and then is there a michael rogers? so no michael rogers? ok. thank you. >> speaking spanish] >> good evening, everybody. my name is maria garcia. i also come from bryant. i came to advocate for the leadership team. i found that she is doing a great job. she is never sitting. she is always doing something. she is always active. >> [speaking spanish] >> after the second year that she has been there, i can see that the school has improved with their academic achievement and i find it unfair that she is being attacked. >> [speaking spanish] >> i'm part of the p.t.o. there is not many parents that will commit to be leaders. so people like me have to be in every one of these committees representing the parents. and that's all i wanted to say. thank you very much. >> thank you, maria. >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening, everybody. i also come from bryant elementary. >> [speaking spanish] >> the reason why i'm here is also to support our principal. i know that we all have different opinions. >> [speaking spanish] >> for us, it is the first year that

>> reporter: every day michael rogers cringes when he looks at the prices at the pumps. >> we're barely making it as it is. but with the price of gas going up the way it has, we're not -- i mean, it's -- it's taking into that little bit of extra that we had to be able to buy things like food. >> problem is, now gas prices are even worrying the people who feed those in need. >> we have over 28 trucks in our fleet who are utilizing that fuel to get the food, either from the packers and growers and donors, or getting it out into the communities. >> reporter: every month, second harvest food bank feeds more than 250,000 people in santa clara and san mateo counties. program and serves director says the nonprofit is dealing with a 29% increase in fuel cost since december. forcing them to raise an additional $500,000 this fiscal year. at a time when the demand for food is greater than ever. >> the perfect storm, with the rising fuel cost, rising food cost, rising needs. you have that, you know, compounded affect on individuals we're trying to serve in order to get food out to them. >> reporter

michael rogers. valerie. james. ash. jean. or gabriella. all right. i close public comment. thank you. item k. i'm sorry. i wanted to see if the superintendent had any comments. >> yes, i do have one brief comment and that is on the buena vista issue. first of all, i have to tell you that where people have gotten their misinformation was certainly not from me. because i was very clear from the first time i ever met with the horace man staff and when i went to buena vista, i clearly stated that the part that we would keep the people who were already applying for sixth grade in the general ed program that they would be staying, that we would have slots for them and that over a three-year period, we would phase out the general ed program. that was said from the first time we ever even discussed this issue. so i do want to clarify that. second, there was never a commitment for any of the principals to be automatically placed as a principal. we did say we would consider it. i have told larry and i have told them that we wanted the community including parents, everybody will be in

. >> reporter: with gas hitting $4.50 a gallon, michael rogers is now choosing between feeding his kidsilling up his tank. that's forced a father of four to do something he's never done before: go to a food bank. >> people like us can't feed their kids because they have to pay for gas to be able to do the things they have to do. it's extremely frustrating. >> reporter: it's also frustrating for those who feed the needy. cynthia mccowen with second harvest food bank in san jose says fuel is now a huge expense. >> we have over 28 trucks in our fleet who are utilizing that fuel to get the food either from the packers and growers and donors or getting it out into the kmunlcommunities, so it's significantly impacting our growing needs. >> with a 20% increase in fuel since december, the food bank needs to raise $20,000. >> it's unusual to go into the summer like that. >> reporter: the unusually high gas prices are also impacting sacred heart service in san jose where volunteers are no longer reimbursed for mileage. >> we've had volunteers ask is there a way we could reimburse them? we've trie

michael, because this issue actually divides both parties. there are republicans like john mccain and lindsay graham who have one view there are a number of republicanses like mike rogers and hayley barber who says what the heck are we doing. >> never bought the justification for going in or it made sense to do that. who are haunted by afghanistan and iraq even though they supported some of those operations five and ten years ago. and then there's the duration question. you know, no-fly zones don't typically last weekses, they typically last years, in bosnia, three years before we got again to bomb everything. in iraq, 12 years before we invaded. now a lot of people when this began a few weeks ago thought this would be a matter of weeks. it might not be. and it's quite possible, the man has lived in tents roaming around. >> he has been there for 42 years. he may be a madman but he is a scrooge madman. >> it is quite possible that this will not end in any of the scenarios we talked about and in a way, libya becomes-- this is also a scenario. >> an east-west libya. >> certainly coast and everything else. >> right. >> and interestingly while we talk about libya, and while