ron and antoine are on the pta. so, we invite them

ron and antoine are on the pta. so, we invite them to every good event and a lot of times we see them in bad situations also. we always invite them. we opened our doors to them and that was important and i think if you are looking for a ron and antoine the best thing to do is probably if you don't know your officers on the street and their personalities to call our captain and ask him or her if they know of someone you can work with. that's really important. and a lot of the stuff we do we also they wrote a grant for mayor's office of community justice. we actually, i worked with them we got a grant to educate the community of what we need to do to help them in their work. there are things you can do with the mrapolice officers if you st from scratch and think creatively. the next thing is with the da. we have a strong partnership with the da and the liaison with the da. there is a da liaison in every station. you need to get to know that community liaison from the da's office. they are an attorney at the da's offic

most of the people on the pta's and our schools are renters. they are very concerned about the state our schools and the quality of our education for their kids and are willing to put in time and energy to doing that. the other thing i would say is i mean, planting a tree is about a lot more than planting a tree. it's taking back your neighborhood. putting a mural on a vandalizeded wall is more than art it's about you know, and -- finding stake holders. >> yeah i would say that's my experience to gererro there are many blocks because of all the traffic it'sal a's all tenants. because the sidewalks are so narrow and there is no street scape it's a hostile place to live with few exceptions everyone, regardless of whether they own or not want to see a liveable city and greening. my experience is the tenants are the ones that go to the property owners and say we will take care of it can we have a tree much the property owners the way you get them will say, look it will raise the value of the property you can raise rent. there are various ways to ap

i never knew thachlt we do events for the children with the pta. we also started and promoted and pushed to get a learning center in the public housing. and we get volunteers from all over the community to come in and volunteer in the community room in the schools and things like that. where that connects with the safety is because we feel that if you know your neighbors and they know you and especially the children that what we are building as a family. we want to build a family in our community because this is a great way to be safe. it would builds and opens a door when people in the community need support service like drug rehab. if we have homelessness and things like that. that we can actually build around the support network. we brought in our law enforcement and beat officers to help us. they are involved in every positive thing we do. not just enforcement and get to know the whole community. we do have an enforcement issue. like probably a lot of neighborhoods. there are things we have to enforce. today we will talk a little bit about that

the principal was there. 2 teachers and 2 parents and members of the pta were there. so, what i the signs i get are community involvement. the pta i like seeing people at the meeting it is because they are members of the community that are coming together to try to make the school a better place for their kids. which can involve a lot of things but often tytimes is removing graffiti and community gardening and taking back the neighborhood. they are doing the same work kid serve is doing. the fact that parents and teachers show up because they are interested says community involvement. those other things i look for when i get on the phone and try to create a meeting. the one thing i will say is i know the deadline from this grant is the 19th it's soon. >> it's actually you should know the deadline was extend to october 12. >> okay. if for some reason it takes time to set up meetings. there are new deadlines in the spring. if for some reason you miss this deadline stay in touch with the website because there are new deadlines that come up. parent teacher association, th

the supervisors on the pta as well. connecting the dots between the community based organizations that are running the programs that are for the youth, for the adults and taking a look at the goal and the vision of what the neighborhood wants to creates. so instead of being reactive, how do we build what we want to create together and using the tools of connecting the piece. the lower haight and hayes valley and the western addition and the north the panhandle neighborhood, people are working together to do events. working with the cbo. volunteer i volunteering their time in activities that are not just in their block. or just within you know perhaps within their sort of immediate structure. the vision is also that all the kid are our kids. and so whether they are the good kids the trouble makers what have you we are all responsible for their health and well being. the other element that the supervisor's office does and what supervisor mirkarimi does is he chairs the public safety committee. much of what is agendaized o

pragmatism, if he will, but hitting higher education but not k-12 he gets support of the unions and ptas. even members of the teachers union were surprised to heart education system will be spared from cuts. >> this is reality settling in in sacramento. children in schools are the future of the state. you zront a state unless there is education. i think jerry brown recognizes that and i think is acting on that. >> the governor says he expects educators and parents to rally behind him to help gather support for a $12 billion hiblg. a room -- education trust west a group says voters will also want other guarantee autos if they're going to pass a proposition for more money to schools they're going to pass good policies to fix our school system autos but there is no good news for higher education, but drastic cuts there. today, the uc president gave 10 chancellors budget reduction targets, they'll report to him in six weeks. he said he'll try to avoid a fee krins but cannot fully commit to this, the board imposed furlough days for employees. there may be talk of that, again. >> the furlough

when a school pta is encouraged all the way along by operations capital to submit against the highest score and are not funded, there is a problem with the process. >> can you tell me what the amount was? >> we apply for $198,000. >> is that money in place now? >> yes. >> i think that we can get staff to comment on this. if they can comment on what has been said. >> we have talked about this i think that in describing the overall selection process, the point at which the project was scored first is when the individual scores were reported that. as the committee work to the process of adhering to the criteria, several issues, some had to do with the details of the application. some had to do with issues of governance and access to the property. as those issues came up, take committee and bounced the project and it did not meet the current criteria as well as the projects that we have recommended. >> i would hate to see someone to go through all of this and be ready to go on an issue that i personally find important. are there ways to mitigate the concerns of the committee so that in th

it was not until i became the pta co-chair that are shared school that i realized how crucial dedicated teachers are to our education and what a tragedy it would be if a teacher liked anne were forced to leave by the cost and complexity of the housing situation which she finds herself in. i am alarmed at the delays that have taken place to the permitting process on this property and even more alarmed at the prospects of another hearing will add more delay or cost. i am frightened they will be forced to leave and hillcrest will lose one of their best teachers. it is it isanne, who is committed to raising her kids in san francisco. they are not rich, they are a teacher and a documentary filmmaker, but i have put together enough money to put a downpayment on this house that they were able to afford only because it is derelict. my own property is next door to what was a derelict house and i have sympathized with the neighbors who have had to put up with the inconvenience and difficulty of the construction on the neighboring site. the house their arrest has been changed into five condominium

but also getting involved in the pta it really brings resources networking resources to those parents that have those children in the schools. and you will give them a step up in life. you will give them an economic step up in life. and you will give them a confident step up in life. that's what you really are accomplishing by getting involved with the youth. having the police officers spend a lot of time at the back pack give aways and them spending time at the bbq's. you think why are you sending officers to the bbq the da will have a festival at the african-american culture center on the 22nd. i'm sending officers to bashing bq and hand out hot dogs and be around. they will be the security but an invisible security and be participating with them. and we are sponsoring our of our station fund we are paying for that. that's our contribution to the event. our contribution is the security and the food. but it's to generally build up the confidence in the neighborhood and try to give something that will help break that cycle that exists that causes the gangs to develop. another specific

we do out reaches to schools and the pta's and churches and other organizations. we will come out to your homes, neighborhood associations. all we need to do for our free training is need a room with 20 people. everything else we take care of. >> we partnered with the disaster coordinator for the school district to train teachers and students. the students receive the 20 hours of volunteer credit if they take the training class. we are trying to start a team nert training program in the high schools. the health and science requirement is somewhat of a fit but whenever you add something to the school curriculum you take something away it's an about the of a bit and take. lincoln and washington high school are the 2 high schools that have hosted nert for their high school students. >> if you are parents or have connections with schools talk to the principals and school board and advocate for preparedness. if we get third graders trained they will go home and say where's our water. do we know how to turn off the gas or where will we meet. be the voice if promoting th

[laughter] we also on the pac have been working in conjunction with parents for public schools and pta about creating a parent toolkit. we have been asking for the board to have a flow chart or a process of what parents do and where they go when they have concerns that are going on at the school. we are really excited that some of you have been -- some of the people on your staff have been working with us and are expected to meet with us. but we need to make sure that we have this commitment from the district that you are going to be really committed to getting this out there. today, i had a parent contact me about a bullying situation. the she got a response from a teacher about this bullying situation. her child was adopted and was being made fun of. the response from the teacher was, "we are doing all we can." but it is still going on. i guess that is the public school system, right? i guess that is the public school system, right?

the president of the pta says with state budget cuts and the decline in enrollment, the process is necessary not easy. fourth grader jared dado agrees, wondering about the friends he has at sequoia, and the prospect of having to adjust to a new school. >> like what will the students feel like? would they feel like mad, upset? confused, you know, all different feelings. >> reporter: how would you feel? >> like all of the above. >> reporter: the school board is expected to make a final decision on which schools will close at a meeting on february 8th. live in concord, kimberly tere, nbc bay area news. >>> they are trained and armed to protect oakland schools. and tonight a public school police officer son paid leave after he shot and killed a 20-year-old man during a confrontation last night. it happened not far from where a high school dance was taking place. nbc bay area's monte francis is live in oakland with the story. monte? >> reporter: well garvin, this kind of shooting is very rare for a school district. in fact oakland unified says this is the first time ever one of its officers has b

every politician will get an earful from the local pta its school aid gets white. the republicans are finding it is one thing to issue a blanket to cut spending and a different matter when you literally take the scissors to $1 of every $6 spent by agencies like the irs, the fbi, nasa, and the national park service. it would be unavoidable. to give the white house an opportunity in light of this bumper sticker thing that we're doing here to honor, and i'm not grudge full of my colleagues pledge to america, i think it up was a tremendous political ploy. it was successful to a relative degree, but you pledged he would cut $100 billion from the budget recommendations to president obama in 2011. by returning the actual savings , ipresident bush's era level think you're going to run into trouble. if we get to 2008 levels, and you're looking at an 8% cut to nasa. so we might as well go on and say that all of that money that we have spent out there on the international space station is about to run into some significant problems. u.s. of a 60% cut for the fbi -- you would

just about every politician is going to get an earful from the local pta is schools get whacked.republicans are finding it is a different matter when you take the scissors to $1 of every $6 spent by agencies like the irs, the fbi, nasa, and the national park service. federal layoffs would be unavoidable, the white house warns. to give the white house a chance to have their voice heard in light of this bumper sticker thing we're doing here -- i am not grudge fful of my colleagues pledge to america. it was successful to a relative degree. you promised you would cut $100 billion from the budget recommendations of president obama in 2011. by returning the actual savings levels,dent bush's era i think he will run into trouble. if we get to 2008 levels, you were looking in an 8% cut to nasa. we may as well have gone and said that all the money we spent on the international space station is about to run into significant problems. you would have a 16% cut for the fbi. i can assure you that will have a devastating impact on the extraordinary work that the fbi does on behalf of american ci