Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 32117 20170326

Minutes as announced in the psa past few complete a speaker card and present it to the executive assistant. Speaker cards will not be accepted if an item is already before the board presentation to the board of education. And according to the board rules and procedures speaker cards will not be accepted for an item before the board and item two superintendants report. Thank you president walton im going to give a slightly longer report than most meetings i have a few different tops to touch on to first one i want to say to provide some Additional Information about the delay in our round one assignment letters that took place unfortunately over the past few dizzy want to provide an update for families who submitted application by january 13th of this year that was the round one deadline sfusd School Assignment so unfortunately, the assignment letters were scheduled to go but on friday march 17 experienced a delay we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience families are counting on this news we have sent newsletters out via first class mail yesterday one business day late on monday march 20 families should receive those letters today tuesday march 21st we made an adjustment to the registration deadline for those offers and that has been to extend that deadline by one week to april 21st we also recognize that many applicants families are in the position of digging next steps including considering admissions to private and individual schools if theyve been any delay in receiving those letters that is causing concern than families can contact e pc the educational Parliament Center if youve not received that letter by using the following email address posted open is sfgovtv. Org immoral in school at sfusd at cd u and well help to provide the information if there is any additional delay in the u. S. Post office deliver thank you several of the partners especially parents for Public Schools for your coordination during the unexpected delay period and also thank the month independent schools weve reached out to throughout San Francisco that have taken in many cases most cases to accommodate a slight delay in families that are responding to assignment offers so we appreciate the coordination on the part of many of independent schools so turning to topics this past friday the pleasure of attending the ask the Advisor Council youth comment this year the theme a all on board the leadership nearly three hundred of the hostility students attended Fort Mason Center and students were welcomed by our chief Family Community support division kevin truett and a keynote speaker speaker sp be from district one supervisor fewer and president walton and emily murase were in attendance thank you students heard inspiring speeches in june Gordon School and joining from Lowell High School and every attendee attended two leadership workshops went to a tabling event and got the opportunity to meet the new ask the candidates ive heard the speeches a group of leaders that will serve on the board of education as one the next years ask the students jessica and maria for their leadership as well as the entire Student Advisory Committee council and their coordinate salvador for putting on this wonderful event and note that the lowell Team Including the student put on a fantastic show so thank you, everybody for all your work and participation in the youth submit and next San Francisco muni and Emergency Department have been updating u upgrading the signage and now to tell the citizens where to go for a 82 mom many students demonstrated to follow the signs to the tsunami shelter and in attendance were keep in mind and chief joanne hayeswhite for the walk and following the walk there have an Emergency Preparedness at the Marina School with the Emergency Response team at the Fire Department and the department of Emergency Management last thursday i attended the third annual mariachi at the High School Auditorium and at the concert a legacy of our form sprushz we had students a part of performances if bryan elementary and Caesar Chavez Elementary School and Mission Education center and everett Million Dollar and school of arts and Mission High School to all students from all those high schools performed at the concert and special guests from San Francisco favorites dance and also from visiting from la jolla Mariachi Middle School were fantastic the sfusds is proud to demonstrate and new model not just what music classes to be but what they look like in the urban cultural in this Program Music teachers and Community Teaching artists train and Work Together towards the goal of welcoming a difference set of students to be musicians and to bring the beautiful music to the families in our community thank you to all who helped with putting this together and to sfusd mariachi artistic director and Program Director for the justice of artists calling names Arts Education master plan and manager and rob daniels the director of the professionalism Arts Department and the school site educators to make that happen Mission High School president walton has commented i know a celebration we would like to spend my congratulations to the Boys Varsity Basketball team alters Mission High School arnold. clapping. so just to say more about the team the Mission High School boys Basketball Team has 34 wins and one loss this year and after their recent upset victories over the mission over van done high school and Mission High School advanced to the state commentship in the Golden One Center in sacramento which is where the Sacramento Kings met the last sfusd school to mr. Starr play were washington in 1982 the Winston Churchill no 1985 and the balboa girls in 1993 so guilt good luck to mission as it will be the first sfusd to win a state Basketball Championship communitybased bears go bears. clapping. and then one final announcement or update in recent years sfusd has been busy being worked out green we have transformed how we design and modernize the building so we will become a Carbon Neutral district by 2014 if we can keep this noise level down if you want to have conversations outside it is appropriate so we appreciate because of this crowd if you can keep the noise level down thank you. Thank you president walton we are replacing the gas boilers and reducing the water usage for toilet flushing on the transportation new vehicles will be emissions freebie 2020 and in fact, negative impact 2008 sfusd has been able to reduce the emergency use index by a third natural gay by half and water used by almost a third at less er not alleged costs the Green Schools National network the center for the council are recognizing sfusd as one of the best green schools of the 2017 and we will be receiving this award this week thank you. clapping. thank you this is the fun or exciting part of being worked out on the board we get to honor a few individuals tonight who have done a lot in the School Community as a whole so item 3 recognition and commendations. First were going to start with education liaison ms. Ed District Attorney jones. clapping. im going to read here bio but personally thank you for your service over the years your service in the community and services in the schools your service in Public Housing community we appreciate you and love you for your work and im going to read here bio so you can know how great she is ms. Joness from san antonio relocated in 1979 after graduating into the augural and mechanical university with a b. A. In sociology worked with the urban community for support over thirty years her experiences have ranged if hiv aids and anti drugs education working with adolescent workers for an Afterschool Program and western edition and the w y go a s sf brought strategies to the team and added to the community in her role as education liaison ms. Johns implemented the parenting strategies it led to improvement in student attendance and academic achievement and found joy in the education partnerships and documenting the personal council of the lives of the families of children living in Public Housing several did best practices invested at that time, Alice Griffith set the tones for connecting the communities we were fortunate to have her assisting the families with the Educational Needs one of ms. Jones favorable quotes from the maya angelou and it reads the potential in the challenge is so great in this country it makes me treble and weak ms. Edda before i present her with a certificate i want to allow mr. Truett to say things as well. Thank you you president walton many years ago, i knew almost constantly when i met her he was in the presence evergreenness what is one the most important things for the students and the families everyday for one we must teach them well and building in them to make sure they know their personal strength and they will be successful we must care been the children and always make sure they know how much they mean to us and love them it is about relationships when you see edda with students and parents the kindness and optimistic and thereof they demonstrates with grace and beauty is profound and will move i know ive been move forward just a few minutes in their presence my heart feels bigger and beats louder i feel the love and thankful for the warmth ms. Edda not words im going to do this bald right now okay ms. Edda not words to express for the tireless commitment to the families of the western edition and bayview in particular you are in the words of anyway truly the personification fashion of a phenomenal woman yes clapping. i as have and will hold a special place in any heart simply i love you as many people love you thank you clapping. good evening. clapping. good evening my name is theo miller i have the principle ever serving for hope sf for mayor ed lee good evening mr. President , and superintendents one of the worst days in any young tenure on an airplane from mexico and she is leaving say it aint so but you you mention all good things must transition and as said ms. Edda with their style and grace and unwavering love in the believe in young people we are trying to say that our young people Young Children of color who live in 0 Alice Griffith are at home they matter their brilliant and columbia none that per if i did and lived that in a way and every year, of course, the summer jobs theo ive got those young people for jobs and mr. 30s make sure your mayor knows youre an tireless advocate we love you love you, you taught us how to love our children we wish you well and continue to, yes focus on data and attendance focus on the equity to hear the voices of residents our fathers and to collaborative and lift up the message. Taught us your kids are brilliant and lovingly and you matter thank you good evening. Im the regional Vice President i have the prestige can you hear me i feel weird bending over i had the privilege and honor of working with ms. Jones we sat down one day with the daughters idea what would it be like to have a communitybased education model what that meant for all of us younger folk was the same thing in the the Red School House the teachers lived in the community they had children raised in the community and invested in the children in the community ms. Jones has lived that were so blessed to have here her join our team and thankful for all of her commitment if i had to think of 3 things to describe in words for the most part resilience for those of you who dont know the Opportunity Center is in the center of Alice Griffith as long as double rock not always talked about this is most positive way but ms. Jones was there in the middle of every situation and circumstances there with parents that were crying and babies were crying staff that that have gone through changes and shes been deleted throughout all i want to thank you so much that thank you for the tension and the 5 00 a. M. Calls as well on the same twentyfour hour circle but thats what it takes laughter i would also describe you as passionate i know that kevin im not going to be going to cry but i feel like crying too i have the same sentiment ms. Jones is xanax like a mother thats her approach thats her magic dust it gets people to move just compassionate way when others were go forward the needs of the community ms. Jones pushed she had so many compassionate and ill describe her as unrelenting i see so many young people this is one of the main things today just love but all that is going on and in the world ms. Jones was and will continue to be volunteering in the bayview a beacon of love and a community that needs her ms. Jones thank you on on behalf of our society and everything that came into the doors from the Alice Griffith and enjoy your visitation and come down to increase under and thank you, again, for your dedication. On behalf of the board of education we want to present this counterfeiter of revolve for ms. Eddms. Edda jones. clapping. great, thank you. So being worked out overthecounter go dioxide therefore, be it resolved the San Francisco Land Use Transportation Committee is pleased it recognition educator edda jones for thirty years for the hundreds of thousands of students attend the sfusd schools during the school year we absolute and thank you educator edda for your kindness for the students for living in Public Housing especially the students and families that live in Alice Griffith bayview Hunters Point your legacy to live on forever. Wow. What a day this has been quite an honor to start off at the board of supervisors and then was custodial donated with the San Francisco Land Use Transportation Committee thank you all so much and what an honor but like i said earlier the former president of the childrens defense funded out washington, d. C. Said all Times Service is the rent we pay so i just appreciate the work and everyone that ive worked with awhile i was in Alice Griffith and double rock Public Housing development was an honor to build the fine Relationships Community organizations and the level of support but it is just what i didnt i dont know what to do what i do best to make sure that note a child maya angelou say tyler potential didnt go arroyo that is children that reside in Public Housing so once again. clapping. thank you, thank you all so much important thank you all so much i really appreciate this acknowledgement and honor and i love, love love you working closely together and just as well as isaak talk every morning in terms of what well do for the children that is for the children so we again, thank you and my family and grandchildren for coming out, i appreciate all of my sons went through the San Francisco Unified School District so i just really appreciate them as well as my daughterinlaw and like to take the time as the San Francisco alliance of black School Educators and all the family and friends youll stand so they can acknowledge you some were with me earlier today at the board of supervisors thank you. I appreciate today and once again thank you commissioners and mr. Truett i love you, too, and will miss the data not really laughter and isaak and theo ill miss. Thank you all so much for this. clapping. thank you, again ms. Jones for your Service Anyone want to say anything in not superintendant lee. Thanks president walton so were honoring many great individuals so next our rave award so tonight the rave distinguished Service Award that is being worked out given to ken Elizabeth Gonzales and mr. Cabo san lucas is the English Department head and a teacher to the Balboa High School and the award will be presented by the principal of Balboa High School susan thank you very much clapping. it is my distinct honor and privilege to give this award to ken gonzales been with the district one year and he is services in so many roles hes the. That would be great of a public and. clapping. thank you very much superintendent and Board Members i appreciate it and susan quickly thank the folks i work with since 1996 at Balboa High School an absolutely wonderful place to work with the students and colleagues im lucky to be at the bottle im lucky to have been able to work there that long it is a place that can be challenging but extraordinarily rewarding im here because my patents have retired after having taught in Public Schools and im here because of the support of my colleagues some are here and in particular connor has been my mentor and model id like to recognize my wonderful wife and son jenny thank you for coming out. clapping. i love teaching in the school and love teaching in the district i believe when we work hard for the students keeping the students at the center and rooufz to accept we cant do better were doing our jobs hopefully to do our jobs for the students thank you clapping. thank you and congratulations mr. Gonzales so next, we have the rave special Service Award and. clapping. ms. Warner is the School Secretary presenting this award is the principal of clarendon peter. clapping. good evening, everybody my honor to be the principal of clarendon elementary and honored to present daniel who is just an exceptional person shes the faith felt community that you see when you come into clarendon and it is i think shows exemplifies what you see at clarendon Elementary School and if so a community of people who are parent, teachers and students all working together and creating this village that we have this Little Family at the top of twin peaks when i met dana a few years ago our secretary had been there a long time retired and that was a tenuous place for an elementary the principal and the secretary and so if the secretary is retiring like a marry going aubrey i told the current secretary please look for someone and able to have dana come in and hanging out in the office and learning the systems and talking with people so dana was a parent at clarendon two lovingly children one on to presidio and one still there and happy to say and clarendon a half of dozen at least teachers who are parent of children at clarendon and also, we have two teachers who were students at clarendon any secrets of the schools 0 in San Francisco critiquing creating the village and families so dana is exemplifies that from the stand point of shes the mom of the school so she started with two now 5 hundred and 50 lets give dana round of applause. clapping. i promised her shell not have to speak if she didnt want to. Congratulations. clapping. thank you so again congratulate all the rave winners and everyone who receives an award and now we have one more special award. Yes tonight we have another happy annual reiterate you will to thank and recognize some members of our community Advisory Committee so for the Public Education enrichment so the board has the opportunity to hear from the pac at the tuesday at the im sorry the regular meeting of on march 1314 we are happy that many of the pac members came last tuesday and returned this tuesday so ms. Fleming will present the certificate to the cca members we want to point out in case people listening or kwavp here dont know the cca is families for a proven ground for policy recommendations regarding the Public Education and Enrichment Fund a person learners how to make policy in the district and in the city we have four form members of the p cca members of the board of education e board of education two of them are sitting on the board of education mr. Cook and mr. Haney and two members of the board of supervisors that served on the p cca is really an important special place maybe we have future city leaders and beyond the city leaders in our Mission Street e might so definitely thank you on a terminal note for all the time youve put in for many, many months and continue it put in so ms. Fleming im going to turn it over to. Thank you superintendant lee and a number of students members of the p cca jessica served on the p cca and the three or four students to be so congratulations to you and Student Voice is very important on the p cca and four seated are poignant by the student delegates and who are the people this year calling names come on down. clapping. calling names clapping. calling names clapping. and two cochair positions are very important because they set the tone and provide the leadership and facilitate the meeting and push the policy recommendations to a policy level and really take time to help support the student members their elected every year and this person jenny lamb hear it for jenny shes contributed a grateful as cochair and grateful and the other cochair her fourth year and final year on p cca and been a fine leader and great participant thank you francis phils. clapping. and youll receive a special addition fouryear certificate so moving forward with the folks that are here tonight there are 21 members in all many of them are here and some of the folks couldnt be here were on the 14 for the discussion with the Board Members and calling names clapping. and calling names clapping. paul rodriquez. clapping. andrea torrey. clapping. janet yeah. clapping. nicole scott. clapping. you can sit and those who couldnt be her calling names another student and leaning in a lets here one more time for these folks with for all their hard work. Again, we had the opportunity like last tuesday thank you to the p cca to provide the sight and input on narrowly those resources are allocated appropriately thank you, again with that said, item b four ms. Eng and ms. Zaragoza. Thank you president walton good evening president walton and the superintendent and board of education and everyone hearing us first of all, want to start with saying congratulation to the mission for the also it was a beautiful event i highly encourage people to go next year it blew me away and the youth submit from the superintendent it was a butch event i think looking at the perspectives and student delegate first of all, thank you for coming for superintendant lee and Community Investment and infrastructure and president walton and mr. Trusting it and chief bright and to supervisor fewer and jonathan were the speakers and also for our performances lowell and dancing and lincoln lion dance everyone loved it and it is the time of year to we are leaving what you guys have new student delegates and it is ill say for myself but the students have high encourage our student delegate candidates being worked out up there and reflecting where they were and like the current student delegates helped us to lee from joshed and shannon from the academy and everyone for walling beggar thank you for we appreciate all the students and the high energy and being worked out so into the workshops they got to learn about Community Organizing and our own evidence to make your own argument and much more yesterday us and the student combrntd we came in together with the submit and what we can do better some options for students for languages and also going green using the Green Pencils for lunch and thank you for coming and looking forward to the 15 annual summit next year and lets see who will be the student delegates and talking about the student delegates the youth survey led by el cap is in the run the kickoff was march 17 of the youth submit and students get to talk about youth surveys things that effect them and vote on who will be the student delegate and every High School Gets those surveys it is important to look at it and see when you want to be a delegate and this is run by our current faxing but partner who is and meeting with the reps and how to improve the survey and go green for the surveys were trying to get students the following website so will be www. Dot tiny c i n y. Com Student Voice so, please go ahead and vote on this is the important also, because students get elected and who represent you and who you want your Student Voice to be and thank you for looking forward to who will be the next student delegate and teaching the ropes that is so cool i got to talk to the students they dont speak worker how, how will be in front of the 5 hundred students and we tell them we encourage you it is welcoming and regardless if you have kids or dont speak the language well help you if you want to be part of this this was a beautiful experience and yeah. Thank you. clapping. i want to echo the sentiments that maria said thank you for your all the people that came and if you cant make that this year hopefully next year open about the debates head ahead of time so the week we presented the presentation a a lot of the delegates were nervous they desire to vote make sure to vote online at the website so an update from the the dress code and Curriculum Working Group thank you to sheryl and nicole for meeting me on monday and thank you to key people for speaking to me earlier i was looking at if the dress code and the handbook reflects the resolution that was passed concerning the dressed code and the School Specific questions ill get more update and another thing that happened at the last meeting the anti tobacco ambassadors education so a Company Called green california present to the f ac and promoting a campaign against the flared Tobacco Products in our interested in signing the petition to remove youll flared tobacco go to tiny. Com sliver and invest the brief. Com and finally another presenter came to the last meeting to meet with the presenter thank you commissioner murase and thank you to the girl scout groups they were middle school and High School Students it was nerve ranking but the last week, we didnt have enough approval of the minutes for march 7, 2017, regular meeting minutes. Because of the submit but then at the next meeting well be addressing the comments and get back to you thank you very much and finally our next meeting on monday april 10th if you want to be a presenter or you can contact salvador thank you. Thank you student delegates and united kingdom. I must have made a error that was 311 u 31 thirty and the girls were ninth graders. Thank you for that correction item b 5 the Advisory Committee reports appointments. And 3 reports starting with the report if the parent Advisory Committee council. Good evening president walton and commissioners and superintendent my name is sheryl fields i have a daughter that has been San Francisco Community Schools in 7th grade and also a member of Parent Committee on the Parent Advisory Council. Good evening. Im georgia im the coordinator for the parent Advisor Council to bring persistent voices and preservations o perspective to influence the boards decision and tonights is an update on the activities around the albeit other. Members of the el cap have launched the conversations and completing the majority of film by the end of this week for the past month Task Force Members have been meeting with the school site and Community Groups to gather input for the districts el cap accountability plan were on track to reach the goals of three hundred participants through 20 to 25 Community Conversations including from our court and county schools the content during this years conversation helped to explain how the state and the district loots fund address resources to the Public Schools connect the development of the balance for cart with the el cap with the aligning of the priorities for work for specialized the Budget Priority over the next few years as revenue is slow enthusiastically the district commitment to increasing the teacher and other staff salaries and accelerate the achievement of our local students and schools. A new piece this year and a critical piece is through to provide great examples of trade offs in the conversation this is particularly important as schools are wrestling with looking at traffics of their budget plans awhile schools are reached the formula allocations based on the enforcement many sites are expressing reductions in funded staff positions like social workers and coaches and liaisons as a result the communities are having a difficult conversation looking at the benefits and the trade offs of funding those positions and take our increased funds and reinstate those positions funded by the resources or do we use the money to prioritize other options were looking at to have proven outcomes in some cases the communities are looking to see how well reinstate the academic support or social and emotional support and having to choose between those options for next years budget. Over the next couple of most sorry the members of esl task force had identify the central theme and consideration from our conversation we will share a report of finding with the folks to for the first draft of this district el cap an Important Development in this Years Community Engagement Process is that district leaders that be presenting the first draft a month earlier than in Previous Years this presentation will take place in a public forum on wednesday 2017 another James Lick Middle School is an opportunity for families and students and district and Community Partners to see what impacts stakeholders feedback has had on the el cap and for represents open based on what weve heard if stakeholders and the initial draft of the district el cap so this year, the el cap task force has look at how we strength the voices weve heard feedback in the last three or four years a Student Voice theyre working with private folks that were a congratulate the class of 2015 and worked on developing the Student Survey online it is strategize reaching to the school sites to spread the word and help the students take the survey on site in chinese and spanish and the pac is recruiting for next year if you know someone that is interested in participating having a pac member we have playthings in chinese and spanish. Thank you for detailed report any comments on the pac report seeing none, any comments from my colleagues thank you so much and now were going to have an annual report from the bilingual Community Council. clapping. psycho commissioners presenting the report and introducing the mentioned of b. C. C that are here tonight is special assistant to the superintendent christine wong. Good evening the role of bilingual Community Council to review the system of support for english and to provide recommendations on our services and processes i want to really personally appreciate and show any gratitude to the members of b. C. C this is something theyve devoted a number of hours working with staff to make sure we have the feedback and the input and voice to really improve all the services for English Learners so with that, theyll be presenting of the annual report for this year maria. speaking foreign language. good evening i had to do that because the b. C. C members right. I want to say that congratulations to our new board of Education Commissioners mark assistance and ms. Pollock and reelected matt haney and ms. Norton so thank you so much for 2k5ek9 our time i was appointed by dr. Murase and i really appreciate ive been having a viable experience on this b. C. C i wanted to last year i recorded and 3 things you having you said youll focus and kept our word on the first one is you look at the b. C. C report if the actually, in the last page and it is number 4, you focused on the reclassification of the English Learners and for e line and number two, e line orientation covering the testing and todays a Celebration Day the b. C. C members and our members did know well giving them cards and thank you notes to Patricia Wong thank you for all your hard work and mr. Ferdinand and the e lack member danielle and for attending every b. C. C meeting from 6 to 8 00 p. M. Dinner was provided endless times of collaboratively together and meeting with the we appreciate you so much and we also want no, not leave out the translation for providing translation and services to the parents and families without them translating the language and having assess to the families one thing how our families will be provided that information so we want to thank mr. Diaz and ms. Miller for your tireless work as well as of b. C. C member we do observations in schools and the e l mating from the philippines and mark assistance thank you and reelected commissioner but as a e l l i felt passionate to be on the board to have a voice so for students and all the members too on the 2016 audit we wanted to have a parent voice and engagement we created a forum to hear over 050 families parents in different languages and a tagalog and english telling us what we wanted for their children we came up with recommendations 3 the one ill go over on page first page if you flip not first page on the bottom half right there we stated we wanted to recruitment of qualified teacher a Betsey Carmichael and others that speak the language of the population within the e t district im very passionate in retaining the teachers in the district for example, the bell program next door and the housing credit the right to purchase for the teachers and school staff lastly professional development we need to be mindful and principle the beginning of the year focused on the led strategies across the curriculum i know were focusing on workshops but often need a class of english language developers were one of the largest populations in the english go language so we need to focus on that and, of course, lastly Cultural Committee i think this district im proud of district were tackling the hard discourse of obesity and entities among the differences types of race im proud that of im going to turn it over to my colleague nellie thank you hello my name is nellie and i was honored and appointed by commissioner president walton thank you for being worked out part of this the Deputy Director at James Lick Middle School in the center and we provide the Youth Services to the school and the summer programs and Youth Employment and sports and a whole thing of things aligned to the work at the b. C. C does in the English Speaking community ill be presenting on the strategies and recommendations resulting from the english language family forum from rim 2016 the second observation was for staff and the families to support English Learners and this specifically means as a recommendation from the b. C. C training regarding the process of classification and reclassification to school staff that are particularly in the direct contact and communication with the english families specifically staff might include the attention of the loan or the School Secretary we focused on the guardian engagement basically, we found that overall schools are go or doing a great job reaching out to families and newcomers families with a Huge Population at sfusd and in schools where two or three populations they have is an engagement for families is a high priority, however, it is and was noted in general communication engagement was a little bit across the district and for the final b. C. C recommendations we thought about creating an orientation for call for a new e l families that is culturally responsive and also insures their reflective of the cultivate and language needs of student population and lastly schedule Capacity Building opportunity for families at times and locations that best meet family needs and schedules that concludes the b. C. C focus around the parents voice and engagement now ill follow in speaking about the next steps for the b. C. C during our monthly District Meeting we will be focusing on four areas first english Language Development implementations and intervention for english language learners long term english language learners and newcomers and recruit higher and retain language pathway teachers and i will give the mike to my colleague again. So were on page 30 number 3, sometimes the english language learners are not i e p we want to focus on the seattle theyre given and the languages we appropriate the goals for each one the fourth one is continue we celebrated in the beginning of the reclassification in the testing and four areas we want to focus on and work with the superintendent our deputy superintendent and the board commissioners on the current district system the specification support for spanish is speaking e ls and families the Third District monitoring is very important for the implementation and lastly the budget element Budget Allocation is very important especially what we heard from the school retreat; right . And i just want to say that the b. C. C is a volunteer job not paid even though ms. Wong provides us with good food we need 7 more b. C. C members ive been reaching out and emailing and please 7 more Barbara Boxer c members specifically two to three filipino many tagalog and other dialogue i know that expiration is interested in providing an arabic speaker so, please if you can commit ill appreciate it thank you so much clapping. thank you and we dont have any Public Comment on this item ms. Mendozamcdonnell. And thank the b. C. C for the report im curious if he know who has open space on the b. C. C for appointment you dont have to tell me right now but if we can find out and let us know to think about new appointment that would be great thank you another gentle reminder commissioner murase. One for the English Forum will be repeated next year or i guess will state be repeated. With the dedication im sorry with a dedication of the 6 to 7 members an additional 7 youll provide we will be dedicated to be providing this forum i totally building that the Community Voice our personalities our students are very important to be build what we need more the english language learners youre welcome. Commissioner. I wanted to say thank you to the b. C. C and your serve and hard work your short 7 members i appreciate youre working that much harder i know in the past we talked about this best way to make sure that the board is meeting that responsibility to maybe something we might want to revisit in the rules committee i think that you know Board Members often identify people to a point thats how we do it and people you may know or the district approaches us to make sure that conversation process is in place because i think that sometimes, the best people that be most help we need more the board district in recruiting so you know we should be having that conversation we had some solutions and sounded like maybe not not a solution because of lack of a full committee. Well, i think one solution could be like you come to our school so being worked out visible and meeting parents and actually recommending them is important so also dr. Murase you came in to share and just being worked out visible no one you cabinet encounter to serve the english families and students. Just one more thing to add weve been taking some time to build out a vision around the Family Academy and i think that i hope that you know we can be working closely with the b. C. C to offer the learning pipelines in the academy well approve additional funding for the academy this evening i hope that one of the be first one that person had had is moot you with all and something take note of this really identify what the needs are in terms of orientation and the workshops for the e l families and help us create the pipeline leadership we have parent leader and staff leaders going to the academy the family leader and are taking up leadership positions in the district to on both of the fronts i hope your close partners and thank you for thank you for all your hard work we appreciate it. Commissioner cook. Thank you ferry the commitment and your service to our families i did want to shout out because ms. Wong you tell me there of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals and Historic Preservation commission. A Center Community member it is sort of a list of people together for to be considered we had that conversation and many members on the way socy say that pubically and want to talk with them before i officially appoint them and recognize the hard working with the leaders at the school sites put in sponsor supporting the English Learners awhile working and hard working people thank you for your support for them. Thank you to the b. C. Kc you reluctantly pointed out thank you for hard working for your children thank you, ms. Wong. So speaking of volunteer opportunities another report from very dedicated group of volunteers and this is our district english learn Advisory Committee sea lack and here to make a presentation about their recommendations and presenting the representatives from the elax is from the who is the Family Education integration from the meddled illegal unit pathways from the instruction addition. Good afternoon. Im ferdinand the proud director of multi pathway and welcome the team here just for the conversation we appreciate the amount of hours and dedication on behalf of the school thank you good evening thank you, sir sorry. To leave you out. Good evening board of education and commissioners, thank you for having us here im danielle as mr. Young has shared and ive had the honor of working closely with your district English Learners Advisory Committee the purpose of delack to build the capacity amongst the english families they can make key informed decisions in the childrens education and the principals of the sites on english Learn Program similar to the b. C. C im going to thank the staff at the Superintendent Office for the guidance the translation and Interpretation Office for their hard work and the multi adopt for their collaborative effort in implementing the e l standards to serve the needs of our english learn students throughout the delack executive leaders and their own English Learners community a are you aware theme has occurred over the last years the ongoing concerns and reflection are reflected in the recommendations that recall delack representative will share we have one person that be sharing the specific concerns and challenges as a standing member of ore e lack at her school site. Good afternoon to all of you. Im a second grade teacher and on the chair of the i would like to present the recommendation but before i want to present id like to report on the straw we had that year as e lack we have not had a chance to have many fine engagements at the e lack it is created without our input our e lack has been consistently asking for designated English Learners at the school the e lack students are not getting the English Development instruction required by the low action plan im concerned as a client for the English Learners in San Francisco San Francisco Unified School District i would like to know if in my school is the only one not providing the site designated to the students please take this to the board of education because we the e l Community Expect our children receives the instruction to make progress so, now the e lack recommendation the same in 2016 the delack families want to see an improvement from the instruction and content areas that are grade level and developmently for the children in order to close the gallop between english learn students and English Proficient students what is the district purchasing the instruction for all teachers and all students in english Language Arts and other areas that is state designated e l d instructions they want to know what the students are expected to lower than and how the students are achieving that at the great level why would he fresht that the San Francisco San Francisco Unified School District designated e l d framework provides the instruction and gowns on the designated English Development we see that the need for tangible teachers and students with services to effectively implement the framework thank you. My name is chinese lee the families on delack at the Martin Luther King Middle School we know that ongoing and Robust Professional Development is crucial for teacher capacity around the implementation of the e l standards and designated framework with this understanding we highly recommend more fournts our School Community to future their competent and the impact on teachers schedules the trainings will form online offsite or at school sites when possible thank you good evening, everyone im a parent of the third grade scott taylor students as well the board member id like to present our third and final recommendation in order to support english Learn Community at the Elementary School level we recommend the founding of e l corridor at every Elementary School school for 21 English Learners currently all middle and high schools have e l corridors that fount by the meddled lingual position their held by clamor teachers and are vital in awareness have been english learn needs as at the school sites thank you. clapping. hi, im maggie honored to be the e l liaison and a liaison for the San Francisco schools and express our sincere gratitude to the e lack members this evening for theyre ongoing advocacy of the english learner students and family. Thank you to the entire board of education to hear this recommendation we look forward to continued collaboration in support our english Learner Community thank you for your time. Thank you so much sanchez. Obviously a budgetary item take something away to get if i think those are questions. Well in terms of a substantive response ill ask if doctor stevens approaching so doctor stevens if you have nothing to comment on and while hes situated through the el Cap Development process that was mentioned in the pac report as well as the delack report to remind the commissioners and public the delack is one of two bodies that are named as responsibility of School Boards to consider the recommendation for the e lacking and the Parent Advisory Council and developing the el cap learner that every year that is part of recommendations of the next few weeks doctor stevens and good evening mime the chief academic officer for the integrity and want to echo the commissioners comments and appreciate the recommendations im able to comment on each the recommendations the first recommendation is in the provision and materials to Classroom Teachers that is the case with the advent of the new standards the teachers are asked to teach it as it connects to a concept to the arts or magnificent or connects to science and this is challenging to make a meaningful connection to the curriculum and dont sit on their own no isolation weve been wrefl bans our presentation youve been barack obama with the folks for the framework well be making the materials purchased to make the familiarity ill read a brief a partial list kits that are bilingual transfer that is spanish well include an academic framework that supports a dialogue and interaction for Language Development well include the discussion cards and include a poster and other ancillary structures and then also include planning tools and resources that well help to make the connections to art or science well not dictate to teachers which connection but support them to move daily for the arts instruction into it, it is a more demanding set of standards and different from the past years that requires content to be made festivity weve designed the framework and currently piloted that with 5 Elementary Schools and plans to roll out professional development to more schools over the course of coming year now the mpd enter level is small and will have to design the plan working with the principals and the superintendents to move from sets of schools to sets of schools to support them one at a time not the capacity to roll but all schools and exploring the e l be corridor with the reductions in the Department Budget enough money to begin that at the elementary level for the coming year so we think well have several dozens to offer Elementary Schools which will give us more than a small start from the site of the e l coordinator as well thank you so just. It is a question but more of a statement i dont want to call any schools out but want to make sure that we do have our delack families at the school sites any input and making sure they have a voice at the site to doing everything we can to make sure that is in place i hope well follow up on that. I can speak to that ive sent out a survey to the sites asking about the delack and delack support necessary or needed and i had responses from about 50 schools as far and what i asked what kind of a support to go and help the capacity at the sites again now well have maggie to help with the chinese language but it is interesting to see the discrepancies but also been helpful to have it survey get out to be able to determine what need they have to support the capacities in the acidities. Ms. Mendozamcdonnell. Thank you, thank you for your report im curious with regards to the recommendations how to do a followup is this a written report and also potentially a budgetary implementation with regards to funding an e l coordinator at the Elementary School to say 21st english language learners what that comes to get a better understanding of the budget and recommendations will have and get a report back. Ill be happy to provided Additional Information what it costs to provide the e l coordinator at all the schools we think well get a portion of the way theyre urging them but happy to report back to the board in the way it is most helpful for the implementations of the steps weve covered this evening. If i could take on so just to clean out on the el cap when we comment on the responses to the recommendation from the delack and the Parent Advisory Council in the el cap it provides a written response in the el cap there is a written explicit summary from the two bodies and the skriktd responses how that feedback and recommendations were or were not addressed to what step up to the plate that will be antiquate written response youll see that the public will be over the next 6 weeks and as the pac report indicated the first staff version of the el cap will be shared with the public on april 19th and at this point some additional opportunities for the delack to comment on the first draft of el cap and incorporate those and or other comments that the district will respond to. Thank you so much for your support and for your hard working and presenting clapping. any Appeals Court to the violations from my colleagues tonight section c consent calendar a motion and send on consent calendar. Second. Any items corrected or withdrawn. Tonight there are none. And theres none signed up for Public Comment any items removed for fdr and severed by the superintendent for discussions roll call. Ms. Casco. Thank you ms. Eng ms. Zaragoza mr. Cook mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase thank you ms. Norton mr. Sanchez and mr. Walton 7 is. Thank you. Ms. Casco and now it is after 7 30 so im going to do something a little bit other out of order general Public Comment first for section f so with that, well do Public Comment on general matters and i said to the note the Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the communities on matters within the boards jurisdiction we ask you refrain from using employee or students name if you have a placement you may submit to the supervisor with the district policy as a reminder the board rules and California Law we dont have to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions if appropriate the superintendent will ask the staff to respond you have two minutes well try to move smoothly through that we have a lot of Public Comment with that, calling names . Hi, im amy clark been teaching in Public Schools in the bay area u bay area at grattan and im here in support of under phils on behalf of the teachers here and other teachers not able to make that first of all, as a teacher of Public School for 18 years experienced lots of varieties of inadequate tech support with gradually a thrive to know we had someone on site that is available to solve problems and basically technical difficulties dont get in the way of making connections for kids ive worked in places i had to wait two weeks to get the website up for the projects with my students last year, we did a simple latins and paul rivera spoke about the protests and mr. Phil once we got out of paul rivera outfit put together an animation project and this year mr. Phil designed and game kids learn games around the expansion unfortunately we were not able to begin the project phil disappeared from the School Literally the same day he wrote the letter to the parents and took the notices into the cycle bin and ran into a formal student from 15 years ago and she was with a friend a grattan alumni and the first thing how is mr. Phillips because that is what she recommended 15 years later we want to support that note punishment it im on the Instructional Leadership Team and the second depamper with mr. Phillips. Thank you so much. Thank you clapping. calling names dead and good evening my name is paula a parent at monroe Elementary School in the southeast part of city a large school 5 hundred and 58 students 50 percent are latina large immigrant population there are 3 languages there have spanish and chinese and bilingual and a really active Community Parent community who tonight is at the School Site Council meeting talking about the budget for next year so theres been a problem the at monroe you may or may not heard about and thats a problem with consistent stable leadership weve had 3 principals in the last 5 years i have to third and 5 grader here tonight and since kindergarten ive expressed 3 principals and part of the problem is that were really a large school with a lot of diverse students and needs and we finally last year got an assistant principal signed to the school and things started to change question felt a lot of positive leadership on campus and i had first hand experience working with the assistant project principally that was practicing Restorative Justice with the kids and had a passionate way with the community we heard that her position will not be reinstate next year and were losing our principal hes just reassigned in 48 hours we gathered one signatures from parents and teachers scoring for the assistant position to be reinstated and handed out folders to look at who signed that petition we need that position at our school a school of 5 hundred and 58 needs an assistant principal and strong principal we need to be involved as parent thank you. clapping. thank you very much members p members of the board im a parent of a kindergartener at monroe Elementary School and paula said were here to recognize for the position submitted to the board please read it please take it seriously it is been signed in the last 48 hours by over one and 50 parents and teachers probably by the weekend several hundred more maybe a thousand this is a very important issue the assistant principal position is a position that we had this year in the school year 20162017 and vital to the function of this community and school the if for all the reasons that one was allocated last year all of those reasons still are present maybe even more so this position should be reinstated for the following year it is it is a Community School a High Need School we need strong leadership as paula indicated lets please set up the new principal for this Institute Strong leadership and reinstate the assistant principal for the school this is a high need chinese english and spanish but please im pleading for the board to take this seriously for this assistant principal position thank you clapping. hello pardoning my english i have a daughter in second grade and fourth grade and chinese bilingual class so the assistant principal is kind of made the reconnection for the control how to guide a kid to do a good job and control their emotional behavior my kids are in the second grade they had 5 of them have emotional problems that is ratio for that so they stole and chair and someone got hurt and respect to the hospital those kids are not bad enough to get a special need still kids but cant control their behavior the assistant principal helps to not only the frustration is only for in my classroom but shows only for the whole school we should so many kids needing a special guidance they didnt get the special need from the School District so im wondering how the School District for the funding for this one we cant get a small resource theyre the kids they have a chance to have guidance for the right way no one to help to support them theyll grow to be to the streets they go to become homeless nobody knows so earlier education is very important for the Elementary School yeah, so i have so many words to is the time is up but you can consider and keep our assistant principal in our school that is really important for the kids future as well as other forecloses thank you clapping. yeah. My kids are from Monroe School thank you. clapping. hello my name is maria im an enforcement clerk for pre k a clerk during the time i saw the exchanges and interacts between the teachers and here to support Caesar Chavez a great teacher i saw him his interaction with the teachers and the staff and results through the kid performing a choir teacher and like i said, i want to say hes a real good teacher the interaction with the kids hes a talent teacher his classroom style is really admirable when you could into his classmate their engaged and interested and very look forward to being worked out with him and learning more and more with him he is an expert in the subject matter and a disservice to the district this is a talented teacher and again, i building he should stay with the district im going to support mr. Chavez. clapping. hi, my name is jones im a 11th grade and my experience with mr. Caesar chavez has been great he communitybased organization a really good pace and especially with a topic i heard well not be at burton holiday hose very easy to talk with a great person to circle we makes a good effort to understand us as a person compared to many of the teachers one of the best teachers ever at Burton High School theyre rare and i think about how ill teach us can you unlike teachers give us a work plan and mr. Chavez is an asset to 3wu8d he helps the students grow just doesnt teach music but a lesson for example, like recently had a week dedicated to college the teachers talk about the past he taught me no matter what you can do whatever and leads the burton choir by the way, without him theyll not be as good i hear this practice those they sound beautiful he looked out for every single one of them and make sure that we all get what we need to pass that class and during time to catch and mr. Caesar chavez is a teacher ill not forget thank you. clapping. hello, im a mother at Burton High School before mr. Chavez came to Burton High School choir they didnt the choir didnt do anything when it comes to concerts and learning new music mr. Chavez told my daughter to go out for 0 choir she sings in front of a lot of people and comfort with her voice my daughter becomes close to many chavez she goes to him every time she needs help with her grades and needs someone to talk to i was surprised when my daughter tell me that mr. Chavez will not be teaching at Burton High School please give mr. Chavez an opportunity burton notes a teacher like mr. Chavez thank you clapping. hi, my name is close i didnt a student and choir students for mr. Chavez he joined choir in any freshmen year he didnt teach and also when we would sing but no new songs not practice at the rallys or things were starting to do now i noticed how many people are talented vocally yet our choir is small and the students didnt do much when mr. Chavez came everything turned around i was actually even thinking about dropping choir because therapy doing what i was expected to do until this year our class started to flood with new members and music and new opportunity like putting on concerts and performing at competitions everything this choir is because of mr. Chavez presents in our school and to wrap up burton has been a school filled with amazing voices and talented children it took a lot of hard working people to make sure that they were great. clapping. hello my name is shirley here to support mr. Chavez he met mr. Chavez when he was working at the school when we didnt have a vocal class in our school he started it and at the end when we left a year after we had 6 different classes when he left everything was like devastated we loved him but at the same time, we want him to grow and continue his journey one of the things i admire about him he went back to the schools and helped the other teachers the new choir teachers to adapted with the students and also to tell them that they just a different teacher and he makes a good distributions with the kids the kids accepted the new teachers that was amazing of him to do that for that all the teachers he didnt knew he has a lot of qualified and he has a Good Chemistry with the teachers and ask you to let me grow and continue his journey at Burton High School thank you. clapping. hello, im a. D. Drain one of the freshmen at the Burton High School and a part of choir and have gun doing well this year i heard that mr. Chavez will not be with us negotiation but having a couple of if you have any questions, well be happy to answer thems to have a performance in many places so far weve raised 6 we perform at rallies every once in a while because mr. Chavez made that happen being worked out part of burton choir is amazing i want to Betsey Carmichael Mission High School and coming from a middle school i was amazing at the mr. Chavez that helped so i will hate to lose one of my favorite teachers that mad an impact on my friends and me as well i think without mr. Chevys at burton things will be different and he is one of the encounter roll model a so much more if not for him the burton choir will not be great it is great was of mr. Chavez made things better he communitybased organization all the way or not at all that is very important because you have to work to be the best otherwise not as good as you think fighting for what is right everything not everything gets around like a big school like burton mr. Chavez shows love and hes my favorite teacher we love him to death for this im truly heart broken he may not be with us negotiation so hose like a best friend and father. clapping. im from Burton High School burton at a concrete state because of Great Teachers that gave Burton High School a great name retired or Maternity Leave shes my best teacher mr. Chaefdz is one of the foe teachers that can understand us as students and be able to teach in a way that is effective comparing to the teachers i can say he has it is best connection with his students respect their beliefs and respects im sorry and knows how to control his classroom Burton High School is a very exists high school with around 90 percent of students at burton of color but the majority of faculty are white so it is important we are surrounded by the people that understand us i believe that Burton High School needs mr. He chavez more than we need him a takes a certain type of person who contains the quality my relationship with mr. Chavez that the strongest half of them are replacement and other half are mentally challenged thats a different story he demands the utmost respect and the quality of work im not an singer in mr. Chavez choir but this teacher shows films and let the Choir Program die burton has a difficult time keeping the teachers we have one had loves us. We ask you allow him to return thank you for your time. clapping. calling names . Good evening commissioners my name is diane im the parent of an eight grader im here to speak in support of mr. Chavez he can speak as my experience with someone that worked him through the saturday programs work with especially important to any son from a Music Program at the Mission High School his instruction and guidance further my sons difficult studies and helping him to prepare he helped to coach my son for auctioned with the arts hell be attending next year he was surprised to hear his nonreassignment he is dedicated to the students and how hard to work for the program there he loves the school and loves the students at such i hope youll give him another chance to continue the work thank you. clapping. good evening my name is sarah kern i am worked for sfusd as a teacher larger than and an sfusd apartment for 13 years im here to speak on behalf of jerry relay chavez we have a shy daughter she started at everett Mission High School i was worried about her having a hard time connecting with adults she didnt have stage fright vocal class was the highlight of her school day because of mr. Chavez somehow able to teach his music while being patient and fair with discipline and preventing them from taking away if precious class time we encouraged my daughter and students to prepare for that auctioned he supported them on stamp 100 percent my daughter learned about technique and felt warm to say have a please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, is to practice with him everyday per we were devastated hell not be returning to everett the following year a new vocal teacher at the everett my daughter continues to work with mr. Chavez for private lessons like i mentioned not easy for her to warm up well start next year looking for a few holiday web looking at Burton High School if he doesnt return it will be a huge loss for burton and sfusd thank you. clapping. good evening. Im lawrence junior im a teacher at Balboa High School at Balboa High School 21 years ken gonzales is there when i want it to say is the countrys in black education is real in the students i teach i called a meeting to make sure that they get the black history that will motivate them and teach them skills we gotten great response interest and support and im joined by other parent civil leaders and resident that share my commitment to what the children needs now clapping. to the honorable. writing on board. president and the superintendent im james Taylor Junior a former employee of the San Francisco school board the last position i held was principal of Martin Luther king, jr. Academic Mission High School i was principal this question that were about to engage upon africanamerican history and culture as it exists as a curriculum item in the school the school resolved and that it was confused throughout the curriculum a thing that all students participate in on a regular basis and was joined by a Multi Education at this time that is very important that we begin to seize that on this issue as a timely curriculum issue related to the skew for the students not only for the history courses but i was a recent i was a program evaluate for potrero process that potrero of temp ton gotten students that are carotid or had dropped out of school to come together for a very dense instruction in science and mathematics but the lynch pin to that instruction they were given a rich course dialogue in history so they can see like many of the easy by the film that recently in the theatres called Hidden Figures they understand their place in the world how magnificent and science can enhance that so it is a truism we have the training we have the material all we need now is the will so from the board investigates that hope theyll consider and infusion of the africanamerican history and cultural into the curriculum thank you clapping. good evening. Im marie this is the sfusd student id like to speak on behalf of the africanamerican Parent Advisory Council and in support of adding africanamerican history to the curriculum at the San Francisco Unified School District and beginning in the year our parent asked for instruction of black history im sorry that was last year the rest of the elements we provided in january we took the initiative to give courses for black History Month how for effective in the district had a comprehensive standardized policy how to do that and excuseme. And incorporate it into schools and classes and how they can be held accountable and gives us parents in motivating our kids to attend the school and them better about themselves and the School Climate and recall in last year at the Lowell High School the district promised the students action on the magnificent for most was they see themselves in every part of the curriculum and that the teachers be trained how to address the basically needs and that has yet to be happen we expect the board to follow through on the promises clapping. good evening, everyone ecp others other cochair of the support for the black history within the sfusd did you know that monday april 3rd is the districts birthday an africanamerican built the first Public School in San Francisco and california our students teachers and principals do dont know you have to make sure the facts are commonly known a huge impact for the young people down that a 18 benchmarking high school led 2000 demonstrates to the integrate to the palace hotel not part of our criminal curriculum but helps to show the students the power to create change i urge you to help with the comprehensive policy an africanamerican life and history in every part of the curriculum thank you clapping. ill be speaking on behalf of rolland im tony i work as an advocate and the historian of pac restraining order us our computers are in schools and give them a chance for individual students to take home the district need to invest in the resources to give them hope and confidence to extradite im one man that cares about the future we can keep our young people away from gangs im speaking own on behalf of margaret she couldnt speak after findings her purchase at gerald shell be tracked into speak up ed many black students have promise what we learn about the conflict of sfusd alumni like they know they can aspire to greatness thank you commissione commissioners. clapping. hello, everyone. My name is nicole foul i represent Marshall High School i have two teenagers that attend marshall and would like to ask the board not to forgot about third and marshall we at a 911 we need to be put on the map i ask we have equal opportunity when it comes to education and marshall is not represented Public School is under attack more so now than ever before since the 1968 the walk out from poly how the boycott of africanamerican students have not gotten the black history and other resources weve asked for we got action at George Washington High School Take us seriously we have a solution that honors the people to sacrifice all i ask for what you have at the other holidays high schools id like to have that add Marshall High School if you have more supported at woorld and lincoln why cant marshall have that support im asking you to put the black History Month which we didnt have this year im asking we get that put back in place and receive the exact services you give to the other high schools you give one high school in the bayview 94124 thank you clapping. my name is sal la chancellor from the Tribal Council in San Francisco and a resident of bayview Hunters Point for 12 years both of my children were raised in the San Francisco Unified School District and what i find so shocking today is im coming here, however, 19, 20 years later representing my son who was assassinated shot to death he was a young man that was working in japantown then japanese restaurant trying to cash his check on lunch break i find shocking i come here 20 years later requesting for the same thing i spoke here years to ask you to acknowledge the Africanamerican Community and the cultural history our history who we are as a black race of people he didnt volunteer to come america has not acknowledged this issue and bayview 200 poles for third street that have requested from malia cohen to put to acknowledge all the black children that have been murdered in San Francisco we we dont hear anyone speaking for them and side poles to symbolize we were coming from african and having our language and our able to unify and the village is destroyed what we want to do instead of getting down the business we were this put at stake i hear every nationality being worked out addressed and except the history of black History Month people im coming here to demand you acknowledge the black people in the desolation. Thank you everyone have in a position that do something about it im requesting in the name of my son you give back what was stolen from us thank you. clapping. good evening im sorry John William Templeton the author of the black experience in San Francisco also subject matter on africanamerican in the western Park Services the materials that the parents have asked for are theres evidence behind and james taylor mentioned we have tested it with students in the district to we look forward to meeting with the board and the staff were already doing map training for the last 12 weeks we look forward to taking a large chunk out of 3, 5 of the africanamerican theyre voting with their feet not given a reason to go to school were asking for trouble and its time to change that right now thank you very much. clapping. hello my name is twinkie it a student and 2k3w508d and here to speak on behalf of the mr. Chaefdz i only recently visited Burton High School but in the short time ive been here can say interests not ever been in my hive a teacher that is dedicated and pours the heart and soul into his work his time and energy to make sure we are the best we can be as individuals and as musicians and i think that very important that students have a place where we can feel they can be themselves and comfortable when they come to school some of us we dont say have an environment to make our voices heard when we go home but in the school were heard and important and we are great in his eyes so dont take that away from us, please we love him. clapping. calling names . Good evening my name is harold shields and manageable junior academic Mission High School mastering the africanamerican mingle my colleagues and i are here tonight to discuss the elimination of 3 fulltime positions negotiation Martin Luther king has under achieved in the packets provided data from 2009 to 13 where the academic scores were stagnate and low two years ago Martin Luther king used to have the highest in the district over 2000 last year 5 and 95 this year less than three hundred and 20162017 Martin Luther king master increased by 9 percent compared to the district average of two percent growth in the Mission High School and back scores have increased with ucla and rational groups and graded manageable had been below average but last year once again selfscores above ucla average if in all 3 categories our africanamerican students are making gains narcotic their significantly a lot of the average in the fall of 2017 magnificent tasks and benchmarks so across the board at Martin Luther king were showing progress as youll see in the data we are finally seeing the positive xhaefkts Growth Growth of our students weve fought for and yet we still weve got a lot more work to do but interval to our journey in the last two years the instructional counselor and the magnificent teacher those positions have been central to the improving as professionals and coordinates the assessment will not happen without her i can say that and coaches the teachers and leads the teams our Academic Councils does everything that the council provide oneonone coming up and support for teachers and students and intervention and provides special supports for the eight graders in a difficult High School Enrollment process and also provides special ed through academic counseling and assembles and helps with the Community Service prior to her arrival none of those things happen and will not happen for the students everyone of the teachers support the mathematic and provides the curriculum for all the students and work for the students during long after School Without those 3 people well be hurting our kids clapping. hello, i teacher art at the Martin Luther king this means i have the prestige of working with the beautiful children we present the facts that is important really important to remember the reason were standing here for our students and mid year suspension a down with the academic performance of entire school so to speak for africanamerican students this speaks to the Overall Community manageable has begun to the honorable role leads to stronger academic performance and most notably the africanamerican how the perform the groups for acceleration in benchmark and magnificent test assessments the designated Academic Council is responsible for all the quarter students testing and deadlines eliminations of this position will affect the entire student body and emotional and including a decrease in services for students through sfusd and hopefully by attending the high school of their choose i enter my 13 semester every month my heart gross fuller we want to see how Martin Luther king has changed 2 1 2 years the responses have been candid that as a changed to much so much for paste and people are calmer our school sided changing and growing like my living and breathing thing resource we need to you thrive flowering what only happen when a plant is rooted just getting by is not enough we want to see our students bloom clapping. good evening my name is e liquidity an eight grade special Education Teacher and here to reiterate how for the positions are and the gapes the students made the eight has the great growth our africanamerican students outperformed the benchmark in magnificent and test assessments our school as a whole made growth on the magnificent assessments scoring above the average and each the 3 positions eliminated contributed to the growth due to increased counseling support rather than students been referred out the adults are coming in to provide the support the planning that helps the teachers ta to theyve been planning pesticide for the talk time in the classroom that is increasing the engagement and more importantly with the extra math for 0 more personalized destruction the classroom is calmer and we see this is in the assessment eight grade we ask phenomenon on behalf of the students those positions not be eliminated it is like 8 30 but if you look around a lot of people in the room we care about this. clapping. hi my name is jennifer i teacher eight grade english and math and teacher and head of the department at Martin Luther king ive witnessed how much our instructional farther improves the quality of instruction and the experience at the Martin Luther king when i first arrived at Martin Luther king i was overwhelmed by the challenges of classroom management helped to coach me and improve my techniques in addition to individual coaching the Martin Luther king Instructional Leadership Team to having help the school wide vision where to design the pd to help the teacher capacity to address instructional challenges there are structural in helping to drive the process of had you Amenities Department every week, we motto plan the departments meeting this work has helped the department become more vertically aligned so the students build theyre reading and writing improvements they led to real growth in the categories as a classroom teacher i have lots of ideas how to improve the instruction, however, the arraignment after preps i dont have the capacity to engage in long term thinking if we lose the earth instruction will suffer the students will suffer please reconsider cutting this valuable position. clapping. im of grade special educator and deeply concerned about owl 3 cuts to the school ill tell a specific story about our earth a little bit did compensation the majority of 6 grade team as teaching were new but in the last two years our students have started to out perform the district in a variety of areas especially in writing this process will not have been possible without our artery over the last two years the artery has worked to coach the e l a to help build that capacity and to rehabilitate open student progress for the specific goals you can see a clear through line in the impact of the artery work honorable students for example, last week our students scores came in Martin Luther king outperformed the district with english language learners and africanamerican students latino students and chineseamerican and almost all of the lovingly separate indicators the support of teachers has enabled us to show the district what theyre capable of as writers and i thinkers those core values emphasis the students needs first and standing with those most vulnerable at the community dont take away the earth and the other teachers thank you. clapping. i know were not supposed to comment the Board Members like the blue shirts as well and were willing to pay for them. See you tomorrow night. Im okay torment wednesday at the 5 30 had you im a parent of two students in the Merchant Program at the alvarado and the e lack executive board and this is my first board of education meeting not my last ive been here not only on behalf of el dorado but were the immersion programs some around for 20 years im here to request that the educational materials instructional perils materials be translated in the language of instruction one example is the district mathematic that was introduced last year or two years ago that replaces the maebltd when i compare the materials provided to the teachers with that of the spanish immersion materials didnt compare the quality is my third graders found mistakes that generate different answers depending on your interpreted one way or the other and teachers the materials that teachers manuals should be in spanish not an handout or overhead go to a website to download in spanish id like the teachers to teach the kids but having to get the materials in the General Program for spanish again not only on behalf of the spanish the same is true for chinese and other languages i want to ask the materials be introduced for the district be available for the students and look at what has been introduced and see if you can make amendments to make teachers lives a little bit easier so we can focus on the children thank you clapping. sorry i turned that off is i came here to talk about speaking that reflects the trust in the leadership last week, a person can into campus and assaulted a student i was at the school in the afternoon with the lock down happened and due to fighting on are no more the School Grounds a letter was sent home to parents and that parents received and the actual feptsz were not released we were told that a minor incident happened one of my friends texted me on monday so request ask if my daughter was okay. And a link that was published i and other parents found out what occurred we want to see our children are safe were told not what a happened what happens and school stays at school this is an emergency room and all the parents wants to know what happens at schools thanks. clapping. thank you this now end the Public Comment session of tonight meeting were now going back to section b discussion and vote on consent calendar resolution severed for separate consideration, there is none tonight. And section e superintendant proposals or action today 4 items the first one is one 71 sb one the authorization to grant that or deny any alternatives to deny the leadership for high schools that was there is a motion that has been seconded on january 24, 2017, Committee Report have been given at previous meeting another meeting a couple of weeks ago to assess the reauthorization 0 approval and now call an superintendant lee. Yes. Thank you president walton so tonight mike davis is on belief to a loss in his family so we have a standin and present the latest information about the information from the petitioner or the renewal permeation Mission High School and. Good evening, commissioners Mission High School has been chartered by sfusd since 1996 we renewed the charter in 2007 and 2011 this is the fourth charter petition rule when considering a petition the district evaluates the livelihood of future success and when necessary the future plans for improvement in the areas of academics finances and operations increases in people chouchlts is the most important factor for the charter rule and 3 criterias to quality for a charter petition satisfaction of one of the criteria is a district to renew the charter the district continues to recommend that we that they met one of the 3 criteria the academic performances of Charter Schools is equal to the city halls side students will have attended for example, during the 20162017 school year the assessment students performed similarly to oconnell and marshall excuse me. During the 20162017 year on the math students excuse me commissioners students performed similar to mission and better than june jordan for enlistment in terms of overall growth it was the only school that was comparable to the Public Schools with a percentage increase 20 percent increase other schools dropped in the percentage of students studying the standards the cohort congratulation increased from 772009 are 2010 to 20142015 year the democrat graphically four graduation was 84 percent in 20142015 on february 16th the Curriculum Program committee released that the Leadership High Schools met the criteria for renewable but on march 7 the commissioners raised similar concerns based on the 11 grade assessment zero percent of academic disadvantaged students measured the standards in math 4 percent of the students met or exceeded the standards and the overall population met or exceeded the standards in math of note they enrolled twohundred hundred blues in the 20142015 and of these 5 is were 11 graders pursuant to the leadership the high school was asked to resubmit their rules by march 155 to include the result for africanamerican students to include the planning and goal setting for specific challenge enrolls economic disadvantaged latino and africanamericans commitment to submit quarterly academic progress reports of the 3 groups to the district Leadership High School revised positions include a report of africanamerican student achievement there were 9 africanamerican students that took the test in 2016 california state law finds this low of a number is not significant one of 9 students met the standards 4 of 9 neither here nor there met and 4 of 9 not met the standard many in a achievement in math including math will p lc data driven practices and individualized students and instruction and goals and support before and after school and the use of model and hire an additional math teacher and continuing to offer the barriers and plan engross tatter for each years and identified the Staff Support and implementation of the plan for each of the 5 years commitment to report to the faculty data 3 times unanimously to the district the report and dates are aligned when the effective goals are published so based on a review of the information that has been submitted the district is were recommending that we grant the petition to Leadership High School charter thank you thank you. We do have Public Comment. Here on this item this evening calling names . I just want to make a brief statement before Public Comment i want to apologize for the young people that came spoke a couple of weeks ago i had a chance to visit the school and sit down with a round table about 7 students and talked for about an hour i dont change my stance but i never want our students and young people to leave here feeling like theyre not heard so again, i want to apologize to the young people important sometimes getting in between with adult issues and concerns sometimes, it can feel like the the frustration is addressed towards you not the case so thank you for coming out tonight and coming out and voicing our opinion for your school. Good evening mr. Balthazar superintendent and commissioners im beth i currently service as be leadership principal and started in 2001 as a biology teacher and a principal for the past 5 years tonight youll vote on our charter from private and Public Middle School for many neighborhoods our scholars gone to careers but more importantly kind people with an issue for social justice you asked us for more data the lower thresholds provides less visibility is it is important to serve them even if we question specifically the cats on the africanamerican students that have been historically underserved in the United States system we have not surprised because of small samples but none the students are represented were concerned about the significance made there we celebrate the work of sloorldz and tuft trust that has a strong picture and allows us for the work as educators and create a strong action plan our student body is 77 percent latino and 40 percent africanamerican in a city that is 50 percent latino youve received our math Improvement Plan and feedback day to day we can argue our school teaches more than what is learned we say it reflects a status it is important we show growth in achievement and rehabilitate that is our work that creates the strong scholars this of all the Charter School invited the leadership didnt ask us four a review we have a hive 100 percent ad g Completion Rate from one percent lowest percentage actually, i thank you for asking the hard questions and look forward to your support. yeah . Good evening board im here as a parent to i was an educator at Leadership High School for 20 years and head find Math Department so i know what is it is to serve all the students that were once there i want to acknowledge the fact in this audience you have former educators from leadership you have former students and now in college if leadership and my sons are scholars that graduated if leadership weve been serving students in bayview and Mission Students that were outside San Francisco as an alternative to a larger high school where students can feel like theyre in a family environment this is the support i received as a single parent and from the bayview and trying to serve my only community when i saw my so that walk across the stamp and seen high sons on campus and as i watch my sons continue to grow in their education you know that was that village that did that. clapping. so in the process of going through considering shutting down our school i know that ive contacted a lifetime in my own sons lives to what the school a all about i think that we are continuing to do our Due Diligence to the city by serving a population of students who many tend to overlook that are true scholars im proud of the work theyve done and the staff and proud of students and proud of you our families and ask you to continue to allow us do what were doing i dont work there but part of the community that is what we do in leadership clapping. good evening superintendant lee and mr. Trump. Board of education and everyone in delineation im hudson a sophomore and gone to leadership since my freshmen year and one of the best decisions of my lift i went to Herbert Hoover he came to leadership g i dont know anything about leadership into in my freshmen year but before politically to all the schools would have been my top choice none came to leadership from hover i gained a family in leadership thats made me the best person this family helped me to complete over waterfall hours of the Community Service and frenchie was named to the Baseball Team my leadership family has taught me friendship and Critical Thinking and social responsibility preebs and the power of families all those things are beyond a test score he platoon to be part of congratulating class of 2019 thank you for listening phil grirthd. clapping. my name is michael fox as you can see why im proud of leadership i helped to foster the growth of my son and following mr. Mohammed i know a story that hudson tome he was a young student and struggled throughout the math and x secondly, at leadership he said that mr. Mohammed is a very good teacher in math colleagues, any questions or comments . When parents are struggling with the uneasy of the process even more so by the delay and having been it there with hudson and struggling with the choices that is difficult being worked out a parent not knowing where your kid will be going to school i was hastened he has a choice in a small communitybased school focused on an intent correctly preparatory curriculum for all students to develop the leaders of tomorrow i went looking for the district vision and students will be expected to be in the community and trained leaders throughout their curriculum requiring the empathy and problem solving and project planning and taking initiative and you want that in 2025 it is here in the leadership. clapping. i strongly urge you to approve the petition for the hudson to continue the mission he embarked on last year and other students throughout the district have the choice to come to have a similar experience in San Francisco thank you for your time and consideration. clapping. all right. Good evening my name is gilbert herpes an alumni from 07 thats fine yeah, he got to say right off the bat i want to be honest im really nervous and oat people know i dont get nervous my heart is pumping this is important but about to tell you that is important so if you can appreciate that and in my nervousness ill continue you have the power to shut down an energy, of course, that has carried so many people like me through the threshold of being worked out the first in the family to go to college im an sfusd product of bryant Elementary School for potrero high school yeah. It was theres not a lot of young how to put if bubble gum in the boxes and that is not a place that is conflicting love for education now im an educator and how did i become love education how did i come to love it i didnt have those necessarily those resources so i want to say that, yes, we come in a place weve talked about the rainbows and it is ugly when you go to a place there is a lot of love and the teachers are showing you things are more important than grades to praise the social services understand that not everybody is geting a fair take on education so ill end and say this is the last thing i want went to uc davis i was sure what the informed and culture looked like but i know that i was that was instilled i can make an impact didnt matter i can make an impact and students from a fireman i run thats all i want to do make an impact whenever i go. clapping. my name is naomi a transfer student i transferred at the beginning of in my junior year and currently a captain a member of the lgbtq content and an advocate for myself and my school i a lot of leadership i thought i wouldnt say that about school it makes sense me to know that i was a part of the junior class of 2016 that didnt reach that standard and pains me to know that basically we dont matter and leadership has taught me that i matter because it doesnt matter who you are or what youre good at youre a person and i dont want to get into a super motivational speak but point out a couple of teachers i took math with my teacher ms. Mohammed and one of the best teachers in my entire School Career i had another teacher i loved teeth taught me science and because i never thought an africanamerican roll model as a Science Teacher and math teacher so i know that Leadership High School has helped me and changed me i have a little brother a sfosh and that the school has changed people we want to continue that thank you clapping. good evening members of the board im kyle im a proud amp new in 2008, as evident here to ask you grant the petition for leadership charter i was born and raised and homeless in this city of San Francisco and i went to leadership and it changed my life since this living here gone away from San Francisco for over 10 years and fortunate to attend went to uc davis and took in my brothers and sisters and foster care in San Francisco county and now been successful enough and survived and moved to San Francisco serve for a Nonprofit Organization that works around security. clapping. none that that would be possible without 0 what i got at leadership what i got at leadership were the nouch to become a man the nurturing to become an adult you horde about the foundational tenants and leadership personal responsible and social responsibility and communication and Critical Thinking you dont learn that anywhere i hope the students are learning that i can tell you i learned that and i know the students in leadership are leaning that and keeping the leadership open photographer you should drive for you need the leadership their producing out in society so, please please, please take this seriously and keep leadership open thank you. clapping. we have no more Public Comment on this item colleagues commissioner cook. Yes. This is a contract with charter im going to to recuse mitchel so thank you for that reminder ms. Pollock. Commissioner murase. Thank you for the folks coming out and sharing your input in the plan i really appreciated the premedical action plan on page 65 b q im glad to see some specific goals laid in terms of particular academics achievement i dont want that to be something we check necessary and 5 years from now id like to request that leadership come back to curriculum in a year and let us know how it is going and let us know how the progress plan is i dont think we can wait until the next chapter to renew that im sorry commissioner norton. Thank you for everyone coming out tonight i appreciate the pages the additions to the affiliation petition and appreciated the comments on the data and take a point how it is completely a valid way of j a school appreciate the staff rising the recommendation and supporting this petition. Ms. Mendozamcdonnell. Thank you i too appreciate the information that we requested i think that is and we know that is really hard to come back tonight but important for us to get a better understanding particularly for the students we are deeply concerned throughout the entire district so the information was very helpful and gave me a Second Chance to review the information that you provided to us previously and then ive been pleased with the direction that the leadership is going in and the areas in particular around your congratulations rates what its doing and he too will be supporting the charter this evening and i agree with commissioner murase we have concerns especially so foe number of africanamerican students in particular that are being worked out tested and need to get a better evaluation how theyre doing 0 throughout the years will be good to have a check in i dont know what how that will work and what we would like to see that so if there is a monitoring mechanism that allows us to see where we are midway or before that i want that in place going forward. Thank you commissioner sanchez. Thank you president walton well, thank you for the coming out again, the leadership im not pro Charter School but pro hostility this is one the renewable in 2007 im prepared to vote that way toebtd i had the pleasure of visiting the School Last Week i think the district does an amazing job in rebuilding the school that has fallen apart during the earthquake. clapping. i hope all the schools look and feel as wonderful as leadership highway thank you all aga again. Thank you there was a lot in general about the process that is hard for everyone who is hard forever the school communicated and hard for the board and hard for the district much of this approval process is exposes by state law and the degree to which both i think the focus on test scores and the way that felt strange for you and in some ways and i think the ladies comment made you feel like you dont matter and thank you for sharing that i think that is often how the test scores makes the students feel and the district we not to move away from a focus on thinking about test scores so much and just as a general point even though we have the responsibility to look at the test scores because even if state law we dont want to get to a point were communicating to you thats what we care about for students in this city whenever they live not it doesnt matter who you, you are a person and appreciate in particular, the degree to which leadership has shown results in areas i was looking at the percentage that is in the eligibility requirements you know almost closure to 100 percent we want to be with all our students we have to give you some recognition there that that is where we want to go i think that going to my first point there is so much that is stranger about the ancestry thing and a lot of will we dont like we found problematic thats what youre hearing we were expressing concern not on the students or families one of the foe times we get to have the conversation we say what are you doing youre serving the students were elected to representative the families and are to have to make sure you matter in the schools youre in and getting supportthorax we thats why why we how to improve the conversation and learn from each other more this is this sort of thing didnt happen and again, some of it is related to what you the process has a lot of flaws and problems with the district interacting with the charters ill in support of charter and i appreciate what you all brought forward in terms of the concrete measurable action plan and above all thank to the students and the families and the staff for who were here this evening and again as a chair the Crime Committee i know that having someway to have the conversation so thank you for that. clapping. i want to say a few things you know one im probably the last person one the last people up here our schools indirectly because of test scores in fact, we focus on the whole child and the whole child is important for social and environmental the challenges but the transparency is important and going back to a couple of weeks ago that is important to get all the information what is going on in all the schools one we have an achievement gap in the district we know our latino students or black students are children with special needs their needs are more supportive and in certain areas and academic settings to make sure we have the information to see what is going on and with the leadership for all the schools i dont see any reason one the things that is problematic youve heard mr. Haney talk about the process it is a weird process how this works one the things i dont like to hear is the state said we only have to do this but the state said that is something to leave puts us in a bad position with those kicks off conversation our goals to make sure that all students in San Francisco are successful and families are food thats my focus we get support from the state i understand the state has Different Things they want to focus on our job to help the students in the district we want to communitybased above and beyond because of the gaps we have to address one of the things i read the focus youll institute to make sure the students are successful and definitely appreciate that but also want to say that theres a lot of reasons in here you list and although understandable we have at the push to make sure we deliver regardless of what reasons exist because our students deserve it and families i want to make sure that were mindful of that and commissioner murase and commissioner mendozamcdonnell and commissioner president haney i think that is brt p and not just seeing the educators and principals during the session on in conversation about the position ive been to the school more than once to visit i have no problem with coming out to visit but make sure not at a time a need for something that, you know, that the school wants to make sure we are doing this more often with the conversation this is all of our students and critical particularlyly critical of the charter system that that are competitive by the way things are set up so compete formal students if we dont combine and use the initiative practices the straight system will not be sustainable in the future so i want to be clear why i have the issues with Charter Schools not about leadership per say but the Bigger Picture and system with that said, any other comments will im sorry two things ms. Eng. Thanks everyone for coming out and sharing our stories i know a couple of you were nervous but sharing our personal stories shows our condominium to leadership and have faith in the schools so as students we appreciate that and want to say we support you as well. Yeah. I really appreciate the board and apologizing to the students i think something i want to hostility highlight goals overtime forgets how to connect with students and treat them like students and get catch up with the adults it is important to address that regardless if the cheater or not a San Francisco student that regardless if we like it or not it is important to address for the students and people and even the staff regardless are part of this or not it is important for the adults and yourselves not only the board and outside and behind the scenes how theyre addressing the students because we keep on going where the students focus but we really are going to be be doing that for the students and talking with them and i second that why you said president walton on documenting conversation is essential we have to know the schools not not just the good things are happen and continue with the process to try to call what it is about and how students feel and you guys are a small school of three hundred students or less i dont know the population for a small school to show and speak and i think it is hypocritical to be dell our students with the school that, of course, didnt matter but asking the students youre part of schools your scores are first and i agree that is a hard with it is hard to go with the process of state in giving us and making us do but though to change it is a question how will we make our Current System better for the students and understand liquor there is a big concept between Charter Schools taking away from Public Schools but as a leadership i think that is not dividing our students by racial or income or nothing like this but we need to put them together and talking about in equity and this is only i think i really like people talk about leadership you know from all across the high schools they want them to high schools it is important, of course, were not i think we have to think b more about the challenges but how to address the challenges and give people more like humans then were not meeting our own standards and yeah. I just as a student delegate im in support of leadership two. clapping. with that, said looks like were ready for a roll call vote ms. Casco. Is this correct. Can i get a motion. We dont need a motion but clarity. Yes. Thank you ms. Eng ms. Zaragoza mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Sanchez and mr. Walton thats 6 is. clapping. section item two in superintendents proposal one 72 sp one adoption of board policy 3541. 2 business and structural operation transportation for students with disabilities moved in 2017 and Committee Reports and superintendant lee would you like to introduce bring someone up to introduce the recommendation. For this item and the next item Commissioners Danielle our General Council will be presenting the item. So commissioners the recommended action is the board adopts the policy such transportation for students with people with disabilities and from the background this is to bring the ointment with best practices and have the requirement of the cell bus a controversy of students with disabilities no speakers my comments seeing none, off ms. Mendozamcdonnell. I had a quick question this is specifically to for our students with special needs our special ed program one of the things that came up in previous conversations i want to explore and not lose is the idea we have buses that take our students from point a to point b and oftentimes the student has a sibling or other students that live in the community that can truly get to school through this means as well and ive gotten mixed information about whether or not this is doable so we oftentimes have a bus that has great 3 students. I know for example, Jordan High School our counter are old teachers this is how the schools are effected because in a way like you think about the school has been since started so thats i dont know because it depends on how how you define the kourldz counselors as of like the school title and we had a concern of number 6 about hud but we saw that the clarification yeah. So one piece ill sociofor clarification where the family problems that is important piece of the entire policy but specifically number it youre looking at the adult 0 involvement for a direct connection for students perform if an adult is speaking about a personal problem the policy will not affect that but the policy is really aimed at it behavior by adults who are looking to offend with students they attend to speak out permanent information about the students they can use that for their own purposes from the student brought speaking to them related to the performance that policy will not related to that. Any other questions or comments. Seeing none, roll call vote please ms. Casco and ms. Eng ms. Zaragoza mr. Cook mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Sanchez thank you mr. Walton 7 is. Thank you section e item four approval of a Public Education and Enrichment Fund Expenditure Fund for 20172018. Moved and seconded heard at regular Board Meeting superintendant lee at the thank you president walton i appreciate the board for the discussion last to us on march 14 as well as the members of peace cca for tare work and recommendations through the written report so staff has been refusing the discussion and the peace cca recommendation some adjustments to the spending plan that is proposed for next year to reflect some of the discussion and grad to see that our cochair of the peace cca are here and at the staff tackle and ms. Fleming im going to turn it over to you to summarize some of the changes before you and your team start i want to is a good night to the hard working delegates thank you. Good evening shelly shall i read into the record Vice President okay with our permission ill skip down to where therefore, be it resolved clauses okay one 73 approval of a public Enrichment Fund expenditure for school year 20172018 whereas the voters of San Francisco passed the Charter Amendment in 2004 to establish the Public Education Enrichment Fund and therefore, be it resolved that the board of education and the San Francisco Unified School District commends the hard working and thoughtful recommendations from the Advisory Committee the Arts Steering Committee and library and the physical education Steering Committee and all the staff to contributed it the success and the therefore, be it resolved the San Francisco Unified School District approves a Public Education Enrichment Fund spending plan for the 20172018 school year after examining the recommendations from staff and the communities Advisory Committee on peace end be it therefore resolved this spending plan maybe amended during the Budget Development based on the availability of state funding and or subsequent allocation by the city and county of San Francisco the superintendent is requested to for the board of education and the city and county of San Francisco Mayors Office that such amendments may occur. So commissioners since we last met we have reviewed and revised the proposed budget on the second reading lets take a moment and review the document before you and for those of you watching at home those documents are posted on two web pages for the district one on the peace documents page you can find going to sfusd. Com ed u for voter initiate and scroll down to peace and on the website you can find the website by going to counsels and committees on the lefthand side and selecting the peace cca as also commissioners those were emailed to you earlier this evening and available here in hardcopy in the foyer to review the documents so the 20172018 Public Education Enrichment Fund and expenditure and superintendent proposal the larger the document and this will have changes for second reading, however, to theyll not be called out in a way to ill recognize them and we have the documents cuddle the supporting materials document which weve been preparing this document for a number of years to help dive into the details of plastic bag to understand the changes from the Previous Year and the new investments and also any changes from different versions of budget so and third document is the board of Education Commission comments and questions. From the march 14 presentation so that staff information and responses in the document we listened to our questions and listened to our comments and took our time after last tuesday to work with the Program Leaders to compile the information that we hope will address our questions and concerns so i want to thank the peace staff at this time fewer Due Diligence and hard working and doctor chavez and maam, thank you pubically thank you for all your hard work and all the work in regards lets privet for changes for the second reading last week, we heard a number of feedback from the Board Members and the peace cca as in the memo youll find online and if you turn to page 7 of the supporting materials document youll see holiday in yellow all of the changes and proposed abrupt if last weeks version in the First Reading we have the budget overview and thats celebrate and other programs we did receive an estimate from the Controllers Office and we received an increase in revenue from the amount for the First Reading and the total amount is 490,000 that is allocated for the plan and the other half hour for the solution please the next step in the allocation is in june when we receive an update allocation and that allocation millennium it is reflects what is present in the Mayors Office of budget and another opportunity for that an allocation between that time and the mayor as i understand the budget to point where the allocation may change so if we turn to page 8 of the supporting materials lets talk about the area the total of revenue increase is 200 and 45,000 if we divided that for the slam program per the current percentage that they have thought lamb portion so looking at the funding levels we did in general was we allocated where necessary dollars to absorb costs associated with columns and benefit increases beyond the revenue allocations so for example, for fiscal education of 4,000 plus we allocate 16 thousand 4 hundred 83 towards the costs and the remainder is supplies and equipment for athletics the increase is 28 thousand plus for the libraries the increase is 72 thousand 55 thousand plus is budgeted to absorb the second column and the remainder for supplies and materials and to meet the 90 thousand plus column increases so what were left with an updated funded balance plan that is projected at 2 housing unit 995 million and of that we have one and 84,000 dedicated to absorb the salaries or the second column benefit costs movpg to other general uses there is where we see changes as you can see the overall in the budget overall for the general uses and added a column for 20172018 review increases for second reading and so we did adjustment to a number of programs we heard and considered the feedback from cca and the board of education members and as a result we have shifted some costs that were in p for First Reading to be supported moving forward in the general fund and some of the costs are associated with assessments were shifting the one point from peace into general fund as well as the cost for the part of the database for the program noted were not making reductions but shifting the Funding Amounts or funding from peace to general fund we shifted in response to peace cca recommendations the board confesses questions shifted two fte clerks from the budget into general Fund Supported moving forward there so those two changes were made to align with cca recommendations i believe the peace cca is in support of those program and not indicative of a nonsupportive but an understanding of where the peace cca feels the funding should be reside so were concerning this is a alignment for the budget we are increasing the number of nurses for the general fund and not seeing a net increase but seeing a realignment and an additional Funding Amount to be considered 200 and 45 thousands of that we are shifting additional sf for wellness nurses there is increases inform both the programs for existing nurses or social workers that currently reside in the general fund we are also prototyping that we utilize of that revenue increase 15 thousand plus and dedicate that to the africanamerican leadership achievement leadership to offset or to prevent a reduction of services as a result of general Fund Reduction so that concludes the changes and at this point im going to turn it over to commissioners for questions or comments thank you. Thank you, ms. Fleming no speaker cards any Public Comment on this item. Changes in the fee legislation. Request changes seeing none, commissioners nothing so i have one thing that i do want to state in terms of oh, in jest in jest so i know that well shift some of the changes were making will go to the general fund i support all the shifts and changes but what im interested in what attach trade offs will happen in the general fund im hearing about counselors the move from mentally illness from budget cuts to middle school ill support in any way but clear about what ill not support when i see the other budget if i continue to hear about those conditioner cuts it ive been proposed i want to state that commissioner haney did you have something. Yeah. I did happened to quickly so when i look at the budget overview i see the second changes there is really that increases about 5 hundred and 6 is thousands in the Wellness Center line item what exactly is included in that. 5. 4 that fte nurses. Nurses that are shifted in the general fund a couple of quick things around it so one is like everyone else likes getting the money find out hearing about more money in the years ive been involved in the process we sort of seem to find it around this time and we find additional money when we are asking for other things to happen it is a cushion or maybe a coassigns or a calendar i did some things on the citywide calendar between this, week and last week it happens and better when is more money used to be more money but someone can explain that now seems to be is built in part of the process. Thank you for the question so it is a part of circle so in the legislation for perceive we are as a district to submit an expenditure plan in response to the amount that is listed in the citys joint budget report that is generally issued in early march what we do we contract contact the Controllers Office once the report is issued around that time and get a confirm mansion of final estimate not the final estimate but the final figure in that report so it is a timing issue if you recall before t before the perceive. This is from the cosponsors in december it is part of their process and receive from 2010 and 2011 is an estimate in the spring and issued a revised budget. Got it so basically this exact timing this is when this happens and we can get for money as a result it is a good thing okay. Great well ill like to say i appreciate youve heard our comments because of the take and the recommendations you put forward we are getting closer to a point we feel like this is focused on the intended purpose and should be something in the general fund i know that all of us would like to under score the need to increase the support for indoors and social workers and nurses are part of the cca recommendation i appreciate the shift and will hope whether there is a net increase over time i look at some of the data there and i think the percentage of Elementary Schools that have a nurse in particular is one area we really want to see an increase i know that collective responsibility we have in addition to you know coming out in peace so thank you you commissioner murase i really want to thank staff for the quick turn around on the concerns we based on the last discussion and thank staff for the filipino coordinator i got a response raw and be in terms of of the pilot id like to hear more and hopefully that guess agendized as a committee of the whole or in the curriculum do hear how the different schools are planning to implement the middle school but again want to express thank you, ms. Fleming and agree with the hard work of the cca thank you. Commissioner Vice President mendosamcdonnell. Thank you. Im looking forward to this budget as well as well and every time we go through the process i think it is just important to acknowledge our voters in the 69 million in addition funding for Public Schools and this you know doesnt include the actual includes the, you know, our preschool for all and everything were doing for our 3 and 4 years old this is remarkable you know that a tremendous amount of work putting this together and thoughtful about the needs that we have and how we can separate this out from the needs from the general budget and so i want to thank you and want to again, just extend our thanks to the voters four louse us to have these really special funds in our schools that benefit our young people and families and teachers and parents and staff thank you commissioner cook. I want to echo that thanks and acknowledge with commissioner murase the turn around and how responsive to moving things out so thank you also want to acknowledge the peace cca those recommendations in general were sort of like similar and i think this is the remarkable relationship and as you move forward and as figure out things the board should be considering this is a positive step forward and landmarked to the represents in the future. Commissioner. Thank you, commissioners for all those comments i want to say two quick things definitely so pleased we were able to make another meaningfully step in responding to the feedback from the peace cca and the commissioners in the revised setting plan were listening and we are do intend to move in that direction to especially respond to some of the recommendations that have been made over the loose couple of years the other thing we certainly appreciate the ms. Fleming deserves to be singled out for praise and doctor Caesar Chavezs the key staff for peace and we also should thank a group that has not been acknowledged tonight but were talked about last week and all the staff implementers we see a robust group of district staff still on hand dont be offended if the vote youre about to take many elements of key programs that are a reached to perceive and give the turn arouthe turn arou you see the activities that are reached to thrhrough peef. Thank you for the turn around i have a question about the process or remind me are there check ins during the year where peef is headed for funding for example, 3 times a year going to curriculum or the committee of the whole as a check in. The usual next step is a possible june easement if there is a revenue increase, however, not a schedule for peef to be agenda listed other than the annual approval of the coming years planned. Like to propose doing that for the future years because were given a lot of information and coming into the document given to us recently and hard to look through everything and make a quick decision in the future if we can have check ins and think about Elementary Schools and testing the amount of testing in the schools so those are the things we can impact and granted we have people appointed to the peef cca and asked to find a new input so not so yucky like to have the regular check in to be on record what we want to see were kind of on record now for negotiation but like to have in touch with you guys and then last week to think about mlk we had people talk about the fact that commissioner murase was upset there are so many teachers at night have to work early in the morning thats how important i had the prestige privilege of visiting last week, i want to know the budget for the schools i cant see it for the redesign for next year. Ms. Fleming. The question. Were setting aside in the peef budget for the middle schools. You know if youre having a hard time we are having a hard time finding it. If we can be creative with the funding and cut essentially well be doing that on our own with funding and find i guess i think that is a shame that the school that is now looks like no minds are punished for success warrior pulling away to that success and can tell you as someone many has been there that school as improved because of diligent work and over time serving without changes in the population that is crucial so i would like to think creatively if we dont necessarily have to dots design maybe get some of the funds on the peef if you cannot find a seat, we have an overflow room, room 416. For those positions. So commissioner sanchez in response to our request we do have 200 and 25,000 budgeted in the Digital Learning budget towards the middle School Redesign that money will be allocated. A trio and support thought he teachers proposal development. Ill do them the favor of asking them for next year. Thank you conveyance well make sure we workout with ms. Mendozamcdonnell meet a couple of times a week. Commissioner norton. Two things one that on that point give great and wonderful to have a budget on the peef budget ill point out in recent years a cow in between the First Reading thought and the second reading and that and this also, we just got the peace allocations because of the spring break and the shorts month it is a lot of information im not sure i think a more normal subsequence ever events for a First Reading and 10 second reading but i think also just checking in once again and wanted to second the comment about mc i was out there this fall he was so impressed with the staff has dotheyre serving the kids commissioner sanchez and the calm and feels good out there so you know it is judge to wrenching to see the teachers come and talk about you know how it feels their been successful in having the reports taken away i dont know if the peef budget is the right place im not suggesting solutions but really, really frustrating to me to hear how upset they are and knowing the change they have out there. Thank you no more comments roll call vote please ms. Casco and mr. Cook mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Sanchez mr. Walton 6 is. Thank you ms. Fleming. I. Thank you cochairs for being worked out here. 7 is. Thank you thanks for the peef cca and staff thank you very much section g introduction of proposals one item item one 73 dash sp one approve the board policy grades evaluation of students chauvinism and refer to the proposal to the rules committee can i have a motion and a second . Thank you section 8 Standing Committee any report from budget. I think see the next Budget Committee is 0 april of at 6 00 p. M. Any report from rules. Next meeting is april of. Any report from Ad Hoc Committee for student assignments our next meeting not for a couple of months. A report from the Curriculum Committee our next meeting is on april 6th. Building, grounds, and services committee. Our next meeting is april 24th and the all existing personal and Affordability Committee is this thursday as 6 oclock in the board room any appointments of delegates to manipulating by the board any other reports by the board commissioner murase. Yes. I have a nuke of announcements there is a call for proposal for California School board for workshops and tabletops i hope my colleagues will speak about ways to share the talent and accomplishment in the district in City Attorney in december and hesitant to participate in the Abraham Lincoln assembly that celebrating the 26 year really amazing work by the students and the whole School Community wanted to congratulate James Lick Middle School for their tremendous staging of just in case tails of age immigrant life they really did a fabulous job with stories from about immigrants families and case in particular done a heroic job with the students i went to the office of complaints budget Council Meeting on march 16 and said to thank the members of the aa pac their dedicated work i especially enjoyed the workshop for students to focus on test taking and superintendent allen gave a great overview of daylight and principal of mlk shared some of the strategies for how to motivate students to tackle the f pac and march 20th perhaps going to lafayette Elementary School and read to first graders ms. Casco benjamin that is one of my daughters favorite teachers congratulations to the lafayette program and enjoyed the youth submit construction submit great energy and we heard early mlk is having their steam night to showcase their students work it is from 5 30 to sfoufks at gerardo street hopefully going to that and on may 11th the school board a hosting and bayview music and arts showcase celebration of students performances and art be exhibits if malcolm x and hopefully, people will pencil that in the 116 30 as willie l. Brown middle school thank you commissioner murase and commissioner Vice President mendosamcdonnell. All right. Thank you i had a couple of announcements as well so this pianist saturday we hosted the mayors youth job fair resource fair we had 5 hundred young people join over 70 employers and communitybased organizations for a really wonderful job fair i wanted to thank stephen and eric and ben detective for all the work they did for many of the youth out and hires on the spot from a neighborhood youth now and december and throughout the year thank you for all the employers that made that happen and the volunteers that were out this week were preps to were working with a history project out of new york going to be spending 8 thousand young people to see the play hamilton so four showing of hamilton all over the place 2000 young people at each performance in the morning session will include a short performance with some of the cast members by selected schools that will outlook precipitating and will happen in the morning and break for lunch and then the opportunity to see the entire play we are grateful for our sponsors for that and for gilman for theyre getting United States engaged and all the young people that get to see hamilton and thank you to the theatre for the opportunity as well i want to thank carol and the theatre for allowing two of our large groups of students to go see the play eclipses that will the libyan army excuse me the libyan wary saw it on sunday it was remarkable thats autism wasnt it crazy a powerful play im glad our young people got to see that a big congratulations for the Golden State Warriors and a wonderful part to represent the nba in china and going with timber wolf and a happen 83 birth to governor jerry brown we have a name school and a great supporter of school happy birthday governor jerry brown. Thank you commissioner peskin stole my thunder or thunder with eclipses and thank the hayes family another note about the play a history as a playwright how the female artists they gave out 12 sfusd students and also wanted to briefly not briefly but recognize commissioner murase and commissioner norton for that west portals and ms. Ms. Casco and hulk for bringing me along and showing me the ropes and every most of year i commend you are as inspiration to all the students across the district i fresht appreciate our example and recognize the middle schools that open the doors as a commission this is neither here nor there all the kru8 i was blown away what is happening and Martin Luther king milling grouping e growing up in the district one of the kings has been a place not the best reputation and very hostile for young people that is completely not what is happening here so kudos to all the hard working and blown away by herbert hover middle schools inspired by the work and look forward to visiting the rest of the schools ive not been able to check out yet. Commissioner sanchez. Just want to remind people tomorrow at the 4 oclock at city hall the Public Services committee chaired by supervisor ronen and the chairs with the supervisor sheehy and supervisor fewer theyre having a hearing on educator housing so ill be there but i think youll join us youll have a contingent there as well thank you. Thank you section i we have a in memoriam adjournment for tonight in memory of louis lovingly known and ray in the subject born in 1926 in no the son of aguilar of key west, florida ray was proud of being worked out is a grandson of cuba author and grandparent who carried the cuba flag for the war for existence he graduated from Lowell High School and received his dock transit from the university of San Francisco and lifetime teacher in thousands of latino and spanish and others students will attest to theyre learning and teaching he required the children to be taught in a language they understand and served others always and served the city on the San Francisco existence on the aging at the retirement from the district he and ms. Cruz founded the inc. And worked with the immigrant to have the Educational Needs a founding founder of chamber of commerce and active member of the Latino Democratic Club survived by his wife of 44 years and a former board of education and stepchildren and many other recipients the board of education extends the sincere condolences to the family and now section j the board will go into closed session discussion. We now resume the regular Board Meeting report of closed session action item from the regular meeting of the march 14 2017 and special meeting of march 14 in the matter of versus the sfusd by a vote of 7 is for the district to settle for the stipulated amount in the matter of h j versus sfusd a board vote gives for a stipulated amount and versus San Francisco Unified School District a vote by 7 is gives the board the authority to for a stipend enemy u amount and the authority to settle for the stipulated amount and the board by a vote of 7 is absent commissioner murase one not new principal and action from tonights closed session in the matter of two cases of anticipated litigation the board by a vote of 7 ids given the direction to General Council this meeting adjourned