i'm here to discuss daniel webster's middle school issue. joined by parents, teachers and staff at daniel webster and we are speaking for all of our kids. we presented a plan to district staff november 2011. we've been meeting monthly with our area superintendent since then. facility utilization committee is aware of the proposal and we would like to ensure that the board hears the proposal directly from us. we are small. president yee: i'm sorry. there's a lot of chattering right now. and the the acoustics in here makes it difficult to listen to the speaker so if you need to have a conversation, please go outside. go ahead. >> thank you. we are a small, culturally diverse school with many children under underserved communities. 75% of our kids participate in the free and reduced lunch program. 35% are english language learners. 50% of us are latino and 20% are african-american. we are also a fifth year program improving school with young spanish immersion program with growing interest in our general education program. >> i'm leah vetsle wit

patrayo kids is expanding, operated on the daniel webster campus. at our school, we serve 25% low income families and have great diversity there, as well. this was built to serve as a feeder to daniel swebster and it's working. 52% of our graduates go on to attend daniel webster elementary and that percentage is rising. increasing capacity means more patrayo graduates and hopefully seeking daniel webster at a high rate. this year, graduating 23, next year, 32, after that, 48 graduates a year. with only 44 seats for spanish immersion, where are these kids going to go to school? president yee: last speaker. >> i'm michael rose. i have two students at san francisco public unified right now. i've got a fourth grader at star king and kindergartener at daniel webster. i can tell you from my experience that daniel webster is a successful school and we have a plan for success. stacy tried to fit it all in there in a short period of time but there is a plan for success. i encourage you to review that if you haven't already done so. we would like you to conti

monica mccarty had been offered for sale years before to daniel webster. she was a very talented cook. but webster replied that he could never own a slave, but he would pay mccarty's purchase price and have her work it off as his employee. one imagines the friendship, the alternate culture going on among jennings, syphax, mccarty and other african-americans in the neighborhood. when dolly madison sold her virginia plantation for good in 1844, that meant jennings was altogether separated from his wife and children who belonged to a different owner back in virginia. this same year his wife died. so now those children were motherless. in 1845 dolly madison and president polk allowed jennings to visit his children in virginia. but when he stayed longer than allowed, dolly wrote her son payne that paul will lose the best place, and his mistress's convenient resources. jennings determined to buy his freedom, dolly set the price at $200, a sum that was beyond him. that is when knowing monica mccarty's story, jennings went to daniel webster for help. and webster ar

as an example, what you see here is this is a picture of the potrero kids at daniel webster. a substantial amount of space in front. another image of the same thing. so much open space, it does not sit on the camera screen. here is the future friends of potrero hill nursery school that julie jackson design. this is a substantial amount of open space. and that is what is being constructed right now. it is very small. less than 300 square feet. it does not get a lot of sunlight because there are taller buildings on either side including the subject space. not not only to rotate them throughout the entire day, this is what you rotate them into. the other point is as much as i don't want to disagree

as an example, what you see here is this is a picture of the potrero kids at daniel webster. a substantial amount of space in front. another image of the same thing. so much open space, it does not sit on the camera screen. here is the future friends of potrero hill nursery school that julie jackson design. this is a substantial amount of open space. and that is what is being and that is what is being constructed right now.

his horse was named daniel webster. the troops learned that, and he -- during this period he did his very best to inculcate a sense of mission in those soldiers. in a recent book "mcclellan's war" which is subtitled "a failure of moderation in the struggle of the union." makes a very good point when he writes this. let me read, mcclellan did not want fear of punishment to be the primary force motivating the efforts of his men. mcclellan recognized that the american citizen soldier was a member of the political community, sensitive to his rights and would not tolerate the brutish discipline which soldiers in the european armies had been accustomed for centuries. mcclellan's soldiers had his orders of the day read to them by their own immediate commanders at the evening formation, and he heard words like these from their general. i'm to watch over you as the parent over his children. and you know that your general loves you from the depths of his heart. they believed him. they believed him. and for the most part, they res

these groupings will be paul revere and daniel webster and possibly the elementary school. and they will get either one minute or 15 minutes total. we are going to go in this order. the first group is transportation. [list of names] are you still here? go ahead and come up to the mic. following them will be some speakers. [list of names] by the way, ronnie chisolm. go ahead. get started. >> my name is lillian fong. we understand the district is planning to cut of least one bus stop. given that 9% of our population relies on yellow school buses, and given that the majority are from hunters point, it is critical that they continue to provide school buses. we work hard to close achievement gaps for african american and socially disadvantaged students. was informed by the deputy superintendent, we are in contact with the educational policy analyst to provide collaborative input into the proposed school bus routes. we respect the district is forced to make difficult choices and appreciate that we can work together for creative solutions to ensure diversity, access, and expertise

and then my teachers had role play exercises where it's 1850 and you're henry clay and you're daniel webster, and that was kind of cool. and i read storybooks, history books, books of the sort david mccullough works for ordinary nonscholarly audience, full of immaculate scholarship but just accessible to ordinary people and then i get to college and i read gordon wood's work. and so now taking that, that's auto buy griographical. that's how i got into this. i do think the national constitution center is a great public space and i really got to know gordon when he was the founder. >> so you start very young. but let's say you didn't have such parents. let's say you get to college and you are required to take a course on the history of the constitution, i am required to take that course. how do you engage me immediately? >> i think it's actually a little late to start then. so i think politics is sport. >> i agree. >> i think it can be fun. if you can know all about the football team and your favorite baseball team, you can actually follow politics, which is very interesting, and know your pre

daniel webster. men who shape and guide our young republic. they built well. but soon within the capital, still awaiting the completion of the now familiar dome, the clouds of the slavery issue threatened unity. as the crisis sharpened, he saw a new use of the camera. abraham lincoln who brady photographed now sat in washington as president of the divide nation. from him, brady received permission to make a record of the war that could not be held back. we are coming, father abraham responding to lincoln's call to arms. by today's standards, the agreeing manpower had to be supplied in equipment furnished with weapons needed to fight this floodiest war. the means to move the masses were organized and assembled. this was a day before the phrase motor cool had been coined. old dobbin was the hay powered imagine. they recorded all. what is it wagons was the name soldiers gave to the horse-drawn photo labs that brady sent to the field. the contraptions were to become a familiar site when men were mustered and trained. training then meant the close order drill, but

in several newspapers he's reported to have attended to such luminaries as daniel webster, henry clay and stephen douglas. one of his patrons was lord ashburton whose residence while residing in washington is now the rectory to the church in which we are presently meeting. in fact james gave the ashburton name to his eldest son, william henry ashburton wormley. james and his family were among the black members of the 19th street baptist church whose white slave holding pastor was named brown. sometimes i ponder. what must it have been like to have your religious leader, a slave holder, as with this pastor? while serving as a pastor at this church, reverend brown also served on the boards of the columbian college with william corchoran, and on the mercantile board with george rigs. james and his wife were married in 1841 by this pastor. in that the wormley family and attended this church, one can readily see that these great figures were very familiar with the family and james in particular. shortly after 1850, lynch passed leaving each of his off spring to continue their personal grow

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whitman, and what schoolboy doesn't know the faces of our statesmen henry clay, john calhoun, daniel webster, men who shape and guided our young republic. they built well, but soon within the country's capital still awaiting the completion of the now familiar dome, the storm clouds of the slavery issue threaten national unity. as the crisis sharpened, brady saw a new use for the camera. abraham lincoln whom brady had photographed as a young congressman from illinois, now sat in washington as president of the divided nation. from him brady received permission to make a record of the war that could not be held back. we are coming, father abraham, so sang the volunteer units responding to lincoln's call to arms. hastily constructed camps sprang up, crude and comfortless by today's standards. the growing manpower had to be supplied and equipped, furnished with the weapons needed to fight this country's bloodiest war, a means to move those masses of supplies and equipment were organized and assembled. this was a day before the phrase motor pool had been coined. old-in was the hay powered engine t

my teachers had role play exercises where it's 1850 and you're henry clay and you're daniel webster, and that was kind of cool. and he i read storybooks, history books, books of the stort that david mccullough writes for an ordinary audience that's accessible to ordinary people. then i get to college, and i read gordon wood's work. so here's now takes that -- autobiographical. that's how i got into this. i do think the national constitution center is a great public space and i really got to know gordon when he was the founder really of the academic board. >> so you start very young, but let's say you didn't have such parents. let's say you

we mention in the book that daniel webster had the kind of voice that could make water tremble in a tumbler. clay was of that type. a different sort of orator, but extremely effective. >> the constitution says you can't be senator until you are 30. he was senator when was 29. >> he did. he was appointed, well, actually, chosen by the legislature to fill out an unexpired term. and he was about four months shy of his 30th birthday. and they just chose to ignore it. there were a few comments in letters from some of his fellow senators that they thought he was a little below the legal limit. but no one ever raised the issue. >> until later. then later they use it to attack him as a perjurerer for taking the constitutional oath, his political enemies. that was one of the arrows in their quiver that they drew out against him. >> if i look at the record it shows he was just in the senate a very short time in the first two times one from november of '0 6 to march of 1910 to january 1911. he was member of the house and then speaker. how did he get elected speaker and how many times was he elected sp

eventually, the bright, young ambitious men in the house of representatives, the henry clays and daniel websters and john c. calhouns, realized if there was going to be a solution to the biggest political issue facing the country, it was going to be in the united states state senate. and so they began to gravitate in the 1920s, '30s and '40s and the senate becomes the center of the debate. it's the golden age of debate when clay, calhoun and webster speak in the wonderful old senate chamber with the magnificent acoustics. when the first press gallery is established in the senate chamber in 1841, thanks to henry clay, who broke the compromise. and a senate seizes power and seizes attention away from the house of representatives, and never gives it back. in a sense, the senate has remained this unusually powerful body ever since that golden age in the 130s. and by the way, who was the speaker of the house who helped to broker the missouri compromise that made the u.s. senate the powerful body that it is today? it was henry clay, of course. and so that's my introduction to talk about the foundation

daniel webster was the greatest. how do you call anybody the greatest? >> john f. kennedy had that task in front of him in 1955 and '56 when he was appointed the chair of a committee to decide who the five greatest united states -- actually, they threw out the word "greatest" and said outstanding. and statesmanship, transcending state and party borders ended up being their definition of great or outstanding. >> why george norris, what was he so good about? >> well, george norris, any senator who worked with him realized very quickly that he was a committee senator, not a floor senator, that he did his work in the committees behind the scenes. he shaped issues in such a way that you didn't have to force senators to vote for or against them prematurely. he worked the issue. he was certainly the father of the tennessee valley authority. a lot of other major new deal legislation. and when john f. kennedy was chairman of that committee to select outstanding senators, who was the number one vote getter? george norris. the number -- that is, they polled about 160 historia

calhoun, daniel webster, thomas hart bandstand, stephena douglas, jefferson davis, sam houston, the names everybody knew. not only did everybody know them, but they stayed and were in washington all time. they came and went. but the senators were forever and they were the stars. people love to be able to get seats in the gallery there and watch the debate. there is another thing that was wrong and besides having not too much space, with the senate was very hot in the summer, very cold in the winter. there were 20 that fat he hind the vice president's chair because the vice president was actually served as the president of the senate. senator walked behind the president of the senate in these old guys with hands on behind walking around and standing in front of this does, warming their hands. when they were doing that, they were sitting in chairs wrapped in buffalo robes and wrapped in link tags. sam houston were mexican poncho and it picks embraer wrote and leaned back and carved little hearts and handed them off to the ladies in the gallery during debate. so that is what it was like. the

. >> ifill: we'll be watching all of those, of course.eb daniel webster, the johns hopkins center forn policy. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> brown: next tonight, the leader of latin america'sam biggest and richest country visits the white house. margaret warner has the story. >> warner: a country once best known by americans for postcard perfect beaches and a passion for the game of soccer, brazil has emerged as a powerhouse competitor on the global economy. achieving the number six world g.d.p. ranking this year. along with russia, india and china, it's part of the so- called club of rapidly developing economies. now this country of 200 million, latin america's largest, is demanding to takenge more seriously on the world political stage as well.i today president dilma rousseff was given a cordial welcome byrd president obama at the whitees house. >> i feel very fortunate to have such a capable and far- sighted partner as president rousseff. >> the u.s.-brazil bilateral relations are, for brazil, ary very important relationship. not only from a bilateral but also

this is daniel webster's fault.much concentration of power in the hands of too few people will undo democracy. >> i was going to ask you, is this time parallel? the reason why capital flies across borders so quickly, people can make so much money so quickly and can amass so much power so quickly, is because of the i.t. revolution. is there a direct parallel with what t.r., teddy roosevelt, dealt with after the beginning of the industrial revolution? >> i go back a little further. after the civil war, we had a national economy and businesses like standard oil stepped in and took advantage of the tact that we didn't have laws to regulate that economy. now we have a global economy and we don't have regulatory mechanisms on the global stage. >> don't you think -- don't you see this as an adjustment in time government figured out how to deal with the excesses of the trust and t.r. broke them up. don't you see over the next decade this government wrestling -- >> the problem is how do you wres with it on the global stage?