yana and i decide today investigate why so many people are calling themselves independent, is there something unique that makes people want to separate from the parties and finally are there broad consequences for the political system. what we found is there's a negative stigma associated and people are frankly ashamed to be associate with either party and that is because of two things, first the increasing negative coverage that we see of politics in the media when you turn on your television or you look at the internet news every day, partisans yelling at each other, you see fighting, aggression and most important do not want to be associated with that, so instead of associating themselves with this negative organization, a huge number of americans are now calling themselves independent, now the secret, is that they truly support a party. not all independent support a party but about 80 support who vote for the same party year after year, when you asked them if they prefer a party, yes, they either prefer democrats or republicans and they do generally vote for that party, why is it that the

yana teaches- >>[applause] >> welcome. donna teaches 7th grade math and stem education at james lake middle school in the district that i have the honor of representing, district 8. she came to san francisco from texas is a graduate of the university of texas at austin, where she earned a bachelors of science in mathematics. yana earned her master of arts and education at the university of san francisco and prior to coming to san francisco she taught english for a year in taiwan. she briefly worked in the private sector as an actuarial consultant in dallas for about 5 years. she loves outdoor activities like hiking, rock climbing and want to travel and visit all the national parks that she possibly can. that's a great goal. with regard to stem education, her curriculum and activities engage your students on a daily basis and provide great opportunities for students to explore the field of scientific technology engineering and mathematics one significant project that students do is the construction of a bridge in her class

yana and i decide today investigate why so many people are calling themselves independent, is there something unique that makes people want to separate from the parties and finally are there broad consequences for the political system. what we found is there's a negative stigma associated and people are frankly ashamed to be associate with either party and that is because of two things, first the increasing negative coverage that we see of politics in the media when you turn on your television or you look at the internet news every day, partisans yelling at each other, you see fighting, aggression and most important do not want to be associated with that, so instead of associating themselves with this negative organization, a huge number of americans are now calling themselves independent, now the secret, is that they truly support a party. not all independent support a party but about 80 support who vote for the same party year after year, when you asked them if they prefer a party, yes, they either prefer democrats or republicans and they do generally vote for that party, why is it that the

yana teaches- >>[applause] >> welcome. donna teaches 7th grade math and stem education at james lake middle school in the district that i have the honor of representing, district 8. she came to san francisco from texas is a graduate of the university of texas at austin, where she earned a bachelors of science in mathematics. yana earned her master of arts and education at the university of san francisco and prior to coming to san francisco she taught english for a year in taiwan. she briefly worked in the private sector as an actuarial consultant in dallas for about 5 years. she loves outdoor activities like hiking, rock climbing and want to travel and visit all the national parks that she possibly can. that's a great goal. with regard to stem education, her curriculum and activities engage your students on a daily basis and provide great opportunities for students to explore the field of scientific technology engineering and mathematics one significant project that students do is the construction of a bridge in her class

yana teaches- >>[applause] >> welcome. donna teaches 7th grade math and stem education at james lake middle school in the district that i have the honor of representing, district 8. she came to san francisco from texas is a graduate of the university of texas at austin, where she earned a bachelors of science in mathematics. yana earned her master of arts and education at the university of san francisco and prior to coming to san francisco she taught english for a year in taiwan. she briefly worked in the private sector as an actuarial consultant in dallas for about 5 years. she loves outdoor activities like hiking, rock climbing and want to travel and visit all the national parks that she possibly can. that's a great goal. with regard to stem education, her curriculum and activities engage your students on a daily basis and provide great opportunities for students to explore the field of scientific technology engineering and mathematics one significant project that students do is the construction of a bridge in her class