the cma through the grade levels so first was the elementary grades. then the secondary grades and then high school subject grades, so it was being introduced, so when you look at the last two years you will see that we have increased the number of students taking the special ed because it was 1,920 in 2011 and now in 2012 we have this amount taking the csd. the english language adult proficiency level over these years is 12% increased but has to be looked at with the lens that they were students taking moving on to take zvzv okay. over the last two years we did see increase in csd and when we disaggregated the results from movement we see the same trend as we saw in the district which is growth for matched students. okay. there is also a break down that we have for all of these. not only to show you how many students every year were taking those various exams but also the performance level for proficient and above. okay. the same kind of break down we see for program now in the content area of math and you will see a 9% increase for special education

i would like to see an analysis what is the use of the cma, particularly in the superintendent zone and does -- i mean the ideas -- has the bottom been sort of cut off in the superintendent zone as well as as she demonstrated in some of the district wide figures by putting kids into cma and is our use greater in the superintendent zones than the district as a whole? i know you don't have that at your fingertips but if i could get that i would be interested. >> thank you. >> i actually wanted to ask a similar question to commissioner norton so follow up on the first question a bit. there are -- i mean that we know resources are important and we also know that this version of support for struggling schools will not look like this version after this year, and i carefully say that because when people say "oh what are we going to do when the sig money goes away? " . i have been saying to people and i think is true and there will be another version coming along from the state or feds on ways to target resources at the most struggling schools and i don't say that cavalierly. and some other mon

the cma nominations, here live on "gma." all a good morning. >>> george, on the convention floor in charlotte, north carolina, as the democratic convention kicked off. robin in mississippi with her family. pleased to have along with lara and sam, elizabeth vargas. >> nice to be here. >>> we want to take a look at an adorable little girl. take a look. >> no. >> is that you? >> we were on the road. just so you know. we were all on the road. everybody was asked to bring pictures of their first day of school. thankfully, elizabeth vargas answered the bell. can we take another look? >> it was my first day of kindergarten the. >> you looked like you were a well-behaved little girl. >> in okinawa? >> yeah. my dad was stationed in okinawa. >> haven't aged a day. >> the reason we were asked, all of us, to bring in our first day of kindergarten pictures. there's a new trend for people going to kindergarten. my youngest goes to kindergarten. parents are pulling out all the stops to make sure their kids' first day of school is picture-p

and we're about a month way from country music's biggest nights, cma awards, luke brian talked bit thisorning on gma. >> jason and i have been on tour together the whole year, kind of capped the year off with cma award nomination is mazing stuff. you never take this stuff for granted. >> find out if the guys win november 1 here on abc. and r & b diva patty la bell will have to pay up arks agreeing to pay 100,000ses today a manhattan woman who accused her of hurling water at her and her daughter last year, lawyers for the plaintiff say they'll donate money to charity. for everything else entertainment go to otrc.com. >> and there is more still to come on abc 7 news at 4:00 a bay area lawmaker shows support for parents of a missing morgan hill teenager. >> a 16-year-old boy with down's syndrome labored a safety right after this skpk barred from getting back on a flight to california. >> setting the stage for katie. the man who created the >>> in vallejo there is are the of tension over the killing of a man this weekend by police officers. the family says officers had no reason to shoot. t

we can fund projects that the cma -- you know, the authority deems to have proximate access to priority development areas, so the best example of this that i can give is if you look at the priority development area on 19th avenue, we don't necessarily have to provide funding for just the piece of project that may be on 19th within the pda but if project provides access we can also use that project. that means the criteria. there is that piece of it. so that can be helpful for a lot of the districts that have the large corridors and the citywide networks providing access. >> someone -- give me an example. not representing district one or four here, since we are on the committee here and in district one, the one california feeds into and starts by the ocean. but this is not in district one but the california because it feeds into it, we can prioritize to 40th? >> we would have to look at where the improvements where, make sure improvements are serving the priority development area. if we do all improvements out at 40th, we would have to balance those two things. >> okay. >> priority devel

he stopped by to announce the cma awards because lady antebellum was stuck in a storm.> singing that to you in the trench coat. >> the reason i was jumping, josh, is there's a slope to the platform here. and i never like to be that short when i'm standing next to you. >>> also ahead, did you know that colonel sanders, harlan sanders, had more recipes than just kfc chicken. i knew the drill. >> you actually knew the colonel sanders. >> my grandfather was a friend of the colonel. >> no joke? >> it's true. i did. it was when i was -- yeah. >> and you watched babe ruth play. >> and then dinosaurs roamed the planet. >> those pesky t-rexes. >>> also, in a few short hours from now, it's time for "good afternoon america." and we're happy to have susie essman from "curb your enthusiasm." going toe-to-toe with d.l. hughley. and the long island medium with us, in the audience, doing readings and possibly for one of us. it's going to be a great show. >> and this one, "good afternoon america," 2:00 p.m. eastern, 1:00 p.m. central and pacific. >>> samuel? >> well. >> well, sam. >> ti

break down for the special ed students in terms of whether they took the csd over the five years, the cma or the kapa. eighth grade algebra, the proficiency rate is not shown here but the proficiency rate is 49-point 5% and what we have done in these years can you see the progress is towards participation where you have more and more students now at grade eight taking algebra. in 2008 we had 61% taking eighth grade algebra and today 95% of our eighth graders are enrolled in algebra. our proficiency rate at 49.5 percent. strategic plan goal three which is accountability. this is where we look at other measures other than the california standards test, so we look at all other measures that occurred during the year, and summarized here. the first one is attendance. attendance is percent instruction time. at every elementary, midland level there is slight increase in the instructional time showing more students are attending. suspension rates have been going down thanks to our efforts in restorative practices, and you can see it moved from 7.4 percent down to 7.2 percent. the designation rate

as cma conducted management agency for san francisco, the transportation authority is responsible forhe city and county's long range plan for our system. all operators, all modes for a 30-year horizon period. it is our means of shaping our regional priorities, what we want as the region to prioritize in terms of investment, transportation, and it's our way of shaping the next generation of priorities for our city. the sfgt -- >> you can use that mic if you'd like. >> the sfpt is developed to be consistent with the other agency specific or mode specific transportation plans that are developed by metro strategy, mta, capital plan, the tep. these priorities are drawn into and considered in the san francisco transportation plan and then sftp informs the updates to those plans. for instance, the planning department will update the general plan transportation element after the adoption of the sftp next spring. the climate action plan, for instance, was developed in collaboration between the city and the transportation authority as part of our needs assessment or future needs assessment, wha

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a viweing for him will be heldd tooay and tomorrow from 2 to 9 p-m at mc--cmas funeral home in abingdoningdon.his funeral is scheduled for wednesday... at 11:00 a-m at the ountain christian church in joppa... with burial to follow at bel air memorial gardens. gardens.the crash that killed corporal licato... while on the job... last week is still under investigation. it shut down route one in darlington from sures-ville to castle-ton road.his friend and co- worker... was among the first to arrive on the scene. "we diint leave his side, within seconds after the accident, there was another deputy nearby who responded, i feel for that deputy because he tried ddsppratlely to get him out of the vehicle, but &pwhen we were able to ut him from the vehcile, our people carried him to the me's van, we accompanied his body to the me's office, office,harford county is mourning the death f another officer as well,on saturday morning... officer first ccass charles armetta... fell from i-95.police say he was in a limousine with friends when he got of the car near 52... and fell 47 feet... off the road.