Something and i apologize in advance, but in the interest of time i will turn it over to barry. Thank you. [ applause ] yes, to wrap this up here, two lendors on st. Anthonys side, the lowincome investment fund, Nancy Andrews is here and the bank of America Elizabeth shooten, i believe is here and we want to thank them both. Because st. Anthonys helps the lowincome housing fund get started back in the 90s, we were going to have nancy say just a word or two. Nancy. [ applause ] thank you everyone and its just fantastic to see so many san franciscans turn out for this groundbreaking. I am Nancy Andrews. Im the president and ceo of the lowincome investment fund. We are a San Franciscobased Community Capital Nonprofit Organization and our role in this project was to provide a 10 million allocation of new markets tax credits. You heard leader pelosi speak about the importance of this program. Every year the new markets Program Provides billions of dollars to projects similar to this one. An
Dominique sanchez and i want to thank the school board and the superintendent for this honor and having me here and Peer Resource Program is a program that allows the youth to educate their peers and we cover topics such as peer pressure, self esteem, sexiel Decision Making and my class is working in racism and we work on how to combat interpersonal and racism and we get to pick the topics that we want to learn about, but personally pier resources is not just a program to do extra circular activities and i can open up. I surround myself with people from different backgrounds. I feel im a leader and can compete in the top ton Ivy League Schools and i can take on everything and i want to thank her for her help and i never thought i would be up here speaking and i am thankful for being here and lets go 49ers. [applause] any comments from the board . Well, i will just say on behalf of the board how much we appreciate the work of peer resources for our students and thank you to the commissi
Already, after two hours. If you are reluctant to enjoy Something Like this it will probably take a mass of peers to sell you on it. Its fine if you stay away. Most of the people that come to the shows are pretty happy to be here. You may not be one of them. Which is fine. Superintendent carranza. Thank you president norton. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and by the way youre rolling your rs better and better every meeting. I am very impressed so ladies and gentlemen welcome this evening. I would like to share a few thoughts and theyre some letters that parents and students have receiving at home. As youre aware the graduation requirements are more rigorous. Due to the changes many of the students are missing one or more classes to graduate. While we have every confidence the students will make up the classes we through the support of the city of San Francisco have received credit for earning options for the affected students which includes offering Evening School for the first time
Aye. President norton. Yes. Seven ayes. Commissioners, if you will do the honors with the certificates. Thank you. All right. The next item we have recognition of mentoring for success. Mr. Superintendent. Thank you president norton. I would like to ask kim coats and the staff of mentoring for success to please come forward. [applause] and mr. Kevin [inaudible] good evening superintendent, commissioners, i am can i havein trin from the support department and i promise said we would be quick today so my reputation is on the line so we have two programs in the department we are very proud of. Yes peer resources. Thank you very much for honoring peer resources. Theyre a great part of my department and also parenting with them is our mentoring for success programs. We have four grants. We had a [inaudible] with the District Attorneys Office and this is one of the projects were partnering with the District Attorney on. We currently have 640 mentors in the city mentoring 740 students but the
Okay. Were going to call this meeting to order. The regular meeting of the board of education [inaudible] january 29, 2013 is now called to order. Roll call please. Thank you. Ms. Fewer. Here. Mr. Haney. Here. Ms. Maufas. Here. Ms. Mendoza. Here. [inaudible] thank you. [inaudible] here. [inaudible] please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Superintendent carranza. Thank you president norton. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and by the way youre rolling your rs better and better every meeting. I am very impressed so ladies and gentlemen welcome this evening. I would like to share a few thoughts and theyre some letters that parents and students have receiving at home. As youre aware the graduation requirements are more rigorous. Due to the changes many of the students are missing one or more classes to graduate. W