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Court this past week in a case called vagara versus the state of california. The question before the court are childrens rights violated when tenure rules make it difficult to fire underper forming or even incompetent teachers. A judge said, yes, children were hurt. The evidence, he said, shocks the conscience. But the ruling was overturned on appeal, and monday the state Supreme Court refused to hear the case. What originally shocked the conscience went down in defeat. Two Young Students are sisters from the los angeles area. They werent alone in bringing the lawsuit. David welch is a Silicon Valley millionaire and the money behind the suit, when hes not trying to make education better, he makes the environment better as a board member of the National Resources defense council. When hes not doing that, hes ceo of his company. Why did you get involved in this in the first place . Education is what we do. We have to teach our kids how to grow up and live in society. Education is probably the most important thing that the state can deliver to its citizens. Let me specify, you are using the royal we. This is all about us as a society and our responsibility. I grew up in a family as 1 of 7 kids and education was just a high priority for us because it gives you the tools necessary to be happy, productive lives. Did you have kids that i assume went to very nice schools. What made you say i want to help things that didnt . I took care of my kids because i was able to and i think all parents have that same passion, to be able to make sure that all their kids can get the education they need. Whats the Public School systems for many of us is fine. Number of people here from palo alto. Im from menlo park area. And the good schools in there but a lot of kids dont have access to good education. And if we cant figure out a system to educate all of the children, then we got a real problem. Matter of fact, i think it is probably the number one thing that challenges the democracy of this country is the inability to educate all of our children. So how big of a blow is this decision . You got to understand, start with what is vagara. It is a movement to recognize that the Education System is there for children. The first piece of that was to say, were not getting anywhere having this conversation in the legislature. Lets go put it in a court where they can listen to facts and remove it from rhetoric. Thats why we went to the courts to begin with, because we had to get out of the politics of this. Lets go look at the real reality. But how did you get out of the politics when the first thing of all the issues that you could take on in this matter you took on teachers and why start there . Arent there a lot of other things that need fixing about. Educational system . This is where i kind of crack up with the system. There is a lot of things that can be fixed. But if we spend all of our time trying to figure out whats the first to fix, were not going to get anything done. You might want to pick one that didnt involve the teachers union. Well, thats a possibility. But im more about whats the most impactf fuful thing for children. Studies say when it comes to teachers, aside of the physical safety of the building teachers are our savior. Our kids savior. They are the men in ators that them the passion in their lives. Time and time again you see people that want to make changes in the way that teachers unions are run and the way that education is run as it affects teachers. And theres been uproar. There have been like near revolutions. Right . So what made you think that you guys can do this . You know, i think people everybody i talk to matter of fact, the polls all indicate they have the same passions, they have the same sense of reality. The Education System is there for the children, period. Thats what its there for. You lost vergaro. Where does it go from here . We lost the case of vergara and it stalled in the state Supreme Court. The movement to get the Education System and the to be child centric and child where does this case go . You do it or do you this case is done unless it is resurrected in some kind of federal scenario. Could be. Weve elected, and on tuesday we filed a case in connecticut in federal court about creating equal opportunities for children in that state of connecticut where it is the greatest disparity between the education available to the lowincome versus highincome. It is the greatest disparity in the country. Here is an interesting scenario where they know how to make Great Schools but theyve had a moratorium on having magnet schools in there for seven years because they havent figured out whether it is successful or not. Well, thats crazy. Right . Thats putting i know the solution, how to give a child a great education, but im not going to let it happen. Well, thats not putting the child first in the Education System and thats where were going. Martinez versus malloy. So your first step was targeting the tenure system. As you said, that didnt happen. Whats the next step you come out of the Technology Industry. Isnt there something more productive that the millions and billions generated by the Technology Industry could be put to use doing rather than filing lawsuits . The most important thing in a childs education is the teacher. From a Technology Point of view, do whatever you can to get the best teacher in front of the classroom. But it is the teacher, that human being that delivers that education, is the most important thing. If you dont have that, all the technology around isnt going to do it for you. When you did go against teachers and i understand, you were trying to go against teachers that shouldnt be teachers. Not the teachers who are teachers who are doing a good job. People said mean things. Im going to read you one of them. Welch comes from the other side of the tracks to the lowincome students in the vergara suit purports to represent. He lives in a house worth over 10 million in atherton. One, they dont have a their information is neither pertinent nor correct. I am a citizen of this state and im an american citizen. I have as much at stake in the education of our inner city and our lowincome children as anybody other than their direct parents. Im going to read you another one. Why is david welch spending so much money . You wonder why someone like this is involved in issues that affect a community according to him and others, that he has no part in. Heres the tough one. Perhaps other than the fact that the people who look like us cut his lawn, you know, theres no connection. You know, thats just not true. I received beautiful emails over the last several days i had one from i dont remember her name, a hispanic family in san diego that said, please, please, keep the fight up. It is critical for the education of their children. I get that all the time. I am not here i have no personal gain from this. My children as you indicated earlier, theyre going to get educated well and they are being educated well. I just want to be able to make sure that everyone has that same opportunity. Does it hurt your feelings just personally . Does it hurt your feelings . There is no way you can take this on without thick skin. Im okay with when the people that dont want to put Children First in education resort to that defense, it just tells you a lot about them. Are you surprised though by the level of scrutiny about sort of who you are and why you would even take this on as an issue and a cause . Im surprised that an organization or organizations that represent teachers, who i passionately believe in, that are there to teach our education and educate our children would go to the misinformation direction on i question my teachers are misinforming my children . I go into the classroom and say theres something wrong here. David welch is the head of students matter. Studentsmatter. Org. Thank you for being with us. Thank you very much. Up next, making store shopping as easy and quick as online, an amazonian task when press here continues. Welcome back to press here. I have a friend, im not going to name him but he is a very intelligent store. He thought it was frickin Mortar Stores. When it is actually brick and Mortar Stores. Malls and Big Box Stores have got to figure out how to compete with amazon or they will not survive. Our guest is an intel executive who works with Companies Like levis and nordstroms to make the frickin Mortar Stores more accessible. One of the issues is do you have it in size large . I dont know. Let me check in the back. Ridiculous. You can solve with technology. You can. You talk about the frickin mortar. Ive never actually heard of that. I like it, i might have to steal it. But truly what you see are these retail battle lines being drawn between instore and front door. Its that frustrating Customer Journey thats forcing people to say, i dont want to go in store, im just going to have it delivered to my front door. Why would i drive all the way to the mall only to find out they dont have it. The interesting thing is 90 of purchases are still done in brick and Mortar Stores. But the real opportunity for reta retailers, when you walk in a store, whats the first question you usually ask where is im looking for a pair of jeans that are size 28. Where are they . 6 out of 10 consumers will actually leave because of lack of service. But when you can actually answer that in real time with a company like levis, all of a sudden your Customer Satisfaction goes up and, guess what . If you when locate the inventory thats in the store, in the back room, your bottom line also goes up. We know that a 3 increase in inventory accuracy in stores equal to a 1 increase in sales. I certainly dont work on wall street but i do know when they look at retail as main street, a 1 increase in sales is a pretty fricking big deal. My problem though is that just getting to the store. Like i dont there are certain stores that i still go to. But there is a whole category of things that i used to buy in person that i order online and i wont go back to buying them in stores. How does it solve that . Or is this a different problem or different demographic or what . I think there are a variety of problems actually facing retailers today. One of them certainly is declining store traffic. Right . Theres been an over 7 decline in store traffic. So retailers are trying to scramble to figure out how do i get people to come back to my store. For the items that you traditionally bought at a grocery store, most people are actually going to amazon. Some of the statistics now of where cpg brands like a kraft box of mac and cheese previously was being bought in a grocery store, now it is actually being bought on amazon. You could make the arguments that gives us more time to go to other stores. It frees up if im not going to the grocery store, i might go to the mall. You might. Part of what intel is actually doing with a lot of the retailers and Hospitality Companies and cpg companies is helping them actually rethink the store experience. We also know think about the favorite store that you most recently visited. Youll stay longer in that store if the store experience is good. And you have the service that you want. What does that mean . Does that mean like Virtual Reality headsets for all the customers so they can i mean how does it actually impact me when im walking in the door of that store . What are you going to give me to make me want to stay there and come back . Sure. So i think it really depends on the type of retail you are talking about. But since you brought up Virtual Reality, there are cop out there that weve actually started working with using Virtual Reality to help frame up have either of you done a Home Improvement project where you want to know exactly where your Kitchen Cabinets are going to be. With intel and Virtual Reality, you can actually put these headsets on and actually start to see in real time what your kitchen will look like, when youre buying a new refrigerator. How do you actually know when youre in in San Francisco, the stores are quite small so theyre not going to have all of the refrigerators. Using our technology, you can actually kind of extend that aisle, put the goggles on. And when you pull out virtually you open the door, you can see, oh, heres all the different types of heres how big a refrigerator is, heres how much you can actually stuff in a refrigerator. What bothers you about the store Shopping Experience . If you could fix it, whether or not you had the tlonl echnologyr not. What would you fix . I have four young kids under 10 so i hate shopping. Im the mom thats dragging the kid through the store. So for me, the more that you can change that store experience and provide technology thats engaging for the consumers and not just added on. Yeah. Its not just the addones. The other thing that i think were seeing a big trend in retail, we spend 90 of our time on our smartphones checking email and messaging each other. Its the first time that weve actually seen that exceed our time on social media. But to me, it is ridiculous that i still have to call a business versus actually message them and ask them on my phone really quick, hey, do you have that pair of size 9 1 2 shoes in stock. Technology exists to do that but retailers havent quite figured out what theyre going to do. With about a minute left, why not . Why doesnt a kohls or whatnot have a person who sits in the back . Or a bot. Or a bot. I think the whole bot era is coming up. As far as what a company like kohls is doing, it comes down to the labor that you put in your store. Again, thats a big part of what intel is actually working directly with these retailers on, whats the role of the associate in the store, whats the role of the store. And how do you actually, frankly, bring the store to the consumer. So you gave the perfect example of you dont want to go to the store anymore. Well, retailers are trying to figure out now how to bring the store to the consumer. Were actually working with xrc labs, which is an accelerator out of new york city, and we found a really unique startup. And it is a popup store thats actually generating 6,000 per square foot. It is a 6x6 this is where . In new york city. It is a 6x6 popup store. Selling . Selling whatever a retailer wants. It is enabling retail as a selves and we are equipping it with Intel Technology to drive anticipate lit ics analytics. Up next, policing the police . Press here continues. Lshg back to press here. Predictive policing is now relatively common place. These days, one of the most interesting uses of computers in Police Departments is to police the police. Using big data and Machine Learning to determine which officers could be at risk of violence or even just simple bias. Computers in fact were used to help the San Francisco district attorneys Blue Ribbon Panel investigate several Police Officers for misconduct. Rowan vogel was in charge of the investigation and is a worldrec fiz worldrecognized. What an interesting thing to do, not just do crime prediction but to use big data to try to figure out what policers may need more guidance or just shouldnt be Police Officers. Thats right. So technology is having a big impact on the law and in popular private sector weve seen a lot of new technologies being used, Machine Learning, big data. But it is coming to the public sector. Policing of course a very important area. Weve had the opportunity to work with San Francisco d. A. Office on a project that looks into 4,000 Police Reports. Actually, youre probably familiar with the story of the 14 Police Officers that were suspended from the force for racial Text Messages that the d. A. s office came across by coincidence actually. Started to begin the investigation. The d. A. s office is very worried that those Police Officers would bring reports that are racially biased and they would see it through to trial and maybe even to conviction. Could your stanford computers predict bias . When you talk about Machine Learning and big data, Machine Learning can help a lot in pattern detection and summarization. That helps us understand trends that are going on. It can also help in prediction. Thats what makes a lot of people uncomfortable. People think about minority reports. And so the problem is that many of those algorithms that are in use in policing or in other contexts of the criminal Justice System, in sentencing and so on, are socalled black box algorithms. We dont know how they operate and we are actually talking about use of information in highstakes context. Sorry. Are the algorithms the problem or the data thats feeding in to these systems . Whats not well, its frankly, we dont understand how the algorithm is using databasically. And how thelgorithm weighs certain information to come to the conclusion. When the human Decision Maker gives a lot of deference to the system, that the system well, we dont really know how it operates is it important that it be open in a government sort of thing. We understand what t does somebody understand what the algorithm does . Are you making that open so that people can understand it . So the Research Proj e ject still ongoing. The first step for us is to extract the information through the pdfs in the police report. Thats a trivial task. Experts in bringing unstructured data into structured data and only when the data is structured can we do any meaningful analysis. What kinds of things are you looking for . Or what have you found . So it is a little bit premature to tell. Weve been looking at 89 fields that the d. A. Department the San Francisco d. A. Told us are of interest. Weve been putting those in to a structured database. Now the analysis is really only about to begin. Weve learned im not a psychologist, but to show i think the ultimate goal of this project is to create a screening tool for prosecutors where they could potentially look at Police Reports and identify Police Reports that might be based on bias. When will you have the Data Available or the analysis available . So i think we are looking at a multiyear Research Project. Smuure. Sure. And that will have to involve not only Machine Learning experts but also criminologists, psychologists to really understand what the patterns we are detecting, what they actually mean. Then at the next step, how should those patterns inform prosecutors in the future and policy more generally. Criminal Justice System is beset by delays and bureaucracy. I mean you look at study after study has shown that. Can any of this technology be used, deployed simply to make the system work faster and more efficiently . Keep your answer really short. Well, the hope is, yes. The mission is to Bring Technology to the legal system, make it more efficient for all stakeholders and so, yes, think technology will help in making it more efficient. But there is problems in different data standards that are being used. In different definitions at different Police Departments following for certain kinds of information. So those are the problems we have to overcome. Thank you for being with us. Thank you very much for having me. Press here will be back in just a minute. Thats our show for this week. My thanks to my guests. Roland vogil, rachal mushawar and david welch. Im scott mcgrew. Thank you for making us part of your sunday morning. Rujillo hello and welcome to comunidad del valle. Im damian trujillo, and today, the San Francisco International Latino film festival, cine mas, is back on our show. Glitz and glamour on your comunidad del valle. Male announcer nbc bay area presents comunidad del valle with damian trujillo. Damian and speaking of glitz and glamour, we begin here on comunidad del valle with a local clothing designer, and shes gone a long way. With me is lia larrea on comunidad del valle. Welcome to the show. Lia larrea thank you. Damian well, tell us about your line. You brought a wholei mean, a whole wardrobe here. Tell us about your clothing, who its designed for, and where can we get. Lia sure, well, its very versatile clothing, two pieces in one, reversible and water resistant fabrics, that is really easy to wear and is very comfortable. We recently just designed the hats that are made in ecuador