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Night before. She said, we do not believe in terrorism. She demonstrated this. This extraordinary inner fortitude that she possessed, which was a quality of hers to an extent that very few other peep in World History can demonstrate. She had that. She stood up and she showed it. I think that must have given courage to not just her party but the country. There was fear around. She was going to give in to it. I think thats one of the extraordinary qualities. Thats a tremendous fitting end to the discussion. Thank you very much for our three distinguished guests for a fascinating and extremely in...

Children represent 61 of our total enrollment and i think you see why this is is because weve had a real emphasis on helping children from low income communities accessing preschool and we started that way rolling out. This next slide which i think is impressive when you compare it to other communities in california and the nation shows that we have increased preschool attendance of four year olds in San Francisco and 80 enrollment in San Francisco which is really high but were proud that we have seen an increase in our africanamerican students from 68 to 79 and for latino students from 54 to ...

There are no announcements. Can you call the first item. Item 1 is hearing requesting San Franciscos prekindergarten and the transitional kindergarten from the San Francisco Unified School District and department of children, youth, and their families and control control and the Mayors Office of education on the current citizen of the programs. Thank you. We called this meeting at a request of one of the commissioners and with the coalescing of the prek programs under department of children, youth, and their families and the commission this committee is interested in hearing a little more on t...

Mention is there are number of programs in the high schools to move people in a more vocational way. Bob lerman is here. There are apprenticeship programs that should be expanded. There are cte programs that get people into Community College occupational programs. Those are all fine and good. But if were talking about the people who arent at the most risk of not graduating high school, its really the direct employment. And secondly finding ways to link up, to have partnerships with Certificate Programs and very narrow occupational programs. And many of those programs are given by the four prof...

Harsher penalties and least likely to be give an Second Chance and we see theyre more likely to live in communities with higher crime rates. Whether its reading at grade level by third grade or graduating from high school or unemployment, you see boys and young men of color double digit behind their peers. Then you have black boys make up 6 of the nations population but more than half of the nations murder victims. So you sit back and pause and realize theres something in the stream. So we should do something about it. At the same time though i think its important we dont forget the assetbased...