my name is jay cunningham and i'm a science teacher at visitacion valley day school. i utilize the science center day programs for my sixth graders. i also teach a credit recovery program in the summer for biology students. to get in my program you have to have failed both semesters of biology. what we have learned in research with science is that the kids learn by doing and being in the environment itself. we need a strong credentialed person out in that field at that particular site. what i want you to know is that last monday, i was at a three-hour meeting with the other like minded science teachers in the district, talking about how we can represent san francisco unified school district at the jerry brown climate change summit which is going to occur in san francisco in september. we're talking about all the wonderful things that the sfusd is doing, and two days later i hear oh, we're moving the t.s.a. out of the environmental science center. we just spent four hours talking about the values of the district and how important the climate change and the carbon footp