what happened is with modern medical research they're getting positive results. money is needed for medical research. i hate to be a modern groperer but money it needed to save lives. in particular those who have hiv aids san francisco is well provided forever the federal government pays a lot of the costs. i want the drugs available to help people because i've known people will today of those awe flishgsdz my vaug is that i favor medical research promoted by every one >> thank you. we he hope this discussion has been informative for more information please invest sf elections.com remember it's available for voting from 5

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>> so at the get things started please welcome a great leader and the director of the environment ms. melanie (clapping). >> good morning, everyone. my name is melanie i'm the director of the san francisco department of the environment. i want to thank you all for helping us celebrate electric vehicles in san francisco. before i introduce the mayor i want to introduce other activities. also wanted to thank you for your leadership moreen in helping to adopt the electrician of electric vehicles. so in san francisco we know that transportation is responsible for the second highest attribute for to our green e mediation in

the city that comes from cars and trucks. we know if we are going to meet our ambitious climate goals we've got to think about alternatives in gasoline powered vehicles. your greenhouse gas e mediation will be lessen counting the e mediation from power plants. but the good news is in san francisco you can drive a car cleaner than anywhere in the u.s. we're nearly 20 percent renot to my knowledgeable and california will be 33 percent less. you'll be driving particle carbon free from the city hiding

drove electric facility. we'll have the levels lower and we know that a strategy is going to help us. frankly we're so proud to have a mayor mayor lee is championship this effort to make this the green capital of the united states p san francisco is anyone one of the most charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in the country. we've made sure that those owners can get those installed in their homes and have dozens of apartment buildings so see. as we reduce the overall size of the fleet it's my great pleasure to welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee

(clapping) thank you ma i didn't four that introduction and for your department >> good morning, everybody. welcome to evidence code section v week san francisco the innovation capital of the world the greenest city in the north america. i want to thank you tom and thanks to all the sponsors human resources behind mississippi any honda toyota and a schneider electric and charge electric and pg&e, sun power and, of course, working with supervisor eric mar as well. it's wonderful to see so many of our electric vehicles here today to demonstrate the models that are available to a customers. i take pride in this whole area

of this city being the innovation looerd for our electric fuel vehicles. in fact, governor newsom asked all the department heads who would like to help me establish this. i carefully put my hand up and i'm sure glad i did. it's been fun and virtually to watch it grow. i've been to see it grow. navigate more than 40 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions still come from the transportation sector. we want to eliminate that. you heard governor brown last week he made the charge that climate change is too important

and we want that to happen here, no san francisco. we added bike sharing. we are and have long been and will continue to be a transit per city and when you need a car electric cars will be a convenient alternative. in the bay area we have 12 thousand plug in vehicles and that's huge. it represents 1/3rd of all the plugs ins that are sold in the entire state and almost 20 percent in the entire country and that's because not just a because we enjoy them but we've done the right thing. with the 9 counties we're working with we've built an

infrastructure. san francisco and the bay area has the most charging stations, in fact, over 2 hundred charging stations are available in more than 60 different locations in our city. we're making it vent and part of the way we live in this very quality area of the san francisco bay area. city government installed 40 percent of those free charging stations 90 in our garages and airport. we add to that our fleet is 1 hundred percent alternative fuel bio electric or diesel fuel. again, thank you for your leadership you've been working on those vehicles but in those complicated areas of the

apartment buildings that don't have a clear ownership or leadership in some of those buildings and because of the murpt charge st. a they've helped 34 apartment buildings across this area. whether it's our own employees or for the public-private companies they're playing an important role in making e v infrastructure available in our city. our department environment has been working with the business council to reach out to the entire business community in san francisco and help companies start the process of making themselves e v ready. mufrdz and clean energy and

technical companies are working with the good times and company owners to fight the climate change with the e v movement. so by working and innovating together our city is looerd the way. i encourage everyone to come out here and a checkout the wide range of plug in vehicles. and you might want to look at the scooters because when your younger you can do that. even when you're old eerie want to get on one. and, of course, checkout another our nation's first mobile solar charging station. and, of course, as mayors do i get to blame today e v week in san francisco. and present this proclamation to

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together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to

follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a

lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their okay. we are on. good afternoon and welcome to the joint select committee of the board of supervisors and the board of education. i want to recognize our clerk today from

sfusd and we want to thank our staff at sfgtv who make our meetings public and transcribe all of our public meetings. first, i do need to take a motion to excuse commissioner wynns from today's meeting and also supervisor breed, who are you replacing today? >> i'm replacing supervisor avalos. >> okay. so we need a motion to excuse commissioner wynns and supervisor farrell. can we take that motion? we'll take that motion without opposition. in their places we have supervisor london breed and we are joined by hide era mendoza.

we have we are item on our list. please call the item. >> the clerk: item 1: hearing - san francisco unified school district's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programming]1310101.sponsor: kimhearing to present san francisco unified school district's package of initiatives related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programming, including the mayor's middle school leadership initiative, at the joint city and school district select committee >> the clerk: sf 11234 >> thank you. we do have some presenters here today. we have jim ryan, the new executive director for sfusd presenting how the initiative has been going. before we open up the presentation i want to allow any member of our committee to make any comments if you would like. seeing none, we'll move to our presentation. thank you miss ryan.

>> just over five 5 months i have been in the position, one of the questions that comes up over again is have we aggregated engineering technology into an acronym and what does that mean. one of the things that we've tried to convey is that stem is neither a job nor a class. i worked as an engineer before becoming an administrator and the job i hold now is the first one that held the acronym stem in it. what we mean is that each of these elements has a connective tissue which enables those that are educated in these fields to problem solve. now whether that

be as a scientist where you develop a hypothesis and test it in a labor whether it be an engineer in which you brainstorm, build perrot types, test them, have them fail and reiterate that prototype, what you are teaching students to do and what as engineers or technologist you are doing with that information is you are presented with a problem to solve and you are using various tools. you are using the best tools for that job. that is how we define what stem is. where is the need? >> actually, i'm sorry, before you keep going, it could be that the board of education talks about this issue all the time and may not need the background. if you can talk a little bit about how this came

to be. this is a new initiative from the school district. i know because it's not something we always talked about at the school board and maybe you can talk about the mission and the goals before you launch into details. that would be great. >> sure. the initiative came to be over the past year as the district looked at it's direction in science and math particularly with the new math and science standards. there needed to be a greater umbrella, something that actually wove together in the thinking behind it so it wasn't two parallel tracks. in that weaving together is the 24th century scale is what we are looking for from our students. so that umbrella, that stem umbrella created and avenue for

curriculum instruction. our office is in cabrillo. a direction to put this together, to ask for funding, to create a much more robust compartment to push through not only with science and math but push through with larger sites. further background, further than 5-6 months ago, i'm going to rely on my colleagues if you want to go further back from that. okay. when we talk about stem, many times we talk about the opportunities that are available for not only our students, but for our work force in general. and this slide here has a number of data points. >> can we have sf gov tv to

put on the power points and the tell visions on for the public. >> in 2006 california had the highest number of high tech businesses by a wide margin more than any other state. and we sit in the bread basket of technology world. no surprise to any of us. but also as a share of our total work force those within the stem field were in the top quartile among any state even as popular as california is, we are among the

highest quartile. not only is it in the highest proportion, the highest number, it's growing. those within the technology and engineering field are the fastest growing. so there is opportunity that is on going, yet there is an opportunity gap. there is a mismatch between those jobs that student can veil themselves up and the exposure to take on. that opportunity gap, there is a few data points i would like to point out. in the first one is done by the lawrence hall of science and found that in 2007, only one in five, k-5 teachers spent 1 hour or more on science instruction. the rest spent less. that tells

us that our students aren't getting the opportunity to do science in their younger grades. so one of the consequences of this is math sits inert within them. they may learn the math but they don't know how to apply it out of a lesson because they are not given an opportunity. that's an opportunity gap. another opportunity gap and one which we in the school district speak about quite a bit and recognize as our primary charge are the statues -- students that are african american and latino students achieving at a much lower level. this is in california as a whole. 35 percent of african american and latino students by 11th grade they are in algebra 2. that is the traditional sequence and

traditional timeline as opposed to 52 percent of white and 78 percent of asian students. the other piece is, where are we losing students in terms of interest? in 2012, this is from ed source as well and this is california data. 28 percent of our high school freshman said that they had a stem interest. we know from past projections that 5 percent of them will lose interest by the time they are in their senior year. that is not an occasion of our science and math and other stem cures -- courses in high school. we lost 72 percent in the k school. we are losing

interest early. there are smart, well educated and very successful people who have proposed other solutions for how we satisfy that opportunity gap. one of them, joseph nay, former dean of harvard kennedy school says the united states will be able to enable the work force which is a billion from china who is only enforcing work force of 1.3 and the silicone valley have advocated for comprehensive immigration reform. in full disclosure, my mother immigrated here in 26 from mexico city. i have some very strong opinions about

immigration. much of what i would love to talk to you about over coffee. but what we are saying that we as an education system we can't do our job that they have to go outside of the work force and i reject that and we need to reject that. and that's where we take on stem as a whole. so what is stem charge? now, this is a statement that is common within sfusd, it's a very powerful statement of overcoming the predictive nature of demographics. the person i used to work with in a former job is the president and director of the museum of science. his name is mullist. he used to be the dean of engineering school at

rutgers. he said students that go ahead a degree in engineering also has a family in engineering. that's not surprising. engineering is one of the least understood terms or professions by young people s an engineer a person who drives the train. is an engineer when your toilet breaks in a hotel and you call down and they say they are going to send engineering up? we have closets all over our schools that say engineering on them and when you open them up they contain a water heater. if we want students to go into these fields we need to give them exposure to what an engineer does and how an engineer thinks. we can't do that just for some of the kids. we can't do this just in specific courses that we call stem. or for a certain set of

30 or 50 or even 75 students who get an opportunity to get an externship out of school. we have to do all of this if we want to over come the power of demographics. we need to find solution for our problems. our problem to solve for stem is for 56,000 kids. we need to give students every confidence with the problem solving nature of the jobs within the stem field. and how are we going to do that? well, one of the things is when we roll out our efforts and we'll talk a little bit about what we are doing in math, a little bit about what we are do