Philip hughes who died from an injury suffered in a match. Costing thousands of people their lives. And we take you to myanmar where chinese demands for precious stone is fueling illegal trade. We start with some developing news out of afghanistan. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle has hate vehicle belong to this British Embassy in kabul. The taliban says it was behind the blast which killed five people and injured 34 others. Its the latest in the series of attacks in the Afghan Capital as the majority of foreign troops prepare for pull out by the end of this year. Live to Charles Stratford who joins us from kabul, charlie whats the latest on the attack. Reporter we spoke to the british em bass a about five minutes ago, they indeed confirmed that one of their vehicles was at target of a suicide bomb attack earlier this morning, they also confirm that there were no diplomats in those vehicles. In that vehicle sorry. They say they were treating a number of staff for injuries but at the ti
Good evening board. 50i78 ranch he will im the parents advisory chair. I want to introduce you to everyone thats here kevin chavez the director of the equity and gloria and a pack parents. Mary chavez a Parent Advisory Committee member and our student representative lou. Good evening Board Members im a sophomore im the youth representative of the youth indian and im a member of a tribe. Im also an gold member of the Indian Community in arrests i want to tell you a little bit about myself im a parent of 3 san franciscan graduates this past may. Im a grand pattern of the 3 one at bettingcy carmichael and one at cleveland park. Ive my family have thrived through the cultural base of this program. I want to share with you what the Indian Education Program Title vii cultural academic needs of indian and lass can needs of the school district. The parents Advisory Committee is a group of parents and teachers and Community Members that help to determine the Indian Education goals and the servi
Materials in languages other than english. And this is 20 years into a school in San Francisco thats a dive city so, now our recruitment is in chinese and japanese and spanish and finally, theres after 20 years our voicemail is you have an option to leave a message in chinese and spanish. We is hired a colleague who is a valuable errors for our nonspeaking english families. We offer evening tours and thats something we hadnt done in the past i know be able to reach out and accommodate families that work during the day. So of those are highly there were a lot of people that showed up for those tours. It provides opportunity for families to come and we have them on a friday in the morning. Were not reach all the families we want to be reaching. So i think, you know, those are some of the reasons we havent been able to reach those families okay. Thank you commissioner. Thank you very much. I dont disagree with my colleagues about the concerns around different and lgbt students. I trust th
Up. Through the program we have been able to bring up those the issues that you speak of and in sixth grade we do a lot of work around knowing thyself and being able to discuss the family dynamic. Ask the background, its a safe place where students can share that information. The same thing happens in 7th grade. In eight grade we adapted marie didnt notice but i you believe its beyond beats and rhymes the curriculum that we adapted for our eight grade students and a lot of the topics around the issues that you brought up are brought to life the discussion of just being culturally aware and television and media. Things they hear that they see on tv. That really kind of goes head on in the advisory program. Another issue thats come to our attention is gender identity and help to recognize those students who are coming to understand how they identify and well have on september 17th that will be for all our teachers. I was asking about school inclusionness around lgbt issues. Its a start b
Since youre here and theres a lot of Community Members here i want them to understand this it hugely important for the board of education. In t in t in the School District who are keeping the ones at your school whats deeply families from applying to your school. Tell me. Share with us whats happening and, yes the last time your renewal was up we heard from a lot of timing parents who said they were not happy there. It looks like many of them shared the information so id like to hear from you, you know, ive spoken to ms. Torres and she tell me about the times on the committee. She did say it wasnt a cakewalk so i think some of those, you know, things youre talking about like have to do with some of the leadership issues that weve down through over the last 5 years. Theres been turmoil, you know, im the third leader of Creative Arts since Creative Arts came before you guys last time. I cant speak for the previous leaders you know what their main goal for their school would have been. I