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Percentage. These are current juniors. Who are africanamerican in the system, and it shows how many are on track or off track. So you can see out of the 323 students, we have 84 who are on track. But the remainder need to have Credit Recovery options in order to be able to graduate on time. Of our latino students of 323, in the 11th grade. Sorry. Wrong chart. 821. In the 11th grade. You can see that we have 265 who are on track. Meeting their benchmark courses. That remainder, the 364 and 114 and 39 and 39 will not graduate on time unless they are afforded the opportunity to take Credit Recove...

The last of the reserve. I agree but the fact is that the School District has the entire amount. And thats the question i have, that its a big priority that you would use some reserves to pay for dealing with this onetime problem and emergency that i heard comments made. And thats what i want to get to with the School District from the week that follows to the board of supervisors. And thats something that we want to see, and last time there was a request for 6 million in addition to other things that may be coming down this citys and Boards Committee job to analyze. And so i dont think that i...

Teacher in the School District. I know first hand what its like to work and send your kids to school. And second hand what its like to go to school in the School District. We are facing tremendous challenges financially. I am really glad that we have the opportunity to provide funding and support to bring flexibility to the budget for the School District. I am glad we have a plan in place to target the funds to provide. Hopefully we will. Targeting students at risk not graduating from school. To me its critical. And matches a lot of policies we put forward as a city. At how we make the investm...

I will call other speaker cards remaining. Monica florez mrs. Yong. Rene antavares. Please approach the mic. Hello, i am the education advocate for chinese education. And i work with a lot of chinese families with English Learners. And the data shows that 69 of English Learners in 11th grade are missing requirements or off track to graduate in 2014. And thats overwhelming over 500 student. And because of the additional english classes the students have to take. They are unable to fulfill the requirements and therefore they need the additional funding for the credits. The families need the guid...

It probably should be 793,000 . In front of us. Have the balance come from the state reserve, correct . Okay. So i wanted to clarify that, and glad that that was amended and changed. I know that young and other folks at the School District have been working hard with the Mayors Office to work on that number and really trying to work that number down in a way that didnt jeopardize the credentialing program so i want to thank the School District for making the effort to do that. So i am very supportive of the reduction to that level. I think thats a good sign. The area where i still continue to ...