if i look at the school districts website the only school district is that actually says prek to 12 not k to 12. it was only able to happen because of the staff that put in the effort. so i'm really glad and i wish you were co-author of this. i am proud we have this in our city to represent our city for the young kids. thank you very much for the work that you guys do. (clapping) >> so we're going to take a quick photograph. >> i want to give supervisor kim to say a few words too. >> thank you. i think supervisor yee already said a lot of things about our early education department but, you know, as just xooend the communication we had over the few months i think one of the things we look at is that kindergartner enter into our school system we see the gap and their such on incredibly important piece and the staff that have championed it have made a real difference. i hope that as we have more discussions around prop h that we really have a robust discussions on how to fund prek. we're dealing with this head on before our young school children enter the program. and i want to thing our

as we have more discussions around prop h that we really have a robust discussions on how to fund prek. we're dealing with this head on before our young school children enter the program. and i want to thing our staff none of you look old enough to have been around for thirty years. this says a lot about our program so thank you four all your work. >> thank you colleagues. at this time why do we move on >> now is the opportunity for the public to comment including the items open adaptation without reference to collapsed. please remember that the items are that were arrested talked about are not available now. >> i want to to say that (inaudibl (inaudible). 49er the championship, ed lee, (inaudibl (inaudible). and mayor (inaudible) ladies and gentlemen as you know my name is is abdullah i am here to blame our city mayor ed lee for not following our team 49er. why also, he don't bring the big tv for all of us to watch it i am one of the people but also i'd like to thank many of you have made the decoration and we're happy to see that our team 49er win. supervisor kim i am one of our reas

if i look at the school districts website the only school district is that actually says prek to

if i look at the school districts website the only school district is that actually says prek to 12 not k to 12. it was only able to happen because of the staff that put in the effort. so i'm really glad and i wish you were co-author of this. i am proud we have this in our city to represent our city for the young kids. thank you very much for the work that you guys do.

if i look at the school districts website the only school district is that actually says prek to 12 not k to 12. it was only able to happen because of the staff that put in the effort. so i'm really glad and i wish you were co-author of this. i am proud we have this in our city to represent our city for the young kids. thank you very much for the work that you guys do. (clapping) >> so we're going to take a quick photograph. >> i want to give supervisor kim to say a few words too. >> thank you. i think supervisor yee already said a lot of things about our early education department but, you know, as just xooend the communication we had over the few months

be it resolved that the school term prek through 12th grade para professionals and the elimination of position and reduction of hours and in exhibit a will be effective june first, 2013, be it further resolved that the school term early education department para professionals the elimination of positions and reduction of hours described above in exhibit a, here to shall be effective june 8th, 2013. be it further resolved that for full-year early education department para professionals the elimination of positions and reduction of hours described above and in exhibit a here to shall be effective on august 17th, 2013. be it further resolved that the superintendent or his designee is authorized and directed to give notice of layoff to all affected employees not later than 60 days prior to the effective date of layoff and to inform the employees of their displacement rights if any, and reemployment rights. and i believe that i completed the resolution regarding reduction in number of early education department employees. >> i did. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, >> i have a number o

visited a prek class and spoke about plans for universal pre-school. proposed an early head start child care program. >> republicans have temporarily delayed a vote on president obama's defense secretary nominee. some of the gop colleagues are demanding more information on issues including the attack on the u.s. consulate. hagel a former senator, his nomination was approved by the services committee on a straight party line vote. >>> the vatican says pope benedict xvi hit his head last year. but officials say it did not play a relevant role in his decision to resign. no one knew about the incident. the pope announced monday he is resigning at the end of the month. he is the first pope to step down in more than 600 years. >> a superde history last year in london is now a suspect in the shooting death of his model girlfriend. oscar was the first double amputee to compete in the olympic games. his girlfriend died this morning after a shooting at his south africa home. elizabeth is following the investigation for us. >> reporter: car made headlines last su

he talked about getting kids a head start on education with prek programs nation-wide. education is a priority for california congressman mike honda. >> that is an investigationment -- investment. when you invest in those things you get a return on your investment. you can't expected to have any kind of gains to invest in money in anything. >> reporter: there are cuts needed to balance the budget. but he says you can't balance the budget without making those investments. what they are cig about the president's plans when i see you next. live in washington kyla campbell ktvu channel 2 news. >>> florida senator marco rubio delivered the republican response to the president's state of the union address. >> so mr. president i don't oppose your plans because i want to protect the rich, i oppose your plans because i want to protect your neighbors. hard working middle class americans who don't need us to come up with a plan to grow the government. they need to plan to grow the middle class. >> now rubio also delivered his response in spanish. he is considered a rising star in

even the prek for all children as all legislation as we move forward with this congress and this president as a dynamic could end up like we're seeing now. >> that's correct, tamron, but first of all we can't forget that democrats did defeat a nominee from -- for defense secretary before in john tower. but these two parties are in a state of more or less permanent war. the question is how do they get to the truth in this issue. with the wind at his back in terms of public opinion, the issues he struck out on various issues on the state of the union are popular. he just won his second skbraert majority over the earlier vote. now let me bring in our panel, radio talk show host, mike smerconish, rachel smoken and political correspondent dan clagman, dan, you have heard a lot about hagel, you heard john harwood say that we could be in a permanent state of war between the president and the republicans. >> i think what makes it so acute in this case is that it's happening in the context of foreign policy. here you have a defense secretary who's being filibustered, at the same time that there's a

he's in prek. his mother says she not only walked into school today, she took him right to his class. mary says what troubles her aside from the fact her child was able to wander away, is she didn't get a call from school officials that he was missing. >> franklin is a four-year- old, tall for his age, likes to play with his ipad. still, much too young to be navigating the streets of the district all by himself. >> you know. >> mary says she got the shock of her life when her sister called her at her job to tell her the principal of her school and franklin's teacher stopped by the house looking for franklin. she lives just down the street from h.d. cook. he wandered away and was gone over an hour. >> his teacher, he wants to use the bathroom. >> that's how it started. >> he left there and she didn't wait for him to come out of the bathroom. >> when he left, he didn't use the front door where there's a lot of security. franklin said he left out the back door. >> he walked all the way to the columbia

almost all of it has been directed in prek through 12 which has -- so we see that proliferation of charterools we've seen early childhood interventions work, we've seen human capital providers, we've seen big city mayors like rahm emanuel take over education yet almost none of it has spread to higher education. so our country has begun to get college access right but we see huge dropout rates in college. >> reporter: cynthia barren is a coach with the university of illinois at chicago's principle training program, she has over 40 years of experience in chicago public schools. there's nothing better than the next step after high school and making them feel confident and comfortable in their academic skills, that they can do it. but along with that is also this ability to know what college life is going to be like, know what career readiness is about, know what life will be like when they graduate but also helping them to develop the network that will help them, then also how to anticipate those obstacles, what do they have to put in place? >> reporter: one goal student anthony knows somethi

. >> president obama took that proposal on the road, visiting a prek class, pre-kindergarten class in decatur, georgia. he played a game of i spy with the kids there and noticed the magnifying class glancy drew style. he had phonics. he did the kinds of things you do in pre-k if you have pre-k where you live like they do in georgia. georgia is a conservative state. but no state is conservative like oklahoma is, right? and yet oklahoma has had universal pre-kindergarten since the late 1990s. and they got it in the most amazing way. the story starts with this guy, joe edins. he's a rancher, a biology teacher, an oklahoma state representative, and that rarest of all oklahoma political critters, joe eddins is a democrat. at the time he got to office in 1994 oklahomans were putting 4-year-olds in school because the law allowed them to and because a glitch in state law said inadvefrtentally oklahoma schools would get paid for having extra kids enrolled in kindergarten. well, they started putting 4-year-olds in kindergarten and it turned out putting pre-kindergarten aged kids in kindergarten

we shouldn't let them stop us from trying to make money but we should certainly do what we can to prek our investments in advantageous. how the heck do you do that? how do you get ready for calamity when you might not even know what it's going to look like? how do you expect the unexpected as an investor? one word. one magic word. diversification. look, diversification, as boring as it might seem, people say jim, i can't make thousands of percent with diversification. it is the single most important concept in investing. it's the key to avoiding enormous losses and making sure you can stay in the game which is our ultimate goal. that's why we play am i diversified every wednesday, when i talk about this concept ad nauseam. why i call it the only flee lunch in the original investing gospel, jim cramer's sane investing in an insane world, why i push it so hard in "getting back to even." if your portfolio is properly diversified you can handle just about any setback, you can come back from any financial disaster. i mean that. now, normally when i talk about diversification i mean make sur

looming spending cuts could affect thousands including young children who will no longer have access to prekery parent needs to know. >> later this hour, comedian john

prek schools are canceled. >> hey, tucker. >> rain showers overnight in the upper 30s. could be mix of sleet and freezing rain as the system kicks off and turn to rain. there's a live look at our radar. shower activity moving in to the west. not a lot of moisture but will be dealing with a period of showers through the early afternoon hours as this frontal system moves on. the pink and white indicates mixing there. not sure how much was touching the ground. eventually the potential for a little sleet, freezing rain and for the rest of us, bring an umbrella. rain showers during the day. here are your temperatures, 39 at reagan national. and dulles bwi 38 degrees. we will see temperatures well into the 40s. upper 40s later today with showers developing by the noon hour. most of the shower activity will be east of us. hopefully the showers will be out of here. more details on the weather in a minute. let's do traffic. julie wright is in. welcome back. >> thank you so much. well, we start it off with a crash on the outer loop at the beltway at connecticut avenue. unfortunat

he's visiting a prek.ss and then going to the decatur community recreation center to give some remarks. later, he is back in washington where he's going to hold an on line fireside hangout to talk more about the state of the union. it will be steramed live on whitehouse..gov on you tube. rubio said this about his own humble lifestyle. >> i still live in the same working class neighborhood i grew up in. my neighbors aren't millionaires, they're retirees who depend on social security and medicare. >> politico reports as rubio's west miami working class neighborhood, his home is up for sale for $675,000. now, in case you think maybe the home just appreciated a lot in the last few years, the rubes bought the house for $550,000 in 2005 according the a miami her and would report in january. he is reportedly looking to move to washington, d.c. he is looking to turn this awkward mid speech sip of water into a money making opportunity. his reclaim america pack is now selling rubio branded water bottles for $25 a po

he was talking about making sure every child that prek.representative, but you're absolutely right. you're backed up by the pollening when you say you can't imagine why people are. people are for that and yet here's our friend john boehner saying none of that will get done. caller: that's what has to be pointed out. people talk about the dysfunction in washington d.c., but if john boehner would just allow the vote to hit the floor which the president was talking about, lids have a vote, let's have up and down votes on all of these issues, because if they don't hold the votes hostage so they can't hit the floor, they would get passed, because it would be hard for members of congress democrats and republicans not to vote for these issues. that's why he tries to block them to keep them off the floor. let's have a vote up or down, that's the appropriated thing to do. stephanie: representative, there's a great piece in the daily beast it reads a lot of commentators point out very few of the goals are likely to make it into goal while he's in of