Newcomer, uncompanied minors. That is something that deserves our serious attention, love, and care. Thank you for investigating in th that. [ applause ]. Finally, i want to recognize your continuing investment in middle schools. Middle school was miserable for me. It was a hard time. And yet, it is one of the most crucial turning points in our life, when you find your identity, where you start to dream big, where you start to see your future unfold before you. As i introduce our next speaker, i will share something personal because i know shes going to go into a little bit more depth about the oakland investment. One little fun fact about the two of us. I see you, principal. We are both the mothers of middle school, Public School students in oakland. So to our incredible, heroic middle School Principals, this investment could not be more deserved than by the leaders that take care of not just our babies, but literally our babies. Its my pleasure to introduce to you the superintendent
Third year of the sales force grant. At that time, there was success to celebrate. Wifi in every middle school, computers and ipads available to every school, the established of the principals innovation fund. We may not have appreciated how much more celebrating there was to come. To date, weve now seen over 40 million invested in the students of San Francisco unified School Districts. [ cheering and applause ]. And 20 million invested in the students at oakland unified. [ cheering and applause ]. This has had incredible results in math, Computer Science, and College Readiness throughout both of these great cities. What i want to share with you today is what this means for presidio and what i observed seeing these transformations. Not just to our physical environments but to our students lives. Here is an example of what our community has seen since 2013. Increased Student Access to and interest in coding and robotics. Teachers and students collaborating in online environments in ever
That is love. Now, i want to talk about what excites me so much specifically about the investment in oakland. Young people, we throw around this 8. 7 million. Let me say it in the long form 8,700,000. Okay. Think of a stack of 1 bills. Thats some serious cash. That is just this year. I just want to recognize that since you began partnering with oakland, you have increased your investment every year. [ cheering and applause ]. Since london had a go back in your time machine, youre going to have to indulge me a little bit too. We all can picture in our minds that teacher, that teacher that changed our lives, that teacher who is the reason that we developed the confidence, the vision, maybe the hutspah to be where we are today. What excites me about this years investment from sales force is a new focus on teacher recruitment and retention. [ applause ]. Teachers like ms. Ducatz. She was my Dance Teacher at skyline high school. When i started running for mayor, she would show up at all my
Important inreflection point for street soccer u. S. A. Because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just San Francisco recreation and park department, and together, were going to continue to work with our citys most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. I want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u. S. A. , and live your life. Get a better life. Right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay. Welcome to pricidia middle school. I am emma dunbar and i had the enormous privilege to be the principal in this community. Thank you all for joining us. [ cheering and applause ]. I want to give a very warm welcome to my students, to our staff, to elected officials, Board Members, mayor appliappli and our trusted partners at sales force. I couldnt be happier to host you all on this yard just opened for our new school year after four years in the making. It is a pr
About outside of the courthouse rightfter the hearing today. You could imagine she was quite emotional considering the amount of time he has been locked up. He and codefendant max harris each face 36 counts of Involuntary Manslaughter for the lives lost in the december 2016 ghostship warehouse fire here in oakland. With court dates set attorneys asked the judge to lower his bail to join his family while he awaits his court date. Almena has been in jail since june of 2017 and his wife said it has been extremely hard on their family, especially their three children. I dont take them to the jail any more. Because it is really hard. They dont understand. Theyre kids. There is just glass there. They cant touch their father, they cant have any contact. Theyve had a lot of separation and theyre in pain over it. Reporter a lawyer representing some of the victims families in a civil lawsuit told us she believes the judge made the right decision to deny bail reduction considering the evidence th