for the 2012-2013 school year, horace mann will be a city wide choice language program. we'll talk about that in detail about that later on in the presentation. at this point, what i like to do is ask my koll league christina wang to take us through the next few slides. >> the district historically had a strong commitment to language pathways. it is one piece of cretting a high quality middle school program in k through eight middle schools as well. just to remind the commission, that the english learners clearly states to polled pathways, that the board's policy provides opportunity for every child to become bilingual and bicultural. the district made a substantial investment in building language pathways for over 35 years with many successful programs that require further articulation into the secondary level. the last time -- the last time that the board discussed this issue, there were questions around the -- the transition between the elementary programs into secondary, what do we have currently? so this chart helps illustrate that we're in the process of strengthen

he worked as a principle including horace man in san francisco. thank you very much super intendent for being here. nathaniel ford is the director of the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority. he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work he was recognized at the national principle of the year. and he is somebody who is on the ground and has worked to empower young people at his school. he took his school from a different circumstances to be one of the highest performs school districts in the state. jim dierck. margaret brodkin is the director of the department for children youth and families. i emphasize that because it is one of the most critical agencies in the city and county. margaret was a former director the colman a

i also saw mark sanchez, a former school board member and now a principal at horace middle school. where did you go? thank you. we have been under the amazing leadership of a superintendent who has partnered with the city in so many ways that it has been extremely magical to be able to do the things we have done. please join me in welcoming our superintendent of schools, mr. carlos garcia. [applause] >> you know, one of the highlights for me as a superintendent and as a teacher who happens to be the superintendent is that when we go through graduation and watch our young people get a diploma and have -- the call at a commencement ceremony. really, their lives are just guarding that day. i kind of feel like that when we get a chance to recognize our rock stars of our school district, the real stars. american idol has nothing on any of you. you really have talent. when you look at the things these folks do in their classrooms -- in our strategic plan, we talked a lot about joyful learners. what you see in front of you are people who have figured out how to make learning so exciting t

horace day middle school. there's 100 kids in that school. how do you operate,py for a principal, custodian, all of these people that require to maintain a school, how do you justify that when you are laying off people and all of these types of things. it is a financial decision for them, even though it doesn't save them a lot of money. but what a lot of the school districts have found after they close schools is that they have an empty building in many cases that they have to maintain. you can't just let it crumble to the ground. and that still costs money. a lot of school districts have realized later on that they end up actually not saving as much money as they thought and they've traumatized the entire community. >> belva: and the group -- in other words, the performance of the students is not the criteria? >> sometimes it is but not always, and in this case it wasn't. >> belva: we're going to turn to another story, meeting the criteria of the judge's idea of how a death chamber should look and be operated here. let's start first with how

in new york horace greeley summarized jackson's response to this. jackson did not say these words, although there are often ascribed to him. it was really something up what was known to be jackson's attitude. john marshall has made his decision, let him enforce it if he can. some at this point the president of the united states was siding with the state of georgia of the decision of the supreme court. and he did it and the charities knew this partially because he was being threatened in south carolina with the possibility of secession, and he did not want to go to war with the georgians over this issue. he gave then and thought that by doing so he was staving off what became the civil war. in many ways he may have been in some ways encouraging it. a charity chieftain was living in north carolina at the time. during the war of 1812 he fought with jackson at horseshoe bend alabama against the british and their indian allies. his response when he heard about the ruling and jackson's flaunting of it he said, if i had known that jackson would drive us fr