Steve Ngo

Information

Current Office

Office:
Trustee
State:
California
District:
San Francisco Community College District
Party:
Democratic
 
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Steve Ngo On cutting basic skills programs and classes . . . "The next generation of workers will be the first in the state's history to have lower levels of educational attainment than the generation that preceded it, threatening California's economic future." http://tinyurl.com/maxhgd

Source: tinyurl.com
As the unemployment rate reaches record highs and the recession strips workers of jobs that may never come back, adult education classes that teach basic skills - English and math skills necessary for success in jobs, community colleges, universities or vocational education - are in growing demand. ...
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Steve Ngo "Low-income students who hold summer jobs or are idle, the research has demonstrated, forget more math and reading skills over the summer than their affluent classmates, who often receive intellectual stimulation in the summer from canoe trips, language camps or ballet lessons." http://tinyurl.com/lrsl76

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Thousands of school districts across the country have trimmed or eliminated summer classes, ignoring pleas from the Education Department to use stimulus money to retain them.
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Sure, but it's a quote from the article, not mine. Thanks for sharing Heidi!
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Source: www.nytimes.com
Starting Wednesday, the federal Education Department will begin offering a repayment plan that lets college graduates reduce their loan payments, based on their income.
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Like many public institutions in the country, the San Francisco Community College District has been consumed by a budget crisis. The Governor proposed cuts in his May Revision budget without mercy or foresight...
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
One in every 31 adults in the United States is in prison, in jail, or on supervised release. Numbers only tell part of the story.
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Steve Ngo Just left City College Planning and Budgeting Committee Meeting. Not happy.

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Steve Ngo We adjourned last night's Board of Trustees meeting in honor and memory of Professor Ron Takaki. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ronald-takaki29-2009may29,0,6360569.story

Source: www.latimes.com
The grandson of Japanese immigrants, Ronald T. Takaki was an activist as well as a scholar. He was a vigorous proponent of multicultural education and a vocal opponent of Proposition 209, the 1996 California ballot initiative that rolled back affirmative action policies in state-funded institutions.
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Steve Ngo Congratulations City College graduates!

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Steve Ngo Small Green Business courses offered at City College in Fall 2009: Achieving Green Certification, Green Marketing, Cost Benefits of Being Green, The Green Supply Chain -- all at the downtown campus (4th and Mission) and free.

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Steve Ngo City College is seeking bids to help enforce our local hiring goal for the Chinatown-North Beach Campus construction project. Help us get people back to work! Submissions are due May 14, 2009! Spread the word! http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Facilities_Planning/projects_professional.htm

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Steve Ngo -- an update on what I've been doing. http://stevengo.com/

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Friends - I want to quickly update you on my work on the Board of Trustees. After three months of work, we passed my first set of resolutions last night, which mainly focused on budgets and jobs...
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Steve Ngo is introducing his first resolutions at the Board of Trustees meeting tonight.

Michael
Michael
Yay! Go Steve!!
Hilary
Hilary
whohoo! Go Steve :)
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Friends- We won! As of late yesterday, we received 87,605 votes, securing us a seat on the San Francisco Community College Board! Though the Elections Department is still counting votes, there are now not enough left to overcome our lead that widened from 278 votes to 4,283 over the past 14 days...
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Dear Friends- This long campaign just got a little longer. With 100 percent of the precincts in San Francisco reporting as of 1:30 a.m. or so this morning, we finished among the top four finishers in this race - 278 votes ahead of the fifth place candidate...
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Dear Friends- We are only $475 away from raising $75,000! This was the target we set for ourselves at the beginning of the campaign. After over 700 donations, we are almost there...
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Friends- The San Francisco Chronicle just endorsed our campaign for Community College Board! As we head into the final stretch, we get an added boost: State Controller John Chiang joins us in San Francisco today to kick-off our 8-day sprint to Election Day...
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Friends-We have 12 days left. This is our big push with only 2 weekends before Election Day. Since March, we’ve taken this journey together and are nearing the end. We can win this together in these last days. Here is how you can put us over the top: 10 days left. Saturday, October 25th. 1 p.m...
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Dear Friends- We have 19 days left to win this race. People are voting right now. Could you please call some voters for me? Please come by after work every Monday. We’re set up at the San Francisco Obama-Biden headquarters, located at 939 Market Street (at Powell)...
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