Jane Kim for School Board
Thursday March 13, 2008
Jane, after being sworn into office on Friday, January 5th, with student Queena Chen.
An Overview of the Board of Education
To learn more about San Francisco’s Board of Education and access agendas, minutes, notices, archives of BOE meeting webcasts, click HERE.
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Tuesday May 6, 2008 | Author: jane kim | Category: politics
Yes on A, No on 98 and Get on the Bus!
Dear Friends,
Yes, it has been a while since I have emailed. This month, you will be receiving two emails from me. It’s another one of those years… when we have THREE elections!
I am inviting you to two events:
(1) No on 98, Yes on A H(API) Hour
In order to raise awareness on the upcoming election on Tuesday, June 3, please join H(API) Hour, David Chiu, San Francisco School Board Commissioner Hydra Mendoza and myself.
Thursday, May 15
6-8pm
Azul Lounge at 1 Tillman Place
(One block from Union Square and close to Powell BART Station.)
Prop 98 eliminates rent control, affordable housing and environmental laws. Yes, I said it eliminates rent control in California!
NO, NO, NO!
For more information, read HERE.
Prop A is a school parcel tax ensuring more adequate pay and training for San Francisco teachers. In addition, Proposition A will help schools upgrade and replace old technologies and school computers.
YES, YES, YES!
For more information, read HERE.
These two important ballot measures greatly affect our quality of life and the quality of our communities. Please join in supporting Prop A and opposing Prop 98.
(2) Teachers 4 Social Justice wants you to GET ON THE BUS!!!
Friday, May 9, 2008
10:30am – 8:00pm
SF City Hall Steps Rally (10:30 a.m.), Bus to Sacramento (11:45 a.m.)
GET ON the BUS to Fight the cuts to education. Governor Schwarzenegger is proposing to cut $4.4 billion from public education, the biggest cut to education since Proposition 13 passed in 1978. Join the San Francisco leg of the California Caravan for Educational Justice From San Diego to the Bay and Up to Sacramento. Sponsored by Teachers 4 Social Justice, A.R.E. (Association of Raza Educators), SFABE (San Francisco Association for Bilingual Ed) and many other community based organizations. Rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco, and then GET on the BUS to Sacramento for the day to carry our message to the steps of the State Capitol. No cuts to education!
Return to SF at 8pm. SPACE on the Bus is limited. For more information or to RSVP, email: teachers4socialjustice@yahoo.com.
See you next week!
Want to watch the Board of Education in action? Here is a list of confirmed meetings in May. You can also watch past and live regular BOE meetings ONLINE!
Monday, May 5 – 5:30 p.m. – Curriculum and Program (Kim, Mar, Yee)
Thursday, May 8 – 5:30 p.m. – Special Meeting
Tuesday, May 13 – 6:00 p.m. – Regular Board Meeting
Wednesday, May 14 – 6:00 p.m. – Budget and Business Services (Yee, Kim, Maufas)
Thursday, May 15 – 3:30 p.m. – Select Committee (Mar, Kim, Mendoza)
Thursday, May 15 – 6:00 p.m. – Ad Hoc Committee Personnel Matters (Maufas, Sanchez, Wynns)
Wednesday, May 21 – 6:00 p.m. – Rules, Policy, and Legislation (Wynns, Mar, Mendoza)
Tuesday, May 27 – 6:00 p.m. – Regular Board Meeting
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Tuesday March 11, 2008 | Author: jane kim | Category: personal
Chinese New Year's Parade
Photo courtesy of Jay Jao
My first ride in the Chinese New Year’s Parade on February 23, 2008! Riding with me are Angelina Yu, Washington HS ‘04, Connie Zheng, Lowell HS ‘08 and Jeremiah Jeffries (driver), First grade teacher at Sherman Elementary School.
Yellow convertible courtesy of the fantastic zipcar. Special thanks to Genevieve Jopanda at Zipcar and Keith Kamisugi for hooking it up!
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Tuesday February 5, 2008 | Author: jane kim | Category: politics
February 2008 YouthVOTE Results!!
PRESS RELEASE
CONTACT: Gentle Blythe
For Immediate Release (415) 241-6565
SF High School Students choose Obama, McCain,
vote yes to clean up parks>
February 3, 2008 (San Francisco, CA) – Early results are in, and San Francisco’s youth voted to have Barack Obama on the Democratic ticket and to clean up their neighborhood parks.
Last fall the San Francisco Board of Education, the SFUSD Student Advisory Council and the Mayor’s Youth Commission implemented mandatory curriculum, YouthVOTE, for every public high school in the city and registered eligible students to vote in the California primary. Over the past week they conducted a district-wide student vote.
For the purposes of this primary, students were asked to choose either a Republican or Democratic candidate and everyone voted on the bond measure Proposition A.
Results of the student vote:
•77.8 percent voted yes on Proposition A, known as the “Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks” bond.
•43.3 percent supported Senator Barack Obama for president.
•37.3 percent supported Senator Clinton for president.
•5.2 percent supported Senator McCain for president.
•2.1 percent supported Governor Mike Huckabee for president.
Belle Yan, a senior at Lowell High and a mayoral appointee to the city’s Youth Commission, has been active with YouthVOTE since August. She took part in the hand counting of the almost 7,000 ballots turned in last week.
“It was like neck and neck,” says Yan. “Clinton, Obama, back and forth, until Obama edged out Clinton in the end.”
The city’s Youth Commission coordinator, Kevin Liao sees the YouthVOTE as more than a mock election.
“YouthVOTE is a call to action for adults to make choices at the polls informed by what all San Francisco high school students themselves believe will improve the lives of young people,” says Liao.
Yan not only hopes the adults in San Francisco keep the students’ wishes in mind when they go to the polls on Tuesday, but also that the students who took part in YouthVOTE come away with some life-long habits.
“When you get involved like this, you learn that you’re not just one vote. You can educate others to get out there and vote too,” says Yan.
School Board Commissioner Jane Kim was the lead author for the school district resolution to make the voter education mandatory.
“High school is an essential setting for young people to be taught the value and practice of voting,” says Kim, “A voter curriculum in our schools encourages, educates, and increases voter participation among young people – especially those who are underrepresented in their government.”
In the presidential election of 2004, just 10 percent of voters were between the ages of 18 and 24. According to a recent study by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, many students and young adults feel they do not have sufficient
time or information to be educated voters.
The San Francisco Unified School district and its community partners have implemented a YouthVOTE curriculum since 1992. However, this year’s mandatory participation has been more far-reaching and comprehensive. Students in American Democracy classes took part in three “Civic Engagement” days based on a specifically-designed standards-based curriculum.
YouthVOTE is a city-wide public school program for all high school students to learn about election issues. YouthVOTE is coordinated by a coalition of education/voter advocacy groups including the San Francisco Youth Commission, the Student Advisory Council of SFUSD, and the Board of Education.
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