find those children. we have a responsibility not only to our children, but to all of our brothers and sisters who live in our neighborhood. we work on this together as a community, and we should take great pride that we can protect those children today by protecting ourselves. >> barbara lowe fisher, is that a compelling argument, that part of what you're doing is not only protecting the people in your small family but people of your whole community? >> a mother's first duty as a mother is to nurture her child and protect the health of her child so that child can become a productive member of society. if we all protect our own children in the best way that we can, that by extension will protect the community. we cannot say that herd community is more important than the health of an individual child. >> daniel salmon. exceptions vary from state to state, by design should they be hard to get? >> every state has their own laws for school entry and exemptions from those laws. they do vary between states beca

children in poverty. children's fund and the public it indication enrichment fund provides pathway out of poverty. parents are able to work and the children are in care when they are in early childhood education and a lot of services. one thing i want to say is living in san francisco is very expensive. poverty rate to just make it for a family of four, the self sufficiency bare bones is $94,000. none of these families make that. this is why we need the children's fund and we recommend to allocate by age group. 45 percent of our population is vert cert -- certified and they get expanded. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon board of supervisors. my name is dargo. my youngest son is a currently in a preschool program and his brothers and sisters attend the boys club . there are currently 3200 children on the waiting list in san francisco. 0-19 are 0-5-year-old. we recommend the children's fund distribution be based on need, be equitable and proportional to the populatio

that poor children particularly poor children of color, african-american children especially are attending under resourced schools in large measure where they don't have access to basic resource essential for learning. it's good to hear the secretary speak to it. i'm surprised it has taken so long. we've known for many years that these issues have been present and we know they have impact our learning outcomes and exacerbate the drop out rates and low student performance. >> when so many black and brown students go to school in large metropolitan districts why are those disparities of resources it are there if inside an la unified or chicago public schools or new york city board of ed. everybody is getting roughly the same captation whether you're in a tough neighborhood in the bronx or gentry flying areais areaish{^l" ^}. >> there needs to be a focus on leadership on equity and resources. in new york city alone there is 20,000-dollar to $30,000 gap in teachers in salaries between the bronx and staten island because the bronx hires more new teachers and there is a higher turnover. what we

i am a direct product of the children's fund.it's critical to have the support for the young people in our city especially when the city is becoming more expensive for the working class and low income families and having less opportunity for young people. it's important to incorporate age transitional youth because you turn 18-21. i was fortunate enough to have the support i needed in that phase. there are many out this that are not lucky. i urge you to support the coals recommendation to benefit more young people for the future of san francisco. thank you. >> hello, good evening supervisors, my name is lily. i'm at coleman advocates. i'm here because i'm also a product of like natalie said, i'm a product of the children's amendment. i have been a participant of programs that were funded through the children's amendment and i was also staff at programs that helped low income and struggling young people and also a part of the lgbt -- proposition b. but the children's amendment is very important to young people to people that reall

our goals for children and families. create a children and family council in which city leadership and community leaders come together for better alignment of coordination and services. >> establish in our children, our city collaborative which is, i'm sorry which refers to having dedicated staff to support the effort. and align our planning cycle to the city's children outcome and ensure data and information sharing across city. community voice is important to us as we know it is to all supervisors who particularly demonstrate in conversation in designing the system with our children with the family at the center as well as ensuring that we are holding the system accountable towards the results. we want to engage our community in providing feedback for these policy recommendations. there are still lots of work that we need to do. lots of conversations that still needs to happen. and am open and welcome the feedback that you have. i also want to acknowledge that our vbo's have done a tremendous amount of work on this and

than the rest of the children in their class, a teacher can pay special attention to those children and deal with it. if every child in the class is walking through the school in a community like that, and every child is in poor health because they don't have adequate healthcare in the community, no teacher, no matter how good she is, can get the academics across to the children who aren't dealing with those stresses, so the only way to succeed with the children this you're talking about, is to enable them to attend schools where every child is not suffering the same things that they are. so segregation, and the advantages that children have are inextricably connected. >> one of the problems that the community is talking about: tell us how housing and equality this, and also education equality in connecticut. >> so let's look first at hartford, connecticut. 51% of the property owned by the state, hospitals and schools and all of the universities and stuff like that. the state has not funded the pilot that they're supposed to be paying the city. so now our burden is put on the homeow

a full education for all children. so how do we develop this more holistic approach to learning that supports not only academic attainment but college and career readiness for everyone of our students. thirdly how do we maintain and strengthen key support for our families and students in our community and four, we need to strengthen and diversity the services for our youth in san francisco. that's what we heard from our community as we engaged in this outreach and community input process. the good news is that we were not the only ones conducting these processes. there were a number of groups that also talked about this process in a way. the community coagulation, alliance for arts education. and when you look at what really permit aetd through those process there is a lining of common themes of community and creasing evaluation and enhancing and coordination and planning commission and increasing financial certainty and stability and very strongly how do you expand services and leverage resources. so what is our appro

my hope is to build a world that values its children, that's is worthy oits children. >> until next time waj and i will see you at aljazeera.com/ajamstream. >> planes looking for a malaysian airliner find nothing, despite this clue from a chinese satellite. >> hello, welcome to al jazeera live from doha. also - israel bombs 29 sites in gaza after being hit by dozens of rockets. >> the most pressing challenge that ukraine faces at the moment, however, is the threat to its territorial integrity and

of the children died. following that, she reported she was overwhelmed. no one intervened, even after the family's caseworker learned she was held out of day care that she had a boo boo she didn't want anybody to see. she died and was buried in a shallow grave. >> we have to strengthen the pieces. >> ray shell fryer is charged with homicide in the death. the investigation into the twin's death is reopened. fryer is in jail awaiting trial. the u.s. department of health and human services says that florida has a higher rate of child death after family reunification than other states. >> then is case of michael, a three-year-old that suffocated in october after being wrapped head to toe in six layers of blankets as a form of punishment and a public revuke of the dcf. there was a child conviction in michigan. >> should they have known? >> yes. >> why didn't they know? >> it was an oversight. >> in the brevard county choom sharon glass receives 40 years for child abuse and neglect. the boyfriend has pleaded gui

in the schoolhouse we have children basically associated with other children their age, you know, so we have all 12 years olds talking together and very seldom do we have the adult to mediate the conversations and correct things that are wrong and transform ideas that are, you know, harmful. and so i see where a child is home schooled and the parent is involved in the social circles and the parent is also mainly the force behind saying meet this young man or this young lady and a we can better shape the children in the direction that we deem healthy and i see where the children are able to socialize with a 12-year-old and a 7-year-old and a 42-year-old working at the post office and the 50-year-old libraryian and having community relationships community wide and not just stuck with a bunch of 12-year-olds. >> we have 7 children that we home school and looking at the issue of socialization and comparing the classroom to the rest of the world, what is the purpose of school, socialization, that is a function, but looking at the school environment, how real is that. the kids go to the sc

she was treated in boston children's and in patient psychiatric ward.hey could see parents and talk to their parents and have free discussions. she could not only so us, but couldn't talk to us. holidays and birthdays and eastern and christmas and thanksgiving, she was alone. imagine that, mother's day, she's seeing other patients with their mothers except her. >> a tone age girl deprived of her family and not able to call you guys. and go see her. you think you are punished because you disagreed with the treatment and speak out and to actually act like a parent? >> yes. there is no doubt about it. they had an agenda and fit the profile of what they were looking for to do the research and figured we were from out of state and they would get away with. it >> matt, we are all parents here. i don't think i would be kind and grabs as lou has been if someone took my child from me and i didn't get a chance to help him or her get the best care and have socialization with the family and our family's pastor and friends. what can he do? >> well, you know, we have

when we talk about this, we're talking now about millions of children, by one estimate 5.5 million children, being adversely impacted. thousands -- by one estimate, more than 10,000 of those children have already been killed. the ones that have not been killed have seen the kinds of horrors that no human being should ever see, even as adults. it would be very difficult to recover from some of the horror and some of the trauma that some of these children have seen. it will be with them for the rest of their lives, and we have an obligation to do everything we can to provide pathways to help them but also to change the dynamic on th the battlefield so that those children will never have to see this kind can of horror again. mr. president, just before i wrap up this segment of my remarks, i do want to note that despite the challenge here, the dynamic on the ground that hasn't gone very well for the opposition and the extremist elements within the opposition make it very difficult for us to be very helpful, even when our government is trying, the humanitarian crisis that i just outlined is subs

syria's children, growing up in the nation's fourth year of civil war. good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. just about this time one week ago came the first now of news out of southeast asia, terrifying word of a plane disappearing with twod 30 people on board. who could have expected, a week later, no one knows exactly where it is. the mystery began early hours of the morning local time. air traffic controllers lose contact with malaysia 370, it seems to disappear. a day later, the first confusing often contradictory clues, report the jet made a u-turn veering hundreds of miles off course. another terrifying report , are passengers with stolen passports. and malasian airlines say the final are report from cockpit, all right, good night. and forcing investigators to expand the search area from the gulf of thailand and the malacca straits all the way into the indian ocean. to make the challenge deeper, the average debt of the indian ocean nearly 13,000 feet. the original search area averages deaths of a couple hundred feet. "america tonight

children should be with their family.tate has acknowledged it is 20% more expensive to have a child in a nursing home than it is to have a child in their own home. it ends up costing the state 250 to $300,000 a year. >> this sounds like ano brainer, why don't they do it? >> it is a financial incentive to have these people at the nursing homes. it is an annuity. >> the state pays the nursing home up to $550 per day for children, 20% more than full time nursing care at home. the federal lawsuit says the state has violated the civil rights of these children by unnecessarily segregating and isolating them in nursing homes, away from family and community. marcello martinez wishes his son andrew wasn't so isolated. his son is more than an hour away and visiting is difficult. >> i'm just like your average joe, i have my bills to pay, i have kids to raise, and i -- you know -- >> and you got andrew? >> yes. >> after the break. "america tonight" sheila macvicar continues her exclusive investigation into the warehousing of florida'

i do have a lot of children. it's true, i do have a lot of wives. >> but koresh apparently did not stop there. >> when david first started teaching, he began to show that god asked prophets to do what we might consider strange things a lot of times. >> we had evidence that he had sexually abused girls as young as 12. >> is it my great wonderful looks, something that women just can't resist. >> we also discovered that that had been going on for a couple of years, and law enforcement had not done anything really to prevent it or stop it. >> but a field agent from the regional atf office was doing something. secretly. though his investigation had nothing to do with the abuse allegations. his name is davy aguilera. this is the first time he has talked publicly about the case. >> it's very difficult for me to do this. i have been bottling this up for the longest time. i try to put it behind me, but it never goes away. >> in the summer of 1992 agent aguilera got a tip from u.p.s. that a box delivered to the compound ha

a safe environment for children so the parent can work and an educational opportunity for the children at the same time, and it pays off big time for the work force. we find that there was a kind of study that was done that parents who had their children in child care for two years or more were more likely to remain in the employment field. so it's stable employment, health for the child and a win-win situation. the eligibility for the program cannot exceed 85% of the state median income. i want to know the type of people we're talking about that benefit from this. in maryland a family of two, the maximum income is $24,000. for a family of four, $35,000. in my state -- maryland -- the average cost for child care for an infant is about $12,000 a year. for a child over four, it's about $9,000 a year. you heard the income levels of how you're eligible for this. it is clear that low-wage families cannot afford child care on their own. we need to help, and that's what this program does, so that they can move up the economic ladder and not be a burden on just cash assistance program. well, t

i am a direct product of the children's fund.it's critical to have the support for the young people in our city especially when the city is becoming more expensive for the working class and low income families and having less opportunity for young people. it's important to incorporate age transitional youth because you turn 18-21. i was fortunate

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children are the same all over the world. if they freeze in norway or they freeze in syria it's the same. it's our responsibility to actually help them keep warm. and to stand up for their rights and to really care. >> in the weeks since the johan video was posted online, sos children's villages has raised more than $366,000. goal. that's its for us on "america tonight." please remember if you would like to comment on any of our stories, log on to america night americanight/al jazeera. we'll have more of america e-"america tonight," tomorrow. >> you're watching al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz in new york. >> what has already happened is a brazen act of aggression in violation of international law. >> strong words from the american secretary of state condemning russia. he now plans to visit ukraine this week. meanwhile ukraine mobilis forces as russian soldiers surround some military bases. >> flooding eased in southern california. some have returned home to see the mess left

my children go to school everyday to learn children and my mother takes a bus to school to learn english. and kidnap has been an undoubtedly success story 40 for my family and my children to respect their identity. i have concerned, however, my two children are currently grades 3 and 4 this fall their be in a joint classroom of figure out and fifth grade in the same classroom with the same teacher it's more remnant of a house on the prairie than 21st century. the school made the high school diplomas the policy to develop the dual language k through 12 crossing t crossing the brown paper bags i don't know how many granted for the korean language because for us our program is essentially stopping at the fifth grade and we really don't have an opportunity to earn that field on their diploma that was grand like the other programs in the city. thank you (clapping.) distinguished members of the board i'm sue kim i have two children in the fifth and third grade. first of all, i want to thank the san francisco unified school district to create the immersion program in san francisco it's a dream

children do not live in silos. so the center of excellence was a modest beginning to try to encourage the better spending, what is up to $18 billion of money already being spent. and i think senator enzi's amendment, which i strongly support, would give us more information about how to better spend the federal dollars we already spend for early childhood. and i simile wanted t simply wao the attention of the senators and others who may be paying attention, we had excellent testimony in the committee chaired by the senator from iowa, the representative from denver, who had one of the early centers of excellence, and she talked about the progress they've made in taking all the available money and putting it in the most effective way toward the chin. so i hope as we -- toward the children. so i hope as we move along toward of process of dealing with how don' do we do a betterb of early childhood education, that we consider early childhood centers of excellence. i hope senator enzi's amendment is adopted because it wil

it is the city to live and work and raise children in the nation. that is because of the funds that we are talking about for the public enrichment education fund and children's enrichment fund. we are excited to give an update and briefing about where we are in the process an also talk about the exciting work that lies ahead. i think that what's really important to recognize is that the funds are not new funds bushth -- but they have been the work of many individualsover many years an we think it's now an opportunity to crystallize what many of us have been working towards for many many years which is collective impact. how do we look at the big picture and how do we service not only the children but the voters of san francisco really leverage and coordinate a coherent approach so that we are weaving the net so no child is untouched by these funds. i would like to talk about when we are in the process. where are we in the process with these funds? we started to set the stage around the reauthorization of the funds back in september of 2012. and ther

we see children begging. we see children working in the fields, picking potatoes, as i've seen yesterday, 9 and 11 years old. we see young girls being forced to marry families as a way to safeguard theirture. it's a terrible tragedy, and we need to mobilize the community, to bring children school and psycho-social support for trauma, to guarantee rights against child labor so that this generation is not a lost generation. if the syrian youth is not able to recover the country in itself will never be able to recover. >> you have spoken in the past about the generosity of countries like lebanon, jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees. that's not been the case in other countries. western countries in particular. we've seen a lot of syrian refugees losing their lives trying to cross the sea trying to get into europe illegally. what do you say to those countries? >> well, our position is very clear. first of all, lebanon and jordan and the neighboring countries need much more financial

and it can be instrumental in bringing children home and finding missing children right away. >> so tim, you've done quite a bit of research on the amber alert, that is what most americans are familiar with. what have you found? >> i have found that the system has been a little bit oversold in temps of what it's been receiving. one of the things that motivates the desire to evolve the community, children who be are the be subjects of kidnapping are usually dead within a couple of hours. while the amber alert system is certainly successful and the data show this, in bringing some children back home successfully, it's not usually happening within that very narrow time frame that's considered so crucial in the worst cases. >> so you're saying that the kids that are in the most danger the most likely kids to be murdered by their abductor are the ones that aren't being affected maybe as much as we would like to see by the amber alert, kids taken by a noncustodial parent or a run away child? >> this is my view. >> and we have a lot of people who respect the amber alert they are saying how can

children foundation.er son jacob was kidnapped. the search to bring him home has never anded. >> and the director of the missing children's society, her group launching mill carton 2.0. and a profess sore who has down research on the amber system. welcome to "the stream." october 22nd, 1979, your son jacob is kidnapped at gun point. i am sure you and your family went into shock. can you walk us through the moments. the minutes, hours, days, in response? >> right. we had a baby-sitter at the house, who called her father, and he called 911. within six minutes police arrived at a corn field in the middle of nowhere. the response was immediate. but it was 1989. it was not quite 25 years ago. they didn't have - there was little or no training for missing and exploited children or the training partias just beginning. we had - there was a man who did fundraising to make sure all the police agencies had fax machines, they didn't have that. all. >> didn't you set up a second phone line in the backyard. >> they had

, the children cannot communicate. we are the voices of our children. i would invite everyone of you to come and visit our schools. our school has made huge progress. come visit our school. i invite everyone to see what the i talk is all about. there is no other program in the city that serves children who are severely disabled as all the kids in room 108 and 109. i'm asking you to save the program for the kids that are currently enrolled in the i talk. for new generations that they are unfortunately going to be born disabled and currently disabled. please save the i talk program. thank you. >> excuse me, your name again? >> lillian mokda. >> you are not on the list. >> i gave her my time. >> great. next speaker. >> i'm john. i'm a little different that these families. i don't have a child in a wheelchair. i think the decisions that have been made have made their lives harder. frances is a large school. it's an elementary school that has 540 kids. i think it has 5 kids. it's a rounding error. the reason i'm here is bec

the rest of these children are my children. they're not coming out. the battle of armageddon was on. [ as schwarzenegger ] show me the movies with the arnold schwarzenegger with the stunts and loud explosions and all the muscles. [ as cosby ] i want to see the comedy programming with the children. [ british accent] watch bravo! yeah, i want to see "the real housewives." rewind! yeah! jimmy? it's been hours. we told you the x1 entertainment operating system show me "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." that's what i'm talking about right there. [ cheers and applause ] [ female announcer ] control your tv with your voice. the x1 entertainment operating system. only from xfinity. >>> tensions are high in waco, texas. four federal agents and at least ten cult members are dead. from the outset of the standoff at the branch davidian compound, law enforcement's primary concern was the welfare of the children. >> we really wanted to talk to as many of the children as we could. to see their faces and maybe talk to their mothers if possible. see if they wer

children here got a much smaller dose. but once you start using sensitive equipment to check for thyroid cancer, you will find were cases. that's why we are seeing an increase, not because of the disaster. >> they've fukushima disaster is taking light. she's come to pray at her father's grave. he was forced to abandon his farm and animals. within two years, he was dead. power companies for their death. they took his dreams and hopes, they took his land and scattered his family far from home. nothing will ever bring those back. >> no one has died from radiation and fukushima. unable to return home and rebuild their lives, a growing number of evacuations are dying. -- evan vacuum ease are dying. from suicide and losing the will to leave -- losing the will to live. >> you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, economic uncertainty rising in argentina and store the demonstrations. it now means former supporters are part of the protest. spain has been marking the 10th anniversary of the madrid train bombing. the

and the devastating impact that it's having on children.seeing children dying now of treatable diseases such as asthma. we're seeing reemergence as your reporter just informed people, not only in lebanon but inside syria of diseases such as po poleyoe and measles. >>> save the children has an incredible moving ad i saw for first time before coming here to speak with you. it's sort of visualizes the impact ever war on the children. it shows a young child who starts with her family blowing out candles at the birthday party and second shows how rapidly the lives of these refugee children change where civil war and malnutrition and lack of medicine can alter they are lives. 23 million hits as i have seen. what is the desire with this video? is it about jolting people out of their indifference? >> absolutely. the key message here is to say, look, there are innocent victims of this crisis and just imagine if it was your child in the united states and australia or united kingdom. we have to think beyond this. this was a country where literally a f

i'm gad to chair, and to make a difference for the children who are still out of school and the children who are in school that the quality of their learning isn't really high enough. they are not coming out of school being able to read or right or do math. >> what is the impediment? >> the aid effort, the amount of aid money going into education go backwards by more than 6%. i think that's a very concerning statistic. when we know we're going to to make sustainable change, the glop global partnership for education, has made a real different will be out and about knockinknocking on doors in comg months as we move towards our replenishment round to try to galvanize more effort into education. i think there has been more momentum generated, a lot of things have happened, more kids in school more girls in school, developing countries are putting more of their budget into education. we are working in fragile and conflict affected areas and making a difference. >> if you are in a newly democratizing part of the world, compared to home affairs or defense or some of the ore ministries that peop