My internship at nbc this upcoming summer. [applause] ive always been ambitious, but i was lucky to have women in my life that looked like me and achieved great things, and one of those great women that i looked up to the most, our current mayor, my godmother, london breed. She wasnt changed much, by the way. To this day, she is still the same wise, inspiring, and supportive person that she was when i was a child. I know all too well the impact that mayor breed has had on myself, and i am extremely excited to see all the wonderful things that she will do for the city, and for that, i say thank you. [applause] and now, please join me in welcoming father paul fitzgerald, president of the university of San Francisco, to deliver todays invocation. [applause] thank you, kayla, and thank you all for being here today as we honor and congratulate and thank our mayor, london breed. Mayor breed completed a masters in Public Education Public Administration at the university of San Francisco back
Their kids. There are a lot of families that want their kids to be the first to go to school. We have to give them the space to think about the thinks that might affect them or they feel are wrong. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. [ applause ]. Hi, im a parent in oakland. I wanted to speak to say that given the state law and given whats already in your handbook, no policy changes are needed for you to be a very supportive group to student strikes. Within the handbook it already says it can be a justifiable personal reason. The school board previously read that and said that students have to go with their parents. If parents have to decide to say that my parent is sick, thats not equitable. Not all parents have the same ability to figure that out. I know that there were more privileged students whose parents were able to excuse them. More most students felt that they were intimidated and not able to go. We want the students to be engaged in civic and organized ways. This is one of th
Happy new year. Of aofi have a few things to highlight. Very exciting news with regard to medy cal expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants up to age 26. This is an expansion that Governor Newsom authorized as part of the states 2019 to 20 budget, including full scope medical to eligible adults ages 19 to 25 regardless of immigration status. Statewide this is expected to have a wide impact, covering 90,000 people, and enrollment started the first of the year. We have to make that expansion will apply to about 1,000 to 2,000 individuals in San Francisco. And we have been working with the Human Services agency to notify eligible san franciscans, including transitioning those who qualify from healthy San Francisco to medical. This is also an important opportunity to remind residents about the available of medical, that immigrants are not pen liesed when they apply for a green card, and there are no changes to the public charge rule as the courts issued an injunction and the federal g
Good evening. The recommended action is that the board approve the attached agreement between the San Francisco Unified School District and united educators of San Francisco certificate of classified paraeducators regarding the mayors stipends at the potential schools and related Public Disclosure document. Thank you. I think we have one speaker signed up. Good evening. I am the president of did you night educators of San Francisco united educators of San Francisco. We did negotiate this agreement and the executive board did approve it. We had a very i thought i had musical there like a show on tv. We had a really interesting long engaged discussion about this item. One of the things that i felt was important to point out, and i told our executive board i would do this. The issues about providing the services and education to students at historically underserved communities is complex and we have a lot of ideas how to make it better. The 10 million from the Mayors Office for which we t
West africa, the organization builds teaching hospitals, tends to the sick and reforms entire health care systems. Today partners in health makes 800. Thousand home visits per year. It provides checkups to a million women around the world. The goal, making sure whether we live or die is not turn on how much we have. On todays bloomberg Big Decisions , dr. Paul farmer. Welcome to blue berke bates decisions welcome to bloomberg Big Decisions. You have a career dedicated to charity and medical science paired which came first . Dr. Farmer probably charity. When i was a kid i thought i wanted to be a doctor. We did not have doctors in the family and i had never been to a doctor but i had this idea, probably from television. The charity part was something i learned from my parents who had limited means at a large family, but were involved in charity. My father, particular, was interested in what, in that day, was called retarded people are retarded citizens. And he drags all of his kids into