A dedicated group of educators helped to turn her life around. But even more amazing, they stuck with her. No one in my immediate family has graduated high school and gone into college. However, i believe ill be the first one, and theyll be excited and thrilled and theyll be proud of what ive become. Narrator these two stories on this special edition of frontline. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with
Billion we spent on diabetes for just one year. So, with that, i will add the rest of my comments to the record, but i would just say, mr. Scott and mr. Speaker, hool breakfasts and lunch, w. I. C. Its a doggone good deal when you think about it. Mr. Scott thank you, and youre absolutely right. I want to yield now to one of our strongest advocates for ending hundred hunger in america, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Mcgovern. Mr. Mcgovern thank you very much. I want to thank my colleague from virginia, mr. Scott, for organizing this today and for his leadership on child nutrition programs. I want to thank my colleagues for being here. This is an important issue. Theres no question about that. But we are here because we are outraged. Were outraged at republican attempts to undermine our child nutrition programs. Were outraged at their lousy child reauthorization bill. It is a terrible, terrible, terrible bill. My friend should be ashamed of this bill. Mr. Speaker, a nutritious sch
Announcer now, heres nbc bay areas jessica aguirre. Jessica aguirre hello, and welcome to this class action news special. Were going to get to seismic safety in just a few minutes. Tonight, we bring you some of our best stories of the year, and updates on hot topics weve covered in 2015. We begin with a controversial issue that affects all Public Schools in the bay area. Should you be able to use a number to compare one school to another . Now, for years, california has ranked schools based on standardized test scores. But that system is coming to an end. The dispute over what replaces it, though, that is just beginning. Male thank you for coming out to our smarter balance assessment results meeting. Jessica School Officials in San Francisco are explaining the many changes happening in education. Male were implementing new curriculum to go with the new standards, to go with the new tests. Male and do they revisit those sections . Jessica and a new, different way to evaluate schools. St
The dispute over what replaces it, though, that is just beginning. Male thank you for coming out to our smarter balance assessment results meeting. Jessica School Officials in San Francisco are explaining the many changes happening in education. Male were implementing new curriculum to go with the new standards, to go with the new tests. Male and do they revisit those sections . Jessica and a new, different way to evaluate schools. State law now requires a move away from standardized test scores. Male it needs to be more than justinclude more than just the academics. Jessica for 15 years, the api, the academic performance index, has been the yardstick for school success. Its a three digit number based on test scores. Take this Blue Ribbon School in the east bay. Its api was 945 out of 1,000. A Suburban School in the peninsula, 831. A High Poverty School in San Francisco, 726. Eric it gives one number. And its nice because you can take that number and compare it to another number. But r
Trying to be the father not only of the nation but of individuals and as the father he had not been able to be all those years and he leans into me and says that of course you have to be at your sons graduation and you can interview me anytime, which was true. Anytime i needed to interview him, i was able to and i was there when president clinton went to south africa and that was a time when he was having some personal issues around his actual behavior and Nelson Mandela was very he was advising him in a very positive way and did it very publicly. At the same time, and i think that sean will probably agree with this. And i think that this may be one of the values with the things that we try to keep alive and embrace more than even his name. And his values sometimes conflicted with u. S. Policies. Even when his good friend bill clinton was standing next to him. Because he was insisting still on being friends with fidel castro. And i didnt say that on television, that i . [laughter] and