We re going to have our departments work with each other and work with local leaders to improve housing conditions but also improve educational achievement. make sure folks have more transit options, make sure folk have the skills that they need to compete in the 21st century economy. and as mayor in san antonio, i saw the impact of this. san antonio was in a first round of prom i zones. one of the things that we saw there, for instance to give you a precise example of some of the progress we see is that in the high school that was located in the promise zone we saw more than a we ve seen more than 20% increase in graduation rates. in the feeder schools that go into the high school middle school, elementary, we ve seen increased attendance rates. those are the bases for building out a better future for communities and recently i was in north st. louis and in ferguson to launch the next round of promise zones.
Nervous going to a place of education. school sucks. why should you be more scared to go to school? thanks for the message. it makes you look forward to school if you know you made it alive. i don t know. andy, this program costs $11 million. shouldn t they spend that on things like cracking down on gang-related crimes? safe passage, the name of the program, is the name of a mediocre movie and we need to get that out there. there is a better way to crackdown on gang violence, but it sounds like you got to do this first. gang violence is a problem right now and the kids have to get to school. the stats show where the program is being used is raising attendance rates and kids are safer. so the problem is what should be a stop gap measure is going to be more than leakily a permanent thing because that s how it works and they will never figure out
Nervous going to a place of education. school sucks. why should you be more scared to go to school? thanks for the message. it makes you look forward to school if you know you made it alive. i don t know. andy, this program costs $11 million. shouldn t they spend that on things like cracking down on gang-related crimes? safe passage, the name of the program, is the name of a mediocre movie and we need to get that out there. there is a better way to crackdown on gang violence, but it sounds like you got to do this first. gang violence is a problem right now and the kids have to get to school. the stats show where the program is being used is raising attendance rates and kids are safer. so the problem is what should be a stop gap measure is going to be more than leakily a permanent thing because that s how it works and they will never figure out
He s analytical here. he s not necessarily being idea logically driven but by the facts. if they take him to the left, fine, if they take him to the right, fine, as well. the obama campaign had to define romney. was he going to be a right winger or a flip-flopper without any convictions.early on in the campaign, they were posing him as a flip-flopper. now they ve settled on a right winger. that may change as time goes on. whether the american people will be convinced that have is unclear. they re going to do the obama campaign is going to do everything they can, conference calls like that, ads to try to fill in mitt romney for the american people. he s got to get out there. he s got to tell people what he s going to doing. the president officially kicked off his campaign this fwhekd ohio. he was in ohio state university making a speech. 14,000 people showed up. it is worth noting because we have talked about attendance rates at campaign events. mitt romney also had a speech in
In hong kong. here in asia, educational systems in japan, south korea and singapore are rated among the world s best. students perform well on standardized tests, attendance rates are very high and higher education is also very common. why? what is the secret of this success? all three places have highly competitive systems that value long hours of study and hard work. and parents very often sign their children up for cram schools or private tutoring. in japan, the average family pays about $2,000 for a middle school-aged child every year on education. singapore doesn t shy away from tracking students. that s a statewide primary school exam that determines what level middle school kids go to next. though societies also place a heavy emphasis on education, the government is closely involved in education policy and