Started testing the new streetcar today. The new streetcar just added this weekend, and its a big change for People Living there along the h street corridor. And we are going to get a live report from derek ward in just a moment, but first, a lot more sun today. Heres chuck with the forecast. Hey, chuck. Yeah, were all very happy to see the sunshine, making a comeback. And we get to see the sunshine for a couple of days now. So a nice day to get outside and enjoy it. Temperatures are pretty close to average on the sunday afternoon, the view from the tower camera looking back out over the boston area, lots of sunshine across arlington county, and even further to the west, through fairfax, prince william, loudon, lovettsville, plenty of sunshine, and cloud cover through Northern Maryland. The wind gusts are starting to increase out to the west, and those increasing winds are coming into the rest of the area. So morning clouds, then clearing, turning breezy today, temperatures in the uppe
Superintendent carranza. Thank you president norton. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and by the way youre rolling your rs better and better every meeting. I am very impressed so ladies and gentlemen welcome this evening. I would like to share a few thoughts and theyre some letters that parents and students have receiving at home. As youre aware the graduation requirements are more rigorous. Due to the changes many of the students are missing one or more classes to graduate. While we have every confidence the students will make up the classes we through the support of the city of San Francisco have received credit for earning options for the affected students which includes offering Evening School for the first time in four years and online courses. To make sure that the families are available of the options we sent automatic robeo dialer calls to contact families and as well as a letter that families should have received from me. We encourage all students and families to review the t
Audience tonight who are now or who have ever been associated with peer resources to please stand. [applause] thank you so much and so i turn it over now to ms. Tam to say a few words. Hi. Once again i am ms. Tam director of peer resources. Thank you. We are honored by this commendation and excited to be here. We especially while i have the chance i want to thank you all for your support at peer resources especially at this critical time of transition and as the superintendent mentioned we are now independent and a project of community initiative, so moving forward peer resources mission is to create justice change in our schools and communities through the leadership of young people engaging, training and advocating for young people, and with that im going to turn the podium over to Dominique Sanchez. [applause] all right. So i am Dominique Sanchez and i want to thank the school board and the superintendent for this honor and having me here and Peer Resource Program is a program that
Something and i apologize in advance, but in the interest of time i will turn it over to barry. Thank you. [ applause ] yes, to wrap this up here, two lendors on st. Anthonys side, the lowincome investment fund, Nancy Andrews is here and the bank of America Elizabeth shooten, i believe is here and we want to thank them both. Because st. Anthonys helps the lowincome housing fund get started back in the 90s, we were going to have nancy say just a word or two. Nancy. [ applause ] thank you everyone and its just fantastic to see so many san franciscans turn out for this groundbreaking. I am Nancy Andrews. Im the president and ceo of the lowincome investment fund. We are a San Franciscobased Community Capital Nonprofit Organization and our role in this project was to provide a 10 million allocation of new markets tax credits. You heard leader pelosi speak about the importance of this program. Every year the new markets Program Provides billions of dollars to projects similar to this one. An
Dominique sanchez and i want to thank the school board and the superintendent for this honor and having me here and Peer Resource Program is a program that allows the youth to educate their peers and we cover topics such as peer pressure, self esteem, sexiel Decision Making and my class is working in racism and we work on how to combat interpersonal and racism and we get to pick the topics that we want to learn about, but personally pier resources is not just a program to do extra circular activities and i can open up. I surround myself with people from different backgrounds. I feel im a leader and can compete in the top ton Ivy League Schools and i can take on everything and i want to thank her for her help and i never thought i would be up here speaking and i am thankful for being here and lets go 49ers. [applause] any comments from the board . Well, i will just say on behalf of the board how much we appreciate the work of peer resources for our students and thank you to the commissi