hydra mendoza, thank you. thank you for being here.] you know, as we celebrate filipino history month, we recognize the filipino history that is inextricably a part of our city's history. and during the historic struggle that we kept seniors -- remember those years where we stood on an alliance to protect our senior residence of the international hotel. we still had that legacy here, as we still a contract with residents of that hotel south of market. even today, i am proud, having stood on that that line and still fighting for justice and social causes to help with our filipino-american community, their quality of life, and making sure that our city responds and continues building a strong community that involves our seniors and all of our members of our filipino community. i also want to acknowledge the veterans and the filipino community for their dedication to the lives of protecting our country and for that -- for them -- for how they had bought and continue to fight to protect our come community -- our country. thank you to those

> the next speaker is school board commissioner and the mayor's adviser on families and education, hydraoza. >> thank you. i had a chance to see this this morning and i am just so proud to be in a city where the leadership has taken this courageous step to talk about something, particularly for our youth, that we have had a really difficult time confronting. for the last 20 years, san francisco unified has been a leader around adopting curriculum, making wellness' centers and your resource centers available to our youth. it has not been enough. the court to all of this is always about the caring adults. what you have demonstrated for us today is the ability to reach out and connect with our youth and let them know that there is a caring faction in our community and every part of san francisco that is going to be there to help and not judge but to support. i am proud and honored to be standing here. i want to rattle off a couple of statistics that make this so much more important than some -- than anyone realized. nine out of our 10 lgbt youth in our schools continue to get harassed. one-

we're joined by the committee members, board of supervisors president david chiu, sandra lee fewer and hydra mendoza and christina olague. the clerks are esther casco and we want to thank the members of the staff for the city and the school district for being here. we have the clerk on the side of the order of supervisors, gail, we want to thank her. madam secretary, do we have any announcements? >> none, supervisor. supervisor campos: i want to make a brief point about the importance of this committee. this is a committee that for many years has played a very important role in enhancing the partnership between city government and the school district. this is very important committee. we look forward to a lot of work being done and i want to think not only my colleagues on the board of supervisors but also the san francisco unified school district for their commitment to this partnership between the city and the school district. with that, madam secretary, you can call item one. >> it is file 111046. a hearing on the school improvement grant status as sponsored by supervisor cohen. superviso

just to start off, i know with hydra, we are looking at the same kind of thing. the big thing showing success with african-american students is having stability with the adults, earning trust, training teachers to better assist and help the students that really need it. right now in san francisco, the api is 7.96, which is great. in the nation's own schools, i do not know if any of them are above 700. we are looking at becoming good to great in the superintendent zone schools. this is where we need your support, especially in these communities that have low ratings. if you are ever in the area, please come see what we are doing. our staff is fully committed. the had the opportunity to leave, but they stayed because they wanted to be at o'connell. thank you very much. >> good evening, members of the board. my name is maria. i am the principal of buena vista, and immersion spanish school. i am here to ask for support for our teachers to stay. i think that the merger created a special condition for our students, mitigated only by the fact that the teachers that were

i will talk a lot about that with the new president of our school board, norman yee and hydra mendoza. i will talk about how our schools can participate and make sure there are generations of kids who do not lose hope in the city. do not look elsewhere when the best jobs are created right here. all they have to do is do their part and when they do their part and complete that education, the education they need will be there for them. i want to say one thing about our infrastructure. something i want you to remember as you leave today's room. it is -- want to mention something about hetch hetchy. there is dialogue out there that some people are suggesting that we can tear down our hetch hetchy dam and still survive as a city. i want to let you know that as insane as that is, it is in fact, insane. [applause] there are going to be some leaders that approach you, suggests that tearing down the hetch hetchy is a good idea. they will grow pew into some discussion about water sustainability issues. but know this. not only do we have the cleanest water, not only have we spent serious amounts

and even the chamber of commerce is welcoming we grow, which bills itself as the wal-mart of hydra ponics>> i have a business here bringing revenue to the city. we're going to support that. >> i use medical marijuana. >> i have suffered with constant nausea, constant stomach pains and medical marijuana has been proven to help with that. and it does. >> reporter: on queen's temple road, the potential pot growing operation is next door to a waste transfer station and down the street from a gentleman's club. but even in this industrial area, some business owners are suspicious. >> if the government approved it, i don't have nothing to say. hopefully it's a benefit for people. i hope it's not going to create more drug or more high people on the street. >> reporter: in dc, only patients with cancer, hiv/aids, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma will qualify. many others will not. in northeast, bruce leshan, 9news now. >> one cultivation center may violate a rule about being too close to a retail strip. but they may move it. the health director says the company still has to get business licenses an

just to start off, i know with hydra, we are looking at the same kind of thing. the big thing showing success with african-american students is having stability with the adults, earning trust, training teachers to better assist and help the students that really need it. right now in san francisco, the api is 7.96, which is great. in the nation's own schools, i do not know if any of them are above 700. we are looking at becoming good to great in the superintendent zone schools. this is where we need your support, especially in these communities that have low ratings. if you are ever in the area, please come see what we are doing. our staff is fully committed. the had the opportunity to leave, but they stayedca