Harris on Florida Ed Standards, Ukrainian Grain, Remembering Tony Bennett
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First, president Harris criticises floria education officials for their new social study standards.

The standards includes some dubious conclusions about the legacy of slavery. I'm Scott tim. Am I jasko? And this is up first from M. P. R. news.

The U. N warns that russian attacks on ukrainian an imports could spread hunger around the world.

Russia is simply using the black sea as black mail, is playing political games, is holding humanity hostage.

That's as the kremlin refuses to renew a deal on grain exports and .

the world loses. The legendary tony ben.

I get to interview you, Scott, about that.

Yes, I I got to help tony write his life story.

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education standards and florida are the objections from teachers, state legislators and now the life president into the united states.

Commoner here is traveled to Jackson view to speak before a packed audience yesterday.

Daniel prior, with member station W. M, F. Orlando, o. Was there. Daniel, thanks for being with us.

Things for having me.

and please tell us about the .

vice president speech. sure. So Harris called the new standards gas late, especially thinking about the history and the horse of slavery.

that anyone could suggest that in the of these atrocities .

that there was .

any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization and SHE also .

called the standards misleading, fake propaganda and SHE liking them to people that minimize the history of the holocaust's japanese and terminate camps, or how native people have been treated by the U. S. government.

Didn't nearly the state board of education meeting this week where the new standards were proved, tell us about that made in place?

So dozens of people spoke, teachers and students and parents and advocates, and they spoke for over an hour, mostly an opposition to those standards. But then, of course, the board, when ahead and adopt of the standards, most people who spoke out against them say that they White wash american history. And I want to read you the two standards that most people are taking issue with.

The first is a middle school standard. And that requires students to learn about, quote, how slaves develop skills, which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. Unsurprisingly, that's the lying everyone's talking about this week.

But there is another standard, a high school standard, where the older kids would have to be taught. You know, in instances like the tota massacre that that violence was perpetrated both quote against and by african americans. And of we know that's not the case.

During the tall sama sacre, IT was black residents who were killed in large numbers and their property destroyed. And you know, the board, Justin general says that the standards are comprehensive and they covered red, the good, the bad and the ugly of african american history. But they are theyve been appointed by our governor and have a very specific agenda.

And governor decentish is running for president, and he reversed to have in an antioqueno a what what else does this potentially mean for education in florida?

So we've had a slow of laws um that have a started july first here in florida, the big ones. We've expanded the parental rights and education law which people outside floria probably no is don't say gay. And under that teachers can now lose their certification if they talk to kids and pretty much any grade about gender identity or sexuality.

They can lose their certification if they use the child's preferred pronounce or let a kid use the bathroom that are lines with under identity. And then for school media specialists, we have new laws that may get a lot easier to chAllenge books. So they're gna be facing a lot of books bands in the coming school year.

Then you know what? What could be a head next in florida for teacher's parents and students?

sure. So right now it's summer break and the kids don't go back to school for a few weeks yet, but in August will be watching to see what the impact of all of these different laws are for now. It's interesting to see the impact on the teacher shortage here in florida um last january, halfway through the year, we had more than five thousand open teaching positions halfway through the year, still that hadn't been filled.

And the end of last school year saw hundreds of teachers resign here in central florida over these laws. So it's going to be interesting to kind of watch not just the teacher shortage, but the impact of these laws and their school districts being sued right now by parents and authors over book band. So a lot happening here in florida in terms of education .

and your prior W M F or landa. Thanks so much for being with this.

Thank you.

Russian bombs wednesday destroyed sixty thousand terms of grain just south of the port city of odessa.

That's enough grain. Defeat two hundred and seventy thousand people for a year.

On thursday, IT happened again. Here's the U. S. Top humAnitary arian official.

Martin griffe. So the humAnitary ataturk py that continues to unfold in ukraine to reverberate around the world and IT must end in po mell kellman joices. Michelle, thanks for being with us. How there's cott can you and do anything to try and revive this deal to keep Green flowing?

Well, I mean, they are certainly encouraging russia to return to the deal, which is known as the black y grain initiative. But so far, russia shows no sign that it's gonna back down. You know, IT complains that the U.

N. And turkey, which also helped negotiate this deal, didn't do enough to make sure that russia can export its goods. The russians complain about U.

S. And western sanctions, not on food actually, but on banks. They say that it's making IT more difficult for them to finance this trade and to get insurance. And they say they want that resolve first.

What to the us. response? Yeah, I mean.

the U. S. Says rush is lying about this.

Here's what ambassador in the time is. Greenfield told the U. N. Security council .

they would have you believe that have blocked their exports. That couldn't be further from the truth. They were exporting more grains than ever before and at higher Prices. Russia is simply using the black sea as blackmail, is playing political games, is holding humanity hostage.

Time is Green field doc says the U. S. Believes that russia has laid sea mines near ukrainian imports and might be planning what SHE is calling a false flag to justify attacks on ukrainian shipment.

And you know that that's been one of the by administration strategies throughout this war. They declassify information to show the world what russia might do. The hope is that that will deter russia from taking such actions, or at least convince other countries to use their influence with russia to back down. Well.

how much that work is? Is there anything the U. N. Or the U. S. Can do to protect your grain? Ian, food shipments right now?

Right now, they're just trying to get this deal back on track, secretary of state entity blinkin says the U. S. Is talking to Alice about other possible routes for ukrainian agricultural goods. But that also not easy, as he pointed out of the asp security conference.

I think it's very, very difficult for the shippers, for the insures. Given the threats more than the threats, the action, the rush is taken over the last few days, I would be very hard Operating an environment. That's why we are looking for alternative. We are looking for options. I just don't think .

we can make up the voice. Some analysts are even suggested that nato start escorting ukrainian ships, but blinking was asked about that. He didn't directly respond to IT, but he also didn't give any indication that that's really being considered.

Is Michelle kelman?

Thanks so much. Thank you.

Tony bennet has died at the age of ninety six.

All the good life follow one seems to be the ideal. and.

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The best is yet to come, come the day of my .

only bit, ying, with lyrical scale, enjoy. During a rear that lasted more than eighty.

His songs made up the soundtrack for the lives of mini grandparents and parents of our listeners.

And with the duet albums that he made up with last decade or so, with contemporary artist tony bennet became an enduring star all over a year.

So Scott, I told you I was going to interview you for this one. You go wrote book with tony, been at his member just getting started. IT was released when he was just turning ninety a few years ago. How did that come about?

Don't you had read a couple of memories i'd written? He knew I was from a show business family had even worked at a couple of clubs in chicago where my parents said, and I interviewed him, and we and we felt to think a kinship but her to say, we had lunch in new york. I said, this is a wonderful project, but i've never written a book with a coauthor before. And tony said, her kid, I know just how you feel hold the time I didn't take up billion IT was with a do galling and and franca tra and I said, well, OK in that case I D be pleased to do IT and take second Billy.

yeah I mean, how can how can you refuse with that like with an offer like that?

Yeah, yeah, I certainly couldn't.

He, he always came across like as just a very gracious man and public like, what what was IT like spending time with them.

He really felt that you were in the presence of a true, not just a true gentlemen, but a gentleman. L, lots of funny stories, but never really put a villain in the course. He was famously from queen's immigrant italian family.

Mother assumed to his father died when he was about nine. And tony, all we said that he was the love of his family that gave him a clear direction, encouragement and really a sense of purpose in life. And now this is what he told her colleague, rob and Young, on here. And now, a few years ago.

IT was just a moment in my life at ten years old when I just said, who am I? Is anybody ever gona know who I am? I was wondering who I was, but IT was my relatives that told me who I was. They said, you're a singer and you're a painter. And boy, that did IT because I said that that's who I am.

You you talked about him being a good storyteller. Uh, he was also uh, very strong, ardent supporter of the civil rights movement. What did he tell you about that?

You had a wonderful story about the time the doctor king and herry belfont asked him to do benefit for civil rights marchers along the jefferson David's highway to silva. They performed with Billy x nine. They couldn't put up a stage because alabama lot didn't permit of a stage for a show with an integrated audience.

So they had to put together eighteen caskets from a local molestation, you know? And tony felt very strong sense of connection to the civil rights vem. He was from an immigrant family that had felt the sting of discrimination.

The music he loved and created was performed by many black musicians who were his friends as co creators, as coarse st. He endue Kelly ton opened to miami hotel in the midst sixties. At the time, the hotel owners were willing to hire due kellington, but he couldn't stay in the hotel, and tony told me the story about how dux manager got the best week in the hotel under his name. And and later that night, duke moved in. They, they had their ways .

of maneuvering, you know, got, I gotta put you on the spot here. Tony bit had an amazing catoche of songs, but if you had to pick one that you think everyone should listen to this weekend, what would IT be? Um I thought .

a lot about that. I'm going to recommend one song with two different body and soul. Here's his version in one thousand and eighty nine, and his .

interpretation was astounding. Why haven't seen IT? I am for your body and so.

With twenty two years later, tony was in his midi eighties he rerecorded IT and to do IT with amy White house so he.

why haven't you .

seen IT?

All for .

your body. And so what I heard in .

his voice was the wisdom of time and how your capacity for love grows over time. When you're Young and you tell someone I love your body and soul, it's the urgency you're feeling when you're older, you say IT, as love has settled and take shape in your soul, it's your life and you're singing and you hear that there. And his duet with a mi one house, one sold to .

another as that is truly beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing with us.

yeah. Well, glad to do IT. thanks. You should. And that's up first for saturday, july twenty second, twenty twenty three. I'm Scott .

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