we do a lot of esl classes and a lot of our members take esl classes. i did a presentation to an esl that used to be at that camp /skpus it was about six people in that classroom and the professor spoke about how if the classes were held at the civic center campus, there would be about 40 in the individual class. i talked a little bit to the individuals in the class and they were older immigrant individuals, they discussed how they could simply walk to campus. it would take them 10 minutes to get to campus and now it's taking an hour to get to the campus. this is a big issue for them. a lot of the esl classes are 5 days a week. money was also an issue for them, right? how are they going to be able to afford transportation to get to these campuses? now they're going to have to cut back on the amount of classes they were going to because they can't afford to go to the classes every day of the week. i really feel it's important to open the tender loin campus as soon as possible so these individuals can continue to go to class and learn and grow. i urge you

the esl the esl class provided a vital service for many of our large immigrant communities and the campus offered a computer class to the surrounding tenderloin community helping to address the digital divide and having a central city campus is essential for working class families to help prepare for further training and education. i've heard as many as a third of students were unable to continue their education either because they could not afford the cost of transit to another campus far away or they could not fit the commute time into their work schedules as they balance families and other obligations. it's important that city college do what it can to help our dedicated san francisco residents in receiving the best education possible. they still have not identified these classrooms and so many students are in limbo a diverse group of community stakeholders including glide church and united players and senior disability action network is calling for the campus to reopen as quickly as possible and to find temporary classes in the neighborhood for all classes disrupted by the by by the c

in oakland 80% of the students are either esl, english as a second language, they're low income, or they're in foster care. any one of those things presents a whole host of challenges. but when you ask the schools to deal with all of those things and teach you know, reading, writing, math how do you help the schools to succeed? >> i mean, that's the challenge. i was thinking about the youth. not only are they brilliant they're dealing with the trauma of seeing their cousins pass away. they're dealing with believing they won't graduate. and that does set the context in oakland. only 50% of young black men actually graduate from high school. i mean if you take that in the california context, out of -- 1 out of every 20 black kindergartners will only graduate high school and go to college. that's 5% of black youth in california. we have to do more in partnerships with our schools. educators are doing as much as possible, but we also need to wrap our arms around schools. there's a lot of great wrap-around support services that are happening. there's an amazing initiative around young black and