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NEWS 88.7
"bob sanborn" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"Some or all of the last academic year in virtual classes. Well, that's still an option for some students this year. And for them. The first day of school is still a week away week from today. In fact, August 30th for the fall semester, H S D is offering the option of virtual instruction for students who are too young to be vaccinated. So that's ages. 11 and under And have a compromised immune system. The deadline for parents to apply for the academy and submit medical documentation to their schools. Is this coming Wednesday, August 25th. State funding is not being used for those virtual classes at HST, according to a press release from the district and HIV STI is changing how it is teaching these classes using staff members who are Dedicated to virtual learning so that uncut on campus teachers can focus on the kids in their classrooms. Focusing on kids in the classroom, whether it's a virtual classroom or brick and mortar. That's what it's all about, Of course in the school year, after all, these logistical concerns are addressed someone with that on his mind, along with all these parents and educators in the district and around greater Houston is Bob Sanborn. He's the president and CEO of Children at risk, and he joins us now, Bob welcome back to Houston matters. Thank you, Michael. Thanks for having me. Are you concerned about kids being able to learn this year? Amid all the concerns over covid and potential distractions that come with that? Yeah, You know, usually this is sort of an exciting time for parents, right? Sending the kids back to school. Being able to go back to work. And and I think that this is so unusual right? Because now parents are worried about the pandemic. But on top of that, what we found is that virtual learning for most of our kids last year really didn't work. Right. So a lot of kids most kids fell significantly behind. And so we have that on top of this. How are we going to catch up? And so for a parent. These are difficult choices. Right? You have you have the health worries. You have to go back to school worries, but I think it's pretty clear when we look at the data that kids most kids should be in school. The number of kids that have been successful virtually is a pretty small number. And so we're going to have to figure out right. I mean, we want our kids to be successful. We want them to Have this extraordinary academic success, but it didn't happen virtually and we have to get back in the classroom. And I think Michael, One of the bigger worries, of course, is are those youngest kids right? Because we know that High quality pre k high quality kindergarten. Uh, this is the foundation for for learning and for academic success, And so many kids, you know, didn't enroll from pre K. So many kids aren't coming back at those younger ages because of the worries of the parents. Do we know how behind many students? Most students, The typical student is coming back to school this year than they would have been if the pandemic hadn't happened. Mm. Yeah, I think that with the pandemic, we're estimating that most kids are about a year and a half or two years behind academically right? Because we know there's a lot of summer lost in general summer learning loss and with the pandemic, you know, going back to last March. March before last year. You know, we've had a lot of kids that are just not been in school are been significantly disengaged. So you have all these kids falling behind and what you see in our classrooms. You know, we're all tired of the pandemic. And so people just really want to get back to normal teachers, principals, superintendents, uh, and parents, most importantly, But what But we can't get back to normal because these kids are so far behind academically. So during this year, you're going to see teachers struggle to sort of keep up with these kids that are far behind because you know the rules in terms of where kids need to be are still in place. You're going to have the pressure from superintendents to get these kids up to speed and parents. You know, they're going to think their kids are way behind. Why are my kids getting bad grades because they're still being graded. Like where these kids should be. Had we not had dependent, so it's it's a difficult deal. Okay. Then what can parents teachers educators in general do to help kids catch up at the same time while learning what they've You've got to learn today. Yeah, I think I think two things need to happen. One is that we know that time on task, Right? The more academic time on task you spend the more you catch up. Which means you no longer school days or parents being more engaged in the learning of the kids. Uh, but on top of that, you you don't want kids to disengage and feel like their families. And so we're going to have to start figuring out ways to do this sort of in a fun way. So you know, after school programs like the boys and Girls, clubs and others are really engaged and trying to figure out how do we make this fun? At this artist school time. How do we make this fun for for kids, and I think that's what we're going to have to see. We're gonna have to see schools and after school programs and before school programs Figuring out how to do this academic time on task, but make it super engaging for kids and for parents. Bob Sanborn is the president and CEO of Children at risk, Bob, Thanks so much. Thank you, Michael. Still.
NEWS 88.7
"bob sanborn" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"Texas Family Leadership Council and Children at Risk will host an annual future of Children's summit focused on the root causes and common misconceptions about childhood poverty. Joining us now to tell us more is Bob Sanborn, president and CEO of Children at Risk, Bob, Welcome back to the program. Yeah, Craig, thanks that for having me you do the summit every year. What do you hope to come away from it each time. I think what we really want to do right is really raise awareness on what's happening with the majority of Children in the state of Texas. What we know is that while one in 10 Children born in the United States is born in the state of Texas, when we look at our school kids as an example, 60% of those kids are in families that are low income and about 25% are below the federal poverty level. So when we have this sort of level of poverty, and we want our state to develop economically, we have to figure out ways. Uh, that we can sort of raise the bar a little bit and make sure that these kids grew up in an environment where they are going to be able to participate in a vibrant economy and they won't have their own kids growing up in poverty. We were just talking with Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher and as she was walking out of the studio, and she heard me mention that we were you and I would be discussing this. She wanted to point out the Biden administrations added this temporary increase to child tax credit. What impact might that have? And that is a game changer in many ways for Texas families, and that could be basically cut in half the level of child poverty in our state, right. It's it's a little bit of income can sometimes have a dramatic impact on families. And so when we talk about how do we remedy child poverty, one of the things is, you know, how do we make sure that our parents are getting the income that that they need to have to make sure that our kids can grow up? Well, and and I think one of the things that we see in Texas Is that our parents are working poor in many ways, right? So we have a lot of parents. They're busy working. And so the very idea that it's just about making sure that people have jobs is not is not the sole answer. They need to have. Well paying jobs or else their kids are still raising, being raised in poverty. And the other thing that a lot of us don't often realize is that when when, when you're an employer, and you're paying low wage jobs? In a sense, the government is subsidizing you because those workers are still getting snap or food stamps. They're still getting benefits. And if they were just getting well paid jobs, they wouldn't be having these things and their kids wouldn't be raised in poverty. And so that the child tax credit, I think is really Important in terms of providing much needed extra income. But I think beyond that when we look at policy needs in the state of Texas, sort of the biggest bang for our public dollar Buck in some ways is early education, right? I used to be of the belief that it was all about making sure that our K through 12 schools, especially our high schools, we're not producing dropouts. But over time what I've become to realize what the research is clearly showing is that the more money we invest in early education, sort of this 0 to 4 and And canned and pre K and kindergarten. That's really the big bang for our buck. And it's one of the key tools. One of the silver bullets if you will in the fight against child poverty. We're talking about child poverty, with Bob Sanborn, president and CEO of Children at risk. Children at risk, along with the Texas Family Leadership Council or hosting an annual future of Children's summit on July 21st. What are some of the common misconceptions out there that people have about childhood poverty? You know, I was a child that grew up in poverty, and I think one of the key things that we often think about is that it's this is one of our ways to sort of pull yourself up by your bootstraps, right? And what we what we need to realize. Is that our community, our schools, Uh Our parents play a really big role and making sure that a child can be successful, making sure that a child grows up and out of child poverty. And so one of the misconceptions, though, is that it's just all about that grich. Is that child able to do it when, indeed it's so important that we have policy solutions and when we look around the world, and when we look around the United States that states that have done and countries that have done a better job in this fight against poverty, it's been policies right early education policies. Better pay policies. Good schools. Those are all things that happen dramatic impact on outcomes with kids. There's always going to be a few kids that are out liars and that do really well and we celebrate those kids that they're they've been able to pull themselves out. But what we need to have is a system that makes sure that every child has an even chance at being successful. Not just a few of the outliers is this problem roughly the same here in Houston. And across Texas as it is in the rest of the country. Are there different circumstances here? Yeah, that's a That's a great question, because one of the things I'll often talk about is that we have the 10th highest level of child poverty in the United States here in Texas. Yet when we look at sort of those other groups, other states that are in that group. We are by far the wealthiest state. And here we have this wealthy state a great economy, Yet we have this high number of kids. That are growing up a child poverty, So we do far less than other places in terms of ending this child poverty we've seen, You know, Despite this wacky legislative session we've had There's been a lot of victories around early education, and we've been able to sort of in this state make early education of bipartisan issue. Republicans and Democrats alike want to make sure that our kids can be successful, and that's been a step in the right direction. But still we see a lot of inequity in our schools in general, uh, And health. You know, there's so much inequity in the state of Texas around health, and I think that's a key issue for us, and we see food insecurity still is a big deal. It's still you know, we passed a piece of legislation a couple years ago to mandate that any school that had a high number of low income kids had to have free breakfast. We still see school system skirting around this and not doing everything possible. To get kids a good breakfast so there to be to be number 10 in the nation and child poverty in this wealthy state. It's almost a shame. But what it means for us, though, is that all of us as child advocates need to work harder to make sure people understand that we're talking about our future when we talk about child poverty, and we're talking about the future of Texas, the Texas Family Leadership Council and Children at Risk hosts the annual Future of Children's summit. July 21st. Dr Robert Sanborn is Children at risks. President and CEO Bob Thank you very much. Thank you. Correct very much. Still.
WBAP 820AM
"bob sanborn" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Of rain this evening. We'll see a high today in the mid sixties of showers could be severe overnight showers and thunderstorms likely on Monday morning, gradually clearing the rest of the day with a high B in the upper sixties. It is 52 degrees now at DFW Airport. Health leaders are discussing how the cove in 19 vaccine rollout is going in North Texas in the coming months. DFW is expected to receive more allotments of the vaccine, and it will be distributed to more residents. However, Dr Bob Sam, born president and CEO of Children at Risk, says they're still many North Texans who are hesitant to get the vaccine. In Dallas County. Less than 3% of the population over 16 has received that vaccines. 97% of Dallas County is unprotected Terry County, the same three only 3% 97% unprotected When we look at what's going on, we know that Texas is my largest doing well compared to other states. But for those that are waiting in line for those that are worried about this vaccine. We're all anxious and we want Texas to do is good a job as possible. We know that their moms and dads and health care workers on many others that are coming forward and many that are hesitant to come forward because of the current climate around immigration, because they maybe don't have health insurance, But there's significant portions of our population. That are very hesitant. When we looked at a recent survey, which Doctor McClendon, we'll talk about it in a little bit, we saw that in Dallas County 36% of the population said that they were very likely to take the vaccine in Tarrant County. That number was 37% just a little bit higher. But overall what this means is that Over 60% in the North Texas area and the D FW area are either somewhat hesitant or very hesitant to take this vaccine, eh? So we need a better long term plan. We know that this is going to take awhile to vaccinate everybody. This will be going out over the next year. But we need to start developing plans for those people that aren't clamoring like they are right now to get vaccinated. Significant part of our population is a little worried, and we need to make sure that we are able to get to them and give them that right message when we look at hesitant populations right now we know that the African American population has been hesitant that may be changing a little bit, but still hesitant. The Latino population hesitant new immigrant populations, because, as I mentioned this immigration climate, we know that there's some hesitancy there. But one of their is that I'm most concerned with. Are those without health care insurance. We know that Texas leads the nation in adults without health insurance. And so when we have so many people without health insurance, and that's a population that is a little hesitant about this vaccine. We're gonna have to do something to overcome this hesitancy because this is a large portion of our state. We want a plan of action that not only is get your act together and do everything possible, but it's figuring out who's gonna need this vaccine and how they're going to need this vaccine. We need to look at the data. We need to do focus groups. We need to figure out how do we create an individual and unique message for individual and unique populations within our state. We need to make sure that for to understand that 4% out of 100% is not going to do but neither is 37 or 36% out of 100% going to do We need to make sure that to get to this herd immunity we're talking about significant portions, 70 80 or 90% of our population that needs to be immunized so that we could really in the end conquered covert 19. We also need to make sure that we have a state and the state government that doesn't politicize what's going on and that we focus on the health aspect. We understand that we need developed rules. We need to develop policies. We need to have an overall view of this that we're going after equity that everyone on the front lines guess it. But over time everyone has access to it. Everyone in our state We want to get our vibrant economy up and going again and work to do that. I need to make sure that everyone gets vaccinated. And that's one of the reasons we're here today to talk about. How do we get together? And how do we make sure that all of those that are hesitant are able to say, Hey, this is how we do it, and I'm feeling pretty good about it. We need to create those unique messages. So let me start with Alison when Iggy from the immunization partnership. Alison, what's your take on all of this? Well, many Texans have lost trust in our public health officials in our politicians because we've heard months of mixed messages from all levels of government that have confused the public damage, credibility and really allowed fear and misinformation to spread. But Covad 19 vaccines are the best tool. We have to end the pandemic and return to life and let me be clear. Getting a cove in 19 vaccine will save your life are Fizer and Madonna. Vaccines are about 95% effective after receiving both doses, and they're essentially 100% effective in preventing you from contracting a serious case of the Corona virus. But American medical expert SE. We need at least 70% of Texans vaccinated, but probably it could be up to 94% of Texans vaccinated just to end the pandemic and return to our lives. But with these problems with trust, messaging, vaccine, availability, distribution and access these air these air real hurdles that we need to address and at the local level because there's been a lot of passing the buck. And unfortunately it's our local communities that are paying the price. This is why we need to rely on partners like the immunization partnership, Children at risk and all of our North Texas partners to fill those gaps. We need to assess communities that have High Cove in 19 Community vulnerability indexes, which includes things like social vulnerability and high risk populations. And our collaborative needs local North Texas foundations to step up and help support US craft tailored messages to local residents who may be skeptical or concerned about getting the vaccine so that they can receive trusted accurate information about how getting a covert 19 vaccine will save their lives and protect their families. Was Bucker. Bob Sanborn, president and CEO of Children at Risk, and Alison were Nikki, president and CEO of the immunization project, addressing how North Texans can feel better about the covert 19 back, See, it is a 7 29 W. BPI After checking traffic and weather, more news and sports, and Dennis Martin,.