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
But its a mostly positive picture in europe and the roadmap today starts with what else but the markets set to open higher yet again after comments from russian president Vladimir Putin but with the fed meeting kicking off today will stocks go back to trading on news from this country. After a long wait one of microsofts flagship programs is coming to your i pad, well tell you which one in just a moment. And theres a new player joining the used video game market and its the biggest retailer in this country. Find out if used games will boost walmarts stock a little later on this hour. Wow, we got a big day, jim, and most of the news today, the news flow, is coming out of russia. Yes. Putin is responsible for the futures being higher. Well, obviously took a big position at the close. Do you think that do you think facetious and here comes another facetious comment. I saw you said that norway and ireland are down. Dublin and oslo worried about putin coming in there. I love the idea that s
Is how do we teach students to determine what is useful and what is useless. And that changes our classroom dramatically. We have to teach those skills and information that they have is not all that is just we need to teach them how to access it, but how do we interpret it, how to use the tools in our classroom to make arguments, to be persuasive, to evaluate. The other piece of the Student Experience is that what technology can do as an enabler or an accelerator of schooling is it can add transparency between the student and the family and the classroom so that they have so that students progress and growth in status is available and viewable to that parent and that family at all times, so that its no longer a a school is no longer a black box, but it is a partnership between the family and school. What does that mean for an educator . What that means for an educator is if we are thinking that they have the students have access just in time and its [inaudible] so does the teacher and
As we make a shift to instruction and how we expect this to work, we have spent the past couple years spending a lot of time increasing the bandwidth of our infrastructure, but there are many single points of failure in the network we built. A story that i experienced this year is that we spent a physical therapy amount of money of donor funds to put wireless access to our middle schools. And the Parent Teacher conference in the fall, one of the schools wireless access went down so the school was frustrated with me and said we cant have Parent Teacher conference without access so i was confused because they didnt have wireless access the previous year. That shows how quickly this become an expectation this works so the resilience in infrastructure is not going to be cheap, but it will be critical in terms of ensuring the resources are there when they need them. So the next thing we need to do is we dont really have a very clear picture of all the devices that are out there, which schoo
Officer at the School District. We will be planning a Powerpoint Presentation up here as we get this set up i will be asking superintendent carranza to kick off the the purpose of the Digital District plan is if i can get my password in here. Superintendent carranza, if you could explain the need for Digital District man. Thank you. Commissioners, in our public weve been talking about our vision 2025, which has been our yearlong process for identifying what is the vegs for educating our children by the year 2025, which is when a student entered our kidder gar ten this year, theyll graduate in 2025. In the spirit of vision 2025 whats emerged is theres ten big shifts that need to occur to get us to 2025. Part of what we dont know is what will the economy look like. What will learning look like . What will the Global Economy look like . What will San Francisco look like in terms of opportunities. What we do know is that part of that future will be enabled by technology. We know that the c