san jose united school district's superintendent and school board members are expected to be there ase poised to vote this week on a campus-wide bottled water ban. it all started with a cal senior who wanted to end the sale of bottled water on campus. the idea got so much support, it turned into an initiative on the ballot of next week's campus elections. if passed, the campus would phase out the sale of bottled water and improve access to public water, including drinking fountains. a bottle ban would also help the campus reach its goal of cutting 75% of its waste by 2012. >>> a hacker hits an online marketing company, stealing e-mail addresses from some of the country's biggest corporations. walgreen's executives added the drug store's name to the growing list of companies affected by this data breach. the hacker broke into the files of epsilon, which is a marketing company that sends out billions of e-mails a year for clients. citigroup was also affectsed. companies are telling customers the breach is limited to e-mail addresses and in some cases first names. other affected companie

john is the united school district's facilities management. city administrator ed lee. louis kenselle, start. can we have everyone take their seats? this is like herding cats. >> good afternoon, everyone. i am the executive director of maintenance and operations for the school district. my job right now is to introduce our next speaker, who has a familiar face for those of you who have lived here in the area for a while. he anchored the news on channel 4 back in the turbulent 1970's. [applause] he co hosted with his wife "a.m. san francisco," the morning talk show on kgo tv channel 7 in the 1980's. in the 1990's, he anchored the weekly syndicated show "silicon valley business this week." today, he comes to us not as a tv broadcaster, but as a homeowner and a business operator in san francisco for 30 years. he has gotten involved in many firsthand experiences with graffiti in his neighborhood over the years. i asked him if he would help us out today by showing us how all san franciscans can get involved in defeating graffiti. dpw's public information office provided fred

it also is responsible for parking and traffic and in that unit is school crossing guards. school safety as it relates to students getting to and from school. we want to make sure we protect everyone out there. the challenge is staffing and having enough people as well as education. one of the programs that he we implemented was electronic devices. it used to be ipods. it's a target for criminal activity in terms of ipod. also work in terms of educational processes. it's nice to have those, put it in your pocket so no one has the urge to take it. there's also a lot more we can do. i am here too look for ideas to do it better. right now we have mtap. there's not a day that goes by that our people aren't reporting back they stopped a fight. we could do even more and also, i think there maybe an student to look at our bus operators. they have a responsibility to drive the bus. they are aware of issues brewing and they need to step up their involvement with student safety. there's a great deal more work to do. in the past 6 months, there as not been and incidents involving weap

units. there are schools, there are safety issues. i think largely affordability issues that contribute to the decisions by families. we do have plenty of policy in the city with two and three- bedroom units with parking and families are not saying here. before we promote these myths, we shall study carefully the relationship of these units and the size of the units and parking and see whether or not they affect the families' decisions to live here. this is before we start making decisions based on hearsay or what we think. again, i really appreciate all of your work and i would like to thank you again. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment? >> what i want to bring before you is this talk that is pretty hard. this is going round even with the sf puc. this is the infrastructure financing whatever. >> this is on the calendar. you cannot speak about this. >> i will speak about commission -- infrastructure in general. >> -- we have come here many times to tell you about what transpires and transpired at hunters point and wha

united states. we were completely broke and i did something real unpopular at the time. four days after high school the united states army. not only to serve my country but to get the,gi bill to continue my education. then i saw young men and women from all across america. from farms and ranches and it matedm made me realize the strength in this country is not from commonality but our great diversity. i had a younger sister named gift of god and christa was a special girl because she suffered from severe epilepsy. she never once complained. she never said across word and it could or would take her an hour

schools in policy terms. maybe i can sharpen that discussion. finally, what the policy implications to the united states if this came through? there should be three colors on the slide. the first color is the school, the second color is basically short and sweet, where do they stand on the u.s. and the third color is what should the u.s. do about it or think about them? the nativists are deeply hostile to the u.s. and we should ignore them but be aware of them. they represent the strands of thinking in chinese society. the chinese foreign policy of increasing reflects the strands in the populist. the realists seek to challenge the united states and strengthen china. that is their main goal. what does that mean for us? those that argue for strategic hedging argue that that is the best way to deal with such a semidesert revisionist/realist state. the major powers schools is the good news. these other guys we can work with. they want to work with us and we saw that on display in january with the hu jintao visit. the implication for the united states is engagement. we work with this school. this scho

>> reporter: jaquan stover, battalion commander of his high school rotc unit. alicia archie mcmillan, class president and a member of the honor society. these two at west charlotte high in north carolina are high achievers. but like many of their peers, they had no strategy for how to excel beyond high school, until they got help from a unique program that puts young people from low income families on a college track. >> we're going to make sure we get those filled out correctly. >> reporter: portia newman is part of the national college advising corps. less than a year out of the university of north carolina, she's back in high school, now working as a college counselor. >> i'm trying to figure out a new way to connect to these young people and it's been -- it's been a journey, but i've loved every bit of it. >> reporter: the need for more full-time counselors in high schools is enormous. according to the department of education, nationwide there is one guidance counselor for every 457 students, which means on average, kids get 20 minutes of counseling a year.

the younger boys are going to school in a steel truck container used to bring over united states military supplies. 80 kids going to school in a truck container. the girls are outdoors going to school in the dirt with one mat one black board that keeps blowing down and they keep picking it up in the wind and one teacher. to me, the courage and hope that resonates when i see those kids - some of these young woman, walk 1/2 hours to get to school. it's time we need to help support them and that they have the opportunity and privilege to all go to school. so, i'm - sometimes people ask ar organization and the board mass upon derd this to say half of our staff is illiterate. why do you hire illiterate people to work with literacy organization. these men and women worked for a long time for us and they're willing to go in some of the most difficult, remote or dangerous areas to risk their lives year after year just to get one girl in school and i call this is the most over achieving under qualified staff on the planet. you know, some people ask me, well isn't it difficult or dangerous over the

united states. we were completely broke and i did something real unpopular at the time. four days after high school i joind the united states army. not only to serve my country but to get the,gi bill to continue my education. then i saw young men and women from all across america. from farms and ranches and it matedm made me realize the strength in this country is not from commonality but our great diversity. i had a younger sister named gift of god and christa was a special girl because she suffered from severe epilepsy. she never once complained. she never said across word and it could or would take her an hour or two to line um... up her clothes and do our homework and get her lunch b bag ready. i'm the five minutes bed to - bus kind of guy, you know? well krista saw the baseball movie called field of dreams. very inspiring movie that takes place in the corn field in iowa and decided for her 23rd birthday she wanted to go see that place. she was living in minneapolis and packed her bags to go to the field of dreams. when my mother went to wake her up on july 24th 1992 she had died in her sleep f

for the united states, that means we have to maintain our presence, strengthen our global solve school, which rissole on display last week with the brics meeting, that is basically to undermine the united states in the system. for us, that means we need to play the game and compete with middle powers and increased u.s. aid and activism in the developing world. and we need to get in the game here agaie. i hope there is resources and real effort put behind that. the last few years china has been much more in the game than we have been. selectable tie line arrests. they seek to use multilateralism to activeselectively. we need to praise chinese contribution when their careers, but equally exposed china's shortcomings, which are many i would argue. i think the international court of public opinion is a place where we should talk about what a could and should be doing. peacekeeping operations. we all hear about chinese peacekeepers abroad. the chinese are pleased to say we're no. 1 in the security council, but they are no. 14 over all. of that kind of stuff -- i think we need to shine a spo

the fact that the organization that certifies all medical schools in the united states, they have a key educational directors to try to address this. this is not a hit in thing. -- they have two educational directors to try to address this. if you ask people on the street, they don't know about health care disparities. that is one reason why i wanted to get this known to the public. some doctors don't really known. -- don't really know. some of them are defensive. some don't realize this is sequenom. there is a paradox i cannot explain. i wish i could. -- some don't realize this is going on. >tavis: what have you seen in your career that has sensitized you to this issue that you dedicated your life to this? what have you seen or experienced that made you have to do this? >> i have had my career and orthopedic medicine. that has been my primary role in life. since i was a youngster growing up in memphis, i cared about issues of race, discrimination. i wanted to make whatever contribution i could to change that, to eliminate that. i have been concerned about diversity in medical schools a

>> there are so many schools taking the common application, one application is on line and it goes to probably more than half of the colleges in the uniteds now. the schools in addition to that want you to do a few more essays. there are usually available to a kid, something straight forward just like to tell us about yourself, or something. what all the advice manuals tell you is to write about something intimate, and write about yourself. i know from many years of failing at it, writing about yourself is an extremely difficult thing to do well. they are asking something of they are asking something of kids that many of them are not prepared to do, and a lot of them do not like to do. my son is not introspective, and why should he be? i wasn't at that age. it is interesting. you are asking the kid to reveal something that may not be their business. >> could you have written the essay for him? >> i could have, and i know people who did. there is a college counselor who charges $40,000 to get your kid into school. ones who charge much less than that will write the essay for the kid. >> why would colleges do that if they don't know who wro

school. she the part of the united players who is in the house here. and we came to meet bianca when she started interning. so thank you for being a part of this. carlos garcia is the super intendent of the city and county. we are so lucky to have him in san francisco. we served in the fifth faster growing school system in clark county. he worked as a principle including horace man in san francisco. thank you very much super intendent for being here. nathaniel ford is the director of the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority. he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work he was recognized at the national principle of the year. and he is somebody who is on the ground and has worked to empower young people at his school. he took h

declared seven days of mourning the massacre its first of its kind in brazil mirroring school shootings in the united states. by critics in ohio. when we come to the business update here there are some developments on the. yes that's right an arbitration court in london that's ruling little given to see up to sixteen billion dollar share swap between b.p. and rosneft has up held the injunction blocking the deal but the british oil major knows that this is not the final verdict although b.p. says it will now look at ways it could extend the april fourteenth deadline under which the shares swap agreement will terminate now the tribunal's decision appears to mark another victory for access where nobody is partners and russia all from tain k v p a r has strongly objected to be peace proposed tie up with ross they have saying it broke their shareholder agreement it will snap announced the asset swap optic exploration deal back in january after the stories the ruble has made steady gains against the dollar and the euro since the beginning of the year stronger oil price has added further impetus to this ris

table however a win was justified in the title race disaster still comes to play united in the emirates next sunday school resource statements company yahoo on and we won on monday fourth place match to city travel to struggling black burn as they face a champions league spot at city again miss collins test in the caribbean future how three injuries haven't won in six liter away matches on sixteenth place rovers. in ny and. meanwhile boston is a no messi has become the first player to score fifty goals in the spanish season after his side retained the eight point lead at the top of the league with five games to go his long long strike came with three minutes ago the following is having the best first off goal get past it to know when i was assuming i was nearest rivals prey on the great triumph six three about m.p.'s again with a hat trick for the businesses and yes it was our face after their two one win for the rest. and let's start off the professional cost a little over in russia one of the main differences between the regime and its food is the same number of international law thanks for not prying t

cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding and well in the school system in florida and the united states' process of democratization could recognize that the opposition is on that island is not mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up and excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with r.t. . close up to you has been to the show ya been screeching for the long lost secret of thomas steel it's been discovered. the finale archie goes east of lake baikal with the longest russian railway line runs. for the sunday desert lies among siberian mountains the first people full of the same roots as hundreds of years ago . welcome to the trance like kali. russian close up on the part. wealthy british scientists. dr. margetts why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on our key. players and you can see. the full. play. welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lave

declared seven days of mourning the massacre the first of its kind in brazil mirroring school shootings in the united states. prince harry has been left stranded in the arctic along with four war veterans and he'll be came to make sure he isn't back in from the cold for the wedding of his brother william in about three weeks because he is the best man let's get details now from marty's pre-driver peter harry's not stranded he's just trying to avoid making the best man's speech certainly what we're getting out of. prince harry's been taking part in a a two hundred mile trek to the north pole is part of his role as the patron of the charity walking with the wounded now as you mentioned those taking part in. included for amputees who were injured during the conflict in afghanistan british soldiers there know how he had hoped how in the charity hope to raise two million pounds from this war that they've been they've been taking part in and they just about finished it currently in the russian territory on the on the arctic flights home however they want me to crack in the ice on the landing strip that the

terrorist but he's also on of the list of the most wanted terrorist in the united states he claimed responsibility for most school dumb idea the airport terrorist attack of this year and a number over the moscow and natural warming that happened last year but still after a number of anti terrorist authorizations that took place here in of the north caucasus there is no clear information of where they might be. well the north caucasus has been the name terrorist hard for deadly attacks carried out nationwide the head of the church explain to us what it is what drives young men from reaching to join extremists. they will cross the border it is something that no one understands i spoke to a man who was to become a suicide bomber to sacrifice his life then i asked why he wanted to do it he didn't understand me but i told him yes lamas encourage the chechen republic are you not allowed to build mosques or to take the hard shell what are you banned from where he job serving the song why do you come out and say i played in the name of allah we are all muslims everything we do is for the good of muslim people and all rel

"the washington times" nation page, new survey, half say public schools worsen, united way six more tutorsnd reporting half of all americans and the nation's public schools getting worse, according to a study released by united way world night -- worldwide. cincinnati is up next. ken, republican. caller: i am a radio talk show host in cincinnati. what it is -- i hear people. i am african-american as well. i hear people blame this on racism. i heard one of the callers earlier. racism have nothing to do with this. matter of fact, nancy pelosi, when she was running congress, they did not even have a budget for the last two years. this is a high stake game of gotcha. not based on race at all. america is still a land of opportunity. we do not have a caste system somewhere where if you are poor you are destined to stay poor. in this whole class -- class warfare issue, the rich republicans trying to drive poor black people off the land, is just false. i think we really need to look at the whole deal. as a matter of fact, out of the $10 trillion that president obama inherited, $4 trillion was adde

dupes say five pie -- deputies say five boys broke into a portal unit at the school.wo confessed to torturing a hampster who starts -- who authorities say later died. vandals damaged furniture and spray painted graffiti. >>> there is a big mess at jordan middle school in palo alto. police say someone broke in, poured hot sauce and other material on five computers, ruining them. a printer and fax machine were as you dis-- were also destroy destroyed. >>> a father says officials at his son's high schools ignored his complaints that his son was being bullied. the father says his son was injured when other members of the football 'em -- football team pushed him backwards on top of someone crouching behind him. the father filed a claim against the school district but it was denied. the son ended up changing schools. he says he left because his teammates verbally attacked hill. >>> a flag fight is developing in san francisco's castro district. the focus is the huge flag at market and rainbow. last month, residents wanted the flag flown half-staff for elizabeth taylor. but t

united. four times of tight budgets with unified school district, how can the city in the san francisco unified school district elaborate partnerships for services such as family health and mental health services. in this area, when i came into office, the board of education was contemplating shutting down or consolidating six of the eight schools in the area. if it was not for the people in this room and others, who came to the defense of the schools, they would have been shut down. i want to say how proud i am of the people in this area. to provide a community and community support system that had grown thin over the years. many of these schools -- they have rebounded because of the partnerships that are exhibited by many people here. i thought i would ask her -- >> the question is, how do we support more after-school programs in schools? last year -- and reduce the duplication of services. last year, the department went through a very competitive process of selecting agencies to provide after-school programs and services. we did this with the school districts. we went to the school district

united kingdom. today, that number has nearly doubled. where are you all from? what countries are you from? >> sudan. >> couric: sudan. >> ethiopia. >> couric: ethiopia. >> south korea. >> couric: south korea. half of london's 1.2 million schoolchildren are racial or ethnic minorities. the millbank neighborhood is home to many of the new faces of the united kingdom. >> they certainly don't look like the royal family and they don't sound like the royal family, but i think a point worth making is that the values held by a lot of the families in this school would be absolutely those of the royal family. >> couric: what do you think makes a good family? what qualities? >> working together. >> loving each other. >> being happy for each other. >> couric: do you feel like you have anything in common with prince william and kate middleton? do you share anything with them? >> yeah, we're all humans, at the end of the day. >> i think anyone can be a princess by behaving and, like, being kind. >> couric: this week, they learned about the royal family, but they already know plenty about family values. ( applause ) while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthriti

sentence or they embrace that kind of social responsibility very frank in school the expert on principally concerned about the united states which is that similar to the old system the middle class in the united states is compressed they're experiencing what you might call a social graph. with three percent most are doing very very well almost all of the gains from one thousand nine hundred ninety the present perhaps more than one hundred percent it's gone to the top one percent and that's just not that's not sustainable and that is not inspiring of trust people can take what you might call a look at your ideas you argue ology the proof of the pudding is in the eating when everybody makes a lot of experts seem to espouse their point of view we're not taking care of the entire society and you all are doing trust and so you start reflecting the interests of everyone. and it's more on the conference at bretton woods on a website or t. dot com there is well you can also check out the latest from our washington bureau there you'll find indeed why some experts said please america is facing a revenue crisis is us corporati

invasion of a school clinic hospital it's a tribe you mentioned building schools helping the people those are reports you hear in the united states the u.s. government saying they are doing those things is that not accurate. they both few schools and some big cities like in kabul you can see some woman have access is to drop an education and head off problems and most of problems so this situation especially for the woman is like her justification of the arc of patient reconstruction which is not enough. dollars and more than thirty billion dollars she would receive if there were critic mind of people and they were in power not corrupt and not his warlord to be afghanistan was like him for it was knowledge oir afghan activist and author. now it's not just a military intervention an international economic policies are coming under fire too as the international monetary fund meets in washington critics blame their policies for conditions that led to the unrest in the middle east all emerging countries call for a greater voice and i.m.f. decision making archies more important as more. yes. from smoke bombs to probing glass au

invasion of a school clinic hospital it's a drug you mentioned building schools helping the people those are the reports you hear in the united states the us government saying they are doing those things is that not accurate. they both few schools and some big cities like in kabul you can see some women have a sister job an education and. more stuff robin says situation especially for the woman is like her justification of good arkell patient reconstruction which is not enough while billions off dollars and more than thirty billion dollars. if the democratic mind of people they were in power were not corrupt or not is why a lot of the afghanistan was like whoever. could've been like heaven that was my will a joy activist and author. now international policies are coming under fire to as the international monetary fund meet in washington critics blame their policies for conditions that led to the unrest in the middle east all merging countries are calling for a greater voice in the i am us decision making our cheeseman important as more. yes . from smoke bombs to broken glass austerity measures budget cuts and taxes have infla

school as 30, is in devereaux, florida. my question to you is they are very far away. are these the only places in the united states where these services can be provided? certainly, when we take into account that they are boarding schools, that there are transportation costs, one must question this. the union has urged san francisco unified school district to provide access to these services through the school district for many years. we hope that we can begin to reduce this huge outlay of money and provide these services to our students internally, within the san francisco unified school district. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> commissioners of the board of education, superintendent carlos garcia in the pink shirt -- [laughter] i rise to speak to you about two items. they are on page 32, item 3k. the item there is remarkable and commendable because the school district, through the decision not to modernize one campus and to have the contractor hurry the work at another campus to save -- has saved $50,000. that goes back into the bond fund and can be used for other projects. when you see that, i

five association of california school administrators award that is given to various administrators for outstanding work from the san francisco and san mateo administrative units. we will be presenting the ones from san francisco, so at this time, i would like to ask miss patricia to come up and help me present these awards to the following individuals. >> the high school principal from burton high school. [applause] middle school principal richar d kerchey. [applause] elementary school principal from new traditions. [applause] [unintelligible] [applause] human-resources administrator. [applause] central office administrator. [applause] and we have two for the valuing adversity award. [applause] [unintelligible] [applause] we have a very special award. >> the next person we are going to give an award to, we know what this person was doing 50 years ago. and they were beginning their career with the san francisco unified school district. this individual spent 20 years as a member of the teacher court in san francisco. and 30 years as an administrator in san francisco. she is well-loved by everyone in her school and her community. and within our school districts.

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