>> good morning betsy carmichael. >> good morning. >> one more time good morning betsy car michael. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> buns dies. >> my name is 89 i can't i'm the preferential of betsy car michael filipino education center (clapping.) we want to welcome we want okay. we want to testing can everybody hear me we want to welcome everyone to walk and roll today day and on behalf of the betsy car michael community i want to give a warm welcome to the honorable mayor ed lee supervisor supervisor jane kim (clapping (clapping.) superintendent carranza chief suhr (clapping.) and all of city and transportation leaders that who are here this morning. >> (clapping) >> we have very happy to be here today to highlight that walking to school can be fun and healthy for our students betsy car michael is a very special school because of the exists people and the families who work for a one purpose to make this school a great place to learn for the children of san francisco and a we love that our school it in the heart of this great city of san francisco and unfortunately student familie

while we'll be doing the event at betsy carmichael it is a city-wide event. there are at least nine of our supervisors are going to be walking to schools in their districts with students from their districts throughout the city. nearly 90 schools and more than 13,000 students are expected to celebrate the day which will be a new record in term of participation. so, the school district and other schools are really stepping up the city through rec and park, department of public health, the mta and other -- the police department, strong partnership to try to raise the awareness of walk and roll to school day. the safe routes to school partnership in san francisco, of which our agency is a part, helps organize the day. what the partnership does is implement the federally funded safe routes to school program to encourage more families to walk, bike, take transit or car pool to and from school. dph, public health is the lead agency and has lots of other public and private partner. so, it will be a good -- should be a great morning if the weather holds a it should,

community bilingual supporters that the advocacy around filipino bilingual education continues at betsy carmichael school, where the [speaker not understood] after school program [speaker not understood] is still run 40 years after mr. [speaker not understood] served on the citizens bilingual task force. today it is really wonderful to honor [speaker not understood] given that san francisco recently certified tagalog as a language covered under our city's language access ordinance. with mr. [speaker not understood]'s family here today, i wanted to share with them that our office has been working to build upon his legacy by improving language access for all through strengthening the language access ordinance to something that was spearheaded by supervisor chiu here. mr. [speaker not understood]'s legacy will continue to impact our communities. he was a gem in our district and has impacted so many through his service to our city. and i don't know if this is up and running now, but we recently, mr. [speaker not understood] was actually honored by asian, inc., so, we do have a video that they played t

we have one small elementary school, and we have betsy carmichael and which their little school was designed to be a very small little school and actually all of our elementary schools are small elementary schools and have the capacity of about 400 or 500 and so i think that it causes us to pause and rethink a little bit about where, or what we need to do with our existing properties and also, if our school population changes, and we see a increase, we may need to look at new administrative offices that can also support and accommodate this new growth in our student enrollment. that will mean that we will need to look at probably a new administrative office, or build on our existing one consider thating our administrative offices are all over the city and not in one location, and so i think this is very timely to have this conversation and what commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell mentioned about what is happening in the mission, and we can't look at one development, and i think that it would not be prudent or wise to look at one development without looking in isolation and that we would need to l

the students of betsy carmichael elementary school received a special escort from san francisco policehief and the mayor ed lee. civic leaders are hoping to encourage kids to walk to class that will promote healthier living and it's also good for the environment. >> glad they had fun doing that. >>> it's no secret the cost of living in san francisco is affecting many people, especially teachers. >> the affordability crisis is just one reason why san francisco schools will soon really have a hard time recruiting teachers. >> abc 7 news education reporter lyanne melendez explains. >> reporter: their stories have been told before. teachers not able to find an affordable apartment in san francisco. >> i thought it was two bedroom and it was a studio for $2500, then they were offering me a two bedroom for $3500 which is going to be over 50% of what i make. >> reporter: she and her daughter are still living with her aunt. buying into the housing market is not even a consideration for frank. >> i think an apartment, sharing an apartment right now, which i'm currently in that housing situation