i went to horace man on three different occasions. the teachers were dedicated and the students were dedicate and engaged. lastly, we sent a letter home to be signed by all the fifth grade parents last night and we managed to get 44 signatures so i would like to give these to someone on the board. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is frances -- i'm from lakeshore school. i'm a concerned parent. i have been a member of the p.t.a. and vice president and i'm on a psych council. i currently have a son who is in the third grade there. i'm not against feared system but i am concerned about the lack of equity in the feeder system. i chose lakeshore school because it offered afterschool mandarin and cantonese. it has 10 sessions of mandarin a week and five sessions of cantonese. students at our school are very proud when they become gate students. the school that we have been assigned to which is now denmon, it has no gate program or no language program. i do not find it equitable to be sent to a school that does no

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

in order to create some administrative offices, when presumably, if you looked at, for instance, horace mann, you could move in bungalows and administrators could live in bungalows the same with the kids are. i also ask you to look at page 66, item k6, the employee assistance program. if you look not at the expenditure, not at the good intention of it, but how it was chosen, and not a single one of the people who are intended to participate in the program were involved in getting the programs available -- vetting the programs available or making the selection of this program. that is not the best way to operate something like this. you want the people involved in it to participate in this election. thank you very much. president mendoza: thank you. item g is the consent calendar. commissioner wynns: i motion to pass the consent calendar. >> we have one correction to an item on page 95, item 114.26k20. the list was not attached, so i am going to read the list. the schools are longfellow and mission. the number of students at each site that will be served are 70. president mendoza: ok. >>

he wanted, unlike horace greeley. and the other -- the other major publisher and proprietor was henry jay raymond of "the new york times," a more sedate figure although there were some unusual things about him as well, but those three hate each other, the despised one another and were highly competitive. cspan: what were the net for to begin with, and how old were they when they first got into journalism? >> guest: well, then it was the oldest, he came from scotland where he had pretty good -- he was probably the best educated of all of the great proprietors. he trained as a catholic priest in scotland, came over here and -- was well into his middle age of the time that the civil war. greeley was moving along in the years, too. raymond was much younger, and they're interesting character, a wonderful characters. i love characters and eccentrics and the civil war mike is just filled with them and -- cspan: that the comment on a celebrity journalists, george welford towns and was the only war correspondent who seem to un

this is horace and freddy mae williams. they first met in school inner that hometown of gum ridge, louisiana. mr. and mrs. williams married in 1936. they've beening to the ever since and they still look good. >> that's fabulous. your parents over 50 years. >> 60. >> amazing. sal, you're moving in on number one, right, first anniversary? >> yes, am. >> hey, you've got it start somewhere. take a look at the commute now. the traffic is going to be lighter than usual today because it's good friday. you will see the bay bridge looking good. san mateo bridge, the same thing goes, westbound 92, traffic is moving along nicely. if you're driving to oakland we had an earlier crash. look what it did to highway 13. see where i circled there? it's a big mess because of an earlier crash. 24 is still recovering even though the accident is gone. so a delayed reaction to that two-car crash. let's go to rosemary. >> a cool start, partly cloudy skies, mostly cloudy for the afternoon high clouds. that will bring us rain for the weekend. giving