the district's does not. if the truth be told, the district is about the same in population as seven states. those seven states have two senators each and one representative who votes on this floor. they and i are equivalent in every respect except, of course, for the taxes per capita we pay. and yet they have the vote, notwithstanding the high taxes, the number one per capita in taxes district residents pay, those seven states have the vote and we do not. today we have passed a new tax bill. imagine how the press-e residents i represent -- imagine how the residents i represent feel about the tax bill. they'll pay more taxes because the salt, state and local tax deduction, has been erased. it's been with us for almost 100 years. so instead of taxation without constituents , my will have double taxation, at least when it comes to that particular matter. the state and local taxes. double taxation without representation. so when the bell rang for the tax vote, i did not come down because i could not vote for the

many people look at the district to say this is a good district. being good as you see from the quote can give you or prevent you from having a sense of urgency from being great. if we are going to be great we have to make sure that every student receives instruction and support necessary to thrive in 21st century that is where it comes from. we need specific strategies to address the outcomes for african american students. i want to talk about the barriers to equity. if you look on the right side our goal is 21st century skills and have students thrive and the skills to thrive in 21st century. those are the student out comes. if you look at that schools especially the schools in the southeast and you look on the left side, we have racial segregation, we have as a system what we are trying to overcome is bias and oppression. when you think about those schools also we have usually new and either inexperienced teachers or leaders. i will give you data to back that up. the districts overall attempt to remove that barrier is in through our support we g

or district compared to the state. but i don't know if -- i could try to find the comparison to spanish speaking el's in other districts as well. >> commissioner sanchez: i think that would help us with the state average as well in terms of targets. thank you. >> yeah. >> commissioner norton: in the past it seems we have gotten data from long term. i wonder if i could share any data on the status of our long term english learners because that has been an item of concern in the past. >> there are numbers of long term el's over time have dropped significantly because we are trying to really zero in on these students that are stuck and providing them with the instruction. we still do have those numbers, but we are really making sure that they are on the road to reclassification and that they're not continuing to be stuck at level three or four. >> commissioner norton: so, not tonight necessarily, but could you share information with the board on that -- that progress? i would like to make sure i'm monitoring that. >> okay

i think it's a district. we have a responsibility to ensure that whatever we are doing is directly related to the success and the educational attainment of our students, and we're hearing again and again from the people who are in the classroom with the students every day, that the way we're doing it could be better, and that we could improve on how much assessing we're doing and what type of assessing, and that their ability to deliver what we need them to do for students is really challenged by the amount of assessments that we're doing. i think it becomes a matter of trust to listen to our educators, and i really appreciate the way you've done it. there is a lot that's required by state and federal laws, but if we can do it in a way that's most informed by the people who are doing the work with our students every day, i think we're going to get to a much better place and be able to serve them better and also meets the needs of our educators and parents. so i agree. i think we to a good compromise on this,

the district superintendent and district staff review of the petition found the petitioners are unlikely to successfully implement the program set forth in the petition and the petition does not contain reasonably comprehensive provisions of the code. therefore it is resolved that the board shall deny the petition subject to the requirements set forth by law. >> thank you, mr. davis. we have 24 speakers signed up for public comment on this. we have another charter before us after this. what we are going to do is allow 30 minutes of public comment on this first item and 30 minutes on the next item for the reauthorization of the charter. my hope is that within these 24 individuals that if you hear? of the same things that you support in the conversation be respectful of the other individuals who want to come to speak. we will end public comment on this item in 30 minutes. i want to clarify that. 24 speaker cards. i will be calling names. introduce yourself at the begin of the public comment. come up to the microphone and remember we have a time limit and want to make sure that you are cons

by planning districts. the housing balance for the board of supervisor districts range from negative 206 and in the district to. 74% in district five. the negative balances are due to larger numbers of units removed from protected status relative to the net new affordable units built and the net new housing bill overall. districts five, six, seven, eight, nine and 10 have positive housing balance while the rest -- >> could we just -- i just had -- >> go back? >> no. no. i just wanted to ask a couple of questions. two slides previous to this. so, my first question is, you talk about what our affordable housing goals under rena and proposition k are for 2020 or 2022. but could you tell us where you fared -- at least prop k wasn't in place at that point. but how we fared in our housing elements rena goals for 2007 through 2017? >> i actually have the numbers in my notes but i don't have it right now. but can you provide them by the end of the presentation? >> oh, yeah. >> i think it is helpful for us to know h

29th judicial district. which covers both dire and lake counties. since 1992, phil has been the consistent voice of law and order in his community. general bivins is a lifelong rest department and graduate of the university of tennessee at martin and the university of memphis law school. throughout his career as a prosecutor, he has handled some incredibly important cases. he's earned the reputation for being fair, honest, and by the book. in 2016, general bivins was elected to the executive committee for the tennessee district attorney general conference. serving in this respected leadership role, he's advised the tennessee general assembly op issues related to the criminal justice system. when i was the united states attorney for the western district of tennessee, i also the same counties. we worked together closely. we worked together to tackle dangerous the same crimes. drug crimes, and most recently general bivins has been instrumental in combating the growing opioid crisis that is really hurting west t

and you have yoder, competitive suburban district. ranking thatre you specific district? guest: that district we have as republican and, you know, these are not set in stone. would expect it to get more competitive, just based on the demographics of the district, see whether these two candidates, whoever received attention, what they end up being like. insideelection.com, to follow nathan gonzales and their stoppingappreciate you by. see you in the new year. guest: merry christmas, happy year. host: that is the show today, we'll be back tomorrow morning, have a great e, tuesday. tonight at 8:00 eastern new york city mayor bill de blasio. >> i will tell you something very simple. a progressive democratic candidate with a clear strong message will go to the grassroots, that is the republican's worst nightmare. >> wednesday night at 8:00 eastern, debate on the first amendment and hate speech in philadelphia. >> it's important for students to the learn how to criticize people but i think an important part of what the university teaches his civility. not just that you need to

it's much easier van and a traditional district. i call that contestability into the idea that if i am running a school rather than assuming his people have been able to for decades, the school will be here forever and i will probably be here until i retire. my right or our right collectively to run the school is contestable. it's other people are getting a better job we may lose our right to run the school to an. i think we have done five or six. this goes with the autonomy. people around the school have to be able to create a positive school culture and that is the first thing the charters do a. they are very deliberative survey gives them the ability to do that and if they don't take it that they are not going to succeed and they do not deliberately create a culture that sustains learning that creates a division among the students because we are talking about urban schools and they will have them arrive not typically motivated. they didn't grow up where people went to college so they don't think that they are going to college. of

i just have to say this, she was a product of the school district, i was a product of the school district, and standup in the back, that was her first teacher who taught her how to sit down and listen and pay attention and do the right thing, so i say to all the commissioners and everybody on this panel, we have to do better. we cannot just always react when it's a tragedy or when it's -- something's going wrong in our school districts. we have to step up and teach our kids. our african american kids are failing, and we have people of color that's in the school district that you guys either put in position that can help our students and our kids learn and grow. you have to. go ahead. you can clap. that needs to be said, because we play too much with this, and our kids wind up getting out there on these streets and wind up either going to jail for long-terms or getting killed, and we have to stop that. we putting too much money into everything that's not working. we need to put money into things that do work. pay more teachers better salaries to educate our kids and keep them afloat. we ha

we're a small school as you guys know in the district. and i have about 13-15 kids and around when we talk numbers, the pacific islander community is one of the most rapid growing communities in the states. this number is going to get bigger. so, we do need that space. and you guys' help to implement the curriculum. our kids need to be empowered. not just empowered, but empowered through education. education through their roots. not just during the regular poly club. we need to educate them what we are showcasing about and through that education, we have empowerment and it is being done and needs to be done. look at city college program three years. we could do that in probably less. we have the people. we have the power. we just need the space and you guys' help. thank you. >> public: how do you all do? my name is lawrence. i'm one of a number of parents from an elementary school in the district. five of those parents are here with me tonight. i'd like to read a letter written collectively by all of us. dear president walton and members

north carolina, and we are a school district of about 6200 students, and as far as school districts go in north carolina wear an average sized school district in north carolina maybe on the larger side, but as far as nationally we are about average as well. we are a public school district, pre-k through 12 and we have eight schools, one high school, one middle school, to intermediate schools and four elementary schools and are free and reduced lunch population is about 38%. and our per pupil expenditure in carolina is $7500 per student. and in north carolina 115 school district, that places the mooresville graded school district about 100 out of 115. what we've been able to do and kind of what put mooreseville on the map i believe is what we call our digital conversion. and the digital conversion we are one the one with k-12, with ipad at kindergarten and first grade, then laptop computers in second grade through 12th grade. we started our journey about a decade ago in 2007. one of the biggest reasons behind our digital conversion was that we wanted to close the digital divide that

, owens j robert school district and the oxford area school district. >> pennridge school district, perkiomanottsgrove school district, souderton, spring ford, all two hour delays, so that's the current list, keep it at the bottom of your screen, see what the most reason end closings and really just delays at this hour. >> early morning look, coming across the commodore barry bridge, see the snowfall all the way to the left side of the roadways, crews pretty much doing a good job trying to get control of the icy situation there. speed limit down to 35 miles per hour on area bridges, so, certainly, take it slow this morning. not just jersey dealing with dangerous road conditions. >> in the thick of it where our jenny joyce in spring city, is that where you are right now? hey, jenny. >> live in spring city next to royersford, one of the area, start of the spring ford school district, one of the areas that's on two-hour delay. so here outside of the post offers, we saw guys hard at work here, shoveling about the g down salt. can you take a little bit about the process out here, what the snow is

it's a very republican district.n that district, republicans outnumber democrats two to one among registered voters. donald trump's margin of victory over hillary clinton in that district was 41 points. not that trump got 41 percent of the vote. he got 41 points more than hillary clinton did. he just won there in a gigantic landslide. well, last night there was a special election to fill the seat from that district in the iowa senate. and a republican still won, but that seat last night swung 31 points in the democrats' direction compared to last november. and that kind of democratic gain, a 31-point gain, it might be tempting to dismiss that as a political anomaly, as well. i'm told the democrats ran a particularly good and effective and well-known candidate in that race, but it turns out what happened in iowa last night wasn't a one-off. there have been four contested special elections in iowa since the 2016 election. last night was a 31-point shift to the democrats. the one before that was also a 31-point shift to

some of you may not know he's a district 4 resident. maybe when you're retired you can help us in the sunset so you can't retire yet. i had a chance to visit the facility as well and see it through your eyes and thank you to the people who work there. i know the chef program was mentioned. i got to eat lunch there one time and experience the food and the skills from the people who receiving much needed services and it's an honor to have you as a resident. i'm serious if you want to do something in district 4, let's talk. >> supervisor: finally, supervisor kim. >> the fun part of what we get to do -- i won't read all the whereass but the last three lines from the board of supervisors. whereas ken is always present with calmness and kindness no matter the emergency, work load whereas he raised children who are giant fans the board of supervisors declared the day you retired ken reggio day in san francisco, california. >> i want to thank you so much, supervisor kim. a real partner in the work with us. supervisor ronen and supervisor tang a

commission commissioner ronen, my district and your district. i'm just saying that i am concerned that it would not allow us to have more input. when i think about the navigation center that we opened up just in june-july of -- earlier this year, we have no idea where the data is. that's why i requested a meeting on the introduction center. we don't know anything, other than it feels good to be able to say hey, we opened up a navigation center, and we're moving down the road. okay. but at some point, we need to start to look at the data, and so i'm concerned about giving this emergency declaration -- because it allows certain emergency contracting provisions that again, i think would have an adverse impact on the quality of life of the people that live in district ten, the people that have been more than tolerant, more than generous and shouldering their responsibility as a resident of this county, and accepting the resources and accepting the bids that are needed to do our part to address this homeless crisis. so this -- director, this is where

this dispensary has great support in the district. and how ever many people supporting the appeal spoke, they're still a minority in the district. and they're a vocal minority and a pesky minority, but they can be worked with and educated. i've always -- [gavel] -- i've prided myself -- >> since you were interrupted, we'll add 30 seconds. >> two more sentences. we are the most progressive and liberal city in the united states. this is our city. it's more than 20 years since we approved medical marijuana. this vocal minority has no right to come in, hijack the sunset and prevent us from having a dispensary. >> thank you. i just want to remind members of the public, there is no allowed vocal expression in the chamber. we may not agree with what members of the public have to say, but i would ask that you please respect our process and allow members of the public to speak uninterrupted. thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening. i'm san francisco resident. i just want to say that i support this project. thank you. >> thank you fo

i hope that it will support the businesses in the district and the cultural districts in soma, lgbt leather and even comptons with a corridor on 6th. money from central soma could help to grow and stabilize projects that would belief end the displacement of our communities. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm rachel ryan. i'm here on behalf of the leather cultural district. the leather community has been based in soma for over 70 years. in that time, it's been home to over 100 bars and businesses dedicated to the leather community. i'm an owner of the stud bar, the oldest queer nightclub in san francisco, which was originally opened as a leather bar in 1966. my hope is that we can allocate some of the funds from the western soma plan, just as honey said, to protect legacy businesses and protect cultural districts. the leather district does not have a source of funding through the city yet and i think this could be a really good way to do it. we're looking for stabilizing organizations and businesses, but we have a community of older folks, many of whom are living wi