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Night before. She said, we do not believe in terrorism. She demonstrated this. This extraordinary inner fortitude that she possessed, which was a quality of hers to an extent that very few other peep in World History can demonstrate. She had that. She stood up and she showed it. I think that must have given courage to not just her party but the country. There was fear around. She was going to give in to it. I think thats one of the extraordinary qualities. Thats a tremendous fitting end to the d...

Children represent 61 of our total enrollment and i think you see why this is is because weve had a real emphasis on helping children from low income communities accessing preschool and we started that way rolling out. This next slide which i think is impressive when you compare it to other communities in california and the nation shows that we have increased preschool attendance of four year olds in San Francisco and 80 enrollment in San Francisco which is really high but were proud that we hav...

There are no announcements. Can you call the first item. Item 1 is hearing requesting San Franciscos prekindergarten and the transitional kindergarten from the San Francisco Unified School District and department of children, youth, and their families and control control and the Mayors Office of education on the current citizen of the programs. Thank you. We called this meeting at a request of one of the commissioners and with the coalescing of the prek programs under department of children, you...

Mention is there are number of programs in the high schools to move people in a more vocational way. Bob lerman is here. There are apprenticeship programs that should be expanded. There are cte programs that get people into Community College occupational programs. Those are all fine and good. But if were talking about the people who arent at the most risk of not graduating high school, its really the direct employment. And secondly finding ways to link up, to have partnerships with Certificate P...

Harsher penalties and least likely to be give an Second Chance and we see theyre more likely to live in communities with higher crime rates. Whether its reading at grade level by third grade or graduating from high school or unemployment, you see boys and young men of color double digit behind their peers. Then you have black boys make up 6 of the nations population but more than half of the nations murder victims. So you sit back and pause and realize theres something in the stream. So we shoul...

There are no announcements. Can you call the first item. Item 1 is hearing requesting San Franciscos prekindergarten and the transitional kindergarten from the San Francisco Unified School District and department of children, youth, and their families and control control and the Mayors Office of education on the current citizen of the programs. Thank you. We called this meeting at a request of one of the commissioners and with the coalescing of the prek programs under department of children, you...

Caused the 2008 crisis the too big to fail banks and what enabled them to do that with deregulation. But wall street and its allies got rid of the laws the rules and even the cops on the wall street e. And id reached a crescendo in 2000. It took them about after 70 years think about this country knows how to control the finance sector and grow the real economy and grow the middle class. We did it for 70 years. And then deregulation came in reaching its height in 2000 on a bipartisan basis and se...

More than that, its encouraging their development of agro ecological practices for the benefit of them and all of us. Of course these practices not only help Climate Change but they produce food and they make themselves more resilient against drought. So its one of these amazing win winwins, but very few of us appreciated. That is what anna is so good at getting across to us. But thanks for that great question. [applause] in this next part of the conference, food activists talk about reducing fo...

Phones and electronic devices. Thank you, i want to thank all of you for being here today and i know that we have a number of amazing people who are in the audience and it is customary when there is a former member of the board of supervisors to acknowledge their presence. But i want to take that to a step further and acknowledge the presence of a very important lady, whose husband served on the board of supervisors who in many respects, is the grand of the San Francisco democratic party, so jan...

2014 that they determine the extra cost of providing meals that meet the traditional meals required and so with the partners working with us and insurancing that there are adequate funds and i know that those of us on the Budget Committee will be looking at some of the recommendation and another one is the department of children, youth and families, and is being requested to work with the Community Based groups and many of them that spoke today to develop the plans to expand the number of sponso...