school. thank you for coming to such a sunny beautiful day to marshall, walking to marshall. [applause] so here's a man that i want to say absolutely needs no introduction, mr. peter avila. >> that wasn't loud enough! [applause] >> i'm not running for mayor so i will not give a campaign speech. i would be number 55 i think. so i live in oakland so it rules me out. thank you so much, everyone, for coming on walk-to-school day. how much kids walk to school every day here? we are one of the schools in the district, i think we might have the highest percentage of walkers to school. now it's real important walk-to-school day is let us know how you are when you walk to school. because you need to let us know, and then we will let this man know if you don't feel safe walking to school. because it is safe walking to schools. this you so much. all of the parents for meeting us at kid power park. i would like to thank audrey. thank you, audrey. thank you for helping out, helping us organize this. and i

schools. >> commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: i want to say the schools are beautiful. i'm a fourth generation san franciscoian and my parents went to schools in san francisco and one of them was stockton, which we just saw the other day, what a beautiful school, also that you redid there too. anyway, i want to say thanks, it's beautiful, great news, everything is on time and budget so thanks so much. >> commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: i can pretty much speak just to the transfrmation of the middle schools into high schools. just like you saw for wallenberg that long, narrow corridor, it's really meant for smaller bodies and the work done there to widen the hallway, high schoolers, when that bell rings an they get to walk down without bumping into each other, it's great. the same thing for thurgood marshall, the difference in the hallways, they're wider, high school is still more comfortable. this is made, this is my lane and i'm in here and i love that we recognize that and ma

school. i do not feel i want to pay for the bus today. that is not affordable for me. that is why i feel the process will be helpful for youth in san francisco. it is not just low-income youth. it should be for all youth. we need to bridge a gap so we can have more stigma and more social justice. i hope this will be for all public high school students, because i am going to turn 18 in december. i know a lot of my friends and my school -- we want this to be for all public school students, regardless of age. we need to make sure that we have a good public reputation system. i sincerely support free muni for all youth. i hope that i can get it very soon. thank you. supervisor avalos: are there other members of the public who want to comment? i have seen you walk to school. a lot. we will close public comment. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you, mr. chair. i think now you understand the urgency. i think your birthday is coming up. is it the middle of december? we do not have a lot of

how many of you went to public school or government schools?t a good educational at those schools? most of you. i would argue without real competition, you don't know what you might have had. you don't knows add is. you might have gotten a trebant and thought you got a good education just like the russians or east germans thought they had a good car. right? so i want to plant that idea in your head since most of you got a good education in government run schools. yes, sir. >> shouldn't we at least consider selling our public schools and making them private? with the high technology that we have now, shouldn't the cost of an education should be going down? >> not in america. we spend more money. i cost more to educate a child or a car. [ laughter ] $55,000 for incarcerate a person in oakland it's $18,000 a year. you only spend six and a half hours a day per hour it's cheaper to have someone in prison. >> john: who is next. >> will durant stated that liberty and equality is lifelong enemies. was he right or wrong. >> i don't think so. >> john: ev

school for the middle school.p h when they get city policy to encourage the school district to ensure that all students have the opportunity to attend a quality neighborhood school. after signing siblings to the same school, the highest priority should be to assign each student to the schools close to their homes. finally, the school district should provide students with the opportunity to attend schools with language immersion rather special programs, even if those schools are not close to their homes. ♪ i am here with kris miller, chairperson of students first, a group that sponsored prop h. ms. miller, thank you for being here. why should voters vote for prop h? >> for starters, the reason that prop h was adopted to begin with is roughly 14,000 signatures from san francisco county voters that also, as i do, feel passionately about children being able to attend schools near their neighborhoods. it makes sense. everyone automatically assumes that the child attends a school near their neighborhood or has that opti

we hope all of the schools are able to participate, october 5, the walk to school day. item e is the parent advisory council report. do we have p.a.c. representative? >> i'm miranda martin, a new p.a.c. member. i have two children at grotten elementary school. >> my time is vatina. >> we spent our first couple of meetings talking about board priorities and our priorities as a p.a.c. we've had an opportunity to speak with deputy superintendent richard grunsa and to hear from board commissioners hydra mendoza and sandy fewer and we've also heard from sfusd staff and we're really glad to see that the district is focusing on setting clear and consistent standards across the district for students and that there is a focus on high expectations for all of our children. we know that that's a really important priority for families across the district. we also believe that the district's focus on core curriculum is a good step and we're interested to see how that's going to be implemented and to learn more about it. in our meeting last week, we met to decide on our priorities for

as good as any other school. any school in san francisco has to be good enough that we would want to go there. if it's not, it's unacceptable. >> that's a great way to segway to solutions. >> we are here for solutions. it's true. we do have to talk. we have to do it in a way that's respectful and a way to bring people together rather than push people apart. if we expect our young people to exercise social emotional learning. we have to do it as adults. i want everyone to think about a solution that you may have to offer and if you have it on the top of your head. share it with you. i am thinking about the teen court. i have 95 attorneys. i can't speak for her has over 100 attorneys. maybe we could provide teen court. i could certainly ask my staff to participate. we can bring people to haul of justice. these are solutions. in anyway has anything. you are all rich with resources. doesn't matter how old you are. coming to a class. we can start a speaker's panel. they have this where you can come forward and share y

don't go to school. it's simply crazy. the other thing is i honestly think that having so many citations issued because of people not paying the muni fast passes, just increases disrespect and fear of law enforcement officials who they shouldn't feel fear for. they should feel -- they should feel respect for them. they should feel -- safe people to go to. but i think the idea of getting a huge fine that their families can't handle for not paying a 75 cent fare just kind of makes -- kind of makes riding the bus as a high school student seem like -- seem like a constant collaboration against the law. and i don't think that's a positive thing for the san francisco's young people. the other thing is just the promotion of environmentally friendly practices for youth. i think is something that's very important for our city and central to our city's values. and quite honestly i think that muni could use a little bit of good press. nobody likes what's going on with muni right now. and this is a chance for muni t

these are very small schools in many cases. oakland has too many schools. the reason they are closing down the schools is because they have 101 schools for 38,000 students. >> do you remember a few years ago there was a small school movement and bill gates and others supported it and gave money to places like oakland to create smaller community-based schools. is this now kind of a legacy. some of the same schools are going to have to be closed? >> some are merging and becoming one school again. there are seven high schools. many of them are located on two campuses. those schools were separated into seven different schools and they are bringing them back together. that was an experiment that brought a lot of money into oakland from the bill gates foundation, and when they said this isn't working out so well. we're not going to support small schools, they left and they left this legacy, as you said, of all these small schools that oakland can no longer afford. >> so we know the parents are out fighting for this. they don't want to be told that's happening. wh

this was the school office last year. that's the school office today. this was a classroom at downtown. and this is a career teach everybody how to cook and learn to live your life room. pretty remarkable space. this was the multipurpose room before. this is the multipurpose room after. this was the gymnasium at downtown high school. real inspiring space. and that's the gym today. this is martin luther king jr. middle school. no color, drab, dirty, barely a plant in sight in need of some serious work. if you've been out to m.l.k., one thing you can say for sure is there's no lack of color. this is m.l.k. today. this is the main entrance to the school. this is the main courtyard, landscaping, benches, complete overhaul, the entire school feels completely different. this is the walkways and central space in the main building. this is the gymnasium before. this is the gymnasium after. this is a typical new modernized classroom at m.l.k. chinese immersion, you can enter this school on grade on the first, second, and third floor. there were seven playgrounds

and that from middle school to high school. that is a big area of emphasis for this group. lastly, quality in school time experiences. we want to make sure that the schools that are around hope sf, along with other schools, we have the resources to engage with the community around education issues and we have the resources to address the challenges that come from being in a really stressful environment as many of these students are. we can create the programs that many of us heard about that malcolm x to create real world settings. i am going to leave it there. he will talk about some good news we received about choice neighborhoods. >> good afternoon. i am with the mayor's office of housing. school board has an evolution and there is a a little bit of an art to it. that taught us some of the power of involving be youth in the school. thinking big across five sites. what are some of the leavers of change for education? talking about really whalookingt that port in terms of the shipyard transformation in the district. i wanted t

schools. she was a sro , school resource officer. during that time, she worked with middle schools throughout the district and in many areas where they were experiencing violence. she has been an invader. i would like to acknowledge captain masha ash. captain ash has done a tremendous amount of work. she worked on protocols that would work with children taken to the youth facility. during the parent's arrest and from trauma. thank you very much officer pri lo and captain nash. i am going to go over the panel discussion. we are try find solutions which includes violence to and from school and on the site. our goal is to move forward solutions. we ask that all questions be reserved today end. please feel free to jot down questions you have. those questions we are not able to get to, we are interested in collecting them. we are going to collect information with respect to solutions as well as action items that they are going to take back and work on. so our first topic is violence to and from sch

kids need to be able to get to school, leave school, and have any other interface between the school and street -- for that to happen safely. that is what we are here to talk about today. we have a lot of people that will be giving you a lot of perspective on this. so without further ado, the man leading the effort, who really has created an aura of -- direction for collaboration between the many city departments, school district, and other partners that are part of making this happen, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. i always want to start out now, when i'm with our sfmta director -- two ed's are better than one. so we are coordinating more these days. that has been at the heart of this effort. i want to thank all the efforts that are going on between the school district and sand francisco government and our parents and our police department and our volunteer organizations like walk sf. all of the collaboration going on with supervisors like supervisor mar and others who are behind me -- we are working together to make sure that this whole topic about pedestrian

which schools. you will see a breakdown given a more strategic level with partners they are seeing, which includes actual personnel. >> because they have worked so intensely with that, have we managed to integrate our own people so when this money is gone and they are no longer in love with us anymore, how will we continue to do this, because we will need to stop because the money is not fair. perhaps it is a gradual release last year it was about 164,000 per school. this year it was 128,000, and some schools but do not need as much attention are paying 77,000. i will say they do outside funding and fund raising to support their work. because they have been able to pay at this level for the schools, they have allowed us to apply for other schools who do not have the same funding, so it is like they are part of it by virtue of the fund raising, but it is a gradual process. each of these schools get one every day as well as someone who coordinates the work and works of his own level and partners with

school. >> great. for me, at least, for this reader, the standout feature of this book is its factual richness. it's to me an example of really good emerging reporting like barbara, aaron reich, or adrian nicole, you can tell everywhere that the depths of -- from the depths of detail how much time was spent collecting, interviewing, recording, thinking, and so i naturally wondered how much time did you spend, how many days were you at the school? how many students did you interview? and how did you decide what what enough? >> i don't know how i decided what was enough. i think that my depth desk decided because it was caving in with my notes. i was at the school for an article i wrote for -- frank was an editor at the city next of "the new york times" and i wrote about the prom at the high school, and spent a few months and went back for the book and spent a year reporting. then the following year i was in touch with the kids, and the following year i was still in touch with the kids and reporting basi

serving 59 elementary and middle schools from 44 school buses down to 25. excluding the school buses for special education students. and because these and the it is unified school district aims to promote an appreciation of the diversity that exists in every neighborhood and community, you should be able to access of the opportunities advances go has to offer, including but not limited to after-school programs, museums, parks, and job opportunities regardless of what neighborhood they live in. at the result of the elimination of school buses as a commuting options, all students that depend on school buses are forced to find alternative in node of transportation. and whereas free muni would eliminate the challenges of purchase and distribution that hindered the success of the life line passes. and whereas environmental awareness is important in the city of san francisco and allowing them to utilize public transportation systems advances our goal to a more sustainable environment. and whereas the recent downturn in the economy places a financial burden on fam

the mix of charter schools, elementary, middle schools, high schools. that's pretty small small schools can a few very large schools. we intentionally try to distribute this would be all about what type of school uses more time. because there's different schools, to use it differently. there's not one single family untreated formula here. i do not violate the very successful schools. the prototype examples here. i believe the academy's principle is here. could you leave your hand? thank you for being here today. [applause] 26 points higher on your map proficiency rate in your community is a relatively new school and challenge community is the kind of outcome are looking to see. it's not just about academic outcomes. as important as those are comments about getting into and sticking through college. it's impressive to see the school in texas and 97% of the students who enrolled in college. so they don't have a graduation rate yet, but it's pretty promising. these are schools in this dimension, academic can attain the ways really stand out. this is a comp

to get schools to become better schools. and our schools are moving forward. we continue to be highest urban performing school district. >> my hope is that they'll listen. and hear parents. >> i doi do think there are good choice buzz not enough good choices. >> and there is prop 8 is not binding and in fact not a single member of the board supports this sme -- measure, parents want to initiate that. and here is an interesting footnote about 30% of the kids in san francisco attend private schools. among highest, if not the highest in the nation. >> that and thanks very much. swreel and and workers waited for high tide to be able to skim water at oyster bay. they're looking for baby sized pellets. they are used to make plastic products. >> there is a danger is that this is something fish and birds can ingest. and then, it fills up their gullet. they feel full but haven't gotten anything to ee. they end up starving. >> they need to pick pellets carefully to avoid damaging a habitat of the bird. this is the first time this has

where you work in schools. >> i do. i work in schools and i see it.n say to kids that they should trust us. they should believe in adults. and when they have adults in their life who fail them in this way or fail the way that the anoka-hennepin kids have been failed, then why should children believe that we can do differently? why should they take this enormous leap of faith and reveal this vulnerability and all of this fear? there are two things that i talk to teachers all the time about. one is that they are the bridge. that they -- if they're good teachers, if they're in chem or math or french or spanish the kids are going to talk to them. the second thing teachers need to do regardless of what they teach, if kids use the word fag or retarded or any of that stuff, they say to the kids who said it, mark, whatever your name is, if you say that word and you are saying this word to put somebody down, it's not acceptable in my classroom. are we good? we're good. it takes ten seconds. it sends a message to every single kid in that classroom what the teac

i ain't used to boys' school. >> boys' school and girls' school is basically prison for children. it's run by the department of correction, as is the adult prisons. and the only people housed there are kids under the age of 18. going to indiana boys' school or girls' school is the worst thing we can do to them. you lose your freedom. you're in a prison. >> got a couple of friends there. they wrote me some letters and said it ain't a walk through the park. the favorite words were only the strong survive. >> following kids like carlton would normally be off limits to cameras. but for years msnbc has been documenting these tragic stories as they unfold in america's juvenile justice system. with extraordinary access from the indiana supreme court, we've been allowed to take our cameras inside a world where they are by law generally forbidden. >> sometimes i get mad because girls come in here for like really serious things, and me, my mom just wanted to teach me a lesson. >> 17-year-old ruby is back at lake county juvenile for the seventh time. >> i'm completely normal, you know. i'm n

at the time of the death, he was the head of public schools and the mayor's point man on school reform did you take into account the fact by closing certain schools kids would have to go to neighborhoods that they previously hadn't been to and perhaps cross gang lines and perhaps put themselves at more risk? was that taken into account? >> i believe it was taken into account. there's a big difference between making those decisions and beginning to draw boundaries based on gang boundaries. that would be a terrible mistake, i believe. >> he said the argument that renaissance 2010 somehow led to darrien's death is based in fiction, not fact. >> if you look at fenger high school, the school that darrien albert attended, it is one of the highest growing schools in terms of academic achievement and improvement. the level of violence today is substantially less than it has historically been. i would say these efforts are helping radio reduce the violence. >> he didn't believe renaissance 2010 led to darrien albert's death or increase in violence, he insisted student safety is a top priority.

they are in public school. my wife is a public-school teacher. i want to look at the assets, to build upon and improve family staying in san francisco, families choosing to stay in san francisco. i want to fully fund education and san francisco. but eighth year of my administration, to fully fund education, and expanding schools and sports programs and libraries. i want to build affordable housing in san francisco. i want to support local property owners to prevent defaults and foreclosures. i want to look at how the banks can write down loans and property, house is that are underwater. properties where if we did that we would give families much more buying power and put more money into the local economy to support local jobs. >> yes, i feel that housing. we're talking about housing, is the central crisis and san francisco because we are this beautiful little peninsula surrounded by a lot of water and a lot of people who want to live here. we already have a lot of rich people living here, and i would stop building housing for the wealthy. that is