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. mentioned, and because of your çj0yzeuwork, and because of your commitment and these partnerships that have been ydeveloped,g and maybe that is the point. more than anything else. mine is the limiting belief. when i opened my first business, i had no money but i had an idea. i reminded all the young people. iwuxis not money that wille your future. uethis is your ideas. and what we had was a better idea to develop a collaboratives and we had a better idea.

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we will determine the future of this program, and if we have aligned the collective strategy is in a profound way. g⌟+ti would like to think the chancellor for all the leadership, for carlos garcia's team. %ñi wans work. hydra, as gooda=áx[ñ! as it ge. college board who are supporting these efforts. ñ're here to be honored here today as well. thank you very much.ncm3;q% [applause] he was apologizing because some of the things that we do in they keep going and going. in the last five been very intentional about the way that we have been marching to work. uv>athis is ending in college ad

this is not justí 12th grade anymore. and i justm/r2p the mayor for his leadership. these kinds of0jy8gax grants the were able to get, we need to have a leader in the city in order to make this happen. át to talk about another couple of the partners, theyé)hrk are from the college k and they are partners with us. they are partc'=5,d of the colle summit. i would like to think you also for joining us this afternoon. as the mayor has said, carl has been ill. certain that everything was our top priorities.

a wonderful replacement for him. we have the deputy superintendent of schools and i and see what the school district is going to be doing&p partnership with everyone else. >> and good morning. :7ibthis is an exciting thing te you are so inspirational, mr. mayor. cl partner, -- being a great5óeep?ñ partner, and the chancellor as well. systems, for months and months,x?hfz:ñ ad what we will be proposing. [inaudible] ewhen you talk about school reform, most people think3nwhat when the students leave the system. ñ done is say tht

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the school district has shown success atl jst increasing the l of achievement. we this better. ournwóg3d board has adopted a py for this year. theosas the parent of a high scl student, shedíbeñ# will take ths through four years of high school, she goes to college or not. ystem cannot decide this for her. the ent ment, and you14 to go and that is good enough to i classes.

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english student that comes to the college. the high school teachers are talking about so that there is this @awpc articm 12th grade tow6l 13. you have to be very specific xpad very strategic and you have to plan for continually take place. this will allow us.wflri to plae conversations and make it so that>.w"çh when we have a new bf education and i am not9=aseq hd there is a new mayor, nobody this is part of what we do. this is the way that we do business. we are thrilled and honored to be part of the partnership. thisxbr℠ñ is only the beginningf the conversation. we t

as we go down this pathway, as weq;%8]% have these resources tp us get there. on behalf ofbf?os the superintet and the board of education, i look forward to more support and .9s? thank you. ?bs thank you, richard. to welcome maufas. thank you f. she is a member of the board of education. grasp on with this that we are ">i& talking about the work that we are doing. million. we will be=6 " receiving $3 million, $1 million every year,ñ for the institutionalizing of

francisco. it has been great to have the trustees and the school?él validate this because these are very important dollars in morning, one thing equally important is the idea they left us a few years ago and now they have returned. pg8iñexthe partnership means a o them. we are happy that they have y,lçfound us once again. hgm:z,this is a minor detail. ñthe partnership with city college -- they have taken v8árr( in ways that have been extremely upstanding. he has single conference and meeting, telephone request that weér6 passed because this is extremely valuable, as well.

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services, financial aid, to see how it is that we canbx? less than 10 years to doubleñw+ number of individuals who are coming to the community college. ]r&çl-zif we can get this to wok across the"j& actually change the lives of manyv}ójj lives. &sñ them are latino and asian american people, and they feel that the school systems have beenq america, and to some extent this hasúá?2[nç been a failure. but we can address this and make certain that we can&+9$ékñ givey positive example to the rest of the country about what we can do whenj[c ó÷ already bn to work together. eñ

the san francisco unified school district. dsv havf programs and the problem is that we are not4 using information officially. and we are getting the word out wz all the people in tf san francisco. !óòt÷these three institutions ae working together to deal with the problem. and we will be solving this problem! and people continuing to earn and getting into the job market can improve their lives with. jobs, and people being able to participate in the american dream. ñeverything from this program that you see here, we dov5-(+ jobs well. and these people will be a

living the american dream in a few years. this is what we are interested in. rntwe have the gates foundation helping us. and we will continue to get otherjónhíe foundations becauses is an american problem right now. /z=the question is how you are going to take care of the young people,ir>wet who are dropping d not being able to utilize education. emxcity college's about jobs. ú! is about jobs. s we would love to hear from the president of the board37nv%[ at this. he has been working extremely (d an accountable system at the city college of san francisco. g

>>wxáb9p@ you, chancellor. >> i would like to thank->ul?6çe mayor, and the superintendent, the school board for joining we are in an unusual situation where we have three different independent publicu$+íqi representing the exact same people. and we all recognize);b citizens of the city and county. it is logical for us to be workingh9:9ç2b together in this. and the gates foundation for partnership and where this can go. i have a different style]s3t7m many other people. love the things that i maintain is that failure. and i think that we need to recognizest:ñ that there are problems here.

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where we today is not about failure. i am honored to actually be speaking at this(:÷yh this time. but this story is not about me. xftg together. we are in thisj")ñ9zñ together r the last few years, everyone has everyone has tried to find a solution. this is exemplary work. çt and the failure and the misery, we focus possibility of of the future outcome that is positive. building a common structure, community, and through close vvhrnoccollaboration we can hava greater future together.

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speaker who has a working in the program. have another great story from him later on. i am looking to theq together. [applause] $"+h/j÷>> we had toç: have a ler this grant, and in the mayor's office weq/ council that brings together all the council's that we arei7fz bringing together. kimberly has been a great forceñ on this council and &mrswíñthe g and partnership bridge to success. she will=#np>/ give us a quick overview of the program and then part of this, there willí some people appear and you can't

ask them some questions and then we will tie up the formal remarks. she has an incredible team that she isk we would not have been able to do this work without the1.hnl of so many of the faculty and staff at the school district to have given ac to make certain that this alignment happened. kimberly? lot partnerships today, but what this is about is the students. [the first thing thn we heard about this was we were yf what we were going to call this. what does this mean, to the this to inspector -- the ïter is from balboa high school -- was the winner isgñh from balboa hh school.

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