i'm a freshman and george washington high school. my goal is to attend college and to do so, i need, of course, at least three to four years of math and science to get into u.c. or c.s.u., so why let budget cuts determine my future? i will not sit here and see my education thrown away out the door. i just studied this year, in the beginning, and i plan on doing dance for several years. it's what keeps me going and a passion i've had for the longest time from elementary school through middle school and up to now. as you can see, it's a pretty big deal to me. not only are you cutting dance class but you are also -- i don't have enough years of my world language and i would like to take spanish for the next three years but now that budget cut will cut me so i will only have to do two years. please stop our budget cuts and find the money in your budget, please, somewhere else. thank you for listening. [applause] >> good evening, my name is john frank. i am a music teacher at hoover middle school but i'm here in support of the reinstating

give us more students at george washington high school, it is that would give enough money for next year'sd. they keep. -- thank you. [applause] >> i am the chair of the languages department at george washington high school. we wrote you a letter, explaining the situation. i will be brief, and i will explain what is going on. this year, two of our teachers are retiring. we cannot replace them. so now, we are cutting eight sections. chinese, for example, is not going to offer a third year. it is not going to offer and ap class. this is something that is not for us. this is something that is affecting our students. i am thinking the students are starting a course of language. they're going to have to stop after two years, and we are going to tell them to wait until you go to college. maybe you can be fluid in a language, you can have exposure to a culture, you can have these other perspectives in your life. we are just on the say you are not going to get it when you come to washington high school. applying to colleges, they are not going to have that recommended. they're going to be in a thi

i'd like to represent our family and thank you for your hard work but please help us and george washington high with our budget cuts. right now, our daughter's goal at george washington high is to accumulate credits to attend college. currently, that budget cut will affect her chances. it is cutting into her -- there's going to be three only limited three years of math and science and world language. these are credits she needs to attend college so she will be speaking next. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> do i just press this button? o.k. good evening, board members. i'm a freshman and george washington high school. my goal is to attend college and to do so, i need, of course, at least three to four years of math and science to get into u.c. or c.s.u., so why let budget cuts determine my future? i will not sit here and see my education thrown away out the door. i just studied this year, in the beginning, and i plan on doing dance for several years. it's what keeps me going and a passion i've had for the longest time from elementary school through middle school and up to now. as you

i'd like to represent our family and thank you for your hard work but please help us and george washington high with our budget cuts. right now, our daughter's goal at george washington high is to accumulate credits to attend college. currently, that budget cut will affect her chances. it is cutting into her -- there's going to be three only limited three years of math and science and world language. these are credits she needs to attend college so she will be speaking next. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> do i just press this button?

ibm and 11th grader at george washington high school, -- i am an 11th grader. there were opportunities of the school as well as the band program. taking what was interesting to me. by cutting classes, not only are you and the state of california lessening the value of mine and my fellow classmates education, you're also eliminating from them key components which should be part of every child's education. every student, particularly here in san francisco, one of the most open-minded and educated cities in the world, should have the opportunity to play an instrument and speak a language. although times are hard, especially in california, it is your responsibility to keep the cuts away from our courtroom. this is so we can continue bill level of of finance we have been accustomed to. >> good evening. i am a teacher. .i am pro note of them. those were my two students. my daughter. working to keep the cut away from the classroom, f/a-18. [applause] -- thank you. >> i teach choir of the presidium middle school in washington high school. i know there are a lot of peop

street, other works in the collection, from the wpa era, the quite tower, the works from the george washington highl. we have the contemporary education, where they depict some of the vocational arts that were taught at george washington high school. what is interesting is the artist's and corp. of some of the -- incorporation of some of the architectural elements. they used the speaker from the p a system as part of the design. on the opposite side of the library, we have a large fresco which depicts the academic subjects that were taught at the time. it serves as a foil to the other fresco in the library, we have academic subjects on one side, vocational subjects on the other, and result is the concept of a well-rounded education. additionally, what we plan to do is the academy of hospitality and tourism will be part of, so the students can share with other students, faculty, the neighborhood, and others to come by and what to look to the artwork we have. >> by working with the students, we hope to raise awareness of the collection and foster stewardship. we brought diego rivera to the city. i th

i'm a senior at george washington high school. our school is very fortunate to have like such a great music program and we want lincoln to have the same opportunity as we do. the students in our band get the opportunity to play at solo ensemble and all city. we get to learn from college professors and professional musicians. and the japanese embassy heard of our band and asked us to play music to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first ship from japan to come to the united states. we also play in small groups at the cliff house hotel lobbies and restaurants sometimes and we get donations from people and we were able to raise $20,000 for our marching band uniforms and we are able to put the marching band for the first time in over 30 years from public school. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, board. i'm the instrumental music director at george washington high school. i'm here actually on a different capacity. i'm here representing aim and in the very large shoes of dan ryan whose name i know you all kn

george washington. hollywood high school. they have english, latin and greek. this is a middle school in long beach. it wasn't centralized authority. they chose the architects. the main constraint is there had to be an engineer on site. there there is berkeley. and piedmont avenue in oakland. this is in nevada city. these schools, like so many of the new deal are beautifully built. this is the school you just saw. teaching, they employed tens of thousands of teachers and librariance. new nutritionist. starving children don't learn well. they give them lunches. this is an art class in san francisco hospital. art class for crippled children. the photographers that i find of san francisco indicate that schools were integrated at the lowest level. you could mitigate the racial problem from the bottom up. there was also adult education too. this 1 learned one learned to read as many did. many of the community colleges were a result of the new deal. sacramento. i gave a talk at santa rosa and the city college in san francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has

apprentice with mayor lee, but you can -- >> i am patrice thompson, an english teacher from george washington high school, good evening, superintendent garcia and board members korea i am here to talk about the situation at george washington. many people, from hunters point to around another area, they would like to attend school there, and we have lost students do something i do not understand, especially when students were to come here. with fewer students, we're not able to provide what students need to not only get into the u.c. system, at haute the state system, we are getting rid of those classes. whether anyone likes it or not, i also the mother of a 12th grader, and i have had 90 seniors, and what i've seen is that regular programming, haute gta, as a teacup of a rigorous and diversity of programs and the arts and english classes, one third, really a fourth year of mass, the best thing is for students to have the most rigorous program, and we are not able to provide that unless we have at least 200 students return to us, so i am asking that at least 200 students get returned to us and that

in 2000 evon was awarded the award for excellence in math and science and was at george washington high school and now retiring from her post as the principal of yuqual school in the heart of my district. last and certainly not least, judy polly, in the 42 years she has been with the district she has served in a wide range of roles in our elementary and middle schools. she's been a counselor, a dean of students, program director, and an assistant principal at marina middle and for the past five years judy has served as the principal at francisco middle school. over this past year, in recognition of her tremendous contributions, judy has received many educational awards. school master of the year by the california school masters club, administrator of the year by the association of california school administrators, and mayor's principal of the year presented by the city and county of san francisco. i have to say by the way, i cannot believe that the four of you have 126 years of educating history. on behalf of not just all the parents, all the families, the elected officials, but thank y

degrees for our high temperature. 96, the record set and 1942. 54 after a high of 58 degrees. 54 in gaithersburg. george washingtonniversity -- the current reading of 59. temperatures at 10 degree difference as you head to the north. hagerstown at 56. 51 in manassas. warmer temperatures it really not that far away, as you travel to the south the carolinas well into the 70's. we will see temperatures in the 70's tomorrow. there will be a cold front off to the west of us. this arrives late tuesday into wednesday as it moves closer to the mid-atlantic. the clouds will stick around. the best chance for showers and embedded thunderstorms will come into being on tuesday night and wednesday. live doppler radar. a few light showers on a interstate270, down towards annapolis and the delmarva peninsula. we will see periods of heavy rain for the next 25 minutes. the next 48 hours clouds increase and we call for temperatures to rebound to 80 degrees. that will happen on tuesday. here is our forecast overnight. mostly cloudy. areas of drizzle. 50-55 degrees. tomorrow 78-75 with late date showers. our extended a look calls for

read george washington on torture when he refused to torture british soldiers who had been torturing american soldiers because, he said, america must always take the high moral ground, and that is critical for this new country that we are founding, the united states of america. >> it's unclear exactly how much information that led to all of this was obtained through these enhanced interrogations. >> kim, that whole thesis collapses if we discover, it's all conjecture and debate right now, if we discover that pakistani intelligence and american intelligence were in fact working together. then this thesis -- >> but we didn't know that. >> we don't know. so, therefore you can't build up the argument that the information came through torture. >> but, let me ask you quickly. what good can come of this in terms of better relations, not worse relations, but better relations between pakistan and the united states? do you see some kind of opening there? >> not only these two countries. i would say the united states and the muslim world. because the war on terror, whether you like it or not, bob, was driven by the symbolism of bin laden who towered over the hori

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airport. 64 also in prince george's county. 66 in frederick, maryland. 66 out towards culpepper in the blue ridge. no clouds over washington just yet, but there are a few mid- and highpepper and madison county, green county, down towards charlottesville, and a few clouds into far western maryland as well. they're all part of a little ripple that's coming our way in the atmosphere. as this ripple starts to interact with some of the daytime heating, i think those showers will gradually increase in coverage and slip farther down to the south and southwest. so showers on the move. they'll begin to increase by mid- to late afternoon. not looking for any heavy rain and not much in the way of thunderstorm risk either. that is welcome news, but a chance of quick, passing rain showers, especially west and southwest of washington. that should all dry up by 8:00 tomorrow morning. then tomorrow, i think, once again, a mix of clouds and sunshine. and as this little weak weather front comes through, might kick off an isolated shower tomorrow. but i think rain chances are fairly low. headed out to the virginia gold cup today, great weather out at the plains virginia. temperatures

little early but "the washington post" did a poll right after and it showed about the samee high single digits, i think 9% for the approval rating that is roughly the same georgeolds a it is a little surprising because it is nowhere near the consensus for capturing hussain abbas from killing bin laden with the iraq war fairly unpopular by that time. thinking he would get more of a bump but in the long run that has helped in the short run in the dealings with congress. maybe with the budget debate maybe having some more above and also will be hard for the republicans to say he is weak on foreign policy that a lot of them had said. >>host: we will get your reaction to this tweaked. >> anybody that does not kiss said grover norquist g ring with no tax pledge cannot win the nomination to what i don't know if he has that much power but none of these republicans who are serious or seriously taken, ofsi our on the wrong side of the tax issue for republican voters. that is for sure. gary johnson from new mexico, by the way i thought was a loser in the debatei last night. i thought he was very weak. i thought his record should we veryn appealing other than 1/8 to legal

george washington university. it all gets underway at 3:00 p.m. on sunday. [cheers and applause] >> curtis carlson is the developer of american high- definition tv standards. he has helped to found more than 12 companies. he is the founder and president of the non-profit tv research institute. he gave the commencement address at the university of richmond. this is 20 minutes. >> today, i have the honor of welcoming the commencement speaker for the university of richmond class of 2011. dr. curtis carlson. you may not have thought of this, but every time you turn on your tv to watch the super bowl, your mother's favorite soap opera, or the season finale in high-definition, if you need to think one man for the high- quality image on your screen. trust me, it is not charlie sheen. the man you are to think is dr. curtis carlson. he won emmy awards for leading the development of the american h.d. tv broadcast standard and optimizing qualities. as an expert on innovation and competitiveness, he has founded more than 12 companies. he is currently chairman, ceo, of sriesident p international, an independent, nonprofit research institute. p

guest: "washington post" did a poll right after and it showed about the same high single digits of 9% i think it was bump for president obama's approval rating which is roughly the same that georgew. bush got after capturing saddam hussein. if that's really what the bump was, it's a little surprising because, you know, the iraq war didn't have near the consensus for capturing hussein that you had for killing bin laden and the iraq war was fairly unpopular by that time so that i would think he'd be more of a bump. i think in the long run, you know, this fades into memory, but i think it has helped him in the short run in the dealings with congress. i think maybe in this budget debate he might have a little more oompf and on the military front, it's going to be hard for republicans to say he's weak and weak kneed on foreign policy which a lot of them had been saying after doing this. >> host: i'll get your reaction to this tweet from chris. any gop candidate that doesn't kiss grover norquist's ring and sign his no tax pledge can't win the nomination. >> guest: i don't know if grover has that much power. i think the issue is powerful. none of these republicans who are serious -- se