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Access to education would provide a Better Future for the children. Today that belief remains the same. Education is a pathway for future success. However access to high quality education still remains an illusions to many children. Too many African American and other people of color remain segregated in other schools and determined desperate and in later life. A huge gap in problems across the country. Add to that the concept of unconscious bias, low expectations and high expulsion and suspension rates and its so many reasons why they fall below the bar. Even in San Francisco where we have th...

He doesnt know what it is to have a living room, neither him or the other children. And i am here now requesting your help. For all the races, for all the people. Thank you so much, supervisor mar. Thank you so much, supervisor avalos. You are also aware of our situation. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors. My name is [speaker not understood] collins and im here with the homeless coalition. I wear this black because its a black cloud over San Francisco. Im a person that [speaker not understood] homeless to my children for two years. Today i look, i go to diff...

Like, when people getting ready to get evicted with the attorneys and stuff, so, thats why im asking yall to help them, the program so they can be able to have attorneys. Like myself, when i was evicted, they had lawyers that were paid a lot of money. And when it came time for me to go to court, they had two lawyers that can help people like me to stay in their home. So, thats why im urging that yall support this. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Jennifer Friedenbach and im the director of the coalition on homelessness and it is time to wake up, San Fra...

Be able to have attorneys. Like myself, when i was evicted, they had lawyers that were paid a lot of money. And when it came time for me to go to court, they had two lawyers that can help people like me to stay in their home. So, thats why im urging that yall support this. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Jennifer Friedenbach and im the director of the coalition on homelessness and it is time to wake up, San Francisco. We have a massive housing crises and its hitting hard. Its hitting fast, and its hitting with brutal force. Right now we have elderly wo...

Segregated in other schools and determined desperate and in later life. A huge gap in problems across the country. Add to that the concept of unconscious bias, low expectations and high expulsion and suspension rates and its so many reasons why they fall below the bar. Even in San Francisco where we have the highest performing schools we have the highest achievement gap among African American and latino students. We need to invest more in the future of our young people. In 1964, dr. King said, the richest nation on earth has never allocated sufficient schools to allocate teachers. We squander ...