was really focused on us being able to diversify puc pipeline by exposing them to job skills at the puc. you may know there are utilities throughout the country that are having conversations right now around the challenge or opportunities depending on how you look at it, at the puc alone in the next five 5 years over 40 percent of our workforce will be eligible for retirement which makes sense when you think about it on the wastewater side that a lot of those employees came in around the clean water act. if you look across the country they are all talking chi

make sure people have the skills for those jobs. that's why we started with the bill, the skilled iowa program, why the lieutenant governor has led the efforts for s.t.e.m., science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and we're working with every high state andthe community colleges to train the jobs of the require knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and we want to make sure the workforce of the future in iowa has those skills. i'm going to continue to work on that every day. recently proposed a center for human capital which would coordinate what we're doing in economic development with our workforce development so that we the workforce with the skills for those jobs that can incomes and better provide for their families and to the economic well-being f our state -- of our state. >> senator hatch, in the 45 ournds we have remaining in first half hour, your reaction to that. >> well, it's interesting, the governor said he would like to he's done.hat the state doesn't have enough than just onere orsco

>> a vocational program might give you skills to have a job, but it's not gonna give you skills to have> joe bergamini is in prison because he took a life, his own mother's. >> "that thomas jefferson..." >> reshawn hughes shot and killed a man. he was far from being college material. how much education had you had before you were incarcerated? >> actually, i'd never read a book until i came to prison. >> you'd never read a book. >> never read a book. >> now he says he hopes to continue his education until he gets his phd. >> "to educate citizens about liberty." >> by 2007, wes caines had already served 17 years for taking part in a shoot-out in which one man was killed and another was seriously injured. he knows how lucky he is to be getting an elite education from bard. >> they made an investment in people that society had written off and people who even today feel that we shouldn't have this opportunity. >> not every prisoner gets the opportunity. only about 10% of the inmates who apply to the college program are accepted. prison life can be so routine and depressing, it's no wonder t

other skills. so fuse is yet another example after platform that can be scaled up to engage large numbers of youth in stem or steam fields. for industry partners, pot modular format that you see here and focus out of school time learning is often more appealing than inschool curriculum that can be very school and bureaucratic. the disem nation network, offered to use at growing network of 17 sites around the chicago metro area. rs so to wrap up, my key message today is that what has been missing from the recent discussions of federal stem policy is a recognition of the importance of creating robust dissemination mechanisms. the to support the sustainability of high quality testimony education programs vel woepd either federal or private sector support. >> to really engage students with high quality stem education, we need the leadership and support of both the federal government andbçasd private sector to create distribution platforms like the itunes app store or android play store for smart phones