thank you. ms.aufas. ms. mendoza. here. ms. norton? here. ms. wynns. mr. yee. ms. kim? yes. ms. chan yes. ms. fan yes. please join me in the plenl of allegiance. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. if you d like. [no audio] we usually end our meeting in memory of staff members who have been a part of our family who have passed away. so we do have many members of some of the schools here today presently, so i m going to actually pull this up to the beginning. and so i want to ask the principal of mission high school to come up first. thank you very much. thank you, demigsers commissioners. on behalf of the mission high school community, i want to read a bit about kathleen cecil. sadly she passed away on wednesday evening after suffering a brain aneurysm monday on the opening day of school, which has really rocked the community, though we are blessed to have a wonderful, supportive community that rallied around each other, including families, sta
thank to you everybody that helped us, including the parents who brought those great kids to us. i also [applause] the first thing is always exciting, one of my favorite things is to go out and see schools and i have to tell you, this year was really fun. to walk in at drew elementary school to see their scholars that the principal calls and you know, go to that school because believe it or not, in the bay view and they showed double-digit growth in both math and language arts for all students at their school, so you know, we can close the achievement gap and they re living proof of that faculty, their hard work and principal and everybody around there who believed in those kids. and to watch them sit there and just be kids the first day of school, watch a few kindergarteners cry, it comes close to home thinking of my own kids when they started school. and then to have a chance to go over to mission high school and i think make was really tough about starting out the meet
equiping them and equiping residents in those areas with jobs that will enable them to stay in san francisco is critical to that. the important thing that i see here at caminos is it helps the low income community, it helps the women who wouldn t have this opportunity otherwise. the workers with more education in san francisco are more likely to be able to working that knowledge sector. where they are going to need that familiarity with the internet, they are going to find value with it and use it and be productive with it every day. and half of the city s population that s in the other boat is disconnected from all that potential prosperity. we really need to promote content and provide applications that are really relevant to people s lives here. so a lot of the inspiration, especially among the immigrant community, we see is communications with people from their home country but we as much want to use the internet as a tool for people to connect within the local san
and you can find more information thank you. ms.aufas. ms. mendoza. here. ms. norton? here. ms. wynns. mr. yee. ms. kim? yes. ms. chan yes. ms. fan yes. please join me in the plenl of allegiance. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. if you d like. [no audio] we usually end our meeting in memory of staff members who have been a part of our family who have passed away. so we do have many members of some of the schools here today presently, so i m going to actually pull this up to the beginning. and so i want to ask the principal of mission high school to come up first. thank you very much. thank you, demigsers commissioners. on behalf of the mission high school community, i want to read a bit about kathleen cecil. sadly she passed away on wednesday evening after suffering a brain aneurysm monday on the opening day of school, which has really rocked the community, though we are blessed to have a wonderful, supportive community that rallied around e
resolutions of accommodation and this is when we do our rave review awords and i m going to turn it over to superintendent garcia. this is the fun part of the meeting because we get a chance to recognize some of the outstanding unsung heroes that are out in our school district, always doing great things and it s nice that people take the time to recognize them, and we call these our rave reviews. so at this time i d like to call the brand-new principal, actually, at spring valley elementary school, lisa kwang to the podium and she ll make the first presentation. congratulations. thank you. good evening, commissioners and superintendent garcia. i m lisa kwang, new principal at spring valley science school. spring valley is the oldest public school in san francisco. we just celebrated our 150th anniversary not that long ago and it s definitely a hidden gem in the city. we re located right between russian hill and knob hill and many families live in the neighborhood and many