what is wrong with our inner-city schools? nothing. that is what the data says. the cultures in these schools are incredibly loud and incredibly consistent. one of the heads of uncommon they areas telling me, getting a message told to them outside of our school and we are going to shout one louder. are a messaging thing they teaching these kids and everyone has to buy in on it in the schools. it isn't, you get to do something positive. everyone buys into the leaders think. it is always an empowering message. consistent from the secretary to the i.t. person to every teacher. gives offelieves and this messaging 100% from beginning to end the second they walk into the second they walked out, to the point that some of these schools have their own code. achievement first schools in broken in all, -- brooklyn and all, they do this. it's called shining. you give a really good answer in third grade -- when they go to jenkins does mr. not have a different system. he does not have a different code they have to master which teaches them they are not empowered. that is what

if you pull out the inner city low income pulls.ulled them out and take every other school, we lead the world in public school education by a lot. what is interesting is we think about finland. well, finland is mainly white kids, right, and they teach them well. we teach our white kids better. we beat everywhere. our white kids are taught the best public school education on the planet. those are the facts. >> if you take the suburban well-off-white kids out of the picture and now take the inner city mostly minority schools. >> we are at the bare bottom, i imagine. you can see the united states has education apart hide. that's the facts. that's it. >> come up with five fixes. areas that you study. you narrowed the list to five problems that if aapplied properly you can create solutions. the first is teachers. >> now, the continuant, the thing that we are saying is no roadblock teachers. what i mean by that is the research supports that the bottom percentage of teachers, the 1%, 2%, 3%, the bottom are pulling a drag on the system that

, the inner-city low-income kids. amazing amount of opportunities. i'm a little daunted by it to be honest but we kind of put together at least in philly a think tank of going to say this is what legislation would look like. how do we implement it on skill? the number one thing that the first thing that becomes the question is, let's say philadelphia, the number of schools that this applies to is 118. i need 118 principles that are navy s.e.a.l. trained. so that's the problem. the first question to be answered, since i can get 118, the pyramid, all that ever the stuff, i think we can get extended today. i think we can do all these things in fully. i need 118 navy s.e.a.l. principles to train the navy s.e.a.l. teachers in the school. >> have you encountered resistance to your ideas? and if so, what kind and from whom? >> i was certainly braced for the barrage of resistance. if my wife where she would tell you i'm completely naÏve about all these things. i see things, you know, the last three quarters full when it's hal

. >> but the audience closest to armando's heart is found at a school in miami's inner city.s a charter school with a sports themed curriculum armando helped create. he advocates for the school and motivates its students. >> do you guys know pitbull? you see him around a little bit? >> yes. >> that takes morals, right? >> the reason that it's so special is because they are me. you know? and i can go down the line on those kids and probably just sit with one, and i say, don't even talk to me. i'm going to tell you what's going on in your house right now. i know, i feel you. been there, done that. if we catch them at that age, mold their minds, teach them what it is to be motivated, self-inspired, believe in themselves. because coming from the neighborhoods that we came from, nobody believes in us. this is changing the world, literally. little, by little. >> his message is always positive. it's always about education. you need to study, you need to be good for yourself. don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. and the students really thrive on that. >> we're in the inne

these are not single women in the inner-cities these are often married, odder women.'m optimistic hollywood will catch up to reality. >> it is about hollywood film art culture reflecting the totality of women's lives and hollywood is far from liberal when you look at the percentage of women directors, and writers and the characters women portray hollywood is not liberal. >> gina is doing a global study looking at film from other cultures. she has done the work on what happened in the u.s and how women are barely recognized even in a group shot. if you see a wide shot with a crowd, the average number of women in a crowd shot in the u.s. movie is 17%. so you wonder why we have 17% onboard they think that is half. >> how is it even in 1956, the predecessor to the mpaa, the motion picture association ratings system even mentioned that movies were not supposed to mention abortion at all. and if they did show them they should show them as tragedies. >> at that time it did reflect reality because abortion was illegal. so i mean one would -- at the federal level. >> and proba

are white folks who are experiencing a lot of the same, the stress and challenges that are in the inner city and building coalitions between those folks to get to 55% so you can go to the state legislature and say our communities together should be getting more of our fair share of tax dollars to equalize funding in schools. if that's your issue. or our communities have more than their fair share of low income housing. those communities over there have none of their share, right? but, you know, you have to get your coalition together, right? and it's hard work, but it's doable work. you know, i could cite organizations that are doing that kind of work. >> any of the other panelists care to respond to it? >> i, to me this seems -- i'm a law professor, so you have to humor me. i do theory. sheryll actually does real live, life, she wants to explore the problems of the world. my job is to explain why they're really simple. that's what i'm going to do right now. what you've described is a racially-disparate impact with a heavy racial correlation. for me and also for title vii of the civil rights

maintain the unique character of the san francisco neighborhood the mayors has a huge goal to meet the inner city housing could you walk us though how united states community has a say in projects that move forward according to our housing units especially protecting and middle-income and how we maintain the character >> so i think i said in my opening remarks this is the cities vision and anytime we do my in depth work that is for a planning effort so we what we address neighborhood character or work in areas we don't have the planning we'll work with the board of supervisors before any legislation occurs. >> it's my understanding this is not a blanket approval but there's a process for individual environmental reviews and you're saying a general vision and goals of our housing needs in the city? >> yes. that's correct. >> thank you. thank you supervisor mar. any other questions or comments colleagues. okay could i get a motion to forward item 5 to the full board without recommendation >> we will we'll take that without objection.. madam clerk, any other business before this commission? >> there

something i never saw growing up as a kid in the inner-city of georgia.is intent by the government but they never think of the second or third affect. >> it since some of the problem so many african-american men are not married to women? unfortunately a lot that have been incarcerated. >> that is why we have to focus on the inner-city. detroit, chicago. 41 shootings in chicago, or than iraq and afghanistan and that continues to cause this breakdown. >> you say that is something that is a trend we can follow. >> without a doubt. every statistic out there says children grow up better in two parent families. for those who grow up fine in single-parent families? absolutely. but it is now becoming the norm. look at jessica simpson and her football player boyfriend. they had all their children and then got married. kim kardashian doing the same thing. >> i try not to compare my life to kim kardashian. >> it is on every magazine in the supermarket. >> most having children out of wedlock are not like this. educated people tend to less likely have a child out of w

born into poverty and raised in inner city detroit he wage grated with honors in high school and received a degree in psychology at yale and earned a medical degree at the university of michigan. at 33, he became the youngest doctor to head the mayo hospital. and he created a scholarship program for kids 4-11. his prayer [breakfast speech formed the the title of book "one nation: what we can do to save america's future." please join me in a warm welcome to the national press club for dr. benjamin carson. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you so much. candy and i are honored to be here. i am going to tell you at the end of the talk why i think the press is so important and what their role is in a free society. but first of all, let me tell you that i am so grateful that i was born in this country which is still a land of dreams. my dream as a youngster was to be a doctor. you know, i loved anything that had to do with the medicine. all of that stuff i could not get enough of that. i even liked going to the doctor's office so it tells you i was a strange kid. but, you know, there were a lot

so i care about inner city kids. them being up to speed on where tomorrow is going.ight now. there are so many jobs in america that we can't fill because people aren't brought up to speed with the skill sets that are needed. i'm taking the power that i have, the little power i have, to go out and encourage these kids to take an interest in science, technology, arts, mathematics to discipline themselves around this area so they're not looking for jobs tomorrow but creating jobs tomorrow. this is the tsunami wave that could transform america out of this financial crisis that we're in now and also sending jobs overseas. with 3-d printers and giving these kids the ability to take their ideas and turn them into reality, we could keep jobs here in america. >> sounds like a good plan. >> amazing. >> it's always a thrill to stand at the white house and i'm sure today was an inspiration to those kids and to you and to everybody who is watching this today. thank you very much, will i am. a pleasure to talk to you. see you again, i hope. >> thank you so much. >> you bet. good s

i am from the inner city but it was in the good part of the inner city.e best schools in the bay area, saint francis high school. mostly middle class families. i don't have no excuse for being here. >> once in prison, armstrong earned an additional six-year sentence. ccccccccccccccccccccccccccggcccccccccckkkkkkkccckk[[[[kk[kkcccck[k[[[ks[[[k[[kckkk[[kkkkkcaaaack[[kkkkkkkckckcccaaaaaaacccccccccccc >> the sergeant sprayed a guy in a wheelchair for no reason. i didn't like it and i harmed him. >> what does that mean? >> physically hurt him. >> and what happened? >> other police came and they physically hurt me back. >> that impulse to defend disabled inmates is now a key part of how he spends his long days in prison. >> i'm an a.d.a. supporter. that means i help the wheelchair people, anybody that have canes, wheelchairs, whatever and i'm also a slash porter. i keep the pod clean. in the morning, sweep the pods, clean the windows, whatever. keep everything clean. once i get that done, i go to the wheelchair guys and see if they need anything done. i'll keep

they thought they were investing in an inner city laundromat, a juice bar, a gas station. >> were younding money on things that existed or that were imaginary? >> some existed. some didn't. >> reporter: attorney cathy says hundreds of investors told her the same story. >> i cannot tell you how many people have said to me i bought it only once. >> reporter: one thing taylor was apparently investing in is his wife michelle's music career. in 2009 taylor credits himself as executive producer and hot male model. we tell him to stick to his day job, but we're not sure what that is. maybe you know this one. ♪ i'm sexy ♪ pay attention >> reporter: the government says taylor paid for the studio time for his wife's music career with the money that came pouring in, and there he is again making a cameo. all together now. snoets i'm about the billionaire and i don't care and i don't care and i don't care ♪ >> reporter: the complete version is available on itunes. in august of 2011 we started looking for taylor. first at the headquarters he listed for his business. the address led to a post office

i spent more than 20 years in an inner city high school in los angeles. i saw a lot and interviewed a lot of beginning teachers. i was a mentor to many. frankly, we could tell pretty early on whether that particular adult should be working with young people. it can happen quickly. it can certainly happen in two years. it just means that administration has to come in, visit your classroom on a regular basis, assess whether you have the make up to work with young people. you have the patience, not all adults have that patience. but i do think it can happen relatively quickly, and it certainly can happen in two years. >> ted, you went to court to argue that this wasn't working for california kids. you havwhat's the problem? joshua makes a straightforward argument for how it operates at present. >> joshua described a system that we don't have in california. what judge troy found, tenure can be made in less than 18 months before they have finished their training. once they're given permanent employment. that's what it's called. it triggers these arduous arbitr

>> almost like "fast & furious" looking at the drug trade of inner-city communities even though theybecome an informant to leading to a bigger fish you still create an addict and a crack baby although my colleagues don't take it that far. i am also worried about that with the drug trade and i see that in my community to see if you have approached it like that or have conversations about continuing to what informants to what they do. >> it is something we worry about a great deal. unfortunately the way it works the best view of criminal activity will come from a criminal so those who are not informants have done those things before so restudy that if we are very worried about the informants' committing criminal act after working with us and that is subject to a regime where if an enormous will continue to be involved there is a bunch of complicated players that we approve that or disapprove that we do want people committing crimes ... it is necessary or monitor to take down a bigger fish. >> the other part is when the investigation starts to affect political elections the d.c. mayoral

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but chertavian, and the students, claim that nearly all inner city young adults would be successful, with just one year of intensive grooming. >> ifill: this world cup, and the interest surrounding the u.s. team, is drawing big numbers. more than 24 million watched yesterday, making it the most watched soccer match in america ever, 18 million on espn, and six million more on univision. that's more viewers than for game three of the world series, or the 2012 rose bowl. and the outcome was more dramatic than either of those big ticket sporting events. >> ifill: a collective groan of disbelief echoed through downtown chicago sunday evening. as thousands of u.s. soccer fans watched portugal snatch away an american victory with less than a minute left in the match, ending the game in a two-two draw. a win by the american squad would have carried them into the next round of the world cup. after the game, u.s. goalkeeper >> ifill: just 15 minutes before portugal tied the match, u.s. fans across the country cheered as american team captain clint dempsey put his team ahead 2-1, not knowing th

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. >> these are the hauntingly hopeful faces of inner city new orleans. and this is leonard, the 18 year old high school artist, who painted them. >> personally, i feel he's conveyed the message. >> this 3d painting was featured recently in the new orleans contemporary art center, shows a gun on the ground, and young man turning his back. >> this this city, most of the homicides, and shootings, and stuff like that, are because of the young african-american males. so i just wanted to do sort of turning back on that. >> the piece is personal to leonard. he grew up in the project everyone of new orleans infamous high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. he was born when his mom was just 13. his dad was a drug dealer, murdered in broad daylight. >> could you have fallen into that same trap in terms of violence? >> i think so. i think i was really luck. >> i as a kid, he loved art. and his mom encouraged him to draw. keeping him away from the drugs and violence. >> teachers recognized leonard's talent and pushed him to apply for college. not only did he get accept

without it, inner city children programs will have to be canceled this summer.er is hoping to raise $100,000. they are hoping a generous donor may come to the rescue. the program begins june 30th so the clock is ticking. >> we not only pick the children up and drop them off, we take them to the pinelands twice a week so they can swim and visit nature. >> i want to us get a new bus. >> i neighborhood center not only provides summer camp activities to about 100 children, they run a day-care center and feed the homeless year round. if you'd like to help, find more information at nbc10.com. >>> today american red cross will announce its new and permanent chapter home in the lehigh valley. a press conference willing held at the cetronia ambulance corps. >>> and the mayor of los angeles used some colorful language during the l.a. kings stanley cup parade. 19,000 people gathered at the staples center where the kings won the cup on friday. he congratulated the kings and ended his speech with a little blue language. >> two rules in politics, they say never ever be pictur

. >> is it something you would commit to looking into and i think it's very important for inner city communities to have that confidence to step up in terms of being witnesses to place their confidence in the system to know that the system is on the up and up and every day we have something released because of intentional brady violation or something of that nature. i think it's something that i would like you all to look into. so i would hope that you're open to doing that. >> the other thing i would i inc., there was an article that talked about whether the fbi tracks criminal conduct by their informants. do you all do that? >> yes. >> do you have for lack of a better description, a range or not a tolerable amount, but do you tolerate certain acts as acceptable as long as it's leading to catch in a bigger fish? i'll let you know where i'm going with this. almost like fast and furious, my colleagues still bring up which i was concerned about also, but if you look at the drug trade and inner city communities, even though a drug dealer becomes an informant and helps us lead to bigger

who sold drugs and friends who ended up in prison but the skills of being able to survive, in the inner city is a skill that at the end of the day, has allowed these kids to build resil ans, and that resil ans in many respects is entangible and something that when i tell them, when you go to interview and they ask you, what do you bring to this organization? and i tell them miracles because you were able to survive, beyond the odds. and i tell them, since day one, there have been many bets placed against you. your goal is to make sure that the house loses. your goal is to make sure that you take their money that is bet up against you and i have one of mine here, and i am grateful for him to come and speak. but that is really what the organization is. and right now we have a pilot program working with young boys who have internships throughout the city and city hall and the puc and the police department, and getting paid, and we are establishing our curriculum for the boards from the eastern neighborhoods from the fillmore who without the program would not have an internship or a job for the

he founded the voice of the inner city youth. as a young man kevin was a paper boy for the oakland tribune. he admired the first black publisher of a major metropolitan daily. at the time he had no idea he wanted to be a journalist. his interests in journalism [speaker not understood] his experience as a community college organizer and he noted the paper had the message he he and others wanted to get across. he started vying for the paper. [speaker not understood] city college by working for u.p.s. and started writing for pacific news services. over the next two decades he raised a generation of young writers, film makers, photographers and activists from east oakland, bayview hunters point, and the mission. many of whom before meeting kevin would not have conceived of themselves as having a break and many of whom have found great success. russell morris, the former [speaker not understood] magazine editor and one of many -- one of the many [speaker not understood] eloquently wrote, i was one of the people kevin guided. my story

that the government pulls in from your driving a car and buying gas, and about 18% of it goes to inner cityg city -- the pension funds that pay off retired unionized workers for metro and subways. why are people who drive cars paying for the subway -- ridiculous contracts that they have negotiated? stop bleeding the gas tax off into paying for davis bacon into spending, and for subways. just build roads. problem solved. no reason to raise taxes to pay for waste. >> and i get you. and you are one of these guys who stay on topics for a long time, but in the meantime we may run out of the high which fund and we have crumbling infrastructure system in this country. what do we do that? >> one, you fight davis bacon, not the taxpayer. the politicians are always saying we need more money, because we can't spending responsibly. how about no more money until you spending responsibly. >>> let's talk about the eric cantor subject. some are so devastated he was defeated, and others say this is the whole point of the struggle in the republican party. where do you stand? >> eric cantor took the taxpayer

about what data, we were or were not capturing around this and whether we are fully implementing inner city contracting laws and a real opportunities for the economic development and i think members of the community, who are here as well as the city departments will remember, at that hearing, there were a lot of information that our city i think still needed to get. and there were significant discussions around changes to chapter 14 b. that many members of the community were interested in. since that time, i want to just report the city administrator's office working with my office we have kicked off a number of very public workshops throughout the city to gather feedback from our diverse communities and how we can improve chapter 14 b. and we have had at this time, two workshops already, one in the bay view in the early part of this month, last night, i joined about a couple dozen small businesses in the mission, and we still have in the civic center on june 18 and in the sunset on june 20, a total of four workshops to gather additional feedback and how we move forward and it is our intent

minorities and inner city youth. >>> tim hudson has been spot on all season except for last night. the team said no worries. we have got this one for you. >> angel pagan and two wins across the plate. let the rally begin. >> bottom nine, hunter fence and he is huffing and puffing and gets the green light. slide home is safe and we are all tied. then it is michael morse. there she blows. >> michael morris. you found a home in the city by the bay. >> this is walk off fashion. >> while the giants are playing like soup respect heroes. >> the man who created the most fictional characters. >> the legend was the star and got a little help from sergio romo and lose sill who was dressed as spider man. >> current road trip looking to win the series against the orioles later today. coco crisp rips it out of the park. i don't know where it landed. he got back on top on the fifth. doubles the right center. and goes on to score three. >> next inning, jim johnson. >> sonny gray. >> that didn't help and gives up a two run shot. >> six to three. >> five surprise members will be teaming up with the

>> almost like "fast & furious" looking at the drug trade of inner-city communities even though theynformant to leading to a bigger fish you still create an addict and a crack baby although my colleagues don't take it that far. i am also worried about that with the drug trade and i see that in my community to see if you have approached it like that or have conversations about continuing to what informants to what they do. >> it is something we worry about a great deal. unfortunately the way it works the best view of criminal activity will come from a criminal so those who are not informants have done those things before so restudy that if we are very worried about the informants' committing criminal act after working with us and that is subject to a regime where if an enormous will continue to be involved there is a bunch of complicated players that we approve that or disapprove that we do want people committing crimes ... it is necessary or monitor to take down a bigger fish. >> the other part is when the investigation starts to affect political elections the d.c. mayoral race where

in the home cooking and cleaning but a couple decades after the mass of white flight away from inner cities as pleasant those scenarios started to fall apart women's libber happened then suddenly housewives started wanting to do more with their lives other than to exist as merely partners to their spouse fast forward to the clinton era or massive deregulation of the financial sector pave the way to an economic collapse on a level not seen since the great depression and after nine eleven domestic spending on social services and the investment of bedrock institutions like education was almost entirely abandoned replaced with an endless flow of cash to build up the military industrial complex and open the national security state millions of americans were foreclosed upon college students were plagued with life debt and the race to the bottom seizures of third world markets continued under neo liberal trade policy exporting once u.s. based jobs to places like china and bangladesh but look the notion of the idealized american dream we've all been talking was never meant to be a dream for everyon