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In honor of the retiring principals of the school district, incoming Superintendent Richard Carranza serenades the audience with his velvety voice!

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Terry Abad, Lowell Forensics Coach and Host Committee Chair, takes a quick break from his Herculean duties for a quickie photo opp. Kudos to the Host Committee and SFUSD support staff!

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A hundred years ago, the Japanese government gifted 3,000 cherry trees to our country, many of the lining the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. Today Japanese Consul General Hiroshi Inomata and his wife Midori joined Mayor Edwin Lee in planting a new tree in the Japanese Tea Garden to mark the centennial of the extraordinary gift.

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At the San Francisco Unified School District Elementary Music Festival today. Future virtuosos!

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Today at City Hall, California Attorney General Kamala Harris and other elected and appointed luminaries are standing up for justice and adequate funding of our court system.

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State Superintendent Torlakson, Mayor Lee, Superintendent Garcia announce a new program to ensure summer learning.

Michelle Menegaz, a public school parent testifies. Go Michelle!

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First Lady Anita Lee, DCCC incumbent Mary Jung and I support Marily Mondejar for SF Democratic County Central Committee!

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Today at Balboa High, hundreds of our public school students gathered to rehearse for the Annual Elementary Music Festival. Many thanks to Rob Daniels and his exceptional team of music instructors, including Ms. Kim at Rosa Parks, for bringing music to our kids.

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Dear Friends,

Elect Women 2012

Many of you know that I was a member of the first class of Emerge, a candidate training program for Democratic women (www.emergeamerica.org), way back in 2003. Since then, Emerge has expanded to 9 states(!) and graduated more than 900 women candidates, of which 43% have run for office and 60% have won! Given my Emerge experience, I am committed to helping other women run for public office.

This June, San Francisco voters will select their picks for the Democratic County Central Committee. In District 17, on the east side of the City, 14 seats are up. Of the 30 candidates seeking these seats, 11 are women:

Malia Cohen, Petra DeJesus, Zoe Dunning, Jo Elias-Jackson, Leslie Katz, Hydra Mendoza, Carole Migden, Marily Mondejar, Leah Pimentel, Alix Rosenthal, and Jamie Rafela Wolfe.

In District 19, on the west side of the City, 10 seats are up. Of the 21 candidates seeking these seats, 7 are women:

Kat Anderson, Wendy Aragon, Kelly Dwyer, Mary Jung, Hene Kelly, Suki Kott, Meagan Levitan.

If you are interested in meeting these candidates, please come to the only fundraiser for a slate card to support these women.

5:30 - 8 pm, April 26 at Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission near Duboce

Checks payable to "Elect Women 2012" should be mailed to my Emerge classmate Alix Rosenthal at 870 Market Street, Suite 415, SF CA 94102.

Elect Marily Mondejar for Democratic County Central Committee

Marily Mondejar is one of the fantastic women candidates running for DCCC. She is truly a super-woman. An immigrant from the Philippines, she came to San Francisco to escape an abusive husband and start a better life for herself and her two sons. Despite the struggles of raising a family as a single mom, Marily excelled at her work and eventually launched her own consulting business.

But she gave up her practice to pursue her passion as leader of the Filipina Women's Network, a national association for working women. I worked with her closely when she joined the Commission on the Status of Women's committee on domestic violence policy reforms, after a string of domestic violence homicides of Filipina women. This committee has contributed to an 80% decline in domestic violence homicides over the past decade. Last year, Mayor Ed Lee appointed Marily to the Redistricting Task Force which is responsible for redrawing the boundaries for district elections.

Please join me and First Lady Anita Lee (wife of Mayor Ed Lee) at Marily's campaign kick-off/garden party brunch this Sunday!

11:30 am - 1:30 pm, April 15 at the Richard Gervais Garden Gallery, 965 Natoma Street near 11th Street. RSVP at www.marilymondejar.org/events


Hope to see you soon!

Truly,

Emily

Emily M. Murase, PhD
San Francisco Board of Education Member


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Check out www.hiresfyouth.org for a historic effort to hire 5,000 San Francisco youth this summer as part of President Obama's jobs campaign.

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At the Labor Council dinner tonight. What a leader!

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Honoree of KQED's Women's History Month!

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Stopped by the birthplace of the Occupy movement expecting to see some physical vestige of the protest. Nothing but a barrage of police vehicles. I suppose the movement continues within its supporters.

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Jason Chan is emcee at today's celebration, attended by elaborate dragons and First Lady Anita Lee with her red stuffed dragon!

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During a fascinating panel on this topic sponsored by the California Adolescent Health Collaborative, I learned that a new trend that healthcare providers are now receiving training on is how to deal with "reproductive coercion" where boys are sabotaging girls who use contraceptives in an attempt to impregnate them and expand their control over them.

The good news is that interventions work -- having trained healthcare providers initiate a conversation about healthy relationships has dramatically expanded knowledge of existing resources for youth and enabled them to leave abusive relationships.

This event was held at Wallenberg Traditional High School.

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What a party! As the 91 year old friend and legend Jane Morrison said, Renee Golanty Koel has many more years to enjoy! Such a lovely family and devoted husband. Best wishes for many, many more birthdays.

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Dr. Ravitch is a former senior official of the Bush Administration in education who has repudiated high stakes testing. She gave remarks tonight at Herbst Theater about the assault on public education.

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I highly recommend her book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

In her remarks, she lauds the educational system in Finland where the focus is not on high test scores but on fostering the humanity of our children. Food for thought.

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