And watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv. On cspan2. Good evening everyone and thanks for being here tonight at Balboa High School in San Francisco. I am susan solomon, i am a kindergarten and prek teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] thank you so how many educators we have in the room today . Okay, a lot of them. And Community Supporters . Those two. We also have San Francisco board of education member with this allison collins, glad you could make it i see others walk in, zero Gabrielle Lopez another school board member. So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane ravitch, i have a couple of housekeeping items. Can trade a retired social studies teacher in San Francisco, taught here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format is going to be diane and i are going to talk for a little while, and then we will open the floor to questions from the aud
So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b
and thank you generally for the work you re doing for the city of san francisco. i really appreciate it. supervisor cohen, did you have any questions? thank you. so, mini, maybe you can talk to me about some of the work you ve done in the san francisco greater community or some of the other communities you talk to about your civic engagement process, particularly i m interested in the work you ve done within the ethnic minority communities. ~ some projects are in the greater city area. wi-fi, i tried to do it in san francisco and held community meeting in each district. really tried to engage the community to see the benefits in the potential there. we ended up building that community wi-fi in mountain view. it required a lot of outreach and it became one of these things where the community really rallied. and i felt like what we were doing was empowering the community to sort of solve problems for themselves in a really powerful way where serve a whole ecosystem of ent
and i personally am i feel it on a personal level to bridge this professional work that i do with my own community that i see every day. so, this would be a very important contribution that i think i can make on the task force. thank you. thank you. supervisor breed, did you want to yes. i had a question for ms. steinert. the current where do you currently work? i work at stepping stone. we re the largest provider of adult day health care in san francisco. it s directed towards full seniors and disabled adults. we have four centers in san francisco. we ve been around for 30 years. we enable seniors to live independently in community when they get to a point where they have difficulty managing on their own. so, by coming to adult day health care every day, they are able to have their health care managed, get social connection with other people, and maintain independence, preventing going into skilled nursing homes too soon. it says it mentions serving low-inc