thank you. >> my name is lauren hall and i have two children at harvey milk. i have a second grader and kindergarten child. and so i just wanted to take a quick trip down memory lane, and remind you guys of back in 2012-2013 when my daughter started kindergarten there was a bit of a buzz around harvey milk and we have pictures from the local newspaper of mr. carranza and our principal and the mayor coming to speak at the school as it was advertising having rising test scores and kind of a hidden-gem status and now my son has just started in kindergarten and i find him in a class with only 14 kids enrolled and that is out of 22 slots. so i think this is a good indication that the school really needs to be looked at. what is going on? and we need help. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is kevin rogers and i have the fortune of having twins in the 1st grades at harvey milk and i have prepared remarks, but you have heard it all. so i don't need to say this. can you believe that a school would turn down the parents wanting to form a pta? can you even i

academy in the castro i'm here to talk about the crisis at harvey milk and scotland you add the resources for the staff and teachers any sons class has been without a teacher same class was left without a teacher last year as well there are teachers that go two years in the row i want to commend the strunt kersey at the back of the rool and trying to help the students as they attend the school without a teacher this is a small school lacking resources such as on campus literacy and staff coaches are support in time of crisis students are feeling sadness and frustration and less willingness to learn the need is urgent (clapping.) thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi my name is bryce from room 202 in the harvey milk academy for the past 5 weeks my class is teacher also and that made me and my class stressed out and worried i'm asking if you can do anything to help thank you (clapping.) good evening board of education members thank you for letting me speak i'm sarah sfusd parent of two children i want to speak to you and brings our attention to the teacher sxhvnt of

academy in the castro i'm here to talk about the crisis at harvey milk and scotland you add the resources for the staff and teachers any sons class has been without a teacher same class was left without a teacher last year as well there are teachers that go two years in the row i want to commend the strunt kersey at the back of the rool and trying to help the students as they attend the school without

move and i hope you know 10 doables 35 years ago was with jonestown and this friday we remembering harvey milk and moscone and housing has been a challenge in san francisco as you've heard the latest talk about housing here in san francisco so thank you - >> next speaker >> dear supervisors my name is ms. chiu my son david chiu just became the first asian-american leblthd to the assembly and i'd like for him to take chinese 10 a beginning conversation chinese on tuesday at ocean canvas from 6 to 9:00 p.m. i also would like to point out some classes that some of our supervisors if you took them would be amazing during this enrollment crisis there's lgbt 24, gay male relationships on monday at 6 to 9 on the mission champions on this third floor i know thought that would be really good if supervisor wiener and i could take that class for objective reigns - obvious reasons it is very important we get as many people to enroll during the crisis it has caused students to be confused and have the supervisors take classes last semester lip reading is the dp s-4210 and su bs a woman leaders at work down

the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. >> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this progr

hello commissions, tom temprano one of the presidents of the harvey milk democratic club and i want to start by thanking the brave youth who we saw in the video, who are here today, for doing what i want all of you to do. for standing up and saying that our parks are not for sale. our parks are for people. our playgrounds should be for kids and should not be for-profit. that should not be responsibility of our youth to tell the recreation and park commission or the rec and park body, that should be the job of the commissioners to make sure your youth don't have to go through what they went thereto. this is a problem that does extend as edwin and supervisor campos said, what we're seeing in the mission to speak and on you to reverse what has been happen for the past five years in the city, where our kids are being shutout of our parks across san francisco. it's up to you who are here to serve the people of this city, not the bottom line profits of the other rec and park department to ensure our kids don't have to keep going through this. it is maddening. i'm sorry i'm getting a little r

today >> world war one: through arab eyes only on al jazeera america >> just hearing the story of harvey milk when i was a young closeted kid in the bay area, in california. hearing about someone who was openly gay, was a big shock to me. i didn't know there was such a thing. >> comedian jon stewart now his new film is no laughing matter. rosewater is a story about a man wrongly held in an iranian prison. why they felt the story needed to be told. >> i was struck at the end of the film that you really wanted to make a statement about adjournmenjournalism around the. can you state what that is? >> i think it was more -- if i would say it's a statement of the unsustainability of the apparatus ues that these regimes build, we are building towards a strange security status that nsa and other statuses, that these exist to keep information that they don't want getting out, getting out are more damaging to the state than any piece of information that that could arise. and it's about the sustainability of it, and that think of how hard, how much money, how much time, how much effort how much human ca