To rally around the district and the schools and the students and their teachers. And certainly the Political Support for San Francisco is in the schools. And the overwhelming vote for prop a and 30 demonstrates that. Thank you. I am here to speak in support of this proposal and as someone from the schools and i relate to statistics as undercredited as i was going to balboa, and i wasnt able to graduate on my own. I was able to graduate due to support and because of mentors and counselors and programs and tutor that supported me to try to get me. Not just graduate but to go to college. When i first heard about the ag requirements and the affect that we are making that the new standard to graduate from high school. I was super, super excited as someone who found out about the ag requirements in my senior year. When i first heard about it, i was very, very enthused. And also with that i was very concerned. Because i know we cant just raise the bar on our young people without the necessar
By limiting their course options. At the same time after we did that, there was this giant deficit we felt through the city through the state. Then it was how we implement these new requirements while we experience these cuts. So school sites experienced it because they got less money than they had before. And why you heard some going from a seven to sixperiod day to make those choices to support their core program. They have all done these different cuts. And then we had the additional hit of what happened from the state with the afterschool fund. Because we werent anticipating that. Right. And i think that the School District eliminated evening schools that we still had that safety net. Now we have an awareness and responsibility to reallocate and reprioritize in this new budgeting cycle. To be sure that we are meeting the needs of the students for graduation in the School District. I am not in a position to say 2. 7 but to meet the needs. This may be a question more to young or the
That is web based for a lot of programs. At their communitybased organization. We know that a lot of students like to hang out and give them a safe place to study. And they can do that offsite. We want to establish that infrastructure. And then we set another group of students that we want to be sure we provide extra support for. And an example of that, the last two summers we have been able to have Summer School for the class of 2014. Because dcyf has provided some funding for that. And we also at the same time worked with an organization of cbo called Young Community developers, and they worked with a group of our students. It was 50 the first summer, and i want to say close to 100 the second summer. And the outcomes for the students who went through the program were greater than the outcomes with the rest of the students. They had 9095 class rate for their Summer School classes. We want to give an opportunity to give a boost for these students through programs in the past, where we
School district in reference of us, members of coleman, its particularly alarming that School District students in San Francisco are off track to graduation. And a disproportionate number of them from her community and hopes this can be fixed so when her children go to high school they dont have to face the same problems. Thank you. [speaking foreign language] translator shes alerting you guys to the cuts in the budget in the past years that have completely broken down our system. Particularly in Credit Recovery, and in night school and in Summer School. And only a few Summer School options have been left open thanks to the mayor. And her greatest worry is if we expect High Expectations for the children and dont couple that with the support they need, we are really failing them. Thank you. Hello, thank you for attention to this matter. I am Paul Rodriguez and here for the San Francisco youth commission. Part of the reason we support this is because we feel that securing these additiona
Last year he launched Harvard Business schools u. S. Competitiveness project. Its purpose is to answer one of the most challenging questions america faces today. How do we ensure the United States leads in the Global Economic arena. Im pleased to have Michael Porter back at this table. Welcome. Its been a while. Great to have you here. Yes, sir, thank you, charlie, my pleasure. Let me do this because ive referenced with this with you before. It seems it would be great to be a university professor. For this big reason its a distinction, but you get to range over the disciplines on campus. And die. Rose you could teach in whatever school you wanted to. I teach in the medical school, the school of public health, the Kennedy Business School and its the best perch one could imagine. Rose i want you to give me two minutes because you think about this a lot on health care in america. Well, i think we first need to understand that the kind of problem of health care today is not the problem wev