it is this district's commitment to rectify the historic underserved communities in our district. this board took a phenomenal step forward when they said that our children have been historical rate underserved. as we speak, you are 20 times more likely to be identified as the special education child if you are an african american male. that is not right. we have students proficient at 12%. that is not right. what about the 88% of students in those schools that are not proficient? it is very easy for us to sometimes lose track of the fact that we sit in a privileged position with high-school diplomas, bachelor's degrees, dr. ritz, and presume to say it is not important to enforce standards in our schools, especially underserved schools. as a man of color, and want to go on record to say that if it was not for those teachers in my background but said it is known only possible, but necessary for you to learn, because that is the key to the kingdom, the key to education -- if we do not take that into consideration, we will have failed. we encourage the public to be part of that discu

i think we intend to move aggressively to get the right match between what areas really are underserved and where those resources go. >> i hope you work with us on that. i can tell you that old way was allocated did discriminate against the areas that clearly were in desperate need. and i hope can you get this right. i hope we can work together on it. >> i look forward to it. >> next will be senator menendez and then senator snow. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, thank you for your service. we appreciate what you're doing. i am concerned about the children's health insurance program. and the question of medicaid in general. in new jersey, medicaid and the children's insurance program which we call new jersey family care served over 800,000 children who would otherwise not have access to regular medical care. and we have seen that number grow by 8% since 2009. now i'm hearing a series of governors say that they want relief from the requirement for keeping medicaid enrollment eligibility as is. and that would mean to me when i hear relief, that, to me, is translated into cutti

one group i think we all will acknowledge are completely underserved our middle income families in san francisco. i think they comprise a very high level of the traffic coming into san francisco. we know their numbers in san francisco have diminished over the last few decades to a very low level relative to the entire population. one of the things we have to try to do as we look at this growth is mary the job growth which is projected with the housing growth. another thing that was very well done is the area's -- the areas, are also the areas where the largest housing growth is projected. what we do have to do is address our lack of transit within san francisco, particularly in the areas such as treasure island, hunters point, and parkmerced, which generally are underserved by transportation. we have to figure how we will get transit to the areas where jobs are being created. this is a good graphic, and it sounds really good. much of the 61% our suburban commuters coming in on bart. they are well served. someone in the richmond district is not well served. one reason they may not live

shaded area, these are the areas of the city where students who live in these areas are the most underserved and low were performing historically. we want them to have the opportunity to have a chance to enroll into one of their schools of choice. this area is a prominent feature in our tie-breaker system. elementary attendance areas have been redrawn. some were drawn in the 70's and 80's engine not aligned right down to the way our priorities are and so we have redrawn attendance areas around most of our elementary schools. all students live within an intended area. middle schools and high schools don't have an attendance area at this point. we also have some schools across the city which mean they don't have any attendance areas. this includes all of the high schools and middle schools. this includes our total immersion schools and our newcomer schools and montessori school. the reason is that these schools, there are not as many opportunities to enroll in these programs. our tie-breaker system for the elementary schools will work this way, if there are many requests, we use the tie breake

the cultural programming service the community at large and underserved communities, many of whom are your constituents through a variety of quality news, information, culture, music. there are two shows next week that serve the chinese community and polish, german, french, armenian shows that are part of the programming. i am asking to carefully digest what my fellow volunteers are doing. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i am a longtime san francisco artists to lives in the city. what happened several days ago it is ironic in the face of the fact that congress recently passed pro -- what gestation for the first time in a dozen years. -- legislation for the first time in a dozen years. i did not bring a copy of the nation magazine that printed this. the head of the radio project and commented that she was tumbled in the face of this support for low wave radio. putting the and leaders in front of a microphone was in power in. -- putting the future leaders in front of a microphone was in power iempowering. the there is a peculiar kind of public and private face that is going on

that is the first criteria that the areas we're located have to be medically underserved. the key element is that we are controlled by a board of directors that have to be 51% consumers, which is unique, but a very good way the consumers control the product that we put out there. host: that is a national standard? guest: that is a national standard that dates back to 1965. we provide primary preventive health care, comprehensive in nature, and we are open to all, which is a unique feature also. everyone that comes in, we break their ability to pay by means testing and proof of income. so when someone presents themselves, they provide proof of income, and we adjust their pay according to a sliding fee scale. host: how many health-care officials are there? guest: we have 8000 locations. millionerving over 21 billio right now. we take care of the uninsured population that we serve. the current statistics regarding the breakdown right now are 38% of the people we're treating are uninsured. 37% have medicaid. 37% have medicare. 13% private insurance. have other means. the grant

they are clearly underserved populations, the city and county of public health. one of the key issues to really underscore is why we're here. we're healthy, but we're here. i think one of the other important things to point out, it is not all american and alaskan natives. we have a post-colonial stress disorder. we don't come to city funded programs and therefore we must not exist or we are very healthy. that is not the case when you look at all of the other statistics. in talking about all of these health disparities, one of the key things that we helped speak to that we demonstrate when asking for funding, what is that we have to show need -- one is that we have to show need. we have statistics and numbers that really impact whether we are going to get funding or not. it is very clear that we have a lot of health issues. we also have to demonstrate and talk about, maybe explain how to address some of these services. if you do some research, they are not effective for native people or effective for people that come from cultural backgrounds. we have to go back a

if you are talking about underserved communities, i will stand on my record. in the eye and workers' union, 377, we had taken a local which have had about 1500 members. through an organizing program in which i was involved, we nearly doubled the size of local. we did that by reaching dyou are talking about. you do this by concentrating on specific barriers that have to be overcome, by working hard to overcome those barriers. my complaint with the approach that has been taken recently here is that it is attempted to do this with the requirements from above rather than analyzing what actually has to happen in terms of removing the barriers and getting people to work. i will be supportive of every means of doing that. in the history of this bridge, there was just what you're talking about in the construction of the bridge, strict requirements for residency and the workers. ultimately, they had to acknowledge -- and they had not prepared to the work force in advance. they had to back off of that in order to get the bridge build. if you take that approach, the appr

they're underserved. out of d.c. airport, there's one flight a day to los angeles. that doesn't make any sense. and so all of these things can be cured if people will be reasonable and not try to win out over some other group, some other constituency. i don't have a constituency. my constituency is the national interest in this bill. i don't mean to sound prudish when i say that but i so say and feel very, very deeply. madam president, if it's all right with the presiding officer, i'd like to recognize ben nelson, and he will make his amendment pending and then debate on the -- the other nelson from florida will start at about 10:20. mr. nelson nelson: madam presid? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mr. nelson: madam president, i call up the amendment that i just sent to the desk. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nebraska, mr. nelson, proposes an amendment numbered 58. mr. nelson: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with

we want the digital inclusion program to make sure we address the needs of underserved vulnerable communities, not communities that are already very tech savvy. we are here to provide a, b and c to the seniors. a stands for access. b stands for basic skills and c stands for content. and unless we have all three, the monolingual chinese seniors are never going to be able to use the computer or the internet. >> a lot of the barrier is knowledge. people don't know that these computers are available to them, plus they don't know what is useful. >> there are so many businesses in the bay area that are constantly retiring their computer equipment that's perfectly good for home use. computers and internet access are helping everybody in the community and people who don't have it can come to us to help with that. one of the biggest problems we see isn't whether people can get computers through programs like ours, but whether they can understand why they need a computer. really the biggest issue we are facing today is helping people understand the value of having a computer. >> immediately they would

that is the first criteria that the areas we're located have to be medically underserved. the key element is that we are controlled by a board of directors that have to be 51% consumers, which is unique, but a very good way the consumers control the product that we put out there. host: that is a national standard? guest: that is a national standard that dates back to 1965. we provide primary preventive health care, comprehensive in nature, and we are open to all, which is a unique feature also. everyone that comes in, we break their ability to pay by means testing and proof of income. so when someone presents themselves, they provide proof of income, and we adjust their pay according to a sliding fee scale. host: how many health-care officials are there? guest: we have 8000 locations. millionerving over 21 billio right now. we take care of the uninsured population that we serve. the current statistics regarding the breakdown right now are 38% of the people we're treating are uninsured. 37% have medicaid. 37% have medicare. 13% private insurance. 3% have other means. the gr

they are serving an underserved population. it is a credit to our community and our vision of social justice and equity. we are proud to represent its teachers. i would like to show you our t- shirt that we have designed for the five keys school. they are super. we hope the board will vote to extend the charter. president mendoza: if we can all get t-shirts. [laughter] thank you. the next item is authorization to grant or deny the renewal petition for five keys independence high school. i need a motion and a second. this will get referred to curriculum and budget. is there any public comment on this? seeing none, thank you. this is the last superintendent's proposal, san francisco unified school district and san francisco county office of education residency policy. i need a motion and a second. thank you. this would get referred to rules. this will get referred to the rules committee. item r is the board members' proposals first reading. there is been a request to remove rules, in support of placing a revenue extension measure

is, a large part ofç the reason why these wrote taxi services pop up is because they serve and underservedulation. in the southeast part of the city, where i live, near candlestick park,ç oftentimes, even i have a problem getting a taxi. i have to spend several minutes, waiting for a cab. further south, they do not even come that way. i am in a pinch try to reconcile this. çthese gypsy cabs arrive becaue services do not exist. so what are you doing, your fellowç cabbies, how can we mae this work? >> in addition to our enforcement initiatives, we are trying to deal with customer service issues. it is difficult to get a taxi in san francisco at certain times of day and in certain geographical locations. i want to say first of all, we are working on that issue. i do not know to what extent it would be inappropriate to go through all of the different ideas we are havingç to pursuen the future. one thing is we are going out to bid for a public convenience and necessity study that will measure the need of the supply and demand of the taxi industry. if we are able$ these illegal vehicles, the

especially for traditionally underserved students. also the expansion of pathways by students in the emerging programs in the elementary schools. i also like to remind the board that these are commitments the board has made and that we -- we memorialized in the agreements under the plan. in terms of quality middle schools, the creation of a quality middle school requires a stronger program and pathways in a number of areas. and the board has expressed to us in the past that -- and we have as staff heard from our community and we heard a lot of discussion about the language path wes but language pathways are not the only com pony -- component of a quality school. we have to take into consideration gate classes, special education is a huge consideration. and -- in the development of strong special education programs. also the visual and performing arts. the san francisco -- the san francisco community has made it clear these are components they want to see addressed in a quality middle school pathway development. now i'm here this eveni

three years ago reliford got the idea to do health screenings for underserved men at local barber shops got the attention of president obama. he was invited to watch the big game yesterday at the white house. other guests that were there in the private super bowl party, j. lo and reverend al sharpton. >> an eclectic mix of people, don't you think? >> i would have loved to have heard what they were talking about. >> i want to know what they served, too. >> "the tonight show" with jay leno is next. >> we'll see you tomorrow night. bye-bye. >>> and now another "viewpoint, response to an editorial." >> last week we said people like us are the san francisco bay's biggest polluters, it's time we cleaned up our act and you agreed. our first viewer says how about plastic bottles? consumers want high-quality drinking water disregarding the fact that packaging, processing and delivery are far more polluting. bay lover believed it should be easy for residents to clean up their act, starting with banning plastic bags like san jose. keep it up. i found local packaging stores. and amy offers another