it's up to the pta's discretion. and that's a valuable asset that they not only enjoyed but have been thankful for. dpw is committed for every school site that participates to do a deep cleaning twice a year. and in an effort to talk to the principals and parents letting them know that we their school site and playgrounds, we want it in a better condition than it is today. and to have a deep cleaning twice a year, is something that we are excited about doing. and so are the schools and parents. as well we have a large pool of capital available to different school sites throughout the year. basically to draw on, and we have created a grant program for pta's to apply for the funds to open on the weekend. it's one thing to open up the playground or to have a league come in or whatever it may be. and it's really been fun to talk to the different pta's involved so far. different pta's have different ideas. some want skateboarding parks or festivities. some want community gardens. some want the traditional coaching activit

. >> i just wanted to congratulate the san francisco pta on another founder's day dinner and it is going to be this friday, and it is $50 a person and i believe miss parker are there seats still available? >> yes, there are. >> would you mind just going on the speaker and just letting folks now how they may be able to tend this event? >> yes, thanks, it is this friday, from 6 to 9 p.m., at patio espano. and we are happy to have anybody come, teachers, parents and community members and anybody that supports the pta and it is an opportunity to celebrate the work in our schools every day. and we are going to be recognizing a number of people with awards for what is happening in their schools. we will also be having our newly elected assembly person getting the address and our own superintendent will be speaking and we will be recognizing state pta president with the gold milk award. so you can send me an e-mail if you like to come, that is president at sfpta.org or you can look at our facebook page and you can find the information there. >> thank you, miss parker, i would also like to menti

learners and instrumental in bringing reading partners to the school and he has also been working with the pta to create a support network and a literacy network to support the struggling readers. most recently he has been reading by design to introduce writing strategies to all of the classes. and in my brief stint of work i have had a chance to see his leadership as he has rallied his work during inclusion week and had assembles trying to raise awareness including people with disabilitis in classrooms and he is also going to be the host in the coming week of the second annual dinner for gay and lesbian familis in san francisco. and we thank him for offering the insight into that and he was the first principals of cohorts for the arts. i was able to see him jam on stage this summer and so it makes me very proud to be able to welcome robert here before you. mr. brecker please come up. [ applause ] >> thank you, very much. thanks. >> my pleasure. >> i just want to say a quick thank you, and thank you and superintendent and i really appreciate it and the nomination mentioned that this is the typ

happening on yahoo groups or communications that are coming out from auxillary organizations like the pta they're not always translateed and it's a big concern for us. it's not a step forward in creating a diverse communities. it's not a step forward in encouraging our -- particularly our english learning family to participate fully in our school sites and so recently we sent some questions back to christina wong specifically about what the policies were for our website and the auxillary websites that they are generated and the communications in the schools and we received a prompt reply back saying "it is in the works that the district is working toward adding protocols and processes into the guidelines for ensuring quality and interpretation services" and attached to the email. it's not currently in here but we are hopeful it's included and comprehensive protocol that we can give to sitings regarding school loop and all the other auxillary sites are happening as school generate their other school communications. the other point line we would like to highlight is number eight, enhanced d

there are people committing pta flyers who want to pull an image of the internet are not defend goingto make this. is that going to get a school in trouble and anyway? as well as scholars, teachers, librarians, the book chronicles work we've done the 10 communities of this, including journalists, documentarians, filmmakers, k-12 teachers, mostly middle-school teachers. college professors and people who make open courseware for higher education. we work with them and other groups to help them clarify how they can make fair use in order to get their work done. as i say, this is a relatively new problem in the world since before 1976 was a no-brainer to access other people's culture because a lot of it wasn't copyrighted. >> host: what happened in 1976 quakes >> guest: the law was changed as a result of great enthusiasm by large copy holders to extend their rights over their existing archives. the government responded by extending copyrights and extending the length of the copyright term by extending the amount of rates associated with it and making it default. another risk on a copyrigh

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it's a well parent -- has a lot of parent involvement, big pta. >> reporter: that's something you look for in a school. >> yes, exactly. >> reporter: hillcrest is one of the top scoring schools on science and math, but it has its downside. there's no space. the school therapist works out of a converted closet and getting students through lunch takes almost three hours, growing pains the school as to energy out how to address. >> you have to look at the whole organization. how do you move students about in terms of lunch, transportation, all the programs that exist within the disool -- school. >> reporter: hillcrest is not alone. if the trend continues, every school in catonsville will remain overcapacity until 2022. building a new school may not be an option because resources are always tight. >> we're going to have to be creative in terms of looking at the programs we have at the school. are there surrounding areas or buildings that we may be able to use. >> reporter: now the alternative and creative ways range from installing more portables and finding vacant space in the area. at th

>> we went to friends and family and were fortunate that the school district and the pta and the city councils and police departments joined in to south our efforts. >> one of five people, including children, who was shot and wounded by a man with an assault weapon at the valley jewish community center in los angeles 13 years ago. she says she had to be here. >> i believe that i lived that day and survived that day to speak out on behalf of those who can't speak for themselves. reporter: congresswoman jacky steel promised help is on the way. >> i'm opt mystic we'll have a vote on the gun issue. >> the buyback program ran out of money after two and a half hours. disappoint something gun -- disappointing some gun owners. >> are you serious? >> one man was paid $1,700 for the guns he turned in organizers say that's why they ran out of money so quickly and next time they will put a ceiling on how much they will pay each resident. the next guybacks is on march 2nd the santa clara county fairgroundses. am frightening moments for passengers on a transit bus this morning. someone shot at the

. >> yeah and to add to that i think it's involving the community, so the pta's, the nonprofits, the faith based community and bringing them together and share resources and get really focused and looking at the data and then the outcomes because that keeps you focused. >> great. okay go ahead. >> this is a mixed appreciation and a question. i'm nicholas carlyle and the director of "bully" , san francisco's nonprofit and we share with you the realization that punishment makes bullying situations worse. it's uncoupled bullying and punishment and the question is, which is kind of a comment too. if we uncouple bullying and punishment doesn't that make it much easier to define what bullying is? and seems to me and defining bullying because the bar is so high because we're afraid it's going to trigger some prescribed consequence and bullying doesn't necessarily have to lead to a consequence and just a solution wouldn't that make the definition of bullying much easier? >> i don't think that that -- at least from my perspective and what i heard so far that the focus of addressing bullying l

. >> my good friends are precontinueding like this is a pta meeting and that there was a provision for a bake sale next thursday. it is far more complicated than that and gary, here is the upshot, 30 million more americans are going to have health insurance. that's what the legislation was about. it is not perfect. >> by the way, adam, do you think it will save money. >> yes. >> the savings were insane. like $100 billion over ten years. >> how could it save money when there is all these exemptions? how can it pay for itself when -- >> be real nice, char lyrics the number within goal is to get more americans with health insurance -- >> that is the rub. >> dagen, you also talked about charlie's kids coming out of school. there are people who actually thought that they would be exempt from certain things. why we built this gigantic welfare society. the fact is, unions are just the latest to find out, guess what, you got to pony up? >> that's the issue, adam, to your point, is that these are people who are in unions who have health insurance and now the unions want extra money, a federal s

enforcement has a serious tone so we created this program for officers to present to schools and to pta's and to faith based organizations and any community group that wants to hear it. we have the hour long safety program and started with digital safety as the kind of umbrella but it touches on -- i agree i don't like the term cyber bullying. kids don't use that and it's bullying and it's drama. everything is drama now but law enforcement needs to look at the piece of social media and what it plays and taking the phone is like cutting off the arm and parents are not understanding the disconnect and it's a divide and how kids communicate today and how parents communicate and helping parents parent in this digital world and helping kids make smarter decisions, so they don't have to worry about friending the college recruiter and them taking,a way their scholarship or anything like that. it's also looking at trainings for law enforcement officers -- when i go to a school and has a knife and on the honor role and never had any problems so it would be easy -- well let's cite you for possessio

stuff, but for parents with kids, changing policies at schools can be an accessible thing, joining pta's or talking to the school board about having integrated pest management so kids aren't exposed to pesticides on playgrounds, that's been successful. there's a huge movement to get safer, healthier foods into schools and they just revised the school lunch guidelines, but also you could go organic, you could go local and there are schools in berkeley and in the bay area really making some amazing strides and ensuring safer food practices, universities could do the same thing and that would be huge because that's such a large population as well. cleaning products in the schools, don't we want particularly these little kids who are more vulnerable to be less exposed to the kinds of cleaning product chemicals that might not be on the labels of those products being used, so schools can be a really targeted place and an accessible place for people to see change happen. there's a network there, hopefully you have like-minded parents to work with around the community as well. so, agriculture, p

throughout the city, michael as well as christine is helped managing not only the funds we get through the ptas, but also managing the grant program for our activities for our schools and our kids. to promote really good health and activity on the weekends. * you know, michael has really had a big presence in our community. we have so many mutual, very, very good friends together. but really, i think your dedication, michael, to this project, i think what i admire so much about you is your dedication just generically to our community in san francisco and everything that you do, and you do it to selflessly. it comes so naturally. and we are all better for

continuing to do that and announce that the mlc academic middle school and their students of promise and the pta is having a family night dinner and town hall meeting and that is going to be tomorrow evening, i am sorry, thursday. thursday is really hard for me. thursday from 5:00 to 7:00 at mlk. i know i want it all to go away and there is also, on friday, is the finals for the poetry slam. that youth speaks hosts every year and this is going to be for their annual slam competitions and competition and there are 6 finalists, i am actually going to be judging this on friday evening and just wanted to note that the 6 finalists are from the schools that they are from are raw talent and school of the arts and okay land and mission high and burton high and so i am looking forward as not being biased on who should win that competition. and i want to congratulate ellis and that is going to be honoring all of the accomplishments this year with their multiple acknowledgments, both state and federal, and local accomplishments, and congratulations to principal esito for all that she has done to work close

throughout the city, michael as well as christine is helped managing not only the funds we get through the ptas, but also managing the grant program for our activities for our schools and our kids. to promote really good health and activity on the weekends. * you know, michael has really had a big presence in our community. we have so many mutual, very, very good friends together. but really, i think your dedication, michael, to this project, i think what i admire so much about you is your dedication just generically to our community in san francisco and everything that you do, and you do it to selflessly. it comes so naturally. and we are all better for it as a city. and i just admire you so much. i really am fortunate that not only do you live in the district but i can count you as a friend. i want to say congratulations and thank you so much for being here today. (applause) >> my comment is going to be very brief, but i just want to thank mark and actually margo for this really great award. and i guess to the supervisors, what mark and the mayor what they're doing in the community to have a