horace mann. sylvia hernandez, melissa anderson, alma merlin, david johnson, gayle eagle. >> there should be more that called in today, too? president kim: amy lee, jose ramos, pricilla ameren. i am going to give one minute each. >> what happened to three minutes? >president kim: i can give 15 minutes to the group total. there are 10 speakers. would you rather have 15 minutes for the group or a minute and a half per person? 15 as a group? great. if you can monitor yourself. you have to press a button. >> good evening. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you. i am a member of the san francisco chapter of parent voices, longtime resident of the mission district, and mother of two children, one of whom will be entering the h eighth entering theorace mann -- one of whom will be entering the eighth grade, entering horace mann in the fall. we are concerned with the abrupt decision to share the campus with metro high school. everyone in this room can agree that the key to success is pr

horace mann -- it is almost like horace mann is moving to metro. we only get the second and third floor. i know we are in school that is small. we have to wonder kids. we had to justify that big building. when you talk about sixth, seventh, and eighth graders confined to a upper floor and the bus turns are on the first floor, how did the kids use the bathroom? these are things we do not have time to talk about. we have not had a chance to talk about it. the first day of school, imagine the news. people come down. what is going to look like? consider that? [applause] president kim: >i was hoping to talk about the process. >>

an offer was made to co-locate metro at horace mann. a written offer was made by a district staff representative. metro accepted that offer. we then had what was known as a legally binding offer and acceptance. when we received all the information, that offer had already been received by the district. unfortunately, certain members of the executive team were not necessarily involved in all the conversations and negotiations between the two sides. >> thanks a lot. president kim: i want to keep the court at the meeting. many of us are hearing about this for the first time. we will agendize this. i am not sure win, since this is the last meeting of the school year. >> i am sure we cannot discuss this item, but i think it is appropriate to ask questions we could get answers to, which the board could get and the public could get before the meeting. it should also go on the agenda. however, the questions i would like to have answered -- i would like to know if there has been some change to the prop 39 process within the district, because in p

i also saw mark sanchez, a former school board member and now a principal at horace middle school. where did you go? thank you. we have been under the amazing leadership of a superintendent who has partnered with the city in so many ways that it has been extremely magical to be able to do the things we have done. please join me in welcoming our superintendent of schools, mr. carlos garcia. [applause] >> you know, one of the highlights for me as a superintendent and as a teacher who happens to be the superintendent is that when we go through graduation and watch our young people get a diploma and have -- the call at a commencement ceremony. really, their lives are just guarding that day. i kind of feel like that when we get a chance to recognize our rock stars of our school district, the real stars. american idol has nothing on any of you. you really have talent. when you look at the things these folks do in their classrooms -- in our strategic plan, we talked a lot about joyful learners. what you see in front of you are people who have figured out how to make learning so exciting t

ready feel the heat from this place the life balance in people working here and now they say hello horace heard this really hard laborous that his various items from drinking glasses vases but this thick skull says. it. is amazing that inside such industrial and brush setting they can produce items suit jacket. and peaceful. process hasn't changed much over the past two hundred years items are so how made by skilled local workers. this delightful building in the town was constructed as a church at the end of the nineteenth century during the soviet times it was closed like thousands of others around the country this church here became government offices and the cinema it wasn't until ninety three that it became a museum. there are thousands of glass items here ranging from the eighteenth century onwards representing the history and development of the factories craftsmanship. there was a tradition of giving crystal artworks is to their guests a town and also important and famous people in russia for example these crystal table lamps decorated with emblems of all the soviet republics repres

starting at manzanita elementary, oakland high, west lake, horace mann, tillden. project was a collaboration given the school district and the mccarthy building company, which has a program called tools for schools. ♪ >>> some people came out in san jose to celebrate the anniversaries of the end of world war ii. the event was held in kelly park and included a re-enactment of the moment the public got word of the end of the fighting in the pacific. we're going to see that re-enactment of the kissing. similar enactments were held across the country. world war ii ended 65 years ago today. there's some of the kissing going on. vj day. >>> in san francisco, a crowd in honor of a different annivers y anniversary. social security turns 75 today. dozens came out to celebrate the milestone and voice their support for the program. some lawmakers in washington have suggested either cutting social security benefits or raising the retirement age as a way to fix the deficit. those at today's event had a message for those leaders. >> we are here to say, we want people to take th

back in the nineteen twenties or thirties there was a michigan supreme court case forward in which horace dodge sued henry ford because dodge was painless employees a dollar a day and horde started paying them five dollars a day and. ford's rationale was they can have enough money to buy one of my own cars. but it was viewed by dodge and others as an act of slant to me and so dodge sued you know as the as the head of a corporation your first obligation has to be to earn money now the supreme court ruled in ford's favor but they ruled in his favor because they said he would actually make more money by paying his employees more because they could buy more of his cars which would make it more modern and to this day interesting logic there i want to ask how looking at this you know people are boycotting target people are taking notice of where they're putting their money behind this candidate who does not support gay rights so is this exit an example of evidence that citizens united could actually backfire on corporations if the public really pays attention to where they're putting their mone