His aim is to shape the debate about americas competitiveness. 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
Proportions so it supports the high school to meet those requirements. Which is fair. But yet it deems the middle school under funded. Moving on to the next slide. Looking at high schools in our area. I will mention Downtown High just for completeness. It was also the former home to isa. But its a Continuation School that nobody can request. So moving on to isa, it is the least requested high school in the district. It is a Great Program for atrisk kids. Principal koe mentioned it has one of the highest Graduation Rates in the district. And we took a tour with four of the high schoolers, and i was so impressed by these kids. And the classes that they took us to, ethnic studies, english, and history both john and i were very impressed by these classes we saw. The one thing i do want to note here is that there are 270 student at isa. And previously i mentioned there were 180 students in the middle school part. Maxwell campus that houses the program, can seat 800 students. Currently there
One thing that is tough when you seek a preschool. I am director of potrero kids, we are currently in admission season. And i see the look on the faces of these parents. They are stressed to find a new preschool. 80 of them wont have a seat in our school. If you dont get in a satisfactory preschool, this is a good chance you will leave the area. And what is best whether private or perochial. And i have asked parents if they are interested in every seat in the district, and no, but it keeps you in the chance for a swap. Whatever that means. If you dont get a good school, there is a good chance you will leave this city. The next Decision Point is at middle school. Parents are getting savvy about their childs education path and researched middle school. And what we have seen, parents are factoring middle school into their decision. Even with the middle school feed are path, this is a daunting decision for families. And once again if you dont get a good middle school, there is a greater ch
Key, adoeb is a familyfriendly company, and to drop off kids prior to work without getting in a car is huge. Going back to our map here, we will move from Elementary Schools on to middle schools. Bessie carmichael and isa are the middle schools in our attendance area. Carmichael is k8; and isa middle school is 180 students. Its the least requested middle school in the district. Its a middle school that is mixed with high school. And its the only 612 configuration within the district. And last year it was considered for closure. So based on the advice from supervisor cohen. John and i had the opportunity, we requested a meeting at isa. And we met with them on monday. So for three hours we met with principal paul koe. Two parents, one was a parent liaison and five fantastic students. We learned so much about isa. I will talk about the high school portion on the next page but focus on the middle school section. One thing we learned there is no spanish emersion at isa. And the middle Schoo
I want to read one quote from a mom, jennifer cogener at the bottom of the page. She used to work for adobe, that was on our list of maps inside our attendance area, she says while i was executive director for adobe, i can tell you that having highselling homes is key, adoeb is a familyfriendly company, and to drop off kids prior to work without getting in a car is huge. Going back to our map here, we will move from Elementary Schools on to middle schools. Bessie carmichael and isa are the middle schools in our attendance area. Carmichael is k8; and isa middle school is 180 students. Its the least requested middle school in the district. Its a middle school that is mixed with high school. And its the only 612 configuration within the district. And last year it was considered for closure. So based on the advice from supervisor cohen. John and i had the opportunity, we requested a meeting at isa. And we met with them on monday. So for three hours we met with principal paul koe. Two paren