Bullets that sfusd high schoolers, 46 are riding muni to school and 63 from school so more there are more High School Students who are using muni to get home and we can imagine why, parents at work and the like, and so commissioner fewer you mentioned that the mta provides some Important Services for students, but in turn its important for the Transportation System as a whole to have our students choosing a sustainable mode of transportation, be it walking or taking muni for the Transportation System to work so we recognize that as well and we think both free muni for youth and all of the programs we can encourage the youth of sustainable forms of transportation is very important to the city as a whole so i will stop there and i would like to turn it over to julie to talk you through the next section. Thank you ms. Su. Good afternoon. The muni has a really long history of serving Transportation Needs of children and schools, and when we go out and we do focus groups with students one o
Took us years to get there, years and years and years of being told that couldnt be done, and it seemed particularly are you talking about the school troopers . Yes and it seemed particularly difficult for students to understand that and maybe increase a lot of activism around transportation because it wasnt as much of a problem in the morning when adults go to work when they go to school but in the afternoon there was increased frequency of buses and streetcars when adults were going home but they were very crowded in the afternoon when kids were going home from school so it took a long time and i really, really appreciate it so much, and actually the data that shows how much less crowded the buses are is really remarkable, and also i really i do want us to Pay Attention to which is kind of surprising to me, the data about how kids are getting to school, who is using what Transportation Systems and other ways to get to school. It is amazing how many what percentage of kids come to sch
Youth activity by zip code. You can see over 26,000 students have enrolled in the Program Since its inception of march 2013. We extended the eligibility to include 18 year olds as well as 1922 year olds that are enrolled in sfusd education services. The Program Costs over two years in the order of 8 million. Our next challenge will be to find a stable longterm Funding Source for this program, but it is heavily used throughout the city in particular in the Southeast Quadrant as well as the north of market. We are also always trying to learn more about how students use the system. We did the transit effectiveness project which is a Systems Study in 2007 and 2008. I had the opportunity to do focus groups with students and really talk to them. We partnered with the Youth Commission so we had student facilitators so we trained the students and they had a dialogue and that was really interesting and we learned a lot about some of the challenges and opportunities of riding muni. We also were
Welcome back to bay area focus. Im susan sikora. The agenda has been preock pied by the drama in syria. Where does that leave Immigration Reform and what is the process of becoming a citizens right now. For answers, we welcome back dr. Sanders hernandez, the department of health for the city and county of San Francisco and is an assistant clinical professor at ucss school of medicine. Dr. Hernandez is the ceo of the San Francisco foundation, one of several groups partnering with the city to help eligible immigrants become citizens. Welcome back. Good to have you. Thank you. Lets talk about this and seems like Everything Else is on the burner. This is going to be pushed back again. Are you discouraged by that and do you think its going to get the play it needs and the attention it needs . Im not discouraged. I think important to note that the senate, on a bipartisan basis, has approved a bill. Uhhuh. That has many of the important provisions that we. Okay, lets talk about that. The sena
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