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SF Votes 2011: Leland Yee for Mayor
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Leland Yee Announces Exploratory Committee for Mayor
State Senator Leland Yee files papers to open an Exploratory Committee to run for Mayor of San Francisco. Senator Yee - joined by his wife, Maxine, and his four children - spoke of the great opportunities that San Francisco has given him through out his life. Join the conversation about we can move San Francisco forward at lelandyee.com
Nation’s Educators Honor State Senator Leland Yee
Senator Leland Yee was honored in New Orleans by the National Education Association (NEA) – the largest professional organization and labor union in the United States, representing over 3.2 million school teachers and university faculty and staff. Yee received NEA’s Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Human Rights Award for his commitment in fighting cuts to education, providing greater oversight of public universities, and authoring landmark civil rights legislation.
ABC 7 - Palin Visit to CSU Stanislas
ABC 7
Amy Hollyfield
TURLOCK, CA (KGO)—Sarah Palin was in Northern California Friday, and had some choice words for those who questioned the secrecy surrounding her speaking contract. There is no question Palin’s controversial speech paid off for California State University Stanislaus. She set a fundraising record for the university as she lobbed a couple of grenades at her California critics.
“Students and political operatives who have been part of the controversy of this event tonight, goodness gracious,” Palin told the crowd. “In spite of some of the hoopla leading up to this dinner, I am extremely delighted to get to be here.”
Love her or hate her, Palin is fundraising gold. Her appearance made the university $200,000, more money than any other fundraiser in the university’s history.
But the secrecy surrounding her speaking contract created plenty of controversy.
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ABC 7 - Lawmaker wants to keep Texas textbooks out of CA
ABC 7
Nannette Miranda
SACRAMENTO, CA—There is an effort underway to keep school books for children in Texas out of the hands of children in California.
Educators in Texas have approved controversial additions and omissions to textbooks and because that state buys so many of them, Texas tends to dictate what gets printed.
After the Texas School Board adopted landmark changes to textbooks last week, one California lawmaker is pushing his proposal to make sure those changes do not end up here.
“What I’m afraid of is that the Texas curriculum will, in fact, be the standard for a lot of social science/history textbooks, and that we end up having to then adopt that particular textbook,” State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, said.
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