some parents say the dispute is between the district and college board. >> really, the students were just doing what they were told. >> a stressful and awful operation for the students and parents as the community was feeling pain. >> reporter: jennifer refused to retest, even though it might slow her graduation schedule. >> that is not how justice works in america. we want to have a thorough investigation. we want to have a proper appeals process, and that is what we're asking the college board to do, in addition to giving us back our scores. >> they're treating us worse than cheaters. cheaters have an appeals process. we haven't had that. >> reporter: some students said the college board workers refuse to accept the protest letters, but students plan to keep turning them in. the lawsuit was shifted to federal court yesterday with no court date scheduled. live in millbrae, robert honda, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> the california department of education flagged 242 schools across the state because students posted pictures on social media of them taking the state mandated tests. 16 scho

when the test service found out the ap college board tossed outuho exams. >> we did no long. is no proof of misconduct. >> the school's principal says okay, the school didn't follow rules exactly but there was no cheating. >> there was no cheating. students works on their own integrity. >> the school notified the service they would sue to get the test scores reinstated but lawyers for the college board and testing service filed a motion to move the case into federal court. >> part of the reason, we think is because the retests were scheduled to start this friday. >> retests scheduled to begin tomorrow and could be all over by the time this gets into court. in a statement the board said the concern is to ensure students are able to earn valid scores. some students say they're going to refuse to retake. >> two friends of one suspected boston marathon bombers have been indicted on obstruction and conspiracy charges. the two are accused of trying to dispose of evidence tsarnaev's dorm room. the two 19-year-olds have been detained since may. on a witch hunt if convicted each faces

they wanted a local judge to force the college board to re-instate the original scores. the college board threw out the scores because of the way officials did the seating called them seating irregularities in may, facing each other in a circle account board wants the case moved to a federal court. >> this is much more ahead including the growing wildfire in southern california destroying homes and forcing hundreds to evacuate. >> give away going on right now, and why >> in southern california a massive wildfire growing if riverside county burning 85 miles east los angeles. 1,600 firefighters are battling the fire. it is jumping from home to home since it started two days ago. 26 homes and one commercial building are gone. it destroys 16,000 acres, several small mountain communities are under mandatory evacuation orders and five firefighters and a resident have been hurt. the fire, now, is about 25 percent contained. >> hundreds of kids are now ready for the start of a new academic year because of a charity's efforts giving out needed school supplies. and new to san jose

ever since there's been outcry from students and the district which has taken the ets and college board court to force them to release and accept the may scores. student says it is not fair they are being punished for the administration's mistake. if they fail in court, the only courses is retaking the exams they spent hours for the first time around. >> may end up taking the english lit test so i can probably get out of the class. i work 40 hours a week and i play music, went to camp, so i've really only had a couple days to study. like my chance was to getting the score i need to get out of the class are zero. it is really disappointing that i put in all the time and effort this year around i don't get to see the results for it. >> we are hard-working, good students and this is -- this is not what we worked hard for. this is not what america stands for and is not what i have been learning my entire life. >> that's the reason you are not doing the retakes? >> yes. >> reporter: she is one of many students not retaking this morning's ap english literature exam. the principal tells us onl

. >> reporter: the dispute is between the district and college board. >> really, the students were just doing what they were told. >> it's an awful situation for the students and parents. >> reporter: jennifer gowen incoming freshman refused to retest even though it might slow her graduation schedule. >> that's now how justice works in america. we want to have a thorough investigation. we want to have a proper appeals process and that's what we're asking the college board to do in addition to give us back our scores. >> they're treating us worse than cheaters, because cheaters have an appeals process. >> reporter: students say they plan to keep turning them in. the lawsuit has been shifted to federal court with no court date scheduled. in milbrae, robert handa, ktvu news. >>> this bay area millionaire has been on camera with the president and oprah. tonight what police say his bedroom camera caught him doing that led to his arrest. >> he's embarrassed. >> this strange summer weather continues. i'll show you how much of your weekend will be filled with drizzle and fog. >> paul mccartney

what the test service found out the college board tossed out the examination and told the students we had to test again. >> we didn't know. there is still no proof of misconduct. >> they say it's a matter of principle and the school's principal says the school didn't follow the rules exactly but there was no cheating. >> there was no cheating. students worked with integrity. >> school notified the testing service they would sue to get the test scores reinstated. first hearing was set today here in redwood city but lawyers for the college board and testing service filed a motion to move into federal court. a lawyer says it's a delay tactic. >> we think the retest were scheduled to start on friday. >> this friday? >> this friday. >> and they could rescheduled tomorrow and could be all over by the time it gets to the federal court. they say their primary concern is to ensure the impact students are able to retest and earn valid scores. some of the students say they are going to refuse to retake, not just worried because they may not do as well but they feel punished for something they sa

a lawyer for the school accused the college board of delaying in order to make the students retake the test before the case is heard. testing scores for 220 students were inreally dated because of rules regarding seating. most of them are headed if college in a couple of weeks. >> thousands of music fans will come to san francisco to kickoff day one of the outside lands music festival. the festival is attracting major acts to golden gate park and partial mccartney headlines the stage tonight. the festival features food and wine booths and outside lands music festival is sold out. if you are coming to the city for the festival you have a lot of company, thousands of 49er fans will descend for the annual fanfest and the giants take on the baltimore orioles at 1:05 and the bay has semi finals the prelude to america's cup on the embarcadero. >> so were going on in the bay area this weekend and we have the raiders going on so the weather is very important. >> we will start with the outside lands music festival. you can see golden gate park and the forecast for today at noon is dry but mostl

. >>> the college boarded validated test taken by 300 students because of seating irregularity. some had sat facing each other, that's invitelating the rules. >>> students posted pictures on social media of state mandated test. 16 of those school rs under investigation because the photos showed actual questions on the test. the bay area school rs among them. those schools can potentially lose state funds and be in eligible for state's performance award. >>> how a >>> music lover by the thousands, converge in san francisco golden gate park, we'll take you outside the gate. >>> the clouds are pushing back into the bay and coming up of a break down of the drizzle chances for tomorrow and the warmest day of the week. >>> tonight authorities say as many as 6 people are dead of a small plane cash in connecticut. the mission includes 2 or 3 people. officials say the crews have spotted body but they have not been recovered because it is not safe for them to go in. >>> a wildfire is burning on river side county reaches 17, 500 acres today. banning to the west of palm springs. cal fire sa

colleges. other target is the board of governors which oversees all 112 community colleges in california. ying the board has abandon oned it's responsibilities. and today's legal action comes a day after lawmakers voted to audit accjc and after student protests including one in front of the san francisco mayor's office. is please city attorney is taking action. >> to deal with some atrocities he's done that. >> herera says he think there's is time to save city college but board trustee john rizzo is not sure. >> timing of the lawsuit, these things take a while. and city college needs to finish the task autos despite our calls no prespons today from accjc or board of governors. >> but we did get a rather blunt response from the state wide chancellor's office reading quote, city college did not meet standards from challenges all 112 city college as agreed to meet. >> thank you. >> still ahead tonight the one portion of the bay bridge project that won't be ready when traffic begins to roll. t minus 12 days now and counting. >>> a baseball fan claims he was robbed of a home run ball. you be th

almost 300 student his their ap test invalidated by the college board because of what it called seating irregularities. the board never accused of students of cheating, though. some turned in their exams with a piece of paper saying they took their exams under protest. >>> several hundreds of bay area residents learned more about getting coverage under the e -- under the healthcare error act. they held up to forums. as many as 5 million californiaians could enroll in the program starting october 1st. about half could qualify for help with premiums. representative nancy pelosi was among those at the meeting this morning at ucsf mission bay. ronnie hancock hosted a fore chin afternoon in oakland. >>> and vector troll officials are ask -- control officials are asking residents to reduce the threat of west nile virus. seven dead crows tested positive for the virus. the vector control district is urging people to dump or drain any standing water where mosquito pe-- wear mosquito repellant and avoid being outside when they're likely to be present and that is at dawn or disk. >>> a federal jud

the college board invalidated the tests after discovering some students were seated improperly when they took the exams. students are supposed to face the same direction. some sat at tables facing each other. the students say there's no evidence anyone cheated. >>> in a little over an hour the artemis racing team is set to sail. it will be the first race since andrew simpson died on may 9th. today's race is against italy's luna roca team, it's all part of the louie vuitton cup finals. >>> four young girls were hurt last night when a truck knocked over a traffic signal pole in san francisco. it happened around 7:15 p.m. at 24th in the miss district. police say a -- mission district. police say a driver was turning on 24th street when a car cut him off. it hit the pole and that fell onto four girls. all went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. >>> help for homeowners could be on the way as president obama unveils a new plan to make it easier to refinance and get loans. >>> and it's beginning to warm up around the bay area. mark tamayo will be here with what's in store for t

according to the college board survey, the price of housing and food from tuition costs for studentsd to and for your public universities and their home states. even with the lower interest rates on student loans, students are still seen increases. tuition for students attending public for your schools and their state has been a 5% jump from the previous year. >>anny: police say man who fell more than 60 ft. from an upper level platform at atlanta's turner field on to a parking lot during a baseball game has died. atlanta police said the man fell during last night's game between the atlanta braves and philadelphia phillies. witnesses describe the fall as accidental. police are not sure whether what conditions contributed to the fog. heavy rains had led to a nearly two-hour delay of the game. >>james: alberto calotte so --gloss of-alberto callaspo hit a tie-breaking, to run double in the ninth inning and the oakland athletics beat the toronto blue jays 5-1 last night. callaspo, a tie-breaking double in the eighth inning of sunday's 6-4 win, broke a 1 all deadlock with a bases loaded.

the students at mills high school first took the tests back in may but the college board invalidated their scores because it claimed that students were seated too close together. the board is not accusing the students of cheating but says they may have have had an unfair advantage over other students taking the test across the country. >>> more than two dozen homes destroyed by a fast moving wildfire that is continuing to burn out of control. >>> and slight warming into the weekend. ktvu's rosemary orosco will be here for a look at your weekend forecast. >> it sold out in record time this year and now the outside land festival is officially underway in golden gate park, we will show you what you can expect and tell you how things have gone high tech. >>> we have breaking news now on the case of the missing oakland woman sandra koch, we understand the search is no longer taking place in the vallejo area, let's listen in to this press conference underway. >> -- sheriff's office search and rescue, they have already been deployed into that area so the search has already begun, it is just

colleges. other target is the board of governors which oversees all 112 community colleges in california. ying the board has abandon oned it's responsibilities. and today's legal action comes a day after lawmakers voted to audit accjc and after student protests including one in front of the san francisco mayor's office. is please city attorney is taking action. >> to deal with some atrocities he's done that. >> herera says he think there's is time to save city college but board trustee john rizzo is not sure. >> timing of the lawsuit, these things take a while. and city college needs to finish the task autos despite our calls no prespons today from accjc or board of governors. >> but we did get a rather blunt response from the state wide chancellor's office reading quote, city college did not meet standards from challenges all 112 city college as agreed to meet. >> thank you. >> still ahead tonight the one portion of the bay bridge project that won't be ready when traffic begins to roll. t minus 12 days now and counting. >>> a baseball fan claims he was robbed of a home run ball. you be th

but the college board invalidated their scores after they said the students were seated too closely together. the board is not accusing the students of cheating. >>> right now it's 4:38. we want to check in with sal for the early morning commute on friday. hopefully it's light. >> you know it is very light so far. we don't have a lot going on pam and brian. good morning, to you. let's see what we have now with the east shore freeway. it's a nice looking drive. there are no major problems heading out to the mccarthur maze. if you are looking at westbound bay bridge that traffic tends to look pretty good right now. this time of the morning. and today is no exception. it is a nice looking drive. and if you are driving in san jose northbound 280 traffic looks good getting up to highway 17. now to steve. i'm sorry. rosemary. >>> good morning, sal. nice to see you as well. the drizzle is back. i had my windshield wiper going early this morning. low clouds, patchy drizzle out there. here's the system that continues our cool to mild pattern. it will be shifting north as we get through the weekend an

the problem is the college board invalidated their scores after it said the students were seated toothe original test back in may. some students say they won't retake them as they wait for the court case. one student tells us, this is like running a marathon after taking three months off from training. >> of course we're going to be able to run. but we're not going to be able to run as fast. and we're not going to be able to win compared to the rest of the world and this is unfair because we are innocent. >> now, as far as the court case, it was canceled this week as the college board and educational testing service voiced concerns that it would be an unfair trial here in california. and requested a move to federal court. a spokesperson for the educational testing service says the company is reviewing the lawsuit and could not comment. now, he says at this point the focus is to make sure the students are able to retest and "earn valid ap exam scores that can be reported to colleges and universities ." now, according to daily journal, the students are retesting for free in english, li

and they hear from guest speakers such as chris jackson who is on the college board of trustees and actually represent robert davis, and jessica williams was given justice and diversity to the kids can and lisa came in and did a workshop on leadership. karen as well as johnson came out and spoke with the kids as well, too. so every friday, so the kids go to work monday through thursday and every friday they spend time and go over the skills or revisit the goals and we talk about the situational leadership. and we talk about the field trips that are coming up and they will present to the full commission on august 8th and present a cap stone project of everything that they learned over the summer. we want to say thank you to the partners at pec, and tom, srt and whurs bran and coldwell and also with david and associates and we are just looking forward to many more years of the ssip program. thank you. >> thank you, i know that my brother in the audience, don't you have an event coming up on the 40th anniversary that you should be required to give a shout out to? >> thank you, commissioner. >>

responsibility for failing to follow the rules but now, the school is filing a lawsuit against the college boardice to get those scores reinstated. the first hearing set for today here at the court house. lawyers filed a motion to move the case into federal court? >> we think it's because retest were scheduled to start on friday. >> in order to make students retake the test before the case is heard. educational testing says their concern is that they're able to retest. >> we did no long. there is no misconduct there is no proof of student misconduct. >> raymond says he's going to refuse to retake the test if it means he'll have to take more classes at college but believes it's principle. >> it would be a statement saying college intoord right in doing so they are not. >> lawyers plan to make that argument here or in court. it may come too late for students heading off to college in just a couple weeks. >> california students took a step back this year in performance. students dropped about a fraction in pro fish yens knee. history up, but less than half students tested as proficient. the state s

what it's exposure you know i have a very good friend who just became the new president of the college board and he shared that statistic with me and said you know we have these kids he said for example young latina women who are scoring in the top corps tile on these nationally standardized test so they can go and compete with anybody you can just tell on the academic standing so that they don't they don't apply to the harvard and yells and princeton's of the world because they've might live in a small town in texas somewhere i've never heard of those places before i don't know what that there are about don't you know. i don't know what going there could mean for the rest of their lives and so it's about exposure and so our job as educators is to make sure that we are identifying kids and that we are setting up in systems where we can expose them to what the world of higher education looks like you know i remember my second grade teacher she patted my life to love's teaching you know this is. not a question. you know everybody. everybody remembers a great teacher. and there life who changes

responsibility for failing to follow the rules but now, the school is filing a lawsuit against the college boardd testing service to get those scores reinstated. the first hearing set for today here at the court house. lawyers filed a motion to move the case into federal court? >> we think it's because retest were scheduled to start on friday. >> in order to make students retake the test before the case is heard. educational testing says their concern is that they're able to retest. >> we did no long. there is no misconduct there is no proof of student misconduct. >> raymond says he's going to refuse to retake the test if it means he'll have to take more classes at college but believes it's principle. >> it would be a statement saying college intoord right in doing so. they are not. >> lawyers plan to make that argument here or in court. it may come too late for students heading off to college in just a couple weeks. >> california students took a step back this year in performance. students dropped about a fraction in pro fish yens knee. history up, but less than half students tested as proficie

. >> the school filed a lawsuit against the college board to try to validate the first test scores. >> thousands of music fans are pouring into golden gate park for the first day of the outside lands music festival. >> tickets to this event are sold out. we're live now cornell, big headliners including sir paul. yes. golden gate park is a crowded place right now. 65,000 people pouring into the festival which, as you said is sold out. outside lands opened gates just hours ago with music started to play. there is a lot of food and drink to choose from. this is the sixth year for the event which generates $60 million for the city according to promoters. tickets from $300 to $500 online. here is a tip if you're coming dress warmly. >> we live close by. so that ilu >>> parking is at a premium tonight and how a school is getting into the parking business buying school supplies, too. live in golden gate park abc 7 news. >> thank you. now outside lands isn't the only music event taking place this weekend. annual san jose jazz fest about to get underway for the 25th year. downtown hosting this

what it's exposure you know i have a very good friend who just became the new president of the college board and he shared that statistic with me and said you know we have these kids he said for example young latina women who are scoring in the top corps tile on these nationally standardized test so they can go and compete with anybody you can just tell on the academic standing so that they don't they don't apply to the harvard and yells and princeton's of the world because they've might live in a small town in texas somewhere have never heard of those places before don't know what they're about don't you know. don't know what going there could mean for the rest of their lives and so it's about exposure and so our job as educators is to make sure that we are identifying kids and that we are setting up in systems where we can expose them to what the world of higher education looks like you know i remember my second grade teacher she patted my life to love stitching you know this is a. it was a question. you know everybody. everybody remembers a great teacher in their life who changed their pe

student say they don't understand the college board's ruling as no one has been accused of cheating.ficers in san francisco are now using pictures to back up the tickets they are righting. on july 10 the san francisco municipal transportation agency began enforcing the new directive. officers are now required to take pictures of all infractions. instead they're focusing on vehicles that are blocking driveways, parking on sidewalks or those that vile construction zone restrictions. about 600 photos have been taken so far. >>> san francisco police are using twitter to crack down on bicycle theft. the department is sending out alerts about stolen bikes and posting pictures of the bikes they've recovered. the tweets also include tips on how to prevent bike theft. police estimate more than 4,000 bicycles were stolen in san francisco last year. >>> there is a warning about an internet scam involving vacation rentals in south lake tahoe. thieves have been posting fake ads on vacation rental websites using real photos to make the ads look real. they email fake rental agreements to the victim

that is because the college board threw out the advanced placement test taken last may at mills high . the board validated their scores saying the students were sitting too close together when they originally took the test. now this repeat test session will start this morning. it will run through the middle of the month. >>> 6:19 is the time. hopefully until problems on the friday commute. but again sal just to reiterate the outside lands festival starting at noon. it will definitely effect traffic. 19th avenue. >> is that the crazy concert with all the kids on the lawn? >> i think so. and a lot of noise. >> a lot of noise. i will tell you what, here's an insider tip having lived in san francisco for most of my life, the n-judah is the best way to get to the park. you don't have to worry about it. you don't have to park in some neighborhood and have some people giving you the evil eye. the n-judah is the key. let's take a look at south 80. i'm also looking at the commute here in oakland. there is a football dame tonight. the raider nation will be at the parking lot near the coliseum.

while students in people bring are scheduled to retake their advance praise placement test after 9 college board invalidated the scores in may. the students protested outside the courthouse in redwood city yesterday and they wanted a judge to reinstate the scores but a later filed a motion to move the case through federal court. a lawyer for the school accuses the kennel board of delaying in order to make the students retake the debt before the case is heard. test scores for 224 students were invalidated because of rules regarding how they were seated during the testing. >> now the forecast. mike? >> i will start with the temperatures, it is damp, with drizzle, and most us in the midtown more 50's like san francisco is 56 and hair and san ramon and antioch and 58 at fremont and san jose and los gatos and livermore, and 2357 in concord and oakland and san carlos and 55 at napa and novato and half moon bay. at the golden gate bridge the did evening is wet. temperatures are the same as they were yesterday at six to ten degrees cooler-than-average. now outside lands music festival it will be 59 at n

so, i look forward to working with certainly the city college community, the board of supervisors, and i think it's time the criminal justice system be more vocal in this discussion of us vigorously defend and vigorously bolster city college stations in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. (applause) >> thank you, sheriff mirkarimi. >>> hi, my name is [speaker not understood] wallace, i'm an esl teacher at the [speaker not understood] city college three blocks away at eddy street. malia cohen, thank you for sponsoring this. i was one of the teachers that came to speak with you in your office in march and we really, really appreciate the unanimous resolution that the board of supervisors passed in support of ccsf. i was a student at city college in the '80s. i did my student teaching there as a masters student at s.f. state. i'll be working with two students from the masters program in the tsaw program at sf state. so, that's important. they are really fearful of what could happen in the next year with the special trustee because we feel like civic center campus might be vulnerable t

according to the college board, the average 2012-2013 tuition increase was 4.2% at private cools, 4.8%s. and that's actually slightly lower than the historical rate of 6% a year. college costs are rising faster than just about anything else, including how much money you make. take a look at this. in 18 years it will cost more than twice as much for your child to attend college than it does today. here's what you should consider before opening a 529 plan. check out the plans offered in your state first, since they may provide an extra tax savings. make sure there's no up front commission and that expenses, expenses and fees, are relatively low. consider getting a rewards credit card that go directly into a 529 plan instead of signing up for airline miles american express offers an especially lucrative card that puts 2% of every purchase into a fidelity-managed 529. suzanne? >> thanks, christine. >>> that's it for me. breanna keeler takes it from here including the latest on the breaking news, hasan found guilty. we'll have more after the break. [ man ] look how beautiful it is. ♪ honey,

the atrocity and he has done that. >> hererra says he thinks there's still time to save city college but board trustee john rizzo is not so sure. >> the timing of the lawsuit these things take awhile and city college has such a very short time that it really needs to focus on financial he shal shalling the task that the crediting agency asks for. >> in san francisco, carolyn tyler abc 7 news. >> to the new span of the bay bridge. once fully complete you can walk or ride your bike from the oakland side to treasure island. closure of the old bay bridge still on for next wednesday at 8:00 p.m. and you won't be able to walk bike or drive across the bridge until it reopens after the long labor day wean. 12 days awhich now on tuesday september 3rd. tonight the heather has a look from treasure island with construction update on that new bay bridge bike path. >> this cal-trans rendering shows the finished bike pedestrians path and in fact the large segment of it is complete from oakland almost to treasure island. the connection to treasure and yurba buena island take another year to complete but over

they filed a lawsuit against the college board and educational testing service earlier this week. the organization invalidated hundreds of students ap test scores because of a seating chart violation. some students took those ap classes with the hopes of testing out of some first semester college introductory classes. >> i didn't have the ap scores they're invalidated. i can't do that i have to retake the classes next year. so, that's wasting an extra maybe semester or up to a year of -- of time. >> while ets is a ranging for a retesting period this month. a lot of students don't have time to get ready. some are actually starting college. >> still to come here at 6:00 -- growing search for a man on the run holding a teenager against her will. we have new details about the four state amber alert why he may be packing explea sie ing i. the push to know more about volunteer coaches before they step on the field to coach kids. >> i'm live in sunnyvale where a s.w.a.t. team was called in and gunfire erupted. coming up i will have the latest on the investigation into two deaths here. >>

he is currently employed on the east coast as an adviser at the college board which adminsiters the s-a-tm. brizard also said he and the mayor underestimated the ability of the chicago teahcers union to lead a massive grassroots campaign and go on strike, the first time the union did so in 25 years. a mayoral spokeswoman released a statement saying the administration appreciated brizard's service while here and that the focus now is on the first day of school next week. summer vacation ends and the school years begins on monday for chicago public schools students. thousands of kids will head to new schools, thanks to a historic number of closures. the c-p-s transition team met for the last time today to discuss the improvements at the so-called "welcoming schools." 41 buildings along "safe passage" routes were demolished and more than 300 secured. 600 "safe passage" workers are trained and ready. we are excited about this. the teachers are amazing. the principles are amazing. we are giving them the resources they need in these welcoming schools to do their jobs, in many cases better than

. >>> the college board invalidated the test after it discovered some students were not seated properlyre supposed to be facing in the same direction. during the test last month, some sat at tables where they were facing each other. the school says there's no evidence that anyone cheated. >>> nobody has a matching ticket for a $307 million jackpot on saturday so today it's up to $425 million that is the fourth largest lottery jackpot ever. here's the downer, odds are just one in 175 million of winning but lottery officials say they expect sales to be brisk for tickets. >>> the san francisco spca is expanding its hours to serve the public seven days a week. the nonprofit had previously operated tuesday through sunday but now its adoption center is also open on monday. spca officials say the change was made to help bridge a gap in animal services in the city. last month budget cuts prompted services department to close its shelter on sundays and mondays. >>> we have been in a cooler than normal pattern seems like forever now. let's go to rosemary orozco and tell us when are things going t

according to the college board survey, for the past school year, cost $18,000 tuition, room and boardour-year state public school, which meaning nothings nothing. out of state, you're paying a price and for private school, $40,000. doesn't matter. all of those numbers up at least 5% from the previous year. now that matters and since those are the average published numbers there are still thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars costs they do not include. geri, not just tuition. >> books, supplies, transportation, beer, pizza, these are college students after all. so look at the real costs, not the averages. the rest cost, $22,261. we include tuition, that's the whole kahuna there. i'm including everything that mom and dad might have to foot the bill for, and this is really the only category of expenses in our economy that is really going up every year. even during the recession, up 5% every single year. >> shepard: because they can. how do you stay in? >> you can borrow whatever you want. what's why the costs go up. you have to enlighten yourself. great web site here, college

and if city college administration and board of trustees fought against those -- the student success task force. so, there was a conflict of interest in bringing ~ the accjc into judge the college. accjc is not an impartial [inaudible]. (applause) >> that's it, thank you. >> next speaker, please. more card. christie luma. roger stott. marlena martinez. and bridget skeela. >>> hi, my name is sharon sutterly. i speak today as a key organizer in the [speaker not understood] organization i'm also at mission campus. also i'm a former student and student rehabilitating from trauma and addiction and education with learning disability. i intend to teach high school to a classroom of revolutionary students. and i know as a living fact that it is impossible for every lower working class student to live up to the standards that have been built specifically to exclude them. the accreditation attack from this commission has impacted the mission statement at our school to deliberately squeeze out people like me, people without friends or financial support, the elderly, undocumented students and stu