Educational reformers to suffocate almost every Single Initiative designed to instill opportunity at an early age for all children. Not just some because a worldclass Education System is one that releases the potential in all children, not just some. My mother worked as a teacher with children and myself and my brothers and sisters when we were growing up. In those days it was and is readily recognize that bright children could be hampered by learning difficulties which may obscure their talent but doesnt make them any less bright. Those days countless children were discarded by the Education System because children were not treated as individuals. They were expected to conform to the rigors of the classroom or be left behind. And my mother drummed into us what seems so obvious today, that you dont write anyone off. You dont overlook anyones talents. Given half a chance everyone can succeed and for me that is my commitment to expanding childcare to all two, three and 4yearolds is all a
Difference. Were prepared to say that English Learners are receiving i mean that were meeting our obligation to English Learners in dual language immersion well absolutely is that. I think the data shows they have great benefits is not perfect can we do better i think were constantly looking at data to see how the English Learners are not mark a benchmark so looking at the larger study over time helped we continue to look at data on an annual basis what interventions and benefits if the students and programs are not performing. Mr. Haney. Commissioner fewer. Thank you, chris tiny think we started with a plan to meet the needs of English Learners our legal obligation i think its working into Something Different in our vision 2025 its our intent that every student in our district will be bilingual in order to be have a leg up contemplating in the 21st century is a great gift and great asset to have if we so when i am thinking about the pathways we have im also looking at who are we not s
So with sfusd as part of a framework weve had a really strong journey targeted multi lingualism starting with the bio Cultural Program in 1975 when we had a proposition pass we provided programs and just you know come employed what we had to do in 2006 the school board formed a resolution to preparing all students for multi lingual world in 2008 the most recently one was simpleminded in 2010 was the resolution around that c lc so take into account the languages we have in sfusd those are all the languages other than english in our district so you as you can see there are over 70 languages those are the biggest cantonese and spanish being the largest and tagalog and arabic if we look at the el languages again mccain necessary and spanish with different percentages but still the same growing population with tagalog and arabic over 60 el languages different pathway we provide a number of them those are the brief definitions in the el Program Guide you have here are 0 more descriptions and
Of our consideration of other strategies to try to meet our goals of limiting rational isolation or whatever in that area and im interested in the and would like to have an opportunity for marry discussion from schools ill be in touch with the staff to make a plan about the experience of students going into the expanded High School Programs because theres been a lot we share that among the parents youll hear salesladies the students and parents will come to the podium and say thats our understand they talk about the programs which any sense is through im not an expert in this ear well have difficulty providing we can have enthusiasm but we do things go as well as philosophical commitments but rather we know that teachers who are quality to teach will academic subjects not in english languages are not available so what kind of strategies do we use and what specials students that going go into our programs how good is the instruction you know how do we just that and the sentiment are not
We are a lot further i touch this for all but over the last 10 years, senator, and were finally now starting to work on concrete, moving forward with a plan. I feel much better than i have in recent years. Thank you. I want to switch to follow on the question centered king had talked about in terms of the arctic. I will be a little more blunt. We have a dod 13 page Arctic Strategy and get when you look at what the russians are doing in the arctic, its actually quite president. Impressive but disturbing. So im sure you gentlemen are somewhat familiar, but general dempsey mentioned in testimony with the secretary of defense last week the russians are looking at for new arctic combat brigades. I think that would give Vladimir Putin a lot of joy. They are building new airfields 13 airfields. They are conducting Long Range Air patrols off the coast of alaska again. They have incredibly six to icebreakers coming, five more planned to add to their fleet of 40. Meanwhile, the United States is