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SFGTV April 29, 2012

always kind of pulling you in kind of thing. you can keep watching it. i think this work is kind of experience in a more analytical way. in other words, we look at an image and there is an alice going on. and there is an analysis going on. 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 ....

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SFGTV April 27, 2012

in the city-funded ninth grade courses of algebra, biology, english, and e.l.d. courses. so remember those were the four areas that came out as the concern. and so we immediately were able to start addressing that. in addition, we also were able to provide a program for 42 eighth and ninth grade transition students that were in danger already the warning indicators were already going off with them walking out of middle school that potentially they would not successfully transition to ninth grade. we were able to do a summer program of those students in e.l.a., english language arts and mathematics. let me go over a summer of each of the city-funded courses that we were able to offer last summer. ninth grade english one and two, so just so you know, there are two semesters of english in ninth grade. 371 of the 412 students that took those courses received a passing grade of a d or above. that was 90% of the students. of that number of students, 324 of those, and this is ....

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SFGTV April 26, 2012

track but not on track to graduating, and the graph that talks about the importance of the ninth grade year, you say that s 17% of the entire ninth grade class, and failed two or more core classes. and failure of two or more core classes, is a national indicator of not completing high school, and then the next page, you go through, english and then algebra data, could you do you have apples to apples data around how to compare by different ethnic categories, the overall number of how many students are failing in the ninth grade, two or more core classes? yes, we do have that broken down. we have several other data points. for example, we can tell you by school. we can we have that. but today, i can get that to you. i don t have that in front of me. supervisor chiu: and it s one thing to know that again, as supervisor olague pointed out, these numbers are pretty staggering, and i m just wondering collectively, how many students who are african-american or latino or ....

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