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 to continue to be a fortunes 50 company, theres got to embrace diversity. Similarly if we want to get down to the local level and address this issue, weve got to teach our kids that the sooner that you embrace difference and understand that your muslim classmate or your seat classmate or you
Asked all of you to be here and i want to explain the origin of that and why this happened. You people, everybody in this room, has been involved in this issue and is doing incredible work on this issue and we were so honored to be a part of it and to meet with all of you and to speak with you about it. The origin is that as the United States attorney, the administration wants me, wants all the United States attorneys, to go out into the community. Its actually a very different role for the United States attorney is envisioned by this administration. This administration, the president , attorney general holder, they want the u. S. Attorneys to go out into the attorney to talk to the communities in our district to understand what the issues are and challenges are and to do what we can to help, to convene meetings, to do whatever we can to help on behalf of the administration. And as part of that i welcomed that request that the attorney general made of us and the president made of us an
With new state and draw laws on bullying and to measure our progress. Its a promise we want to join you in keeping to our children and our youth in california. Some of you know that we started this summit yesterday with a screening of the documentary film, bully, to 3,000 students in San Francisco from San Franciscos Public Schools. The superintendent of schools youre going to hear from in a minute, he was there, i know ter Theresa Sparks was there, i was so proud of San Francisco in being there because the superintendent, hes, you can tell hes a teacher because he took control of that room. There was a thousand people in that room, he had them all raise their hands to quiet them down, it was beautiful. You could see the teacher in him. But i was so proud of being in San Francisco because the kids kids are kids they were warned, you need to be respectful, you need to be respectful of the children that are being depicted in this film, please dont laugh at inappropriate moments, that kin
Their children watching on. His actions in 2004 thrust this civil rights issue into the National Spotlight and cemented his reputation as a fearless Public Officials who does what he thinks is right. Under mayor newsoms energetic leadership the economy grew and the city became an Economic Center for biotech and clean tech. Gach newsom has been a trail blaitzer on combating homelessness and protecting the government. In 2007 he was reelected as mayor with more than 70 percent of the vote, which is unheard of. Please welcome our lieutenant governor, gavin newsom. My role was to get tom to speak. Im just going to jump in because i want to keep you all on time. Youve got an agenda packet and im going to be held accountable if you dont meet it. Roslyn, lets pick up on toms passion. He told me a couple points that are important, that is the consciousness awareness, this growing consciousness around bullying. And its a question i guess that requires, has bullying gotten worse or have we gotte
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