. >> commissioner president murase and superintendent carranza and the rest of the board i want to applaud you for taking the step to go from zero to a one point fte is quite amazing i think for people who have come here and articulated clearly and you just heard the children who invested interest in the decision really is something to build on may i introduce you to all the filipinos in the room that came today would you, please stand up so we can - this is the seriousness behind this issue we're on fire this issue is on fire i'm so happy that you met our expectations but i will also add we will remain having any landed this is not over lowell versus nick he lives four years ago, we started the filipino services this is not over we get it a tip to you some of our teachers came from the their mentor was a filipino professor at sfauft our tip go down to sfusd and you'll see them something to learn from. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners i'm vivian from west bay thank you very much i'm here for listening to us and for. tagalog pathways this give

next speaker, please. >> good evening commissioners and superintendent carranza i work as a resource literacy teacher i was raised in san francisco and joined teachers of american in a city that i love and in community i care about teachers of america has challenged me to create a change in my clamor i plan on teach for years to come and it's any commitment to education i appreciate the opportunity and hope to continue be that teacher in the district. >> good evening i'm chris a 7th grade e.r.verett knowledge and cultural social mindset but we know that harder any of the teachers are banking down the doors of everett it is actually almost always between a core member or another young people and rolling intutsz with a certificate teacher this is our realty but i'm thankful we have core members and students that have the attitude. >> love and come to everett to make sure that the students get a great education it is rooted no academics anti racism i want the best teachers in front of the clamor and it is teachers of america. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >

espinoza-carranza contends though, that he's not a racist. he calls it just a stupid prank. >> i wish i couldn't have done this. i feel really sorry about this. like i feel really bad. and i really regret doing this. leon: the charges against espinoza-carranza can carry a sentence of up to nine years. three other teenagers are likely to face juvenile charges we've learned. next on abc 7 news at 6:00 a growing and dangerous divide. how police are responding after more videos of violent encounters erode the public's trust. and doug hill lays out when we'll be dealing with rain and whether your weekend plans are in jeopardy plus we'll head down to verizon center. caps superstar alex ovechkin has arrived there getting ready for tonight's huge opening game of the nhl playoffs. tell you all about it just ahead. leon: it is becoming an almost common sight these days. confrontations between police and citizens, some of them violent. last night, this was the scene in new york city where dozens were arrested in a police -- in a protest, rather against

. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent carranza i'm csa draw also known as ms. d thank you for the opportunity to speaker no favor of gateways cheater renewal and some of the things about gateway they have beliefs and commitment to community how expectations are held for all students and great amount of work for all students they are challenged and richly diverse school that removes barriers to students and incurs students to advocate for themselves this is a safe and nurturing community our advise community program and small classrooms they feel safe to take risks and students are supported to go to sell nefarious and student life conferences and gateway is age inclusive school where learner difference are valued we seek to provide educational experiences designed with those education in mind. >> please wrap up. >> yep for those reasons i'm proud to be part of gateway middle school i hope you'll vote in favor of the renewal. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm smith i want to for the record we have a bunch of people that repre

sebastian espinoza-carranza said it was a stupid prank and not a hate crime. the security camera captured espinoza-carranza and his friends painting swastikas and obscenities on the temple's walls. former new england patriots player aaron hernandez will spend his life in jail with no chance of parole. that was the sentence handed down after jurors convicted him of first degree murder this morning. hernandez was charged with the 2013 shooting death of odin lloyd. lloyd's mother became emotional when talking about that verdict today. >> god has left his footprints in the sand. my baby's footprints. is in my heart forever. he was my strength. i love him dearly. leon: hernandez has maintained his innocence. prosecution said he planned out the murder and then covered it up. the jury decided the fate of james holmes in colorado and holmes is accused of killing a dozen of people and wounding several others in a movie theater nearly three years ago. 12 jurors and 12 alternative -- alternates were seated yesterday. alison: president obama declared today a day of rememb

. >> thank you superintendent carranza i'm chris policy and planning a staff liaison for the oversight committee i'm pleased to present to you tonight mr. frankly and ms. peggy that will the gentleman is the current chair and ms. leo is the in go coming chair for the oversight committee. >> good afternoon. i'm frankie charge i the kwaft of the quality chair and oversight committee that past year tonight we'll talk about what occurred during the year i have a couple of people present to help with the presentation, of course we introduce ms. peggy lee but i also have with us a member of the cpa person i'm going to start off with the summary and i'm going to turn it over to our audit team she has a few words and sum up the report the purpose of the oversight committee so insure that the procedures from the proposition passes in june 2008 that brought in revenue approximately $36 million or rough $22 million are expend for the purpose described in the proposition and formality for thein the s p oversight committee quote to the public for the expenditure of parcels and actively review and r

. >> superintendent carranza and the board of education and the public present tiled bid you all good evening. i'm natalie a homeless youth attend my senior year in san francisco i turned 18 a couple of weeks i've been homeless since last year, i saw my families were harassment he tells everyone that we bring men to our apartment and participate in lewd acts we were living loan but my young sister and mom had to defendism i want to see a breach of our school has an employee and if we have investigations for concerns i want to know in the school district looks at combraufgs based on aggression my younger sister has been belived and civil rights laws prevents person transmissions if no policies in place i'm here to request a change an adult is an aggressor more vulnerable than him all children need a nurturing place to live i was prevented from those from a man that makes my family's lives awful that is your duty to look at this and provide us with data and clarification thank you and good night. >> for the most part natalie your target and passionate thank you for coming to our city (c

now, carranza just turned 18. police say he has been charged with property damage to a religious institution and malicious destruction of property. and police have also identified others who might be involved here including a juvenile. charges are pending this afternoon. in gaithersburg, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. jummy: new at noon a verdict reached in the trial of former new england patriots player aaron hernandez. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. jummy: a jury returned that verdict this morning after 6 1/2 days of deliberations. hernandez was charged in the 2013 shooting death of odin lloyd. lloyd was dating the sister of hernandez hernandez hernandez's fiancee. he faces life without the possibility of parole which is the mandatory sentence for the conviction. right now, a southeast d.c. couple is in the hospital rescued by firefighters during an early morning fire. d.c. fire says one is in critical condition and the other in serious but nonlife threatening condition. our mike conneen got a hold of cell

to staff and to the peace k ak a rich decision we'll be back april 14th and our superintendent carranza >> just for clarity for all of the community and for staff then we will we will be submitting the budget without the board approval for the applying for the requirements and understanding we will come back on april 14th not august april 14th with version 3.0 but sorry folks i know everybody has been here a long time next week is spring break i want to be clear i've directed my staff to take spring break no one will be here that's one less week to work on version. >> can we add when we submittal that the board had been month to month on april 14th. >> i'm sorry director lee. >> thank you commissioner president murase that's fine commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell for us to say a little bit more than there's will be an amendment to say the timing exactly so i think that is not he'll done i want to say in terms of what happened the superintendent alludes to now and the 14th alike lecturer what i've heard we had a lot of boos to construct and modify

to staff and to the peace k ak a rich decision we'll be back april 14th and our superintendent carranza >> just for clarity for all of the community and for staff then we will we will be submitting the budget without the board approval for the applying for the requirements and understanding

sebastian espinoza-carranza was one of several masked people caught on camera here painting "hitler" and "kkk" on the building last week. he says he is not racist and this was just a stupid joke. members of the shaare torah in gaithersburg were disturbed by this vandalism. the rabbi there says he plans to speak with the 18-year-old at some point. >> i want to really apologize to the jewish community and to everybody. because even my friends are probably disappointed from what i've done. >> carranza is charged with property damage to a religious institution. >>> he is already under investigation for how he spent campaign funds. now a former illinois congressman is facing a lawsuit from a former supporter. chicago lawyer howard foster is suing aaron schock to force him to repay millions in campaign contributions. foster only donated $500 but says thousands of others donated much more. believing shock was a, quote, breath of fresh air. shock resigned after coming under fire for how he financed travel and for a renovation of his capitol hill office that was very pricey. >>> well the caps

particular area in terms of the stem i'd like to actually ask our democrat superintendent superintendent carranza if we could comment on that. >> just to add to i think the concept behind setting aside a small fund for the middle schools is clearly we didn't have the implementation plan for the first reading but we did hear dribble in a number of school principles that tried to put their best thinking how do we accomplish meeting several goals one around test piloting protocol personalized planning on site what would a tool look like that that helps us to work with the accelerated learners in particular what would it look like if we opened up a section or two sponsored by a mentoring teacher in sciences or another related area to have students work on specific and personalized based learning sort of have the capital to work on that concept what would that look like to expand an elective within the daily master school or immediately after school to open up opportunities in the stem field in particular and incorporate some of the topics listed here as well. >> commissioner wynns. >> thank you so i'

sebastian espinoza-carranza was arrested for painting swastikas and kkk on the side of shaare torah last he spoke to derrick ward and he says he regrets what he did. >> i want to really apologize to the jewish community and to everybody because probably even my friends are disappointeddone. >> espinoza-carranza said he painted the symbols as a joke and he did not realize how much it would hurt people. he was charged with property damage to a religious institution. the rabbi wants to meet with him to talk about what happened. >>> a woman in fairfax county had a lucky escape after bullets came flying through the walls of her home. missing her by just a few feet. sally thomas had just woken up when she heard gunshots. the bullets pierced her deck screen and shattered the glass doors and hit the wall. just past her kitchen. police say though shots came from her neighbor's basement. officers asked her if he she had problems with her neighbors. >> i said no, he's just a really nice guy. he said that -- the police said well, that's where it's coming from. >> wow. three men have now been arreste

that one the impact notation awards without further ado if you're superintendent superintendent carranza and please remain standing and dennis kelly could come up to the podium and help thank our award winners. >> so first off if principle and her team could come up (clapping). >> it is a packed room in the board room so it takes a few minutes to come up here. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> all right. (clapping.) great next up if we can have the principle from the phillip burton high school come on up (clapping) so burton high school receives $14,600 in grant funding to implement their program to college. >> congratulations. >> oh she can't yes as a quick backtrack alamo receives over $13,000 in grant funding integration (clapping.) next up if we can have the team from chinese immersion the gentleman couldn't make it but representatives from calvin and greg as well as lawrence and c i s receives 29 hundreds for their student room (clapping). >> we're building a spa we want to clarify that survives technology engineering and arts and math (laughter). >> yes, we followed a rigorous t

. >> thank you supervisor cowen, superintendent carranza mayor ed lee and mayor brown thank you for that president to expand beacon site in the fall of 2016 and i want to acknowledge our families the silver family and her son gregory and ms. walker and ms. christine the mother i'm excited i'm nervous that is a huge task it's monumental the district has put a lot of love into this to the o spot i've been in situations where i see schools close and it tells the community that community cares about the citizens this city's leaders care and thank you all for this opportunity and we can conclude have a great day written director's report the prototype plan we have convened with the yerba buena for the arts and the james arts foundation that is funding that this week we'll be 45 installations of plans on market street to prototype a different way of using artists and arithmetic and getting national and a, in fact international attendance it is very interesting we at the present time, a lot of people in town to look at what we can do for market those are temporary but prototypes for future inst

taken away, if possible could you family gave police details about the radical interpretation of the carranza. they told officers -- interpretation of the koran. they told officers who had already gone to fight in syria and who was planning to. it was a call for help. >> i don't know what was done i don't know what the police actually did. >> last year, the group traveled to syria unhindered. the young men sent heroic pictures back to germany, chatted with their friends online. they boasted that they were on their way to paradise. but some of them also quickly said that they wanted to come home. one of the group said he was going to commit a suicide attack to enter paradise like a bird, he said. his mother posted this picture on facebook a few weeks later. but could all of this have been prevented? >> it's hard to understand that the police didn't do anything. it's hard to say in retrospect what might have happened if passports had been confiscated for example, or if the young people had been spoken to. but it would at least have been a signal, and perhaps one or two could have been caught. >

schedule it is a narrow range that faster than the operate under i have a question superintendent carranza i have a question for you should sb 277 pass and become law and parents for whatever reason choose not to vaccine their non-or lessor vaccinated children what will happen to those students. >> so public comment is not a time for this. >> i understand it is just us here but understand there is a protocol what's going to happen to those children are they truant even though their tax paying parents are willingly willing to have them in the schools except they're being discriminated against what about parents who's child suffered a vaccine before i'm here to ask those questions i hope there is policy involved and answers if this bill passes it will be very difficult for love parents they'll pull out their students that will hurt the budget. >> that has been heard in committee already and held over to action to the next board moot and for public comment at this point for the next month to month and i wanted to say this will be is this in lieu the latter commission is there a meeting tomorr

tagged a local synagogue with swastikas and other hateful messages. 18-year-old sebastian espinoza- carranza was arrested after vandalism at the synagogue. vandalism cost the shaare torah synagogue nearly $1,300. >>> police released the name of a woman hit as she crossed an intersection in fort washington tuesday. 62-year-old maxine thompson was her name and she perished from her injuries. the preliminary investigation reveals it was a van heading west on bach that hit her. the driver is assisting with that investigation. >>> about a dozen people are out of their home tonight after a fire broke out at their gaithersburg apartment building. that fire reported late this morning at the three-story building on north summit avenue. the good news is everybody got out safe. the red cross will be helping out the residents who are, as we said forced from their homes. >>> meantime investigators are working to determine what caused a fire to break out in southeast washington. two people were pulled from a burning row house on 16th street this morning. one of them was rushed to the hospital in critical

. >> thank you supervisor cowen, superintendent carranza mayor ed lee and mayor brown thank you for that president to expand beacon site in the fall of 2016 and i want to acknowledge our families the silver family and her son gregory and ms. walker and ms. christine the mother i'm excited i'm nervous that is a huge task it's monumental the district has put a lot of love into this to the o spot i've been in situations where i see schools close and it tells the community that community cares about the citizens this city's leaders care and thank you all for this opportunity and we can conclude have a great day. >> it sfgov ready? sfgovtv we're starting the meeting in a couple of minutes

daniels i'm the supervisor for the visual department and thank you commissioner and superintendent carranza i don't want to notify the education manager to answer our second question the first question simply the recommendations for the mist position and the ftes in the first reading will remain the same the tsa for the arts support k through 12 in addition to and we gleaned that out of the extra funding over at lincoln how can i help answer our question. >> i guess it says that we've not been able to add special teachers on assignment i guess - are those teachers on special assignment already in existence your addressing them in addition to another one for the subsequential arts. >> last year, we had 7 teachers for special assignments i'm going from 2008 one teacher an special assignment and mr. callaway was one and a half and two and became the program mrifrt and added last year 6 more we expanded to t k and the secondary realm we don't have support those are site based create so similar 7 tsas and this was we're going to project to have 8. >> so you'll have 8 teachers on special assignme

. >> good evening commissioner president murase and commissioners superintendent carranza. >> my name is catherine cuisine the member of the japantown and rosa parks school i'm here to thank you inclusion of world languages is important and especially the world languages that tend to be smaller programs or not immersion we have specialized needs that need to be addressed i think all the speakers from betsey carmichael illustrate that so much all of us can sympathy emphasize with one anothers programs to fund the programs and give the best quality education to our students having taken the first step of inclusion we look forward to working with the district to assure there's future funding for world languages and programs that need it and workout plans that role assure that equality and the important educational missions be served thank you. >> good evening. i'm jessica joseph a parent of a kindergartener. >> i don't have a speaking. >> oh, you need it, it's right here where you are oh hi and i didn't put my name on it. >> ms. joseph we have a board policy you're not permitted to speak

. >> superintendent carranza. >> thank you. i want to introduce christine wong to answer the first and then our supervisor rob daniels to answer the third question. >> good evening, commissioners i'm christine wong assist to the superintendent i could go through the strategies i want to highlight one section and give you an example of our approach and rational for determining the particular ftes with that particular pathway that being the filipino tagalog role trying to consider a .2 ftes for a multi lingual teacher on special assignment something to consider is perhaps amending the amount to 4 ftes and taking away from 9 world language of the elementary school and decreasing that to 02.2 originally with the 2 ftes and the 4 ftes it really allows a teacher and special assignment to work closely with the betsey carmichael and long fell to consider the curriculum they're working through and to binge to initiate what a program process looks like for the filipino as a middle school we've heard this is a great need to strengthen the

. >> thank you supervisor cowen, superintendent carranza mayor ed lee and mayor brown thank you for that president to expand beacon site in the fall of 2016 and i want to acknowledge our families the silver family and her son gregory and ms. walker and ms. christine the mother i'm excited i'm nervous that is a huge task it's monumental the district has put a lot of love into this to the o spot i've been in situations where i see schools close and it tells the community that community cares about the citizens this city's leaders care and thank you all for this opportunity and we can conclude have a great day we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. ♪ 1951, 60 years ago our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. i spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their

sebastian espinoza-carranza is out on bond right now. montgomery county reporter kevin lewis is live to share his candid interview with the 18-year-old. kevin? kevin: hi there, larry. this young man spoke to us in hopes of clearing his name. he admits to vandalizing the shaare torah synagogue congregation but admits this is only meant to be a silly teenage prank. according to sebastian espinoza-carranza, he and three other teens were hanging out in the kentlands last monday evening when they devised a plan to deface the synagogue. they purchased white spray paint, and grabbed halloween masks and at 2:00 a.m. they desecrated the temple. they had acronym k.k.k. and other hate language. he says he's not racist or prejudice and in fact has a number of jewish friends and considers this to be a foolish teenage mistake but not an intentional hate crime. >> i want to go and apologize to the jewish community. it was a really stupid prank and he wasn't really really bad error there that i did. it's hard for me you know i'm really disappointed and

. >> thank you supervisor cowen, superintendent carranza mayor ed lee and mayor brown thank you for that president to expand beacon site in the fall of 2016 and i want to acknowledge our families the silver family and her son gregory and ms. walker and ms. christine the mother i'm excited i'm nervous that is a huge task it's monumental the district has put a lot of love into this to the o spot i've been in situations where i see schools close and it tells the community that community cares about the citizens this city's leaders care and thank you all for this opportunity and we can conclude have a great day >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it host it share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005 she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of species

the saudis are here distributing carranza. -- qarans. the iranians are disturbing there's.it became a race inside central asia how to take over after the mujahedin had taken power and couple in 1992. -- taken power in 1992. he was a dissenting voice and they kicked him out. he had been a cia operative in vietnam. interesting foul. -- fellow. i don't know what can happen in afghanistan and less all of what you ask -- unless all the countries are asked what they intend to do. i'm not sure how whoosh and rumsfeld -- bush and rumsfeld would have looked at this. based on our failure to come up with critical analysis until an emergency happens i don't know how proactive or creative we are going to be. it depends on how astute and how much responsibility diplomats have. for the last decade and a half, 20 years, the pentagon has been taking power away from the state department. that is a problem when you are a diplomat. it is difficult to say what would have happened. that it was in context very important. what was going on in central asia, that real. i saw the vehicles outside. wh

the saudis are here distributing carranza. -- qarans. the iranians are disturbing there's.it became a race inside central asia how to take over after the mujahedin had taken power and couple in 1992. -- taken power in 1992. he was a dissenting voice and they kicked him out. he had been a cia operative in vietnam. interesting foul. -- fellow. i don't know what can happen in afghanistan and less all of what you ask -- unless all the countries are asked what they intend to do. i'm not sure how whoosh and rumsfeld -- bush and rumsfeld would have looked at this. based on our failure to come up with critical analysis until an emergency happens i don't know how proactive or creative we are going to be. it depends on how astute and how much responsibility diplomats have. for the last decade and a half, 20 years, the pentagon has been taking power away from the state department. that is a problem when you are a diplomat. it is difficult to say what would have happened. that it was in context very important. what was going on in central asia, that real. i saw the vehicles outside. wh

alan: y comienzo con melanie carranza de michigan, un aÑo, hermosa.enguaje, nos acompaÑa jazmÍn. >> muy buenos dÍas, ¿cÓmo estÁn? satcha: muy interesada en este tema, los niÑos que no hablan inglÉs cuando empiezan la escuela en este paÍs son muchos, pero como los delfines de acuerdo las pruebas que deben tomar de acuerdo a los nuevos estÁndares acadÉmicos. >> las pruebas segÚn los nuevos estÁndares acadÉmicos estÁn más enfocadas en lectura y escritura, es decir, nuestros niÑos tienen que estar preparados para contestar preguntas de ensayos cortos o largos, aplicado a contenido, y tienen que tener un conocimiento no solamente del lenguaje acadÉmico sino que tienen que utilizar su pensamiento crÍtico para contestar preguntas de comprensiÓn, utilizando no solamente el tema presentado en el examen, sino tambiÉn conocimiento previo sobre el tema. en el caso de los exÁmenes de matemÁticas, por ejemplo, el niÑo tiene que estar preparado para contestar su razonamiento lÓgico por escrito y explicar cÓmo llegó a esa respuesta. satcha: ¿ todas las pruebas se rea