a bunch of people, paul cohen had written about him and had been very intrigued but had not found all that much material. i discovered a geographer who did a topographical reconstruction of the island also paced on randel's data. he had tried to find a lot of material on randel. ralph gray of the national, he wrote a book called "the national waterway," had tracked down a lot of randel who did work on the chesapeake canal, and he had discovered randel had been embroiled in this lawsuit. there were letters, some letters in albany, there were some down in delaware, there were some in maryland, there were some that i recalled from virginia. i think he had a relative in texas. there was stuff in new jersey. it was all over the place. and it took a long time to get the elements. most of it, however, turned out to be in the new york historical society in these notebooks, these field books. and that covers mostly the period of time that randel was working on the island. so it's actually the era of randel's life that we know the most about, because we looked as these notebook withs. he was bo

so my a quest to agree on a wild goose chase paul cohen had been written about him but could not find much material. i discovered a geographer who did it topographical reconstruction based on randel's data. he tried to find material on randel. the books the national water way to track down the work of the chesapeake and delaware canal that mandel was involved with the large lawsuit but there is no cash of letters there is some in delaware and maryland, of virginia, a relative in texas, new jersey, it took a long time. most of it was in the new-york historical society in the notebooks that cover the time of rimbaud's life we know the most about. he lived in extremely long life and he died 1865 and saudi enormous changes in the most well-documented period overs will be ears perk up i will go back and forth to read some passages. it would be divided into three stages by the growing public impersonal turmoil. from 18 '08 through 1810 during that time he measured along east and west and north and south lines with blocks with the equipment. the streets would run river to river to facilitate

cohen. san francisco first african american city administrator naomi kelley. the mayor's office deputy chief of staff, for public safety. paul henderson. >> san francisco treasurer, sisneros. >> san francisco port commissioner kimberly brandon. commissioners south east city, toya moses. >> oakland port commissioner, brian parker. director of workforce development office of economic workforce department rhonda simmons and president jack and jill of america incorporated san francisco chapter and former soul service commissioner karen clopten. thank you all so much. well, we are so thrilled that our most distinguished keynote speaker was able to work us into his schedule today. welly has a way again of folks to show up. you know? he attended the american conserve torrey theater in san francisco and went on to appear on the big screen and the big stage. give a big warm welcome for the great amazing delroy lindo. can everybody hear me? >> i have to say that after agreeing to be here this afternoon, a few or some short time after i was sent a schedule, and on the schedule, i saw that i had ten minutes from my keynote address. and

cohen. john and i had the opportunity, we requested a meeting at isa. and we met with them on monday. so for three hours we met with principal paul koe. two parents, one was a parent liaison and five fantastic students. we learned so much about isa. i will talk about the high school portion on the next page but focus on the middle school section. one thing we learned there is no spanish emersion at isa. and the middle school funding is under funding. the school gets their funding as 6-12. but because they are high school, they have a-g proportions so it supports the high school to meet those requirements. which is fair. but yet it deems the middle school under funded. moving on to the next slide. looking at high schools in our area. i will mention downtown high just for completeness. it was also the former home to isa. but it's a continuation school that nobody can request. so moving on to isa, it is the least requested high school in the district. it is a great program for at-risk kids. principal koe mentioned it has one of the highest graduation rates in the district. and we took a tour with four of the high schoolers, and i was so