the truth is we only have such a strong pta because of necessity. our school would not thrive as it does if we didn't have a counselor or social worker. we understand that we aren't the only ones that need this funding and we might not be the most high needs school but shouldn't be put lower in the line of need because of our pta. [applause] >> good evening, my name is gabrielle and i'm a 7th grader. what it comes down to is that the school district only funds a halftime social worker for the prek to eighth grade students at my school and next year we'll be losing some interns that provide counseling. all this while next year at regular middle schools they'll be funding a full-time social worker, a halftime nurse and counselor. although our pta is strong enough to fund the social worker, she has to spend we feel like it's only fair for the school district to provide for k through 8 middle schools at least a little bit what they provide for normal middle schools. we face a lot of the same challenges as the students at larger middle schools. we feel t

president at many schools and ptas have bought much equipment for the schools and then we don't know where it goes. televisions get lost, projectors get lost, so i can imagine devices would be a really hard thing to keep track of. how are we going to do that? what's the plan? thank you very much. thanks. i think we have another item now. it's a public education enrichment fund update. deputy superintendent. >> we're going to press our luck with a third powerpoint presentation. we know how you all love powerpoint, but this is going to be a brief presentation. at least it's only six slides long, so hopefully it won't take terribly long, but we did want to do a couple of things this evening, just the latest in a series of discussions that we've been bringing information to the board about renewal effort for the public education enrichment fund so one is to provide a process update, kind of where things stands in the proceedings, especially over at city hall with respect to the drafting of legislation that would extends the public education enrichment fund and create collaborative struct

president at many schools and ptas have bought much equipment for the schools and then we don't know where it goes. televisions get lost, projectors get lost, so i can imagine devices would be a really hard thing to keep track of. how are we going to do that? what's the plan? thank you very much. thanks. i think we have another item now. it's a public education enrichment fund update.

. >> reporter: it was donated to the school by the pta and the current pta president was devastated. it's important to the community. i know people come on the weekend and use the playground. there's a baseball league that uses the baseball fields. it's not just going to impact the school it's going to impact the whole community around marshal. >> reporter: i'm told the surveillance video caught the fire but does not show who set it. although whoever did it was trying to put it out. the mulch is made out of used tires and most of it burned up leaving a toxic mess. this is not only a place to play but a source for learning. >> it's socialization, it's play, it's physical activity. >> reporter: with its insurance, the district hopes to have the structure replaced by the next school year. fire officials say they're trying to figure out if the fire was intentionally set and who did it. in castro valley. i'm john sasaki, channel 2 news. >>> federal aviation investigators have set a committee hearing next month. it's landing gear and tail hit the sea wall causing the plane to spin then cat

. >> reporter: it was donated to the school by the pta and the current pta president was devastated.t's important to the community. i know people come on the weekend and use the playground. there's a baseball league that uses the baseball fields. it's not just going to impact the school it's going to impact the whole community around marshal. >> reporter: i'm told the surveillance video caught the fire but does not show who set it. although whoever did it was trying to put it out. the mulch is made out of used tires and most of it burned up leaving a toxic mess. this is not only a place to play but a source for learning. >> it's socialization, it's play, it's physical activity. >> reporter: with its insurance, the district hopes to have the structure replaced by the next school year. fire officials say they're trying to figure out if the fire was intentionally set and who did it. in castro valley. i'm john sasaki, channel 2 news. >>> federal aviation investigators have set a committee hearing next month. it's landing gear and tail hit the sea wall causing the plane to spin then catch

. >> this senior was on the honor roll, a student representative on the school district pta, a soccerlayer, and list of achievements going on and on. now, the biggest honor of all. her parents worked with nicole and encouraged her, the school supported her. nicole worked hardest. >> i don't want to be like other people with down's syndrome that can't talk as i'm talking now. it's hard for them to do that. but i practiced so hard. and got to this point i'm different now. >> nicole is no stranger to surprises last year, she was picked home coming queen. >> it was fun. i answered with a lot of people. >> nicole knows how to charm reporters >> i have nothing else to say, really. just happy to be with you, really. >> thank you. happy to be with you. >> she's got a great future in politics. >> she does >> this memorial day weekend you can see the rare world war ii bombers used to fight the nazis. these planes include the only restored liberator in the world. in honor of those who flew them during world war ii. today members toured the planes they used to ply. before reflecting on the days >

parents association, ruth and families if transition to name a few and a few public forums with the pta and close the gap coalitions we want to share the information and provide the strategies and under the circumstances to hear from families what is working and where what we could approve and especially hearing from students from protecting families and foster parents. we heard from over 4 willed parent in 29 conversations from parents and guardian and educators and community members. the offer half of our participants were from families who are speaking other than english and 59 percent qualified for the resz recessed lunches and 18 percent foster parents or working with foster youth. again over 55 percent of our youth after english. we heard from representatives of 68 different schools in the district. and the ethic breakdown 23 latino and 23 chinese-american and 14 percent african-american and asian pacific islander and 7 percent non-white. this graph is kind of to show our demonstrations in the enrollment of our students eased in some cases exceeding our numbers in the distribute.

finishing served as daniel websters pta president for two years and whereas because of ms. fissuring events today she the daniel webster has a line of students and whereas ms. finishing has a deep resolve and an eloquent voice and never afraid to really up here sleeves to have the tough confessions and whereas ms. finishing was a beloved person who passed w after a 17 month with cancer and now the dean yell library be named after ms. finishing whereas the board of education san francisco security honors deanna finishing with our long association with dean yell webster school and her deep dedication for the students of her district and further be it resolved that the daniel elementary school library will be felon as the deanna finishing library and a plaque donated shall be instead of >> thank you i don't see my public comment signed up. >> commissioner norton. >> thank you. the school community for bringing this forward gene nasal loss was a profound one and came as a surprise to people who doesn't know she was ill. i know that we'll be a real improvement to her family and

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the families their aware of the intention for the african-american student as one parent's from the pta said focus on the african-american career readiness and the learning strategies. >> and our final recommendation thank you for being patient is we talked about we believe that's important to have a plan to explain to parents how teachers are being trained for the instruction for the southerners about the parents for the higher students being challenged and part of the instructions really is and one example for the training might took place is the constitute this is going to take place in september. >> so we want to end by saying in the a fruitful progress we were able to reach a board prospective and a number of voices in this process in a relatively he short term period this is a great opportunity to shift is number one question will my voice be heard be taking into consideration with this new regulation in the state that calls for parent input into the process this is the time to start making that shift to how we can say how parents have a voice and being respected. we look forward

joyce armstrong, president of the public housing association, phta, not pta, that shows how little he works with us. i am joined by the president of ccde, that is the council of disabled, and she wants you know that she supports the rad program. as far as we know it's the only program that can help the public housing in dire need of help. and she wanted me to tell you that the elevator problem, and they are blessed that something bad hasn't happened in the senior disabled buildings. she's hopeful they have service providers. right now we don't have social worker in the building, except maybe four. that's a service that is needed in the senior disabled buildings as well as the family developments. yes, as president of the phta, i support the concept of rad. we are still contacted and we requested training so we can understand and articulate what is going do happen to residents in the proper way. residents have to get up off of their behinds and become active. we send out information and beg them to come to meetings. and we don't have a grassroots following, people are comfortable, and

>> well, you know, neil, eight years ago i was a pta president at hopewell high school and wasn't even in politics. i came in at the end of my freshman term and ran to be one of the caucus leaders. at the end of my sophomore term, i ran to be speaker. i don't think that i fit easily into kind of an establishment box. i expect results, i expect problems to be solved and i expect to do that, unlike kay hagan. >> now there is this -- maybe it's just a myth, but you hear from a lot of tea partiers who say that they feel unloved. rand paul campaigned for one of your opponents, said he would support the nominee for the good of the party, but do you think there's bad blood there? do you think that you have to reach out to tea partiers or those maybe more conservative than you to fix what some seem to be broken fences within the republican party? >> you know, i think you're always having to bring as many people in as possible. we've got to -- we've got to add and multiply our base to have a great campaign in november. but i think the results from last night demonstrate that we have a broad bas

it was donated by the pta. >> it is important to the community.le come on the weekends and use the playground. a baseball league use the playground. it will impact the whole community. >> we are told surveillance video caught the fire but does not show who actually set it. although we are told that whoever did appeared to be trying to put it out. the district hopes to have the structure replaced by the next school year. >>> new at 6:00 p.m. a television ad that is breaking barriers. a toyota dealership released a spot that has people talking. ktvu's rob roth went to the car dealer who says he isn't trying to make a political statement, just sell more cars. >> reporter: this television commercial started running this week and airs only in the bay area. it show as woman talking about the car she just bought. >> come outside. oh, my gosh. >> they said the idea was hatched a few months ago. >> we believe whether you are same-sex couple or from here or there, doesn't matter. all those people buy cars. >> reporter: the general manager ran the script by

>> as pta president i'm kind of shocked and surprised they'd be able to do that without contacting us. >> janet is the president of the school's parent-teacher organization. she and other parents say district officials never told them about the decision to provide space to the designer tech charter school until after it's a done deal saying minutes weren't made public until recently. why? why secrecy? what is behind this? >> d tech would begin with a freshman class of up to 150 students. to start with, six existing classrooms at mills would be given to d tech. each year, new classes would be added with a full enrollment expected at 500. parents we spoke with wonder what the charter would do to a high school with 1300 students. school district officials say the school has been discussed an half a dozen open meetings. >> there is not a lot of people that come to board meetings. it's not something people perhaps think about. going to. but they are public >> parents say they have nothing against the concept of a charter school they just want the district to stop, talk with a community bef

>> as pta president i'm kind of shocked and surprised they'd be able to do that without contacting us. >> janet is the president of the school's parent-teacher organization. she and other parents say district officials never told them about the decision to provide space to the designer tech charter school until after it's a done deal saying minutes weren't made public until recently. why? why secrecy? what is behind this? >> d tech would begin with a freshman class of up to 150 students. to start with, six existing classrooms at mills would be given to d tech. each year, new classes would be added with a full enrollment expected at 500. parents we spoke with wonder what the charter would do to a high school with 1300 students. school district officials say the school has been discussed an half a dozen open meetings. >> there is not a lot of people that come to board meetings. it's not something people perhaps think about. going to. but they are public >> parents say they have nothing against the concept of a charter school they just want the district to stop, talk with a community bef

. >> this senior was on the honor roll, a student representative on the school district pta, a soccer player, and a list of achievements go on, and on. now, the biggest honor. governor brown just appointed this 19-year-old to the state council on developmental disabilities. >> do you think you'd get picked? >> never. i want to be an advocate for people with disabilities. >> nicole's proud parents are beaming. >> it's amazing that, you know, she'd be recognized at this age. >> all of the achievements didn't come easy. her parents worked with her and encouraged her. her school, her friends supported her but nicole worked hardest. >> i don't want to be like other people with down's syndrome to talk like i'm talking now. i practiced so hard to get to this point but i'm different now. >> she's no stranger to surprises, last year, picked home coming queen. >> i was shocked and i was really happy. it was really fun. i danced with a lot of people. and it was a good experience. >> she was picked to give the commencement address. >> wow. >> that is really cool. >> spencer christian is off today

the head of the pta that donated the structure says it's a loss the entire community will feel. >> ipeople come on the weekends and use the playground. there is a baseball league that uses marshal fields. the ymca they use the playgrounds. >> the good news is that the school district does have insurance on that structure. district leaders hope to have it replaced in time for the next school year. ktvu news has learned that nearly half of all the students at two danville schools stayed home yesterday after threatening mess annals were found near their campuses. attendance was down despite an increased police presence. a threat to kill people on may 8th was found spray painted near charlotte wood liassic. and two copy cat messages were found near baldwin. a boy behind the messages were cited and released to his parents. >>> a famous san francisco bookstore has given up its fight to stay open in san francisco. marcus books known around the nation as a black owned operated bookstore is out of business. the building where he rented the space was sold 18 months ago. he didn't pay rent for

. >> reporter: it was donated to the school by the pta and the president was devastated that the structure burned. >> it is important to the community. people come on the weekeds and use the -- weekends and uses the playgrounds. it will impact the whole community. >> surveillance video caught the fire but does not show who set it. although whoever did it appeared to be trying to put it out. >>> there is a smell out here. the padding is made from used tires and much of it burned up leaving behind a toxic mess. the superintendent said this was not just about losing somewhere to play but -- >> activity during the day is critical and socialization, play, a physical activity. >> reporter: the district hopes to have it replaced by the next school year. officials are trying to figure out if it was intentionally set and who did. john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> you can get it from a hike and maybe even through sex. >> i started having difficulty walking. every so slight. >> new information on the disease bay area doctors are calling a hidden epidemic. >> a switch up in the forecast, when the

all the buildings at marshall elementary are undamaged but a play structure purchased by the school's ptas off limits after the plastic melted and the rubber padding underneath burned. investigators describe what is left as a toxic mess. parents say they can't understand why someone would destroy this play structure. >> all i can think is maybe it's teenagers or just not using common sense. it's not good for the community though. >> the school district does have insurance and school district leaders hope to have the structure replaced in time for the next school year. >>> a firefighter has been relieved of his duties. the cal fire office in sacramento county says battalion chief fleming has not shown up for work since the killing last week. the official reason he is being let go is for his failure to report to duty five straight days. fleming is still on the run accused of killing sarah douglas in a home the couple shared in sacramento. investigators say fleming is is an avid outdoors man who may be hiding in the mountains. >>> city of oakley they are trying to figure out what led to a fi

student representative on the school district pta. soccer player. list of achievement on and on. biggest honor of all. governor brown just appointed this 19-year-old to the state council on developmental disabilities. >> did you think you would actually get picked. >> never. if i wanted to advocate for people with disability. >> her proud parents are bea beaming. >> it's really amazing that even that she would be recognized at this age. >> but all the achievement didn't come easy. her parents work with nicole and encourage her. the school and friend supported her. but it was nicole who worked the hardest. >> other people captain talk like i'm talking right now. really hard for them to do that. but i practice so hard app got to this point. >>reporter: nicole no stronger to surprises. last year she was picked home come queen for the junior class court. >> difference really happy. it was really if you please and dance with other people and it was a really good experience. >>reporter: there is one more thing. nicole one of those picked to give this year commencement address. abc 7 ne

he reminds me, and reminds everyone, that he used to be pta president just eight years ago. he's certainly not the establishment candidate of the gop. he's not only the support and endorsement of jeb bush and other strong republicans, but also he's got tea party support, the nra, the national right to life and other social organizations. he has already brought them into the fold as speaker in north carolina. and he certainly would plan to do so if he were to win the nomination tomorrow. >> it's interesting. you make your point by a different perspective. he's not a liberal. he's not a moderate. they're all pretty right hard candidates. >> it's right, far right and extreme right. he may not be an establishment candidate in the sense that he doesn't want to be known as such. but he is running against a tea party candidate and a christian conservative. and he's basically picked up the mitt romney kind of coalition of the middle reasonable republican. >> let's take a look at some of the points of view here. there's not much light between these. let's listen to bannon and then to

taking us places, my mom was the -- the team mom and tupperware lady and pta and always making our costumes for halloween and active, active, active and then when they realized that they didn't want -- my dad didn't want to be with my mother anymore and split up it exploded, it wasn't like coming to an understanding, it exploded and their emotional immaturity damaged the rest of the structure and i didn't see my father for ten years. >> you didn't see him. >> no phone call, no nothing. >> no. >> didn't see him. he had a breakdown. he was 408, late 40s. >> rose: was it about success? >> i think it was, i think it was about the lack of success, i think it was his frustration at not being, he was an actor and it was about his frustration of not being a star. >> he wanted to be a star. >> like a lot of people and he didn't handle it well when he was getting to be a certain age and i am sure there are complications that are much deeper than that i wasn't privy to and he is of a generation where revealing those inner thoughts, men would rather go to their grave, you know, than. >> rose: admit wea

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our transit authority and the boston area is called in pta, and not for nothing. it's called mr.lger's transit authority because he got people jobs. if billy bulger wisher patron and the gotcha job, you're not going to go down to the brought and say his brother is a scumbag. that's not how it works, particularly in south boston. people don't do that. they don't point fingers, your cousin is a bank robber. because his cousin might be a bank robber. in those families everybody has one or two cousins that, oh, my gosh, there he goes. that's part of it. >> where is billy bulger now? where is he? >> he still visits pashtun will, when whitey was in jail awaiting trial he continued to visit him. he did not attend the trial at all but we think it was really he did not want to do with the immediate outlook. it was very highly, you know, highly publicized. his children to would attend the trial like his daughter and sons. >> is he still ahead of the umass system? >> no. he was forced to resign that job but i don't know if you remember, but before mitt romney was a presidential candidate he

by cultural dexterity is openness to difference and openness in the sense of understanding that at a pta meeting at a school i may not get my way. there may be other ways to do this. we are going to have a forum and we are going to have an ongoing discussion and you now, we will collectively create this no multiracial society as we go forward. and it has to be worked out. >> i think the fact that america is becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial society is a very powerful reason why we should not be classifying people according to their skin color and what country their ancestors came from and treating them differently when it comes to university admissions based on what little box they check. i think that the question that was asked singling out a black student to opine on colt 45 is obviously a stupid thing to do. there's no excuse for it but i think that the mind-set that a lot of universities have that okay you know we really ought to have more of this diversity so that we can get different -- so that we can get different skin color perspectives on this or that social prob

what sparked - parents attended pta meetings, trying to get us a better school.e had hand me down books, we had no gymnasium, cafeteria. there were teachers teaching and the auditorium. we only had one in the lap. we didn't have the materials. we had tried to get a better school. what they gay us was tar paper shacks that they said we had to go to school in. when you went into the shacks, on the days that it rained. we would have to hold up an umbrella to keep the rain off. there was a potbelly stove. if you sat close, you were burping um. if you were too far away you had to keep the coat on. it was deplorable conditions. >> no cafeteria, potbelly stoves, tar belly classes. how did that lead to your walk out. >> bubba johns was a 16 year-old and spearheaded the strike. she had called the assembly that morning, and sent notes around to the teachers and planned this with a committee, a strim committee, she had a student going away from the school to steer the prips pll away -- principal away. we call came in to the auditorium for assembly. we were shocked to see ba

the idea that we are funding talks to ptas and going in schools and telling people how to identify people who need parents beg for treatment. people known to be seriously mentally ill. we need to prioritize. that means cutting programs. that is where the objection to the bill proposed by murphy comes from. it cuts non-evidence-based programs and uses the funds for evidence-based programs. there is an entrenched group that wants to prevent that. for instance, there are groups who are getting money to prevent mental illness. we do not know how to prevent schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. if anyone knows that to prevent those disorders, they deserve a nobel these prize. the government is funding prevention. i would argue it is prioritizing and getting rid of bad spending, that is what the murphy bill does. that is what is engendering opposition to it. >> i will briefly add and i want to differ to the expertise. i want to add something that has not been set. i buried a sister. from a numbert of levels and i want you to know and i hope that god comforts you in your morning. -- mopurning. on a

we're forced out there to be social, and to deal with pta parents, and to get out there, and most peoplenonparents. >> i've got to talk about one mom, this is tiger woods' ex. she just graduated from rollins college from bachelor of arts degree, top of her class. she was the one making these speeches you can see there. she took a little swing at her divorce during that commencement speech. let's take a little listen to that. >> in the fall of 2005, i was 25 years old. i just recently moved to america. i was married without children. today, nine years later, i'm a proud american, and i have two beautiful children. but i'm no longer married. [ cheers and applause ] >> you've got to love that. the focus on the children, though, a proud mom. despite not having the husband anymore to parent with. >> no, absolutely. part of the thing, with the whole happiness thing, too, is, you know, you're forced to go and you're forced to be with other people. she's been forced to, as a single mom, and a single parent, which 90% of us will be at one point in our lives, either through divorce or death of our

stand outside the shelter or jail or hospital you will find every one you need the idea talking to the pta and going to the school to tell people how to identify people who need treatment, of parents paid for treatment so we have to prioritize and that means cutting programs where the bill proposed by murphy comes from. >> it uses of fund for evidence based program san there is an entrenched group said was to prevent that. there are groups who are getting money to prevent mental illness. we do not know how to prevent its purpose to anybody knows how they deserved the nobel peace prize. if government is funding prevention. that is what the murphy bill does that is what is in gendering the opposition. >>. >> i will just say something. i buried a sister. i appreciate from a number of levels. i hope god comforts you. on a daily basis as a forensic psychiatrist not only dealing with death but also people left behind a and the shards of glass that are shattered from the story that cannot be reassembled. i have learned a lot and to practice over 20 years with responsibilities on my shoulder i hav

. >> so we're not going to have more pda on the pta? >> i have a strike no pun policy.y had some pda at the pga. they were cuddling at the masters. and he's been in the rough before. >> and what about the one where they said she was teed off. >> oh, i knew i heard it somewhere. >> my apologies -- >> well, we've got memorial day -- excuse me? am i boring you? am i boring you? >> wow. i've got to have -- i've got to have the fourth hour coming, give me a hug. anyway, the memorial day weekend, starting things off. we're looking at some wet weather in the northeast. beautiful sunshine around the great lakes. and then as we make our way into saturday, we're going to be expected to see plenty of sunshine, it does look like we're looking at weather in the northeast. lots of sun around the great lakes. carson is locally right now. >> where are we supposed to be? >> oh! oh! nice trip, see you in the >>> good morning to you. taking a live look at an overcast sky over san jose. not for long, though. we're already seeing parts of the south bay, where the sun is breaking through tho

but we talked about her school where they have a program called wellness in the schools our pta helpshes. so, it's kind of something that they have in their schools. she had a hard time understanding why all schools don't have that, too. >> no, i get that. listen, i'm going to have a guilty mom moment here, kelly. that is this morning i was lucky enough that my son asked me for a banana for breakfast. but guess what happened before we were trying to get out the door to go to school. guess what he wanted? a brownie. you're in that position do you give him the brownie and get him to school or do you have a fight which you know will end up in a tantrum and guess what i did? >> you gave him the brownie. >> but it is also because he did ask for the banana. the point i want to make in giving this crazy mom story is that it's not always easy for a mom to dictate and determine what kind of food the kids are going to eat. so, it can't be easy for a school to do it. >> it isn't. that's such a good point, dana. we don't want to put ourselves out there that our kids eat fruits and vegetablealize