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Good evening. Im Joshua Johnson of qkqed news. Imagine that your fate was determined by a coin toss. Heads you win, tails you lose. Or die. Sounds extreme. But that is what many africanamerican boys in oakland face as they work to complete high school. In the last decade, the number of black males who have died on the city streets is nearly equal to the number who have graduated from its high schools ready for college. But now there are new efforts in the School System to turn this around. The s...

Of labor, thomas perez. Good luck the only service that can be sustained in america are minimum wage, no benefit jobs. I categorically reject that woodruff and schools in oakland, california, want to curb a decade of declining graduation rates. We profile programs aimed at engaging students. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foun...

Good luck the only service that can be sustained in america are minimum wage, no benefit jobs. I categorically reject that woodruff and schools in oakland, california, want to curb a decade of declining graduation rates. We profile programs aimed at engaging students. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve...

Good evening. Im Joshua Johnson of qkqed news. Imagine that your fate was determined by a coin toss. Heads you win, tails you lose. Or die. Sounds extreme. But that is what many africanamerican boys in oakland face as they work to complete high school. In the last decade, the number of black males who have died on the city streets is nearly equal to the number who have graduated from its high schools ready for college. But now there are new efforts in the School System to turn this around. The s...

Good evening. Im Joshua Johnson of qkqed news. Imagine that your fate was determined by a coin toss. Heads you win, tails you lose. Or die. Sounds extreme. But that is what many africanamerican boys in oakland face as they work to complete high school. In the last decade, the number of black males who have died on the city streets is nearly equal to the number who have graduated from its high schools ready for college. But now there are new efforts in the School System to turn this around. The s...

Statement bills, weve, you know, stood on the we havent gotten much actually to happen. So now do you start to say, heres our philosophy, heres where we are, we understand whats going on in the debt and deficit and destruction but we have a bunch of debt deniers right now other in the senate that, look, this this debt devastate devastation thats coming is coming. Do we have an obligation to try to find a way to actually get a piece of legislation all the way to the president s desk where we get ...

Superintendent . Thank you president norton, i would like to call the director kevin chavez who will take us through item m. Good evening, commissioners, and superintendent, so this is regarding the title 3 Improvement Plan that we are required to submit to the California Department of education. San Francisco Unified School District receives title 3 funding from the federal government to help English Learners to speak, read and write in english. And to achieve success in reading and mathematics...

Flexibility to layoff the employees for the 2013, 14 Academic School year. Of equal importance is our classified staff which includes Early Education, teachers and para professionals. We have more flexibility with this particular category and that we have a rolling 60 day noticing requirement. We ask you tonight that you approve these resolutions together. This slide is an overview of our workforce. As you can see we have about 3900 prek through 12 teachers broken down by teacher and nonclassroo...

Employees and students and families. My hope was that this year i would not sit here. Well im not into any slides yet. So, my hope last year was that this year i would not sit before you and present these resolutions. However, as you will see our circumstances warrant taking these actions. Do i have it . Okay. Okay, this is an overview of what the presentation consists of. Our fiscal out look is much better than it was last year, the passage of prop 30 stopped the cuts to our budget. And we stan...

Not into any slides yet. So, my hope last year was that this year i would not sit before you and present these resolutions. However, as you will see our circumstances warrant taking these actions. Do i have it . Okay. Okay, this is an overview of what the presentation consists of. Our fiscal out look is much better than it was last year, the passage of prop 30 stopped the cuts to our budget. And we stand to get an increase in funding compared to the Previous Year if the governors recent Budget P...