ab 1385 and ab 1397 introduced by ting helped reform the community college accredidation process. i urge your support for these important pieces of legislation and also to join me and other colleagues here on may 7 at 2 p.m. where i have a hearing on the status of city college in the public safety and neighborhood service committee. please join us if you can. yurd our world lost a champion of social justice and democracy and chronicle of latin america [inaudible] i'm talking about edward or gal yawno who passed away yesterday. he was a year grain activist and journalist. i want to say of his passing many people have talks about it globalally but i'll say his impact on me in 1984 when i moved to san francisco i picked up an amazing trilogy of books called the memy of fire about the istry och american and peoples strug lt. it was the real history of the americans and it moved me greatly and also fed my mind and sole and helped give me new eye tooz see the world from the perspective of real people, oprezed people and i thank you edwaurdo gal ono for his insight as a journal ist. i ls

the current accredidation challenge is a wake up call for show how important city college is to the sates higher education and work force opportunities. i'm so thrilled that even burr ocobama the president made community college a sener piece of his agenda. think of all the opportunities this will provide for making the first 2 years of community college free for everyone. [applause]. i hope all have there opportunity to listen to vise president biden make remarks about this this last weekend. brf i conclude i want to acknowledge nattily burke for nob naurb er started at city college ij19 sixz 7 as a instructor. she then served on the-as a dean of the school of health and physical education in the 199 o#'s before serving on the college board including several years as the president. it is a incredible privilege to follow in her foot steps and grateful for all she has done for the city and public educationism mr. mayor i can't tell you honored and excited for the opportunity to serve the city and the student. i work forward to working with you and fellow trustees qu elected officials at th

all the support that our education leaders give or that the city gives, we are going to exceed accredidation. that is behind us. going forward we'll exceed those standards because that is what our economy demand, that is what our sit aments to have. we have public, private part nrbships that are beginning to show up in dramatic fort this is a a challenge of what we meet when we have companies like google and wells fargo step up, interfaith counsel that knows the valuef our education institutions. our own committees, our chamber of commerce where they signaled unit sf and embrace our education institutions, all of them, or sf city going to all the public nugzs institutions and make sure they center the resources they have. we circle the education. as i told alex thiss is a great time. it is a time when you join trustees helping us not only turn the corner, but i think a new day, which is the public private partnership i always felt was at the strength of our institutions all of them whether they are arts organizations or education institutions, whether they are servicing our public. therenewe

assembly bill 4 or 4,thry 85 and 1397 to reform rule jz procedures in cal community colleges and accredidation process >> supervisor mar >> thank you colleagues t. is a very simple amendment changing the language on the name of one of the organizations that supported this. i want to thank supervisor co00 for adding her name as a cosponsor. i urge your support for the amendment jz resolution as amendmented >> supervisor marb made a motion to amend. second by supervideser farrell without objection the item is amended. colleagues can we take the underlying item as amended without objection? without objection this resolution is adopted ananimously. madam clerk can you read the imperative agenda item >> i do not believe we have a imperative item today jrktss okay, that is great. is there any in memorial >> today meeting is adjourned in memy of the following individual on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late [inaudible] >> this bringstuse the end of the meeting and the ernd of our ajunda. madam clerk is there any furlter business today >> that concludes the business for today. we rujourned thank

the school had problems and almost lost accredidation last year but the commission adopted a new policy allowing ccs staff more time to comply with standards. nancy pelosi praised school leaders for their work today. >> nothing brings more money to the treasury, local state or federal, than the education of the american people.. >> reporter: ccsf is the largest community college in california. serves between 80 and 90,000 students a year. >>> the jury in the boston marathon bombing trial went home for the day after the first full day of deliberations. walden reports on how the jury is expected to make the decision. >> reporter: prosecutors say he played a role in the boston marathon bombings and his own defense team admits that as well. now it's up to a jury to decide. five men and seven women charged with deciding the fate. although many legal analysts are expecting a quick guilty verdict the jury needs to consider 30 different counts. >> you have -- weapons of mass destruction. murder. many many to go through . they'll look at all of the evidence and catalog some of it. go through cou