tend to be at under enrolled schools, right? the over enrolled schools are full. if we believe that we want to create a mor more diverse schood have a student who, again, through no fault of their own but needed a different school in the middle of the year for note for any reason, it seems to be having seats open at this school is a good thing. we would want to have that situation. and so, you know, particularly, i don't have a tremendous amount of sympathy, myself for families that are lying. i think that we have -- we've made this a very clear that the school is not a school that is open to out of district transfers. we have two schools in this district that we don't allow students from outside the district to attend. you know, i think the testimony about the lines that parents have to go to make it look like they actually have established residence here, when they haven't, shows that they are buried knowing about it. they have some resources. while i am sorry that, you know, it is disruptive to the stated, i feel like we have a real responsibility to san franci

i did trimesters in high school. my junior year of high school in washington state, and it was great to pack it all in. i moved to san francisco my senior year, and i had all of my credits from so many classes, i only needed two courses my senior year. i'm a real proent, a real advocate for trimesters, especially with middle schoolers, because kind of the short attention span and just the ability to do a lot of different things over a short period of time, so i do hope we lean towards that. my only concern with that is when they go into high school, just how different it is to go from trimester to a semester. it's a very different transition. i've even heard that in college, you know, when kids are on semester versus quarter, just how different it is, and the amount of time they have to really dive in deep and do work, and the length of time that the course work lasts. so but i love the idea that we're thinking about implementing trimesters. everything else, to me, looked really great. i'm excited about the way in wh

also, on the first day of school , i attended wallenberg high school and another elementary school. i would like to thank them for welcoming me. the last thing is i'm a proud member of the san francisco mentor for success program. and my student is in the western indigestion. i got him a fortnight backpack to start the school year. apparently it grows in the dark which i did not know until he told me. if you are not into the program, i encourage you to participate. >> any others? i too want to thank hillcrest and francisco even though the superintendent sounded like he went by himself like he was generous to let me join him. i want to thank both of those school communities for allowing us to be there on the first day of school. i also just wanted to welcome our new deputy superintendent two has disappeared. see how special she is. i just want to welcome her to our group and -- there she is. [laughter] you have cheesecake in your teeth? yeah. [applause] >> welcome and congratulations on your new role. i'm looking forward to working with you. any other announcements by board members?

: schools. we want to make sure, like i said, that they're held accountable, just like sfusd students. we do the same thing for them. and also we want to make sure that if there's funding, that it's not taken away from public schools because we also need much more improvement in that area for our students. they need more resources. we need to quit joking around, playing around. you know what? i want to give you guys positive thoughts. you have worked hard to get us where we are, but we still need a whole lot of improvement. and i want to let you know also for the safe and supportive schools, our african american children, we also, our parents and the families, we also need to be felt like we are safe. that's the most important thing for us right now. not just the point that they get their academics 'cause we are aware that this is not happening at some schools. we can talk about the data all we want, but there is still issues concerning our schools. and for charter schools, they need to be held

the place that you have these portable schools within rural areas but also defended school by school. >> if there are no other questions, rachel will be signing books. please purchase as many books as you can. thank you all for coming. [applause]

school. in the schools, we are seeing new services and traditions emerge. at one elementary in north philadelphia, the first monday of every month is a community night featuring cooking classes, student performances, and meaningful interactions with city agencies and local nonprofits. at south philadelphia high school, the community closet allow students and committee members to shop for clothing and necessities, all for free. it is not primarily run by the students, who take pride in maintaining the store and its inventory. nearby saltwater, monthly parent familiesng together in a safe space to talk about challenges and learn about important services. question gardens are popping up in many of the schools, inviting hands-on learning and expanding conversations about nutrition. addition, our city departments now see the 12 schools as a great way to reach children and families. the office of adult education hosted ged and esl classes at 11 community schools in the spring. every community schoo

our schools away to constitutional right cha right -- to charter schools. so please, we need accountability for charter schools that are paid for with our taxpayer money. [applause] >> next speaker, and i also have melissa carbajal. [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> good evening. my name is maria del ruby, and i'm a member of coleman advocates. i have children both at a charter school and at a traditional public school. and i'm here to advocate to make sure that we are doing right at charter schools by all our children, both latino and african american. thank you. [end of translation] [applause] [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> my name is sarai, and i'm a member of coleman advocates and pmac. i'm here to support this policy and to ask that we stop approving charter schools in san francisco. until we have a certainty of how they are performing their academic work with our children. thank you [end of translation] [applause] >> hello. good afternoon. my name is darian tillman, and i'm a parent advocate for coleman and pmac. i'm here to s

school. elementary school being introduced by commissioners mendoza and sanchez. >> so moved. >> second. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. i'm going to refer board policy 5101 and 05120.1 to the committee. and 188-14 a 1 to grounds. section k -- >> president, so you referred lowell to rules policy and legislation and not student assignment? >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: correct. we had this discussion in the agenda review. would you like to explain that? >> these policies are actually the result of the recommendations coming out of the student assignment committee, so the thought was there was no need for them to go back. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: right. you would be hearing what you recommended. right. so ok, great. thank you for bringing that up. section k, proposals for immediate action and suspension of the rules. i need a motion and second to take action on resolution 188-14 a 2 in support of our city, our home ballot initiative for november 2018 to fund homeless housing

school. i talk a lot in the book about trackusing on freshmen on because the data shows when freshmen do well, go to school, past their classes, they have a higher likelihood of graduating from high school and being really focused on that, focused on individual students and what their needs are has seen on track rates and graduation rates go up significantly. growing up in chicago if my friends dropped out it was not great but it was not the end of the world and they could get jobs in the stockyards and steel mills and make a good living and support the family. we know those jobs are gone and never coming back. the goal can't be high school graduation. there's got to be some form of education beyond that. trade,ar universities, technical vocational training. if we could do that for every child, we open up a new world of opportunity for them. if we don't, the limits get pretty severe on what they can do. host: dennis, go ahead. duncan, in myary family we have a tradition to go to religious sch

school board. in curl texas, two twins -- in rural texas, two twin girls went to their high school to attempt to enroll. again, the principal came out. he, in these small towns they know what's happening, but just like with marguerite carr, he would not even let them in the front door. so he met them on the steps, said they're not coming in here. they and their father turned around, went to waco and filed a lawsuit. this was the first lawsuit9 that thurgood marshall actually argued. the naacp in texas said you've got to come town here and argue this case. so marshall, who was not even interested in filing grade school desegregation cases at that point, had to come down and argue the case. eventually these parents and young women were so determined and so patient and also so increasingly popular with the black press that thurgood marshall was forced to take desegregation to the supreme court many years before he anticipated doing so. and i just want to read to you what thurgood marshall told an inte

schools,, the willie brown junior middle school, hillcrest elementary school and francisco middle school. i welcome students to willie brown in the morning and then went to hillcrest. it is one of the first schools in our district to begin using a japanese methodology called teaching through problem-solving during meth -- mathematics class this methodology focuses on student solving novel problems in which no solution is known in advance and this builds critical thinking and mathematical understanding. over the past school year, francisco middle school has dramatically improved its culture, climate, among teachers and students, by using encouragement and constructive feedback. as a result, suspensions have dropped over all but the fight -- highest dropout rate by 15 percentage points. there was a wonderful visit at all three sites and the great to see amazing work being done by our teachers and staff and they are completing this work with our students. last thursday, students at dr martin luther king jr. academic middle school participated in passport day, which helps onboard students wi

the data is more accurate for middle school and high school. i don't think we really can't compare and say we are almost at the 1719 mark. it was not anywhere near accurate. that being said, i think that the past couple years, the day to be more accurate and us showing an increase. so we have, you know, these we need to have some individual conversations with several of the schools that we see things happening with, you know? i could bring up some examples, you know, where we are looking at bay since and looking at the interventions and we see other punitive measures and not one intervention. that's a conversation we need to have with the school. i'm not calling out any particular schools, but interventions going down at the elementary school level is increasing quite a bit. using base is quite a bit to record exactly what you are doing. not so much later on. we see students coming in, and thomas can speak to this too. one of the things for instance he mentions the other day. it was in reference to something else, but we were noticing for afric

private schools are not subject to the same laws as public schools. our charter school subject to the same laws as public when they are privately owned and operated? have acharter schools do little more leeway and a little more flexibility in complying with certain rules. calling fromy is cornell, new york. you are any adjunct professor. is that at a for-profit college or elsewhere? caller: it is a state college. host: what would you like to say or ask? caller: the thing is, i feel like students come in to our program or an associate's program and they have $50,000, $70,000 worth of debt with no degree. the lending practices are terrible. if i want -- i went to a bank to get a loan and would have that kind of did, they would not give it to me. i feel like these protections are being taken away from people to put them further and further into debt. we have students who will never take themselves out of debt. and the other thing is that i am concerned about is, do private for-profit colleges have to comply within accreditation practices? state and feder

public schools. a providing an opportunity to receive an educational experience specific t them >> sure. >> we are trying to provide a cultural experience that is s ycific to theng men of color we serve on a basis.-day our school is not open only to young people of color but those are the people coming into our spa every day. >> sure. >> we look at statistics in d.c. and young men of color havest ggled in the academic setting especially 9-12 grade and so our goal is not only to educat these young men in the classroom but also to educate the whole young person. and to prepare them to be productive citizens once they leave our space to have a general impact on the school community but once they graduate to go back into their ineighborhoods, to go bato the d.c. community and, also, once they move into their college or career toinhave impacthose communities as well. this has to be something that is educating ane ire young person and the skill set that comes along with it. >> this is going to be a complet

how well schools are doing. some of you have come up to me before even started and talk to me about my previous work i wrote a book called not as good as you think which looked at the underperformance of middle-class and affluent schools in california people think the only poor performance are from those populated from low income backgrounds and that certainly is not the case. for example here in california most recently on the national exam national assessment for educational progress not at the students as a a whole but those who are classified not from poor or low income backgrounds with eighth-grade mathematics explained those that fail to perform at the proficient level in mathematics. it's even worse it's even worse in reading for those nonpoor students the eighth-grade reading exam if the 7% nearly six out of ten nonpoor students failed to perform at the proficient level on reading. there are lots of academic underperformance going on in your own backyard. when i wrote that book more than ten years ago wr

in elementary schools. i would often times hear from families that would say that they were asked to keep their kids at home. but they were still marked as, you know, absent. so that attributes to the chronic absenteeism. what we wanted to be able to do was to take that information and build interventions for those particular family is based on what we were hearing, so when we -- when we were able to take it to the school as a whole kak next year, we can come to them and say kak this is what we found and this is what we try to. it works. list implemented schoolwide. for targeted groups. i don't have the information on larger scale just yet because this was our second year of implementing it at the district level. >> i want to be sensitive. to the time. [laughter] i do just want to close up by saying that, you know, i have a younger cousin in the district that is very much involved in the school and they were trying to intervene with him to redirect his behavior. i mentor a kid in -- and they assigned me to

school. whereas the 2014 report found that california is ranked 48th for its response to child homelessness. this ranking is determined by the extent of homelessness in the state, child well-being and state level resources to prevent and address child homelessness. research and data including individual surveys of homeless youth indicate that it has lasting impact on a child's physical, emotional and academic development. they may suffer trauma, anxiety, shame, withdrawal whereas it is a holistic measure that transforms the crisis by a carefully crafted road map. this would generate $300 million, by creating a half percent tax. whereas at least 50% of the fund must going to housing. this would pay for construction, rehab and subsidies for 4,000 housing units. it would house over a thousand families and 800 youth. 25% of the funds is required to go to families and 20% to youth. this would ensure 7 thoup thousand households get legal assistance, permanent or temporary subsidies to stay in their

they want their kids to go to this elementary school, this middle school, this high school and they sellove to the lake, move downtown, wherever they want. urban parents, my kids are right here. what's my next best option? and so we have created many choice opportunity schools. now, we've always had magnet schools. the problem with our magnet schools, you have to have a score, good score to get in. that's called selective enrollment. that's called ranking and sorting. i'm not going to make you raise your hand, but i'm not going to raise my hand because i'm not proud of my sat score, but i'm proud of the 4.0 i got from the university of texas when i got my doctorate. effort creates ability. you get smarter through hard work. you can build agency. so we opened up -- we have new tech schools. we have all kinds of options, personalized learning schools, and now we have 4,000 parents that left dallas that are applying to go to our specialty schools. they won't go to our neighborhood schools, except now we've got two-way dual language at most of our elementary schools. they will come to that.

to repeat, we have balboa high school denman middle school and leadership high school which is a charter school on lockdown in an abundance of caution, around 11:15 am, we had reports of a possible firearm on campus. the police are investigating it is an active investigation. all of the schools are on lockdown. that means students are inside classrooms and doors are locked. there with teachers. we will be updating families as much as we can when we get new information. at this time families know the schools on lockdown. we want to urge parent even though we know you are concerned, to stand by until you get more information. at this time, we cannot release any students from school. we want families to standby to pay attention to their phones. we will send autodial calls out and emails out as soon as we have more information. >> are there any evacuation plans? >> this is an active investigation. schools will remain on lockdown until further notice >> has a firearm been discharged? >> we cannot release information at this time? at this time we cannot release that information. once i have th

we not only need to harden schools, but soften schools. what is missing in some of the programs forms, chorus,oaming -- drama, orchestra. that does not seem like a solution, but actually when you put children and young adults together, a lot of tension in the classroom and now they are able to work with each other, to touch each other, to work on projects together. they have a deeper sense of who the other person is and they are much less likely to lash out against the other person or the school as a whole. in an average classroom, there is not a lot of opportunity for children to communicate on the interpersonal level. drama programs, theater, music -- those programs which are vastly underfunded -- those programs have been shown to lower tension in the schools and have many positive gains in terms of interpersonal relationships. i would really have a look at what i call softening school security. thank you. guest: that is a really good point. we did hear often from people who are experts in this field that you do need to create a sense of

to school. we have an event asking the goals.ty to those 15,000 backpacks we need to collect. comcast is one of our great partners that will continue to help us build that. educational systems, federal credit union has been one of our major ptners and actually gives about 2,500 backpacks. we're excited. very excite >> and that's excited for the students getting those and the schools that are receiving them. >> what changes do you have planned for the upcoming year? >> in montgomery county we are expanding our two-way immersion program. students learning another language and all their academics. schools that have those programs at the middle school level we m expand toe sure every one of our middle schools has more access to technolesy and cou they can take as middle schoolers to prepare them for high school as well as s.t.e.m. and robotics and we are expanding o programs for certification and preparation for the career world throu our career programs including cte and different pathways sohat yo

of thousands of schools that schools can change.rents ask the teacher there is usually one teacher at the school who wants to see computer science taught at that school, and that teacher will pick up code.org and start doing it. change happens at the local level. but the difference is, parents are always wondering, what should my kids do? we tell them, what should your school do? emily: let us talk about neo. neo is your new thing. it's a community of engineers, there's a venture arm attached to it -- what is it? >> it's focused on finding the tech leaders of tomorrow. our aim is to identify future tech leaders as young as sophomores in college. so we identify, include them in the community, and we invest in them? hadi: we have brought together this amazing spectrum of people that includes the cto of microsoft, the original cto of google, the original cto of face book, as well as these amazing people who have created amazing things. founders, the woman who founded task rabbit, for example, or the guy who invented photo tagging, the

county schools. and that has come to an abrupt halt, i'm told based on the data. i've been there since march. people are attracted and i say this with no vanity at all, to quality. if they believe in you-- your credibility is important. and i had to hire a new chief economic officer, in the past you may have had one or two applicants, we had 40 applicants. folks want to work with someone they can learn from and benefit around, and will create allow them to be at their best. and that's the regardless of generation. allowing folks who work in an atmosphere where they can be at their best and where they feel they can be at their best, and for parents who are bringing those children back into our school system based on the recent transfer requests, when they believe that there's good leadership, they believe it's going to be a good organization overall, so your own personal credibility is critical. it is critical. coming back home after 35 years being gone and running into folks who have been following y

their security practices for the school year. a virginia commonwea ph universil comey out this week shows that 76% of virginians believe their school is safe or very safe. but the state is split on how to keep those ratesup. 36 believe that addressing mental health issues is most important. 41% say that increasing security should b the priority. 20% say they believe that mental health services and add security are both important. news 4's dav culver takes us to fauquier county where armed guards are a part of their new safety plan. >> reporter: students are used to seeing school resource officersike officer tyndall. new faces will be walking the halls all in an effort toee k your kids safe. fraud mailer is one of those new to the school we caught up with him near warrenton. >> when i got dressed today, i'm like, i'm starting my new career. >> repor school security officer or sso. he agreed to the position a day after he retired from virginia state police. he w a trooper for 29 years. >> a lot of times in my previous job, we're re

school. in these schools we are seeing , new services and traditions emerge. at one elementary in north philadelphia, the first monday of every month is a community night featuring cooking classes, student performances, and meaningful interactions with city agencies and local nonprofits. at south philadelphia high school, community classes allow students and community members to shop for clothing and necessities all for free. monthly parent cafes bring families together in a safe space to talk about challenges and learn about important services. in --s are popping up popping up in many of the schools, expanding conversations about nutrition. we are also looking that -- every community school partnered with the office of arts, culture, and the creative economy to expand access to arts education and host a workshop performed by local artists. our goal over the next five years is to establish 20 community schools across the city. as we grow, we are committed to completing an underpinning the sch

schools 12 miles apart.one is where the building should be condemned. 12 miles away a high school that has three main football field, to practice football field, baseball stadium. 12 miles apart. not okay. achievement in this is for your question triggered it. give kids boring stuff they don't care about. what matters are what matters is how tenacious and deterrent and they do well. every car drive coming up, they send their kids to sleep over s.a.t. camp and drive their kids to be an abuse. those boring tests only reflect the parents motivation. that's why "the wall street journal" calls it the student affluence test did you get these kids something they care about the requires resourcefulness out-of-the-box thinking, where you're certain you're going to fail once, twice, three times, very different things happen. i bet these kids you are describing that we call at risk, kids we say underperformers often blow you away when they actually care about it. the point i make is that his preparation for life. if th

i'm agnostic in the traditional school or charter school or neighborhood school doesn't matter. they just look at outcomes. in the same charter schools all over the country getting extraordinary results for kids in changing their lives. i've also gone to the national charter school conference and tell them they spend at charter schools and many do not protect that. ideologies don't matter to me. our kids graduating for success in college. that's all that matters. we want to see a lot more thought. we need to challenge the status quo. >> from your upcoming book you write using many positive metric we are top 10 investing in the united states. >> we have a long way to go and that's deeply troubling to me. we have to educate our way to a better economy. when you basically engaged democracy. i worried about that quite honestly. if you look at pre-k i'm a huge proponent of access to education. we rank 28th, 29th in terms of access. tenth, 15th, 20th. college completion rates lead the world in college completion rates. we have to give better faster and i think we lack courage and the

buses to get to school. that's a lot of kids that could be late because of that muni operator shortage. the company says they are aware of the problem and want to try and fix it. first, they are taking about 60 part-time positions and making them full-time, and increasing the size of all operator training classes, and certifying more than 200 operators to certify its new light rail cars. the school notified the principals and parents, and told the communications office that they will evaluate any potential impact after school begins to work with the students that may be impacted. at most schools, excessive tardiness leads to discipline, so hopefully they will have this fixed soon. >>> caltrans is shutting down the posey and webster tubes between oakland and alameda for inspections9:30 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. >>> dramatic new video of a sacramento police officer slamming into a teenager with his patrol car. police body camera video shows the officer accelerating when he makes a hard turn, hitting the 16-year-old. p

and school supplies. it is the work of figuring out how their child will be getting to and from school safety. san francisco is proud to be part of the team that is making it possible to choose sustainable forms of transportation, like walking, biking, transit or car pool or the four fun ways of traveling to school. because in the 1960s, about 50% of children used to walk and bike to school and now that number is less than 20%. and we know that this -- children and parents don't allow their kids to walk and bike to school because our streets don't feel safe. and we're trying to change that. in 2011, san francisco became the first large city in california to establish a 15 miles an hour school zone city-wide. this is around 181 schools. we did this because we know that speed is the number one cause of severe and fatal traffic crashs in our city. proud to say that walk s.f. led this initiative, along with city agencis that are here with us today. because we need to help protect children, families and all pe

we get on to that one the official saudi press agency saudi arabia is being quoted as saying the school bus bombing was a legitimate military action and saudi arabia saying children are being used by the community as human shields. roberta beer's about those kids is that they're heading to a some account that's an activity the ministry of education is doing in the summertime and they bring kids to schools to do activities sports and such so that's that imported statement about the bus and who was incited. children can see why it could be a legitimate military action there is knowledge it is see in attacking civilians who are not picking up aunts and one not fighting in front lines civilians children lens women they must not be targeted in areas where there are no classes or where they cannot be seen as hostile or participating in this in this in this war so no we cannot we cannot see how this is a legitimate the british britain exports billions of pounds whether warplanes and bombs and terrorism is as we have the one of the highest standards of arms export systems in the world so i cann

school to close i doors. outside, school staff stood by to break the news to students who may tave missed alerts. on twitter tuesday night, thishe update from elliot high middle school account, special notice, ehmsill be closed tomorrow, august 22nd, 2018. the district's public school office tells news 4 is taking students' safety and security seriously and working with ther dent of general services. the district says contractors ar on site assessing water damage and makingth repairs. r hope is to have those fixes finished soon so classes can resume as qulekly as poss here in northeast, i'm justin finch, news 4. >> here is something good to report on that regard, weather won't be a problem for the guys doing the work there. >> igsha j roining us live from wolf trap, and amelia, it looksnn pretty out there right now, actually. >> it is sunny. it'seautiful. starting to feel the humidity levels coming down a bit. still a mix of clouds and sun. right now i'm joined by the a presiden ceo of wolf trap. wolf trap, i