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Less resources to soft power there are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are and certainly in our office we devote significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a sh...

Want that to be true we have to be just with one another and i think thats what were trying to do in oakland. [applause] District Attorney. Well first of all i would like to thank you for putting this together. I also want to thank katie miller and rebecca from my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and Common Sense Media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the School District we started Public Information a year ago and my partner Ri...

Or little n and thats just the way we greet each other and for someone that entered school only speaking spanish and you think about the language issues and in spanish i can tell you a whole bunch of terms that people use to great each other that are so racist, homo phobic and have a length and accepted as accepted and we need to Work Together and were dealing with a culture we are trying to shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as pr...

From my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and Common Sense Media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the School District we started Public Information a year ago and my partner Richard Carranza who is an incredible superintendent, someone i am proud to work with. First of all let me tell you that bullying takes many different shapes. It can be physical, it can be emotional, it can be verbal. I can tell you having been a non English ...

Everyone administration and the board, if you do to show your appreciation by giving us the raise that we have earned, thank you. Good evening, and my name is luparas and good evening superintendent carranza and the general public. I am the representative of the local Service Employees that represent and the living 100 workers that work here at the School District and i am also assigned as the chief spokesperson for our bargaining unit. We have been bargaining since march. And the last meeting w...

Shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as prevention. We dont want to be responding to issues once they happen so we work very hard to build relationships that are truly centered around individuality in the schools so to be proactive we build these strong communities. We have conversations about our communities. Our balance score cards at every one of our schools developed and revises every year has a component talking about a safety H...

Havent to the conversation today. Last is cheryl young and the chief executive director of gate path and oversees a large nonprofit in San Mateo County and focus on turning disabilities into possibilities and shes a wonderful addition to the panel and its an area that School Districts have to deal with in terms of special needs and what were talking about affects these children if not more than the other children so thank you cheryl. [applause] so we have a large panel and they can all tell you ...

Shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happ...

There are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are and certainly in our office we devote significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, ...

This through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of cooperation and collaboration between all different county agencies and were sphere ...