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Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m.

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. more

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I'm trying to give serious consideration to the voices and stories of young African Americans, who are facing all kinds of challenges.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Lauren WindsorLauren Windsor is the executive producer of The Undercurrent, a grassroots political news program on The Young Turks Network, and the creative director of American Family Voices, a progressive non-profit focusing on banking and campaign finance reform.

SARANAC LAKE — Young voices, American Indian voices, science and silent words drawn across protest signs delivered messages of concern and hope at the Adirondack Climate Coalition march here last week.

Standard practice, endorsed by the Red Book of the American Association of University Professors, still tends to give disciplinary departments the loudest voice in the debate over whether a young scholar gets lifetime employment — or is fired

Standard practice, endorsed by the Red Book of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), still tends to give disciplinary departments the loudest voice in the debate over whether a young scholar gets lifetime employment — or is fired.

As luck would have it, the flower falls into the hands of Mary Smith (voiced by Ruby Barnhill in the English - dubbed version opening in North American theaters), who is no witch at all but rather a rosy - cheeked young girl with an unruly mop of red hair and an appealing blend of spunk and sweetness.

After starring, using only her voice, as Joaquin Phoenix's sexy cellphone lover in Her, and as a man - eating alien without a conscience in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, she now brings it all together in Luc Besson's ridiculous, incoherent but pretty entertaining Lucy, as a hard - partying young American exchange student in Taiwan who, thanks to a drug overdose, becomes God.

Additional guest voice cast includes celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Alton Brown as cooking competition participant Bolton Gramercy and host Yum Laboughé, respectively; Daniel Henney («Criminal Minds») and James Cromwell («The Young Pope») reprise their feature film roles as Hiro's brother Tadashi and Professor Callaghan, respectively; Susan Sullivan («Castle») as Fred's mother; John Michael Higgins («Pitch Perfect») as Fred's sidekick robot Mini-Max; Diedrich Bader («American Housewife») as pompous local TV reporter Bluff Dunder; Sean Giambrone («The Goldbergs») as Fred's geeky archrival Richardson Mole; Naoko Mori («Mamma Mia!

Slow, not terribly interested in lore or internal logic, and fatally hamstrung by the choice of actors like Billy Crystal and a zombified Emily Mortimer to voice its American dub, it's a regression for Miyazaki from his last two films (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away) in almost every sense, starting with his decision to have a lonely young woman as the central character in place of the prepubescent little girls front and centre in most of his masterpieces (the last two films, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and My Neighbor Totoro) and ending with a gross simplification of his usually complex themes of confidence and actualization into a colourless, flavourless drone about the hard - to - dispute badness of war.

Civic Enterprises collaborates with organizations that are part of the National Service Alliance, including The Franklin Project, the National Conference on Citizenship, Voices for National Service, and ServiceNation, to advance the idea that all young Americans should commit to a year of full - time national service.

Through twenty - four sonnets, two Connecticut poets imagine the voices of selected «Little Misses of Color» to tell the courageous story of Prudence Crandall, who opened her nineteenth century academy to young African American women.

In a recent episode of his absorbing podcast, «Revisionist History,» cultural critic Malcolm Gladwell interrogates a statue modeled after a news photograph of a confrontation in 1963 between a police officer with a dog and a young black boy in Birmingham, Alabama.1 Made by African American sculptor Dr. Ronald McDowell, The Foot Soldier (1995) is far more horrific than the photo, Gladwell convincingly argues, because it bears an added imaginative potency: the narrative is told by a traditionally silenced voice, and for Gladwell this «is just what happens when the people on the bottom finally get the power to tell the story their way.»

Rachel Barge, a 24 - year - old entrepreneur from San Francisco, CA who was the first young person to raise her voice at the event, said afterwards that «These climate action delayers and science deniers are stealing bold, new economic opportunities from the American public.»

American Public Television has licensed the 11 Young Voices for the planet films as interstitials and two 1/2 hour TV programs — Cool Kids vs Warm Planet and Kids Lead the Way — compilations of the Young Voices for the Planet films.

The Young Voices for the Planet films will reach an estimated 11 million viewers nationwide through distribution by American Public Television.

Civic Enterprises collaborates with organizations that are part of the National Service Alliance, including The Franklin Project, the National Conference on Citizenship, Voices for National Service, and ServiceNation, to advance the idea that all young Americans should commit to a year of full - time national service.