are we getting our different providers seeing healthier enrollments, more kids, more families being enrolled in different health plans? we saw with a price differential for blue shield and kaiser in the past year, we saw a lot of migration of families into kaiser. there is a host of reasons why people migrate. it is not always tied to what the premiums are. it has to do with the economy and a number of different factors. people were migrating to kaiser and blue shield experienced a deteriorating population and risk pool. the idea was to allow the aco's to work and apply a subsidy to allow that differential and hold a constant so people would not deteriorate any further to allow time for the aco's. the idea is we would put in $5.20 million out of the blue shield commitment in terms of a credit to stabilize it. on a one time basis. that was very important that the health services system made. we had no interest in continuing to prop up blue shield. that is not the intention to subsidize a private insurance company. we wanted to make sure we allowed a aco -- the aco tow ork -- to work. this was

it's unfair the school district didn't tell us, we found out two days before the end of the enrollment period. it ended on friday and we found out on the wednesday before that -- we didn't find out. parents from public schools notified some of us. i respectfully ask you to allow parents to have the option of a waiver for our children that we know are ready for kindergarten. thank you. >> excuse the bottle, sorry. where do i push the button to start the clock? hi, my name is forrest gray. i have a daughter born on december 1, 2007. if she was exactly a year older, she would be in regular kindergarten this school year but she'll be considered a transitional kindergartener next year. a week after her application was accepted by the sfusd, which was the result of months of touring tens of schools in the district, we discovered on the district's website via memo, she would not be admitted into the school because the t-k was terminated by the district. automobile the -- i believe the sfusd and board of education want to do the right things for our kids. first, this is not about cost. accordi

so we're facing a 1/3 increase in medicare enrollment over the next decade. that's going to be a lot of money that we're going to have to supply. and that doesn't even begin to account for whatever amount of update or inflation adjust wed provide for the physicians. now we all know that our seniors are complaining a lot about the difficulty of getting in to see medicare patients. just a couple data points. in 2011, the texas medical association found that only 67% of surveyed practices accepted new medicare patients. we all have anecdotal evidence i think to support this as well. that same survey found that as a result of the looming sgr cuts, 41% of surveyed doctors are considering not taking new medicare patients. another 22% have definitely decided they're not going to take new patients. at the same time, we know that costs for physicians are rising. and i didn't realize the extent that we have b to the current law the significant increase to costs for physician. maybe some of you are aware of this. but it's a good reminder for the remainder of us. startin

. >> and my amendment is to strike the provisions requiring postal retirees to enroll in medicare parts a and b. if they are eligible. and replacing their current health benefit plan with not a not yet negotiated plan. i understand that the postal service estimates it will save $15 billion from these provisions. but as far as i know, they haven't provided anything to support that particular claim. opm, which has much more extensive health benefits, does not believe this will save the postal service money. rather opm believes this will impose costs on the federal employees health benefit plan resulting in higher premiums for everyone, including the postal service. additionally, this appears to shift costs to the medicare program, which is serious financial challenges already. for this reason, mr. chairman, finance committee staff have informed my staff they support this amendment. the provisions in this bill also could create jurisdictional problems because these changes are in finances jurisdiction. i'm also concerned that the current provisions will impose costs on retirees. we are req

ashford has over 9,000 military students enrolled today.t's a 2,000% increase in the last three years. they hire veterans like cutler to gain the trust of gis over the phone. >> if a military person is actually speaking with someone that's actually been in the military, there's a certain lingo or a certain slang that they're associated with that's very common with them. >> smith: give me an example of that. >> well, i mean, if it's a marine, then, of course, i would immediately say to them "hoo-rah, marine," or i would say "semper fi." and they would readily know that you were in the military and you had prior service. and, so, it's easy to establish that trust. >> i mean, if you wanted to keep your job, you had a certain number of students you needed to enroll. >> smith: brad seliga, a former national guardsman, also recruited for ashford. >> you'd have these meetings, maybe on monday and say, "what's your projected number for this week?" you know, everybody goes around the table, "i think i can enroll 'x' amount of students"-- maybe three

and looking at the head count enrollment from a couple of years ago. the latest numbers from fall 2008, there were over 12 million people registered in america's community colleges. and they are broken down by those who were credit seeking over 7 million and those noncredit seeking, 5 million. 40% more enrolled part time. or rather full time. 60% were able to go to community colleges part time. r >> that's right.nity a lot of community college adut students are working adults going part time. sometimes to get credentials. sometimes just to take a few+++f community colleges are seeing a boom in enrollment at the numbers are about 20% of the last five years, so that a strain the capacity, part of the reason president obama wants to pump more money into the institution. host: gary is a republican. caller: i made disenfranchise republican, and this overlaps with your last guest. i read an article, i'm not sure if it was local or national, but up to one half of the college clas college classes are being fille- with foreign students. most from china.hina, an

abbott had already arranged for her lodging and enrollment. she didn't know there was yet another roadblock she would have to face down. >> well, the flying school she was enrolled at was about five miles away. she walked to that flying school with her registration in hand, so excited the day after she arrived in paris to get that license, only they turned her down. they had lost one student flier in an airplane accident and refused to teach another woman to fly. she found out there was another flying school nine miles away, called the flying school of the caldron brothers. without them knowing she was coming, without them even hearing of bessie coleman she made her way to that flying school with all the courage she could muster and told them her story and they welcomed her with open arms and told her they would be proud to train the first colored woman to fly. >> on june 15, 1921, i received this certificate, making me the first colored person ever to become a licensed flier! >> there was no stopping bessie after that. she needed to make a li

enroll those people in addressing those problems.else, it would seem like what you're doing and it receives a positive response, that it drives a great sort of message beyond the mission itself. >> you're 100% right. we're spending so much money just keeping people sustainable so they can live and continue to exist, as i like to say. we have to pay for all these services who are not productive citizens. you have a generation who wants to serve and be productive, and yet congress is letting people sit on the couch. which is what you have been talking about all day. it's the biggest waste of energy. there's also these internships, which is another issue. you have a whole new class of graduates willing to work for free. they are willing to work for free. and they can't even find work. then there's also trouble with the fact that for-profit companies are exploiting this need. young people right now are willing to work for free. so we don't need to pay them and can get them to do clerical work for us and essentially continue to take their

today nearly 48 million americans are enrolled in medicare.s a baby boom generation retires, the number of seniors eligible for medicare will increase rapidly. over the next decade, 18 million additional americans will enroll in medicare. we need to insure these beneficiaries and future generations receive the benefits that medicare guarantees. to strengthen medicare, we need to continue lowering costs. we need to spend our precious health care dollars more wisely, efficiently. if we do, we'll lower premiums for seniors enrolled in medicare today and keep the program strong for generations to come. this is the path of health care reform took and we're already seeing results. two weeks ago cbo released a report showing in the next ten years cost for beneficiary will onch just 1% a year more than the rate of inflation. this is significant significant than the last 20 years. this is major progress. but, of course, we can do more. if our health care costs which is slowed by 1% over ten years, the federal government would save $800 billion. secreta

over five years, the enrollment fees would increase between 94 to 345%. how can we justify such increases when really commitments were made to people who have made such a difference in protecting our freedoms? >> can i take that? >> sure. >> let me answer that, if i could, congressman. you know, when we said that in order to rebalance this military of ours -- and by the way, you know, i don't want to let it pass entirely that i don't share your concern, but i will tell you, i'm responsible to this nation to do a risk assessment on the size of the force against the strategy. the budget we proposed and the fore structure is adequate to meet the needs of the nation. if i didn't, i would tell you. in terms of compensation, the tricare enrollment fees haven't been adjusted since the mid '90s. there are an anachronism in terms of any other health care program. and i don't accept, by the way, the comparison of military benefits and civilian because of what we ask our uniformed military to do. on the other hand, we cannot any longer allow our paid compensation he

annual enrollment is 12.8 million and the average premiums have fallen over 7% to $31.54. confirming some loose projections the medicare enrollment plans would continue the rise and average premiums would continue to fall. and finally on capitol hill, a documentary filmmaker has been arrested at a house hearing by trying to film without the required credentials. jonathan fox was charged by capitol police with unlawful entry. he conducted the documentary last year, and he talked about fracing and filmed the subcommittee's hearing, and fracing occurs when large amounts of sand and oil are put into wells to try to drill for oil. again, he was arrested today without filming with the required credentials. back in a moment on "washington today." >>> on afterward, a conversation with deborah skr bor scroggins going to talk about her latest book, "wanted women." and she talks about two muslim women here in the u.s. who have two distinctly different perspectives on the war on terror and fundamental islamists. one writes against islam for her writing and another educated here in the

enrollment at d.c. charters year.s rose 8% this enrollment in d.c. public schools dropped by 1%. article's claim to enroll 41% the d.c. public school students. a d.c. public school says most of the losses were at the high-school level. 39 degrees right now. the child sex, coachcase against former sandusky. find out whether he will be allowed to visit his grandchildren. >> a trip to paradise turned for one supreme court justice. >> ♪ it's the way you bring out the sun. ♪ sunny d! ♪ it's the way you make it all fun. ♪ know who makes the day sunny? my mom and sunny d! i love the taste. mom loves the vitamin c. and now it has 40% fewer calories than most regular soda brands! sunny d! ♪ make today a sunny day! find out more at sunnyd.com welcome back. 5:09. looking at traffic and weather. happy valentine's day. adam caskey is wearing her and necktie. >> looking festive. decker?e on valentine's day? it is not halloween. most of this is evaporating before it hits the ground a snow showers and west of the metro to start the day. sprinkles later this afternoon. 39 in the district, 35 at d

it actually is enrolled in schools, and they are available to sing at these liturgies.hey are raised here and schooled as singers. this is the residential choir of the pope. >> i would imagine they have to audition? >> and the adults in the choir, too, the men of the choir. i would imagine in the city of rome it is a prestigious choir in which to sing. certainly a privilege to be able to sing. they sing for all the papal liturgies. >> we talk about this is a solemn ceremony. >> this is clearly a formal ceremony. the structure of it is basically centered around the induction of the new cardinals. there has been time of prayer, the reflection, the homily that the holy father gave and honored. so many signs of it are the signs of fraternity and unit and the bestowing of the hat and the ring. they are allowing the new cardinals to go through all the rows of being a cardinal. some of them know each other, some of them don't. so i am sure there are signs especially among the new cardinals welcoming the americans. >> how many cardinals has pope benedict named? >> this is his f

that was increasing enrollment.it will. like it. is that your one more thing? one more thing is next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ is♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: time for one more thing. in the debate last night, the moderator asked each candidate one word that would best describe them. i have a word that describes you, but i can't say it. i said it earlier. >> kimberly: delectable? that's it? >> greg: yes. >> kimberly: more. my one more thing is not a surprise. not dancing queen, though that is two words. mine is energy. you know how when i do -- >> greg: wouldn't it be energetic. >> kimberly: fine. >> dana: if you're poe dan tick about it. >> kimberly: i'm energetic. right? >> bob: i have two, loveably stub bosh. and anybody who is my age who is still a liberal is stubborn. >> dana: and lying. [ laughter ] >> bob: did that come from you, miss snow globe? >> eric: passionate but i have one for bob. engaging. greg, mercurial. dana voracious and kimberly embullion. >> greg: infectious. >> dana: he had somewhereracious. i'm voracious. i'm h

we want to start a program where we promote outreach, we increase enrollment, and we end the stigma of applying for food stamps. one of the things we do now, which makes the stigma actually worse, and creates a barrier for families coming forward to get food stamps, is we require fingerprinting. i'm saying stop fingerprinting for families with children for food, stop it all across the state. and let's stop it this year. i understand fraud detection. i understand fingerprinting. but don't make a child go to bed hungry because your government wants to come up with a fraud program that requires fingerprinting. [ applause ] and we will make sure no child goes to bed hungry in this state. i want to expand the dna data bank, which has been a great technological revolution in the area of criminal justice. it helps prove guilt or prove innocence. it's helped with 2,700 convictions. it's helped with 27 exonerations of innocent people. right now the data base is applied to 50% of all crimes. i propose we expand it to 100% of all crimes. let's provide justice for all. let's be the first state in

while student enrollment has only increased 6%. so this budget will provide significant new funding, but it will also seek more accountability and more choice and more rigor and more innovation in our school system. i think providing flexibility to school divisions is important. i suggested it is time to repeal the state mandate that school divisions begin their school term after labor day unless they receive a waiver. already 77 of the 132 have the waivers so the exception has become the rule. i think you can best balance your teaching and calendar needs against the important concerns of the tourism and business leaders. because they know their situations at their locations far better than we know here in richmond. our teachers are well educated professionals who deserve to be treated as much. just like workers in most every other job get reviewed annually and are able to be promoted and rewarded for their success, so, too, should teachers. i am asking we remove the continuing contract status from teachers and principals and provi

they have had record enrollment in almost all of my eight years because it's still not that expensive and there's a lot of student aid. i worry about the debt, that is something that we have to keep an eye on, the debt of the students going, as long as we will keep it kind of within range, frankly as one of my community presidents said, if we can keep the pell grants where it is more than the cost to go. we have to keep an eye on costs but we are still making it. >> the mood of the country is not that great and economy is coming on the of a deep recession, if you were on the stump, what are the two or three things that you would be pounding the way on in terms of how do we get the economy going and how do we get people unified behind that task? >> trent lott used to be the leader of the senate, and i was a third year law student when i was a freshman, we were in school together and i used to tell trent, the difference betwe between governors and senators are that senators talk about doing things and governors do thing. we had a democrat governor of a purple state and i'm the republica

growers that enroll set up recruitment systems to bring in workers. if a worker wanted to shift to another, i don't see why most of the growers would bring on that work when they set up a recruitment system to get a supply of workers on temporary visas. we don't view that mobility as similar to the mobility people have in the usual marketplace for labor. >> i appreciate it. i wish you would concede what we have in the bill to talk about that. i think it is illogical to suggest that giving them increased mobility in the market in which they are allowed to come into the united states would not have an tendency to increase wages. that is inconsistent. if you wouldn't look that, i appreciate it. mr. wenger, you talked about the jobs in new york. don't we have a peak season of 400,000 in california? >> yes. >> and how many of those were certified for h 2-a in recent year? >> i don't have the exact number. it is less than 2%. it is insignificant in the fact of the overall demand. a lot of the growers are in the strawberry plant business. they can utilize so

what i am confident about is that we will begin enrolling individuals across the country in exchange programs in the fall of 2013, so that they can be fully covered by 20 shp. and i think states are in a variety of conditions of engagement at this point. in terms of dropping coverage, again, the only real-life example we have in terms of this sort of framework being in place is the state of massachusetts, where a very similar structure for employers and a penalty if people didn't carry insurance and the availability of an exchange. and we found in the state of massachusetts that actually coverage increased, it did not decrease when the exchanges were fully functional. i think when you talk to business leaders, they'll tell you that providing affordable insurance coverage is not only a cost factor, but it's a way to keep and maintain the best possible employees. to recruit employees, it's a strategy that employees are eager to engage in, but often can't afford. so having a structure particularly for smaller employers, i think, will encourage them to stay in the marketplace. and we're

in a school and enroll and apply for after school at the same time, which is something that we think is a great idea. the very last thing is that the p.a.c. has opened a process for the year which is a long program, and they're available in english and chinese and spanish on our website which is pacsf.org. >> thank you, ruth. commissioner fewer and then commissioner wynns. commissioner fewer: thank you, right, for coming in and speaking and giving us your report and filling in for the p.a.c. parents tonight. i wanted to ask you, what is the time frame of when you're doing these conversations around restorative practices? >> it's great to not have a firm deadline at the end, because there's not a decision that you are going to make about it. so we're pretty much going to do the conversation starting yesterday as far into april as school can do it. but we know after spring break is over, it's a lot harder for schools to calendar that. so it's pretty much now till mid april probably. commissioner wynns: did you hear any feedback from the parents that participated in the training? >> fee

i enrolled in the university of san francisco law school. i got my j.d. and pass the bar. -- passed the gar. -- bar. [applause] san francisco has been my home. six years ago i was married here on the steps almost six years ago to this month. [applause] some are clapping, some are not. [laughter] it has been a fundamental time for my family and i having been nominated. by mayor ed lee and i am grateful to that community and i am grateful to the mayor and the board of supervisors who are considering this nomination. i vow to do the best job i possibly can for the city and i have -- as i have done from the outset of my city career. i will continue to draw inspiration and guidance from the black woman in our history and culture who have paved the way for me and others with their relentless fight against prejudice and intolerance and hate. there consummate energy, intelligence, and courage and their unshakeable persistence, unflinching sacrifice and unwavering faith. i have angels on my shoulder and they're my sisters. thank you and i wish you a happy and joyf

>> the last four years we continued to have an enrollment increase and during the tight budget times, we basically have been cutting probably almost close to 1500 different positions in the school system and we just can't sustain that kind of cut anymore and continue to offer the programs. so with the economy turning around, although just slightly, we think we can recover the enrollment growth. >> we're having a little microphone issues. if you don't mind bringing your microphone just a touch so we can hear you. you're expecting to hire about 700 new teachers this year and other employees. do you expect that that will bring down the student to teacher ratio? >> no. that is just to maintain current class sizes which we have increased over the last couple of years. >> howard bernstein is stepping in to help us out here with a little microphone issue. >> just hold that. >> thanks, howard. >> you were saying the new hires will deal with just-- >> we're expecting almost 4,000 more students than we bucketed. we have an increasing birth rate, decreasing outmigration of people moving out. the

the wrong hands, we'll even add this personal shredder-- a $29 value-- absolutely free with your enrollmentt wait another minute. call the number on your screen now, promo code: alerts. lifelock service guarantee cannot be offered to residents of new york. >> greg: peta is up in arms over an doggie flavored fashion show. it was held at o fashion night featured canines with lots of leather and people say fashion way too seriously. so it's good to start off the week with fun event everyone can enjoy. no one hates sexy puppies. that was my impression. peta, spokesperson, you don't even to have bleep that. bondage and chains belong in the bedroom with consent go adults. is it sexy or cruel? the boy was raised by wild st. bernards for analysis. >> what is that the. [ laughter ] >> where do you go with that st. bernard. that was wild st. bernard bureau. it's amazing thing. they don't break any stories but they are adorable. speaking of adorable, brooke, would peta be more effective if they lighten up a little? >> yeah, there is nothing more cage describe an dog. it had a dogfight. it had a man an

a five and a 29 plan, something called enrollment-based portfolio. -- a 529 plan, something called enrollment-basedolio. question and $1 is all you need? >> start with that. >> do not go way. >> broccoli. >> some of this cool. >> i think it is time to think about gardening. and we will be back in just one minute with >> a good morning and welcome to your sunday gardener. is has been a warm or mild winter. it feels like our fall has been long. however you want to state it. the ground is not really frozen hard. it is time to start thinking, maybe, do we plant early? do we still worry about a late frost? >> you would know better than i would. i would say on average we will still have some weather. >> right. >> it seems like onion sets are good to go outside. peas. you can serve the rest of your premium vegetables like rhubarb, asparagus. >> those bonds and gnarly affected. >> just like the weeds in my yard. >> green as they have ever been. >> all right. >> we can start since the indoors. they take a few weeks to get going anyway. >> take a look at a planning guide. they are available on-line. we have

we got to address it. >> they say new funding limits will only hurt the military veterans enrolled in the programs. we are 24 hours away from a partial bay bridge closure that is spected to last till tuesday morning. the westbound roadway will be closed. forcing drivers to find another way to get into san francisco. one thing you could do, head up 580 and take the bridge, cut down through marin, through the golden gate or head south on 580, to 880, cross 92 and up through the peninsula on 101 or 280 there. bay area rapid transit is helping out and it is keeping 14 of its stations open overnight with limited service. trains will leave once every hour. jade hernandez has been driving all the routes and timed out how long it will take and she took a trip on barts. her results at 6:00. >>> police want you to look at 2 pictures. they show a man who robbed the bank of the west branch this morning. he handed a teller a threatening note. he took off two two door toyota sedan. customers said they were surprised when police came in with their guns drawn. >> when i see that, i was like, what are

bill lockyer confirmed she was the victim of a violent assault in a newark hotel and she says she's enrolled in a center for treatment and is being treated for chronic pain from a past car accident. alcoholism and addiction are diseases from which many of us suffer, lockyear said, and unfortunately very not been spared. she says she's she has support of the people in her life, including her husband. >> alameda county's chief probation officer was placed on leave today because of a one and a half million dollar sexual harassment and battery claim that accuses david mohammed of assaulting the deputy on two occasions last may in her car. the deputy says it took this long to file because she didn't want to dep dyes the investigation into the allegation autos police are looking for one gunman possibly two in a nail salon shooting that left five people wounded including a 2-year-old girl. investigators say a man targ yitd a woman around 7:00 and opened fire. a man inside of the salon then shot back. the gun battle moved outside. some of the wounded were hit and we're told the 2-year-old will be ok