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Clinton, De Klerk address school board members
at 67th annual NSBA conference
The real buzz: No Child Left Behind and its impact
As many as 14,000 school board members attended the 67th annual
National School Board conference this past weekend at San Francisco's
Moscone Center.
Photo(s) by
Luke Thomas
By Chelsey
Hart
April 16, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (FCJ) - Two former presidents, Bill Clinton
and F.W. de Klerk, headlined as keynote speakers at the National
School Boards Association's 67th annual conference held at San
Francisco's Moscone Convention Center this past weekend.
President Bill Clinton focused his speech on our nation's failing
health care system and the growing childhood
obesity epidemic, while former South African president F.W.
de Klerk explored the theme of change and the necessity for educators
to adapt curriculum to new emerging technologies in a rapidly
changing world.
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Bill Clinton urges action
on childhood obesity epidemic
President Bill Clinton urges participants at the 67th annual
National School Board Association conference, held in San Francisco,
to take responsibility to act against the childhood obesity
"epidemic" sweeping across the United States and the
world.
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Luke Thomas
By Ari Burack, Bay City News Service
April 15, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Former President
Bill Clinton told a packed audience of educators and school
administrators today in San Francisco that a rising tide of
childhood obesity is setting the stage for "a calamitous
crisis in health" in the United States and around the world.
Addressing the annual conference of the National
School Boards Association at Moscone Center, Clinton said "a
confluence of factors that have to do with how we work and live
and raise our children" are now threatening the nation's
health care system and endangering the lives of children.
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Tenderloin fatal shooting result of a shootout
By Lara Moscrip and Emmett Berg, Bay City
News Service
April 15, 2007
San Francisco police released more information
today about an early morning shooting
in the Tenderloin neighborhood that left one woman dead
and injured four other people.
In that attack, Sgt. Neville Gittens said that
an as-yet-unknown person initiated the gunfire, which prompted
a wheelchair-bound man to return shots. As a result of the ensuing
shootout, a woman was killed and among the four injured, a 23-year-old
woman suffered life threatening injuries.
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Newsom announces Saturday Golden Gate Park
road closure pact
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Luke Thomas
By Emmett Berg, Bay City News Service
April 14, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Mayor Gavin Newsom
announced an agreement Friday on a five-year plan to close John
F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park to motor traffic on Saturdays
from April through September during the daytime.
JFK Drive already is closed to motor vehicles
on Sundays and a plan to extend the closure to Saturdays was
met with sustained opposition.
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Letters, letters, letters...
- Re: Endorsing Critical mass
- Endorsing Critical Mass
- The SF Bicycle Coalition does not endorse Critical Mass
- Critical Mass and the SF Bicycle Coalition
Letters, click
here.
And in other news...
- School
Board, City, pen statement of mutual commitment to strengthen
San Francisco public schools
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