 The big step in the right to readiness in college completion to the success of our young people and significantly to San Antonio's success as well. And so I want to first of all introduce and thank several folks who helped make this effort possible and four of our superintendents who are going to describe the collaboration that's happening and the implementation of policies and strategies so that we can reach that 85% goal. I want to first thank Special Assistant to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Greg Narnina. Please convey to Secretary Duncan our appreciation as well. The Cafe College and then they get into our universities or community colleges and they're faced with a ton of remedial plastic because they're not adequately paired with courses but too many times they end up stopping out or dropping out and never completing their studies because they get discouraged. That's particularly true in our Hispanic community and so this is part of the effort. We blow us more than just in education and to talk to you about the strategy that our school districts would employ to ensure that we meet that SA-2020 goal. Let me bring up four superintendents who are doing a great job. Before I do that though, let me introduce Gerald Byrd. I forgot to introduce Gerald, the CEO of SA-2020 and driving volunteers to important efforts in education and otherwise and so we're very proud of the effort. At the heart of this though will be the role of our school districts. They play the most vital role along with parents and families in ensuring educational success and they're going to play a great role in this. So let me welcome to the podium Ray Monigal, superintendent of Perlendale and he's asking to come out. We're leaving the city, a city that really changes education, San Antonio and would like to thank everyone who was part of this process starting yesterday and into today and it's our privilege and our honor as superintendents to come out and be able to stake the goal and stake the metric and talk about some of the strategies that have been developed through the work and the effort and dedication from the many of you who are sitting out there today and this will be one of those things that changes the skyline of the San Antonio and the investment of youth is tremendous. So the goal that we came out today is to implement a college and career-ready culture in San Antonio. The metric to measure that is 85% college rate by 2020 and I get to announce the first strategy that the superintendents behind will reach them up in the next strategy. The first strategy to attain that goal is to infuse career guidance and exploration of cross-court content areas from PK through 12 in all of our collective school districts. I'd like to bring up Mr. Madrigal. The last days and all the collaboration and dialogue that we have I know definitely from Harding, I'll be certain 97% of Hispanics we definitely benefit from in the last days and we're able to take a lot of things that we've already discussed today here and yesterday back to Harding though so we can help our children. But again, one of the other measures that we agreed on was that we're going to train all teachers, administrators and all staff in all levels of rigor and readiness through the implementation of AP strategies in pre-K 12 classrooms. And now we're going to turn over to Dr. Woodst. Students that we serve in Northside ISD, I want to thank all of the members of the committee, the mayor and certainly his staff and all of the folks associated with this effort. We are certainly proud to be a part of this effort. Another of the strategies that we're going to implement to achieve our goals is to investigate a college and career readiness profile and to pilot it in our schools. We certainly look forward to seeing the efforts of that strategy and all of the others that you've heard about. Thank you. In the school district, this is a very critical time in our history and I can tell you that we have a school board and staff members that are very willing and ready to take our district to the next level. I'm very proud to serve as your interim superintendent. A couple of the other strategies that we're going to implement is to operationalize a student data portal to develop individual college ready profiles and also to investigate the administration of a common college entrance exam through school day testing. In a great city. In fact, we sought out students from the Art Institute who are college students such as those and we hope to help them reach through this partnership. We asked them to come up with a name logo to best represent our campaign to ensure that more San Antonio youth finish college and gain meaningful work. I am proud to introduce Anthony Falun who will come up and introduce his team from the Art Institute that created the great Diplomass logo that you see up here. It combines the words Diplomass and Mass to reinforce the message of the organization. Diplomass serves as a representation of all higher education. We have a bilingual element within the organization as well as a plan on the rise of Diplomass. So we thought I felt that I think great. The logo itself was drawn as a silhouette in order to represent and lead up to the viewer whether it's a boy or a girl. The left leg of the logo is stepping forward on to show forward progress in its first step to success. The graduate place in front of the student was to represent the position you'd be later on in life by receiving up with secondary education. Orange didn't write to represent the institution as well as the vivacity that is used for this collaborative effort. I'm going to introduce Doris Palos. It was a great experience when we look forward to moving forward with it. Thank you. 2010, Juan Zavolveda and Jose Vico as part of the White House Initiative were Hispanics and we were here with representatives from the national cities with probably a good number of you in the audience but over those two days a couple hundred people participated in the initial phases of the San Antonio 2020 educational plan so it's wonderful to see progress has been made in just a little over two years and that's only happening because of the people in this room and the fact that you have educational leaders who are engaged with these intermediary operatives of people so we have Judy and Jean and Hyra who are retitling operatives but they've been able to build a trust across this community the business community, the nonprofit community, the mayor's office, the universities, the school districts and so on and we've talked over the last couple of days a lot about collective impact and what are those distinct metrics that we as a community are going to hold ourselves accountable for moving and many communities are talking about that across the country but it's another thing to take it into action and so I just applaud you for taking those words and activating them and operationalizing them and having those courageous conversations on what does it mean to be ready for coming here what does it mean to be on third grade and track the reading level and what does it mean to be proud of your ready leaving high school and so I send again just applaud what's happening here congratulations on your childhood initiative that was passed last week that's just fabulous this doesn't happen without mayors and superintendents stepping forward and understanding of the future of their communities is the talent within them and so Mayor Caster I just applaud you again for driving that San Antonio 2020 plan and framing it because it's so much easier than all the other community resources to galvanize around implementation when there's that broad framework and I totally agree with your comments around district leadership and taking that framework and then taking it to the next level it's just so much easier to invest those resources and basically also understand what's the added value we've had a lot of conversations over the last couple of days about what is the added value of any particular resource to impact any of those specific measures so congratulations I look forward to coming back soon I love this place this time of year July is my favorite time DC is not my favorite place to be in July either so congratulations it's fabulous work and I'm going to take this back to something different so thank you from the Darylburg it's one of your videos on a race status in the city it's not hard to say that you're proud of the San Antonio particularly when we look at what's going on across all sectors of this city this city is one path to its next level of greatness I really really believe that I could not be more proud of the day to be a San Antonio people don't really talk about the investment in the most precious asset that we've got and it's our children and the most exciting thing about the work that we're doing today is the commitments that these superintendents and other partners and universities are making today is that this is an investment that is going to generate an enormous return on investment in all sectors of San Antonio the parties that we're setting that we're signing off on today are the parties that thousands and thousands of San Antonio except for themselves didn't come from one high or from the side one way or the other came from San Antonio themselves saying children and the investment in their future will generate the biggest dividend for this city so that's exciting so every action, every strategy that you've heard today when employed is going to get you a new one you a new one for the future of the city of San Antonio like most things we make commitments we've got to be serious about it and that means that we have to use pens and sign our names to commit this right contract so I'm going to ask our force and theintendents to come up now they're going to ceremonially sign their names here so they can commit to those matters come on up guys in this room you have to write small first the commitment to this course that we have decided to embark on going to the year 2022 and signing it here across the United States from San Antonio the San Antonio is a great, great scenario it's not the case, San Antonio is an ingrained game situation in San Antonio we just learned today is the sixth out of the top 50 rich golf players in San Antonio San Antonio brings six out to the New York City and the Boston's and the Northern California's of the world applied their skills and talent and expertise and come along to innovate, create business and drive as a company so imagine what it's going to look like in a year to age between these investments that we're all connected to making today brings San Antonio to the number one city in all of America in terms of this great game we need to sign up because of Dr. Juan, that's your favorite come to our children over to New York City