those are the best charter schools those that have some organization not only a single school helping them to do the work especially the professional development and the curriculum development so and so kinds of things the things a school district does and i'm unwilling myself to deny that what we do that what this district side and community is needed for those schools i think that the success the likely success of all the schools in the mission including charter schools will be underlined by granting this chapter so i urge my colleagues not to support 2, 3, 4 and stand up address say we think we know what the community needs and wants because they elected us we'll stand up and do our jobs thank you. >> dr. murase. >> i have a question for the administration doing through the charter it's clear our targeting low income families and there's been reference to the mission and the bayview but there are no measures for the income or neighborhood how when the lottery is conducted and perhaps it's not low income families in the lottery or not folks in the mission or bayview how are you toor

lowest subgroups for the school year, sfusd has four schools identified as high progress schools. >> five schools. >> sorry, five schools so let me read the schools and then we are going to ask their representative to come forward and cleveland elementary, with their principal mark sanchez, and far mont elementary school whose last year's principal was mr. holinsk but accepting is the new principal rodriguez. >> paul reveer, prek-8 and the principal. and everett, middle school and the principal, and guest. and rosa parks elementary school, principal paul jacobson, congratulations. >> okay we have one more school that we would like to honor, sfusd has one school that is identified as both, a high, performance and a high progress school and we are very, very glad to honor john chin and their principal alen lee and we are proud of the work that they have done and all of the teachers and staff have done to serve our services. and so chin, and lee are you here? >> no. and could we give them a round of applause? [ applause ] president fewer, good evening, president fewer and commissioners,

school does we know we've heard people who are unhappy with their feeder school and there's going toay why those schools i feel like so i just want to say this one thing i'm feeling bad about not having mr. kellerman having two more minutes because he's waited so long and part of our sfusd family and continues to be see as a parent then she has something to say about you speak. >> number 2 has two feeders and mroep to take those out of 5 but the schools in group two will have two feeders we propose to not take everyone's feeders away only adding to willie brown. >> well, the schools in 5 have not two feeders but a preference to a feeder. >> but the schools in number 2 would have two there's schools that have two and one one. >> that's what you call quite frankly that's what you call equality mr. circling man. >> i'll be brief as a member of the audience as somebody if didn't have the information after you take the vote that someone read the amendment about the transition sorry about the sunseting if you don't put it in the record you're not acting legally this is to be done, and, sec

in the school meals.he last thing i would like to talk about our school meals, recipes, and menus. since 1996, mississippi cycles is a coordinated program of sample menus and recipes the schools could implement to meet nutrition standards. that was updated in 2005. with the new healthy hunger-free kids act, that system no longer works. the menu planning was more complex so we pulled together a task force in created mississippi recipes for success. we have matrices, standardized menus, an online program that's available to any school that would like to participate. this was all in response to the complex menu planning. we filled the small schools do not have the resources to implement them by hemselves. pardon me. the last piece of that, mississippi recipes for success, we have standardized ingredients all across the border and that's been a benefit to us when it comes to the administrative review which are more frequent now than they used to be. by having all of these pieces together it simplifies the pro

in 41924 we look to see which schools had the lowest number of requests for the middle school feeder it was morlum and we looked at the geography where it's placed in relation to willie brown and we'll add a bus to provide opportunities for children to attend willie brown. so this was the logic behind it >> with the middle schools where those schools would have been feeding into so that will open up how will that be managed in terms of i don't have a larger number of the kids going like fwen e director heinecke man for example what's going to happen at director heinecke man not. were going initially but as the school builds up there might be a different outcome for director heinecke man what does that mean with one of the feeders. >> so they'll continue to have director heinecke man as their feeders wore not taking away anything from the students if we request director heinecke man they'll get the tiebreaker to director heinecke man and if they request willie brown they could get a tiebreaker this is though the permanent we can assess the impact on the patterns and our opportunity to

check into the choice of the student my girl not going to school instead of going to the school she didn't like i hope you provide a safe and quiet and comfortable place for the student to learn so they can shine >> (speaking foreign language.) >> actually, i brought my girl to burton the school she was assigned to, however, she didn't like the environment so she choose not to go to school. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so here as a parent i really asking help from you to hope you can really consider our case and help her help to assign her to the school she wants. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> hello, everyone i'm here to speak for my grandson. he was assigned to requested to go to balboa, however, he was not assigned to that school he was crying everyday and not wanting to go to school >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so actually his mom kind of passed away some time ago and i'm his grandchildren he was very sad that's why he asked me to speak to you and hopefully get help from you. >> (speaking forei

for middle school. we do have middle school feeder preferences for the schools that are identified for the feeders, and such as brett heart, and carver and malcom x, and lou, and taylor and maraloma and that will enable us to go out and do the targeted out reach and recruitment and we also have the preference for the students who live in the 92124 zip code area if they are interested in attending a school in their neighborhood. >> and, we are working on an on-line application process, and our it, department, is currently developing an on-line application system. and there are some concerns about security, and other considerations so, we won't be able to roll this out, in time for our october launch, but we are planning on phasing in the on-line application process. in january. and in time for our round two process. and, we think that that would be a good time to test it, and and we will not be dealing with the volume and having the risk that, we would in terms of processing 15,000 applications. >> and o

year two students tending fifth grade at one of the following schools dr. george washington and brent heart and malcolm x academy referred to as at bay area preservation and the 94124 preference and four students who reside in the consensus track and 5 students attending fifth grade at one of the following elementary school gordon jay allowing and the george moscone and the brown preference and of all other students in addition to modifying okay i'm not sure i'm ready in addition to modifying the order of priorities for students applying to brown we believe that modifying the student sovereigty policy to create a high school priority for students attending 6, 7 and 8 at brown middle school will help them to attract a robust student body so therefore the student policy modify the high school preference choice process to give preferences to students in transition al city hall's younger siblings of students enrolled in and attending the school during the year and two students graduating if willie l brown middle school who are enrolled in and attend in 6, 7 and

school, you know? and it is just like having this new course, and as i saw in the last page of the powerpoint and there was a lot of good feedback not only from the teachers but from the students and that i think is just amazing. >> yes, student delegate? >> all right. and i really liked that hands on experience. because like right now, i am in the environmental science pathway in my high school and so we have like field trips once a week and like, based on the packet inside, they said, wow there is like field tripses to the field and it is like when you get a field trip you are like wow, this is like free time or like wow you could actually learn stuff and compared to in a classroom atmosphere. okay? >> thank you, student delegates, yes we were quite impressed with the results and so we gave them, kutos for that whole program and thank you for your input. >> item t, report of closed session actions. >> the board will go into closed session, and just before i do, i would like to read the adjournment fo

and here at piedmont elementary school in charleston, west virginia year-round schooling has been the norm for almost 20 years. >> once we got a sense of what the schedule actually is we just thought, "man, that's great." we can go on vacation in september instead of in the middle of summer. >> they never get that feeling of, "oh, i'm so sick of being at school," because they get so many breaks that they're always refreshed and ready to go back to school. so that was the wakeup call to me, to see how different they felt about it. >> hi, have a good day. >> reporter: principal beth sturgill is a big believer. she says in addition to preventing student and teacher burnout, less time is needed for re-teaching at the beginning of the year. and for piedmont, which is a diverse inner city school with a high poverty rate, having shorter breaks throughout the year can provide more stability for at-risk students. >> there's lots of families that sometimes we have concerns about and we like to check in with and make sure everything's going well. and just to have that consistent flow without hav

we have alternative schools, alternative programs within schools. we need to somehow get to the root causes of what causes a young person to bully. one of the things we know is that young people who have been exposed to violence, web been traumatized -- who have been traumatized may have had the normal developmental processes derailed. we know that because we have done many studies that show 60% of our children in america are exposeto violence in the year prior to our study. violence on the streets, in the home. althoughany of them some are resilient, many are derailed from the normal processes and involved in fights in schools and in up in the juvenile justice system because we haven't figured out how to develop the appropriate assessment tools to assess their trauma and where to get care for them. we know that. the attorney general's task force recommended is that every child who comes into each one of our schools as an opportunity for a proper kind of assessment that will determine whether that child has been exposed to trauma and give that child

we've not had a feeder school in the middle school i want to have the seats for the students to attend to have first preference to the willie brown school and if we can insure that by giving them a tiebreaker of the 92414 so not every fifth grader from george moscone would automatically get into willie brown with you not having enough enrollment we'll then look at the tiebreakers to insure those students from malcolm x and others have priority for students to get to their feeder school that is the new willie brown. it's our intention as the district is have feeder middle schools to have them in place in 2016-2017 or is it 17 he 18. i want like to attract a responsibility enrollment first i'd like vote b for this but i hope the superintendent has a really great kick ass plan to actually get robust enrollment that's robust to draw from this zip code. when we look at the graphics it's a diverse neighborhood that neighborhood has been without a middle school for some time it's our responsibility for those children who have chosen to go to those schools in the bayview we have them out we de

a school, walk into ask one basic question -- is this school good enough for my own kid? if the answer that question is no, then we should never allow that school to be ok for other people's kids. so much of it comes down to culture. you all know when you walk into a school whether or not you want to be in that school by what you hear -- sometimes unfortunately by what you smell, but even more importantly, the interactions the between adults and students. you get a flavor of whether you want your own kid and that school. what we want or our own children should be what we dedicate ourselves to giving to every child in america. i want to thank our partners for theing us because much of work and success in the field is owed to your dedicated and passionate efforts. not only for being here today but for being such great partners dedicated to this important issue. it is always easy for partners to show up, but it's a they do behind the scenes on a daily basis and it really matters to us. the department of education takes school climate issues very seriously as evidenced by the

palmers charter school says the school plans to fight to stay open. they say it's making changes to the school with the help of an educational management company. back in april the school reform commission voted to close the school because of academic and financial problems. palmer said today, those problems have been fixed. >> we have been engaging people in the school district and others to do the right thing and provide the education and the funding for all 1,300 or more of our children. >> he said philadelphia school superintendent william hite told him he wants the school to stay open. count on nbc 10 and nbc10.com to help you get ready for back to school. tomorrow morning, we will have a look at the impact the budget crisis is having on other schools in our area. remember, you can get more information on our website nbc10.com. log on to check out our section for advice, trends and news about the new school year. >>> a man accused of killing a local teenager was arranged today. they had been close friends. he was arrested in bensalem, bucks count

schools open. so i'm pleased from what i've heard and brown what the changes with going to be and i appreciate our efforts and those of everyone on the committee and the combined wisdom to keep our children in the city of safe and our staff and parents so thank you very much >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm his sister diane i'm the president of the academy on 24th and gerrero streets. and we've been there one hundred and 31 years. we currently are the only crystal rated school in the san francisco area belonging to the in effect of schools across the united states committed to a rigorous catholic secondary neighborhood for the underserved our initiative program gaemz our young men and women in a workshop that funds a significant portion of their tuition costs but also provides exposure to possibility in the work world world that might not be assessable to our students. i wish to express great gratitude to supervisor wiener and supervisor kim and you supervis

they're in the schools. and the idea that they have to take this money, come up with it and put it just on reading, everybody supports reading but perhaps that's not what their school needs. if the vast majority of your students have on our tests, you know, standardized tests, shown that they cannot read at grade level, then they need reading instruction. that's a simple fact of life. >> thumbs up if you remember and you understand. >> reporter: and there's still the issue of funding; who pays for it now and in the future. what would it take for this program to be guaranteed funding? right now it's year to year to year, if the district can come up with the money. >> i can tell you that it is my commitment, now that we are seeing the performance that... that we will in fact dedicate the funding for this in order to get this accomplished. >> in my heart, i knew that if we can keep the students here longer, we can actually make a difference. >> alright, ya'll look fabulous. >> reporter: amidst the debate, princ

what is important for us that we needed to find out the school age and the different school levels that wered included in the number of unaccompanied children or recorded and as you can tell here that a overwhelming majority are at the high school level. we also have data by zip code and you could see by neighborhood there is a percentage from mission burnel area but a significant from ingleside and bay view and visitacion valley and the southeast sector of the city. knowing this and these are the new comer pathways. we have 12 of them across the different levels. at the elementary level we have stand alone sites at chinese mission center and mission education center and middle school we have pathways within the comprehension schools in these areas and we have a new comer strand there so students are able to receive support but take other classes as well and similar to high school we have new comer pathways at lincoln, marshal and sf international and also washington high school. >> excuse me ms. wong because i don't remember where is the location for chinese education and mission educa

elementary, middle school, high school that you got suspended from school. >> every time i messed up i'd either get kicked out or put in some kind of disciplinary that didn't make me want to go back... instead of just sitting down and working with me. >> when i was in alternative school, it was just a bunch of gang members you know just gang-banging or doing drugs. it really led me for the penitentiary. >> what was it about the environment there that you feel prepared you for the pen? >> it was the same as the penitentiary. >> how so? >> gang banging, people doing their time the way they want to. we weren't learning anything or whatever. same thing. >> donald matthews is 35 years old. he was arrested for arson in 2008, but he said his problems began when he was still in school. >> i had an attitude - i'm add, i can't sit down too long. not paying attention in school, go to school when i want to. different things of that nature, just being rebellious. >> this is what my everyday life is, man. got my bunk. that's where i sleep at. >> like many of the men here, he says never received a

the school and the take care of the school use our street from parking from 7 to 5 or 6. so very often there's no parking and since i live across the street i can outcome the operation of the center i've been retired for 10 years so when parents have no partially what do they do they park in front or across they let the children anti sometimes on the driver's side of the door and sometimes they jaywalk across the street. in wintertime when it's dark stormy weather it's worse. every time i watch that i say wait a minute i don't want thinning anything to happen if the commission approves this expansion plan the number will increase 2 hundred percent so, please help us our neighborhood not to put anymore kids at risk. thank you. >> thank you is there any additional public comment ? >> hi my name is david armor i'm here for another matter but i want to share an anecdote i sent my daughter to another neighborhood preschool that operated under a conditional use authorization the mists verytively managed traffic, the children and neighbor concerns and one of the things they also

school.ackamerican students are in class by today to start a new school year. most of today's show will be devoted to education issues. we will explore the debate over the common core and the role of local school boards in the education landscape. first, we are opening the phone lines to ask for your ideas on the best way to improve education in the united states. atents and students can call (202) 585-3880. educators can call at (202) 585-3881. you can catch up with us on all of your social media pages on twitter. you can send us an e-mail. a good tuesday morning to you. taste of the back-to-school stories. here's the front page of the richmond times. local children in the richmond, virginia area head back to school today. the front page story -- ahead of the class, students head back to school. sandpoint high school being highlighted in that story. "the atlantic journal-constitution" talked about the end of year testing. here is the press telegram out of long beach and california. school un

school after school. so all the subjects, again, which is i think we can all agree a pretty inefficient and also inequitable way to get throw top of the world because the best teachers in korea charge the most money in the after school market which leads to being millionaire teachers in associating so, which, while being very cool, even they will criticize this system that nobody seems to be able to disrupt once the anxiety machine gets going. so you have the pressure cooker, utopia. i found quickly american students who agreed to by my sort of fixers on the ground, who were going do these places. kim was going from oklahoma to finland. now, you may ask, why finland? i mean, i don't know about you but if i had the chance to go somewhere when i was 15, finland would not have been on the list, even at number 75 or 80. it wouldn't have even cleared the list. so, kim is this remarkable young woman who had never left the united states, actually. she was born in oklahoma. her mother -- a single mother who also

back to school amid budget cuts.who will be paying for all the supplies that your kids need for the new school year? katie zachry is following that story. >> reporter: hi, tracy. we're back to the classroom in just a few days for these students, but they're going to be toting with them more than just the typical pens and paper. we'll have more of the details after the break. >>> plus, a big step forward in fighting ebola. the clinical trials starting today and how soon the vaccine could be ready. >>> and a live look outside at 5:10, 76 degrees. don't forget, you can download the first alert weather app. and you can track any of those storms that might pop up in your neighborhood later today. ring ring! progresso! it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself. and now try new progresso chili. slow-simmered, homemade taste. >>> hard to believe, but summer vacation is o

carranza and ladies and gentlemen, i'm the union representative of s steel 1021 in san francisco school district i hate to get angry that's what my brother said but i'm getting angry the way the new human resources director treat us at the confer process and the city has not responded to the unions request for continuance negotiations she if listen to our advise in the rules and she even gave us not good signal in terms of norwalk with his in good faith this is not the beginning of a pro traffic fight with the district if you remember during the and/or 1021 has filed cases over cases because the human resources at that time was craving hostilities with the union this is the beginning of our demonstration to showing show that 1021 is not going to tolerate those practices we just want her to consider the civil service rules and bumming her out of her position she said she's doing the job so she can get out from under the district for her to not consider to bump the people that are not permanent civil service is not good for our relationship we are not going to just sit back and listen to

the kip middle school students elected to go into the high school the college preparatory school they indicated that the ninth grade classrooms will have opening for seats for the sfusd students a with a positive recommendation with the committee meeting and kip also i wanted to mention did promise they would lobby and market other sfusd high schools along with their high schools to the middle school populations. >> thank you very much could we have please someone representing kip up here for question and we have 3 public speakers signed up (calling names) please come up to speak you have 2 minutes each and kip supporter of this petition in the audience please stand up and be recognized (clapping) thank you very much speakers you have two minutes each please press the become. >> i'm you can't net a retained of the bayview when bailey and i were looking at the, of course, kip was one of the options we were knifed folded orientation we didn't know exactly what to expect but we left very excited about the opportunity there were 3 things that excited bethree and four specifically the sens

charter schools.want competition. they save competition is not for education. but the opposite is true. competition gives us better movies, music, it would work for education as well if they just let it. and the union teachers don't realize that if there were competition, they would have more freedom and most would make more money andgood teachers wouldmake much more. americans don't realize howuch government spends on education now. what do you think it is per student per year $25,000? $8000 per student? it means the government spends about 200 per classroom and that would be alive. and at the correct answer is government spends more than $12,000 per student and that is tition,an 300,000 per class. good teachers could make $200,000 and could have money left over to hire an assistant. so let's take that $12,000 and attach it to the student. freedom to send him to any school because the school competes for the money that is attached to his back. more kids could then have an experience like this kid doe

and also the school benefits.ut matt saying this is a road to nowhere... >> what factors do come into play when deciding whether to enlist in the military services? that is what a new documentary is taking on. they are following high school students throughout the year. >> there are always wars and that is part of a human characteristic and truly the only way to be free is through war. >> and the education is coming with a price too. they announced the cuts to the tuition assistance, they'll no longer fund additional costs associated with attending college like books and comput s computers. >> i want to enlist when i graduate. >> that is crazy, man, like augur going in. >> four years of school though. >> what goes into the decision to risk their lives for our country and will the tuition benefit cuts impact the enlistments? we have the director of government affairs and joined the marine corps at age 17. also thomas and also a form erma arena that served in afghanistan and currently senior at georgetown university

to school this morning, mayor dana redd and the superintendant were at the wilson family school to greet them. the superintendant says they worked hard in the past year to prepare for this day. >> in particular we have done a lot to improve the way our students feel about safety and the way our families feel and that families feel safe to and from school. students and their parents -- a refewed partnership between the district and police department, feeling safe going to and from their classrooms by providing a police presence on the routes to and from school. >> and mayor dana redd met with students about their expectations for the upcoming school year. they shared their thoughts and had questions about their education. they gathered last year to protest teacher and staff layoffs. the superintendant in his first year is faced with the task of closing a $35 million shortfall in the school budget. >> we were spending $27,000 a student and $23,000 per student than is one of the highest in the country and we can make due with that. >> they are confident that they have enough resources to se

and the majority of the schools are enrolled in california public schools and we take great pride and we respect the professional and value their work and the success of the schools depends on their efforts on a personal note, a tended roosevelt middle school and washington high school, during the different times in my youth i had teachers that went the extra mile for me, without their help and guidance i would not be standing before you today, the teachers in the district served me well and for that i am thankful. thank you for your time and consideration, we hope that it can be resolved quickly. >> good evening, my name is chafon lieu and i am with the chinese progression, and we are a grassroots social justice organization and we work with the chinese immigrant community here in san francisco with tenant and workers and with youth. and see a whole range of issues that effect them, especially right now with the growing income and inequality gap that we see in san francisco. and our families face tremendous pressures, they are often unmoimd or under employed or working long hours and

we can measure the number of children who are getting to go to school who didn't used to go to school. we want to make sure over the coming years that we, through the work we are doing see 24 million more children get into school. there's a focus on learning metrics which is the way in which we measure the quality of learning. so getting not only more children into school, but making sure when they're there, that they are actually learning, and we can measure what is happening with the learning. so if we can be measuring that, the quality of the learning, as well as counting the heads of the number of children going into the school, i think that gives everybody a lot more reassurance that we are achieving what we are setting out to achieve for the children of the world, which is that they end up with the skills that they need to lead fulfilled and empowered lives. >> julia gillard, thank you very much for being on "talk to al jazeera." >> thank you very much. . >> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. the diplomatic pu

the other schools okay. they have the infrastructure so do it or what are you doing not you personally but what are redoing centrally to make sure that everybody is able to do this in a timely way we don't want to see the same schools - i want to know is there something that tell us something in the system at conditioner schools someone dropped the ball that's more okay. i won't expect to get done but not let it go forward to get the support at some schools. >> i wish there was a one indicator but when we went through it last spring looking at schools what we found were some schools were lacking and other schools we were told not the eyed protection we went to the drawers and found boxes and cases of eye protection those drawers had not been inspected we're findings a great variability of why something shows up. >> let's see so what am i supposed to do here i'm sorry we voted on that we're finished on the comments of the restraint we need a roll call vote. >> thank you mr. haney ms. maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonn

what is different in these schools from other schools? thato we help the schools are having challenges, but recognizing schools that are moving ahead? >> a lot if it comes down to the support staff in the school nutrition program. i am fortunate i have a number of people on my staff that are assigned specific duties related to our school meal program. programe healthy hunger went into effect i have had to take one position and split that into two positions. mr. clement alluded to the complexity. i have one person who concentrates on food procurement , and assuring students have had an opportunity to sample new products. i have another person that works does all ofning and that, and takes care of dietary needs. that points to the complexity of some of this. i think more districts are better equipped to handle that. not all schoolmen attrition directors may be equipped with skills necessary to handle the many changes that have occurred in the complexity of those changes. i will tell you a story. training notrector one ago. a small group, th

and i just need a school closer. >> thank you. and mr. steel, would you please take down her information, please? and connect her to the proper people to speak to? thank you very much. >> thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> were you signed up to speak. >> no. >> i am sorry, have you to submit a card. >> thank you very much for coming this evening, thank you. >> mr. cosak you are next, two minutes, red button thank you. >> i am jay cosak and counselor at george washington high school and i want to talk to two issues and i don't know if i will get to two of them. i want to talk about what language and special education, okay? and equal access and very important. and okay, did anyone, anyone up here plan how that was going to happen? anyone here? i mean, i think that that is one of your jobs, so how does it play out at a school like george washington high school, we have an additional 60 to 80 students to put in the world language, okay? are the classes at 36, 37, and with six ieps yes, that is how it is, okay? please don't tell me any mu