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and so i will be maybe talking about the secondary portion and the dcyf funded program for this school year. and although we realize that summer school is not the only vehicle for students to meet the a-g requirements, we realize that it s also an important option for students to make up those courses that they have failed for those a-g course requirements. so when we were planning the summer school, it is all in the context of students meeting the a-g requirements. so we have to take a look first of all at the picture. and notice that we re not not just looking at the english and algebra. we re also looking at geometry and biology. and you should also note that a big effort this year at the high schools has been to ensure that students who have taken algebra in the middle school have access to geometry, to high school. so they have a head start into actually starting getting into higher level math classes. so if you look at the breakdown of the subgroups, how many st ....
good afternoon and welcome to the april 26, 2012 meeting of the joint committee, select committee of the city and county of san francisco in the san francisco unified school district. my name is david campos. i represent the board of supervisors on this committee. and i m the chair of the committee. we will be joined shortly by christina olague who is en route. we also have been joined by board of supervisors president david chiu and we have been joined by commissioners sandra lee fewer, kim-shree maufas and hydra mendoza who are members of this committee. we also have been joined by supervisor jane kim. the clerk of the committee is gil johnson and ester casco. and we also would like to thank charles cremenak and john rios from the sfgtv staff who are helping to cover this meeting. we also want to thank the members of the audience who are here and watching this hearing. i know that this is something that is very important to so many families and so many parents in the ....
of all at the picture. and notice that we re not not just looking at the english and algebra. we re also looking at geometry and biology. and you should also note that a big effort this year at the high schools has been to ensure that students who have taken algebra in the middle school have access to geometry, to high school. so they have a head start into actually starting getting into higher level math classes. so if you look at the breakdown of the subgroups, how many students are actually placed into these classes, so, for example, the chinese students, 40% of the total number of students who are enrolled in english are chinese. 8% are african-american. these are ninth graders. just ninth graders. we re only looking at the ninth grade data. so as you will look at all across the subject matters, you will see the percentage and the breakdown of those students. ok. so now we get into some hard data about that focuses on the total number of apps of the ninth grader ....
charles cremenak and john rios from the sfgtv staff who are helping to cover this meeting. we also want to thank the members of the audience who are here and watching this hearing. i know that this is something that is very important to so many families and so many parents in the city. madam clerk, if you can please thank you. it s file number 110527 and a hearing on the a-g request requirements for high school as sponsored by supervisor chiu. thank you. madam secretary. this is an item that was introduced a while back by supervisor carmen chu. and it is my pleasure to now hold this hearing today. let me begin by noting that the issue of a-g requirements is something that i know the board of supervisors and board of education in particular have been paying attention to. and it s been a very important issue at the school district. the purpose of this hearing today is to have a better understanding of our progress. and specifically our progress when it comes to closin ....
the a-g requirements, we realize that it s also an important option for students to make up those courses that they have failed for those a-g course requirements. so when we were planning the summer school, it is all in the context of students meeting the a-g requirements. so we have to take a look first of all at the picture. and notice that we re not not just looking at the english and algebra. we re also looking at geometry and biology. and you should also note that a big effort this year at the high schools has been to ensure that students who have taken algebra in the middle school have access to geometry, to high school. so they have a head start into actually starting getting into higher level math classes. so if you look at the breakdown of the subgroups, how many students are actually placed into these classes, so, for example, the chinese students, 40% of the total number of students who are enrolled in english are chinese. 8% are african-american. these are ....