and i'm studying ged. i want to continue to finish my ged.

we also have our ged program, we fought hard. there was a recommendation to cut the ged program from our mission statement and we as an institution said no. i know that a young man who grew up in double rock, he went to southeast campus, very fortunate. in bayview we're fortunate to have two campuses in our neighborhood. he grew up, went to southeast campus got his ged from our transitional space campus and went to evans campus and took a nine-month certificate program to get his certification for mechanic. he now works at an auto shop off of south van ness and he makes $45,000. that is the type of story that city college should always be like. that is a type of story that we try to prioritize. that is a type of student that we try to serve at city college. and i believe that that is kind of our clash of values. now, i understand that we all are fighting to keep city college open, but a lot of us kind of say, you know, we want to keep city college open. we also want to keep it -- save it the right way. and the right way is making

and now he wants to pay it forward. >> i'm helping the gentlemen get ready for their ged test.ething i volunteer to do. and to help somebody else, man, makes me feel like i've achieved something. >> you're flushing too much. you've got too much on your brain. just calm down, relax, and just work the problem. >> but now it's time for 40-year-old lewis to play a new role. graduate. >> put on my dress. cute little dress i get to wear. >> still, his reputation precedes him. >> hey, listen. you know this is the gift, right? don't rip it in half, bam bam. >> it's too small. >> ged graduates are allowed to have one visitor at the ceremony. and lewis' has just arrived. >> hi, baby. >> i'm here to watch my son finally graduate. >> good seeing you again. it's been a year. >> yes. >> but you finally get to see me walk down the aisle, huh? >> yeah, finally. >> i'm just so glad he's doing this and getting it done. i've been trying to get him to do it for a while. and it's the first time i've actually gotten to touch him for a long time. >> keep it coming. keep it coming. keep it coming. [ a

because number one i come out here every day and i teach a ged math class for adu. i ain't making no money. but i tell you what, it's something that i know that the community needs. we got six people who passed the ged test and no one really expected us to have that many people. so i come here every day to put in my time. because i look for the community that need my help. i am an architect by education. i spent time in the neighborhood. i director of housing for the city of atlanta empowerment agency. i been around. i been around. so i do not like what i see when i drive down third street. it don't make me feel good. if any of y'all drive third street and feel good? i say this is not the place for you. thank you. >> i want to thank you mayor. you know this is my community. espinola jackson, dr. espinola jackson's community. and when i raise my hand for them to pick up if one wants to have something to say. i had my hand in the air first, i don't know how i got behind. i ran behind for the speakers, they don't know the services we have in this building here in this

the items really better than whawk find at the supermarket.er >> the whole issue of local is really gedhed. it used to be -- really getting stretched. it used to be 250 miles now it's in the state and in the country. >> supermarket guru said a taste test is your first line of defense at a farmer's market. f >> if they won't let you do it, don't buy from them. they don't want to you taste it. taste first.irst talk to the farmer. see where it's grown. g get a relationship going. >> never assume that produce is certified organic or even localc many use traditional organic methods but are not usda certified. >> you have to look behind the table. talk to the farmer and if it says they are organic in one off those handwritten signs on thehe box, ask to see the certification.ce by law they have to have their certificate there.ic >> don't discount your local supermarket for fresh local produce. >> every supermarket has both organic and conventional, has some local. keep in mind if it's in season it's probably local. this time of year you get blueberries and strawberries and peaches but in janua

and i'm studying ged. i want to continue to finish my ged. i'm a mother for two childs. they're going to city college and i don't want to lose city college. i know i want to have education for my kids [speaker not understood]. all the students so i will support city college. please keep open. thank you. (applause) >> i'm going to call a few more cards. alvin jah. renato [speaker not understood]. gordon mcclellan. patrick [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. and kabin baras. okay. >>> hello, thank you very much for having this meeting. we really need it. my name is holman turner, i'm a professional photographer. i also teach at city college. i've done that for the past 17 years. so, ~ somehow i fell in love with students and they fell in love with me. and for months i've been walking around as if this was something surreal, that we could actually be thinking about shutting down city college. for months i kept asking myself if the accreditation firm that is seeking to close city college is so interested in the quality of their education, how could they possi

and enrollment in ged programs. perhaps you can get into a certificate for graham. and legal services. the first time a concentrated amount of money is being put into an audience like this, which is undocumented. we need six times that amount of money to do what really needs to happen for our undocumented population. english-language acquisition is going to be a big one. i want to talk about the legalization process. legal services will be one of the greatest challenges we will witness with this reality. we in new york are very fortunate to have a tremendous number of law firms and law schools. we have a nonprofit community, a network that has robust legal services. we have got quite a lot of legal minds in the city of new york. the reality is, we have one immigration lawyer for every 10,000 immigrants. the realities of immigration fraud and the number of individuals who hang shingles to say, i am here to help you, pay me money -- we see this now. we have individuals putting out messages that we can help you. we hav

and i had my ged and i wanted to find the best place to do that. i moved from [speaker not understood] san francisco, partially because of the reputation of city college being affordable and also a good reflection of what the city actually is, a very difficult verse population. something i really felt like i could grow well in. hearing how some people tend to talk about improving city college, you know, yeah, i want to voice my intensive -- my support that city college be preserved as it is a an institution that serves a lot of different age groups. two years ago i went to sacramento to see the -- to go be part of a hearing for the student success task force. there they talked about helping out the kids and how all city college of california, they kept talking about kid. they saw someone from the mayor's office talking repeatedly about the kids of city college. i think anyone who spent any time at city college can notice that the average age of most of the people at city college is like 30 or so or plus. so, if i'm a kid, i guess that makes me a ki

they're very he helpful they help us get our ged or high school diploma. i became a member and the second day i wanted to enroll back into school and the staff helped to enroll in march in may i graduated and got my high school diploma. they're very helpful to get our education. and i'm working on getting to san francisco city college. so i'd like to give my huge thanks for them helping me to get to this yeah, it's a good program. thank you >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please come on up and if there are members of the public who are elderly or have small children speak to one of the volunteers. >> i'm bernard. since we're addressing all budget items i want to focus our attendance on the central subway budget we believe should be placed in awe obedience until there's a friends audit. particularly regard the false and legality uncertain california environmental act and accessibility of the handicap walk between union square and market street replacing is by benches does not meet the standards. secondly, the subway will be 80 feet above

countryside,ged people live in constant fear. fear of what they call the killer planes. the fight against al qaeda, they have dramatically stepped up the use of drums strikes here. these are the frequent assertions that they don't attack populated areas. this is apart. >> we are not all al qaeda. we don't know why we were targeted. >> yemen has become the second biggest fraud in the global warfare. they are caught in the crossfire. >> one morning last september, his wife and son stepped into a vehicle in their village. they were heading to a nearby town among other villagers, but the family never returned. the vehicle was hit by to drone missiles. some of those that survived the attack we were told died in hospital later. >> may tragedy strikes them. they killed my relatives and destroyed our lives. life will never be the same for us again. >> my mother died of shock. also there because of the horrible attack. a human rights activists income beating against those attacks. been condemning the drawn attacks. >> as the u.s. continues the attacks, people say all they have ac

. >> unlike a college educated teacher, the minimum requirement is a high school diploma, ged, or equal. >> there are people who are well educated that would be so happy to have these jobs and do it with a smile on their face. >> those considerable bart skills are required through years of on the job training makeing this extremely difficult to replace them. looking at the sally -- salaries, more eethmade more th 200,000 years -- 10 made more than 3 hundred thousand and 1 made more than 400,000. >> that situation may be out of control. >> that is why evan had little sympathy for either side. >> it is outrageous to inconvenience this many people. >> it all comes down, for me, to being grateful for what you have. it felt very ungrateful. >> so the fight goes on. reporting live channel 2 news. >>> and the bay area council says the environment is paying a price with a spike in air pollution. the group says all the extra traffic is putting 16 million more pounds of carbon into the air >>> with bart not running, commuters are turning to other methods of transportation. for looking for a ride

otras informaciones, muchos adultos están en una carrera contra el tiempo para acudir y obtener el gedos gobiernos de francia, españa que digan quién les dijo que edward snowden estaba en el avión presidencial. >>> el gobierno boliviano ha convocado a los embajadores de francia, italia, españa, y al cónsul de portugal, como lo habíamos anunciado para que den una explicación de lo sucedido con el avión presidencial y el propio presidente evo morales. >>> mientras tanto miles de simpatizantes del presidente de bolivia, evo morales quemaron banderas de estados unidos y países europeos en apoyo al mandatario. >>> el presidente de méxico enrique peña nieto hizo un llamado a los candidatos a aceptar los resultados de los comicios. >>> ray rodríguez con los detalles . >>> la del domingo fue una jornada sin incidentes graves, pero marcada por una baja participación ciudadana, por los estados donde se desarrollaron los comicios, el presidente de méxico enrique peña nieto pidió a los partidos a acatar los resultados electores. >>> las elecciones de ayer confirman la fortaleza y la vigencia de nu

>> ged classes, and then hopefully, after i get my ged, i start some college classes. my goal is to be a vet tech hopefully within two years i can be in a vet school somewhere. >> it was really sweet to watch jennifer with her son caden. the love was very obvious. then i found out that jennifer had four other children that she lost custody of and hadn't seen for three years. so, it became obvious to me that this was her second chance of actually being a mother and raising her child. >> now he is eating vegetables. >> mm-hmm. >> and fruit and a bottle, and he goes for his six-month checkup next week, and he'll probably get shots. >> oh, no, bubba, you've got to get shots! >> look at mama. this is your mama, yes. emotionally, i have to tell myself that it's just time for bonding with him. but the hardest part is knowing that i have to leave him and go back to the cell. >> hopefully, when she gets out, it will be easier for them to bond again and be connected. >> you know, i just talk to him the whole time and try to look in his eyes, you know, keep him looking at me, so

we're middle-ged. we're not pretending we aren't. we're middle-aged and we're still that stupid. >> i love that. >>> elisabeth hasselbeck is leaving "the view" for a co-host duty of "fox and friends." news of her departure broke on the same day her former co-worker and "today" show special correspondent meredith vieira announced her deal for a new syndicated talk show on nbc. both starts in september. >>> beyonce continues to shed her good girl image for the cover of "flaunt" magazine. a lot of eyes open after that. i'm richard lui. this is "early today." >>> leading the news in "the washington post," a brand-new u.s. military headquarters in afghanistan and no one to use it. it was at camp leather neck but given ongoing withdrawal they don't plan to move in. >>> in "the hollywood reporter." "walton" actor joe connelly died. he appeared on dozens of other shows including "green acres" and "mr. ed." >>> topping our news this morning, vice president joe biden among thousands paying tribute to the 19 fallen firefighters on tuesday. >>>

they recognize there is a high return to getting a ged, so they go on and get it. most of u.s. natives are in the high school diploma or ged, some college, or bachelor's degree category, and small percentages are in the masters or professional degrees or in the ph.d. category. what you should walk away from this with is the comparison of immigrants to natives. what this figure shows is the relative share of immigrants to the share of natives. it is taking the first figure and dividing by the second figure. it is comparing the two. immigrants are disproportionately at the extreme. they are particularly likely to be at the no high school degree level, not a surprise when you think about the fact that 1/3 of immigrants are from mexico, latin america, or other relatively poor countries. look what happens when you look at the other side of the educational distribution. the percent of ph.d.'s, immigrants are twice as likely as u.s. natives to have a ph.d. and just as likely to have a master's or professional degree. then you look at immigrants, they are at the ends of the labor marke

most educated jail populations, in-custody populations because of how effective it is in providing a ged, diploma, or high school certificate. but if there is no pathway beyond the high school for people who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, we're stuck. and considering that the san francisco sheriff's department books approximately about 35,000 or 40,000 people per year, even though our daily jail population is one of the lowest in the united states per capita, it is my worry that if we're talking about public safety and crime prevention that what is not mainstream in this discussion is the relationship to city college and the criminal justice system. we need city college to be built into the jail system and we need our programs to be affiliated with city college outside the jail system. and when the sheriff and/or anybody tries to nurture relationships, i think it's really critical that we don't squander those opportunities so that we foster what i think is on all of our minds, and that is how cost prohibitive san francisco is becoming. but think about those that struggle just

service many residents every year and they gain skills in sustainable building, life skills, ged preparation and wrap around services. we are the de facto job provider for the green train academy. it cost $6,500 a year to train these at risk youth in our program versus hundreds of thousands of dollars to incarcerate one of them. we recently celebrated our 40th year serving communities of risk here in san francisco and without your funding our program is in danger of closing our doors. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon budget and finance. clear the decks. light the city lights. we got nothing to hit but the budget highs. you will be great. you will be swell. everything's coming up roses for the city garden. it was good to see chris daly. good to see chris daly. we can't going to take this anymore. we ain't going to take this, all the money took so long to make it. we ain't going to take it. we're going to rake it in. we're going to take the money that they get and we're going to surely rake it. we're going to make it and we're going to take it some more. yes, and

for the people who have grown up in the country and should be available for those who are receiving ged or vocational training and in addition to those completing a high school diploma, whereas comprehensive immigration reform must insure that the significant financial bearers including a lack of access for the federal loans are a... for the formally undocumented students and whereas the... and should insure the hum main treatment and due process rights for all whereas the new proposed rerequirements for aspiring citizens including english language should not produce burdens on new comers and whereas the comprehensive reform should extend the rights to same-sex couples as those afforded to all other families including the right of the american sit ens to sponsor the same-sex partners for legal residency and whereas the immigration judges should be able to look closely at a number of factors especially the children in family ties in the united states which considering to cancel depourtation and be it resolved that the board of education urges the president and the congress of the united

we service many residents every year and they gain skills in sustainable building, life skills, ged preparation and wrap around services. we are the de facto job provider for the green train academy. it cost $6,500 a year to train these at risk youth in our program versus hundreds of thousands of dollars to incarcerate one of them. we recently celebrated our 40th year serving communities of risk here in san francisco and without your funding our program is in danger of closing our doors. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon budget and finance.

friday where the largest highest amount of graduates that were receiving their high school diploma or ged or certificate, 65 on friday, 720 diplomas to date. we've been able to show through a tracking system of five keys charter that the recidivism rate of five keys is literally half of what it is of those that don't graduate which is causing other jail systems in the state like los angeles to now import the five keys charter school to los angeles. i told sheriff baca that as long as they continue to sustain the name san francisco sheriff's department in los angeles and have a giants emblem above it, i'm okay with thatedthv kidding on the very last part of it. ~ new last strategies also have to do with the recruitment of deputies within san francisco and staffing within san francisco. it has not been routine for the sheriff's department to really be part of community events. this past weekend, the sheriff's department was at juneteenth festival. i was a supervisor of that particular district. always was part of the juneteenth festival, something to be very proud of. but that was not neces

we work with them to get their ged, to help them get their resumes together, and we work with them to find the jobs that are suitable for them. whatever their skills are, we use their skills and look at their limitations and help them to apply for those specific jobs that are suitable for them. our mission is about respect and care, and it's about making sure that all individuals become the best person that they can be, being able to become self-sufficient. when a customer first comes into the wecare program, they go through a comprehensive, what's called a bio-psycho-social assessment. so all aspects of their medical and their mental health and their social environment are assessed to understand what are the key barriers preventing them from reengaging the workforce. so that we can understand their entire health picture holistically. having these skills that you have in front of you right now is so important that some of us don't even realize it. that how listening skills is so important to us. individuals with mental health and substance abuse have many challenges. the most importan