i was at school at 4:30 and i go to school. when i was leaving there was a teacher coming in at 6:00. they love it. >> john: they'll burn out. >> when teachers come into our school, we hear all these crazy things, they love it. i mean we got a waiting list for kids, we got a waiting listed for teachers. they know they will change people's lives. they work 180 days a year. they have the summer off, every holiday known to mankind, i don't know how you are going to burn us off when there is 365 days, we have a better vacation time than you do. >> john: we're out of time. my vacation plan is closing in. thank you. next, how american public school is like this horrible car. [ male announcer ] chicken broccoli alfredo. mushroom smothered beef burgers. hearty chicken and noodle casserole. so easy, you just need campbell's cream of mushroom soup to make them and a hungry family to love them. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. at red lobster. there's so many choices. the guests love it. [ male announcer ] it's endless hrimp toda

how many of you went to public school or government schools?any god got a good educational at those schools? most of you. i would argue without real competition, you don't know what you might have had. you don't knows add is. you might have gotten a trebant and thought you got a good education just like the russians or east germans thought they had a good car. right? so i want to plant that idea in your head since most of you got a good education in government run schools. yes, sir. >> shouldn't we at least consider selling our public schools and making them private? with the high technology that we have now, shouldn't the cost of an education should be going down? >> not in america. we spend more money. i cost more to educate a child or a car. [ laughter ] $55,000 for incarcerate a person in oakland it's $18,000 a year. you only spend six and a half hours a day per hour it's cheaper to have someone in prison. >> john: who is next. >> will durant stated that liberty and equality is lifelong enemies. was he right or wrong. >> i don't think so. >

we hope all of the schools are able to participate, october 5, the walk to school day. item e is the parent advisory council report. do we have p.a.c. representative? >> i'm miranda martin, a new p.a.c. member. i have two children at grotten elementary school. >> my time is vatina. >> we spent our first couple of meetings talking about board priorities and our priorities as a p.a.c. we've had an opportunity to speak with deputy superintendent richard grunsa and to hear from board commissioners hydra mendoza and sandy fewer and we've also heard from sfusd staff and we're really glad to see that the district is focusing on setting clear and consistent standards across the district for students and that there is a focus on high expectations for all of our children. we know that that's a really important priority for families across the district. we also believe that the district's focus on core curriculum is a good step and we're interested to see how that's going to be implemented and to learn more about it. in our meeting last week, we met to decide on our priorities for

schools. >> commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: i want to say the schools are beautiful. i'm a fourth generation san franciscoian and my parents went to schools in san francisco and one of them was stockton, which we just saw the other day, what a beautiful school, also that you redid there too. anyway, i want to say thanks, it's beautiful, great news, everything is on time and budget so thanks so much. >> commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: i can pretty much speak just to the transfrmation of the middle schools into high schools. just like you saw for wallenberg that long, narrow corridor, it's really meant for smaller bodies and the work done there to widen the hallway, high schoolers, when that bell rings an they get to walk down without bumping into each other, it's great. the same thing for thurgood marshall, the difference in the hallways, they're wider, high school is still more comfortable. this is made, this is my lane and i'm in here and i love that we recognize that and ma

school. thank you for coming to such a sunny beautiful day to marshall, walking to marshall. [applause] so here's a man that i want to say absolutely needs no introduction, mr. peter avila. >> that wasn't loud enough! [applause] >> i'm not running for mayor so i will not give a campaign speech. i would be number 55 i think. so i live in oakland so it rules me out. thank you so much, everyone, for coming on walk-to-school day. how much kids walk to school every day here? we are one of the schools in the district, i think we might have the highest percentage of walkers to school. now it's real important walk-to-school day is let us know how you are when you walk to school. because you need to let us know, and then we will let this man know if you don't feel safe walking to school. because it is safe walking to schools. this you so much. all of the parents for meeting us at kid power park. i would like to thank audrey. thank you, audrey. thank you for helping out, helping us organize this. and i

, principals of 54 elementary schools, did you hear from 100% of the schools? >> yes, we always do. commissioner wins: i'm glad we do -- commissioner wynns: i'm glad we do this. i'm interested in what you can tell us, it doesn't have to be now, but if there's information about the postponement of curriculum adoptions by the state over time, so we've been talking about, you know, since we're spending a serious amount of money replacing textbooks anyway, getting some that are better for the state -- even if the state doesn't do an adoption and also eventually we'll want to weigh in on the question of whether we ought to encourage the state to stop doing them and those kinds of things. if you could at some time in writing would be fine for me, or maybe we could do it at the curriculum committee or something leek that, having a hearing on the impact of the postponement of the adoption on actual instruction in our district and whichever way, actually, in my view, however the administration prefers to do that, that would be an interesting subject to me. thank you. >>

kids need to be able to get to school, leave school, and have any other interface between the school and street -- for that to happen safely. that is what we are here to talk about today. we have a lot of people that will be giving you a lot of perspective on this. so without further ado, the man leading the effort, who really has created an aura of -- direction for collaboration between the many city departments, school district, and other partners that are part of making this happen, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. i always want to start out now, when i'm with our sfmta director -- two ed's are better than one. so we are coordinating more these days. that has been at the heart of this effort. i want to thank all the efforts that are going on between the school district and sand francisco government and our parents and our police department and our volunteer organizations like walk sf. all of the collaboration going on with supervisors like supervisor mar and others who are behind me -- we are working together to make sure that this whole topic about pedestrian

this is patka girls high school. also running other schools. don't have all the resources to put in buildings. this is in afghanistan and this is a ninth grade class. they're going to school in a russian, soviet, old armored personnel carrier. take a look inside. there's 12 ninth graders going to school learning english. the younger boys are going to school in a steel truck container used to bring over united states military supplies. 80 kids going to school in a truck container. the girls are outdoors going to school in the dirt with one mat one black board that keeps blowing down and they keep picking it up in the wind and one teacher. to me, the courage and hope that resonates when i see those kids - some of these young woman, walk 1/2 hours to get to school. it's time we need to help support them and that they have the opportunity and privilege to all go to school. so, i'm - sometimes people ask ar organization and the board mass upon derd this to say half of our staff is illiterate. why do you hire illiterate people to work with literacy o

schools. here is some of last week's education committee debate on that legislation. senator tom harkin of iowa chaired this hearing for about four-and-a-half hours. [inaudible conversations] >> senate committee on health education, labor and pensions will resume. i thank all the senators for being here and for your helping to move this legislation along. um, and we're going to go -- i don't know when it will break for dinner, we're going to try to find out what the floor situation is like, and as soon as we have some idea on votes on the floor, we'll try to do our dinner break around the time that we may have a bunch of votes on the floor too. so i think we're making great progress, and i thank everyone, i think we've had good debates and good discussions here. i understand senator murkowski has an amendment on title i. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is going to take us back to highly qualified teachers. >> what number is that? >> i'm sorry. it's, my amendment number 3 to title i f that can

school for the middle school.p h when they get city policy to encourage the school district to ensure that all students have the opportunity to attend a quality neighborhood school. after signing siblings to the same school, the highest priority should be to assign each student to the schools close to their homes. finally, the school district should provide students with the opportunity to attend schools with language immersion rather special programs, even if those schools are not close to their homes. ♪ i am here with kris miller, chairperson of students first, a group that sponsored prop h. ms. miller, thank you for being here. why should voters vote for prop h? >> for starters, the reason that prop h was adopted to begin with is roughly 14,000 signatures from san francisco county voters that also, as i do, feel passionately about children being able to attend schools near their neighborhoods. it makes sense. everyone automatically assumes that the child attends a school near their neighborhood or has that opti

we're talking about schools and school reform now.er school explosion in every city and every state. people are talking about charter schools as a way of responding to broken education systems. what do you all say about this? >> to me the biggest thing we've gotten out of charter schools, they have elevated the level of conversation for us to be focused on education. >> for the benefit of our viewers, can you say what a charter school is? >> charter schools essentially are -- they are public schools but privately managed. >> publicly funded and privately run? >> absolutely. i think those schools have had a level of autonomy around their curricul curriculum, hiring and firing of teachers and staff that i think has made a great difference in terms of the work they're doing. >> you're in trenton, i remember maybe ten years ago in trenton, there was one major high school. trenton central high school, and then there was a charter school being birthed. now there's more charter schools and one more high school. it seems people are saying the

in and around schools.people who've left, the 35% who've left, half of them have jobs that relate low-income communities. all you have to do is teach to know that we're not going to solve the problem from within the classrooms alone. >> yeah. >> we need fundamental change. we need more policy leaderss3 and business leaders who influence policy and journalists and all who know, both the possibility of solving the problem and really what it's going to take to solve it. >> we have a couple minutes left. could you give the a sort of the, the story of thesion of founding of teach for america? you were at princeton. >> i was at princeton. >> and you were a college student and you decided, hey, something like this needs to exist. pretty ambitious of you. >> yeah. issue of educational inequity. >> yeah. >> because actually what i saw at princeton, you could nevee see the depths of educational inequity, but you saw there what you saw on every college campus which is, you know, how differently prepared people are to

these are very small schools in many cases. oakland has too many schools. the reason they are closing down the schools is because they have 101 schools for 38,000 students. >> do you remember a few years ago there was a small school movement and bill gates and others supported it and gave money to places like oakland to create smaller community-based schools. is this now kind of a legacy. some of the same schools are going to have to be closed? >> some are merging and becoming one school again. there are seven high schools. many of them are located on two campuses. those schools were separated into seven different schools and they are bringing them back together. that was an experiment that brought a lot of money into oakland from the bill gates foundation, and when they said this isn't working out so well. we're not going to support small schools, they left and they left this legacy, as you said, of all these small schools that oakland can no longer afford. >> so we know the parents are out fighting for this. they don't want to be told that's happening. wh

school. i do not feel i want to pay for the bus today. that is not affordable for me. that is why i feel the process will be helpful for youth in san francisco. it is not just low-income youth. it should be for all youth. we need to bridge a gap so we can have more stigma and more social justice. i hope this will be for all public high school students, because i am going to turn 18 in december. i know a lot of my friends and my school -- we want this to be for all public school students, regardless of age. we need to make sure that we have a good public reputation system. i sincerely support free muni for all youth. i hope that i can get it very soon. thank you. supervisor avalos: are there other members of the public who want to comment? i have seen you walk to school. a lot. we will close public comment. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you, mr. chair. i think now you understand the urgency. i think your birthday is coming up. is it the middle of december? we do not have a lot of

how many of you went to public school or government schools?t a good educational at those schools? most of you. i would argue without real competition, you don't know what you might have had. you don't knows add is. you might have gotten a trebant and thought you got a good education just like the russians or east germans thought they had a good car. right? so i want to plant that idea in your head since most of you got a good education in government run schools. yes, sir. >> shouldn't we at least consider selling our public schools and making them private? with the high technology that we have now, shouldn't the cost of an education should be going down? >> not in america. we spend more money. i cost more to educate a child or a car. [ laughter ] $55,000 for incarcerate a person in oakland it's $18,000 a year. you only spend six and a half hours a day per hour it's cheaper to have someone in prison. >> john: who is next. >> will durant stated that liberty and equality is lifelong enemies. was he right or wrong. >> i don't think so. >> john: ev

in the middle of the school year. i challenge any of you, and if i am wrong, you can slap me. i know you knowingly lied. we teach our children it is wrong to lie, and you are responsible for the education of our children, and you sign your name to a document saying kids will be forced to switch schools in the middle of the year. where were these people when it happened? you know there were more people in favor than against it. that is misleading, but it is knowingly and lying when you say kids will be forced to switch between school years. each of you signed your name to this document. students could see themselves transferred to other school sites, and it could take place in the middle of the semester. if you are responsible for the education of children, you should not sign your name to something you know is false. if you want to prove you're not liars and misleading our city, take a lie-detector test, and i bet you will fail. [applause] >> my name is lorraine. thank you for the opportunity to speak for a few moment

don't go to school. it's simply crazy. the other thing is i honestly think that having so many citations issued because of people not paying the muni fast passes, just increases disrespect and fear of law enforcement officials who they shouldn't feel fear for. they should feel -- they should feel respect for them. they should feel -- safe people to go to. but i think the idea of getting a huge fine that their families can't handle for not paying a 75 cent fare just kind of makes -- kind of makes riding the bus as a high school student seem like -- seem like a constant collaboration against the law. and i don't think that's a positive thing for the san francisco's young people. the other thing is just the promotion of environmentally friendly practices for youth. i think is something that's very important for our city and central to our city's values. and quite honestly i think that muni could use a little bit of good press. nobody likes what's going on with muni right now. and this is a chance for muni t

which schools. you will see a breakdown given a more strategic level with partners they are seeing, which includes actual personnel. >> because they have worked so intensely with that, have we managed to integrate our own people so when this money is gone and they are no longer in love with us anymore, how will we continue to do this, because we will need to stop because the money is not fair. perhaps it is a gradual release last year it was about 164,000 per school. this year it was 128,000, and some schools but do not need as much attention are paying 77,000. i will say they do outside funding and fund raising to support their work. because they have been able to pay at this level for the schools, they have allowed us to apply for other schools who do not have the same funding, so it is like they are part of it by virtue of the fund raising, but it is a gradual process. each of these schools get one every day as well as someone who coordinates the work and works of his own level and partners with

serving 59 elementary and middle schools from 44 school buses down to 25. excluding the school buses for special education students. and because these and the it is unified school district aims to promote an appreciation of the diversity that exists in every neighborhood and community, you should be able to access of the opportunities advances go has to offer, including but not limited to after-school programs, museums, parks, and job opportunities regardless of what neighborhood they live in. at the result of the elimination of school buses as a commuting options, all students that depend on school buses are forced to find alternative in node of transportation. and whereas free muni would eliminate the challenges of purchase and distribution that hindered the success of the life line passes. and whereas environmental awareness is important in the city of san francisco and allowing them to utilize public transportation systems advances our goal to a more sustainable environment. and whereas the recent downturn in the economy places a financial burden on fam

i know how to build schools. but i'll tell you, none of those schools have the character and really just the feeling of art, of, you know, great a tech the history, the legacy, that the schools that david and his crew have been working on. when you look at them, i just hope, you know, the voters, everybody, i get a chance to visit schools twice a week i go out and visit schools. i remember working here in the late 1980's and our schools didn't look anything like this. i think every citizen in san francisco, when you drive around and see the schools, that's something you genuinely should feel really, really proud about. that's great work, brings that legacy to the next century, it just, it stands up for the most important thing on the planet with -- which really is our children and to invest in them, when i went to cobb, when i've been to all the school, cleveland, you ask the kids, what do you think about your school? the gleam out of their eye, the big old smiles, the excitement that -- wow, people really care a

schools. she was a sro , school resource officer. during that time, she worked with middle schools throughout the district and in many areas where they were experiencing violence. she has been an invader. i would like to acknowledge captain masha ash. captain ash has done a tremendous amount of work. she worked on protocols that would work with children taken to the youth facility. during the parent's arrest and from trauma. thank you very much officer pri lo and captain nash. i am going to go over the panel discussion. we are try find solutions which includes violence to and from school and on the site. our goal is to move forward solutions. we ask that all questions be reserved today end. please feel free to jot down questions you have. those questions we are not able to get to, we are interested in collecting them. we are going to collect information with respect to solutions as well as action items that they are going to take back and work on. so our first topic is violence to and from sch

first is the director of the office of chargers schools, who has just joined us. joining him is our management assistant in the office of equity and charter schools, and we could not think of a better way to welcome him to our district and presenting him to our board. >> we hope you have been enjoying the meeting. we are pleased to have you. >> thank you, superintendent. it is a pleasure to be here. i feel very welcome, and i feel very challenged by the work to be done, so thank you. i am here with my management assistant, and we need to request that you except the reports for the oversight visits for school year 1112. season visit had to be done for the 28 schools that are re, and the basic framework is that under the settlements we are required to inspect all of our schools to make sure that they have proper textbooks, proper facilities, and that they are providing services to students who have completed grade k through 12. we have to provide those for two years following their completion of grade 12. we have two independent auditors. george did the audit on the

high school district.ta clara county, 1648 n california, almost 41,000 latinos dropped out of school in the last academic year. that's unacceptable. >> we can't afford to have one of them fall out. who is going to become the engineers and doctors, lawyers, teachers, technicians, computer specialists? >> not those 40,000. >> that's what i'm saying. we can't afford to let one of those youngsters drop out. the teachers need to work closer with those students in more favorable situations to make sure they stay in school. huge difference in what you achieve academically and earning power as an adult. >> joe used to be in sacramento. he wants to head back to sack men the yoe. in our next segment, we'll talk about what can be done. money? there is no money there. we keep cutting education. we'll ask a couple of the tough questions in our next segment. a good website for you to log on to is the silicon education foundation. they have a lot of great information. [ female announcer ] these are the grands! biscuits y

and that from middle school to high school. that is a big area of emphasis for this group. lastly, quality in school time experiences. we want to make sure that the schools that are around hope sf, along with other schools, we have the resources to engage with the community around education issues and we have the resources to address the challenges that come from being in a really stressful environment as many of these students are. we can create the programs that many of us heard about that malcolm x to create real world settings. i am going to leave it there. he will talk about some good news we received about choice neighborhoods. >> good afternoon. i am with the mayor's office of housing. school board has an evolution and there is a a little bit of an art to it. that taught us some of the power of involving be youth in the school. thinking big across five sites. what are some of the leavers of change for education? talking about really whalookingt that port in terms of the shipyard transformation in the district. i wanted t

the mix of charter schools, elementary, middle schools, high schools. that's pretty small small schools can a few very large schools. we intentionally try to distribute this would be all about what type of school uses more time. because there's different schools, to use it differently. there's not one single family untreated formula here. i do not violate the very successful schools. the prototype examples here. i believe the academy's principle is here. could you leave your hand? thank you for being here today. [applause] 26 points higher on your map proficiency rate in your community is a relatively new school and challenge community is the kind of outcome are looking to see. it's not just about academic outcomes. as important as those are comments about getting into and sticking through college. it's impressive to see the school in texas and 97% of the students who enrolled in college. so they don't have a graduation rate yet, but it's pretty promising. these are schools in this dimension, academic can attain the ways really stand out. this is a comp

school? >> there isn't a word for it. >> john: but they say they avoid the problem kids but sadly up to now, they have one the shot and made us stupid in america. >> school spending has tripled over the past 40 years. we nd much >> john: school spending has tripled over the last 40 years but what do we can't. more assistant principles. here is the line. for scores have been flat. >> john: the school needs to is cape the bureaucracy this school enrolls inner city schools students at risks of failure but they learn. >> going to our school is a ticket to educational success. >> john: this woman runs several charter schools. all get outstanding test scores. >> you do this with the same money with public schools do? >> we have do it with less. >> john: how for less money do they get the kids so interested. >> they are interested in math and reading and writing. >> learning is work. >> the school days are longer, they often stay until 5:00 p.m. charter teachers can be asked to work more than the un

we need to turn every school into a community school. i had a fabulous opportunity to visit this school. it's for kids who have failed in every way. it's colead by the cb on. they do the counseling. vocational work. the district is the class teaching. they have somebody at their side all the time to help with the needs of the student and the principle and cbo get up and meet every morning. they were total partners in making this a community school. then i will be through. i had the opportunity to go to another school at 9 o'clock at night where i thought it was going to be closed. i walk into the school in upper manhattan and it is lit up like a christmas tree. we have to light up every school. it changed the whole neighborhood. it was a beacon of wonderfulness. it was full of activity. of young people. parents. esl. everything. i got so excited about the potential could be. and it changed the neighborhood and young people. if you want to talk about safety. i think we can make a joint commitment to this philosophy and start making it hap

every school has a certain amount of school pride. most days, students don't mind exhibiting it.his program, it was just one big family. and that was incredibly refreshing. they were engaged with each other. they were like classmates, which they obviously had been, but they were teammates, too. all the accolades they were getting, they were congratulating each other. i thought that was fantastic. that goes to really the folks who have set the program up. i am congratulate and all of you for really setting the tone for the young people to participate and supporting them through it. ups and downs, you know, struggles, challenges, when the road is easy, then when it gets difficult, all of that mixed together, i just thought it was great. i apologize for not being able to attend the sunday cook out. it also sounded like it was pretty fantastic. darn it. next time, i definitely want to make it. i will put it on my calendar so i can attend. just the bible is just wonderful. -- the vibe is just wonderful. i want to thank all of the adults use -- who helped set the tone for young people