Government Watch

“The U.S. Military and Naval Academies rank in the top 20 liberal arts colleges year after year. It’s my honor to nominate some of the country’s best and brightest to get selected for these programs and receive a top quality education free of tuition,” Speier said in a prepared statement.

Representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Military Academy West Point, U.S. Air Force Academy and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy will be there along with Speier.

The Millbrae Community Center is at 477 Lincoln Circle.

State government

• Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 528, authored by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, to provide assistance to pregnant and parenting foster youth.

Young parents in the foster care system face the challenges of being in foster care as well as being a young, usually single, parent. Studies have found that they will experience higher than average rates of poverty, unemployment and low educational attainment. SB 528 will provide assistance to these parents so they and their child have a better chance of success, according to Yee’s office.

SB 528 encourages the implementation of a successful program in Los Angeles that provides parenting teens in foster care with individual conferences with specialists who can explain resources available and help facilitate a plan for raising the child, including access to prenatal care and maternal health resources, according to Yee’s office.