wanted to meet the needs of all students, including newcomers who spoke languages in addition to cantonese and mandarin students wanted recognition of their by cultural identity. also specialty education students who should have access before high school to learn another language. people also raised fundamental questions about how to meet different academic needs, and these questions include how do we best meets different learning styles and abilities. how can the district support providing instruction? why does access to high-quality education so uneven? finally, people wondered what is in place now and what can be put in place, the impact with budget cuts, and how this fits into efforts to align curriculum across the district. good >> we will discuss more on our findings. quality middle schools, language pathways, student assignment, how parents felt about the process. quality level schools. people have different priorities, but these schools where the principal and staff have a clear vision about how to meet different needs of diverse student populations. while the district described a

executive producer of the "daily mandarin and cantonese newshour." next to him is the director of multimedia and technology programs at the night digital media center at uc-berkeley. next is the managing is theidd -- managing director at idd ventures sf. nexus' the editor in chief of marketwatch.com, part of news corp. -- next is the editor in chief. the co-founder and senior community manager of oakland local, a nonprofit media that promotes public discourse on issues. in the front row is a media analyst, who publishes an was a key developer of the mercury center. next to him is an assistant professor of broadcast and electronic media at san francisco state university. next is the managing editor for local news at -- i'm sorry. he is not at yahoo!, right. he is editor-in-chief of patch.com, a division of aol that provides news to specific communities. very local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san

one hour of cantonese news and one hour of mandated -- one hour of mandarin is. challenges are daunting and hard to overcome here in the past, we were protected by our own language. we are the only game in town. but once you are online, that advantage will go away very quickly because those people will go on line -- everybody is your competitor. even if you have your language, there are hundreds of thousands of chinese websites. how do you overcome that? there is no silver bullet. for me, i think the right thing to do is really build up your community. you empower your community. the part of your community, and people -- it is not the you have a story that only i reported it, which is great, but it is not going to happen every day. so what do you give your audience for your readers to keep them coming back to your site or tv station to try to find the news they want? it is really up to how you feel your community -- how you connect and go into your community, make your voice known, make my face known to my community. i think once you establish that, it is very ha

. >> how do you deal with those challenges in the mandarin and cantonese communities? then i can anthony just respond to that? he wanted to respond to that. >> more like build on what was being said, which was that actually, what we decided to build for local at yahoo! was an open platform. that is why oakland local is a partner of ours. we realized that it is not in our interests to hire somebody in every neighborhood. what we said was why don't we build a platform on which the myriad of local content providers that have begun to spring up can ride, and the key here is that they are looking for distribution. even patch is looking for distribution, and one thing yahoo! has is distribution. when yahoo! provides you with a platform, you see it. publishers recognize that it is a fire hose. so we launched in october 30 neighborhoods. we are now up to about 400 neighborhoods in new york, san francisco, san jose, peninsula, a detroit suburb, and chicago. we are going to be launching in cleveland and dallas, end of april/early may, and as we iterate on product, we will get be

argument to say here in hong kong but the role of english in hong kong is actually helping protect cantonese as a sort of a past to root against encroaching quit and go on mandarin ok john paul if i can go to you a lot of people in and i want to go into a big discussion here but it is easier is global value free does it have any values because we there's a large a great argument in linguistics that you know it will take the english language for example has a lot of built in values in and and what a world view and how to look at values in society it is global. or is it completely devoid of any kind of value in terms of having values. well you need her. being what i call english you know for intervene leash has devalue of being enough and we have nice and negative will say you can say it was easy you want for reasons a to president obama's inauguration speech you can see it in my websites and put it in english and saying exactly the same seeing what you think where her somewhere into g.q. still ten times more people would have to stand it out do you know gratian species for americans but nonet

when we're talking about languages evolving and you mentioned how it is a barrier to or protecting cantonese there i mean one hundred years from now we may be talking having the same program a different set of characters obviously but how chinese mandarin chinese is invaded the world and how it's either promoted its language or colluded other language we can see people like ourselves you know speaking of a pigeon chinese. well i'm not too sure about that and i think that is because no doubt that mandarin is increasing in importance in the world and more and more people across the world are getting interested in learning it as a foreign language but it's not going to displace english really i can't see that happening for at least another one hundred years or more and i doubt it is going to happen i think that the world of languages is being rebalanced at the moment that's for sure and i think book mind you see there are more important things actually going on in the world and english is implicated in them and for example in china and most primary school children are learning english now from

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause]

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> welcome to a special edition of main stage. the first anniversary. time to look back at one year of great performances from the stage of san francisco's main library. we will key the authors, poets and playwrights, the story tellers and the photographers and hear music brought to our stage from 4 continents. we will also meet some of the people that help bring the performances from the coet auditorium to your television screen. time to celebrate, main stage year 1. >> 3 cups of tea with each other. >> doesn't anybody care? >> i have been on the river for 7 days... >> our first performance is one of our most popular on line videos. the da

recommendations are to establish priorities to meet the needs of students to speak languages besides spanish, cantonese, and mandarin. for example, samoan. inc. special education students unhinged in plans for expanding the language programs. identify the needs and strategies related to resources and the trade-off. goo>> the challenges regarding student assignments are adding to the -- they were added to the student policy at the last minute and without discussion. there is a projected increase in the middle school population. uneven enrollment now means we have some oversubscribed and under-enrolled in middle schools. there is no middle school and a few and not enough in the southeast part of the city -- in a vero -- in bayview and not enough in the southern part of the distcity. people will not trust it is really going to happen. it is complicated to implement language pathways in the context of the system. when schools are under unrolled, it is usually because parents believe they are not high quality. now the recommendations regarding student assignment. do not implement feeder patterns. strengthen

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. thank you. welcome again to city hall and thank you very much for joining us in this very, very important occasion. i want to immediately thank all the people up here. today is a very special day. it is one of those moments where we get to see visibly a united official family but, more than that, a united city come together and embrace a very important decision that i'm about to make. >> thank you. [applause] >> there are so many people up here and been part of this whole decision making and advice and community, but i want to of course acknowledge officials here. we have presiding judge feinstein joining us. we

executive producer of the "daily mandarin and cantonese newshour." next to him is the director of multimedia and technology programs at the night digital media center at uc-berkeley. next is the managing is theidd -- managing director at idd

executive producer of the "daily mandarin and cantonese newshour." next to

we have translation services in spanish and cantonese and maybe other languages. i want to ask the translators to make an announcement in case people need the translation services. [speaking foreign language] [speaking spanish] a wanted to thank them for being here. i want to quickly announce who is up here and who we are expecting later. besides mayor lee, we have greg wagner, the director of the mayor's budget office will give us a short presentation. we also have the head of the department of public works and ann from the department of aging services. we also have someone from the wrecked apartment. we also have the director of small business in the city. -- we also have someone from the recreation department. we also have the director of small business in the city. very soon, we are expecting ed harrington from the public utilities commission. we have carla johnson from the mayor's office of disability and maria from the department of children youth and families who will be coming shortly. i will hand this over to mayor lee who has been to eight other budget m

we spend millions of dollars offering korean, japanese, cantonese, spanish in elementary grades. what happens in middle school? it is very hodgepodge. in the case of japanese, we have basic japanese at one middle school, and one semester at another middle school. after two schools have been training k-five kids in japanese. and very problematic in middle schools. i received many e-mail petition letters opposing the feeder patterns. we do need to consider questions -- cases like the alvarado parent who spoke earlier. her foetor plan would -- feeder pattern would assign her daughter to school without honor classes or bandar orchestra. what about a kid assigned to a school that clearly does not have the things they would like? my second question is to explore the constructive suggestion we heard earlier from stacey bartlett about those kinds of ideas. i think we need as many ideas as we can. clearly, there is a need for equality middle school in the southeast sector. we should spend more time to think about how to make that happen instead of picking out isolated neighborhoods to ass