>> i like to welcome you to the multipurpose room. we did a ribbon cutting with the -- on friday. it houses the health center and child development center. this is a gorgeous green building and we are happy to be in this building to make a special announcement. many of you have already heard what was embargoed for about one month. i have to say that to have the superintendent and the mayor keep this quiet for a month and a half has been working for them. we are very excited to be here

this morning, to make a special announcement. one of the core values of the administration, they are reaching out in more. -- more places than i can mention to make certain to leverage every possible resource that we have to make things right for our children in san francisco. this will continue with the mayor's office and the school district, and with the city college. and then with san francisco state. we are very proud to be here today to leverage more resources to make certain that our children get exactly what they deserve. i was wanting to acknowledge a few people that are here. the president and the board of trustees is here, thank you, milton. natalie bird and steve no.

he has been working with us, sylvia yee as well as eric mcdonald and -- from the united way. lisa spinelli from colemand advocates, and they are strong advocates of this. thank you. i am hydra mendosa, the education adviser and a vice president of the board of education. parent of two children in the school district. one is a high schooler. thank you and join me in welcoming gavin newsom. >> thank you for all of your leadership and hard work and taking the time to be here.

this is an innovation center. paul the dreamers and the doers, this is a multi-purpose and multi dimensional. faint you. this is good work and you should keep this going, and thank you very much for being here, even if you do not want to be here. you are doing good work. helping us to get to this next level. we're wanting to help and this is what this is all about. this is the time of declining resources. what you do is you have a press conference asking the world to change. and did you say, when i was younger things were better. you'll be able to win on this.

you just point fingers and give responsibility. or, you could take the obligation to say that i am is part of the solution. by definition, i am part of the problem. you cannot live a good life in the just society. -- in the unjust society. what are you going to do about this? this is what is always short changed. what we have tried to do it in san francisco is to answer this question. they say that we will take over school districts and this will solve problems. this may work in some cities but did not understand this. i ask what you will do when you take this over? and then they do not have an answer. just because they are in

control, somehow things are going to change. and what are you specifically going to do? we decided that this was a solution and when we actually spoke to one another about this, we realize we had more in common than we thought. we had the same, fundamental values. it began with a different partnerships and coming together, in this case in a public partnership. we do not talk enough about public partnerships, community organizations coming together. the unified school district and the capacity-building. leveraging the resources. not just using these conditions, as the opportunity

to make better decisions. that is not the decisions that affect the future -- if you do not like the way that things are, you should do something about it. you can ask a better question. we have a partnership with the public schools and universal preschool. we are talking about this and if you want to get serious about this and the achievement gap, but you have to begin at the beginning. and then we said, we have to supplement everything because everyone is so upset about this but what will we do about this? we're providing the resources for comprehensive education. we want to help the students with physical health. and we realize this is not enough. the wellness center is have a

ball. with her work and the work of other people in the department, partnering with the public schools. this is the only one that we have in the state of california. we allocate enough resources that at the end of the year, this will be 97%. this is not just universal preschool. we recognize that we have to do more in terms of creating this culture. we started the san francisco promise. we did this with public partnership, for sentences the state university. we have the foundation, helping to fund this and we had a significant of guarantees. >> people thought that we were full of this and you cannot

commit to this promise because you cannot deliver. we had a subsequent graduation. we have a subsequent graduation of sixth graders. many of the people delivering on this promise are in this room. we are proud of this and we also want to step this up by building on the great work that the people are doing. nine or 10 years of improved test scores, for african- american and latino outcome. and probably, none of you understood this. this was just amazing to me. we do not generate enough controversy. you can blame the unions and says that you wore a reformer. we are not just blaming people again.

one of the top 10 cities -- one of the top 10 cities that has been identified as the city of reform for education, this is not just new york. this is not just denver. this is also san francisco, one of the top cities in the united states of america. building partnerships and not scapegoating, working together. i am not proud that this has not been recognized. all this work hasu#lrw)y been de quietly. we saw that this year with hillary clinton. the literally took this from her. she did not know about this. we were promoting this with the clinton foundation. she was promoting this when she was first running for president. i saw this in some speech and i

was so inspired that i said this did not have to be a national program. i was wondering to know why we could not do this ourselves. i think just because this was my idea. this year, the leadership -- they actually delivered the resources as we are doing accounts for kindergarten. every child in public schools is given a trust fund. this is the kindergarten. families did not have any access to a savings account. you can imagine that their %,(ç=ktchildren now have sometht they could not have dreamed of for their entire life. if you want to get serious about poverty, you have to get this

out of business by providing alternatives. this is as good as it gets. %#yquyñyou have this great collaborative. we had not aligned our strategies with the great work at the community colleges. with 910on people1 campuses. we tend to focus on this as critical and?jttw>ñ important ae institutions are. the bulk of the educañ system is the community college. and we have to reconcile this. in closing, that i℠u what we are celebrating here today. and we will learn more about these details in a moment. this was a big competition.

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education, there is a ton of money out there. 1.8 trillion dollars in the couch. this is the quality of education and new ideas. money and we will deliver on this promise. good work and your good judgment. in closing, let me thank you in advancebru:8cé and let me thankr your collaborationjç2iñ.í in the partnerships. let me thank you for your wisdom and reminde; you the is not in front of us, this is inside of us. we will determine the future of this program, and if we have aligned the collective strategy is in a profound way.

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