Know as superintendent talked about, you are doing amazing stuff in San Francisco. Tony smith in oakland has an initiative that is dealing with not just things like restoretive justice alone but positive behavioral interventions and supports. Couple that with response to intervention, whole School Reform strategies that work on transforming the way the school is functioning and in so doing making it a more positive culture for everybody. It brings in parental engagement in families and it has the very tough conversations, in the case of oakland i know for sure, around things like race with an African American male focus in that community because its appropriate for that community, and the way all these things link together. So certainly bullying and harassment is an avenue into transforming the way schools work. Just like discipline is an avenue into transforming the way schools work, as is standards and good assessments, it is how all these things fit together to ensure that students
Like to be evidence based and im not sure the evidence allows that. Roslyn, challenges to you and secretary duncan. For the first time you can see data for the first time about the discipline and students referred to Law Enforcement, suspensions more than once. On the bullying and harassment we are also collecting for the First Time Ever data on the number of incidents of students disciplined for bullying and harassment. They are not exactly reliable. Lots of folks arent collecting this. Our collection is at the school level so you could go and see all this data that pop out in nice graphs for the First Time Ever and look at schools in your community. There were in the sample, it covers about 85 percent of the nations schools this year were in store for a universal sample, youre looking at over 60,000 students that were reported, records, right, these arent the anecdotes, these arent the things in the hallway that dont get reported, sex, over 35,000, on the basis of National Origin and
We did a questionnaire because the case had a lot of publicity. And id say 99 percent of the people noted, the potential jurors noted they have daily and meaningful contact with a person of another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring for mediocrity. When we have, and this gets back to your question, when we have leaders that embrace diversity and that build a culture that says, you know what, if you want to compete in the Global Economy tomorrow, pal, youve got to embrace diversity. Why does cocacola write a brief to the United State
Case of oakland i know for sure, around things like race with an African American male focus in that community because its appropriate for that community, and the way all these things link together. So certainly bullying and harassment is an avenue into transforming the way schools work. Just like discipline is an avenue into transforming the way schools work, as is standards and good assessments, it is how all these things fit together to ensure that students feel safe to learn but that what they are learning are the rigorous courses and skills and they are challenged enough to stay in school, graduate, and meet our president s goal were going to lead the world when it comes to College Graduates again. In our remaining 6 1 2 but ill say 8 minutes, i want to recognize tom ammiano who walked in, tony, im going to put you on the spot first just because i was so upset you left us when i was mayor and we tried to keep you, but im so happy for oakland. But, tony, you have any comments or qu
Another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring for mediocrity. When we have, and this gets back to your question, when we have leaders that embrace diversity and that build a culture that says, you know what, if you want to compete in the Global Economy tomorrow, pal, youve got to embrace diversity. Why does cocacola write a brief to the United States Supreme Court and General Motors and microsoft on issues of diversity and Higher Education . Because they know if they want to get ahead, theyve got to embrace that diversity. If they want