Announcer now, heres nbc bay areas jessica aguirre. Jessica aguirre hello, and welcome to this class action news special. Were going to get to seismic safety in just a few minutes. Tonight, we bring you some of our best stories of the year, and updates on hot topics weve covered in 2015. We begin with a controversial issue that affects all Public Schools in the bay area. Should you be able to use a number to compare one school to another . Now, for years, california has ranked schools based on standardized test scores. But that system is coming to an end. The dispute over what replaces it, though, that is just beginning. Male thank you for coming out to our smarter balance assessment results meeting. Jessica School Officials in San Francisco are explaining the many changes happening in education. Male were implementing new curriculum to go with the new standards, to go with the new tests. Male and do they revisit those sections . Jessica and a new, different way to evaluate schools. St
The dispute over what replaces it, though, that is just beginning. Male thank you for coming out to our smarter balance assessment results meeting. Jessica School Officials in San Francisco are explaining the many changes happening in education. Male were implementing new curriculum to go with the new standards, to go with the new tests. Male and do they revisit those sections . Jessica and a new, different way to evaluate schools. State law now requires a move away from standardized test scores. Male it needs to be more than justinclude more than just the academics. Jessica for 15 years, the api, the academic performance index, has been the yardstick for school success. Its a three digit number based on test scores. Take this Blue Ribbon School in the east bay. Its api was 945 out of 1,000. A Suburban School in the peninsula, 831. A High Poverty School in San Francisco, 726. Eric it gives one number. And its nice because you can take that number and compare it to another number. But r
Item number 1, resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a grant of 870,355 from the San Francisco Parks Alliance for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. Thank you very much. Do we have a representative on this aye fen . Item . Please come on up. Good afternoon, supervisor chu. Good afternoon, supervisor kim. My name is abigail [inaudible] with the Partnerships Division with recreation and Park Department. I am here to talk about the accept and expend grant from the San Francisco parks a likesv in the amount of 870,355 which will authorize the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend this grant for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. Id like to spend a few minutes to give you some background on the group thats working on this project and the playground as well. The friends of waterfront playground is a volunteer organization formed by two waterfront neighborhoods, the barbery crist
Anderson, grant [speaker not understood] from the District Attorney and [speaker not understood] from our department. I just wanted to share with you the Commission Just finished three Community Meetings with our partners in the violence against women prevention and intervention grants program. These are direct Service Providers who work on a daily basis with the Domestic Violence victim. We held the Community Meeting at [speaker not understood]. We held some at the department for all of our agencies and at cameron house. And the themes that we heard over and over again were language barriers continue to persist when victim of Domestic Violence want to report a crime or followup on a crime, that cultural barriers exist, particularly among those immigrants where in their home countries Law Enforcement can be corrupt. So, they dont have the trust thats needed in order to report Domestic Violence and family violence. So, im very pleased today to report on a very strong and deep collaborat
Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Would you call item 1 . Item number 1, resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a grant of 870,355 from the San Francisco Parks Alliance for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. Thank you very much. Do we have a representative on this aye fen . Item . Please come on up. Good afternoon, supervisor chu. Good afternoon, supervisor kim. My name is abigail [inaudible] with the Partnerships Division with recreation and Park Department. I am here to talk about the accept and expend grant from the San Francisco parks a likesv in the amount of 870,355 which will authorize the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend this grant for the design and construction of a playground in sue bierman park. Id like to spend a few minutes to give you some background on the group thats working on this project and the playground as well. The friends of waterfron