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Hi im a Assembly Member ting im running for reelection representing districts 19th street which includes the western neighborhoods of San Francisco and daily and part of south San Francisco thank the league of women voters and the voters of districts 19th street by electing me. Upon my swearing in john appoint me the caucus chair im pursuing proud to put San Francisco Business Owner back on track when democratics one the two hours the legislation working with governor jerry brown weve spent our ...

Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving to this 21st century vision. I think when tony smith was within the School District before he went to oakland he used the...

Yes mr. Duffey just real quick if we continue it it may allow them time to renew the permit and get a final inspectors then theres nothing wrong with the permit its not a big deal tide into a sprinkler permit it might give them time a question for the attorney thats not hard to do sometimes you can finalize a permit in a week if youve got the documents. One complication is that dbi will not precede when an appeal is under a line of work perhaps the board wants to deny that its its a typical proc...

You think today is a wonderful celebration theres so many to celebrate for this landmark and continue to be a landmark and when youre coming from the east side of bay north side or on the water or from our roads along the city youll be looking at this great coit tower we need to remind people ate a vast Community Effort that comes into play thats lead by the honoring of coit and the families history but you taller than and honor everyone else a thats made this city a great city now that norman h...

The productivity tools that we shouldnt delineate between what the adults and students use. All students should be using office suites, all students should be using google apps. Those are things we should make traction on quickly. The next piece, the deep and expand, thats the idea that where we need to go, where students have not only the curricula available to them, but they have a box of tool, Digital Tools and they make the decisions on how they use the tools to solve the problems that are p...

Secretary of interior standards. One of the challenges we have is does the property have integrity or not and it become an on off switch. And in fact, when you heard some of the comments about a building being stuccoed over or the corner tower got lopped off, youre not dealing with a property that doesnt have integrity, but its got a b as opposed to an a or f in integrity. Thats one recommendation were trying to move forward with this is to consider a gradient of integrity rather than it does or...

Budget cuts civic under current law you have problems there is not enough money currently. We will offer amendments on the democratic side to stand up for students and parents. Twothirds of the College Graduates have an average debt of over 29,000. The general consensus is we ought to do more to make college more affordable. I used to be able to see that far. [laughter] just a few years ago. You mentioned in School Subsidies can you explain it . To make under current law if you borrow from the f...

Our current state. Mr. Ryans commented that teachers dont have a common place they can go for the curriculum. They dont have a place of materials embedded by the district that aligns to our curricula goals to access videos and documents and other artifacts that are used. Our employee system is over ten years old and it barely supports really the basic transactions of managing an employee. When i was a new hire i had 12 different forms and filled out the exact same information on moegs of those f...

The next thing we need to do is we dont really have a very clear picture of all the devices that are out there, which schools have which devices, which software is on there. So its critical we implement a comprehensive Management System. Our finance department has already started that work to roll out the system for next year and his teams already going to auditing to see whats out there. The other thing i want to do is that pretty much every School District has this history of they get one time...

Were only at 7 percent right now. Devices need to be current and reliable. If theyre more than 4 years old, that the time devices start having issues and become unusable. We need to get one to one device ratio, right now were 1 to [inaudible] device ratio. At the early years prek through 5, we need a mix of tablets and laptops. Then sixth through eighth thats where the shift starts going. Then grades nine through 12 we allow students o bring their own device, however there will be a district fun...