this research because it's not longitudinal and it's a great opportunity to look at san francisco unified data that research concludes that you see small to moderate benefits of two language instruction over english only instruction. >> thank you. >> of e l specifically that's right and commissioner. i want to thank the team for this role great data. i'm a san franciscan myself and see rigor when i see it, it's tremendous to have this level of data over this many years and i think overall this is a good news picture of 90 percent of our e l students reaching proficiency by the 7 letting grade 85 percent being reclassified but i think there's needs to be a lot of discussions around the achievement gap echo in this data. i wanted to understand superficially the thoughts behind that and secondly, the downward trend is that because the math test are higher in the higher grades i wasn't expecting to see the downward trend. the map in general the c s t is a new scale every grade so it is no necessarily reflective of the scores dollars misinforming so much as the grade to gated so the statewide avera

of the key goals for san francisco unified was access and equity and we wanted to ensure that all students had access to credit recovery programs and there was no data tracking system that was going to support the program of accountability and funding and improvement. that is now what we have and we have the data moving from this point. past systems delivery systems lacked funding and that has been luckily eased by the p funding and the commitment by the very wise commissioners of the board of education by funding the a through g recovery efforts which is very exciting for us and a brand new division in the office of the curriculum instruction. ms. chan will go over the graduation cohorts for you. >> these are the graduation cohorts for 9-11 and 12. there is an increase in the general cohort graduation rates and you can see the breakdown for different subgroups and african and latino or hispanic students and there is a slight dip for english language learners. i'm going to tell you a little bit about the overview of the graduation requirements. a couple years ago we approved the graduation requirements that are implemented for the class of 2014. in

data is what our students need to know >> reporter: the district has gotten a head start. they're more than ever looking to san francisco for guidance. channel 2 news. >> the san francisco unified school district has interesting insight about the risk and dangers specifically facing transgender youth and we have the link to that report at ktvu.com. the 21st homicide of the year, a 24-year-old man was shot to death last night around 10:30 on 11th avenue and east 24th street. police have not yet released his identity but say he lived in another part of the city and is trying to determine why he was in the neighborhood where he was shot. the motive for the shooting is not known and no arrests have been made. >>> police say this 19-year-old oakland man was arrested yesterday morning after a home burglary. the suspect antonio march allegedly broke in the 1100 block of hyde street. police responded after the home's alarm went off. he was running from the house. >>> filed the first brief with the federal appeals court in the long legal battle with major league baseball. san jose want it is oakland a's to move there but says major league has been illegally blocking the move. they want

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data? yes. probably for short term. at the proportionality and purpose and a fiduciary right to have information or control is certainly within the realm of possibility if we use the information like the unified modeling language. it is an academic question. i don't think it's done in ways anyone would like. >> i think people could. the technical matter, as possible of to do more to reduce the control how much information's somebody asked. there is tendency to take the easy path than just collecting everything and keep it because it might turn out to be useful. as opposed to being very thoughtful from the beginning about what you really need and how you can boil the data down to retain the things you actually need rather than just keeping everything around just in case. >> very quickly. is part of the problems of that the general public, they get a notice from target that there was a data breach. someone finds the name unexpectedly on the no-fly list. otherwise people don't really care about it that much. you know, if you agree with that then what do we do to increase public care about this? >> a lot of people care. there -- it's a hard issue to research. it's hard and emotional state that yo