i m specifically with the china living library, where we re literally working with hundreds, probably thousands, over the past few years, of children and youth in chinatown to breen to n chinatown. if our add-back is cut in chinatown, for example, we will be completely unable to do any programming here. we work year-round with literally hundreds of children, have planted trees and gardens, dug up as fought and concrete. not only are we creating a cost effective program for and delivering it, a very powerful educational program for children and youth, but we re also improving the neighborhood of chinatown. it s also a very modest budget. so i urge you to put money back in to the add-back, however you re going to do it, so we can continue. i urge also you to support the other youth programs, because it s absolutely needed. it s our past, present, and certainly our future. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. i just want say hello to my san francisco chinese famil
same communities. to have an opportunity to do that, we look to scrape up as much as we could, and the wonders of that leadership park. the duty of phil s leadership is he will find the time and we will create a special program aimed at at risk youth, and what they call in-risk, youth who have already been visiting our juvenile probation program who do not have to be there if they can turn their lives around. we are focusing on 16 special slots in the month of august, the details of which we will go on in here yet we will go on in. we will be working with a program of exposure to our camps, to the outdoors, and to emphasize that, rather than lead activities that will be negative to our communities, rather suggests leadership opportunities for our environment, four outdoor leadership, for interacting with other kids. but that placement will occur in august, with the help of all the agencies i talked about providing perhaps a brief moment in which they can participate. before
embracing all of the challenges in the city. so, let s get more detail about these programs. thank you some much. it has been such a delight to have someone on board who is equally passionate about our children and making sure the partnership continues. we did not have a partnership if we did not have leadership, and so i want to introduce our superintendent of schools, carlos garcia, and our board member who has helped identify the needs of students as well. carlos? thank you. good morning. but the move this a little bit. there we go. this is an exciting day. sometimes people come up to me and say that summers will seems like an oxymoron. you already have school, right? in this day and age, if we re going to compete, in a flat our students are going to be successful. i have to tell you to take my hat goes off and he has a half, but i do not. my hat goes off to the mayor. think about it. we had all the different superintendents from southern california in for a meeting,
good morning. it will be the afternoon very soon. i am here today on the hottest day so far this year at o connell high school in san francisco. it focuses on our children, our youth, our kids. not only do we want them to keep busy, but in doing that, clearly, i am very lucky because i get to work with wonderful in the smart people that are working collaborative lead to provide all of these programs and make sure that the kids in richmond s are kept at a high level. they will be very much enriched by the programs that we are putting our back behind and our money behind. i am here today with carlos garcia. thank you for being here. the relationship with the school continues. the work with me as the education adviser, it constantly on a weekly of got every other day basis. letting us know about the programs we are doing, what more we can do. it is a topic i always want to keep in front of me. watching out for the future of our kids, watching out for their safety as well as t
actually. hello. in apparent leader, and i wanted to let know that we all should have the opportunity to have a good education, regardless of what neighborhoods they live in. this is of fundamental value for college and her rear for all. this year, in the mother of an eighth grader in the san francisco unified school district. the freshman class will be the first graduating class to meet the new graduation requirements that ensures access to california state university and university of california approved courses, otherwise known as a through g. this is one of the many ways the san francisco unified school district is keeping its promise to access and equity to all the students in the city. the commitment of city leaders like the mayor, the board of education, the board of supervisors, to increase summer programming and access to summer school is the strongest sign of keeping a promise to the next generation of san franciscans, providing the summer program for ninth grader