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Got to empower School Districts, weve got to empower parents, weve got to empower bystanders. When my daughter was bullied in 7th grade, her friends saw it, but they were paralyzed. They didnt know what to do and they did nothing. I dont begrudge thipl for that, they are wonderful kids, but they didnt have the tools to do anything about it. So we work on those issues and we work on those and our local School District was remarkable in their reaction. But in the work that we have done, ruslyn and i across the country, we have seen too many School Districts, quite frankly, that have been slow to...

The partnerships that have been out here. Im so impressed that we recognize that bullying is no longer simply the bullying of your fists but its the bullying that can come through the use of twitter, through the use of other social media. We did a case, again a hate crimes case involving an individual who called himself devilfish who over the internet was sending Death Threats to the heads of the National Council of irasa to other organizations that had the audacity to october on behalf of immigrants. And we prosecuted him. You described one just now, that is not an isolated incident. You know...

Press we are finding a large number of students are not on track to graduate and our first class to graduate a through g is set in the next few semesters. We have a short timeframe to do that in. We have made this commitment to grow and encourage jobs in the city. We new he had to make sure that our students that are growing up in the city are able to access those jobs because theyre graduating collegeready. I want to be clear when we talk about a through g i hear the debate not all kids have to go to college and i agree but all of our kids have to graduate ready for college because you gradua...

Classes the level of cuts that theyve been experienced has not allowed our School District to fully support the program that is needed to do that. I think, also, with our city passing really the highest budget that we have seen in our citys history i think its more important than ever that we really step our support for your families and our kids. That being said i think that there are a lot of conversations in kind of moving targets as were finding different moneys coming in from the last fiscal year so i wanted to allow greater time for a conversation to happen about both sources of funding ...

Wealthy as San Francisco we have a School District that is facing a crisis. We have about half of our students in this class of 2014 that may not be able to graduate and meet the requirements. San francisco has to do better than that. And even though money is not everything, the ability for us to commit resources as a city is really important. And what i understand of this item is that there is a discussion about whether or not to tie the funding thats underlying this item to the Rainy Day Fund. And to the extent that happens, to the extent that there is a connection between this appropriation...