This year, the 56,000 children in San Francisco’s public schools need your help more than ever. The underfunding of their education continues, while the city’s economy is demanding new skills in a new century. We must join forces to help our educators and our children come through these challenging times stronger and smarter, so our students will be able to build a better future for all of us.
At this luncheon, the San Francisco School Alliance will convene the business, philanthropic, education and civic leaders of San Francisco to address the critical issues facing the city, and the key role that college- and career-ready students must play in the city's future economic success. Superintendent Carlos Garcia will once again present San Francisco Unified School District’s Annual Report to the community, clearly outlining the district’s progress and goals for improvement.
The San Francisco School Alliance hopes you will invest in the strategic partnership between the SFSA and the San Francisco Unified School District to create long-lasting solutions for students, and a new pathway to prosperity for the city.
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Susan Desmond-Hellmann
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. She assumed the post August 3, 2009.
Carlos A. Garcia
With a career in education that spans over 35 years, Carlos A. Garcia has built a strong track record for boosting student achievement and narrowing the achievement gap through his work as a teacher, principal, central office administrator and leader in classroom instruction.
In 2007, Garcia began his tenure as Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Under his leadership, the district has seen consistent improvement in achievement for all students, including increased academic gains for Latino and African American students. He has also led the way for district policies aimed at graduating all SFUSD students with bilingual skills and the credits required for admission to California’s university system.
F. Warren Hellman
F. Warren Hellman co-founded Hellman & Friedman in 1984. He was formerly a director of numerous portfolio companies, including Eller Media Company, Inc., Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, and Young & Rubicam Inc.
Edwin M. Lee
Edwin M. Lee is the 43rd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco. The former City Administrator, Lee was appointed unanimously as successor mayor by the Board of Supervisors on January 11, 2011 to fill the remaining year of former Mayor Gavin Newsom's term, who was sworn in as California's Lieutenant Governor on January 10, 2011. Lee is the first Asian-American mayor in San Francisco history.
Eric McDonnell
Eric McDonnell is President of San Francisco School Alliance Board of Directors.
Learning that takes place in schools or school-like environments (formal education) or in the world at large; the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In developing cultures there is often little formal education; children learn from their environment and activities, and the adults around them act as teachers. In more complex societies, where there is more knowledge to be passed on, a more selective and efficient means of transmission—the school and teacher—becomes necessary. The content of formal education, its duration, and who receives it have varied widely from culture to culture and age to age, as has the philosophy of education. Some philosophers (e.g., John Locke) have seen individuals as blank slates onto which knowledge can be written. Others (e.g., Jean-Jacques Rousseau) have seen the innate human state as desirable in itself and therefore to be tampered with as little as possible, a view often taken in alternative education. See alsobehaviourism; John Dewey; elementary education; higher education; kindergarten; lyceum movement; progressive education; public school; special education; teaching.
City (pop., 2000: 776,733) and port, northern California, U.S. San Francisco lies on the northern end of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. The Golden Gate Bridge spans the strait to the north that separates San Francisco from Marin county. Founded in the 18th century by the Spanish, it came under Mexican control after Mexican independence in 1821. Occupied by U.S. forces in 1846, it grew rapidly after the discovery of gold in nearby areas (seegold rush). San Francisco suffered extensive damage from the earthquake and fire of 1906 and from an earthquake in 1989. The city was prominent in the American cultural revolution of the 1960s. It is a commercial, cultural, educational, and financial centre and one of the country's most cosmopolitan cities.
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