schools will meet the same fate as the rest of the ghettoized public institutions in america public education will become just like public housing which most americans think of as low and low income crime ridden neighborhoods are becoming public hospitals which most americans see as very often disease ridden institutions filled with impoverished people. because in both cases these institutions principally serve the poor there's little sympathy for americans stuck in public housing or public hospitals so it's easy to bash the poor or ignore them little sympathy also translates into little funding which perpetuates the cycle of poverty and the disintegration of our public institutions . but up until the reagan reforms public education had by and large avoided the same ghettoizing face historically our public education system was a marvel for the rest of the world producing generations of scientists doctors and engineers from all races and socio economic classes but he came from a wealthy family or a poor family the american public education system didn't discriminate as much as possible it was

we spend a large time in cal fire on public education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or vegetation management program in cal fire, we have a robust program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u.s. forest service. so two-fold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a public education stand point. what we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be self-sustaining and self-supporting. they need to be prepared. we try to educate them in respect that we say we'll provide the offense, you provide the defense. we talk to them about hardening their structures in a defensive measure against wild land fires. a lot of it is public education, survivability, building standards, but predominately our focus is putting the onus on the land owner, putting the onus on the private property owner, we will attempt to

of recent pieces of legislation that he says are aimed to quote corporate ties and dismantle public education in a letter he states i never considered myself a conspiracy theorist until now this package of bills is the latest in a year long barrage of ideologically driven bills designed to weaken and defund locally controlled public education handing scarce taxpayer dollars over to for profit entities operating under a different set of rules i believe this is fundamentally wrong and in fact what rob is objecting to is the idea that we're handing over public education facilities to for profit companies one of the bills rob is fighting senate bill six twenty one allow the lowest achieving of five percent of all michigan public schools to be converted to charter schools now by basing a complete faith in standardized tests to determine the company. teachers and the abilities of children there's a human element to completely missing from this equation and rob understands that anger stands as a personal initiation of marketplace competition into america's educational system is one of the reasons th

i love public education. i have been at it for almost 40 years now in terms of public education. and thank you very much. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> commissioner norton? >> i want to thank you for those words and i don't feel it's goodbye. we'll be seeing you all the time, maybe more than you want to see us. [ laughter ] thank you for your service. >> commissioner mendoza? >> thank you. so norman, eight years goes by quickly, but the moments that i know that went by slowly and you have always been diligent and present and committed to your values. and i think your integrity speaks volumes and i think you will bring it over to city hall and i'm looking forward to working with you at city hall as well. i was thinking a little bit when i think about you and some of the pieces that i will miss. i will miss your salsa dancing, which i was never invited to, but i heard that you are every time we did have an opportunity whether it was here or in other cities, you managed to find salsa, because that is part of who you are. i think a lot about our time at harvard and the work we

we need to make public education a priority.ven though we're a separate government entity from the school district, we have an obligation to our kids to make sure that there is proper funding of education at the local level, and that ensures -- that requires that we protect what the rainy day fund has done for our public schools, what it can do going forward, and to tie it to this supplemental i think is simply a mistake and is something that could have long-term negative consequences that i hope we don't get to. >> president chiu: supervisor olague. >> supervisor olague: i want to thank supervisor kim and her staff for working so diligently on this with the school district. this supplemental funding will help counseling and staff assistance for students who have stumbled and need help to get back on track to graduate. this is the example of the safety net that we as supervisors have ability to utie to help those in need. we had an achievement gap for african-american students and we heard data about the achievement gaps, englis

draw from the rainy day fund for schools but instead draws from available balances from the public educations available from prior years. >> supervisor mar: thankó0jpz y. i wanted to acknowledgeq j"z m, the deposit superintendent here and thank him for the great work not only as a partner with the city but making sure that there's a great support as we hopefully reauthorize the public education enrichment fund or prop h for future years, and also continue with the rainy day funds for the future. i also want to acknowledge here and coleman advocates and many of the youth commissioners and others that advocated for this equitable use of funds to support the almost 2,000 students that are in our high schools as juniors that may be on track to fail, and not to gain their high school diplomas without this support from the city. it is a crisis in three semesters that we have to really support these students. that's why i saylçt!td like supr kim said it's about equity and support this effort. so i really applaud supervisor kim but it's the youth movements and coleman advocates and others that have

. >> i think it's our job as public educators to give them this access and give them this opportunity to see that their efforts are being appreciated beyond their immediate reach. >> you have to blend this idea of community network with computer equipment with training and with support. we can pull all that together, then we've got it. >> it's as much about social and economic justice -- in fact it's more about social and economic justice than just is our last meeting of 2012. >> commissioner yee? >> yes, go ahead? >> just an update, we wanted to remove an update on student nutrition services and will be taken up at a special meeting next week. >> thank you.. so i will move on to item c, recognition and resolutions of commendation. the first one is an commendation of "the world as it could be," human rights education program on the occasion of the 2012 international human rights day. offered by commissioners murase and mendoza. >> is there a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> reading of the resolution by commissioner murase or mendoza. >> whereas san francisco became the birth place o

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usa for public education, we pay for k-12, so it is something we should collect a lot of data on. my question is, getting to the 2/30 students that need remedial courses once they get to college, do you think we should be able to charge that the school district? how would you address that? >> the answer to that is what we talked about earlier. we have to make sure k-12 education really works and that it is working through -- to the higher levels than people who graduate actually have the skills. -- and that it is working to the higher levels and that people move that would actually have the skills. there are a number of students to drop out of college and high school and cannot have the basic literacy skills they need. how do we make sure our education system is really war will somewhat it is working knowing students are going to college. students are going to other kinds of skills and jobs and going to college. we do not do as good a job in this country as we should in making sure the young people of the older people have a way to get training and skills that enable them to get t

but what i found put that in that public education, they expected and demanded that certain things beaught, and those certain things were, you know, math and language skills. but also a patriotic history. and this was the phrase that they actually used. a history about how great it is to be an american. and one of them -- and since i didn't prepare that book for this talk, i forget who it was -- but he said something to the extent of all these other countries are great. all these other countries have stuff, but we are the best, and we can't understand them til we understand ourselves, and we must teach a patriotic american history. so i think as said in the founding that in order to have that spontaneity, you have to have a certain construct of structure. >> joe stanton, heritage foundation. how would you evaluate fdr's overall legacy? >> um, disaster? i think that he set america's economy back eight, ten years. there's very good evidence now, and i call your attention to a study by steven -- [inaudible] which is not widely cited. the study is one of the wage and hours act. and he sho

i mean have you heard the coming cuts to public education or food stamps?d about the cuts to medicaid? and folks, let me tell you, the rich just get richer. so really mugging an old couple outside the operahouse is a form of justice. i mean think about it-- (laughter) ultimately all of in is society's fault and i say it's pay back time. you know what might put you in the mind-set for mayhem? nice big bag of meth. hmmmm, some of the tasty blue, go nuts. tweak out. torch a mall food court. so on behalf, on behalf of all my friends in the republican party, please do something frightening between now and the midterm elections because if you do not, the republicans will have to do something truly terrifying like addressing the needs of blacks, women and hispanics. and that's the word. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) >> welcome back, everybody, thanks, folks. nation, the network has informed me time and again of the importance of the 18 to 34-year-old demographic. so i figure appealing to the 68 to 94-year-old must be three times as important. so every

education. his district includes silicon valley, the birthplace of technology. mike has dedicated his life to publicvice and is lauded for his work on education, civil- rights national service, immigration, transportation, the environment, and high-tech issues. >> he is also the greatest karaoke sing their -- singer and all of congress. -- in all of congress. [applause] >> he just told me i had five minutes. what do you think of this program? [applause] it is about time. i want to thank francis and fong. i think this is the very first statewide heritage month held with the mayor of san francisco. let me say something about heritage month in san francisco and your mayor. in the old days, you remember san francisco was known for passing all of these anti- chinese ordinances to limit the movement, the productivity of chinese in the city. we know two things. change happens. maybe the state of california is the state of golden opportunities, where we have a chinese-american mayor of san francisco. 35 years ago, congress members passed similar resolutions in both house and the senate to formally recognize

but i do wish that part instead of issuing penalties, perhaps, there should be some sort of public education, or public or some kind of training component that the department could impose because it does seem that perhaps it is a lack of training and how to read these licenses and we see a lot of these mistakes. and that i believe are honest mistakes happening especially with some of these first-time offenses. so apart from that, i do wish that we could see that in the future rather than financial penalties for some of these business owners that are struggling in this economy. but my inclination would be to reduce it to ten days given the circumstances that i have heard. >> do you have a motion, commissioner? >> yes, i would move to grant the appeal and reduce the suspension to ten days. >> call the role, please? >> we have a motion from commission to reduce to ten. >> hwang, aye. >> >> no. >> three to one and the suspension is reduced to ten days, thank you. >> so item number eight was dismissed and will not be heard this evening and we can move on to item number nine which is appeal 12-136

among his awards are the civil liberties public education fund and lila wallace reader's digest awardlip is also a respected independent film maker whose film recently premiered at sundance, but we're here to talk about his upcoming production, after the war. a jazz-infused drama set in post-war san francisco japan town in 1948 which chronicles the return of japanese americans into the internment -- from the internment camp. sharing this evening is chloe veltman. chloe was born in london and received a master's degree with distinction in conjunction with harvard university and the moscow art theater school. she has worked as a staff reporter for the daily telegraph and is a freelance writer, her articles appearing on both sides of the atlantic. she is the chief theater critic for the san francisco weekly, theater commentator for klaw. chloe worked for several years in u.s. and uk theater companies and is the recipient of the allen wright award for arts journalism, the sundance institute arts fellowship and the nea fellowship of journalism. in 2006, she received a best columnist nomina

we do a lot of public education on a day like this, and let people know who the fellowship is, and that they can come to us for treatment and services in the future. when you've got a mental illness or substance abuse, it can be very lonely, and you can feel very isolated. you can kind of feel like it only is happening to me. and then they come out, and they realize how many other people are taking this journey, too. it's just very uplifting to people. it makes me not feel alone, you know. there are other people that are around, that have the same issues, and it's not only me that i have to worry about. it's others that also need the support. it is really exciting to see how your great work here in rhode island is being amplified through washington around the country. "recovery benefits everyone" is the national theme this year, and when we see an event like this, when we see people in recovery, family, friends, and allies, everybody getting together, a lot of love, just a lot of celebration. it's very meaningful. it tells the community that people can and do recover and addictions are

be the no. 1 state for solving this riddle that this country has become from being the no. 1 public education nation to one in the bottom half. we know the things -- at risk kids are coming from difficult neighborhoods and often broken families, they need a longer school day. that is nothing new there. there's another way to do that without spending a bunch of money. you can get your teachers union to agree to stagger the school day. some teachers come in early and you have study hall, some come in later and you have sports after school. there is a bunch of ways to address education. great teachers more than parent involvement or anything, you put a great teacher in front of a kid, they work miracles. i think our goal is to say that we're going to fix education. we're working statewide to begin to implement. we do not want them filling out multiple choice tests but you have to measure the effectiveness of a teacher. our goal is sitting down with the union and having them at the table to say, how do you help us figure out, i was a geologist. i thought i would be a great geologist. i got laid o