Meeting minutes of november 21, 2019. May i have a motion, please . Motion. Second. President cook okay. Discussion . Seeing none, roll call, miss casco. [roll call] clerk seven ayes. President cook thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and for closed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. Miss casco, members of the public will have two minutes to address the board and or time is set by the president. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, the board will not accept a speaker card for items already in front of the board. Number 2, directors report. Superintendent matthews . Thank you. What proved to be a fantastic weekend for High School Sports in San Francisco. Congratulations to lowe. After a thrilling norcal final victory over sacred heart prep in which they lost the first two sets before pulling off a come back for the ages, the cardinals, facing south pasadena, who had a record of 37 wins and 8 losses, and they were the number two seed from southern california, lowell won the next two contested sets and took the finale, 2523, so congratulations to the lowell cardinals for becoming the first aaa program to win a state volleyball championship. Lets give them a big round of applause. [applause] this week, thousands of San Francisco Unified School District students are celebrating Computer Science Education Week by demystifying code and giving it a try. Computer science is increasingly important in todays world and its just one day were redefining San Francisco, preparing students for a rapidly changing world. The San Francisco Unified School District is the first large urban School District in the United States to develop and implement a comprehensive prek to 12 Computer Science curriculum. The number of students participating in a Computer Science curriculum has dramatically increased since 1314, currently reaching about half of our students in the district. Im excited to attend the upcoming Fourth Annual qtea innovation awards space night. Ten kids have spent the fall going through a libertory design process and will pitch the ideas for how they plan to tackle challenges using the qtea innovation awards funding so they will develop the idea. The evening will include a gallery walk, followed by tenminute pitches to the qtea review committee members, along with the San Francisco Unified School District community. It promises to be an inspiring evening, along with a delicious light dinner for those present. We hope to see you there. The San Francisco Unified School District and our nonprofit partner, spark, announced a new partnership to help teachers tap into a network of 4 million to support classroom projects and more seamlessly align with District Strategies and operations. By giving teachers the ability to design and promote their own initiatives, donors choose helps San Francisco teachers improve their students experiences directly. To date, our teachers have raised over 7. 8 million and completed over 120 projects. These projects range from purchasing chrome books to spanish immersion lessons to healthy snacks to funding learning centers to expand learning outside of the classroom. Im also excited to join access San Francisco Unified School District students and other guests at the 11th annual holiday singalong on december 16. Sfusd has hosted the holiday sing along for the past decade to spread cheer as part of learning in inclusive holiday settings. There will be special performances by access balixclass, the access sfusd minute men performing their feature their formance was featured at hamilton and the dance debut for change makers award. Finally, all of our district schools will be closed from december 23 through january 3 for the winter break, and the district offices will be closed on wednesday, december 25 and wednesday, january 1. Offices and schools resume operations december 6, 2020. And that what did i january 6, 2020. That yeah, did you just say, were not closing for the whole year. So we will resume operations january 6, 2020, and that concludes my announcements, president cook. President cook thank you. Thank you, dr. Matthews. Number 3, our student delegates report. Good evening. Fellow student heart shares update. Help us support our peers who are needed by supporting our fast campaign. All of our proceeds will go to our tran transitional students. Can we please have a round of applause for all of our students and all of our [applause] we would like to thank all of our students who have dedicated their time and effort to help this campaign. Please dont forget that tomorrow is your last day to purchase a share or make a donation. Thank you. At our last s. A. C. Meeting, we appointed two students from the s. A. C. Who will represent student interests when discussing the implementation of ethnic studies at our school on the equity studies task force. We appoint kathy correa from june jordan and her from june jordan. Before i announce the next item, can i please get a drum roll from my partner . From me . I thought from everybody. From everybody. Okay. On behalf of the s. H. D. , we would like to announce our youth summit our annual youth summit, and this is our poster. Everybody has one. This is our 17th so its a long time, actually. Our 17th annual youth summit, and our theme is united beyond our leadership, more than just a voice. Our goal in these Leadership Summits is to encourage students to step up and become leaders. We are one of the students who attended these, like, three years ago and theyre super fun. Food is provided. There will be workshops and inspirational speakers and entertainment. When and where . It will be friday, march 20 at the fort mason center. Yeah, okay. Lastly, can we have kevin truitt come up to the front of the room . We would like to give you a thank you. No crying. Okay. Im going to try my best not to cry. Oh, my god. On behalf of s. A. C. , we want to thank kevin truitt for dedicating 34 years to the youth in San Francisco Unified School District. Without him, s. A. C. Would not be as successful as it is today. We are grateful for all you have done for students and all you have done for student Advisory Council. We would like to wish you the best in your retirement. Please dont forget about us. We want you to know that we want you to know that you will always have a place in s. A. C. S heart. Thank you. Since this is your last year, and this is your last s. A. C. Team youll work with, we just got our jacket today, and we decided to get you one, as well. [applause] [applause] president cook you want to say a few words, mr. Truitt . It is your last meeting, but i do mean a few. Give me a mic and say a few words . How is that even possible . No, i just want to say, coming from the students, a thank you, thats the way i would want it. The students have been the center of everything that ive done here in the district, and i really thank them for enriching my life, teaching them more about myself than i thought i would ever know about myself. My students are the best part of my job, so i thank you. I thank the board, my colleagues, and everyone for a great career. Thank you so much. [applause] president cook commissioner norton . Commissioner norton dont try to leave. You dont get to leave, sorry. It snuck up on me that this was your last meeting, kevin mr. Truitt, excuse me, and i just want to thank you, truly, for your long service for the School District and to the students of the School District. Its really, truey bely been a incredible career, and youve made incredible contributions to the School District. I wish all the best to you. [applause] president cook thanks. Well be loving on kevin for the rest of the year, you know, and beyond. Number 4, recognitions and resolutions of commendation. There is none tonight. Number 5 are recognizing all valuable employees, our rave awards. Dr. Matthews . So this evening, we have two awards. Well start with the award coming from the Mission Education center. This is the rave distinguished service award. This is going to be awarded to Adelina Duncan. She is the family liaison at the mission ed center, and this is going to be presented by carla llewelyn vasquez. Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much. I want to thank all of you for being here and for being part of this celebration of Adelina Duncan who is our family liaison. Everyone who knows me knows i love to rave about Mission Education center, but tonight, i get to rave about adelina and all the amazing work shes done for this community. Adelina is not just a liaison, but she is an integral part of our community and part of what makes mission special. She supports the families, teachers, and even the community outside of Mission Education center. She helps to bring services into the school to support our families as they transition into San Francisco as new residents into San Francisco. One of the focuses of Mission Education center is to really provide Parent Education and support parents in supporting their children. And like i said before, adelina is not just a regular parent liaison, she is amazing. She is in the time that i have been there, she has got to get trained in a program for families to learn about supporting their children in literacy. She has gotten trained as a triple p, which is positive parenting i forget the other p, but a positive parenting workshop, and the parents come in, and they learn about different ways to parent their children here in the United States because its different than in our country. She has also done which we started last year, a family latino literacy workshops, which is a series of ten workshops that our families come from, and they get books so they can start libraries with their students with their kids at home, and they learn about teaching their kids reading at home and becoming and loving books. So it is my absolute pleasure to present this award to adelina. Our community, we love you, and we just embrace you every day, and wed just be lost without you, so thank you for all of your hard work. [applause] okay. Thank you very much. Its an honor to receive this recognition. At the same time, i love to work for this School District. And i want to thank miss vasquez, our current principal, for trusting in my work, for giving me the opportunity to continue working in this school, and for motivating me to do better. I also want to thank my first principal, who is here today. Where is davi . He opened the door 11 years ago because before being employed by the district, i was a student with my daughter who is here. And im thankful for this opportunity also because i have grown not only personally but professionally. Thank you for all my coworker who are here today. Thank you for supporting me. This is a team effort. I will not be half able to do it without your support and trust you place in me. Thank you so much. And thank you so the people who nominate me. This is important to me because it shows that the work i do is appreciated. Finally, to my husband and my daughter who are here today and who always supported me, thank you so much. [applause] [applause] our second rave special service is ward is from Thurgood Marshall high school. He is a paraprofessional coach. This is mr. Andre williams, who will be receiving this award, and this will be presented by the principal of Thurgood Marshall, mark herringer. [applause] thank you so much. It is very much my honor to talk about andre williams. Andre williams, when i showed up as the principal at Thurgood Marshall this is my third year i showed up, and you get to kind of take a little bit of stock of whos there and who does what. And it became very apparent ho our community in our school. So im very, very honored because ive learned a ton from him as a principal, and that is invaluable to me and everybody else. Our p. T. O. President , we call her jam affectionately, miss magnone, brought this award to the table, and everybody said absolutely. This is something we knew hed be honored for. So andre williams, congratulations. Thank you very much. [applause] i dont have a long speech. I just want to say thank you for the recognition. To see all these people out here, its really warming. We do it for the kids. The people that are here, they know why we do this, so for me to stand here and just talk a lot, we do it for our babies. If you aint doing it for them, then why you doing it . So thank you. [applause] president cook lets congratulate again our rave award winners. [applause] so im going to make a brief quick change to the agenda. Im going to move up our parent pack presentation. If you are here, could you make your way to the dais . Parent Advisory Council. Hi. Good evening, president cook, commissioners, superintendent matthews, the staff, the student delegates, and our Community Members here tonight. My name is naomi liguana, and i have a sixth grader that attends aptos middle school. We just want to give some some updates. So the third annual advisory alignment summit will be held on saturday, february 8, 2020, from 9 00 until 1 00 at rosa parks school, and we want to thank the principal, darryl, for opening up the school site to this event, so i want to say that. The summit will bring together parents serving on a number of committees. The African American parent Advisory Council, the Community Advisory council for special education, the district english language learners Advisory Council committee, excuse me. The Early Education department, foster youth services, Indian Education and migrant education, Pacific Islander families, and the parent Advisory Council. The theme of the summit this year is sharing our stories. Next is the lcap task force dashboard review. So on thursday, december 12, 2019, the lcap task force will do a focus review on the latest Data Available for sfusd students from the California Department of education schools dashboard. We will be joined by myong lee, deputy superintendent of policy and operations. This meeting will go from 3 30 until 5 30, and we encourage anyone who is interested to attend that meeting. Sfusds Assessment Committee update. The Assessment Committee will be held will hold its first meeting on sunday, december 19 from 12 30 to 2 00 in the irving g. Breyer room, here in this building. We will be looking to see what will be prioritized for this school year. So the p. A. C. Priorities for this year include several items, and were still building that list. We have a new coordinator, michelle, so we are a new team this year. And we are doing Student Health and nutrition as a focus. In november, p. A. C. Members attended two different tasting Services Provided by the nutrition services. We hope that a diverse array of students are also provided with the opportunity to sample more foods and give meaningful feedback. We are impressed with the comprehensiveness of thought and inclusion of previous outreach findings that weve gone into the student redesign process so far this year and were excited to have begun meeting with staff and sfusd staffs for early this coming year. The next p. A. C. Meeting is tomorrow, wednesday, december 11 in the main Conference Room at 601 mcallister. P. A. C. Meetings are open to the public and all are welcome. If you have questions or youre a parent in this room that would like to join the p. A. C. And would like Additional Information about the p. A. C. , parent Advisory Council always looking for more parents, please contact michelle at pac sfusd. Edu. Thanks. Thank you for moving us up on the agenda. We appreciate it. President cook youre welcome. Any comments or questions by the board . Commissioner collins . So im wondering how were prioritizing these meetings so that families can know about it . Thats a great question. Im michelle, the coordinator. In terms of the advisory alignments, all of the groups in the report are reaching out to their own groups and constituents, and we have a goal of bringing 10 to 15 members from these groups to each outreach summits. The goal is parent leaders, whether they be serving on some kind of advisor or capacity, or their school site and trying to bring a group of folks from their groups. Again, this is in the past, the lcap Task Force Event has been an effort has been made at this event to really try to draw a general public and parents across the district, and that actually hasnt been very successful, and theres been a lot of staff effort and time thats put into preparing for it, and so this time, we really rethought it and are focusing on engaging the Task Force Members and communities, and look at that data so that then we can take that back to our groups and use that better. Thank you. No problem. President cook commissioner lam . Im excited for the summit. When will the agenda for the summit be available, and if you have overarching high outcomes for the summit, are there any recommendations or plans that will then come forward to the board for consideration . So the goal of the summit is really to bring the advisory members together to connect, like, across difference and to understand that we share connection and that we all have a reason why we come to these groups and we have our own stories. And a big focus for this year is transitions . So were going to really be talking a lot about how the challenges around transitions and maybe sharing strategies for how you can navigate different transitions in your student and family life as a part of the district . And i dont know that necessarily new recommendations may come out of it . We are currently meeting pretty frequently as a team to plan the summit and we have a draft of our agenda, but were not finalized yet, but well be putting out all of that information in the coming weeks. President cook okay. I think were done. All right. Good night. Thank you very much. President cook section c, Public Comment on nonagenda items. Please note that Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction. We ask that you refrain from using employee names and student names. If you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it with the employees supervisor in accordance with district policy. As a reminder, board rules and California Law do not allow us to comment or respond to questions during the Public Comment time. If appropriate, the superintendent will ask that staff follow up with speakers. So i have a number of speakers. Just make your way up to the podium. You have two minutes to speak. Im going to start with the list that we got before the meeting started. Sherry cline, sean huff, gail flynn, meg felts, jad jader castino. Whenever youre ready. [inaudible] i dont have any sound here. My name is shane hoff. Ive been a San Francisco School Bus Driver 24 years president cook miss casco, if you could start the timer . Oh, start the clock . Okay. I want to address the intent to award part of the School Bussing contract that San Francisco Unified School District transportation has just given to zoom. These Companies Deny their drivers many basic Worker Protection by designing their worker as independent contractors and not employee, they skirt providing workers compensation, unemployment and disability, insurance, and other costs, and this burden is shifted to the employees, and theyre not award to form union to better their conditions. And are you aware that the California Supreme Court and the California Assembly made illegal the Ride Sharing Companies practice of designating their drivers independent contractors instead of employees. This bill was just signed into law by governor Gavin Newsom September 18, 2019, and it will go into effect january 1, which is just a month from now. We ask how does this ruling affect the company that transportation has awarded this contract, and is this the kind of company the School District wants to do business with . President cook okay. Any other speakers here . If not, ill move on. If you heard your name, just make a line. Otherwise, im going to continue to call the names. Has anyone heard their name already . Yeah. President cook okay. Okay. Is this oh, its on. Okay. Good evening, commissioners. President cook im sorry. Just restart. Oh, okay. I should start. Okay. Good evening, commissioners. My name is meg phelps. Ive been a San Francisco School Bus Driver for the last 34 years. When i saw transportations intent to award part of the School Bussing contract to zoom, a ride sharing company, i looked at the student awards versus the student awards to zoom. First provider is the current provider of bussing in San Francisco. I was rather shocked to see that zoom, a Startup Company who only launched four years ago was given 113 points over First Student whos been in the student bus bussing business for 20 years. Even more so because the current workforce of First Student in San Francisco has decades of experience driving the School Children in this city. The average time a School Bus Driver per student has driven School Children in this city is 11 years. Thats the average. The top 40 drivers have all been driving over 20 years, with most drivers having 25, 30, even 50 years as a School Bus Driver. I was surprised to see that under the category personnel that zoom and First Student drivers were rated as equal. How can that be when First Student drivers are all rated at School Bus Drivers and zoom drivers are not even close to that level of certification . I think this award needs more scrutiny. Thank you for your time. [applause] good evening. My name is sherry cline. Good evening, superintendent matthews and commissioners. Im a School Bus Driver here in San Francisco. Ive been driving a school bus for 16 years. When i first received the news that the Transportation Department intended to award zoom, i was shocked. When i read the bus value sh e shore score details, i was dumbfounded. I felt betrayed by the blatant lies and bounced scores. Zoom drivers that scored double in the amount of scoring in professional bus drivers in San Francisco. I transport students to fremont, the school for the deaf and the blind, and i take four students from San Francisco. Its a doubledrop off and pick up. We drop off at the school for the deaf and then we drive over to a building for the school for the blind. So today, a zoom driver that was parked in front of me in a loading se loading zone, she left a student alone in a car with the Engine Running. She went into the building where students come out of, she walked out holding the hand of a kindergartener. She walked out in the lane of traffic and put the child behind the drivers seat. She left the car again, now leaving two unattended children in her car with the Engine Running to go get another student. This is the experience that a zoom driver has, not securing her vehicle and leaving unattended children in her car. School bus drivers are trained to always secure our buses, gear in park put the gear in park or neutral, put on our parking brake, and take our keys. We never, ever leave a school child unattended, or i get fired. My time is up. Thank you. [applause] president cook cassandra coe, nick chandly, debra virden, carolyn gaseneau. Hi. Good evening. My name is gail flynn. I work for First Student. Im one of the state certified instructors. I had two other points that i wanted to address. Number one, regarding the zoom vans, who will monitor how many hours zoom van drivers will be driving every day . As School Bus Drivers, we have to follow state regulations and we must follow state regulations hours of service, rules which limit all drivers who transport passengers or property to 15 on duty, ten driving, and other hours are sleep. We cannot driving ten hours after 15 hours on duty. This is an important regulation because it keeps tired drivers off the road, so who will monitor the hours that the zoom drivers drive . Who will monitor the School Vehicles . School rules require the vehicles to be inspected every 15 days. All components must be inspected. Interior checks are performed, as well as checking that all seats are secured and all seat belts are in good working order. School buses are with any of these defects are put out of service and cannot be driven until defects can be repaired. Thank you. [applause] good evening. My name is cassandra coe, and my Organization Partners with the School District to provide Mental Health consultation services, including buena vista horace mann. Im here to unequivocally say we have the deepest conference in your principal and her Decision Making process, and we are confused, surprised, and dismayed that the decisions have led to this point today where termination may be considered. We can appreciate the complexity of Decision Making and have found in many cases theres a gray area thats best found by not being reactive. And we have found, our experience has been with your principal, that she leads with integrity, a thoroughness and an understanding of the context, both historical and present. Additionally, her decisions are formed by her sensitivity. My team at i. F. R. And i have worked with this principal for over a decade, she has consistently and passionately embodied values that show her commitment and trust, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. The Current Situation is no exception. Furthermore, under her leadership, she has uniquely created systems to support adult health and wellness, allowing i. F. R. To deepen the work that we do at b. V. Horace mann president cook thank you. That was your time. Thank you. [applause] president cook turn the mic back on. Good evening. Im nick brawn, and today, im speaking on behalf of b. V. Horace mann. We all share a passion for this work, and we all believe in our bones that education is a civil right, and the way to interrupt the inequities that were seeing in our district is through restorative justice. We find ourselves in a position where we have walked through with families, step by step at every corner, and we have done so with the commitment to make sure that were protecting the community we serve. We do this in collaboration with you. Our leader in this work has been removed, without explanation, without warning. And what that does is it puts doubt in us that we have unity, and we need it. To do this work, we need to know you have our backs every step of the way. [applause] and our belief is that she was removed without justification. Were left to our own understanding what the cause is. We dont believe she should have been removed for a day, let alone facing termination. So we ask you to set the same standards for you that we have for us. When our students or families need us, we dont shun them or isolate them. When we have a problem, we ask questions, and we problem solve. We do not shame and we do not punish. We ask you how we can get through this together, and how we can look at the policies, the practices, and the thinks that got us to the point where our community has suffered harm. And we need to repair it, and we need to use the restoretive practices that weve been committed to to make this right. [applause] good evening president cook, commissioners, and superintendent. Im here to speak and read a letter on behalf of our united educators of San Francisco, who our leader is out of time and cannot be here tonight. This is a letter sent on december 4 to the commissioners. Dear honorable commissioners, representing almost 300 dedicated site and central administrator members in the united administrator members of San Francisco, i wrote this on behalf of principal of buena vistahorace mann. She has spent her entire administrative career at buena vista horace mann, a school in which she is deeply invested. Miss moran is invested in the quality of our schools, as a parent, and in the employment of our schools. She continued as a safe and Supportive Schools in 2014 before being selected to serve as the a. P. At buena vista horace mann. Miss moran is highly regarded by the school and Community Stakeholders as well as her colleagues. She is collaborative, creative, and focused on increasing student achievement as well as promoting the social growth and development of our needy students. She approaches challenges with empathy and a sense of purpose based on her strong sense of self. President cook sorry. That was your time. Thank you. [applause] good evening, commissioners and staff. I am caroline and i work as chief of staff for supervisor ronen who represents the mission. We are here, supervisor reason,s in the meeting. We want to support the leader who has done so much. We worked closely with her. We want to express that the situation has been harmful to the community, to staff, and to students and families. It is truly an extraordinary principal and extraordinary leader. I would like to have everyone here for the horace mann and for the principal to raise their hand. This is someone who is a deeply empathetic and loving and caring and strong leader, and someone who thinks outside the box to do what is best for students, staff and family. We worked so closely with her with the stayover program that i am proud to report you will we seeing a report shortly showing just how successful and meaningful and important this program has been, and the fact that it has addressed the huge gap in the way the city served homeless families. It is because of her leadership this program happened. It was because of her vision and desire to do what she could to help students that we moved for war and forward and were able to start this program. This is a loving and unique leader. Thank you so much for all of your work. [applause] steve zitler, laurie, tobias cane. Any of those people here . It has been two months since the principal has been removed. Sir, if you can help him out. [ inaudible ] whenever you are ready. Good evening to commissioners, to educators, and to supporters. Imy name is tobias kaine. The reason i am here is to ask to be restored back at marshall elementary school, where i was placed as a reasonable accommodation employment area. Doctor matthews i understand you visited the school. I wish i was there when you came. The back story is in 2012 i was injured by a principal interfering in my duties pulling a child down. When the child fell, i had hold of her and fell to both knees with the full weight of the child. I injured both knees and i had chipped bones in my knees. In 2012 Risk Management allowed my left knee to be done. After healing in 2013, i began advocating for the right knee because it was more problematic. Fast forward to 2018, they do need it. In 2018 they allowed it to be done. They contacted me to say i opened up a new disability claim and i was taken off work, assuming i couldnt do the duties. Through the healing process, i also was vetted by my surgeon and a doctor that i was placed back on full duty. I was called in for no reason. The doctor which did nothing but talk about himself and you can google him. We cant say names. I wish i could have a meeting with you. I was taken off work. I am fully capable and ready to go back to work and would like to be restored back to marshall elementary. I have one here. It says dumont. Go ahead. I am the parent of a first grader at marshall. I am here to advocate the former Security Guard be returned. Mr. Toby is a vital part of the marshall community. He knew the name of every student and could identify each grown up by sight. During recess he circulated on the yard, played with students who might have been alone. My daughter has a close bond with mr. Toby. Last year she wrote security and pinned it to the back of her tshirt. When i asked her if there is anything she wanted you to know she said he is my favorite grown up. I have seen mr. Toby manage interactions with Community Members. His location comes with challenges. On more than one occasion i have seen him negotiate with firmness and respect. Our community has suffered staff losses. He helped our community. It made our district more disorienting. I hope you will restore mr. Toby to his previous position at our school. Thank you. [applause] good evening. I am peasley dumont. I am father of a first grader and here on behalf of mr. Toby to ask for his reinstatement as Security Guard at the school. My grandson arrived at the school at approximately the same time that mr. Toby began working there. I wasnt aware really that mr. Toby hadnt always been there. I was very aware of the warmth, interaction, sense of community that he manifested. It is that that i want to speak to. This is a person who has been really integral to the community that we are at marshall school. He plays a very significant role. That is not replaced by putting someone else in as a Security Guard position. The bonding that has been builtup is precious and important. It also happens that i am a retired family physician from 35 years practicing. I have not had anything to do with mr. Tobys medical case so i dont speak to that, but i am very familiar with the process by which workers comp issues are handled and the role of a qme or qualified medical examiner. As i hear mr. Toby tell his story, i completely understand the situation in which a great deal of weight is given to someone who hardly knows the patient. Thank you. [applause] that concludes Public Comment. Section d. We have a report from any of the education parent Advisory Council. Good evening. I am lisa miller the newlyelected chairperson for the parent advisory committee. I am from northern california. I have a child that is in the middle school and i have a grandchild who is attending the redding elementary school. We are back. Good evening, guys, i am melanie gordon, an enrolled member for the nation located in arizona. I have two students in ssusd. My student represent galea high school. I am amy anderson. I have a child who is a senior at the high school at 600 32nd avenue and a child about to start tk in the next fall. Hello. I am your Program Coordinator for Indian Education program. I represent the pit nation. Thank you again. So we are going right into it. I am going to read out our mission. The Indian Education programming title vi supports the academic needs of the American Indian students in the San Francisco Unified School District. The parent Advisory Council is a group of parents and teachers that help determine the Indian Education goals and advices on distribution of funds for the Program Services that will be provided. They elect new representatives each year. Currently, our elected pac members for the 20192020 year. Lisa miller, chair, secretary is me, student representative is kai anderson. Teacher representative amy anderson, parent representativ representatives. Indian Education Program staff coordinator flores and mentor tutor lucas agular. You can see some of our brief timeline of nativeamerican history. I am going to go over a few. You can read the rest. In 1879, Carlisle Indian school was the first established boarding school to colonize American Indian children. It was a great experiment led by general richard pratt. In 1924 indian citizenship act. We as native people were the last people to have citizenship for our own land. Not even all states honored that. They did honor it in 1957. In 1968, indian civil rights act. San francisco was a huge part of the movement with the alcatraz occupation. We just recently celebrated the 50th Year Anniversary of alcatraz o ok cue participation. More havent in 2019 the california state legislators have 10 native democratic members. Oon may 5th it is San Francisco city and county days of missing, murdered Indigenous Women awareness day. For the school year 1819, i am going over highlights and successes. Indian educational alumni returned to support the program after they graduated. Collaboration and teamwork with the San Francisco School District we can empower the community and increase academic achievement. The Indian Education Program Students and alumni created a mapping project and build leadership skills and entrepreneur motivevation. The opportunity enabled our students to learn about technology and ability to exploit the knowledge for new opportunities. Students are engaged in developing resources for incoming bay area residents which is not public at this time. The Summer Science Program engaged in the second trip to seahorse ranch to reconnect to spirits and earth based values. Research confirmed horse therapy is a powerful way to get in touch with behavioral disorders, learning differences, add, a. D. H. D. And trauma andy operation. They take care of oneself and others, sense of pride and appreciation of the simple joys of life. San Francisco Bay area outreach to Indian Education for support for foster and adopted families. The families are connectedded to the bay area collaboration of American Indian resources. When that happens there is a pamphlet de distributed and that connection is being made. As you can see, representation matters. The photos we see at the top of this slide are depicting the American Indian heritage night at city hall here in San Francisco hosted by the mayors office. Beautiful Indigenous People. We are still here. We have not been erased. Bottom left of that slide. A photo of the Democratic Convention held in sacramento recently. For the first time that i know of a nativeamerican caucus came together at that Democratic Convention and one of the delegates reached out to the American Indian program to include members of our community in sacramento and also a huge success that we still count as a very happy and successful day was the day that you, commissioners, did those who were present unanimously voted to paint down the life of washington mural on june 25, 2019. Unfortunately that vote was later compromised and changed. Continuing on with our successes. The Summer Science Program was a huge success, including the horse therapy at seahorse ranch, wisdom moving forward is an event we hosted prior to the summer program. It is every end of the school year. We honor our elders in the community. We also honor the students who are graduates and those transitioning from eighth grade to high school. We had the privilege and honor of having the keynote speaker joe lee proud fit. Continuing with some on goings. Family support providing direct support to families and connecting to the district and community resources. Examples of the agencies the nativeamerican Health Service youth program, Friendship House is a collaboration between all of those. It is something the youth needs. That will be all ways ongoing. The last one i wanted to highlight. We are proud of the ongoing collaboration with nahc, Friendship House, the tribe of nevada, cimcc and united indians it is integral to supporting students and families as a whole. It takes a village. Socioeconomic challenges to educational success. The San Francisco bay area housing crisis. There is a need for curriculum in cultural humility and respect. The Indian Education is unique in the following ways. It focuses on the Educational Needs reaffirming the special responsibility related to the education of American Indians. The lack of training to not criminalize students. The training around Youth Culture is imperative because they eventually become adults. As adults we need to model that behavior for change. Continued violation of agreements made with and on behalf of students. Original vote of Washington High School murals that was retracted at our childrens expense of equity is the work of eliminating oppression, ending biases and ensuring high outcomes through creation of multicultural, multiethnic and racial practices and conditions. I will stop there. The focus doe did not unity but glorifies oppression. The next slide shows the Indian Education program successes. Some of the schools represented in this image is wallenberg, Mission High School, school of the arts, gateway high school. Some of the tribes represented in these images are the nation, those are the graduates. I am excited to see them finish and to celebrate with them. Top priorities. Majority of these items have not been met yet, but we are happy to report well. Require ongoing training for all s. F. U. S. D. Schools and departments to be provided by the California Indian Museum and cultural center. We are happy to report sanchez elementary went through the training and we are pleased to report we have positive feedback. We encourage schools to follow. Require nativeamerican unit in the fourth grade curriculum to explore the history every assistance and modern contributions. Parent advisory committee. Continue with the social studies, humanities, ethnic studies and the American Indian community by school year 2021. Emotional support, immediate commitment to increase and sustain the Indian Education staffing for after school and cull yocultural programs. To hire a fulltime person for program assistant. It is i in high demand. It is impossible to handle everything on her own. Considering the incredible diversity how can we encore important rate all voices in the classroom and school experiences. You can see there is such a wide variety of First Nations represented on this. These are only snapshots of the identities the First Nations, the tribes of o students in our schools. How can we meet the challenge to make sure all students are represented in the schools and the curriculum . Lastly, we would like to invite you to join us two weeks out from this coming friday, one week out to the tenth annual end of the semester celebration we will be recognizing our student in the communitybased programs and sfusd and the 11th annual wisdom moving forward event saturday may 30th at the Sanchez Elementary School ad auditorium. We thank you again for providing the space and opportunity. Questions . I have a few people signed up for Public Comment. Sammy anderson, lisa miller, marry travis allen. Michelle anton, monte and Julie Roberts. Good evening. I am mary travis. I am an elder in my community. I have been active since we were title four, about 40 years ago. Our struggles continue. I was on alcatraz 50 years ago, and part of that movement was to reclaim land, reclaim a center so that we could build a cultural center, an Education Center, bring languages back, bring a voice to our community. I just spent a few days back on the island, and it is sad to say those same struggles still exist. I have been a participant here many times, and i identified so many issues that we have. I ask you those voices that spoke out against us where are they now tonight, the celebrities, where are they tonight . We ask that you set these priorities as your priorities, some of them have been on this list far too long. We need to do more for our community. You have a responsibility. We need to bring pride back to this Educational Institution to say that you have done your job, that next year when we come here we can have a shorter list. That we can say you have fulfilled your promises, that mural is still there, still exposed to our students. I ask that you commit yourselves and your spirit and your words in the commission of your duties to honor these things. Thank you. [applause] hello. I am amy anderson. I am once again going to speak from the heart to let you know that as the parent of a student who is now a senior at the school at 600 32 and avenue who brought it up to nem neme in eih grade so he could have orchestra for four years with the travel plan with his bus route for the reasons that he has was that high school. We really had no other option other than for him to attend that school to have the opportunities he needed to prepare himself the way he wanted to be an adult who was able to not only graduate from high school but also be able to carry musical experience with him to college and to his world. Knowing that was his best option and through the lottery he also knew he would be walking by painful images every day he was at school. There wasnt a way to avoid that. There was no way to avoid it. He is working on his fourth year now in that high school, and as the parent, it is painful, but i cant protect my child from everything. Pain happens. I understand that. To say this generational trauma is just a little scratch on the knee, that is a different kind of pain. It is the pain that aches down to the bone throughout your whole body. It is a lot of pain. I know my child has endured pain at that level of pain from the trauma. I ask that you would continue not just for my child. His time there is almost done. He is about to be an alumnus. Consider all of the children and families, all of them. [applause] good afternoon. I am michelle anton. I am the mother of a graduate from Galileo High School and will be graduating from the University May of 2020 and coming home. I just wanted to reiterate some of the priorities that have been on our list since last year. As you know we have taken up a lot of time with the Washington High School murals which we feel as a community is very important and detrimental to the learning of our students. Still on our list we would love to have a pathway to language that meets the requirement. Our languages, indigenous languages are getting lost. We need the students and communities to revitalize their language. As mentioned before, english is technically our foreign language. For us to be able to learn our own languages and use as a requirement for the High School Graduation requirements is important to us. I also want to stress the importance of the need for a curriculum but to have us at the table as well to be in the conversations. I appreciate the connection you all have made, the recommendation you took from us to connect with the California Indian Museum and cultural center. We appreciate that as a community you reached out and there is a connection made. We want to make sure that connection stays. We also have other resources, plenty of resources we can offer to help the district with curriculum that is accurate and meaningful as well as the artwork in the schools. Lets look to see what we have here. Things to empower our communities and students as a whole. Thank you. [applause] i am lisa miller. My issue that i have is with the educational placement center. I moved down here in 2002. My child slipped through the cracks. We didnt know anything about the Indian Education program, and we were out. She already graduated. She graduated college by now. In 2004 and 2007, i went through the same process and enrolled my two boys. We were not notified that there was indian Education Center for us. In 2002, i have a kindergartner that i enrolled. I didnt hear anything about the program then. It wasnt until 2017 that i found out by the word of mouth that they had an indian Education Center so that i was really disappointed. I am grateful to be here now. Here we are 2019, i have a grandson, like i stated, he is in kindergarten. My daughter was not notified of anything of the sort. Had i not known about the program she would not know about the program. My issue is with the placement center. Their obligation of the new Synergy Program is not working so for all of these years i have documents, nobody has contacted me. There needs to be something done about this. This is not working. You know, they need to fulfill their obligations to notify incoming students, families about the Indian Education program. Maybe we need to get some more support in terms of like i mentioned about fulltime support. Thank you. applause . My name is l un a. I am the parent of a future s. F. U. S. D. Kindergartner. I am here to support the Top Priorities the American Indian pac has told you. Some of these are not the first year you have heard them. Some have been the fourth or fifth time this school board heard them. My question to you all is when will these priorities be met . The American Indian Community Within sfusd has had a lot of the same criticisms of the School District and it is centered around curriculum, around textbooks. When i see my friends schoolwork book coloring polka pocahontas and they say she is a prisoner and this is in textbooks, i am concerned. She wasnt a curious prisoner. She was a murdered indigenous woman. We are talking about murdered people, missing people. She was one of them. I dont want my 3yearold right now to enter into sfusd and be scared of history and celebrations like thanksgiving or halloween or things like that. I notice when we say welcome over there on the place where it says welcome languages. There is not one indigenous message. How do we know we are welcome, too . Thanthank you for the free child care. My kid is in there right now. Thank you. That is all. [applause] i am Julie Roberts on behalf of the San Francisco families union. I want to reiterate what other speakers said. These are very specific actionable requests that the American Indian pac bring year after year. In the recommendations i hear the same requests that we are addressing in the equity studies resolution and the ad hock student enrollment community to move the resources to sites. That requires the district and board to ask how we are centering indigenous voices. Who is managing the process to make sure we follow up on the recommendations that parents and Community Members put in hard work around . Obviously this year is painful for the indigenous families. Sometimes around the washington mural vote. We also heard that the board asked for recommendations for teachers to approach nativeamerican History Month and holidays that may end up being traumatizing for students including thanksgiving and halloween. We reached out to make sure they were getting out to teachers. We werent able to get a response. I was excited to hear a cultural intelligence training that is something many schools would be interested in. We are not aware how to access. On the positive this year some of our parents who are nativeamerican put together resources and supported our own school to lift up and celebrate indigenous voices. It helped connect families that wouldnt know they were represented at the school and to educate students. We shouldnt expect marginalized families to do the work. We will ask the district to step up to meet the needs of the American Indian pac. Thank you. Any comments or questions from commissioners . Thank you for presenting and for sharing information with us. I was wondering about the jusd curriculum. How long you have been asking for that to be implemented . I see here that it is intended for next school year to be implemented at all grade levels. I assume you have been asking for some time. I wonder the length of years it has been. The curriculum was purchased the Previous School year to be piloted school year 201819. K through 8 for the joint Unified School District centers the voice of hoopa, the california Indian Tribes around land management. We would be the first urban district to bring it into our schooling system. It was cre created by the Hoopa Community and teachers they work with at the reservation school. I would love to include that in the next Curriculum Committee meeting. If you can follow up with me or the commissioners on that committee to get that started. Commissioner collins. Thank you so much for your presentation. I am very happy to see you and also very sad. I was here last year when you made a presentation, and i heard very similar presentation. That is why i made the request. I wanted to see. It feels like and i have been on the apac with similar presentations last year. I requested to see the last five years of presentations. What is upsetting to me we have families really giving up personal time, that is emotional labor and giving up time with family to participate to help the district do better. What i am see is over and over the same requests are being made. I am not sure what the actions are. If i am not sure as a board member, that is not good. I put this together and shared with the folks in the community. I have shared with the commissioners. I cut and pasted all of the recommendations of the American Indian pac made year by year and put them in a table. A lot were similar. I coded with categories asking for curriculum, professional development or epc identification helping families know when they are going through the process. Those are the three that popup. I guess what i am wondering is it seems like some of them have been implemented. There was a request for changing columbus day to Indigenous Peoples day. That is a very good one. There have been discussions around changing names of schools like the new school. In general, but it doesnt seem like there is any comprehensive work done to address the concerns of the indigenous and native American Communities around textbooks or teacher development. I wanted to hear from parents if you are seeing any movement, some movement or what are your is it just, you know, i am glad teachers were trained at sanchez. That is one school. I want to know your thoughts on that. I couldnt comment on that because my son is not getting any of that training. I would say as the parent, it seems like every year, every year. As you noticed they are the same recommendations. We put a timestamp on it to hold ourselves accountable to move forward with it. With that timestamp it gives us something to look forward to, you know, if we accomplish it or if we do not. That is personally as the parent, it is going to drive us to hold people accountable. It is frustrating. Grandma marry talks about it. Here we are again. Here is the list again. What do we do . We keep moving forward, keep pushing, keep pushing. Our pac member, our sender alive living and breathing. That is our passion. This is our future. Again, it is work. We are still ready to work with the district. applause . I think i might have forgotten the question. Are you seeing any curriculum changes or professional development for teachers at other than sanchez, which was mentioned. I have not seen professional development, especially through the cimcc provided anywhere else other than sanchez. It was something that i requested in a very small way at the school where i was at for the last couple years as a classroom teacher, and it was just told to me there wasnt funding for that and that they already had the professional Development Plans pretty much lined up. I am not seeing that particularly, but as the parent inside sfusd i have heard more in the area of excuses and opinions related to what our asks are rather than ideas of how to actually put anything in action to address anything that we have as our asks. Supervisor how do we track requests over the time . Some things are quicker to implement and some things maybe we cant implement. How do we know other than waiting a whole year . How do we track these things . So we in the executive Leadership Team we have a tracking mechanism to track the resolutions as well as i can speak for the last couple of years. We can track the resolutions. What is required as well as requests that are made from the pacs. You heard that the curriculum that was purchased last year, and i guess it is implemented in the coming year so that is one example. I can only speak to the last couple years that is what we are doing now. I cant speak to how it was tracked previously. I just want to read this. If i may, generally, when the pac puttings forth the recommendations we take whatever questions are asked from the board as three to six month followup and that is how we internally track the process what is met and what do we continuously need to bring back and prioritize. You are bringing it back because you are not seeing a lot of movement . I want to read this in the eighth grade textbook that states while scouting for food smith was captured by the indians and brought to the house. He saw the chief. He greeted him with a loud shout. When the meal ended the mood changed. He was about to be clubbed to death when a young girl took my head in her arms to save me from death. Smiths savior was pocahontas. She would think of smith as her brother from that moment on. This makes me gag to read this. I am telling you this was brought to me by my children. They recognize this is not true. The fact that there is a curriculum in the schools that is perpetuating stereotypes and harm. I am concerned about repairing previous harm and the harm that is currently happening in our schools right now. I am working with commissioner sanchez to write a resolution to handouts. Tell us what i is it Indigenous People say. What to wear for halloween . Also thanksgiving. Thoughtful discussion of what it is and how not to perpetuate harm wearing headdresses or acting out a happy feast, those were not realized. I know people are listening. I just dont see action. I appreciate the time. Thank you. applause . Vice president sanchez. Thank you for the presentation. Commissioner collins covered my concerns. Commissioner lamb. Thank you to the American Impact members for your work and your presentation and recommendations. I am particularly talking from commissioner collins. I am interested in the epc aspect because they date back four years ago. Especially as we are embarking on this assignment system and the last committee as a whole we talked about not only the policy this board will be making decisions about the Student Assignment but around the Community Engagement and how this is an opportunity as we go out into the field and meet with families and students that we have to think about how is epc really serving students and families . When i see there is a gap, i would like to understand from superintentdend or the team what those plans are for ensuring that we address the recommendations and what has not been realized, particularly from 2015 through the late 2018 recommendations. Sorry. One more time. I was saying i want to ensure as before we embark on the Community Engagement around Student Assignment that we be prepared as a staff to report back the status of the epc categories that commissioner collins forwarded that has been ongoing since 2015 and how that is going to be because i would hope and encourage that families and stakeholders come to those Community Engagement sessions as we embark on the Student Assignment process around how critical it is to ensure that as the Education Placement center is able to serve as that outreach for our Indian Education services and programs. We will get back to you. Thank you. I want to thank all the elders and family members here tonight to share their concerns about what has been going on in the School District. I just want to say from my personal experience at Mission High School about how i am thankful for the teachers who never touched a textbook because it doesnt show accurate history in Indigenous People. They dont believe in textbooks because it is a white narrative and doesnt show the true history. When i got to my soft more year i sophomore year i was told about the i for got how to pronounce it. I was not told about the boarding schools until high school. How come i was never taught this until high school . In my heart i had to wait until high school to learn this information. A lot of the things mentioned in the nativeamerican history i am thankful my teachers at mission taught me this. It has been centered around this and i am grateful for that. I cant say a lot of students in sfusd have done this. I am thankful that they teach this Accurate Information where they quote the books and show us documentary the. I am thankful for that. My resources teacher read a book 500 pages over thanksgiving break. I was thankful my teacher was able to teach me that. I wish that other teachers in the School District would take the time to educate the students about Accurate Information. I am grateful for that. I just want you to know that mission is doing their part to teach this. I want you to know that. [applause] one more thing. As a person who doesnt like to celebrate, my family and i like to to go alca taz every year. I wasnt able to go this year. My sister did. I am not going to celebrate a holiday meant to kill Indigenous People. The fact people dont want to consider that this is your land. It breaks my heart the fact that George Washington mural is still up. It breaks my heart. applause . Thank you for your presentation. Vice president sanchez has been on my case all year about doing something around the ceremony. We will make that happen in the coming year. I will talk to you more about that. Good night. Section e. Consent calendar number one. Motion and sencoocked. So moved. Second. Any items by the supervisor. None. Any items by the board . There are none. Any items for the superintendent and vote . Seeing none. Roll call, please. roll call . Seven ayes. Section f. Discussion and vote on the resolution for separate consideration. There is none tonight. Section g. Proposals for action. If i hear no objection. One second. I did forget something. I would like to announce i appointed Jennifer Fong for the free city oversight. She will be appointed to see the employer officer to be appointed by the board. Congratulations and thank you for your service. Any other appointments to advisory committees . I would like to appoint michelle to the peace pac. Back to section g. If i hear no objections we will vote on the board policy for action. One vote we have number one, bp06 0460 local control accountability plan. Bp0520 under performing schools. Bp0520. 1 comprehensive support and improvement. 2. Bp1431, waivers. Bp6142. 1 Sexual Health instruction. The board policies were heard. [please stand by] lot of community report. President cook and now Vice President sanchez will read the report into the record. Theres also a report from the Budget Committee, as well. Were you going to have her read that . President cook i dont have that here, but go ahead. So we moved this forward with a positive recommendation in the november meeting. The last budget meeting, we it was not on the agenda, but we saw a presentation about budget, and there were concerns about shortfalls in this years budget, and so we didnt want to hold up approval of this resolution, but we wanted to make it clear that we felt like we wanted to support this resolution with the understanding that it was the implementation this year was to be met internally because a lot of resolution language deals with things that we should be doing in terms of our normal practices where there is additional expenses, that those be prioritized but also be considered with the other budgetary issues that are before, which are looking at ways to do the student formula, as well as new ways of looking at budget shortfalls this year. We already voted on it, but we just wanted to make that statement to the board with that understanding. President cook okay. Thank you. I will now read the resolution in the in order. Resolution in support of the achievement and success of all latinx student in the San Francisco Unified School District. Therefore be it resolved that the San Francisco board of education prioritize latinx student achievement and opportunity of the core commitment of the San Francisco Unified School District and set annual goals across the range of pk through 12 indicators will narrow the gap between standardized test scores, School Attendance and advanced placement enrollment among other potential indicators. And be it further achieved, latinx and further opportunities will serve as key guiding criteria in all decisions supportive education makes involving the allocation of physical, financial, and human capital. And further be it resolved in order to help reduce disparities in academic outcomes for the Latinx Community, the school will commit to using a whole family, whole student approach in moving toward Student Success and wellness in moving families out of poverties including providing families with Wraparound Services in close collaboration with Community Organizations and Family Resource centers. And be can further resolved, the San Francisco Unified School District will charge the city of San Francisco for Family Services and enhance the environment in which they learn including one, including developing needs based on best practices of effective strategies, and two, utilizing a data dashboard of measure for pk through 12 achievement of students as measured by attendance rates, academic achievement and socio measures and discipline and targeted Services Based on the needs of those students. A a and three, regular tracking of the progress of groups of students throughout the school year and reporting on the progress of those students to the board of education. Four, deploying targeted supports to latinx students to exsure post secondary pathways in successive college and career which are borne by a close monitoring of student progress at post secondary institutions. Seven, developing new programs and or academic themes at historically underserved schools serving latinx students in order to enhance the quality of education for latinx students. Such themes may include a new Language Program, summer and extended learning program, steam, arts, latinx culture and history focuses at schools, and programs that diversefy students programs especially in places where latinx students with underrepresented. Eight, improving the visibility of latinx students across the environment, coordinating cultural celebration using more books written by latinx authors or that profile latinx characters and content so that students can see themselves represented in the curriculum and instituting an annual latinx honor roll celebration and supporting the engagement and Leadership Development of latinx parents to participate in school site and district governance issues. Nine, investing in new hiring and retention strategies that help recruit more latinx educators and school site staff to help more accurately reflect the students at schools with more latinx students, specifically providing more opportunities for latinx educators and educators with spanish and other language abilities. Ten, create a pool of highly qualified substitute teachers since latinx students have attended schools with high turnover rates and attend schools with high substitute rates as a result. Eleven, examining all parts of the process and appeal to a diverse set of family in enhancing the cultural competency of staff at racially isolated schools. 12, reducing the kinder gap in latinx communities because of the fact that latinx students are the least likely to be ready for kindergarten. These strategies should address the different factors that can contribute to school readiness. This would include high quality early care and Education Programming, stronger 00 with nonsfusd community preschools, including centers and Family Child Care providers to facilitate transitions and culturally appropriate Family Engagement and support. 13, enhancing support for Spanish Speaking english language learners by Holding Schools responsible for designating the daily e. L. D. For students, providing additional training and coaching for teachers implement successful strategies for integrating e. L. D. In the classrooms, to better facilitate the classification of e. L. Students with i. E. P. S once they become english fluent, inform parents on the importance of monitoring reclassification, their childs progress towards achieving english fluency. And exploring the possibility of developing an individualized reclassification plan system modelled after the individualized Education Plan i. E. P. Program which would define personalized objectives for english language learners who are on a path to become reclassified, set a timeline around expectations around becoming reclassified, order updates on a timeline surrounding students reclassification, and identify any accommodations, resources, supports or curricular opportunities intended to help each student reach their individual goals. And 15, promoting the Community School model mirroring those in the Mission District at schools with high concentration of lowincome latinx student populations and in close partnerships with communitybased organizations. These models follow a two generation approach that follow parents with Capacity Building and support services and they can be implemented by data driven teams, family coaches, and Mental Health consultants. And 16, make available culturally competent support by encouraging students to pursue partnerships with communitybased organizations that can provide education guidance and financial opportunities for students. Further be it resolved that the board of education will enhance accountability for the opportunities being delivered to all latinx students by establishing a Community Advisory board. The sfusd Latinx Community council comprised of latinx parents, students, and service Community Members as well as internal body, the Latinx Internal Oversight Committee comprised of leadership from the superintendents cabinet and other leaders from sfusd to effectively target invention programs and opportunities for latinx students. And be it further resolved that the committee will be charged with identifying and implementing the afore mentioned ideas and strategies, and it will inform the board on opportunities and situations impacting latinx students and parents. The council will advise the board of education and the superintendent on these various issues and priorities in order to guide sfusds actions over the course of each school year as well as the strategic actions of the internal Oversight Committee. And be it further resolved that the Latinx Community council will receive a data report from the district starting in the fall of each school year that tracks indicators on latinx students such as enrollment, transitship and student demographics, met and unmet student needs, percentage of students placed in special education, students identified and placed in gate, percentage of homeless students, percentage who leave the students, percentage of students ready for kindergarten, percentage of students ready for high school, f. M. P. Scores, e. L. A. , science and math and c. L. A. Score is, uccsu eligibility, for hour cohort graduation rates, percentage of graduates in twoyear and fouryear colleges, average instructional time, suspension rates, Early Warning indicators, percentage receiving free and reduced lunch, recruitment of latinx educators, percentage of latinx educators in the district. Were almost done. And then, were going to read it in spanish no, just kidding. I was going to make that joke. And it is in spanish, so its online. Be it further resolved annually the superintendent with the support of the Latinx Community council and the Latinx Internal Oversight Committee will prepare and present with the used a stude sfusd a report and consistent with the data provided to the Latinx Community council will include statistics relevant to the pk16 academic and socioeconomic performance of the latinx population at school sites across the district. The retention and recruitment of latinx educators, and student Participation Rate in programs, outcomes of students in these specialized programs compared to their peers, dedicated staffing around latinx student achievement, an opportunity for professional development, instructional materials to support latinx students and other School Quality indicators, including hardtostaff classifications, student mobility and teacher turnover. The report will also feature an equity overview of how district funding streams like local control dollars and peef formulas are reaching students, a summary of students, teachers, and Community Based organizations that are accelerating outcomes for latinx students and an outcome of all existing interventions targeting latinx students with accompany details, e. G. Information on staffing budget quantity, the number of students served and student outcomes. Further be it resolved annually, the superintendent will take into consideration the ideas when preparing the sfusd annual budget and each year, sfusd will quantify the level of funding devoted to targeting interventions for latinx students in the prior fiscal year and compare that to funding decisions for the coming fiscal year in order to retain effective programs and services. Be it further resolved that sfusd will work collaboratively with San Francisco Latinx Community, the mayor, and the city and county of San Francisco, the united educators of s. F. , seiu 1421, faith base institutions, higher education, the Business Community and latinx owned businesses and parent and student groups in order to align efforts and amplify Effective Work across all sectors. Lastly, sfusd will commit to maintaining senior staff tasked in their scope of work to provide targeted support to latinx students until the racial opportunity and achievement gap on academic and behavioral measures has been eliminated. Co president cook im just waiting to make sure. Thank you for reading it into the record. We do have several people that have signed up for Public Comment. When you hear your name called, you can make your way to the podium. Tiada scholl, theresa molina, cynthia sigueira, maria nunez, luis rodriguez, kari rodriguez, efrain barreira. Eric thats it what . Quintos. We have to announce that the group of persons you read, they need interpreters. Theyre going to be reading the text, and somebody is going to be reading it for them afterwards. [speaking Spanish Language] hi. Good afternoon. My name is poneida. I have a son in high school. I am here to ask for your support with the latinx for solutions. We are a here, along with other organizations in our community, asking for your help. Our resolution is different because it wont create just initiatives like the resolution a. O. I. Please support us. We want to no longer be ignored. We need your support, please. Thank you. [applause] [speaking Spanish Language] hi. My names teresa. Im a leader of the community and also a leader in innovative Public Schools. [speaking Spanish Language] so shes mentioned that shes noticing the test scores of our latino students are quite low compared to other groups, and so much so that our students are not being fully prepared for college. [speaking Spanish Language] so shes mentioning although specifically she doesnt have any kids that go to sfusd, she does have grand kids that go to missi mission, a granddaughter, and shes seeing her struggling compared to other kids, as well. [speaking Spanish Language] and then last comment, so shes mentioning that this resolution is highly important to her to give attention to latinx students so that they can be fully prepared for college. Yeah. Gracias. [applause] [speaking Spanish Language] my name is jessica, and i am a volunteer with innovative Public Schools. My daughter attends San Francisco Public Schools. [speaking Spanish Language] thank you, gabriella, for your leadership and for listening to our community. We really appreciate you coming to meet with us and listen to your concerns. We are really excited to collaborate with you. [speaking Spanish Language] i also have two other daughters who struggle because they were labelled as e. L. S and later became longterm e. L. S because they never got the support to get reclassified. [speaking Spanish Language] this resolution will commit San Francisco Unified School District to monitor outcomes for latino students, close the achievement gap and commit teachers, community leaders, and students in the oversight process. [applause] [speaking Spanish Language] hi. My name is maria nunez. I have two sons, ben one in bu vistahorace mann. President cook just leave a little bit of space between the mic. [speaking Spanish Language] [applause] i just want to highlight that not all parents are going to be able to speak, so im asking them to stand so that you know were represented. [speaking Spanish Language] i would like to speak to you about the two committees that were calling to be formed in this resolution. These committees need to be given the information and support necessary for them to carry out data monitoring, and oversight functioning to enhance accountability for the services and programs of latinx students. The Latinx Community council, a Community Advisory body comprised of latinx parents, student, educators, students, and Service Providers to encourage opportunities for latinx students. We encourage that these are the two biggest priorities as we move this resolution forward. Thank you. [applaus [applause] [speaking Spanish Language] we are urge the district to provide clear guidelines and transparent process for the selection of members to the Latinx Community council, ensuring that the membership is truly representative of the different stakeholders that are mostly directly impacted by the districts effort to support latinx students. We want this Latinx Community council to look like the students that are in our schools. [applause] [speaking Spanish Language] my name is carmen rodriguez, and im representing bylen elementary. [speaking Spanish Language] to continue building on what my comrades have already said, to fully engage in the material and participate meaningfully in meeting, we urge the district to hire one latinx achievement oversight coordinator. This person would also be able to serve as the liaison between the Community Council and the Oversight Committee. Thank you. Both of my daughters are spanishenglish bilingual, from my perspective, but from the districts perspective, she is an english learner. I am here to speak on behalf of the resolution. There are many communitybased organizations clearly partnering with sfusd and i actually work for one of them and im proud to say it. And to support the latinx students and the families, reduce achievement gap, reduce barriers to achievement such as health and wellness and poverty and provide comprehensive college and Career Readiness support. This resolution commits the district to pursue more and deeper collaborations with these organizations. The Community Schools models are exemplified in the models that we might achieve. As a parent, i see the gaps that my kids experience in their schools. I am fortunate to be involved in their conversations and know what my child needs and how can i advocate, but im only, only one parent thats doing it, and theres a lot of parents that dont have the same capacitor understanding that we do have rights here, and we need to fight for them, and this is why im here in front of all of them so you can hear me and also hear all of the other parents, but also remember why youre there, is for our children which is the future for this country. Just every day you wake up, just remember that and keep that up front of everything you guys do in order to continue supporting our children and our community. Thank you. [applause] good evening, president cook, commissioners, and superintendent matthews. My name is efrain barreira. Im a proud sfusd graduate. Im speaking as a latinx parent of two district students and a member of the mission neighborhood. As a former School Coordinator i have worked closely with sight educators, staffers, and parent leaders to see what needs to be done to meet the needs of our students. Ive also seen the many ways in which our district is not meeting the needs of our latinx students. Whats powerful about the latinx resolution is that it creates a direct link and accountability between the sfusd and the community and its stakeholders. The resolution passed the superintendent and the district to take into account the priorities of both the Latinx Community council and latinx Oversight Committee when preparing the sfusd annual budget and quantify the level of funding committed to these priorities. Thank you for your support. Vice president sanchez before you begin, im going to read off some more names. Geraldine anderson, julia summers, Julie Robertsfung, maria villa luna, miranda martin. Thank you. So thank you for allowing us to be here speaking to you today. My name is eric quintos, and i am a latinx parent of two in the district as well as someone who works for one of the c. B. O. S that was named in the resolution and that was working with commissioner lopez to help develop it, mission graduates. I wanted to actually take my time here today to specifically call out one of the elements in here, which was around which is the the annual report that the district would be providing to the to the Latinx Community council, that student achievement report. We really think that this is going to be an important tool for this council to then be able to use some data driven to look at the data and come up with some data driven strategies that the district might be able to take into consideration in the following year. So i heard earlier that the budget for this current fiscal year might be affected, but that hopefully we can present through a data driven process that the and achievement report would facilitate a set of strategies that could be funded in the future years. And this is a really committed group of parents and im really excited to see what kinds of strategies they can come up with, including working to reduce the kinder readiness gap by pursuing more Early Learning opportunities and family transitions to kindergarten and also possibly studying that really interesting idea of the individualized reclassification plans. Who knows if that can be something we can implement, but those are two examples of the kinds of things that would be strengthened by the report that the district would be presenting. Thank you. [applause] [speaking Spanish Language] hello. My name is Julia Miranda and i have three children at brian elementary. Im a parent leader with innovate Public Schools. I am very happy to be representing hundreds of parents from brian elementary here tonight. [speaking Spanish Language] im here to support the the resolution for latino students. Thank you, commissioners lopez and sanchez for your leadership and being champions to fight for our children. It was about time that people notice us. We finally feel value and we will not stop until these resolutions become a reality. [applause] [speaking Spanish Language] this resolution will provide guidance for committees for elac in schools to form ideas that will better support English Learners. [speaking Spanish Language] as elac parents, we will continue to increase our leadership in schools and uphold the latinx resolution to ensure that parents are represented in this process. Thank you. [applause] good evening. My name is debra summers. My im a parent and a p. T. A. Board member at harvey milk civil rights academy. My kids are in third grade and kindergarten, and im also an innovate Public School leader. Im excited to see that the board has created this resolution. Latino students represent the Third Largest population at our school, and as an ally, im happy that the district is committed to making sure all students have access to a high quality education. Thank you. [applause] good evening, commissioners, superintendent. My names miranda martin. Im the policy director for parents for Public Schools of San Francisco. Im here on behalf tonight of parents for Public Schools of San Francisco in support of this resolution. It complete aligns with our mission to support every sch l student in every Public School in our community. We know that many aspects of it reflect what weve been hearing for many years in both public and private listening sessions in both public and private learning opportunities. Specifically the fact that it involves a process for access to data thats specific to the outcomes for latinx students and really just for paying close attention to those outcomes. Also, the fact that there are oversight bodies that explicitly include parents, students, and Community Members. And finally, the explicit definition of Community Roles and Wraparound Services in making these improvements happen in the services that were able to provide this community. So i applaud all the efforts in bringing this resolution, drafting it and bringing it through the process, and were really proud to support it and look forward to being involved with the implementation. Thank you. [applause] hello, commissioners, superintendent matthews, and other honorable guests. My name is susan fong wong. Im the parent of three sfusd high school graduates. Ive also am a parent leader with innovate Public Schools, and i want to congratulate the district on this resolution. It is high time that a close look and deep dive into what needs to be done and thank you, commissioners lopez and sanchez on your very hard work in spear heading this, because i think that was the longest resolution ive ever heard, sitting through many meetings here, so thank you very much. And i think im not going to repeat what a lot of other people have already said, but i think the most important part of that resolution was at the very end, proper funding and focus on what needs to be done. And i really think all the other things are great in there, but if theres not enough resources and focus and working together to get it done, especially working with the parents at the school sites with the leadership at each individual school, i dont think it could be done. And i really feel very strongly about the reclassification disparity between latinx students who are English Learners between, for example, asian students. The fact that the reclassification rate has gone down over the last five years and the disparity of latinx students being reclassified as half the rate of asian students really requires you to look closely as why that is the whats causing that and addressing it because i think it really has a big effect, but thank you very much. I support this. Thank you. [applause] hi. My names Julie Roberts. Im speaking on behalf of the close the gap resolution. Were happy to support the latinx resolution. Were heartened that its taking a district approach at a school level, its looking at data, focusing on the whole student and bringing together stakeholders to come up with recommendations and solutions to put in the report and making the best uses of our district resources but also the resources in the community. So i look forward to supporting this resolution and to seeing that the membership of the committee reflects parents and organizations who are part of our Public Schools and committed to the success of our Public Schools. Thank you. [applause] hi. My name is mari again. Im representing sf families union, and i just wanted to say thank you so much to commissioners lopez and commissioner sanchez for being invested and writing this beautiful resolution. I loved when i first heard about you all writing the resolution and then calling and using the language of latinx. One thing i think is important to think about this resolution is theres intersections, so not calling the resolution latino, but latinx, recognizing there are men, women, and nonbinary folks of all genders under that spectrum, so i want to say thank you for that leading the way and making these huge moves for our latinx Community Within sfusd. I also want to say as our siblings who are south of the border with different indigenous blood, as well, i also want to highlight somewhere, i dont know how this would be known, but we have a huge mayan just within San Francisco but within our contradi School District, so thinking about those Indigenous Students that might fit in latinx, but also their indigenous background. To really think about this community thats even more underserved than the American Indian community, as well. Thank you again for amazing leadership and all the amazing resolutions ive seen you come up with so far this year, and again thank you for the free child year for my kid who are sitting happily and not running around and destroying anything in your room. Thank you very much. [applause] president cook that concludes Public Comment on the item. Any comments from the commissioners or the superintendent . Commissioner lopez . [speaking Spanish Language] [applause] commissioner lopez so this resolution, first and foremost, was lifted and driven by Community Members and the majority of them are in the room now. I was simply invited to participate, and i am so grateful for that. The language and the heavy lifting was done by by all of you who are here, and i think that is the point of the resolution, to ensure that we are making decisions that are data driven, that are community driven, and and we did that throughout this process. It began april 1, so this is an 8. 5monthlong resolution, which is why it is lengthy, but the work and things that are being called for goes beyond this months, you know, this is something that has been asked for for such a long time, and i feel very honored to be able to connect families to the work that we are doing and to really help them be a part of this process and help hear from those narratives and those families who are affected by the work that we are or are not doing. So money can always be an issue in education, and essentially, what the resolution is calling for beyond that, even though it deserves everything, is ensuring that the district uphold the work that we are doing for this community specifically. So all of that can be done and will be done with the council and the committee that will be created through this resolution, but making it something that is not just what we pass and say were going to do, but actually implement and give it the attention that it deserves for this community that has been asking for this for so long. I know that ive weve had a lot of support from my colleagues and excitement from commissioners and from the community, so i look forward to implementing it, passing it, and working closely with the people who created it and brought it to life. Thank you. [applause] president cook commissioner collins . I just wanted to reiterate that i appreciate both commissioners sanchez and lopez, but the Community Members, the work that youre doing, and i look forward to partnering with you and other staff and commissioners on the board to make sure that were realizing the language in the resolution. Thank you. [applause] president cook miss herrera. As a latina in sfusd, i want to thank both of the commissioners who came up with this resolution for latinx students. Im eternally grateful for the work that you put in. Eight months is a lot of work, and the fact that the resolution is so lengthy and its so detailed, and its Community Organizers who helped implement this, im eternally gratef grateful, too. [speaking Spanish Language] so im grateful for you guys, and so muchas gracias. Its sad well, its not sad, but it is sad that its my last year at sfusd. Im grateful that my cousins who are who just got to San Francisco who are freshmen and sophomores that are going to be supported with this resolution, so i am thankful that it is here for students, for generations that are coming after me, for my little nephews that are at buena vista, im so grateful that is going to help people that are coming after me. And also the fact, you know, when i was in elementary school, i had teachers i started off as an english language learner, and my teachers told me that i was not going to succeed in life and i was never going to learn english. Jokes on them, because now im taking a. P. English and im reading at a college level. I know that other students that were in my shoes that are also english language learners will be able to succeed because of this resolution. And because of that, i was hoping that me and jay could coauthor this resolution because were grateful for this, so thank you. President cook commissioner . First, thank you to commissioners lopez and sanchez for the work and the thoughtfulness and the Strategic Planning that has clearly gone into building such an amazing and comprehensive resolution and really doing it in conjunction with community. And i just want to just express just how inspiring it is to be here tonight to stand with you all, and just knowing just the amount of work that has gone on and frankly has gone on for too long. That is more than enough time that latinx students and the Community Get the support from the district. What i really connect, too, is the twogeneration approach that is really throughout the values and principles of this resolution, and that it is not just stopping at our responsibility of when students and families are with us from k through 12, that were really thinking from birth, through Early Education, all the way through a persons experience and career and workforce, and their own finding their passion in the world and how theyre going to be contributing to a broader society. So again, thank you. Excited to be a partner with you all, and also with our district staff. Im really excited about not only the implementation but really holding ourselves accountable to the oversight cause we know that strong resolutions and policies in general are just only as impactful as when it comes, the work really happens in the implementation, in the evaluation and the continuous oversight, so thank you again. [applause] president cook commissioner moliga. Commissioner moliga you know, one of the things that i went to when i was first on the commission was a funeral of a murdered kid. He was an immigrant kid, right . And you know, i was just sitting there, thinking, i was, like, man, you know, what are we doing as a district to be able to support and he was i think hes he was a student in this district. And so i also grew up in this city. I also grew up when, like, San Francisco was super diverse, and youd have all kinds of friends from hondurian, salvadorian, filipino, so it was like i grew up in that culture in San Francisco. So in my heart, im super happy that commissioner lopez and sanchez carried this forward. Its just, like, way overdue, like, you know, we grew up in a time where these kinds of things werent available for us. I grew up with latinx friends who some of them graduated from juvenile hall, right . Some of them didnt graduate at all, right . And some of them, you know, are not here today. And a lot of these kids have come through this School System, right . And so for me, you know, this is like this is like what were going to do, and then, also, like, what are we going to do after this . Like, the work needs to continue to happen, it needs to get funded, it needs to be driven by the community and our leadership, and i trust that our leadership is going to do what it needs to do to get this off the ground. But its a great resolution at the end of the day, so i want to just thank commissioner sanchez, and my Favorite School board commissioner, gabriella lopez. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible] i didnt know we had favorites. Hes starting a new precedent. Ill list my favorites. First of all, i really want to thank commissioner lopez. She carried this forward on the boards end of things, asked me to cosponsor. Im really grateful for that ask, but she really did the immense amount of work with the community in so many ways. Were so blessed in the city to have so many active and activated members in our community that will standup and help us do the work in this work. That is manifest, that people have come out not just to this meeting, but meeting after meeting after meeting to work not just with commissioner lopez but with others to draft this. I didnt read some of the clauses. Its even longer than that. But the thing that the word that really rings true to me the most is accountability, and thats what commissioner lam just said. We really need to hold ourselves accountable to whats in this resolution because its a community. The Latinx Community has not been forgeten, it was just never there in the first place. When i was principal at cleveland elementary school, a school thats 95 , 96 latino, if we had policies embedded in this resolution, we probably wouldnt have had one of the highest reclassification rates in the city. Its a scar on our record that we have such a high reclassification rate, and that hinders our students from moving forward and getting the education they need to be successful in our society. There are many things i could say more, but i just really want to thank everybody that worked on this, and commissioner lopez, and thank you to everybody on the board for hopefully passing this tonight. [applause] president cook well, ill let my favorite commissioner have the last word, so miss casco, roll call vote, please. Clerk thank you. Thank you. [roll call] clerk thats seven ayes. President cook congratulations. [applause] [chanting] [chanting in spanish] president cook and just to let everyone know, child care ends at 9 00 p. M. [laughter]. President cook number 7, im also going to excuse our student delegates. Good night. [please stand by] doctor matthews do you want to read the recommendations to the record. The director of policy planning, michael davis. Thank you, doctor matthews. Supervisors recommendation regarding one Purpose School Charter Renewal petition. Authorizes to grant or deny petition for one Purpose School, whereas pursuant to california Education Code section 47607 submitted renewal to San Francisco Unified School District. Whereas pursuant to california Education Code sections 47605, 607. 5, the board of education of the district received the renewal petition october 15, the district shall comply with alltime lines for review and action as requires by law. The board of education shall consider level of support and shall review petition and information received with respect to the petition including supporting documents and the district superintendent and staff completed review and issued report and recommendation to the board of education regarding review of the petition. I am going to take a little time to go through the staff recommendation. The board of Education Report for the superintendents proposal 191015sp one. The recommendation is denial everynewal of the one Purpose School charter proposed action remedy mile of the renewal for one Purpose School at 948 holster avenue for the five years beginning july 1 and ending june 30, 2025. Findings. So under the review criteria for renewal of Charter School petitions in california, the board is supposed to look at increases in academic achievement for all significant groups of students as defined in code section 52052. That shall be the most important factor. One other thing the board can look at in regard to academic performance is that the performance might be at least equal to the performance of Public Schools that the charter students would have been required to attend as well as academic performance of district schools the student population served at the Charter School. We did the review and the data indicate one purpose has not produced increases for the groups of students and not produced academic performance at least equal to district schools. So the recommendation is the staff recommends the board deny petition based on the following findings of fact. Increases in academic the Charter School failed to meet one of the criteria of academic performance has not produced increases for the students served not produced the performance at least equal to district schools. Two. It does not contain comprehensive descriptions of the charter provisionses in 4605b5 they are unlikely to successfully implement the program set forth in the petition. One purpose is a budget plan heavily reliant upon local fundraising revenues. I would like to provide clarification in a couple of areas. In regard to insufficiencies in the staff review. One of the things that we identified is that governing law requires renewal or material revision to include among other elements a reasonably comprehensive new requirement of Charter Schools after it was last renewed. We found that this petition did not include that reasonable comprehensive description. We have found this not just in this charter petition but in several charter petitions. As a matter of fact this was a finding made regarding the two Charter Renewal petitions this board approved november 12th of this year. Not only San Francisco makes this finding, other districts in the bay area make the same finding quite often because it is quite often left out of Charter School renewal petitions. So the response from the two charter petitioners that you approved november 12th when we made the finding was to provide a matrix that outlined that comprehensive description and the way they met the requirements of law. I have to say that in the report as written i state that the description is not there and i include a list of requirements that have been enacted since 2015 and state that it is not a comprehensive list but includes some that should apply to the school. N inadvertently i did include some that apply to grade levels that are not k5. That is a mistake. However, the list is not comprehensive and there are several that do apply that should have been listed in a matrix and presented to the district. That finding remains because instead ever responding by providing the matrix to show the charter knew about the requirements and had a plan to respond they simply said they were included somewhere in the petition. And as far as the issue of fundraising and the budget plan going forward, i did and i stated this in the Budget Committee hearing, i did review the Financial Reports as produced by the California Department of education for the first four years of the Charter Schools operation, and i noted that they had indeed met all of those lofty fundraising goals for those years and the staff found they had positive fiscal performance. Our finding takes that into account, but also looks at the fact that they have declining enrollment, dont really seem to have a convincing plan for reversing that decline and would continue to rely on 1 million each year in local fundraising. That might happen, it might not, but it is up to us to make sure we point out that is an issue of concern. That is my report. Thank you, mr. Davis. We have a number of people signed up for Public Comment. Then we will open it up to commissioners for questions. We do have 19 cards here. We typically have two minutes. If you could limit yourself to a minute. I am not going to limit you to a minute, i am asking you to limit to a limit considering the length of the meeting. You have two minutes. I will read your names. Bear in mind the length of the testimony. I will read the names. When you hear your name called make your way to the podium. David allen, rachel jackson, joy jackson morgan, katie simons, Joe Steinbergger, peter dorkin. Mark catch son, karen rath man, dillon meyers, mark miller, Susan Davenport, harold love, reverend walker, doctor dave atkin. Whenever you are ready. Thank you. Hello. I am david zinoff, San Francisco resident 35 years. The founding board chair of one Purpose School. The man whose picture is out in the plaque out in your entrance to this room and after whom this room is named irving brier i knew. I am 81. I was friends with his son steve and used to go to the brier house on the weekends. I was from the midwest. On holidays i didnt have anyplace to go. Irving brier, the man you named the room after used to espouse social justice and the importance of highquality Public Education. He used to lecture his boys, who you may know are you now prominent judges in the country and me who is not that, but i was there to receive the lecture many times about those messages. Highquality Public Education and social justice. He said those are the keys to the health of American Society and San Francisco society. By chance, because i didnt know we were going to be in this room. I didnt know about the plaque. By chance, that is wha what thee values are of the board of directors. There are about 20 of us. We are here to do all we can as regular citizens who have Different Networks and means and education and we represent 14 zip codes. We have six africanamericans, two latinos, the rest white. I am the oldest at 81. We go down to 28 in age. We are about half men and half women. You are not going to hear what i am doing. Good evening. I am pamela man. The current board chair of one Purpose School. Some of the speakers will provide responses to the staff report and questions and comments from committee meetings. Others are members telling you what we do at one purpose and why it matters. You would have heard from a parent and student. It was past the students bedtime. She went home. I hope we can submitter comments to the record. We engage in fundraising. We have been successful in raising approximately 1 million annually to provide the Wraparound Services and level of staffing required to truly serve the Underserved Community of the bayview. This is not a liability. It is an asset for stu sfusd ths why they come to enroll. They want services we provide. One purpose mobilizes individuals and foundations to invest in future success of bayview students as evidenced in the letters of support written to you. We work to expand the donor base each year to provide school year programs, wraparound Behavioral Services and Family Engagement and learning events the community would otherwise not receive. Good evening. I am david allen, Business Manager at one Purpose School. In terms every serve the ending fund values start at 478,862 for the 1920 year and increase to 6 82,00 82,000 4. This is between 18 to 19 of expenses. The California Department of education has rated one purpose in Good Condition with healthy reserves under their physical health criteria. This has been a positive sustained increase to our 1516 year. One purpose has demonstrated ability to improve and maintain strong physical health and reserves. We have strong relationships with Family Foundations and individuals to fundraise and expands the donor base to ensure longterm Financial Stability and has a budget to respond to uncertainties that may arise. The board and school are to make necessary adjustments to maintain the financial solvency should soft revenues not come as expected. There is no reason to expect this. Thank you. I am joy jackson morgan, executive director at third street clinic, Second Generation Hunters Point native. I come from a long line of educators. Most of the local schools and i am a former middle school and High School Math and science teacher. We heard startling statistics from mike that require context. It deserves context. Prior to last school year we were outperforming the district schools in the neighborhood. Let me ask you a trauma informed question in what could happen in the neighborhood that might have impacted the enrollment and test scores of not only one purpose but brett heart as well. We lost the c. E. O. , principal, some of the families, we got a new principal, lost key teachers. Last december we lost the new head of school. From the Community Angle what happened to the bayview but the real neighborhood called double rock . What happened last year . Double rock got uprooted from its community and placed into the new alice griffith. That was not an easy transition for families and obviously not easy for our students, not at one purpose or brett heart. Maybe this isnt the typical political conversation around Charter Schools versus district schools. This is what are we going to do as community of educators and families to support the students with the families with the resources they need. Dont judge us on one school when the entire neighborhood had a bad year. Thank you. Starting this year the culture and climate it has been a privilege to watch it expand to serve the students. We developed a matrix to fit the needs of the students and built the Wellness Center to talk when feelings. With the emotional curriculum we provided ways to deal with challenging emotions. We engaged in professional development to support from equity and trauma informed standpoint. Start our students are spending more and more time in classroom and engaging positively. We reduced number of School Discipline referrals 97 since the beginning of the school year. We lean away from suspending students but developing individual plans. We plan to push forward and continue to fine tune the school wide systems as data indicates this is working. I would like to say it is an honor to be part of the team as the commitment to the scholars is seen. The unwaiverring dedication to the whole child no matter the need. I look forward to continued work at one purpose. Good evening. I am Joe Steinberg the enrollment manager at one Purpose School. In the findings and facts section is the discussion of the enrollment. Our current enrollment is not 85 students but approximately 100. During the first three years we demonstrated strong enrollment from 75 to 160 students. It declined for two reasons. Despite the projected growth we were offered no additional classrooms. We had to combine two second grade classes and were unable to offer the kindergarten class. Second as discussed the planned de parter of the founding principal impacting enrollment last year. We have been successful in working to recreate a environment and support and nurture the students to be productive and are confident to grow enrollment and meet projection of 118 students for the next school year. Critically important we have grown and strengthened with the community partners. Last year we reached to over 60 Community Organizations, daycares and providers. We plan to grow the list of partners this year. Thank you. Good evening. I am peter and a member of the board of directors for the last four years. I am speaking on behalf of the principal who was here last night. Some of you may have met her. She is sitting in a hospital in oakland as her partner underwent kidney surgery today. These are her remarks. First finding of the staff report indicates we have not produced increases in academic achievement for all significant groups of students and has not produced it equal to district schools. We recognize that one not both of these criteria must be met. We are the first to recognize our academic achievement is not where we want it to be. We have taken multiple steps to refine our program to ensure we acseller rate scholars proficiency. 201718 was the first year of testing data with the first third grade of 20 students. These scholars showed stronger results and than brett heart elementary in ela and math, the school where most students would otherwise attend. They were on par or slightly higher in la and slower in math with the bayview average as whole. 201819 was the second year of testing after a year marked by transition of the principal, unexpected departure of c. E. O. And loss of several Staff Members. 20 third graders tested and they achieved at rates on average equal to comparison schools. The 12 fourth graders where deficiency declined is tiny. We find it hard that the future of one purpose of databased on such a sample size for one grade for one year. Thank you. I am mark atkinson, founding board member of one Purpose School and longterm resident of San Francisco. It was a pleasure to be with you tonight. It was particularly enlightening to hear the passion with which you rose up against false narratives. For a brief moment i thought we might be able to correct the record on your own false narrative. It is appreciated that the staff said we accidently characterized your tk5 school as high school. We appreciate that. We would be more grateful if there was further diligence around the other insufficiencies in the report. It is one thing to say we were at fault for not stocking feminine hygiene products. That would not be a requirement of a school serving tk through 5 students or to require the Suicide Prevention plans for grades 7 through 12 be in place. We have serving tk through 5. There were things that had nothing to do with the fact we are tk through 5 that you put on the same level. We dont provide definitions of long time English Learners. It is unclear how the state providing a definition could be a deficiency when one of the two only applies to the same students. It does not apply to us. You want to require provisions of services for homeless and foster students and say we dont have them on page 171 and page 7 it states we will comply with those requirements. There is no deficiency. Health and safety code 120325 we are deficient because we require an exemption for immunization and i it is on 162 of the chart. That was your time. Good evening. I am karen rath man. In evaluating the program they found it in line to the common core and california state standards. To include both integrated and designated english Language Development and extensive time for professional Development Weekly Early Release and dedicated days. We appreciated these affirmations. As part of the work toward Continuous Improvement we made significant shifts to the Academic Program including common state standards and Science Standards to ensure grade level instruction across classrooms including bookworms and english and mystery science. Alignment of the english Language Program as well as English Proficiency assessments. This includes english Language Development. Investment in professional learning, bringing on dean of instruction and culture to provide professional Development Sessions and elbow to elbow coaching to support teachers in implementing the academic and curriculum. The staff report raised a few questions that i my colleague david will answer. Thank you. I am doctor david atkins. As one of the four physicians to start the save st. Lukes campaign that took a decade and resulted in if building of a 500 million hospital for our communities south of market, i can tell you that in the decade i thought i was asked why not just let Hunters Point and the mission and bayview go to the county. County can take care of them. If there are nine hospitals north of market, perhaps our community deserves the dignity of choice. That more than one choice. Please understand, with conviction when you feel that you have the right choice, that it is not the same thing as providing people the freedom of choice to make their own decisions for their own children and for their own families. There are many, many choices north of market. There needs to be more than one south of market. With regards to grade level sufficient efficiency. All students are engaged daily in grade level learning. Students working both below and above grade level including remedial and extension. We have detail on intervention as detailed in the charter provision reflecting the needs of the students who come to school with preestablished learning gaps. The v in vip at one purpose stands for vulnerable. We want your most vulnerable children. We are not here to take. We are not here to usurp. We are here solely to give to our community. Thank you. Good evening. I am mark miller. I support one purpose. I would like to respond to three areas of the Charter Renewal petition marked by the staff as insufficient. First. Element a section 4. This section titled how learning best occurs is presented as a broad outline of conditions. Contrary to the staffs assessment, the three items marked insufficient are addressed extensively in the petition. The plans and strategies to support students not meeting pupil outcomes are described on pages 84 through 93. That is 11 pages of information. The Research Based instructional design and strategies are described in detail on pages 66 through 84 of the petition. The instructional strategies for special education and limited english are 93 through 112. The description of annual goals for all pupils and each subgroup is marked insufficient. I would like you to refer to just one of the examples of the goals appearing in this section. Page 116 there is a goal which describes the specifics of a plan for addressing proficiency and ela as measured. Third in the staff report element b is marked insufficient without explanation for several outcome based and goal based items. In the one purpose petition the goals and measures are articulated in detail on pages 117 through 126. These are one, fully aligned with l cat, two reflect academic annan and the nonacademic outcomes. I am Susan Davenport the finance chair of one Purpose School, a proud member. In addition, in element c this articulates how benchmark skills will be developed and assessed and includes the annual goals. Please refer to that and note we have been miss categorized. I would like to respond to one additional area marked insufficient in the staff matrix. Element c methods of assessment four insufficient efficiencies are noted. These are not insufficient or deficient. Extensive list every liable measures using the nwea and portfolios appears on pages 1238 through 1 128 through 131. 127 through 128 affirms the assessments align to the curriculum. No deficiency. Pages 132 through 6 provides detailed table providing minimal required performance level necessary for every assessment measure. There are no deficiencies. Pages 136 through 9 detail the use of all data by students and teachers and the school and use in reporting to care takers and district and state. No deficiency. Please read. Thank you. On rorrable Board Members. Back off the microphone. I am pastor at the hope church for 50 years. Semi retired. What i am doing. I am 88 years old. I come from east texas to San Francisco. Because racism horrible, bitterness. Not only that but the School System was outrageous, segregated. I dont have time. I come up under that system. I know what is the operation. One purpose has been a constant be in our community over five years has been the center of the community and support. The schoolworks with hundreds of students and families. Pastor walker helped one purpose to employee introduced to be introduced four years ago one block from where the pastor also with Tabernacle Community development corporation. Tcd supports one purpose. A fully based Development Group of churches approximately 10 churches. Also i recruited recently two churches. I asked them to send a letter. Hopefully they sent letters and you got those letters. I do not understand how any serious Educational Organization or individual can be against africanamerican, no name on the latinos. Forgive me. I will get it down. Pacific islanders. Elected officials have been talking about closing. That is your time. Sorry, pastor. Good evening. I am a finance manager at tech. Supporting the school and budgeting financial management. We have been working since the schools inception. It is a level that is not for charters this young. About 450,000 to start this year or 18 of the total budget is to maintain the fund balance in the multiyear projection. It is a foundation for economic uncertainties and support strong cash balances. They are highly engaged in the financial matrix of the school. The board asked detailed questions to understand the budget to actual variances each month. There are monthly meetings with the School Finance committee to monitor the School Finances. The staff noted the large grants and donations as insufficient. This budget line here is in line with the schools Historical Data and i would argue an asset. We have an extremely effective fundraising of 1 million plus in each of the past three years. This is not a large donor. These are individual donations between 5 to 10,000 as a result of the Excellent Development team we have built. Over 1 million each year into sfusd that would not be available for these children. The school had challenges. We have maintained Strong Financial health and stability. Over the years the schools ability to adjust the budget to balance the responsibility to educate students is nothing short of extremely impressive. I look forward to a productive dialogue for the students and the community. Thank you. That concludes Public Comment. Questions from commissioners . Or comments . Commissioner collins. I didnt get a chance to say at the Budget Committee it moved forward with a negative recommendation. Vice president sanchez. Thank you for coming out to speak tonight. Mr. Davis would you like to respond to any of the remarks . A number of the speakers were essentially saying that insufficiencies were not there. I dont know if you have any response. We will start with the comprehensive detail of laws enacted. As i said, included in the report are laws applying to high school and not k5. That was a mistake. However, the point is, as i outlined in the beginning that that requirement is at the top of the requirements for a renewal petition. We ask for it all of the time and we get it when we ask for it from other petitioners and so do other districts in the bay area. As far as the enrollment at the school, i will just say this. The number of 85 that i mentioned last night in the Curriculum Committee is 85 in district, ada, and it comes from one purposes prop 39 request for next year. They say they project 85. 46 for this year, and are projecting 102 for next year. Perhaps the difference is enrollment versus ada, but i dont think they would havena low of a percentage of ada to enrollment or maybe it is the total enrollment versus in district enrollment. I can say that is where i got the number from and that came from the prop 39 request. Thank you for addressing that. That was my next question. I also asked but i dont know if you looked it up about the boards rejection of the initial charter five years ago. I did find the minutes of the findings and i did send that to you today. There were two findings. The question was why did the board reject the initial charter . I am looking at it. Do you want me to read it . I have it here. Fact towel finding september 23, 2014 was moved seconded. Anyway the factual finding the Charter School presents unsound Educational Program for the pupils enrolled. One under provisions of lcfs and the petitions are required to state the goals and actions to achieve school wide and by subgroups. The petition lacks specification. It doesnt include use every usf the restorative justice. Those were the findings from 2014. I have a clarifying question. On the recommendation and the recommendation from the committee. Tonight we staff recommended we deny. Your committee wanted to go against that. So it is approving the recommendation to deny the curriculum is approving the recommendation to deny . Yes. You are talking about the budget . The Curriculum Committee did the same. At the committee there was no recommendation made at the committee only information is provided. The committees make a positive or negative or nonrecommendation to the full board. In the past, we came in with a recommendation. Understood. A yes vote tonight would be to support the staff recommendation to deny the charter. No vote would be to approve the charter. Any other comments or questions from commissioners . Seeing none roll call vote. roll call . Seven ayes. It is denied. Section h. Other business. The San Francisco Unified School District and San Francisco county office of education balanced scorecard single plan for student achievement. Do you want to read the recommends to the record . The director of state and federal programs roger koss to. Good evening. The requested action this evening is the board of education of the sfusd approves the 20182020 final balance scorecards and single plans for student achievement. We dont have Public Comment on this item. Any comments from the board or superintendent . Roll call vote. roll call . That is seven ayes. Two annual and five year report related to the collection of developer fees. May i hear a motion or second on this item. Motion so moved. Second. We have someone else. Chief is unfortunately ill today. I am going to read the recommended action in her stead. The recommended action the board of education review and adopt the annual and five year reports for the Fiscal Year Ended june 30, 2019. Any questions or comments from the board or superintendent . Seeing none roll call vote. roll call . That is seven ayes. Section i. Discussion of other educational issues. None tonight. Section j discussion and vote on consent calendar items removed at previous meetings. Up tonight. Section k. Number one public and board comment on proposals, number twr superintendents petition for Gateway Middle School. Board policy 5145. 2 freedom of speech expression. May i hear motion and second for the reading of 5145. 2 resolution and 191210 5 00 p. M. 1. Moved. Second. We have Public Comment by ms. You have two minutes. Good evenin good evening, i t to take the full two minutes. You have been here a long time. As executive director i want to thank you for beginning this process with us for Gateway Middle Schools third go around. We are just about to complete our second term of Gateway Middle School charter, and we are looking forward to and i say that truly the next few months having the opportunity to talk with you about our program, talk with you about the ways we have grown over the last five years and the ways we hope to continue to grow and do better in the next five years. Most importantly the ways to partner with you. I appreciate all you do on behalf of the city and kids. It is a tough job. Thank you for being here so late. I will see you soon. Thank you. My time is not up. Tomorrow i am going to send an email to all of you inviting you to visit. I think the most real way to get a sense of the school is to come spend time in the classrooms with kids and teachers. I know you are busy but just be ready it will be in your inbox tomorrow. Thank you. Any board comment on these first readings . Unless i hear otherwise from Legal Council i will refer the policies to the rules committee and resolution to the curriculum and Budget Committee. Section l proposals for immediate action and suspension of rules. None tonight. Do we have any Board Members reports. Student assignment and buildings and grounds are all on the docket. There is more. Next page. We will start with those. Are you ready for budget . Go ahead. We are going to follow these up. I spoke with commissioner sanchez. We have talked about the weighted student formula and mtsf multi chaired systems of support how we will go through that process. We feel like it is not just a committee conversation, it is full board to approach that. I will work with staff and also talk with you all about how we can calendar that in full Board Meeting to discuss how to prioritize that process to what you are doing with assignment system. Then additionally we got information that we are experiencing a budget shortfall this year, very serious information. Staff can cover that. Currently with existing revenue, but we will have to be having some serious conversations with staff that is currently in that process. It will obviously involve the board. To be very specific, it is a projected potential shortfall of about 32 million. That is why we have to be very careful about out of that conversation we wanted to make everyone clear with the fact the Budget Committee is not going to be comfortable approving new resolution that include expenditures when we havent looked at how to resource the student formula and other resolutions we have approved and would like to approve. We need to have that conversation first before we talk about adding expenses to our budget. We just wanted to make that clear for everyone. We look forward. If there is anything positive we are having this budget conversation at the same time as we look at funding schools. It is timely and Good Opportunity to look at how we are spending money and how we can support the district to get more revenue as well. Thanks. Commissioner norton . I have a report on committee from december 3rd. I wanted to add to the budget report mr. Collins covered the whole thing. I want to add my perspective in time i have been on the board i have not seen this big of a projected deficit for midyear for the middle of a year. I just want to underscore that we are in a serious situation, and that positive certification resolution we approved tonight says we can expect positive to be in the positive territory for two years if we take action apmake the midyear cuttings and make the adjustmentsness. No one knows better than the superintendent what it is like to be taken over by the state, and we do not want to experience that. That is what i was going to say. Yes, i have that. I was going to recap the whole meeting from december 3rd, and we have three kind of conceptual ideas that are going to move forward to the Community Engagement process so they have varying levels of controlled choice from the most restricted which would be an individual assignment essentially every address would have an Attendance Area School assigned to it and you would receive an offer to that school. Other concepts would be different size zones where you have a small group of schools to choose or larger group of schools with various restrictions and options within those. The purpose of the Community Engagement process over the nest few months is to get in put from the community and begin to model and evaluate how each of those concepts might help the board reach its policy goals for Student Assignment. A lot of work still to be done. There is a aggressive schedule of meetings, and i hope that we can all commit to attend some of those meetings and that we have a board presence at every meeting. It is important for the community to see us there and for us to hear from them. Thanks for your continued engagement with this process. I had staff address some basic information for folks not at the meeting. At the last buildings and grounds meeting we went over the Affordable Housing development policy, and we had a couple of recommended amendments from commissioner cook and from rsu staff. The recommendations were currently we are asking to build 550 affordable homes, and the recommendation was that this wasnt a set goal and that we keep it like there is a process to continue to add to that. We have been working on the back end with don and then also sciu staff requested support Staff Members fall under the union be included in the resolution as well. We have plans in place to meet with them. We also started a dialogue and learning about school bonds and so we are going through a series of those if commissioners are interested in how bonds work, feel free to join the building and grounds meeting. We went through the processes and steps on how to address the needs going on at the school. Commissioner lamb. At the personnel and Labor Committee we had an update and overview around emergency credentials for certified staff. Part was understanding because of a couple of related to Teacher Shortage and general as well as decrease in enrollment of credential programs, some programs we had to initiate internally to combat the Teacher Shortage with our own strategies. We learned about the process around support for emergency teachers, ongoing support for those emergency credentials and really the opportunities how to continue supporting our teacher pipeline programs to put those teachers on those emergency credential. The second agenda item, we had very engaged robust Public Comment and it was related to getting an update on special education and certified paraeducator staffing. We heard loud and clear about what is happening in the field with special education, the need to continue supporting our paraeducators and certificate teachers at the school sites and really uphill challenges. We heard around caseload and workload and the recommendation from community about the importance that, particularly with this agenda item that it be copresented between the special Education Division and with Talent Acquisition and staffing. We are committed to ensuring that happens for those additional teac teacher presents with the program divisions. I think we have a long way to go, and from the recommendation from the committee, i expressed the importance of making sure we have those realtime updates because it is continued to be a consistent issue that we have heard from the field and from our staff at the school sites. [please stand by] mont. That was moved with a positive recommendation. The information items that were presented were also very exciting, and it was regarding a Spanish Language reading instruction curriculum benchmark in as supporting spanish teachers. As a former spanish teacher in the district, it was interesting to see many of the materials provided that we have to create ourselves. And many items that ive seen work well in the classroom. It was piloted at a lot of schools, and they are interested in piloting that and feedback. Last thing was the discussion was around some of the materials in the books that we are using to implement this work and keeping up with the materials. President cook thank you for all of those updates. Do we have any board delegates updates from membership organizations . Any other reports by the board . Okay. Here is the calendar of meetings for the coming year. The budget and Business Services committee, were meeting wednesday, january 8, at 6 00 p. M. , the buildings and grounds and services will be meeting monday, january 27 at 6 00 p. M. , curriculum and program will be meeting january 13 at 6 00 p. M. , worlds policy and legislation will be meeting monday, january 6, at 5 00 p. M. The Ad Hoc Committee on personal relations and affordability will be meeting i set it december 18 at 6 30 a. M. The Ad Hoc Committee on Student Assignment doesnt have any meetings until march 2020, and the joint city School District and City College Select Committee will be meeting this friday, december 13, at 10 00 a. M. That meeting will be held at city hall in the legislative chambers. Commissioner lopez . Commissioner lopez i just want to note that the curriculum and Program Committee meeting will be meeting monday, january 13, and not wednesday. [inaudible] commissioner lopez no, thank you. President cook thanks. Lets see. Section n, other informational items. Number 1, accepting of gifts, monthly report for the months of september, october, and november 2019. Number 2, the lau Consent Decree for english language learns. Sunsets is moving from compliance to commitment. Section o, memorial adjournment. There are none tonight. Public comment. At this time, we will take Public Comment for items in closed. President cook peace, peace, and welcome back. Section q, reconv eene to open session. Im going to read a statement in the closed session. In the matter of multiple licenses suspended local 39, griefance number 1718304, the board, by a vote of seven ayes gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. In the matter of mazera, mendoza minor, by and through her guardian, bridget mendoza, the board, by a vote of seven ayes, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulates apt on three matters of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. In one matter of anticipated litigation, the board, by a vote of seven ayes authorized general counsel to initiate litigation. Section r, adjournment. This meeting is adjourned. Good night. Sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard to not want to do it, and it doesnt really add anything to the bill. Better. San Francisco Department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. We know that we dont have all the answers. We need to support our local champions, our local community to find Creative Solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. Zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. The Grant Program is a Grant Program specifically for nonprofits in San Francisco to divert material from landfill. Its important to find the San Francisco Produce Market because theres a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. San francisco Produce Market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. I think its a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. Its a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. Since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, weve donated over 1 Million Pounds of produce to our community partners, and thats resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which were very proud of. Carolyn at the San Francisco Produce Market texts with old produce thats available. The produce is always excellent. We get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. Everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and its important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. Its helping people. Thats what its really about, and i really enjoy that. The work at the Produce Market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better than we will call the meeting to order. Police silence all electronic devices. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Please silence all electronic devices. [pledge of allegiance] mr. Taylor, i would like to take roll call. [roll call]
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