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Important inreflection point for street soccer u. S. A. Because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just San Francisco recreation and park department, and together, were going to continue to work with our citys most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. I want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u. S. A. , and live your life. Get a better life. Right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay. Welcome to pricidia middle school. I am emma dunbar and i had the eno...

Were starting to see some gains in math achievement. We focused on investing and professional development for teachers. Across the united states, its very challenging to actually recruit math and science teachers. Particularly right now in the bay area to retain. Who believes that living in the bay area is expensive, raise your hand. Okay. So were working creatively, the mayor, corporate, Public School systems to figure out how can we make a place . We cannot can thriving cities unless our Public Servants can afford to live in the city. Am i right . That is a problem that we all need to take o...

Employee, raise your hand so i can thank you. [ applause ]. Ill tell you, these results, its really working. We monitor if were doing the right things. We see these incredible results for San Francisco and oakland. For fulltime teachers for math and technology. A surge of kids who are enrolled in stem and Computer Science. More young women and more students of color. Higher attendance rates. Higher math scores. Higher grades. You guys all have to get higher grades now, isnt that good news . Thats what were expecting you to be in school more and have higher grades because of this. This year wer...

Our serious attention, love, and care. Thank you for investigating in th that. [ applause ]. Finally, i want to recognize your continuing investment in middle schools. Middle school was miserable for me. It was a hard time. And yet, it is one of the most crucial turning points in our life, when you find your identity, where you start to dream big, where you start to see your future unfold before you. As i introduce our next speaker, i will share something personal because i know shes going to go into a little bit more depth about the oakland investment. One little fun fact about the two of us....

About him. That is ed lee. It was really mayor lee that had the vision that we felt so strongly about to work on the 12 middle schools. That was seven years ago and now we can see today here is this incredible manifestation of our middle schools getting rebooted and its in his memory that were doing this work. Lets remember him and lets say thank you as well to all of you for being here. Thank you for your support of our kids. Thank you to the kids also. So thank you guys for coming here. [ cheering and applause ]. One thing about doing this is the kids are always like, this is boring, when is...