we shall here to distribute the graduates of the san francisco unified school district who live in public housing. we we kickoff this on sunday night when the mayor and i hosted 3 of the young people on the streets radio program it was great and continuing it today with the celebration here at the city hall honoring the young people and their families. so we're a little bit late looifrmg i'm going to move the program on let me get right to it and bring you the mayor of city and county of san francisco mayor edwin lee >> (clapping) >> thank you, joe. commissioner marshall or as i call the head of street soldiers in san francisco welcome everyone. at city hall i wanted to make sure you felt city hall's appreciation for the efforts that those students have accomplished. you know, i know it's not easy growing up in our public housing developments. i know that from perm experience but i also know this in running the city for over 23 years in various forms we've been out there at the shared responsibility with our parents and the housing authority to make things better and now a group of wonder

marcus congratulations go he's from albany he's our senior who graduate from chapter high school and going off to tech college in susan vail on a scholarship i know that his mom and family are especially proud of you today and everyday for your accomplishments >> thank you (clapping). >> and now i'd like to call up angela martinez from plaza east (clapping) she's one of our seniors that graduated tb june jordan on her way to ucla in the fall (clapping). >> your mom and family are especially proud of your accomplishments and your radio debut on sunday night with the mayor. congratulations and willing to you (clapping) yes. jacqueline from west brook i think she's not here yet; is that right? we have another person from pa terror annex (clapping) she's one of the our seniors that graduated from the academy and is going off to i'm sorry that's jackie barns she graduated fromgalactia low high school living in the dorms at the cal state hayward in the fall (clapping) your mom and family are very proud of user you and congratulations and guideline to you (clapping) esmeralda rodriguez from

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

class of 2014, you are moments away from graduating. moment away from beginning your journey through life. the woods away from starting to change the world for the better. it will not be easy. of 2014,re the class the class that can affect the lives of 800 million years -- people. find someone to help you through life, respect everyone, know that life is not fair and you will fail often. but if you take risks, step up when times are tough, face down the bully, lift up the downtrodden, and never give up, if you do these things, the next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today. what started here will indeed have changed the world for the better. thank you very >> vermont senator patrick leahy talked about challenges graduates will face throughout the years. he is a senior member of the senate and third in line to presidential succession. his remarks are just under 15 minutes. >> thank you very much. what of my best friends, chuck ross, the secretary of agriculture. i want to th

about half graduate pretty much in the four-year timeframe. they graduate within 52 months. about 4.3 years. the other half raises the average time to graduate to 6.3 years. just as he we question, why is that, particularly when you have so may suit is leaving college with credits in the -- high school with credits in the bag. have we made fun to so readily that people can dither in college? just a question i'm asking. i know part of this hearing is to talk about other types of legislation to solve the problem. one thing i think is important for us to talk about is how those proposals might be scored. having is constrained by to score these under the reform act. it is not acoring account for economic conditions or loan default. itis showing that this saves would also cause the government $88 billion over the 10 year frame. ares important if we looking for peaceful legislation that we take a look at the fair value cost and the effect it has on the deficit. the only other thing i want to talk about is another unintended consequences some of these problems designed to give loan

here, graduates educated you graduate not just with a degree but with a purpose. here,r first three years the most competitive in the history of uva law, you have probably shouldered that tradition. a man wrongly accused. you set an immigration reform bill. you use a lot to champion issues from autism to housing to wounded warriors. tomorrow, each of you will carry your piece of this experience into the country weathering stormy seas. an economy still searching for its footing. threats to our foreign policy the world over. political battles so deeply divisive that they literally have older governments to a halt. but worst of all, a lot of faith. a slowly spreading suspicion that maybe this american experiment has peaked. it'd be easy to think that this is not your problem. it is the clown that government that are giving the system a bad name. this is more than your problem. this is your purpose. very challenge that your founder imagine that you might rise to meet. that you would be the ones to prove that our system works. whichthe foundation on jefferson's america

in addition to this being graduation day, today is armed forces day. let me begin by asking all of those who have worn the uniform of our great country at any stage in your life to stand so that we can recognize you with a round of applause. [applause] members of the class of 2014, i am obviously not the first to since io you today, have the microphone, perhaps i can say at the loudest. congratulations. [applause] it.did i am mindful of the fact that when i was at my college graduation, all i could think of was will the speaker ever finish speaking? i will confess that i do not remember a single thing that the commencement speaker said at my own graduation. in fact, i don't remember his name. the great honor of addressing you today with a great deal of humility. its first commencement 44 years ago, this college has opened the doors of opportunity for thousands of students. some of you came here directly from high school. others from the workforce. i met some today who came through the trade adjustment jobs andfter losing have now retrained for it excit

the proportion of recent college graduates coming from the lowest quartile of the tradition is smaller than it was in 1970 before pell grants or student programs. rising income inequality has been associated with more federal student financial aid assistance and i don't think that is coincidental. in my written testimony i shall concerns about several administration initiatives including the college rating system and gainful employment regulations but i want to briefly comment on the proposal of senator warren to lower interest rates on loans to pass borrowers. i think this is a bad idea for several reasons. beginning with the fact that it does utterly nothing to address college tuition inflation. conscientious payers and debt obligations end up getting punished relative to nonpayers who get lower interest rates, a bad message. it will also add tens of millions of dollars to the deficit and national debt. there are other objections as well. we may be a senator johnson hinted over investing in some ways in higher education. the advantages of getting a degree are actually starting to dec

about half graduate pretty much in the four-year timeframe. they graduate within 52 months. about 4.3 years. the other half raises the average time to graduate to 6.3 years. just as he we question, why is that, particularly when you have so may suit is leaving college with credits in the -- high school with credits in the bag. have we made fun to so readily that people can dither in college? just a question i'm asking. i know part of this hearing is to talk about other types of legislation to solve the problem. one thing i think is important for us to talk about is how those proposals might be scored. the cbo is constrained by having to score these under the reform act. under that scoring it is not a account for economic conditions or loan default. it is showing that this saves it would also cause the government $88 billion over the 10 year frame. it is important if we are looking for peaceful legislation that we take a look at the fair value cost and the effect it has on the deficit. the only other thing i want to talk about is another unintended consequences some of these

there's no limit at graduate school, so the counseling for graduates has to be more focused, more intense, more effective because they're really talking about big sums of money. there's no limit on that. i appreciate very much. mr. hubbard, thank you for your service, thank you for your testimony. under the service members relief act, there are lots of -- used to call it the soldier and sailors service relief act. now it's the service members. there are many rights that service members have but they have to, again, be aware of those rights. how good did the department of defense, or do you think they do about informing service members, particularly those who are about to leave the service about their rights under the, as veterans or their rights as service members? >> well, there's a couple pieces of that puzzle, and i think this is a great question, so thank you for that. >> yes, sir. >> senator. the department of defense is certainly responsible to some degree for making sure that their people are taken care of. on the other end of things, if a servicer is giving them false information,

i want to talk rectally to the morehouse graduates here. you -- talk directly to the morehouse graduates here. you, my brothers. i want to talk about what this institution means to me. and what it should mean to you for the rest of your life. as a student and now a graduate of morehouse college, you have chosen to travel the same road , john, spike, martin, charles, jerome, james, juhl, rodney,ynard, train, and the other members of the class of 1979 who are here traveled the day we left this institution 35 years ago. meanchool in this place everything to us. we owe it much, far more than the value of a four-year college education. morehouse is part of us, and it is a large part of what we have become today. august, 1975, i arrived here a boy. 1979, i left here a man with a mission. arrived here a young man who never wanted to be at the center of attention. i could never imagine speaking here like this. in my house during my high was a reason to celebrate. in my house, the only time i ever heard my mother after a four letter word was when sh

in other words they graduate in about 4.3 years but the other half raises the average time of graduating to 6.3 years. again just asking the question why is that particularly when you have so many kids leaving high school with college classes in the bag. have we made college funds available so readily that people can dither in college? is just a question i'm asking. now part of the hearing is to talk about other types of pieces of legislation to supposedly solve the problem. when i thing i think it's important to talk about is how those might be scored. currently the cbo is constrained by having to score the cost of these college aid programs under the federal credit reform act and under that scoring for the tenure period 20 fort -- because it doesn't account really for varying economic conditions or loan defaults its showing that student loan program saves the american taxpayer and reduces the deficit by $135 billion over 10 years but at the use of fair value basis and account for economic times in the fall to cost the government 88 ilya dollars timeframe so it's important to look at ea

here, graduates educated you graduate not just with a degree but with a purpose. here,r first three years the most competitive in the history of uva law, you have probably shouldered that tradition. a man wrongly accused. you set an immigration reform bill. you use a lot to champion issues from autism to housing to wounded warriors. tomorrow, each of you will carry your piece of this experience into the country weathering stormy seas. an economy still searching for its footing. threats to our foreign policy the world over. political battles so deeply divisive that they literally have older governments to a halt. but worst of all, a lot of faith. a slowly spreading suspicion that maybe this american experiment has peaked. it'd be easy to think that this is not your problem. it is the clown that government that are giving the system a bad name. this is more than your problem. this is your purpose. very challenge that your founder imagine that you might rise to meet. that you would be the ones to prove that our system works. whichthe foundation on jefferson's america

my daughter, vanessa, graduated in the class of 1999. i know what a proud moment this is for your parents, but my friends, the test will be if they still feel this way next may if you live at home. i am really happy you made it back from myrtle beach. [laughter] as if you had not already logged enough take time -- keg time. remember, 4.0 is a good gpa but it is a lousy blood-alcohol level. [laughter] i love the hats. we did not have been when i was here. i love the hats. they are outrageous. they are spectacular. this may be the only event that pharrell can crash and go unnoticed. [laughter] i have been looking around. i have seen a couple of red sox hats out there. [applause] few of thosen a dreaded interlocking ends -- n's and y's. that is ok. i said diversity is important. it is also a way for me to tell who roots for the yankees, and was graduating with distinction. [laughter] [applause] here is the deal. learned that and i i was not everyone's first choice to be up youhere. [laughter] when yale announced that i would be speaking, so

, and less likery to graduate as welt. just a few moments ago, you were telling us how reductions in state support have driven up costs. haven't this gap am strengthened public education's hand? don't you have more customers because you are a better priced product? je, you do, not all of course, but many public universities particularly those that are perceived as being high value, you can see substantial increase in the last several years. in the interest in those institutions. and that comes in the form of increased applications. and there's been a response to increase enrollment, to try to meet those needs. mrs., however, a hidden problem in all of that. that is so the cost of educating a student, while mostly bourn by the student, is not entirely bourn by the student. that it has to find other sources to pay for in the time of declining state support. that means there's a real scramble that increasing enrollment doesn't increase your overall budget in terms of being able to support the university activities. so increas

over stanford's graduation today. kpix5 was there as the grads called for justice in an alleged sexual assault. >> reporter: it is graduation day but the protests are continuing. >> i am graduating. >> survivors of sexual assault. >> reporter: a senior, fighting the university's decision not to expel her alleged rapist. the university will withhold his degree and not return for grad school until waiting out a one year suspension. he was able to graduate today even though stanford's graduation found him responsible for the attack. >> reporter: hundreds of students took graduation as an opportunity to wear red tape on their cap or gown to show solidarity. >> what a great venue if you want it to be visible on your cap or share it with people. it say great way to show a big group, standing together. >> it is passionit. i think it is great to bring important issues like that to -- passionate. >> i think it is great to bring important issues like that to life. >> it is not just about lea it is about countless friends that i

i segment them into looking at undergraduate degree and my graduate degree separately. i went through the public uc system in california for both degrees. there is very much this--there are a lot of students in the classrooms in the undergraduate programs. it's very difficult to engage with your professors, engage with your t.a.s, i don't feel that i walked out with what i hoped and i graduated and ended up doing something completely different from what i got my degree in. my master's program was great, asking the right questions and getting the critical thinking going, i valued my graduate degree. in terms of the borrowing process, there is a lot wrong with it. for a lot of students like myself, there is no other way to fund college. so borrowing and going into debt is no other way to do it. as such, i think that the organizations administering the loans don't need to tell you any more than that. you get a check every quarter and you sign for it. it's very much you don't know what you don't know. natalia, fiona's investment in society, a lot of outstanding debt still t

i want to talk rectally to the morehouse graduates here. you -- talk directly to the morehouse graduates here. you, my brothers. i want to talk about what this institution means to me. and what it should mean to you for the rest of your life. as a student and now a graduate of morehouse college, you have chosen to travel the same road , john, spike, martin, charles, jerome, james, juhl, rodney,ynard, train, and the other members of the class of 1979 who are here traveled the day we left this institution 35 years ago. meanchool in this place everything to us. we owe it much, far more than the value of a four-year college education. morehouse is part of us, and it is a large part of what we have become today. august, 1975, i arrived here a boy. 1979, i left here a man with a mission. arrived here a young man who never wanted to be at the center of attention. i could never imagine speaking here like this. in my house during my high was a reason to celebrate. in my house, the only time i ever heard my mother after a four letter word was when sh

in addition to this being graduation day, today is armed forces day. let me begin by asking all of those who have worn the uniform of our great country at any stage in your life to stand so that we can recognize you with a round of applause. [applause] members of the class of 2014, i am obviously not the first to since io you today, have the microphone, perhaps i can say at the loudest.

athletes what you will find typically is the graduation rates of athletes particularly in in more q. programs like football and basketball are lower the graduation rates for the student body as a whole but what you'll also find is that. graduation rates for minorities particularly african-americans across the country whether they're after it whether they are athletes or not are actually quite low and minority athletes actually graduate at a higher rate than minority non athletes and white athletes also graduate at a higher rate white non athletes what brings the overall graduation rate for for athletes down is the fact that in many programs. the athletes are disproportionately african-american and so what you see here is once you control for the fact that you have a lot of african-americans in your. in your athletic programs a group that traditionally has had real we've had real problems getting getting these folks to graduate on time once you condition on that it doesn't look like athletic programs are nearly as bad as. as they look and as a matter of fact for example on the women's

. >>> dozens of berkeley high school graduates celebrated their achievements in a special ceremony today. berkeley high's african- american studies graduation was held this afternoon, the keynote speaker was television and filming at why are art evans. the 1976 berkeley grad said in high school the lead drama teacher, florence schwimley discouraged african- american students from participating in theater. some are planning a petition drive to have her name removed from the school's theater. >> that should have been opened for anybody who wanted to be able to express themselves theatrically. >> evans said is he encouraged how things have changed over the years and by the enthusiasm and purpose of the new graduates. >>> a school playground goes up in flames. the discovery made at this scene that raises suspicion. >>> pointing the finger, who foster farms said is really to blame for salmonella outbreak at a california plant. >>> can you dig it?

asspoke at the l -- at yale a graduate. in his remarks this year, he talks about the struggles of the 1960's and urge them to keep .afe in the government ability this is about 30 minutes. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. thank you. i think winston churchill said the own people give us --certainly before i have opened my mouth that is true. siblings who came here under the false impression that there , members ofe food, the 2013 ncaa men's ice hockey team. distinguished guest and 2014, i really am privileged to share the celebration of this day for you. you are graduating today as the most diverse class and yells long history. as they collect it, donald sterling's worst nightmare. [laughter] [applause] thank you for such a generous introduction. he did not mention that he interned for me in the state department last summer. ned for me at the state department lessor. [applause] hold on a minute. [laughter] i learned that he is not afraid to talk truth to power, or semi-truth. on his last day, he walked up to me and

we apply be sure standards such as gainful employment and graduation rates that we do not penalize those institutions taking higher risks with lower income and not college experience students. could you comment on that? we are not exploring that specific regulation. i can say that aligning the incentives between the schools, ,etween whatever loan programs students are important and we want to examine how it can increase accountability so outcomes are approved regardless of where they come from. >> i think they all want to increase accountability. sure we don'te inadvertently penalize the students we want to get into the system by placing requirements --t would this incentivize that would punish schools taking the risk to get the students and education. thank you very much. >> senator wyden. >> thank you for your years of passion and commitment to this effort. i think we understand our students are just getting smothered with these costs and these bills. they are up to their eyeballs in debt and this is having a huge havet on their ability to the productive life they would want. it takes

programs like football and basketball are lower the graduation rates for the student body as a whole but what you'll also find is that. graduation rates for minorities particularly african-americans across the country whether they're after it whether they are athletes or not are actually quite low and minority athletes actually graduate at a higher rate than minority non athletes and white athletes also graduate at a higher rate and white non athletes what brings the overall graduation rates for for athletes down is the fact that in many programs the athletes are disproportionately african-american and so what you see here is once you control for the fact that you have lots of african-americans in the or. in your athletic programs group the. traditionally it's had real we've had real problems giving getting these folks to graduate on time once you condition on that it doesn't look like athletic programs are nearly as bad as. as they look and as a matter of fact for example in the women's side women athletes across every demographic group are far far more likely to graduate non-athlet

programs like football and basketball are lower the graduation rates for the student body as a whole but what you'll also find is that. graduation rates for minorities particularly african-americans across the country whether they're after it whether they are athletes or not are actually quite low and minority athletes actually graduate at a higher rate than minority non athletes and white athletes also graduate at a higher rate and white non athletes what brings the overall graduation rate for for athletes down is the fact that in many programs the athletes are disproportionately african-american and so what you see here is once you control for the fact that you have lots of african-americans in the or. in your athletic programs on. group traditionally has had real we've had real problems giving getting these folks to graduate on time once you condition on that it doesn't look like athletic programs are nearly as bad as. as they look and as a matter of fact for example on the women's side women athletes across every demographic group are far far more likely to graduate non-athletes

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

higher rate than minority non athletes and white athletes also graduate at a higher rate. white non athletes what brings the overall graduation rate for four athletes down is the fact that in many programs the athletes are disproportionately african-american and so what you see here is once you control for the fact that you have a lot of african-americans in your. in your athletic programs a group that traditionally has had real we've had real problems getting getting these folks to graduate on time once you condition on that it doesn't look like athletic programs are nearly as bad as. as they look and as a matter of fact for example on the women's side women athletes across every demographic group are far far more likely to graduate non-athletes wear one. now we talked a little bit about big event economics when we discussed the olympics earlier but i want also ask you about the world cup big event coming up this summer now there are a lot of brazilians who are bitter about the world cup because they say that the money that's going to glitzy stadiums could be better spent

graduates have gone on to be chefs, hotel concierges and corporate executives. we congratulate them and all the grads of 2014. >> adam joseph with that accuweather forecast. >> i think i can make everyone happy out there over the next 7 days with all the different kind of weather we'll see here. whether you like it hot, humid, or dry and cool. >> something for everybody. >> i do. >> some weeks do i this week do i. >> as we look right now double scan across the region all is questionet this evening and mild and slightly muggy and we're starting to take that edge off so to speak with that intense oppressive humidity that was around yesterday. the number is 74 allentown and trenton, beach haven 74. reading coming in at 75 and odd spot, philadelphia, sitting at 81 degrees with surrounding locations much cooler than that and due in part is urban heat island in effect. that concrete takes in the sun's radiation all day and it's slowly radiating during the evening and overnight hours. as we look at satellite and radar we have a strip of clouds developed north and west

a higher rate than minority non athletes and white athletes also graduate at a higher rate. white non athletes what brings the overall graduation rate for four athletes down is the fact that in many programs the athletes are disproportionately african-american and so what you see here is once you control for the fact that you have a lot of african-americans in your. in your athletic programs a group that traditionally has had real we've had real problems getting getting these folks to graduate on time once you condition on that it doesn't look like athletic programs are nearly as bad as. as they look and then as a matter of fact for example in the women's side women athletes across every demographic group are far far more likely to graduate non-athletes wear one. now we talked a little bit about big event economics when we discussed the olympics earlier but i want also ask you about the world cup big event coming up this summer now there are a lot of brazilians who are bitter about the world cup because they say that the money that's going to glitzy stadiums could be better

programs like football and basketball are lower the graduation rates for the student body as a whole but what you'll also find is that. graduation rates for minorities particularly african-americans across the country whether they're after it whether they are athletes or not are actually quite low and minority athletes actually graduate at a higher rate than minority non athletes and white athletes also graduate at a higher rate and white non athletes what brings the overall graduation rates for for athletes down is the fact that in many programs the athletes are disproportionately african-american and so what you see here is once you control for the fact that you have lots of african-americans in the or. in your athletic programs group the. traditionally it's had real we've had real problems giving getting these folks to graduate on time once you condition on that it doesn't look like athletic programs are nearly as bad as. as they look and as a matter of fact for example in the women's side women athletes across every demographic group are far far more likely to graduate non-athlet

programs like football and basketball or lower the graduation rates for the student body as a whole but what you'll also find is that. graduation rates for minorities particularly african-americans across the country whether they're after it whether they are athletes or not are actually quite low and minority athletes actually grow. she weighed at a higher rate minority non athletes and white athletes also graduates at a higher rate. white non athletes what brings the overall graduation rate for four athletes down is the fact that in many programs the athletes are disproportionately african-american and so what you see here is once you control for the fact that you have a lot of african-americans in your. in your athletic programs a group that traditionally has had real we've had real problems getting getting these folks to graduate on time once you condition on that it doesn't look like athletic programs are nearly as bad as. as they look and as a matter of fact for example in the women's side women athletes across every demographic group are far far more likely to graduate non-ath