congratulations to our graduates. (clapping.) see everybody is happy everyone's happy the parents and the chief he didn't have to worry about you everyone is happy i tell young people when you are willing to do right people are willing to help you and your oversewed this right here we have a representative i believe from dianne feinstein's office to present a letter to you (clapping). >> hello. thank you for inviting us the senator expresses her sympathy for not coming. dear graduates it's with great privilege i i did not think mayor ed lee as well as our families and friends today it honors our academic achievements and community members the opportunity to celebrate those accomplishments you've distinguished you yourself with the goals achieved. at the united states senator representing the people of california congratulations for best wishes and success in the years to medical cannabis. congratulations again and thank you for having us i have this for ms. smith. congratulations thank you (clapping) >> scott is scott adams here

>> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a real

some are recent graduates. some of them are thinking of starting a family while others are working hard to care for the families they already have. what do these graduates want? they just want a fair shot. they want to know that their hard work in college mattered, that it led to the promise their parents made to them when they were little, the promise we all believe in, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can succeed. essentially, they want what each one of us has wanted for ourselves, what we want for our own kids, and what we're working for in our districts. they want a shot at the american dream. angela graduated from arizona state university in 2012. she now faces the biggest financial hurdle of her life. she doesn't face bills or a car loan, it's not rent or mortgage payment, it's a bill for over $85,000 in student loans. ilya will graduate in 2015. when she does, she'll have other $64,000 in student loans. nationally, outstanding student loans now total more than $1.2 trillion, surpassing total c

it's ten campuses, 230,000 students. 9 of which take under graduates and have graduate and professional schools. one campus, the one in san francisco is only post graduate basic research and the medical nursing, fapharmacy and dental schools. each of those four schools by the way, ucsf were the number 1 recipient of nih grapts in tnts always among the top three. those are very high quality educations and very competitive to get in. california for 20 years has had a ban on state supported affi affirmative action. it has investmented a lot of resources in how do you comply with the law and yet make sure the door of the university of this type of university remains open. i think we've done an okay job. i'm claiming credit for a lot of work done before me. 46% of our students who graduated last -- who are entering this coming year. about 45, 46% will be first generation students. 42% of our students are pel grant eligible. if you come from a family that makes less than $80,000 a year in california, you pay no tutition at the university of california. how have we done that while the le legis

to see more of them graduate and the evidence shows me that more graduates than the absence of affirmative action policies than when we have affirmative action policies in place. >> host: please stop helping of how liberals make it hard for blacks to succeed. the author with us today jason riley. this is a very hot conversation. i'm thrilled to be sitting here talking with you. i really am because it is interesting to hear what you have to say. as you are going back as a reporter i get a different set of facts but it's for the listener int and the reader ande viewer to make the assumption, and i appreciate what you have to say. >> there are lots of footnotes and there is an index people can look it up for themselves. they don't have to take my word. >> host: let's go back to the affirmative action situation. we have seen it in the university of michigan talking about preference. we heard about these opportunities in the bush years with the university of michigan, but i want to talk about the examples that you give at mit, but what about places like harvard university that really go out and

of them graduate.and to show that the absence of affirmative action for graduate than when they are in place. >> host: "please stop helping us" en how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed" the author is with us today jason riley this is a very hot topic it i am thrilled to be sitting here today talking with you because it is interesting what you have to say. you go by fax and as a reporter i get a different set of facts but it is from the listener and "the reader" and the viewer and i appreciate what you have to say. >> guest: there are lots of footnotes in the index to back up but i am saying. so people campbell conduct themselves. >> host: let's go back to the affirmative action situation to the university of michigan and talking about preference talked about the bush years with the university of michigan but talk about the examples of the m.i.t. but what about harvard that really go out and recruit americans to come in and give them scholarships? and they have been battling back and forth f

opportunity, what do we want for our graduates. the reasons we did this and many school districts across the country have redefined success. the death of no child left behind, we have received waivers of much more balanced for the whole child. not just measuring the student's success as standardized testing, but what does that mean and what are the measures. there we had students, teachers, panels, principals and started to say what is it we want for our students to be able to thrive. and how do we rally a diverse stakeholder community to implement this vision. one of the trends -- and this is sort of some of what we talked about -- the trends that informed us -- there's lots of these and we'll have the sole vision document next week and it will be online and we'll sends you copies, but right now our district is more et anically diverse than the rest of the city's projected to be in 2025. what we're saying is if we want to interrupt that pattern and we don't want san francisco to become less diverse, how do we make sure our student

more of them graduate and the evidence shows me that were graduates in the absence of a current action policies than when they have policies in place. >> host: "please stop helping us" how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed and the other with us today jason riley. this is a very hot conversation and i'm thrilled to be sitting here talking to you. i really am because it's interesting to hear what you have to say. as you are going by facts and as a reporter i get a different set of facts i guess but as for the listener and the reader and the viewer to make the assumption. i appreciate what you have to say. >> guest: there are lots of footnotes. >> host: at the end, yes, yes. >> guest: people can look it up from themselves. you don't have to take my word. >> host: let's go back to this affirmative-action situation. we have seen it with the university of michigan and talking about preference. we heard about the opportunities during the bush years with the university of michigan but i want to talk about the examples. you give an example of m.i.t. but what about places like harvar

in about an hour, the department is set to graduate 25 new recruits. alex savidge to live to tell us why this graduation is so important. >> reporter: good afternoon. this department is short staffed because of budget cuts. that'sial of these firefighter -- that's why all of these firefighters are desperately needed. they will graduate in less than an hour. this is the first class of new recruits in four years. it's a great sign for the department. these 25 new recruits marched into city hall this morning where they were officially sworn in as oakland firefighters. >> i do. >> reporter: this diverse class went through four months of difficult training and making it to graduation day is a big deal. >> it takes a lot to deal with, between the written test, the training to go through to get here to qualify. >> reporter: they will help ease the burden on their colleagues. right now the department is down 60 firefighters and lieutenant anthony sanders tells me that means forcing people to work overtime. >> when we don't have people to fill those spots, we h

however, we graduate 22% of all the african americans who graduate from colleges and universities in this country. so although we only have 3% of the population, our ability to get them through and graduate them is significant. and therefore the role that we play is still a very, very important role. and it's one that we think is a sacred and moral obligation. so that trend does speak to the fact that opportunity is there. and we believe that opportunity is america's promise, we believe that education is the contract that was written. but at howard and i think like many others we believe that we are the equal when it comes to african american education. >> what's your medical specialty? >> i'm a surgical oncologist. >> what does that mean? >> i do cancer, i do surgical -- i do basically surgery on patients with major g.i. cancers in particular, things like pancreas, stomach, colon, liver. i also do breast cancer work as well and i do a little bit of the other surgical oncology specialties. i would say the rest of that makes up about 10 to 15% of my practice which would include thyroi

in short they're different graduation rates. two, the gsr consistently returned to rate 12% to 25% higher than the fgr. as far back as 1991, they knew removing drop-outs, transfers or athletes who leave school in good academic standing from the gfr cohort, would result in a remarkably higher success rate. three, since there's no comparable national level gfr for the general student body to report gfr and fgr data simultaneously in press releases or data set tables invites inappropriate comparisons and fosters confusion among the general public. while the national office has sought to protect its collegiate model, academic support staffs label in a system that too often depends on an amorms process and results in athletes often clustering or being steered to majors conducive of their practice or competition or in other words, work schedule. tellingly, several authorities in the ncaa and the university governance structures recognize clustering and scheduling of easy courses as a problem. in addition, contrary to the n ncaa's publ

i think he's graduating in a week or something too. i just wanted to throw that question out, are there any concerns that are there? >> laura has thoughts on it too, i don't know if you saw the recents situation that happened with newark and facebook, if you look at that situation where facebook really was dictating a lot of the policy changes that should have been made by the elected officials there and by the school officials, and so i think we have to be very careful with that and aware that the decisions in terms of the needs and priorities and vision need to be made by the school board and edge ucators and we need to find where we can draw on the support and expertise of folks outside, whether they're private companies or wherever as to how they fit into that. that's what's exciting about this vision and the digital district plan that we're putting forward is we're laying our own vision and they're coming and figuring out how they fit into it. i think with that we have to be individual lent that we aren't allowing them to dictate

time than a non-graduate. they get university health insurance, multi year athletic grants and student assistance funds available through offices. the vastly improved conditions have resulted in the unprecedented performance in the classrooms, on the playing field and in preparation for life. few other campus activities or clubs produce such natural diversity as college athletics. bringing together young men and women from all different backgrounds with the common thing being skills. less than 1% of division one athletes will participate in professional sports. this underscores the value of education and many of them couldn't afford it without the scholarship. the students are the center of our universe and at the center of ever decision. if we ask our severals about building facilities and hiring coaches if this is in the best interest of the student athletes i believe that answer helps leads us in the right direction. any cravof your questions are m welcome. >> now dr. richard southall who is a director of t

she looked forward to at least being in the audience at her graduation and going to a graduation partysee her friends. she admitted them all. so she had made these cards for each of the girls who lived in her residence hall. but abby's mother was stunned when the school told her abby was not invited to either event. and julie bartel says the school told her security would keep them out if they tried to come. the milton hershey school told cnn we must balance the goal of keeping a child at the school with the absolute mandate to ensure the safety of all children entrusted to our care. in other words, the school believed abby could be a danger to other students. abby's stepmother told the 14-year-old the bad news. >> and i said the school does not want you to attend graduation because you've been in the hospital. >> reporter: abbie was devastated. her mother called the school. >> abbie has been through so much, been through so much. this would be devastating to her. i cannot believe you are doing this. i said are you a child care professional at all? i said what are you, a bunch of moron

, alabama graduates were here. there was a time called the talents and 10, the upper 10% of the black population in terms of intelligence and skills and capabilities. a lot of them would have been part of that. this was an experiment. they did not know that this was going to work. there was a lot of pressure anywhere on the black community to make sure that this occurred so that did not all washout or flunk out that they were not capable because there was a widespread belief that they were not intelligent off or capable of leading in compact. it would have wished back of the sense of progress of racial equality. houston was a graduate at the was a his class, and he civil rights lawyer. he hired herbert marshall, who was his assistant, one of the best-known civil rights. a lot lot of segregation lawsuits, say he is well known among the african and civilommunity rights looters. the first graduates were primarily lieutenants and captains. their job was essentially to drill all of the enlistees that were coming in, the

she was about to graduate from middle school.ays before her graduation day a psychiatrist discharged him saying she made good progress but should receive after care of the structured support of returning to milton hershey school. she went back to school and had a relapse and sent to a different pennsylvania institution. abby's family was told at the very least she would have to take a leave of absence for a year but she was released from the second institution two days before the graduation ceremony. she looked forward to at least being in the audience and going to a graduation party to see friends. she missed them all so she made these cards for each of the girls that lived in the residence hall but abby's mother was stunned when the school told her abby was not inviteed to either event and julie said security would keep them out if they tried to come. the milton hershey said we must balance the goal of keeping a child at school to ensure the safety of all children entrusted to the care. in other words, the school believed abby

the heartbreaking stories are starting to emerge in the town of borden a school rocked by grief graduates of men kemah college robin hamill rick robot young valens it failed and his sister fred to wreak were about to start the next chapter of their lives while two of the three students from this school that sadly perished on a mate seventeen were in fact a brother and a sister who were flying out to kuala lumpur with their grandparents who had gifted them a holiday to southeast asia for graduating from this school just several days ago everybody is together there's lots of crying everybody supporting one another you don't see something like this coming i knew he was going to hold the to malaysia but you never expect something like this to happen instead of enjoying the first days of their summer holiday pupils and teachers are grieving it's unbelievable seeing something on the news is one thing but when a to bolt your own school it hits you i still don't understand it were shell

so we very much look at those as graduations we graduated 6 and photo how much this means to them and i think there's no better way to explain the emotion of those presentations than to show you something that ran on tv about our environment now program i want to go to a video of a piece on channel 5 that says it itch better than i could can we have the video >> we it's under a program called environment now but be warned the leases need not apply in this restaurant they learn the ins and outs of green living. >> it's part of the city program called investment now her job is to go door to door and achieve the zero waste by 2020 but she's not also been an homeless ambassador. >> in and out of tenderloin shelters and no college degree made a career a long shot. >> that of the - this is the now industry. >> i want to be part of changing the world. >> i don't see any limbs she calls that more than an interimship many of the applicants come from a tough background they've become learning in microsoft program aerng a wage with benefits. >> probably the most challenging job when they leave h

rate, right about 60%, fewer than half of african american males graduate, what's your plan to changet? >> we have to be about to make sure that graduation and post secondary success both college career and being productive adults and citizens that that's at the center of what we do. >> wilson says that all students must be taught with the expectation that they will graduate and go on to college. no lowering expectations from low income and single parent house holds. students from more affluent families are clustered in the hills. he knows that success is possible for everyone, he was rachd by a single teenage -- raised by a single mother. >> i understood that i was done when i graduated college. being from a single parent home, having a mother who did not have an opportunity to go to college, for her to say to me, you will, and you're done when you go to college, had a lasting impression, it was always the goal. >> i talked to him about more school closures, and the vote back 23 tliven was -- back in 2011 was met with out cry. coming up ant 10:00 -- on the 10:00 news tonight wilson e

then after more than 10 years of graduation. gerri: return on investment is everything in these people pay no attention to it at all. let's work our way through this list. it's interesting. this college offers just 1 degree. can you tell us about the school? >> it's an interesting school, it's unusual, there's only one thing you can major in command its business. so you have all business majors. it's in massachusetts, one undergraduate has an mba program also and they are very focused and apparently their graduates are doing well once they finish. gerri: okay, so this college in massachusetts, just 2000 people, but here is a smaller school, the web institute with enrollment of just 79 student. why was this one recommended amax. >> two reasons, they are all studying naval architecture and engineering and apparently there's a steady job market for that. and they offer a full tuition scholarship to any student who enrolls. so costs are very low and the payoff is high. gerri: in my queue, mit. what did money magazine cnet? >> well,

and allow them the opportunity with their effort and discipline to graduate in less than four years. you graduate in 3 1/2 years, that's a significant savings to that family and that student who's borrowing money as a way of getting ahead in this society. so i really appreciate the focus that the committee has had on this question and appreciate very much the work of mr. gowdy and -- in trying to present to this body this amendment which will help i think facilitate the goal of making college more affordable. it is absolutely so essential to the young people of this country. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from south carolina. mr. gowdy: in summation, mr. chairman, i want to thank again the chairman, the gentleman from minnesota, for his willingness to entertain other people's ideas for his hard work, and the full book of business that they do on education and the work force, particularly the women and men who work so hard on the staff. and my friend from vermont, who is always open to areas of consensus and a

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. >>> and a graduate karlijn keijzer. >> obviously when it happened, you heard it's surreal and there was so much in front of her, it's hard to believe. >> her boyfriend had gone back to holland, and my understanding is the flight they were on, they were going on vacation to indonesia with friends. >> an australian woman lost relatives in both of the recent malaysia air disasters. her brother and sister-in-law were on the jetliner that disappeared and is still missing presumably over the indian ocean, and today she found out her stepdaughter was killed on malaysia flight 17. >>> coming up at 4:30, the impact of the loss here in the bay area. >>> in other news this afternoon, the family of a woman taken hostage and killed in stockton this week has spoke for the first time. the 41-year-old woman was used as a human shield. her 12-year-old daughter was waiting in the car at the time and texted her father when the crime happened. here is what her children had to say today. >> i wake up, and i am hoping that it's a dream, and that my mom is going to be there, but she's not. you know, it su

as a result u insulted u result of the peace program and calling la mission high school graduate was recruited for the sand volleyball team earned scholarships she's excelled in sports. those are just (clapping) those are just a few of the students tacked by the student enrichment fund this fund has touches hundreds and thousands of our cities children fostering learning and proposing them to criteria success on behalf of the colleagues my sincere thanks to mayor ed lee and supervisor yee and supervisor kim and supervisor avalos for authorizing this measure for the legislation to the service provider that coming out came out to advocate and the voters of san francisco for investing in our public schools. thank you (clapping.) so i know we're running a little bit long let me bring up our next speaker who was made a contribution for the legislation supervisor eric mar >> thank you. i have the honor of proceedings the leader from kohlman advocates but in my short time i'll say when the kohlman advocates others 20 years ago brought this to the board of supervisors this was zero support a

she was about to finish eighth grade and graduate from middle school.chiatrist discharged abbey declaring she made good progress, but should receive structured support. he went back to school, had a relapse, and then was sent to a different institution. her family was told she would have to take a leave of absence for a year while think continued strae treatment. he looked forward to at least being in the audience and going to a graduation party to see her friends. she missed them all, so she made these cars for each of the girls that lived in her residence haul. she was not invited to either event. they told her that security would keep them out if they tried to come. they said we must balance the school of keeping a child at the school with the mandate of the safety of all children entrusted to our care. the school believed she could be a danger to other students. >> i said the school does not want you to attend graduation. because you have been in the hospital. >> abbey was devastated. her mother called the school. >> abbey has been through so much,

she's not your average high school graduate.n the same month she graduated from college with an associate's degree. >> i think it's definitely life changing. all of this hard work, it seems like it paid off. she has 13 brothers and sisters so money in the family doesn't come easily. >> even something as simple as -- >> but the courses she took at the community college of aurora were completely free. she and her three sisters, who have taken free college classes while in high school saved over $70,000 on tuition. she and her sister melinita are the first college graduates in the family. >> if my parents had to pay for college for all of us, i don't know if it would be possible so concurrent enrollment has helped my family financially. >> concurrent enrollment is a program that allows high school students to take college classes for credit. the program has exploded in the denver metro area where courses are being offered free of charge. in denver's public schools and the nearby aurora public school system, 1 in 3 seen yours took t

all proceeds go to to cop lar ship fund for ggbt high school graduates that -- graduates that graduate a brand new car for the k9 unit. it got easier for the fulcroft police department to serve and protect. they surprised the department with a new full outfitted 2013 dodge charger sedan. this will be used for the k9 unit. that dog is a happy dog. the car, the department had been using for the k9 unit was old and left a lot to be desired this is really a big deal. >> everybody is hurting for money. you can only afford so much. only so much you can do. and when you get something like this given to you, done a to z, the lights, the lettering. everything. >> last year for every car sold, chrysler donated $50 to help pay for trained police dogs. >>> this is one lucky dog. he was in hot pursuit of a squirrel when freak accident left him impaled on a 4-foot rod. vets thought he wouldn't make it but he did. the incredible survival story coming up next. >> and the graduation walk that brought a crowd to its feet. why a teen says he would not accept his dip mommy ma unless his twin who has down

i guess they don't consider a graduation ceremony as a visit and normal visiting rules don't apply. so today i get to see him face-to-face, and give him a hug. good thing i shaved my head, it wouldn't stick. it's like velcro now. >> for gomez the graduation ceremony represents the completion of his g.e.d. >> is this how you put it on? what side this go on? >> i haven't got an education in over 12 years. so actually i'm pretty proud of myself. >> it feels pretty good. so happy. >> my mom and my sister-in-law are coming up. i'm going to be happy to see them. they're really actually really proud of me. i never thought i'd actually get an education. they thought i'd just stay the same. ♪ [ applause ] as i call off your names please come forward and receive your certificates. patrick gaskill. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> star of the show. >> yeah. >> fabian gomez. [ applause ] >> cordero love. [ applause ] brandon mulvaney. [ applause ] all together you may now shift your tassels to the left by signifying conferral of degrees, please join me in congratulating the graduating class. [ app

expelled upon graduation? isn't that graduation?hter] >> they may not be on jmu's campus for any reason after graduation. >> jon: so no alumni tailgating or reunions or bringing your kids back to show them where you abused girls? my guess is those idiots went through worse punishment that's right fraternity initiation. james madison university will be the laughingstock of the country. >> 5 colleges under allegation -- 55 colleges under investigation. >> even if the school found the attacker guilty, they would get nothing harsher than writing a book report. >> jon: what the [bleeped]? are colleges trying to incentivize sexual abuse? the rest of us call 30 days off to write a book vacation. jordan klepper and jessica williams have come up with some campus safety do's and don'ts. guys, take it away. [cheering and applause] >> okay, bros. party commandment number one: beer before liquor, never been sicker. >> and lady, never lose sight of your drink ever. don't be a doofie. watch out for a roofie. >> this is a big one, guys: don't pass

. >> her oldest son graduates from college in a couple of weeks.d to be there for that, too. it's really a sad time. >> you said her other son. is he not your son? >> no, he's our son. >> further investigation helped explain this slip. shortly after ken and christine were married in 1966, ken became friends with a co-worker named bob brown. they both worked at the san diego aerospace contractor back in the late 1960s. >> ended up, the three of them hanging out together all the time. >> as a result, bob brown's relationship with christine soon went beyond friendship. >> as bob put it, he thought christine was starved for affection. they have this affair that goes on for many years. when christine got pregnant and gave birth to her oldest son justin, sources told police that ken was not the boy's biological father, it was bob brown. >> robert maintained his friendship. as a matter of fact, he was justin's godfather. >> to confirm justin's paternity, investigators tracked down robert brown. >> we end up finding robert brown, he says yes, i am the fath

>>> she was a recent art school graduate with a promising future, but that all ended for laura araujo when she was kill unday night and then stuffed in the duffle bag. tonight, this man, 22-year old jeremiah jackson is behind bars, charged with her killing. it is wednesday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is the arrest of a man who lived in the same apartment building as his alleged victim, and the motive was robbery. "action news" reporter kenneth moton is live at police headquarters with all of the details, kenneth. >> reporter: jim, we now know victim for the for her life. police say there was a violent struggle inside that boarding house where she and the suspect lived. wednesday evening, homicide detectives are briefly back in the mantua boarding house where 23 year-old laura araujo was beaten and strangled. they came out with an item wrapped in the brown bag another piece of evidence against woman's neighbor in the building, 22-year old jeremiah jackson. >> just glad to be out of school, moved into a building and did some kind of freak kills her like that. >> rep

in short, they're different graduation rates. two, the gsr consistently returned to rate 12% to 25% higher than the fgr. as far back as 1991, they knew removing drop-outs, transfers or athletes who leave school in good academic standing from the gfr cohort, would result in a remarkably higher success rate. three, since there's no comparable national level gfr for the general student body, to report gfr and fgr data simultaneously in press releases or data set tables invites inappropriate comparisons and fosters confusion among the general public. while the national office has sought to protect its collegiate model, academic support staffs label in a system that too often depends on an amorms process, and results in athletes often clustering or being steered to majors conducive of their practice or competition, or in other words, work schedule. tellingly, several authorities in the ncaa and the university governance structures recognize clustering and scheduling of easy courses as a problem. in addition, contrary to the ncaa's pub

miss marshall taught them how to run programs when my daughter graduated from high school. she not only ran the summer program for the bay view hunters point baptist church, she also ran an after school program. she was -- they were the first ones to be involved in the african american parade and i've always been with her as the parents. i support her and everything she does, everything she has put her finger on, i can actually say has been successful and i really would like very much if the board would hopefully support her as well as we do in the bay view hunters point area. thank you very much. >> hello board of directors -- school board people. i usually listen to you on the radio so it's kind of interesting to look at you. i'm here because virginia marshall came into my life through my children who were at the schools district and i watched her not only help them profoundly, but scores of african american children, es pshlly boys. and you know the statistics in our city regarding our african american children and our boys. as the other speaker said she went into the ba