now i'd just like to give an opportunity to united educators of san francisco to come up and we have here mr. ken tray. good morning. >> good morning, supervisors. this really is like old times. we could be at 555, i don't think it goes back to 135, though. my name is ken tray, i'm the political director of united educators of san francisco but more importantly for my own life, i've been a classroom educator since 19 85 and taught in san francisco schools for 25 years. i'm glad that president fuer brought up the issue of equity and social justice and i also appreciate that supervisor campos made the point that the united educators of san francisco are full on on the terrain of social justice, equity, fighting for the students of the most impoverished communities and our students that we believe are falling into the cracks of the opportunity gap. that's one of the reasons that uesf we call them add kated 10 to 1, san francisco organizing project and a number of other groups,ase, formed the close the gap coalition. we have engaged, we think, in some positive ways with the district in a

i'm dennis kelly and i'm the president of the united educators of san francisco. ladies and gentlemen of the board of education and mr. superintendent, a member of the board of education went to the commission of the board of supervisors and said she would like to give the teachers and paras 300% salary increase. now that was different. we got excited. we got out our buckets and got our bushel baskets ready to receive that unexpected windfall. but she then talked about sacramento and then she blamed the city for the high cost of living. as mr. trey just said though, it's your job. you have a $700 million budget. that budget has gone up. the number of dollars you get per student has risen thanks to proposition 30. you heard tonight people talking about what happens to a school when you can't get teachers and you can't get teachers to stay? let me ask you know, how many open positions do you have in the teacher force right now? five? ten? 20? wait until we get to 79 and then raise your hand. how many of you have vacancies in the paraprofessional core? over 60. people

education, and progress did not reach everyone. year 2015, the percentages from all around the world will meet. -- representatives from all around the world were meat. the united nations will set the -- goals.s of gold this will set the world's ambition for the next generation. the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in algebra, mathematics, science and physics. leaders must seize this guarantee a free quality primary and secondary education for every child. [applause] >> some will say this is impractical. or too expensive to or too hard. or maybe even impossible. time the world thinks bigger. brothers, thend world may understand it, but we children don't. that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars, but are so weak in bringing peace. ? [applause] >> why is it that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard? that making thanks is so easy, but building schools we are living in the modern age. and we believe that nothing is impossible. ago, we reach the moon. and maybe we will land on ma

you need isolation units and contract tracing, surveillance, education, insite burial. this. >> jon: you seem to learn any issue at any part of the world in a way we use to feel like oceans isolate us or western improvements isolate us, they don't. if we don't deal with the problems in areas they will rise up and cause issues all around the world. >> that's for sure. virus knows no boarders. >> jon: viruses and doctors, neither one. >> exactly. jon: very interesting. which one mutates faster, that's my question. [laughing] >> jon: what do you think about, we had some doctors here and nurses who -- i think courageously went to these areas with ebola to work with patients and came back. we decided the way to celebrate that, the way we do it in our country is we shun them. we put them in isolation. did that cause a chilling affect on your ability to recruit people to work. >> it didn't have an effect on our ability to recruit at the moment. it certainly had an effect on the volunteers that were at that moment in the field. >> jon: really. >> who were suppose to return in d

hollywood elites who give money to democrats are condescending to the president of the united states, a harvard educated lawyer, and say oh, no, his interest in movies is going to be confined solely to him solely on the basis of race and he's going to have this interest in kind of working class slap stick comedy. >> one, that were joking around. that doesn't excuse it. amy and scott have apologized. let me bring in steve. it's a fair point, but we've all feasting on these gossiping e-mails. it's all stolen property and, i don't know, that makes me uneasy. >> let me say something i don't think i've ever said in my entire career. i agree entirely with everything juan just said and it was brilliant. start over, juan. >> that's my problem with this story is these are e-mails that we shouldn't be seeing. i think the content of them is indefensib indefensible. it makes me uneasy to talk about it as a topic. i thought "morning joe" talked about it earlier this week well where they raised the issue and they went around the table and they said in effect, we shouldn't be talking about this. >> i agree. i kind of

. >> while the majority of prisons in the united states offer educational programs for their inmates,pring creek is the country's only maximum security facility to run a fully accredited high school within its walls. >> the program is designed for youthful offenders convicted of a felony offense. they can be in age from 16 to 22 right now. >> wayne young has been the principal of the school for the past five years. >> we have the same curriculum that any regular high school would have. we have three teachers. they're all highly qualified to teach in their content subject areas. we have basically english, math, social studies and science as our core areas. then we try and bring in as many electives as possible. >> if you pass the high school qualifying, we might want to put you into an independent math or english. so we can get you graduated and out of here faster. >> the challenge here is you have to look beyond the reason they are here and address the needs that got them here. okay? so we're talking about socialization skills. basic academics. >> just the shape first. don't try to ge

lead the commission promise neighborhood initiative; which is an initiative of the united states department of education, modeled after their children's zone to really bring connections in raising education levels in underperforming schools. one of the things that we heard in the processes is basically the need for affordable housing at these sites. i would definitely suggest that all of these public sites, the priority that the community basically put forward was that affordable housing was their top priority. so if the program name was changed to "public land for housing." i would actually say what the public spoke to was public land for affordable housing. specifically, i would talk to, like for example, for sites that are up to 200 units, i would definitely say those need to be prioritized for 100% affordable housing. those you slights like 1950 mission that have been in the pipeline, actually, that with the process at the hearings and the school board, we're happy those are already engaged. i would say a lot of site analysis has been done prior to this process having been started. what we have as f

here is this week's slice of life. >> when it comes to stem education science, technology, engineering and mathematics the unitedind in it's global competitiveness. >> currently we're in a crisis in this country when it comes to public education. >> but at howard university's middle school of mathematics and sciences they're exposing students to stem education at an early age. >> even though they serve a student population that is 100% made up of students classified as minorities under 70% of our kids come from households below the federal poverty line and 2-thirds come performing below grade level. it's not uncommon to have a student that comes to us 11 years old and functionally illiterate. >> the curriculum is designed to help students catch up academically. >> we created a platform that does two parts. both accelerate and provides the necessary interventions to have those students that come to us so behind and up and at grade level by the time they exit us in the 8th grade. >> when i look at my own experience my mom is a nurse. she would take me to her job. i would see things that totally fascinated me about

the spirit unity, education, united we stand. >> united we fall!> all right, we have this young whothat many of you saw pulled into a gas station in south carolina and for no reason , a state trooper shot him. and he said, why did you shoot me? he is in washington today with us. shoot!hands up, don't hands up -- >> don't shoot! >> hands up -- >> don't shoot! >> lavar jones. to the one that endures until the end, america, i hope you are listening. i hope you're watching. jones took to this march like everyone else. it seems like we were in a race to get somewhere. it seemed like we were in a race to get to the same spot. are -- i believe we are in a race to get to justice. peace!ustice, no >> the>> officer in this case was terminated. the officer in this case was charged. the officer in this case was arrested, and we are waiting for justice. we are waiting for a grand jury indictment. [applause] thank you. i would like to thank everybody for coming out and putting themselves in something bigger than themselves. on september 4, my life changed. is ah

unity, education. united we stand. >> united we fall. >> alright.s man that many of you saw -- he pulled into a gas station in south carolina, and for no reason a state trooper shot him, and he said why did you shoot me? he is in washington today with us, saying: hands up, don't shoot. hands up. >> don't shoot. >> hands up. >> don't shoot. >> hands up. >> don't shoot. >> our family taught us that the race was not given to the swift or the strong, but to the one who endures until the end. america, i hope you are listening. i hope you are watching. it seemed like we were in a race to get somewhere. and the spot was not this stage. i do not think so. we are in a race to get to justice. no justice. >> no peace. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> the officer in this case was terminated. the officer in this case was charged. the officer in this case was arrested. and we're waiting for justice -- a grand juryg for indictment. in the future is yet to come. -- and the future is yet to come. >> thank you. i would like to thank everybod

education and progress did not reach everyone. in year 2015, representatives from all around the world will meet at the united nations to set the nextambition for the next generations. the world can no longer -- the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries only basic literacy is sufficient when their own children do homework in algebra, mathematics, science and physi physics? leaders must seize this opportunity to guarantee a free quality primary and secondary education for every child. [applause] someone said this is impractical or too expensive or too hard. maybe even impossible. but it is time the world thinks bigger. dear sisters and brothers, this so-called word of elders may understand it but we sure don't. why is it that countries which are strong are so powerful and creating walls but are so weak in bringing peace? [applause] why is it? why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so ha hard? why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy but building schools is so hard? we are living in the modern age and we believe that nothin

. >> it's absolutely essential, in addition to the isolation units, to be able to provide education, awareness raising. >> virus hunter joseph fare has been on the front lines for months. he says while turning the corner on the epidemic is still many months away, there has been significant changes in awareness. >> we went from half the population really believing this wasn't a real disease and possibly some kind of hoax to now everyone more or less acknowledging that the disease is real, and people actually learning how it is transmitted. >> our respect to such noble work by marina novak and others at doctors without borders. they are making progress? >> in liberia, the army is using helicopters to take supplies and move people around, doctors without borders, as you saw, there's improvement in liberia, but the infrastructure in sierra leone is a mess. there is a lot of malaria around, kids are not getting vaccinations, pregnant women are not getting taken care of, there are no schools open in all three of these countries. maria novak there was talking about the difficulty of taking

jonathan stock of the united states geological survey was an educated bystander at the golden gate recreational area as it closed off 1500 feet of trail due to the slide and danger from an overhanging tree. >> we are concerned the tree could potentially fall across the trail. >> reporter: an old trail, at that, one on which sutro once built a railroad here on the side of a ledge with a long geologic history of sliding. >> there is a possibility they will see this small landslide migrate into the older bigger landslide. >> reporter: there is a detour from the other entrance. most visitors took it in stride, so to speak. >> i would say that they probably know what they're talking about. >> reporter: this section of trail will remain closed through the weekend. the park service says it will reassess after that. wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> a second day of the so-called king tides bringing dangerous surf and rip currents to the bay area. san francisco saw its highest tides of the day this morning. king tides happen when the earth aligns with the moon and the sun and the oceans are pulled to the

education. >> now is time wee unite. i call upon the community, all political parties and everyone that we should stand up together and fight against terrorism. >> the afar began taliban has said this attack is too much. >> the intentional killing of innocent people, children and women are against the basic of islam and this criteria has to be considered by every islamic party and government. >> however, all of these statements will not console the families, sending their children to school not knowing it would be the last time they would see them alive. >> australia's prime minister said there be a review of events surrounding the hostage siege in sydney. we report from australia. >> the period of mourning and reflection is likely to go on for sometime in sydney, but increasingly, there is analysis about the events in the heart of the city has led to the deaths of two hostages, and what if anything can be done to prevent it happening again. there's been a notable increase in police presence not because of particular thr

slated to be educated to the united kingdom in the mccann case recently sentenced to 16 months in theson for possession of child pornography. british detectives flew this weekend to question him in the prison cell. i wanted to ask about the connection to a child sting operated in portugal late to the disappearance. and a string of burglaries where they were staying. those arteries were carried out between 2004-2010. 11 other people affected to be questioned next week in the case. he'll be it in them as witnesses, not suspects. jon: it is so said it has taken seven years to get to this point. thank you. heather: back at home and teenage boys safe after rescuers pulled him out of a chimney? he got locked out of the house and tried to get in like santa claus, you can guess that one worked out. not too well. william is in the west coast newsroom with that 911 call. >> heather, i got so close, his feet were touching the bottom of the fireplace when he got stuck. he takes out his cell phone and calls for help. jon: this happened tuesday night around 7:00 p.m. his mom wasn't home yet, lost t

take the low road this morning and let me just say her comments about a harvard-educated law professor, president of the united states, as only liking low-brow kevin hart movies, now that's -- i mean, that's outrageous. that's insane. talk about racial stereotyping. >> -- to your browser history and finds some sites that maybe you visited that you're not too proud of. this is their private information. i think it's inappropriate to judge them. this was not for public disclosure. >> any time anybody acts in a racist manner and has conclusions about me based on my race, that's inappropriate? >> so breaking into a home and stealing their private papers -- >> what i think is funny is that these democrat elites are always accusing republicans of being racist. they do this in films all the time. yet here we have liberal elites who are saying some quite racist things about the president. no one seems to be up in arms about that. >> i'm agreeing with you, michelle. >> no, i -- >> the real thing -- >> i agree with you. >> will you shot up? >> yeah, see. you guys should be together. >> you tell her. >> in the same room

kindness of a nigerian couple, some traveled 6,000 miles to virginia in the united states this christmas and will restart their education there in the new year. our correspondent reports from virginia. >> a happy reunion this christmas in america and a surprise visit from nigeria. for some of these girls, this couple are the closest thing to parents they have left. christian missionary ris from an area took the girls in and were responsible for finding private donors and scholarships for them in this high school. enrolled here for the next two years, they have a chance to they the education that were robbed of. she arrived in the u.s. just last week. >> last christmas in nigeria, we were afraid to stay at church too long because we thought they may come and attack us. we didn't go around visiting people like we usually do. this christmas i'm really happy. in the cold up here appalachian mountains and count be further from where the girls are coming from. they are enjoying a brighter christmas here in america. these are a handful of the girls who were captured back in april. there are more than 200 others who are still m

educate the children, here 500,000 are of school age. and only 25% are enrolled in school. we are at one of the informal schools set up by the united nations. each one enrolled about 350 students so as you can see a lot of children are not being educated and lebanon can only do so much the government wants $2 million to help two many people, 1 million are syrians and 1 million are help these. a lot have lost their jobs because they work for cheaper wages so there's a lot of social tensions as well, so lebanon needs help. 1.1 million are registered. most of them realize that they are not heading home any time soon. >> that decision was prompted by the death of more than 140 people. earlier this week. presence sick evidence after tuesday's attack. and gunman stormed the school firing weapons in december nateed bombs. few a judge ruled there's not enough evidence to keep him behind bars. more now from new delhi. >> they believe his group planned and trained ten gunman, to attack several targets across mumbai in 2008. a pakistani court has now released him on bail, siting insufficient evidence, inyeah's government is furious. >> he has

poverty is not an obstacle to getting an education in the united states because our high schools areca, only elementary school is free and high school is not. in malawi where i've been trying to help girls go to high school, a few families can afford the tuition in high school, even though some students it's about $50 a year. and the families who do manage to come up with that kind of tuition money usually spend it on the boys in the family rather than the girls. only 7% of girls in malawi finish high school. that's why the k.i.n.d. fund established a girls scholarship program in addition to our school desks program. and when i conceived of the k.i.n.d. fund four years ago, i wanted to keep it simple, very simple. kids in need of desks. i wanted to get these desks into schools in africa where teachers and students had never seen desks. simple, affordable concept, also a job program for workers in african factories who make these desks that we then deliver to schools that have never had desks. not schools that didn't have enough desks. schools that never had a single desk for anyone.

education week. >>> and a white house call to action for colleges. >> this should not be a democratic issue or a republican issue. >> a bay area unit pledges to doubler of graduates in one key field. now he-- >>> welcome to our class action education special. can you get a great college education without stepping foot in a

i can only assume, a large part of congress has no reading field, no education -- the the united states owes it to having not read steve's work. i will be the moderator. we will let you to have speed for about five minutes or so, then we will go back and forth. we will have crosstalk. we are all friends. even where we disagree. let me begin with carly. matter of growth a i'll just tried shape is matter of the economic growth, what would you say are the three most important ideas in your mind? if you are giving a magic wand to run the country. thank you, larry. it is a pleasure to be here at heritage. have to start -- human potential. the largest micro-finance the world -- in we lift people, mostly women out of poverty. we have lent $6 billion that way. and that experience has nstrates that everybody the potential -- if everyone wants to take a chance on of ple regardless circumstances -- and this is the greatest country on the face of the earth because our founders knew that. said, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, they met the everyone should be able to use their full potential.

education week. >>> and a white house call to action for colleges. >> this should not be a democratic issue or a republican issue. >> a bay area unit pledges to double the number of graduates in one key field. now he-- >>> welcome to our class action education special. can you get a great college education without stepping foot in a classroom? a new school in san francisco is promising just that. we first told you about minerva a year ago. the founding class of freshman is now enrolled. >> reporter: he is a 17-year-old college student from san diego who is debating his college classmates online. when he applied to college, he got into ucla, uc berkley, and nyu, but he chose minerva. >> i wanted to cocreate my experience. it's something i'm not going to find anywhere else. >> reporter: it is unique in many ways. there's no campus. most of the students in the first class come from overseas. the courses they took are entirely online. >> most people would think this is really difficult to do, to be accustomed to having classes online. i'm really engaged. >> reporter: in their second year, they'll move to a different city every semester. >> after that, t

educational system in the world. we'll be looking at issues in united states and chinese educational systems and the way we are increasingly learning from one another, we hope you will join us from this program as well. thank you and happy thanksgiving. . >>> richard ruben joins us, he's a reporter with bloomberg news and he's talking about legislation with tax extenders, election that actually expired that we could see come up and be renewed for 2014. give us an overview here, how much does this bill cost? how long is the extension and what are some of the tax breaks involved. >> the bill that the house is going to be voting on this week is known as a one-year extension, what that means is they revive a bunch of tax breaks that lacked at the end of 2015, and end them in 2014, so they're only extending through the end of this year. the biggest breaks in there is the production tax credit for wingd energy, the research tax credits for businesses, the ability for individuals to conduct state sales taxes and a division that helps multifinance companies defer u.s. taxs outside the country. it's a mish mash of tax breaks for in

. >> you've been very vocal about how education can help bridge the skills gap in the united these. be held responsible? >> i think all of us. we should be proactive about it and create new pathways for people to find education. we have a college system that is completely updated that was created 150 or 200 years ago and behaves exactly the same way, except perhaps the escalation of tuition fees. we do not teach people very well, so i think we have to be creative. >> how about president obama's executive action on immigration reform? how do you see that is affecting the tech community as a highly skilled person from abroad? >> skilled workers from all around the world are what makes silicon valley tick and i think are important for the united ways. they are often confounded with other things. in silicon valley, we have a huge shortage of highly qualified people. >> i want to ask you because it is always so interesting to hear your dots on what is to come. first of all, the self-driving car, which you invented, so to speak. what is in store for it next year? >> i think it's making gr

education in world." well look at issues in the united states and chinese educational systems and wait we are increasingly influencing and learning from one another. we hope you will join us for those programs as well. thank you and happy thanksgiving. >> hearings on tuesday to tell but on c-span 3 at 9:00 a.m. eastern, homeland security secretary jeh johnson talks about border security and president obama's recent executive order on immigration. and into the afternoon, the senate commerce committee holds a hearing to examine do mest uk violence policies in professional sports. witnesses include representatives from the nfl, nba, national hockey league and major league baseball. that will be live at 2:30 eastern again here on c-span 3. members of congress return to capitol hill monday after a week-long thanksgiving recess. we spoke with a congressional reporter about some of the items that remain on the agenda with two weeks left before the current congressional session ends. >> immigration and taxes will dominate the final days of this lame duck session of this 113th congress. following us is billy house

united states. the most popular types include education based human services and health charities. the average household gives just under $3,000 every year. surprisingly middle to low income people are giving at a higher percentage than those of wealthy individuals. yet here in the united states there are still more than 600,000 homeless people including many families. those in need are not just struggling with food but shelter in the coming news. i'm i'd like to welcome joel berg, and ken stern. who's joining us from washington, d.c. gentlemen, thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having us. >> telling us how we give mr. berg. >> most americans give in the ways they're used to giving. the wealthy give less in aggregate and they tend to give to institutions that benefit themselves and their families. such as big hospitals big cultural institutions big museums. that's our message that charity isn't the answer, higher wages more equitable tax system like the wealth and middle class and habit also tells us that if you give to the organizations you have given to in the past and if y

united states. he's a native of massachusetts, also uate of colgate, and his higher education degree at he texas university school of law. he's a naval order of the united states, the navy league. appointed by was texas governor rick perry as an admiral in the texas navy. he'll tell us a little bit about what the duties and responsibilities of being an admirable in texas navy are. a former new york book editor. he president of the literary agency, hornfischer literary management in austin, texas with wife and three children, son david is here with us today. ladies and gentlemen, give a annapolis welcome to the author of neptune's inferno in d. hornfischer. >> i didn't realize we were going to be talking about the hreat of mexican coastal raiders to make the admirable of the texas navy. you get invited to pretty good austin. parties in that's about all it is. story honor to tell a that never gets old in the telling to tell it here. the opportunity, and an honor. thank you, admirable carter, the naval institute. and welcome esteemed conferees. now later today on this stage is going to be a panel. distinction

education failure puts the united states in economic, global position and safety at risk. the u.s. won't be able to keep pace unless it fixes the problems it has allowed to fester for too long. that's the consequence of not doing anything. >> absolutely, and it's staring us right in the eye right now. we are seeing day by day more and more kids falling behind, kids who are going to be unprepared. right now in the thing -- in the report that secretary rice and i did, points out three out of four kids in america are not even able to apply to the military, even if they wanted to get in. a lot of that is academic, some of it's physical. but it's an amazing thing how underprepared we are. and then the other issue which secretary rice felt very strongly about, she always said in america it's not where you come from, it's where you're going to, and kids are going less and less opportunity. we're seeing less social mobility and less opportunity and that rips a country apart. >> charlie: because we're failing at education. >> yes. >> charlie: you talk about school systems in america are gov

unions, by means of the kinds of investments in education and infrastructure, basic kinds of moves that other societies, much more civilized than the united states, norway, finland, sweden, other places where they're concerned about quality of education, concerned about quality jobs, and concerned about eliminating poverty. >> and you know what? i'm sure there are many people like you in the united states who would like to see the u.s. transformed into sweden. but the system as it stands in the u.s. ain't gonna deliver that. so my final question is this -- >> i got that keep telling the truth. >> but how far do you go in that cause of yours? because we have seen flames licking around ferguson, missouri in recent weeks. we've seen people on the streets in other towns also very nearly con fronting the police in demonstrations. there is a sense that there could be a new round of violent confrontation in the united states. >> keeping in mind, any time you talk about violence, you're talking about already police violence against poor black folk. every 28 hours a black person getting shot, that is violence. the response of black people is impor