this one bay area grant is only 3% of the discretionary portion of the rtp, and that is even a tiny fraction of the whole bag of money. hundreds of billions of dollars. we, the san francisco bicycle coalition, would love to see this kind of policy conditioning applied to the whole bag of money. this is a tiny step, but we need to take this step. on behalf of the bicycle coalition and many other advocates, we hope you will support this, move this forward, and have san francisco assert leadership in the region. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, let me stick with san francisco. so the way i would like you all who represents san francisco to look at this grant money is first to really study our housing element. and then we get some of the major transportation projects that we have already done in our city. ford semel, we spent $700 million on the third street light rail. it starts at fourth and king and ends in the middle of nowhere. and about 30,000 homes are planned in the future. we would like to seek what type of transportation goes up to hunters

and we have hundreds of thousands of jobs in north carolina at the rtp because the government came togetherh private industry and helped create this industry in north carolina. so i think we've got to continue doing that. but we've got to do it with democrats and republicans putting aside the partisan bickering, the ideologues, and work together. just last week, i introduced a bill with john mccain as the co-sponsor on the foreign earnings reinvestment act. american companies have, right now, over a trillion dollars sitting overseas, not doing americans any good. if we can bring that money back to our country, we can begin to hire american workers, and once again, john mccain and i came together and put this bill forward. it's got to be a bipartisan effort in order to move forward. >> well, the crowd in north carolina chanted four more years for obama, but the president made clear his priority right now. let's hear what he had to say. let's listen. >> i appreciate -- i appreciate the four more years, but right now, i'm thinking about the next 13 months. because, yes, we've got an election c

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telling my colleagues i'm concerned about the administration's effort to implement the race to the top, rtpis the acronym which has been put forth i think you quickly without sufficient review. our tt created in the 2000 stimulus package a competitive grant program that provides federal money to states that enact plans to improve suits performed by making progress on standards and assessments. turning around low performing schools boosting teacher quality, and adopting common standards for curriculum. however, we have yet to see whether rtt actually promotes increased student achievement. given the current focus to use resource proven practices it seems premature to fully implement a still experimental policy, priority. especially when grantees already receiving awards have been granted more than 2000, two dozen timeline extensions. according to a june 2011 gao report on rtt officials in 20 states that were interviewed reported that apply for rtt required a significant amount of time and effort. in fact, one state official estimated that her state spent at least 1000 hours in preparation fo