special guests that will introduce the stars of the show, our students and so i would like to ask emily wade thompson and brenda jackson and to introduce our special guest this evening who will share with us their speeches. >> hi, and two our elustreous superintendent and to his official staff, thank you very much. and especially to all of the parents, grand parents and audience, as you are aware, excuse me. and the principals, the two principals who are here tonight and that is miss flint moore from carver and sheritan and miss deana edwards, thank you very much for coming. as the superintendent already stated that the san francisco alliance of black school educators oftened the 34th annual musical and stomp presentation. and i am in big trouble. we are all in big trouble because as you know, all of the students are winners, and parents have been calling, grand parents have been calling, and about 50 other people would like or students would like to have been here tonight, to show case their talents for you. but, because we only have what, five minutes? i am going to introduce to you our first schol

saturday night, and we will honor, miss emily wade thompson for her 35 years of service and education as a teacher, principal, supervisor with the bay view zone and mrs. brenda jackson who is a dean who has been in the district for over 30 years and she is a dean at roosevelt middle school and her work with youth and... the church. >> i have tickets if you like to attend and see miss wade thompson or miss jackson. >> thank you. >> good evening superintendent and commissioners, i am here to help to frame the conversation around when you guys start talking about para pay with the upcoming contract negotiations i am here to lend my support to the paraprofessionals and i have been one and i am a liaison and i am privy to the storis that the students hold around the city's affordability crisis, many of the families are marginalized by the immigration and language capacity and limited income, so these issues make for a stressful existence but with the housing crisis the families are concerned that they will be displaced from their homes. one thing that we know about children and when they f