today daniel webster has a waiting list of students seeking to attend and has a rising test score index. a huge change from prior years when it was ranked last in the san francisco unified school district. her efforts have helped reinvigorates the school in this neighborhood. dina was just 48 years years young behind and leaves two young boys and her husband. i had the pleasure of working with dina and been in office and can a test to her wavering commitment to portrero hill and district 10. her spirit of fight will truly be missed but most certainly be lived on. city clerk: thank you supervisor cohn. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: our sidewalk sales in all of our districts to take place saturday march 10th, march 17th, and to support the castro merchants on sidewalk renovations on june 13th. we want to encourage those to shop year-round. with that i submit. city clerk: thank you, surprise tang. supervisor wiener? thank you. supervisor yee. >> submit. >> supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: i have one item of introduction. it relates to today's hearing. colleagues if w

battle with cancer and was a crusader for public education and banned to the in 2005 to save daniel webster elementary school when it was proposed for closure. she and several other parents stepped in and created the potrero residents education fund which is a 501c 3 non-proport supporting education and operates bilingual on two sites serving over 100 students 20 percent of which receive tuition assistance. dina was responsible for finding critical initial and follow-up on funding for two programs. play works and edge wood social services that provided portions of the most basic infrastructure needed to turn daniel webster around. today daniel webster has a waiting list of students seeking to attend and has a rising test score index. a huge change from prior years when it was ranked last in the san francisco unified school district. her efforts have helped reinvigorates the school in this neighborhood. dina was just 48 years years young behind and leaves two young boys and her husband. i had the pleasure of working with dina and been in office and can a test to her wavering commitment to po

battle with cancer and was a crusader for public education and banned to the in 2005 to save daniel webster elementary school when it was proposed for closure. she and several other parents stepped in and created the potrero residents education fund which is a 501c 3 non-proport supporting education and operates bilingual on two sites serving over 100 students 20 percent of which receive tuition assistance. dina was responsible for finding critical initial and follow-up on funding for two programs. play works and edge wood social services that provided portions of the most basic infrastructure needed to tu

impact awards, the winners were the chinese educational center, cleveland elementary school, daniel webster elementary school, darm ont, francis scott key, herbert hoover, marshal, paul reveer, sherman and sunny side. and for the innovations award winners, the winners were vista, horse man, cleveland, graton hill crest, june, gordon, leonard flinn paul reveer, sherman, and thorough good marshal. >> and the schools that won both awards? were cleveland, paul reveer and sherman; is that correct?? >> that is correct. >> just the highlight. >> and a note of congratulations to those schools and awarded $15,000 each. >> yeah. congratulations. moving the needle and also for clarification, did the schools that won both awards, each receive, $15,000 from each award? >> they did. >> that is good news, thank you very much. >> so next year, qta will provide double that amount for the awards to encourage more innovations and impact for our students. and when the years are over we might want to do a program like this to make the program work. and special thanks to chris amatrout and chung for their hard w

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there are words inscribed above the speaker's chair by daniel webster. i used to look at this periodically. they said the following, let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, carve out all of this great institutions to see if we also in our day and in our generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered. i thought to myself, that is the point of government. that is the point we are here, to perform something worthy to be remembered. even in disagreement in a vibrant democracy, the goal is always to engage the issues in a way that our descendents would be proud and get the job done for our people, and also bear fruit to the ancestors of our past, like daniel webster, that we are in this thing for the right reasons and recognizing this is not all abstract issues. america's leadership is at stake. our ability to be the beacon of hope for a world, to be a city on the hill and do the right thing for our citizens is very much dependent upon a strong and effective system of government at all levels.

and sitting to his left is daniel webster who is the lead editor and contributor to a week called "reducing gun violence in america: informing policy with evidence and analysis." daniel directs the johns hopkins center for gun policy and research. and farthest to my left is emily miller who is currently senior editor of the opinion pages at the washington times newspaper but will be starting this month as the chief investigate iive reporter at fox 5 news. congratulations on your new job, sounds very exciting. [applause] emily is the author of the book, "emily gets her gun," which is about the current national political debate over gun control. she was awarded the clark -- [inaudible] award for investigative reporting from the institute on political journalism in 2012. a baltimore native, she is a cum laude graduate of georgetown university's school of foreign service. so that's, that's a lot of credentials for a saturday morning. and i think the way i would like to handle this is i'm going to pose some very open-ended questions, spark -- in my usual, very literal-minded way -- by the titles

up on our -- above the speaker's rostrum, daniel webster said, let's do something great in our time here. we did it and we need to be proud of it. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, may i inquire to the time remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas has 12 1/2 minutes. the gentlelady from new york has 1 minutes remaining. -- 16 minutes remaining. mr. burgess: i yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: a very important point of what we are doing here today. look, when a junior senator from my state stands up back home and says he wants to repeal every syllable of obamacare, i'll stand on my chair and cheer because i think that's the right approach. but that's not what we are doing today. we are fixing a problem as it exists in the body of the law that is redefining full-time work as 30 hours per week. we are fundamentally re-establishing that relationship

there are words inscribed above the speaker's chair by daniel webster. i used to look at this periodically. let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, to see whether we also, in our day and in our generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. that is the point of government. that is the point why we are here. to perform something worthy to be remembered. disagreement and a vibrant democracy, the goal is aways to engage the issues in way that our descendents would be proud and get the job done do it for the and ancestors who were in it for the right reasons. these are not abstract issues. atrica's leadership is stake. our ability to be the beacon of hope, the city on the hill, and do the right thing for our citizens is very much dependent upon a strong and effective system of government at all levels. today we have talked about congressional reform. over the past year, we talked about political polarization, ways that we vote, how to increase opportunities f