Discussion draft. I hope we can begin conversations about a truly bipartisan approach to help fix this broken law. I know the members on my side are anxious to begin work and to continue the long tradition of this committee tackling tough problems in a bipartisan fashion. Fixing no child left behind should not be a partisan issue. It should be one that we do work hand in hand not as democrats and republicans but as americans. This is an issue that is not about politics. It is about what is best for our kids. In our country we believe that every student should have access to a quality Public Education regardless of where they live or how they learn or how much money their parents make. That vision is a big part of what we mean when we talk about america, what makes our country great. Other countries in the world are investing in education. They are working every day to get it right for their students. China, india and others think they can beat us in the classroom. We know better. We kn
Secondly, there we will be time for audience questions. Please take the time, come to the microphone so everyone can here the question, we can get it recorded. At the end please do us a huge favor, fall the pictures. It will give us more room for the book signing. Its a nice gesture to our staff. Welcome to politics and prose. I run the instore events. I would invite you to take a minute, pick up up a copy of february events calendar. It should be great. We do events in store almost every night. Take a minute and check it out. You can find is all over social media facebook, twitter, histogram. Anyway, onto tonights main event. Please to event. Please to have with us reggie love to discuss his new book tracing his unique trajectory where he yesterday. In college and most of you no. In the book talks about the coach is a great mentor and then it talks about what he got to washington. On the campaign trail in the white house. So its just amazing to see the influence. We are excited to her
Our number of graduates by over 1,000 students a year, increased on time Graduation Rate for our africanamerican, latino students by over 60 . We have decreased dropout rates by over 60 . We have gone from a School District with our students having the lowest rate of year on year student progress of any major district in the state to being now the district for three years in a row where our students on a student by student basis are demonstrating the highest rate of yearly academic progress. As a result our enrollment is booming as families come back to and stay in our schools. In the last seven years our enrollment has increased by a remarkable 25 . Nevertheless we continue to have significant achievement gaps between our students based on income and race and ethnicity. We are determined to eliminate those achievement gaps. One key to our progress is our refusal to be imprisoned by debates and false conflicts that we often see around us. We need to focus on what works for our kids. We
Downtown with a 15minute drive time. More coming up. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. President obama says he has ordered a full review of u. S. Drone strikes that killed an american hostage in pakistan. The incident actually happened in january. But the cia did not realize until this month that two hostages were killed. American aid worker Warren Weinstein and italian giovanni lo porto. I profoundly regret what happened. On behalf of the United States government, i offer our deepest apologies. The president said based on the intelligence available in january, the u. S. Believed it was attacking an al qaeda compound with no civilians present. The drone strikes also killed two american members of al qaeda. Today muni is rolling out some upgrades among the changes signs at every stop that list a complete name of the routes, plus each lines major stops and final destinations. Theres also a new simplified system map with thicker lines for more frequent routes, increased Bus Service Starts
Qaeda were also killed. Cia is not required to target a specific person when launching drone strikes. A cupertino teenager is back with his family three days after he vanished leading to a big search in the south bay. The Sheriffs Office says Connor Sullivan returned home on his own last night. The 17yearold had disappeared from high school on monday. Now he is safe. But no word on where he was. Muni is rolling out what it calls the biggest series of Service Improvements in decades. Kpix 5s ryan takeo joins us live in San Francisco to tell us about some of the changes. Good morning, ryan. Reporter well, one change you will notice is that the shelters here revamped with decals like this one out on the njudah line in the haight. You see a new map because there will be new routes that will be changing going into effect this weekend. But another huge change aims to ease overcrowding. Muni will increase service for almost onethird of its riders so riders on the busiest lines at the busiest