they do care and there's a backlash coming and here's how they are showing they care. >> so it's very clear people care and people have been asking the questions and there has been confusing studies that were suggesting perhaps people don't care. so the most recent research i'm aware of and the one that seems to be the most convincing is research that has been conducted for instance with internet shoppers where people are asked to go shopping for different kinds, a colleague of mine at ka dumoulin who's been conducting this research and she's developed a search engine that

actually evaluates on their policies, the peace treaty policies is machine readable interpretations including what information and who they share that information with and so on. and so, the findings show that when it comes to items that are necessarily privacy sensitive, people tend to be driven by price but when you move towards items were going to be more privacy sensitive, then you start seeing a very different behavior where people are actually willing to spend more to go to the sites that essentially offer better privacy guarantees and so for long time of these results were not entirely obvious because many studies were not looking and privacy sensitive items and so there were lots of examples where you could get people, we still see this today, and pry it the example of that you're giving away your location for the return of a coupon but perhaps you are willing to do that at starbucks but the hiv

test clinic you're not necessarily going to be willing to do that so those are the kind of things we are talking about. all the evidence we've collected suggests people do care about privacy but it's not a flat level of preference. it's going through quite a bit and stays on the situation at hand and convey with the occasion. we are willing to share location with a wide variety of people but not across-the-board. i might be willing to share my location wythes some colleagues and my family perhaps in their broad a arrangement issues. >> we have time for one more question. >> you mentioned that you found people would look at the privacy recommendations from other people who've been down the road but our six months ahead or so forth. sounds like an evolutionary recommendation system. have you quantify the number of

paths people tend to follow over time? is there a strong correlation or is it fairly weak? >> we need to conduct experiments to quantify that. this would happen over the next six months. any of these experiments is challenging to conduct as it turns out. you need to control conditions properly otherwise you get random results and we try to work very hard on recruiting representatives of people trying to make sure they are working under controlled conditions so we can construct those kind of things. this is an example but that isn't conducted yet. >> very good. thank you again so very much. we have a break now. we have a break now, half an hour i will see you back here at 11:24 mark rothenberg and there is coffee and maybe some mochatino out in the lobby.

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next the mayors from baltimore, irving new jersey and syracuse new york discuss least improving education through mentoring and

urban school reform. this is part of a three day conference hosted by the u.s. conference of mayors. it's 55 minutes. >> -- sworn in as the 49th may year on february 4th, 2010. you just about had your one year anniversary. fantastic. his first elected to the baltimore city council at age 25 about six years ago -- [laughter] the youngest person ever elected to the city council but baltimore. in 2007 she created the city council of education committee dedicated to explicitly addressing the challenges facing the baltimore city public schools and exploring innovative solutions to address those needs. she also urged a baltimore school systems developed transitional years and intervention programs to services and engage incoming students for the city's middle

schools and high schools in transition period when at risk students as i know from my experience ought to become disengaged. she's dedicated to serving at risk youth and continuing her nationally recognized summer youth program to provide young people with valuable works goals, and we look forward to her remarks this afternoon. if i could get quiet on my right. why is it the right is always causing so much trouble. [laughter] sorry, that was gratuitous comment from a bipartisan mayor. i apologize. but if we could get a little silence because i'm happy to have the mayor speak. >> [inaudible] [laughter] it's got to be from elizabeth, always shouting. it's terrible, as my neighbor. mayor, thank you very much for being here. we are grateful and look forward to what you have to say. [applause]

>> thank you very much for the opportunity to address you this afternoon. to talk about our summer jobs program, but it's impossible for me to talk about summer jobs without talking about how it fits into a broader education and youth agenda so i am going to start by talking about what we are doing in our schools. i know that leader in the agenda after the viewing of waiting for superman will be discussing education reform in a more in-depth way, however i would like to start by discussing the dramatic changes in the baltimore city public school system and then follow up with what we are doing to enhance these opportunity initiatives. feelings about education in baltimore city has changed dramatically in the last decade. ten years ago we were not fulfilling a obligation to young people in baltimore. since then, we have made tremendous progress. last summer the national school board association announced baltimore city schools as the

winner of the annual award for urban school board excellence. the baltimore city schools is a shining example that reform can work. much of our success is due to the hard work of our ceo, dr. dr. alonzo. dr. alonzo is a leader for urban school reform, and his experience meant are delivering results for students. dr. alonzo and i shared a simple philosophy. we set high expectations and refuse to let children, regardless of race, regardless of class, live through the expectations. when you stop making excuses, when you put students first and fight for progress here's what happens. african-american males become the driving force of an improving graduation rate over all dropouts cut by more than half since over 2007.

elementary and middle school test scores continue to rise. schools improve i am proud to say i am a parent of republic baltimore city public-school student. she is -- my daughter is in the school and for writing and very happy hopefully as we see paying attention in class. dozens of new charter schools and transformational schools come on line with more on the way. and most important, families in baltimore have more choices to meet the needs of their children. for the first time in decades enrollment in our public school system has increased two years in a row to wait for me these accomplishes are not a cause of celebration. to me it means we can do even more, but our school system can be great and will be great. last year the city of baltimore took a big step towards getting there. i believe 2010 will go down in history of baltimore city as the most significant and transformative year in the

school system since brown v board of education. after a grueling one month effort between the school at the restoration and the baltimore teachers union, the nine month process resulted in one of the most progressive and reform contract ever ratify the nation. even "the washington post" took notice lamenting that it was unfortunate the film waiting for superman was released before the contract was approved. and i am proud to say in baltimore we are not waiting for superman to improve our public schools. with millions of federal education dollars online, the baltimore teachers union leaders understood reform was coming and that more teachers and families would come to the mandate. they understood it was on the way and they understood they could either get on board or they really needed to get out of the way. they had the choice to read the leadership to fight for the members of the negotiation table in good faith for the benefit of teachers and students or the

good posture, score a short-term political points and too little to improve public education. dow's forward thinking and visionary leaders in america's labor movement, they made the right choice and did what was best for the students and teachers over the long term. and today i am very proud to say that the baltimore teachers union is a partner in progress for the schools. baltimore is now a leader in efforts to link student performance to a teacher evaluation and pay doing away with the old increasing system. as well we are rewarding teachers to take on the leadership roles in their schools. removing -- we are moving in the right direction inside a classroom, but we need to be just as diligent to issues outside the classroom as well. despite an $8 million projected deficit this fiscal year, the city will continue to find after-school programs that were added to the budget many of us had programs we have a budget

that included surpluses, baltimore enjoyed the surpluses for some years, budget surpluses and we expanded our after-school programming. and as we faced financial challenges and deficits, the challenge for me is to keep those programs going and that's something we are going to make sure happens. these programs reach more than five dozen students helping increase attended and leveraging $16 million other resources. this year we will increase funding for the youth opportunity program for the work force services aimed to reconnect at risk youth diouf to educational and employment pathways. i also created a new mayor's you've cabinet to better coordinate the collective resources and service it for our children. the cabinet will also focused on leveraging state, federal foundation and private funding to enhance all comes for the

youth. then of course there's the view of work which is the baltimore summer jobs program. we all know that summer jobs prepare you for jobs in the real world. you're first job teaches you how to fill out in the application, how to come to work on time, how to value putting in a little extra effort and helps to deposit your first paycheck in the bank. if we are serious about the long-term economic recovery of the country, we need to be serious about these jobs. will we know that there are no federal dollars right now for this year's summer youth programs we are working hard in baltimore to make sure we can put teams to work. the city will contribute $1 million of general funds toward the effort and we will also be using another $1 million of funds that we plan to raise another $1 million from the private sector. this program is the essence --

excuse me, is a great example of a private public partnership. our theme this year is with summer jobs everyone wins. with these jobs young people and families when because teams were in the value of a paycheck, the understand what happens when you put in the time and productive work and then set the stage for a productive future and successful future. parents benefit not only because the kids are out of the house but they know their children are learning important workplace skills and earning money to help the school supplies and other necessities. communities when because young people are focused on positive behavior that keep the neighborhoods safe. we have enlisted -- we are having our own version of a bake sale to try to raise funds so we can keep the kids -- i'm not cooking, don't get nervous. [laughter]

thank you. we are having our version of it. we have enlisted other football team to help us generate more money so we can put more kids to work and last month launched an exciting way to invite everyone to help support the summer job effort by raffling off ten skybox tickets to the ravens versus the steelers which you don't know our most aggressive historic rivalry is back and we are certainly looking to pay back the steelers from them dashing our hopes to go to the super bowl. payback is a gift. [laughter] so we are raffling off ten tickets to my boss and i just pray that it ends up going to a

ravens fan but that is one of the things we're doing to raise money and awareness about the youth opportunity. this is a snapshot of what we are doing with regards to the programs and services and opportunities for young people in baltimore. education, recreation, jobs and job training are all important components of opportunity and you. >> thank you very, very much. let the record show big products by stepping on the plate in philadelphia and enjoy having some of those. [laughter] our next speaker is the syracuse neyer stephanie meijer. after taking office in january 2010, she cut syracuse

spending by $2.4 million, streamlining the permit process and reduce the administrative cost while increasing housing funds in and labor and business development all within the first 100 days of her tenure. pretty spectacular. what are you doing now? [laughter] a strong advocate of the program she will present today syracuse say yes education program she believes education is the crucial investment and shows her commitment to improving education through this important initiative. a january 2011 say yes received a 5 million-dollar gift from ferc and helping ensure the program will be a lasting one. in syracuse elementary and middle school there are 4100 students that say yes after-school programs. syracuse university is 150 students who provide additional academic social support as mentors to high school students. in the first year to thousand families enrolled their children in the say yes summer programs to build academic skills and emphasize the importance of

completing their education. we are very delighted to have the mayor with us and read the reports. >> thank you. i have to say i've never been on a panel where there's been too female mayors let alone named stephanie sali no baltimore has great voters and visions to elect a mayor named stephanie because i know the voters of syracuse did the same. by way of just sort of starting off where we find the city of syracuse, it is a distillation of everything that we have heard this morning and this afternoon. we in the city of syracuse suffered with an overwhelming job rate, unsatisfactory educational achievement test scores, a graduation rates and about three years ago when i was on the common council started delving into the problem and realizing there were no easy solutions and it wasn't as

simple as our economy transition from a place where a loan it could give you a job and help to support your family to a place where now it's the great idea that would help open up people's individual accomplishments. we were beneficiaries of having perhaps the ultimate in public-private partnerships read the chancellor of syracuse university met with a graduate of the university of pennsylvania who started a graduate of the university of pennsylvania -- started a foundation called say yes to education. in a school in philadelphia where he grew up the foundation started by going to individual classrooms and say to the you study and work hard, then our foundation will guarantee when you graduate from high school that you can go to college tuition free. slowly but surely they went from different cities but also essentially a classroom at the

time and with the chancellor of syracuse university said to george weiss and his foundation, it's time to bring your program of to scale. if you do it one classroom at a time that is not the kind of bold idea or bold change we need in this country as the mayor booker eloquently said to save democracy. and much to our delight, george weiss and the say yes to education foundation decided to bring it to scale and ago city-wide in the city of syracuse. now the promise of a free college tuition alone is the carrot sexy enough to get rid of these attention, but the beauty of this program is that while it gets people's attention and children and families attention, what it does is provide the support all along the academic career of children to give them and the families the kind of support they need to focus on education. because i think as we all know, it is not enough to just say to

people you can go to college. what we have to make sure is the of the skills necessary and that they actually believe that they can go to college. and for far too many children in cities and in my city that in particular the barriers that poverty causes families are too overwhelming to see to somebody when they are 18 congratulations, not by the way, you can go to college because you got your grades were good enough and you made it through the system pity if you have to go all the way back starting in 3k and kindergarten to make sure they have a literacy skills to make sure that if their family is getting kicked out of home after home you give them the legal aid to help them in those transitions to bring health clinics and dental clinics into the schools themselves, social workers into schools that can track the family and the progress. every year we hear story after story about children in the back of the classroom who need glasses whose families cannot

figure out how to navigate the system to get glasses or can't figure out how to navigate the system to get health care. those are the kind of things we have been changing on the ground in the city of syracuse such that now not only do we have children the letcher rating from city high schools who are guaranteed tuition free education at any state college or the city of new york and our vernacular the city in new york state but also a list of private colleges who've joined the so-called say yes to education compact, so it is a promise that is being realized, and here are some of the stats. we have now actually more than 1,000 high school graduates who are currently going to college tuition free because of this program. we have more than 41,000 elementary and middle school students in the say yes after-school programs.

this means they go right from the school to the after-school program to give them more intensive instructions which the studies have proven children particularly in poverty absolutely need. we are doing to thousand families a year are signing up for our summer programs where we have the school district and say yes to education has partnered with the city with our department so that it used to be that we have all these parks programming we would run in our city parks and throughout the city, and now what we have done last year was the first year the we partnered so that we ran the city parks program right in the same school buildings that the summer school programs were running. so in the morning the students would get academic help owning a for keeping their skills up and literacy or math or science, and then they would a transition right into the same building. city parks programming to do all sorts of traditional and

non-traditional sporting, theater and arts, crafts, all sorts of things, in addition to which the partnership with syracuse university has allowed in the summer school summer programming in particular a diversity of offering. as we have mentors from syracuse university and collegestudents from around the area who have been hired by say yes to do things like architecture camps. we have medical school students running biology camps, we have arts and music students who are teaching students how to do rap music and videos and poetry and your name at. there's not an offering you can have it syracuse university i dare say we are not giving to our elementary children in the city of syracuse. and as i mentioned, the health care clinics and the free legal pro bono clinics that are actually in the building making sure that families and children

have access or a conduit to those services that candidly they were entitled to before but it was amazed to try to navigate that, and when you are worried about survival as many of our families and cities and poverty are worried about, sometimes it is just too much to try to navigate the bureaucracy that is set up to in title families to these programs. now all of this is of course incredibly expensive. and, as i said to mayor nutter as he said you have a great time being and a year in a time of recession by said timing has never been my strong suit and i dare say the folks who would suggest to the education foundation and syracuse university were also not aware of what they would be entering into in terms of our economic crisis that we have. despite that and to their strength they have doubled down and said that we are here to commit to this because it is too

important. as we hear bad news about the cdbg and continue to advocate the same day the house of representatives cut our threatening to cut $440,000 that was allocated to this yes to education. so the very same day we saw the government today backstedt away from the most important issues to my city housing and education. but we are moving forward. we've harnessed the private community and said to them if you want your business to grow which you state you do, if you want to continue to hire qualified engineers and nurses and doctors and college professors, if you want to recruit people to come to upstate new york, then you have to have a strong educational system, and they have all answer overwhelmingly in the positive. but we will continue every day to fight the battle to make sure that these items are funded and that we are taking the bold steps necessary to frankly and candidly revolutionize public

education in the city of syracuse. for those of you that want more information in addition to obviously being able to answer any questions, this is the web site, and you can also website keefer access from the city website and there's work by experts all over the country what we are doing their and lots of quantitative as well as is such an exciting program. thank you, mayor nutter. >> mayor miner, thank you for a much. to the folks of syracuse, obviously think the timing right because they clearly picked the right person and you got there as soon as you could. so that makes all the difference. let me now introduce mayor wayne smith. mayor smith has promoted an agenda for the rebirth of the township of irvington. he was elected the 20 of my year may of 2002. his entire council candidates known as fema irvington was also

elected feeling the mandate for his leadership. mayor, if you would like to share that concept with the rest [applause] [laughter] >> never mind. he was elected to an unprecedented third term in office. stevens might embark on the journey and his participation in the male mentor program that was launched in newark new jersey this year. the initiative is the capacity to build men from the faith based community engaged in mentoring young boys. mentor recruit, reclaim and restore is certainly something i am personally support about as well. let's hear for mayor smith about his -- about this and his other work in this city of irvington to address the work and opportunity for the populations. >> thank you, mayor nutter. as i mosul been between the

stephanie caucus of my years -- [laughter] and i want to thank you for a couple months ago your great technology summit in philadelphia i had a great learning experience, and to all the mayors let me quickly talk to you about initiatives around the mentorship with all the things we have to do of our basic core missions of the job and public safety sanitation, policing, there are other things despite our budget we are not going to bury our heads in the sand because all of us are committed to the betterment of our young people. so, just a quick 32nd scenario on irvington. we are right next to york new jersey. one side of the street certain places is no work and the other side is irvington. same social challenges and educational challenges as any irving center in america. so one strategy wheat deployed is how do we do some additional things out site of the government that help our young

people, so the mentorship became one of the initiatives, and so mentor of the program this kind of faith based by one of our major churches in the region and we were very aggressively to make sure that kids get matched with the mentors and bollegraaf for school programs. we have a network and all of our parks where we have been able to access. in new jersey we had a fund called green acres and we built community centers and all of the park's. the parks have been refurbished and in those communities centers, we have after-school programs, and the important part particularly when you have lack of staff is to create a volunteer base mentor who come in and do homework assistance and all those kind of things. the second part is the eisenhower foundation here in d.c. and one of the programs and most challenging part of the city and the funded a program and have federal money but the program is funded through justice or we do an after-school program and the actually -- we have staff is paid to recruit

mentors on a one-for-one basis with young people so we hope that program continues. but it's the mentorship is part of a broader kind of mentorship approach we do with our public schools. we have a number of individuals to work with school principals to provide not only mentorship but other resources to the local school districts and certainly with our eisenhower foundation we have the police involved concept of this after-school program and in addition to the mentorship includes a safe haven component where some of our police officers act as mentors as well enabling young people from a challenged part of the township to know the police officers in that particular neighborhood, those offices are assigned to deal with any particular community issues event neighborhood, but they also are part of the mentorship team. from a philosophical approach we have done is taken all of our

youth programs and the local government has acted as a mentor the days for the struggling on profits would go out to the community and get funding they would get some of that but we have actually funded a number of them through the community diplomat block grant funding and one of the requirements we tell the coaches and everybody involved with is that you have to have an after-school component that stresses academics preparing them like when they are in high school with the old meet the academic cut they can't play sports so we start at an elementary school level during the same process as well and government worships in your community if you can access them like big brothers and the sisters we do some other kinds of things with our schools with of the united way of ethics which is called celebrity where

we bring whether business people, local elected officials, just a responsible adult to go into schools and read to the young people and in fact we stole a passage from one of the predecessors in baltimore where people claim irvington is the township for many years ago. we do an interesting thing around mentorship to expose young people to government. we actually have some high school kids take over local government for a couple of days and the students elected mayor in the city council they pick the superintendent of schools and get to shadow and model them during that period of time they vote for the council members of the council meetings, so it's a very interesting concept and we encourage the chamber of commerce the do also a shoving program where the young people take over companies and follow the voters of the ceos in those particular companies and learning about what those

particular businesses. one of the programs we funded around the career mentorship is a program called a career ambassador and that program actually exposed the people to the first careers and one of the graduates was very proud of last year she won the bill and melinda gates scholarships so she will never have to pay a dime for education, bill and melinda well and she can go on to get a ph.d. so those are some of the dividends we invest in these young people in terms about comes. we see young people will offtrack particularly in the eisenhower program with principal works with the staff and refers young people who may be challenged with their grades and so forth to get involved in the program. we actually encourage the parents who have children to ensure other kids as a benefit for their kids being in the eisenhower program so that this kind of in short the things

we're doing around the mentorship. >> mayor smith, thank you very, very much. and we are going to have time sure for some q&a. let me now introduce barbara. barbara is the deck of the condition of special projects for the children's defense fund. cd at of initiatives focus on the concerns of african-american children how the most recent is the, quote, black community children which was relaunched last month and focuses on amiriyah desha which is facing black children today. please join me in all of us in welcoming me is the best as she discusses the crusade and the inner cities that has been helping young people to reach their full potential. >> thank you, mayor nutter. i'm representing our present marion wright edelman and thank you for your leadership and strengthening families. launched the community crusade

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campus. udents in identified 17,000 uninsured staff to do outreach in rome as children. help to improve attendance and children's health, it also benefits the that reimburse the schools for they're able to find nurses and freedom schools and they are

next five years to have 300 curriculum from start to finish detention centers and faith department. it was so successful they are going to triple the number of children from 50 to 150

students. the county staff reported dramatic changes among the youth involved in the program. parents ask how they can arrange enrolled in the school. significant impact for two reasons. summer learning loss which we reading. north carolina studies found that almost 60% of children engaged in reading over the summer while 40% had no summer urning loss three the second impact of the schools is to recruit more black and latino males into the teaching profession. from earlier, visited freedom

schools in louisiana this summer changed their majors to teaching as a result there's less than 2% of black male teachers in public school classrooms and we can and must change the numbers with more than 1 million retiring in the next six to eight years it is a the the final point of collaboration is youth leadership development that we are committed to training 5,000 young leaders leadership training. we've established a partnership with the city where we were doing the pipeline summit on april 1st for all the 140 members in boston and we are inviting new hampshire and rhode island to attend. we have a great team of leaders

to finish and they want to replicate it in all 20 site stations which are many of your communities and cities are a few points of collaboration, coverage for all children, the freedom schools expansion and the leadership development are just three examples of ways we can work together to the pipeline with a pipeline towards college and productive work and circulated some packets with more detailed information we why don't we open the floor to questions, comments. it's a great presentation by our panel members and a lot of information. >> could you elaborate on the funding for the freedom schools? >> yes. sample budget. the sites raise their own funding so it's about $50,000

for a summer program that excludes the site or all college students to teach the class is and so we have some federal funds and public money and in houston for its symbol is a director for ten years without the juvenile probation department directly fund the schools and places of worship funding schools average different times. charlotte is a very ambitious program and is going to have 5,000 children over the next several years and they've gotten a lot of the business community. i've been happy to provide you with a budget on a material if you're interested in taking this to your community. >> thank you very much. i commend the efforts of the mayor blake, miner kosmas and any neyer that takes on the task

of promoting education and education and we know how essential it is to the fabric and integrity ofhe communities my question however is for my new york mayor miner. i'm very interested in what the financial support is of syracuse university. >> first syracuse university has opened the door so any graduate of syracuse city high school who can get admitted to syracuse university kendo tuition free. there's no number, like we will to the first 20, so if all 2,000 decide they want to go to syracuse university, the

chancellor and board of trustees have said we will take all 2000. that is one finite commitment that they have made to the of provided incredible staffing in terms of the students and the mentors but also taking people from their financial aid offices and making them the financial aid experts and paid them. people from their development office who heretofore had been raising funds for the syracuse university endowment are raising funds for the endowment for the say yes to education fund. the lobbyists are helping us. so across the board of the university has made a huge financial commitment to make this run. the chancellor came into office at syracuse denver city and talked of a pardon and announced a program called a scholarship

and action and is a true believer in the ivory towers and in the hills across the country you can talk about education and reform. but unless you are taking your institution as a driver and actively implementing reform it's not as meaningful. while white certainly heard lots of people talk that way before, she and the board of trustees have walked the walk with action. the other part of this that i think it's very interesting is that we have students, tuition free to the colleges. a significant portion of them would have been able to go fairly close to the tuition free to a number of the state schools because their income levels of the families were so low. the idea of going to college was so foreign to them and nobody in their family would come in devotee talked about, that even though they were very close to

being able to go, with the needed was to use the phrase it takes a village they need the entire village to say yes, you can go, you can do this. we are going to help you, support you and say it's a reality for you. so it's not just the financial burden. those also the sort of emotional and societal burden or obstacle to say nobody i know has gone to college. nobody in my community goes to college. i don't know what that's like. i don't know what that's about. i don't know what day fasb for ms., now we have people on the ground in the schools and across the entire city saying our goal is in high school graduation it is graduation from college and there is the goal for the city high school graduates and if you work for us and your family commits to it we will work with you and get you through that process. >> i would follow that up.

is there a dollar amount that you place on the value of the scholarships of the syracuse university provided to serve the city students and in addition to any pilot and it? >> the university doesn't it pilot programs and there is a dollar amount, and what we have actually done is talked about the dollar amount in terms of what the tuition is to the state university's school system, and then you take that number which the number i think i don't even want to quote the number because i'm on c-span and i don't want whole country to know what was wrong because occasionally i am wrong you take that dollar number and that is a scholarship that we will give students who want to go to private schools, but syracuse university has said our tuition, syracuse university tuition is higher than the

tuition at the state university school and what they said this tuition free. it's not going to be a scholarship or dollar amount. >> good afternoon. from the city of san marcus we are also the home to one of the universities in the state of texas. we have a similar program in conjunction with the university called bobcat where we try to do our best to provide opportunities for low-income students who have access. i would be interested in hearing and working with you about something we can encompass within our program to to get to the next level. it's been in place for a while but we are at a point we need to try to ensure we are providing opportunities for the local students to be able to attend a local hometown university. so afterwards maybe we can connect back. just with regards to the mentorship as a whole,

secretaries alisa engender earlier that there is a shortfall in the soft skills. recently the chamber of commerce partner and develop an initiative called source seeking opportunity and results. we have a series of round table discussions with those industry leaders from the multitude of different than use, and it was their final version as well, that there aren't enough students coming into the workforce with just the ability to shake hands and maintain eye contact, ability to introduce themselves and be able to walk through and interview fulfilling a job. can you give me an example of your mentors ships have done to address the soft tissues? >> one of the things we did a baltimore, baltimore was actually spending money on its own mentoring program, and i'm sure that we feel very confident that our cities can be in the business of many things but

creating mentoring programs when we have nationally acclaimed programs didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me so i created a partnership with big brothers and big sisters and we actually have what's called a maryland mentoring initiatives come partnership come sorry, it's a capacity buildings of the tram mentors so they've partnered and we've partnered with them and we also partnered with johns hopkins and comcast, one of the cable providers, and we identified kids in the most vulnerable kids in the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city and we ask big brothers and big sisters, we gave them the map of the challenge neighborhood and then we said do you have kids on the waiting list in the area, and we went around the city in these most challenged as far as violence these neighborhoods. they gave the waiting list and we had about 200 kids that were

signed up, waiting for mentors and needed to be matched with adults and we are going through recruiting mentors and doing it in a way that is sustainable model because we are working with a national program and local partners and we are creating matches. when i go and i talk to these kids you can tell these kids have never been exposed to some of the things they get to do with their mentors. some of them have never been to the baltimore zoo and they are going to the zoo. have never really been the committee of the tourist attraction. they are so limited by their circumstances and these mentors are taking them under their wing and exposing them to things in their own city that the have never participated in and getting them the skills that they need to be successful and giving them a pathway other than what they can see in their own neighborhood but giving them a pathway to create better futures

for themselves. >> mayor smith? >> in addition to our career ambassadors program was focused on the career development, and so the mentors at that program take him to visit of new york city microsoft campus when we get a chance to interact with corporate executives. the act of the shadow people who are in business so they get an opportunity to see what it takes and spend that day and developed those soft social skills often i don't think they're that soft, in many cases the key to success. if you have those skills. but if you come from an impoverished background where you don't get the exposure a lot of our young people need exposure to things they might not necessarily see in their neighborhoods and so that is what all of our mentorship programs attempt to do to give that level of exposure on a consistent basis. it's not a one-shot every now and then. it has to be on a consistent basis so they get the kind of exposure and get a chance to

practice those social skills which will make them successful in life. >> one of the things, and we have a variety of internships and mentorship programs in philadelphia as well and they complement many of the other things that the mayors have talked about. when the secretary was -- secretary solis was here, the thought occurred to me she mentioned a number of times that we needed to better educate many of the members of congress about what these programs do, and i have to be honest with you, unfortunately i had to step out for a moment, but the thought occurred to me that it's -- it seems a little unusual that the mayors of america have to spend a significant amount of time trying to educate members of congress about programs that created or fund and i see this

become all the time as crazy as it sounds and many of the mayors said it a lot of our young people don't necessarily have the same role models that a bunch of us around this table and other places have. the notion of getting up every day, getting yourself together and getting the work may be five minutes early and staying ten to 15 minutes late is a little bit of a foreign concept. how you dress, how you look, how you speak, all of these impact in a variety of ways, and if they don't have that experience whether it is a mentorship in partnership with folks in our own city administration we have high school students stations and a variety of departments and agencies across the city government working with the private sector to get them the support summer job for someone. it's not just about the money. young people having money in their pocket, that is important to them and quite frankly, you know, that is a spending crowd. it's not like many of them are

saving all of the money that they are making. they will spend it. but it's a lot more than that. it really is about this experience a high school level knowing what the world of work is like. as hard a concept as it may be to a 15 year old, when i talk to them i try to remind them that a decade from now, you will be actively, aggressively either in the work force or actively looking. you're going to have to take care of yourselves and you might not be able to just depends on mom and dad anymore and so your life is going to change in less than ten years and in a pretty dramatic fashion. so having the federal government understand what these programs are about its model the important, but i think it's imperative to the future of these young people. they want to do things. they don't necessarily have the resources to be able to do it. so any other questions for our panelists? all right. let me just say that that kind

concludes a recession. i want to thank all the mayors for being here and all your questions and that the next work and opportunity task force will be held and our annual conference of mayors and incredibly wonderful city led by the banking champion -- [laughter] of the east coast and there will be a competition in the months leading up to the annual meeting. thank you. >> amol conversations [inaudible conversations]

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