Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 61416 20160616

Of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Want to welcome everyone that is joining us for anyone that wants to address the board of education fill out a speaker card in the hallway please submit it before the item is called to ms. Casco over here and also this the First Reading of the epic and according to the p3 thousand discussion w is allowed by First Reading the revised special education is on for adoption flashlight special order of business and available on the tackle at the entrance here in boards meeting room that is available for public on the room one 06555 franklin a approval of the minutes, there is none tonight. And president haney good evening who is listening to us ladies and gentlemen, our first lady month to month said it another Jackson University we know the shadows of past haves not completely disappeared tonight we want to commend unfortunately recognize the loss orlando, florida people died in the biggest mass shooting of historically in that community is a place of safety and celebration secondly, i want to express our con dialogues this tragically demonstrates our country to eliminate the shadows and an culture of safety and acceptance for all people with marginalized lgbt communities pr it is no mistake that the venue was selected for a specific purpose those attending that evening were of specific organization or orientation and of specific ethic group i want to say to the families if orlando we stand in solidarity with you over 25 years the San Francisco Unified School District has committed to transforming schools into inclusion not only our lgbt students but all students and students of color this act of hate and last loss of matt haney slelgz our commitment to continue our work to create a society that didnt acknowledge but celebrate all people but also the lgbt people of color we will continue through the educational efforts to bring life into those dark shadows id like to ask to you join me in a moment of silence for us the lives lost in orlando thank you very much interprets in the Treatment Industry is a powerful way for people to share experiences and film makers see this and pushing the boundary of our visual realty and, in fact, im proud to announce this past our mashld were given a gift of 2, 360 video cameras by facebook for the very first 360 challenge our students were given cuttingedge equipment and this week they traveled to one hacker in park were greeted before i the mayor and the founder and marshes team were the for the short fire system practicing their line distance thank you to the students for to figure out how to not only use the complicate equipment but seeing the films and congratulations to the students and even though the school year is coming to a close the students at willie l. Brown middle school are attending free the replenish academy willie brown will showcase is that you are african dr. Murase and how to make videos and cooking and there are many students signed up in will willie l. Brown middle school and a wonderful opportunities to continue theyre learning throughout the summer the students take fielded trips to the San Francisco zoo and learn engineering cooking and music skills the showcase will highlight what the students learned in the programs three weeks and the willie l. Brown middle school opened in the 20152016 in the bayview will offer students academies we want to congratulate congratulate the students and thank you for theirs enrichment learning throughout the summer months thank you very much president haney. Thank you superintendant carranza recognition of consumption, there is none tonight. And student delegate report dont believe there is one tonight theyre off to college thats good and item e Advisory Committee report a few the first one is a report from the Parents Advisory Council and a representative from there. Good evening superintendent and all the members of the board id like to say thank you for letting us be a part of this yearend report to the board of education decrews a parent of Betsey Carmichael have three children at betsey Carmichael Elementary School and im a member of the president of the school p t o i like to remind everyone to represent the parents voices to to the board of education discussion and implementation the report summarizes the pass during the 20152016 year and named the challenges and identifies projects well continue on working on, on the last page of our report there is a had a right that provides the apac specific goals the apac is in line with the shaped learning from what we hear in families across the city and apac members met with superintendant carranza to hear about the priorities and the apac supports those efforts this dialogue helped United States to focus our project families for the year this year, the apac carried out campaigns reaching over 6 hundred patents through our efforts for the parented input on two key district initiatives our children and Families Initiative and the local control and accountability to focus support and strengthen our priorities and in tenor bring perspectives to the folks apac members met with the individual staff to discuss the issues important to families lies like the Design Project for supportive engage and the t k through fifth grade and the transmission and Interpretation Services provide for families engagement across the district apac responded for input and participation for stakeholder groups working an issue that impact students outcomes such as the safe Plan Stakeholders group, the team of special ed and partners for the development of a post i p survey and the ad r design team and others to review the Art Education master plan apac contributed to the action as much as the apac was one of the core organizations in support of planning, coordination and outreach for the sfusd family empowerment in october the apac was an active member of the el cap and part of Engagement Committee and the apac helped to organize the data review effective in january, the apac is made up of volunteers appointed by the board of education and supported by apartment staff our organizational achievement include securing and renewing the funding for the senior fund and the overview lane past junior Fund Continuing the sponsoring our Community Initiatives and recruiting 7 new members and keeping the apac members. Good evening commissioner superintendant all georgia the cooperate for the Parents Advisory Council this is a brief summary of the work we did throughout the year and as mentioned a chart that provides specific achievement and measures we set out at the grinning of the year the work is not without its challenges and just highlighted a few of those as we continue to you know were fortunate to say a source for the over the last two years but, of course, continues to be a challenge to maintain the fiscal fund we have to continue to expand our funding base to make sure we have Financial Stability in the future also at the beginning of the year as mentioned one of the priorities was to advocate for the development of a district family wide engagement plan and we met with various staff district staff and Board Members to discuss this and despite the fact that was one of the Top Priorities apac members feel a sense with a lack of cohemorrhages and conformation across the departments and really see this is concern that theres a lack of indicators for families engagement across the board so that was one source of frustration and apac members felt we want to partner are the district staff to look at advocating for more completed el cap draft in a timing manner tonight is the First Reading and school a out and most of apac are not available and parents are less engaged we know one of the areas that continues to be a challenge but looking ahead opportunities for the challenges and working on solutions so were committed to partnering with our be commissioners and district leaders our other partners to work on the issues in the next year specifically supporting Family Engagement and looking at how we can build on existing structures to improve Home School Communication in particular and looking at other structures to build only improving the official is Family Engagement process and continue to work around the accountability and increasing and looking at hero systemic go approach of breaking and entering this together great input a few of the areas we continue to are looking forward to working on next year and we want to say thank you for you will all of you who met and discussed the issues with the district leader that made time to hear our concerns and bring the concerns across the district and share those. Thank you commissioner fewer. Wow. That looks like the apac had a busy year how involved you are so i have a question about your budget and the finance youre a large section an that sustained im wondering does any of your funding come from the general fund or all processed money. We have a contract with the district and so we thats to help support our funding around interpretation and meeting like the refresh times and childcare whether for a particular pack meeting or a larger stakeholders engagement. You know i know when i wrote the resolution to create a parent Advisory Council we have this idea that would, really independent of the district im seeing youre working in partnering with the district and helping us for example, with the el cap and gathering the community xhvengsz that is extensive im wondering i want to say this out loud to the colleagues, we should be founding that full fte for this position is it so time we talked that the pack has been in existence for how many years. Since 2003, 13 years. Weve not funded it for 13 years. No, not the provision. Seeing how the pack is assisting the district in the el cap and the Community Conversations perhaps it is time we funded the position ourselves and any entrepreneurial funding what about for the other recruitment things activity and types of training for example and maybe some of the parents to go through seminars or conference anyway i want to put that out there and seeing this is budget time and thank you. I i know the pack is 100 percent volunteer so thank you parents we appreciate that. clapping. commissioner norton. I want to particularly thank you. This year for the focus on special ed in the pack the pack has not focused as strongly on special education and i really appreciate that and want to call that out specifically thank you. I also want to thank you for your work even though there is a number of things that is important we followup we consistently hear this concern about the district wide Family Engagement plain i hope we can make process this is something you id like to take the opportunity bring you will you i up for this us should be an area of priorities we delve resources to and truly have a Strategic Plan around how we understand and measure the support of Family Engagement i want to say thank you ton id like to take the opportunity bringing that forward another thing i wanted to flag that question our el cap draft comes out and the timing is really important i hope we can have a conversation about what other district and possible to start the process earlier i agree to the extent we want to engage our families around el cap but the fact it school a out creates a barrier what we can do to make sure we address some of the concerns thank you for that and the presentation and hope you have a great summer. clapping. now id like to call a report if the cabinet Advisory Council a what we have a representative from the immigrant pack. Migrant pack. Thank you. speaking foreign language. shes a president of our pack speaking foreign language. our Regional Representative for sfusd. speaking foreign language. do you because of time do you want me to read it in english or have people read it in yeah. Okay through the work of cesar chavez and Migrant Workers in the late 60s they recognition the migrant families to overcome obstacles faced with poverty and disruptive educational experiences speaking foreign language. if folks in the room can try to keep as quiet as possible well appreciate that. An outreach integration of technology and education and related programs programs to facilitate in the secondary post secondary education or Employment Professional Development including mentoring for teachers and other program personnel. speaking foreign language. child is political for the any Grant Program if he or she meets the following criteria between 18 and 33 not graduate from high school as a migrant ashen worker or fisher and child or family move forward within the past 3 six months inform obtain temporary and seasonal employment in agricultural or fishing and moved from one Unified School District to another at the back is a question for the e pc one of the ways we find our students speaking foreign language. so this is provide for migrant educational students for parents workshops and enrollment and home based construction and Summary School and k through 8 and enrichment opportunities Summary School and monitoring academic progress and the services and mentoring academic Progress Education and Leadership Development, workshops on college and Career Readiness and Case Management is needed out of School Youth Services that are used between 14 and 22 years of age that have left school we Case Management links and link the community and educational folks speaking foreign language. Services Provided for migrant education schools and families and health and social services to insure health and wellbeing of migrant families personal development with Community Liaison and parents participation of services facilitate Advisory Committees and train for Leadership Development and parental life of their children identification and recruitment identification of any grants students through social services. speaking foreign language. the first our parents meeting we have 6 leadership parents meetings is a year where families come and have childcare for the children and the parents come and get enriched and learn about many tops the support group we started for mothers they come and share their experiences and their worries and our new team member shes a psychologist and graduated with her marketrate housing and taking care of this group of parents and its beautiful, beautiful to here them talk. speaking foreign language. and the first light we went to a school in la and it the a school where children are just thrown into this richness of their culture and learn a lot of the students speak a language and learn in spanish and english have 3 languages and it was an amazing experience and the other slide was College Trips where we take students 80 so they can see the possibilities of going to college. And get them excited. speaking foreign language. some the challenges and priorities difficulty with the training of puc staff with the enrollment questionnaire limit of direct services for 3 years of mandatory entitled part c and identifying the students synergy and the mandatory staff trainings on migrant questionnaire and additionally funding for Transitional Services and the identification of migrant students by migrant staff speaking foreign language. questions and comments thank you thank you for your time and attention were the migrants staff clapping. thank you so much for your presentation and hard work and commissioner norton and commissioner murase how many families did we serve with the families this year. 4 hundred and 50 students. Is that pretty much a about what it usually is the trend. No, what we started when i started 8 hundred students weve gone on to 4 hundred and losing one hundred students plus because of housing issues so a lot of the students are having to leave the city and our numbers are we dont know and it is difficult to find them because our families dont openly go oh, were Migrant Workers so to find them it is a real challenge we have the questionnaire we have for abc but babylon does an amazing job going to schools where principals open up the doors not all schools understand who we or let us come and do recruitment we need to do. That leads me to another question deputy superintendent what kind of training given to the principals to make sure that the students are impossible for this program gets the services they need. Part of what happens with the induction of administrators they net e get an opportunity to hear from the curriculum and structural that is part of it as well but that is a continuing process of making sure that people are aware of the services. What the purposes of the services are it also for us as a system requires us to be thoughtful about the amount of time that is asked of principals to obviously Migrant Services are paramount importance it provide a support system for students so part of short list of what all principals get and were refreshing every year. My last question so do we receive like a state funding or federal funding. It is federal we get. Does anyone know how much we got this year. You want to good evening commissioner our regular two fund that come in one for the regular school year and one for Summer School and get 200 and 55 thousand for a regular school that support of staff and other programs and summer is one and 30,000. Actually, i ielgs a approximately ill call up first before comments from the board calling names i apologize about that. Its a lot of yellow cards. Two minutes each. speaking foreign language. theyre not going to interpret i wanted them to go speaking foreign language. my name is dee age vascular quiz a concerned parents in the district we are very worried weve seen the standards what the new standards of our kids we are worried about the low Graduation Rates and we are asking for support support for things like the summer camps and the programs. speaking spanish. and we are asking for you to support our program like this easy assess for people with low income their opportunity to provide because i think the programs were also grateful for other people that are supporting this Summer Program for our kids. speaking spanish. for me this program is more. Personable growth of opportunities for me and my family and this is something i had not be able to get in my own count country. speaking spanish. clapping. high ive been a particular for the miGrant Program since 2003 theyve helped me with support of my kids one of them has a i e p and working with folks to get them through the translation through high school that is wonderful the acknowledge difference ive not be able to get any preschool or dir theyve provided that were happy with the miGrant Program we wish it will continue other people that can take advantage of that. clapping. speaking spanish. good evening. Im a migrants mother with 3 childrens in the Unified School District and i hear to speak about the fact that fireman has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. ireman has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. reman has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. eman has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. man has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. an has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. n has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. has for me and my family a great opportunity. speaking spanish. they good for us they provide extra support and my kids need academically and good they give us those you Summer Programs not easy are us to obtain. speaking spanish. and one outlet thing to thank them for the support they provide to us and to thank you for thank you for your time and your support. clapping. speaking spanish. thank you. I want to give a very cordially invitation for people to participate its excellent weve been here for seven years 3 this girls and since this program my kid goes to this Summer School in spanish and shes able to read completely and fluently in spanish. speaking spanish. and i they provide theyre good because they provide important worship and give us a lot of information and i would like for more families to join us thank you. clapping. speaking spanish. good afternoon. I want to talk about the impact this program has had in our lives for example, my daughter who is on her way to the university i think i can thank you for your support and, yes im very grateful was my kid is going to go to college. clapping. as my kid is going to go to college. clapping. s my kid is going to go to college. clapping. my kid is going to go to college. clapping. my kid is going to go to college. clapping. speaking spanish. they helped me us parents to support our children because they teach us how to support them so they can succeed so they provide help for both of us. speaking spanish. so it is a program that provides layers of support for everybody so provides support not only support not only for the children but also for the parents for everyone thank you. clapping. thank you. speaking spanish. good afternoon. Im like my colleagues here that he friends im also very grateful to this program we have been in this program i have 3 kids in the program for 3 years 6 years excuse me and have known diena for this time and i dont have words enough words to thank you for the support theyve provided for us. speaking spanish. and they have always been the people that we can go if we have concerns and always those concerns they have a word of encouragement for me they always been able to tell me he can do that we can go ahead and the children will make it so i thank you very thankful for the support and thank you for your time and attention your support thank you. clapping. thank you commissioner murase. I want to thank you for this presentation i dont recall being educated buyouts Migrant Education Program i appreciate your presentation and the testimony from participants ill be very interested to know this doesnt have to come tonight more about the families in terms of which of the 8 categories are most represented in terms of data id like to know how the families are broken down by the 8 categories their ethnicity im interested to know what the graduation rays of students that participate i expect hearing the testimony that had been higher than for families that dont participate and how many are heated to 4 year or 2 or 4 year colleges id like to have that data i want to offer a couple of resources perhaps youre aware of if not the office of labor standard is very concerned about the working conditions of migrants families theyre very much a resource as of the department of wage and Hour Division i want to marry u make sure that families are paid fair wages and at the mexico dedicated Services Window we would like to make sure your families are aware of those resources thank you. Well mostly i think the least of those is the fishing but sometimes, we do find families that come to San Francisco from somewhere else and they qualify and we would have them at photographers in the fish packing the packing and piers we find most of family but all the other things because we go to farms and they have a little bit of everything some have life i livestock and others to the crops and our rate of graduation this year we graduated all of 9 out of 10 the High School Students i help them with scholarship applications so we had 9 out of 10 graduate this year and it was 75 percent last year were up and all of them except for two or going to 2 or 4 year universities. clapping. commissioner fewer. Yes. Thank you very much for this presentation i have a couple of questions so i think there is on a questionnaire provided in the packet im wondering if it has been a problem if this questionnaire is not presented verbally to parents instead of parents having to read it and fill it out themselves. We have copies of it and our hopes that all families get it and we dont get it in return i know they have it at the bbc more than returned to us with families so i dont know what yeah. I think what im saying all the times what you mentioned different deelections and sometimes in the written language they might not be confront filling out a form or knowledgeable is that maybe a personal interview in native language and tongs that explains about the program thats what im asking have you heard anything of participants needing that service awhile improperly their children and learning about the program. No, we get those back but the ones we get back or helped the the spanish speakers at bbc and some of the people at bbc know us we come preparing to introduce a program and we have personal relationships through the years with people at b. C. It is just it is hard it is really hard to find our students. Yeah. Thats what im hearing i asked the superintendent with the bulk of the students go they are spread 0 out. Their everywhere. It is critical so i want to know not only about graduation by academic process and what is academic progress and maybe also a little bit about the housing situation so how housing is an issue for everyone in San Francisco and it seems like for this particular group more difficult not a permanent residence or a credit check those things that landlord or people require so what kind of a Housing Assistance for our families that are migrants workers. None. It is very, very difficult and some people live wherever in garages weve seen situations that are unindirectlyable where families live when asked for that space where do they go not a room anymore. Ive seen those conditions too thats why ive asked and it seems like are they eligible i wonder for also our homeless Students Services because actually we clarify families that live in nonstable housing situations at Homeless Children living in sros for example are clarified homeless they technically live in a brickandmortar room radio you double up on benefits im wondering is this something that we refer them and you know a lot of them also it is their they dont have the papers and the documentation needed to apply for a lot of the programs we refer them to the homeless i wonder if we can assist somehow and somehow assist even though they dont have the documentation clearly the student population and theyre in need of resources i wonder if we can work with the City Partners to assess some of the services because you know even for youth sometimes will require a birth certify or some of those students may not have that but those are basic go things the families can have and followup on the and the academic process of the students and also just educate me for a moment is that a migrant working comes here for the city and county of San Francisco how long does that Migrant Worker stay here. Our families go and work in the fields during the summer that is, we are very unique Program Within the any granted program were an urban they are a lot of jobs here and summit their income they have to have the children when we go and do the work the only time is during the summer and gone for more than 20 or thirty days thirty days so the only really chance they have is during the summer and then they come back and have their jobs here doing whatever they can do and multiple jobs. What percentage of Migrant Workers are in the program and how large is the under identification of those students. Thats a very tough one we know there must be a lot more students we could be serving the idea is finding them that is the challenge like one spends time during the recruitment out in the schools she has doors open and finding families word of mouth a lot of our parents bring us other families because they know the services we provide that is another way to get students there are many, many more. Im reaching them. Through the parents liaisons from the training and this helps we have many parents liaisons that are spanish speaker. Weve done presentations were hoping in the future to do maybe another presentation with the parents liaisons and those are know us the schools where we have the most students they do amazing, amazing work returning families to us. So what youre seeing when schools are aware of the Program Additional families that maybe migrants workers it is very Successful Schools there is not an awareness and training; is that correct . Yes. Thank you very much. Commissioner Shamann Walton. Thank you for your presentation. Commissioner fewer covered most of what i was going to ask i was going to say after inviting our India Education and hearing the presentation tonight, im convinced that we as a district can do more for some of the community of color i hope your resources are not from the federal government but will found out what we can could to provide Additional Support because the work with our students is valuable we definitely understand the importance so thank you for 3 and then secondly, id like to followup and come out and visit so i can obvious some of the work with our students and again, thank you for coming out tonight. Well let you know well invited you to the parents meeting our students have so scattered i think the best time to see what the program is really about is in one of our sections thats where the families all over the district and children come to casar chjvez school we have Something Like 200 parents and families we give them food and the presentations are wonderful and get a sense of what the program is about well let you know. Thank you. Superintendant carranza. Almost done. speaking foreign language. for those of you who dont know that dont speech spanish have to learn the language to know the rest of it laughter in all seriousness this is an important tops those students are some of the head i did working students and the rhetoric around those students and family 1941 criminal that the information wouldnt be spread far and wide about the Services Available for the students you have my word and the words of my administration doing everything we can the services will be illuminated and the students can assess those services those are families that want to live the American Dream and want an opportunity selfdefense our job to make sure they have the opportunity thank you very much for coming and sharing the good news there are dreamers. There are dreamers thank you, everybody. clapping. okay one more informational presentation without objection im going to move up the africanamerican achievement update with the Advisory Committee if you all can come please for your presentation. Okay good evening my name is landon the special assistant to the spreadsheet for africanamerican achievement and leadership we appreciate the board for moving this important item up in the agenda to accommodate our parents and student thank you for honoring that request so tonight we have two major objectives and this is to share the xhoisht and recommendation of the africanamerican Parents Advisory Council and to provide on overall the amending Achievement Initiative and the major bodies of work weve taken on over the 20152016 school year so to start off i wanted to give everyone a little bit of a snapshot of africanamerican students in the San Francisco Unified School District so we have about 45 hundred africanamerican students in this district k through 8 and the documents reflected the kids in Charter Schools 32 percent live in the bloichtd and 11 percent are in Visitacion Valley and second to none validate and 8 percent if the western edition and some of the schools that is Larger Population of africanamerican top by Mission High School and all the way to Betsey Carmichael k through 8. The mission of africanamerican achievement and Leadership Initiative is to work collaboratively with San Francisco Unified School District department and africanamerican students families indicators and goes to develop strategies in support of africanamerican chucht consistent with the action all commented committed to raising the belief in africanamerican achievement engaging and empowering our africanamerican families and students cooperating the wrap around for the africanamerican students and insuring the africanamerican get will responsive relation reduce instruction as a reminder we have a will k through 12 indicators as part of africanamerican Achievement Initiative i know there will be updated refreshed figures to the superintendent evaluation i wanted to share that the initiative does track k through 12 indicators for all our sfusd departments take responsibility for. So for our purposes tonight we want to give a briefly now were at the end of this Academic Year as the major bodies of work part of africanamerican chuchltd and Leadership Initiative and start with our Community Engagement and our support of parents leadership in the district so one of the requirements of the africanamerican choucht and leadership resolution was the idea of formation of an Africanamerican Community council one of the things we wanted to share provide an update on while theres no new tables set for africanamerican council one of our priorities has been to work with several other Community Groups feedback on the work in the district and engaging multiple partners on a regular basis with the africanamericans post secondary collaborative what was meeting on a monthly basis to support High School Students the black Family Resource network weve lead two of the black family days and Summer Programming for students as though my my brothers Keeper Community forum launched the africanamerican vinyl round table to support our students and families one of the key tossing as we move through next year the existing tables as a formal africanamerican council or the Leadership Team and board recommendations the formation of a new table im going to turn it over to to two of our parents leaders that are up here tonight and appreciative to have them and share a bit of the apac and some of the recommendations that they have for the board. Good evening. Im sheree and i serve as secretary of the africanamerican Advisory Counsel or counsel the mission of the africanamerican Parents Advisory Council to provide a forum to hear the ideas of San Francisco Unified School District africanamerican parents community, and to respond by educate and informing parents of this district policies and programs our goal to empower the likes of all africanamerican children by providing the skills necessary for advocate for educational experience apac house the apartment to support the instruction for their children and the children receive and engage with administrators in San Francisco Unified School District we aim to list every parents voices and help them find a voice this year a number of schools and parents and Community Members attend our moseying as reflected in the slide our active attendance was 28 africanamerican parents and attendance by district staff was 13 and had over 39 schools represented with those attendance record representatives Abraham Lincoln and lakeshore and Martin Luther king and tenderloin Elementary School and june gordon elementary we reached out to families everywhere within the district good evening ive served as treasurer for the apac for the past school year weve had a number of accomplishment we achieved over the past school year id like to specifically highlight 3 under the collaboration was the hire this was a very special event this was a chance to slbltd our students and hard work theyve put in as as senior theyre going to college we have some saying oh, im going to a j. 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Higher Education Matters and it is important to recognize them and hoping negotiation to have a bigger celebration with a greater turn out of students with post secondary or Career Pathways in the following school year and then our next achievement wed like to highlight falls under the advocacy table this with an was the black History Month and it came to our attention many of the schools were not celebrating black History Month sunlight we decided to act as a liaison the one parents and the sdriktz by offering a black History Month letter and survey for all the schools to get an understanding of the activities to help us formulate a plan to insure all schools were implementing black History Month so that way everyone understand the importance of the black History Month and the contributions of africanamerican so let all the students celebrate and help them to overcome the choucht gap and last achievement well talk about the el cap we work with the el cap task force they did reached out to us and together our families mad the recommendation youll see on the next slide so those i like to highlight a couple so the africanamerican parents advisory county wants the boards support in funding for the africanamerican liaisons al at all schools with larger africanamerican population we would like mandated culture training for all school site staff and professional achievement must focus on communicating with parent weve heard throughout our members of the committee this is an issue the participants are trying to communicate with the schools and not getting the communications they need ours parents strongly support ethnic studies cross the district in through k through 12 and recommend the district accountability to 86 implement best practices in all sfusd schools. clapping. thank you for sharing i want to underscore how important weve had the africanamerican Advisory Council to push our thinking as a staff and make sure we are stating accountable to our families and thank you for your work pushing this year. Now well get into a couple of the more specific programs lead over the course of the year one of those youll receive an update in the march meeting the action plans for the africanamerican students and village round table process as a reminder the africanamerican goes to the round table come out came out of my brothers keeper a group of Community Members together with the district staff to develop that 0 concept to make sure there is a doesnt even almost tier support put in for a. M. Students a focused group of students 6 sites from grade k through 12 in terms of we wanted to give a highlight of the students that participate so you see first of all, the students carve out m k the mission and Burton High School participated we had some sites take on more than the 5 students to take on and as you can see a breakdown of the grades the students were in and their gender background i think one thing not able on this slide you think about the purpose of round table in support of students that are potentially under the radar and pushed to their full academic support so though you see low representation from students with i e p and in a way to uncover a would you away for students not with the support but required the dedicate attention of the staff on those campuses as an example of how this looked at one site and we do met with the Community Group that cultivated this and shared a document with each site called out and how they approached this project what was consistent the sites with the intent of relevant learning environment went through a process with the i lab for them to think through prototype and held the sites secured and in the case of john mirror reestablished after their brainstorm was an individual advised plan with a reading and math goal a presentation called who am i presentation to identify assess they had in terms of of the neighborhood they were from, from the Family Support and how they perceived their identity as africanamerican and the village gathering at the end of the Academic Year so this was something we got ouch the ground in the spring and carrying out through the i lab to make sure that the schools have the funds and facilities to hold that support progress for the africanamerican support for the students at their sites looking at the africanamerican post secondary pathway again while the village round table k through 12 and expand on this work the secondary pathways have a focus on high School Aged Students one of the things i want to highlight we had our initial rounds for 2015 last year and continued that work this year with the class of 2016 just again looking at the demographics you see the needs of the africanamerican 12 graders and the free and reduced lunch and support with Financial Aid first generation students and the support that is required to help them successfully navigate the pathway and support the students are referring we want to make sure we build on they decided the High School Councils are one source of voices and see this is from student it recorded survey the ceo they express their members of definitely like to thank. Communitybased organizations for supporting our students up on this slide the different post secondary programs for students this is intended were gathering report that finalize with the students will enroll in school we held those workshops in the spring a large cohort to San Francisco and San Francisco state and a relatively smaller number intending to go into the uc system in california and amongst those students that are articulated theyre not going to post secondary in the fall the reasons they cited were related to motivation and a shortness of things to study and others priorities the students had through the workshops we held and adopted one hundred and 70 students through the up to date theyre given the opportunity to receive a spoken word performance to connect with the coaches that ultimately will support of students after they graduate and leveraging the partnership with beyond 12 and post secondary assistance and the games around College Readiness activities and support students cited were going unaware away from school before taking a major and connecting with the campus and managing priorities why we will continue to beyond 12 and our partnership with the cobras several in the room today to support those graduates as they move forward it is important we learn to the a. M. Posted secondary workshops from feedback not from the workshops but the monthly meeting with the collaborative, of course, the need to focus on students earlier in high school going into next year part of my team will be supporting our ninth graders and looking at the dictated around students that are assessing the programs making sure we are starting in the in the event grade and setting them up for success and having the transfer that is the curriculum they need in the institutions so then turning next to the africanamerican Oversight Committee so the africanamerican Oversight Committee is composed of our assistant superintendent and Department Chiefs and over the course of this year weve been working to come less around specific promotions across the did the the round table was an example we reached the end of the year we acknowledged the need for us to table or tackle in of the structural changes to significantly move africanamerican achievement weve been focusing on next year doing a School Case Study a deeper dive to help in creating a full plan to think holistically with a supportive of africanamerican student in alerting the achievement there we know that in order for our students to be successful we need to make sure we are providing the right supports and incentives for the teachers to stay in the highest needs and will we need that it will be difficult to move the africanamerican achievement we know that the School Choice system and for the isolation and how the Program Needs to be alternated thats one of the issues that was raised throughout the course of the year for the tier 30 intervention to make sure that students move from grade level to grade level and making sure that onsite we have a robust approach that addresses School Attendance and social and wellness and, of course, continuing to be aware the facts of didnt bias and that refers to africanamerican for special education and more suspensions for our students though the process we uncovered some of the issues and emigrate alignment around the challenges that accost exist and we are concretely looking at this to make sure we are taking a seismic approach to support our africanamerican in the Unified School District a couple of slides open what is next thats not clear on the projection so im appreciative to the Leadership Team and the district for helping us staff a team really to support africanamerican achievement as you can see some of the roles around the post secondary so our support for High School Students and moving to middle School Students our africanamerican Parents Advisory Council corridor and administrator assistant and Research Manager for the team and one of the new things that is being fund for this coming year is school site support our Mission High School and Martin Luther king and willie l. Brown middle school were looking to fill the africanamerican males to support overseeing students and building a positive kshltd identified to make sure were connecting them to resources they and their families need to be successful finally one thing that came through a great discussion with some of the Community Partners is looking at to make sure there is a coordinator to coordinate care for africanamerican students so im working with mr. Truit and the department to think about how to define that role. Who to use it to make sure the africanamerican students are holistically supported in terms of our upcoming priorities and timeline so i wont read through the entire list starting in julia mindset where the academy do the admin constituted and having the principal share on the round table and putting professional development so the instructor for the 3 sites to pick up the school and continue with the initiatives so the next consideration of the vinyl round table supports for the bs u and the class support of 20162017 a couple of dates on the calendar our third sfusd h b. C. Is monday, september 12th and our black family day on saturday september 17th and finally again is one of the candidates on the resolution were responsible for at annual africanamerican we wanted to roll out that report once we have the data from the wave of testing so well have published the africanamerican achievement report for the next update in the fall and so before i open it up id like to acknowledge some of the members of my team that are here feel free to rise if you so choose t thank you. Parents advisory coordinator. clapping. mr. Victor our city hall fellow working with the mayors office. clapping. dr. Christopher lee in the Development Office and supporting the work. clapping. mr. Linda jordan our treasurer from Lincoln High School thank you and like i would to unfortunately could only be here but anthony supporting our work at the high schools. clapping. thank you very much we have a number of speakers on this item all right. Ill call you up in a couple of different sets reverends. calling names two minutes each. My name is amos brown im the president of the San Francisco branch of the national naacp and for 40 years been pastor of the historic thirds Baptist Church and directing your attention the course of 40 years the application to witness over long span of time the ebb and flow of opportunities and in the Unified School District and im concerned about all peoples no person is an island to himself or herself has john don said, however, this is to remind us momma may have poppa may have but god bless the child that has their own weve not had our own as it regards academic achievement not so much we dont have brains but it is been basically as many authorities and scholars are indicated because of a lack of opportunities and savage in the quality mr. Superintendent i congratulate you for having the chemistry and the character to say that is not right and we must do something to make things right and mr. Dickey is the brother who came forth to work in tandem as a team with the administration and the communities so that we would be able to look upon a messed up situation and be able to celebrate to the high heavens we left things better than they were before we touched them all we need to do is hold out hope and move forward and work with the parents, the teachers the faith communities, the communitybased organizations and none need point fingers at anybody we know that we were a part of solution and not the problem thank you very much. clapping. keep the work going. clapping. how do you follow reverend brown good evening to parapet and Vice President walton and board commissioner and superintendant carranza and the cab netted our beloved esther and boys and girls on behalf of the indicator and want and Vice President im honored to stand before you tonight to support the africanamerican achievement and Leadership Initiative i commend this board i commend this superintendent your bold visions to do anything something for those who stood at the bottom of ladders that are africanamerican descents you made the bodily decision to implement the africanamerican Achievement Initiative were so grateful and thankful i recall superintendent commander saying roll out an event not the responsibility for the achievement of africanamerican students is the responsibility for all 5 thousand educators and the cabinet and community to make sure those students are successful and were thankful for that thats by are better late than never my high honor with blood dickey in august and accepted we rolled out the family blah cases with the ceos it phenomenal see which way we roll out the spaca on member jordan and the Unified School District it is wonderful and then we have the students come together with the bs u they plan their own agenda it is positively where you have and thank you to senator leno for inviting us into the state building to see where our tax dollars are and well miss him he termed out on december 17, 89 a great day it is my birthday but the apac members were scorn sworn in thank you commissioner Vice President walton it was an phenomenal event i want the communities and the board for the apac parents there all phenomenal participants theyve earned a 4. 0 i watched them each month flan phenomenal meetings and opened the door to any office theyll be okay to all needs and we do it for them but filed with the heart of bayview Hunters Point and with pike meetings so apac parents thank you and have many things that happy in between i mean, ill skip own on our project we want to thank the Unified School District we horn many students that earn a 3 point owe and higher give them a hand of applause we are grateful to superintendant carranza to move and support this well be grateful to reverend brown and others but also this pike and the initiative had the vision to implement to show president obama it was phenomenal plug in the team and apac we thank you so we know that the manipulative work to do and it can be done i dont have my i say thank you many, many people and in what capaci naacp and my one request on behalf of the communities mr. Dickey must go through the budget process each year and the board commissioners the Community Requests you consider a time to fund this on a 5 year can i believe we cant see much progress in one year but please fund the project on a 4 year project now thank you bernard shay. clapping. good evening good evening to all of the commissioners to parapet and to commissioner Shamann Walton and our own superintendent good evening again my name is a dining gray im the executive director off 100 Percent College prep a and a proud member of the alliance of black School Educators and a retiree of San Francisco Unified School District first of all, my organization is so honored to be a part avenue africanamerican post secondary pathway collaboration and were so happy that were part of team of landon and with parents and other what over 40 communitybased organizations that is doing the work around college and career and making sure the students stay on track our focus is making sure that we know what the root cause is; right . The root cause why our students are not meeting the requirements and getting the grades point average and why arent they participating in concurrent enrollment inform city college or San Francisco state thats the role our Cabo San Lucas cbos will be doing with the inch were happy to the superintendent signed on to the commissioners are supporting that and then generally our cbos and parents in the district are supporting this effort were as va va said moving forward this baby steps well want to see this Initiative Funded to the extent and im so happy youve going done so much so far in hiring a lot of people around landon to do the work that needs to be done were very, very proud to be part of this and moving forward thank you. clapping. sheryl davis calling names . Good evening hi sheryl davis i just gave commissioner mendozamcdonnell to books to pass around for the most part i want to recognize the energy and dedication of below Landon Dickey. Thank you were trying to move the efforts forward you know i come in all the time to talk about summer thats as i work in a private school and talk about churches the biggest most segregated and it is summer; right . The disparities and the lack of opportunities our kids are experiencing so as we develop and support mr. Dickey one of the things he talked about earlier of those comments for care, he want to recognize that mr. Dickey and superintendent carranza had an issue with the student in kindergarten that is suspected on a regular basis they helped us not the expectation but figuring out how to make sure that the students are getting the support on an ongoing basis i think that student should be used as a pilot; right . And one of those thing is around summer i appreciate the work in the sum summer i have hired a Reading Specialist to work with that student and hired were working with the Public Health department to get the trauma support and i think that is something we should be doing in the district and more to say not enough time ill pga around the books and the curriculum dcyf has contracted to use it, it is all about africanamerican and so how we do that more of that ill bring in more books owe ultimately to Work Together and get more resources to mr. Dickey for school year and summer. clapping. hello 23450i78z a across the city actually, i graduate from Lowell High School in may. clapping. im here to support in support of a africanamerican at sfusd and what i would like you guys do focus on hire more black teachers to create a pipeline for a recruit i graduated into the district we need people that relative to us we need the adults that want to generously see us pro per at Higher Education and even though i graduated im grateful that i met you guys and after that has happened were making progress i want to be part of it so thank you. clapping. hi, my name is jackie scott ill be an in coming senior at Lowell High School. clapping. im here to support the africanamerican students and the San Francisco Unified School District and i want to encourage the district too so focus an increased professional development for staff and mandatory culture derivative diversity training this does not only effect us bus the Unified School District if we advocate for ourselves ourselves and other students we can bring change that effects everyone that is beneficial to everyone involved thank you. clapping. hi my name is sea and ill be a senior at lowell this fall. clapping. thank you. So last time i spoke you, you on me and my fellow bs c members walked out of the school we were protesting a lack of support for minority at lowell but at sfusd and fault taken an interest and work on implementing all of them. clapping. weve had private meetings with superintendent carranza they asked us the minority needs to feel safe and in coming students summer is out im sorry school is out and summer has given were working and still here and listening and we expect to be kept up to date by the sfusd and the board of education regarding our demands theres been a real communication in the past but i am i expect that the district will continue to keep up to date on what is happening to our demands are specific to lowell i think that is important to acknowledge that many students throughout the district are going to the same thing we are and shouldnt feel the need to walk out of class to be heard and the africanamerican does feel supported we need to stop waiting for bad things to happen and make the changes to prevent those things from happening he wanted to take this time to thank piac and Landon Dickey for supporting us its been hard but thank you guys. clapping. good evening im better known and a tenth grader at high school i want to talk about the lack of participation in the workshops specifically the workshop i put together students alone helped to put this workshops that is boys to men training and happened in late april last year and the turnout was in my opinion apathyic for it was targeted towards young black men students to hem them succeed lots of workshops for example, a workshop to know youre right when our confronted with the police black men are confronted by the Police Officer for little to no reason we need to get the word out to all the young black men for not being able to come to those workshops most of time they dont feel the need it is not important to them but is or us senior and the elderly you need to make them think that is important thank you. Hi good evening, everybody im a graduate of waldon beggar high school 2015 im here to talk about the support of the africanamerican program and the support of the San Francisco Unified School District i particularly want to talk about support for africanamerican graduates because i attend city college and notice that many graduates at city have this attitude of not role wanting to pursue education because of lack of really models and lack of none in the house telling them they can achieve and do that also i have help if beyond 12 my coach talked to her every once a month and she desires me i feel that others should be encouraged and the path program at Landon Dickey should, increased as africanamericans we need this for all admittance we need this and the motivation and just to move past the barriers in school and look for role models and people that are confident to do this and thank you for having me. And thank you landon dick and everyone thank you clapping. good evening superintendant carranza and commissioners my name is al i didnt im an active parents in the africanamerican Parents Advisory Council and many Task Force Number one say that im very proud and just have our district and i want to commend the work of our superintendent our board of commissioners for taking a stand on equality that note other folks are doing when it comes to bias eat walking the talk and commend Landon Dickey and the and others on the apac and other aa will i i team members and want to say i have been so moved and spiert by the leadership the lowell and mission and other high school bs u students lets give our students an amazing round of applause. clapping. at the same time i also want to express concerns when black students at one of the most Prestigious High School west of the mississippi need to walk out like they feel their school is a place their valued and apartments elected to the to the p tsa the county president said he points the fingers at black families and being poor is not a excuse of giving our child a lot of education or give them to expect to pick up what the parents didnt do and cry racism because the child is behind in the and will this is the current president at lowell i want to make sure were supporting our district leaders and as parents we are speaking up to continue provide a place for students to feel safe and welcome and their families are valued in our district thank you very much. clapping. good evening, commissioners im always coming hero and proud to look into the world and know i have a lot of friends here calling names i have sandy and other hydra i know that you will be supportive of this initiated i wanted to take the opportunity to recognize mr. Landon dickey speakers are spoken about you were honored to have you and the young mayor the San Francisco i believe the history are San Francisco and i know you couldnt have done this work lets give credit to superintendent i know we look at you straight in the eye and asked you to step up you did that a fine gentleman and leaders of San Francisco none other than that stand up superintendant guerrero stand up sir, thank you. clapping. follow the summit at San Francisco State University myself and Group Leaders goat together honeycutt and others we sat we participate in the Unified School District and parents tried to put together a program with design and profiles and ask questions finally the history of San Francisco Unified School District we have a pilot that will have National Implications that pilot with youth on top of the chain it is based on the round table village not the standard in fact, students had that are in the district should continue to excel not learn the set the record straight standard all they wanted to do a target the dollar achievers we know that participants need to be helped we said to hold the teachers accountable there are 5 teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District and shouldnt be in the Unified School District so this village is comprised of teachers and stakeholders and come up here and Stanford University or anymore in the country to look at the profiles of design and the resources targeted you should use your existing resources and encourage you to go out to the city and county of San Francisco there are all sorts of Community Benefits in the Bayview District kiss across the city are supposed to be earmarked in the system we also want to point you to where those are Vice President walton will be talking about so we can all together look at how to help the students develop their profiles and finally in the history of San Francisco look out where were making progress if you put our support and everyone plays theyre part well not be coming here throughout the country will be looking at what youve deny please the leaders look at those as our legacies because it is your legacies and talking about that note just hear here a here but outside of San Francisco and going to make sure that the cities what emulate what out of under take place in San Francisco so congratulations to you thank you, sir. clapping. Susan Solomon didnt forgot about you. Well, he represent a group so thank you parapet good evening, commissioners superintendent and the members of apac im honored to be up here to talk about the work done by Landon Dickey and the pike addresses the urgency of now and what were facing with the new gym crow and a as the painfully articulated by ms. Alexander the school has tried to look at the hundred years long trend it is excellent the city of San Francisco the housing crisis pushing out africanamerican families i grew up here and weve gone from 20 percent of the population being africanamerican to four around now so this work is extremely, extremely important and that means to thank the apac for inviting me including myself to be on a panel to have a thorough discussion it greatly appreciated and thank you 44 for coming to the close the gap lines in april thank you several folks were there and helpful dialogue there are great recommendations in the reports there are all good especially point out the recommendation about increasing ethnic studies a terrific article in the examiner to show that it helps to approve the academic achievement and the restorative academic and increase the development and followup coaching that is really important hiring africanamerican educators to tie in larger numbers, in fact, in there are now will be 3 teachers in 3 schools for academic for africanamerican achievement instructors i hope that to see that increase including at the Elementary Schools and want to finish by saying stanford is and will continue to partner on this initiative, however, we can thank you. clapping. thank you sew so much to all the speakers and open up to the board for questions or comments commissioner vice presient walton. Thank you, commissioner president haney in support of the achievement and skers skewing success of all africanamerican in the San Francisco Unified School District this resolution which was was my first one with president haney and commissioner murase and others in support was more than just about words and was really about the districts commitment to make sure our black children have the opportunity to achieve thank you to the pike for their work and mr. Dickey and existed about the desire teem are a couple of questions more than a couple but one just weve talked about some of this in conversation, of course, utilized to or id like to see us spell out the strategies at the Elementary School and middle school so we can say this is what were doing at Elementary Schools and middle and this is what were doing in high school and have that flow for the student profile and, of course, college and career and second i definitely want to see this valley have a dedicated black instructor that is concerning to me ms. Veil is not spelled out with the same level of support so im going to bring this up definitely over the next couple of weeks and hopefully some milk this happens to the ms. Valley to achieve the achievement of the level of support for this school me also want to know in terms of what principals at each individual school sites in terms of their support for the africanamerican achievement Leadership Initiative you know this is an encompassing system of support want to make sure that every site has a strategy to that entails what their directives to impact the success and with the departments within the district from the highlevel leadership as well also time to say to the communitybased organizations thank you thank god for the cbo hiring others teachers to work with the students make sure we can do for the Additional Support particularly over summer that is important a lot of the students loss a lot of the learning and leasing last again excited about the work and existed what we are doing and going to be doing and make sure we get the word out not only in the School Industry but the community with the work will look like and entail to get everyone existed about the work and process and get everybody working this is not easy weve seen achievement and want to make sure we go in the positive direction thank you you and your team and thank you to the students being involved and fight for their community and continuing to hold us accountable for the things they want to see happen in their school and community so thank you. clapping. commissioner fewer. Thank you president haney so thank you for this presentation i just have a couple of comments i think this so you know i mean, i feel proud of the district that we are calling us out and putting resources and taking the leadership in i think a problem that has persisted for many, many decades and it is embeds in the history of our educational system here my question is when i look only page 21 and look at the africanamerican internal Oversight Committee and the ongoing structural needs i think that when we see a our goal score card on i cant see a lot of those things until we fix those ongoing needs such as sfusd currently didnt insure a stable high quality teachers in our high schools that means remarkably isolated schools and a choice system that is isolation for africanamerican students and chair one refreshing your recollection instruction figuring is not having greater Level Performance in africanamerican students in 78 and many sfusd africanamerican students and families require High Services that address the attention and social and Emotional Wellness and stability there is continued evidence with the africanamerican for special Education Services from pre k to 12 grade id like to see actually that some of the ongoing priorities i think actual address some of the needs what are the hard recommendations for those things this is the foundation the we dont change this not having the outcomes we want for our own Oversight Committee your acknowledging this in that so what are the recommendations for change what are the recommendations if our budget for the change in the ongoing plan for this so i see that i love there is a africanamerican Parents Group and as you may know i wrote the recess for the Restorative Practices and glad to see that we dont get to the foundation the actual those ongoing structural needs this is where i think that diane gray said that well, we want to get to the core of it we want the rot causes actually, we want to get to the system change that is going to change this so we can have an africanamerican patent group and get to the structural things that need to be changed we cant see the impact and the high achievement that our students actually are we continue to have the structural deficits we continue to have great racial i think quality we need to fix those first with the initiative is 0 commendable im looking for a deeper structural change if we dont have a stable teaching and we have problem if the africanamerican students are taught by first year teachers their k through go 5 educational years well see two years hidden thats wrong i see this say, i get this is not about this this strikes me those are the things we need to change and our parents should know about we talk about the africanamerican parents i hope we are sharing hard data with the parents and just agent ago we saw the scores and weve got a lot more work to do and we celebrate every time we graduate africanamerican and go on to 0 e a 2 or 4 year college there is nothing wrong with a 2 year college when you preparing them when they take the placement test not thats a good question remedial classes but going into College Courses thats been a problem when we see the kids at city college with the placement scores tells you we should be explorer more city College Classes available and the folks a lot of time for the student populations theyre the first time the first people in the family to go to College Great a couple of College Courses under their belt it gives more confidence to go into a College Setting as you may know colleges have a low percentage of africanamerican students in their college alone theyll have residentscy and have to have the ability those instrumental needs this is what i want to see and like to see with some recommendations you know with some hard recommendations tied to our budget also, we know we cant achieve this without a debate plan and budget to support it were really going to comment with commitment and also make sure that our dollars are giving us the impact that is the circle we go in and all wellintentioned not to say we have a great desire to practice we have a great practice to change this and to roars what racial discriminations quite frankly is the seismic in a bureaucracy like ours i think that is something that what i see here is that youve called it out but again what are the recommendations to fix it; right . And if we examine 24 and the data in a group our parents are feeling those things we need to finally end this through changing the structure that gives us this results go consistently year after year after year thank you, very much mr. Dickey. clapping. it was nice commissioner murase and commissioner wynns. One presentation and one question i really want to appreciate how far this project has come when i attended a meeting of africanamerican Advisory Council ms. Coelect was fighting for a first Class Mailing but thank to the superintendent and this board to this project weve come a long way i want to appreciate the folks that made that happen and particularly mr. Dickey and his team my question is about didnt bias france training i want to see how that works and the implementation is going. If doctor stephens is in the audience over the course of this past year one of the things weve focused on a racial Equality Movement at school sites to focus on the conversations about race and engage the school site in the explicit bias and is stereotyped at a later time the building the awareness and tackling this i know that conversation with brent the office of professional learning is looking to take on that work and view it so im going to turn it over to to doctor stevens to further elaborate a im the chief officer for the districts were currently in the process of transitioning that work from the team that has been lead by office and equality mr. Dickey is correct lead to p lc working 7 schools and severalty professional communities that have involved coaches and other volunteer teachers were looking to expand that work by working first with the full network of the coaches across the district dozens of coaches we want to begin to involve them in being acquainted and work in their current positions to expand or reach into all our schools were there and planning to increase those this year and summer training lined up for the coaches with the idea those coaches low able to expand on that work. One other thing through our admin constitutes launch one of your learning academies with the didnt bias for all the admin that meets 3 times over the course of the year and maybe three or four and have a learning commend that is also an important exponent. Commissioner wynns. Thank you for everybody for coming particularly the people that tdm and their parents i appreciate this is how level but really on overview so a lot of the questions i have some of which were discussed we meet are entrance legislature ill mention a few not in depth this evening so one of the first ones i want to say i am not im happy with the progress and particularly think what is good we have both focus on and also actually had happen even in the areas we dont focus a lot of Capacity Building with the building up the africanamerican couldnt and i feel like we have a lot important foundational strength to procedurally with the previously we said we wont do those and committed but not the capacity the infrastructure the foundation to do overseeing things that i think is very, very important. I just going to be brief it is late we have a lot of things to do i want to focus on the recommendations i find them many of them interesting but a lot of them i think id like if if we could get from you and the staff look at those recommendations through the seismic lens the Unified School District so we the recommendations about doing it the studies k through 12 in the middle school were supposed to be working on that i want to know you know what how are we learning how we embed ethnic studies and information throughout the curriculum if so not departmental listed in Elementary School im presume what we learn from the middle school had help and interested in what generally our elements specialists say about that heres one the works we have a recommendation about an africanamerican family liaison by the way, would be fantastic but i would say first have a family liaison for all families at every school weve cut back in recent years but i and those people should be have the training they need have the experience they need the ability to Work Together and work with our do you have to make sure they have are serving acknowledging families as we want them to be this is an example of what are we are doing with the family liaison we have what do we think about their ability to do what we like them to do for all families but in particular through this for africanamerican families id like to know were looking at that and the same thing is true about the recommendations about the tuesday to recall what are the tuesday to recall services we have a lot throu funds we dont want to just duplicate we want to look at it and talk about 9 cultural awareness if it the right services we need id like that so im not going to go through the whole list the professional development with the professional sensitivity through overstaff person i think we have requirement we do that already and not as probably in a way that needs to be updated not adequate but like to know what were doing in that area as well as have that integrated that information sdwragd into recommendations for expanding that or those remedies i understand is invisible a sound bite we are starting from zero and better to know were not starting from zero and what we apply for those things thats my general comments about the recommendations that i have two other area i want to pubically state i have in my conversation with mr. Dickey im very, very interested in this round table model we have a lot to learn about all students but particularly students are challenges how we can better serve them by integrating our somewhat minimizing did silos of the services and so im hoping that i understand this is a small number of we started out with a small now of students and presuming there is more information if you can give us what happened in the recommendations and what we think this is telling you i think i personally think that holds great promise for the future people together with the person and institutional resources they have are able to focus on a single student and ought to be a lot we can learn not only how we serve overseeing students but all the students what were learning and the last thing i wanted to talk about the post secondary pathways i still you know, i told mr. Dickey i thought it was interesting we start with the students that are not with us in the initiative and i appreciate and really want to pufbl appreciate all the communitybased organizations that are part that have that that is one reason it is something we can do at the same time building up the plans is something that is fundamentally about work with partners in the community but i you know im hoping and presuming since this is the first group and what the information youve given us this is where theyre going there or not going there is that is pretty much what we know about that what kind of information were planning to collect in following up id be interested i found one thing interesting the place where most students got voices about theyre posted Graduation Plans were from School Councils i think that deserves to be mentioned and has to do with with our vchltsz and council through peace and other things that is worthy of our you know something good and at some other time ill want to pursue the structural go discussion because i think those are essential and big, big things im presuming well get feedback from you and others in the ear about what we might do i dont necessary completely agree with all the ways their described doesnt matter those are Big Questions to continue to pursue and to reiterate and redemonstrate our commitment to solving our structural issues thank you, again to everybody for coming here and look forward to the future thank you very much. Km. Commissioner mendozamcdonnell. Thank you a couple of things you know, i wanted to tie in thinking about the work around lights bs m k hard discussions and every single one of the moseying and i just want to say were starting to address the trust issues and the promises weve made and really committing to keeping overseeing promises that is helpful in understanding the direction better and then i also wanted to note were just its not just the responsibility of the Africanamerican Community and the families this is really all of our responsibility we do this where our kids we do what we do in our Public School and our responsibility to be courageous and i think as the board commissioner you know ive been in the room when our board commissioner speak loudly around institutional racism i had an opportunity to speak and lowell graduation and considering the champs it was a really good opportunities to say that out loud i hope everyone in the school will speak up and say it 0 out loud and recognize the work and addressed work when it is not in our schools i think that is all of our responsibilities i want to thank you for your continued work and for trusting us in this process and our candidates i think clear and the investments in that were making which are long overdue will continue so thank you. Commissioner norton. Thank you i wanted to really thank everyone for that coming and thank everyone for the spirits with what youre approached this Initiative One thing im struck by the members of the public that came out and the leader in the africanamerican that came out is really amazing to see the partnership and the trust and the judge the sense of you know everybody is trying to renew the commitment to work on this issue weve had for generations in San Francisco and across the country and it mirrors the board commitment so i really wanted to say thank you and say i feel heartened by the purposes and the sense of community and commitment out in the room and communities so thank you. clapping. all right im going to be quick i want to say a couple of quick things the first is that when we set out the initiative we made it clear we wanted to do was not side anything small and not retina repeat the same false promises not say we were going to make big changes and see the same repeated patterns in the district and just here tonight folks on the ground in the communities that represent the Community Come up here and say that what weve seen over the last year has indeed been different we have changed the tune we see a way forward i think that makes us critically proud that everyone was here and mr. Dickey and peek everyone that led the effort but also to say that when we made this commitment we had said we were going going to close the opportunity and achievement gap in the district not make small changes in 57 years close completely the achievement and opportunity gap for the africanamericans i want to encourage not to be satisfied until were on the way to leading that goal were making as you heard the schematics changes that we do and you hold us accountable the last thing i want to say for everyone that was hero the cbos and the alliance for black educators and cbos thank you for bringing this spirit to the initiative i essential want to do thank the students over there i think approximations a summer break if you didnt especially the lowell students if you didnt take the leadership and hold us accountable well not be having this conversation feeling weve made the progress i want to encourage you to continuous 80 call us out and push us this is all about you if you dont have you at the center of the school dont walk out that much but sometimes you have to take those measures and held us accountable you and the community and few continue to do that i believe well get this right thank you for your hard work on this. clapping. i think were moving on im ami to move things around thank you for your patience a lot of things going on so of its okay with the board new york ill move up superintendents Proposal Item one six 4 dash sp one in the naming of goeorge washingto high school we have the family here quick and move quickly to general Public Comment and this is there is a motion that has been seconded on april 22nd a reports if the Curriculum Committee i believe that was oh, oh, okay building and grounds commissioner mendozamcdonnell. Thank you we moved this forward whorling with a positive recommendation with building and grounds. Mr. Superintendent. Thank you commissioner president haney id like to ask our principal laughter its on the books laughter principal at George Washington high school shell do honor of coming to the microphone and talking about this dedication this special dedication. Thank you, very much Supreme Court and parapet and Vice President walton for hearing us are i want to make sure we know this is a wholly supported by all the George Washington high School Community and with us tonight is mrs. Lorean and alison and Family Friends and tammy the executive director of the School Alumni id like to read if it this is okay. The second reading the superintendents proposal sp one in supporting of naming George Washington high school to the albert j whereas was a native san franciscan a product of San Francisco Unified School District attends jean Parker High School and graduating from Mission High School and whereas aldolph begin mace career in sfusd in 1961 as a teacher and counselor and 1969 he became the boys dean of San Francisco Junior High School and followed by his role it is principal administrative code as the principal of Junior High School from 1974 to ti and whereas superintendant of schools robert assigned him to be the principal of George Washington high school where we served from 1981 to 95 second longest 10 you read principal at George Washington high school and whereas after retiring from sfusd aldolph spent 15 years as the Director Director the Corner Academy and known for repursue with the students and engagement with all the students and visibility within the city hall and worked tirelessly to provide a well resources positive learning environment for students and staff at George Washington high school and whereas ab disposal felt that physical education was proud of the strongest tradition of schools and George Washington high school and ab disposal coached and said forgiven the School Masters award and named the alumni of the administrator of year in 1994 and whereas ab disposal was the founder the George Washington High School Athletic hall of fame in 1991 that honored George Washington High School Athletics and whereas obtaining disposal always spent the lunch hours talking with the teachers with an apple in his hand is it so fit the school be named in his honor he was hive viable and assessable to all the students and teachers whereas in the words of his son nothing gave al more happy to watch George Washington high school sore and it passed unanimously by the George Washington high School Alumni association on april 67, 2016 in support of naming of the school therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of San Francisco Unified School District named the Main Building of George Washington high school to the albert obtaining disposal and the fact depend on by the good morning, everyone. Alumni association shall be instead of as albert ab disposal. clapping. thank you and i was wondering in the we have a as i said resolution that was read by like to present that but give you an opportunity to perhaps say a few words. There we go. I really want to thank you for doing this honor on botch of our family but let alison speak a washington graduate and was there with her dad. clapping. did you all we talk about leader and people have you have look up to our role models i was fortunate to go to high school gosh going to high school as a principal also have that was the best years of my life and look up to our role moderately our teachers and coaches theyre your mentor and go out and reach out to them my dad touched so many people so i just reach out to the youth because those are the mentors in our life that touches you and impacts you in such a way youll remember the years down the road so i didnt expect to speak im speak on october 28th so thank you. clapping. thank you i wanted to thank you for coming out tonight for you and our family he was my principal at Washington High School i attend 4 high schools my father was in the military and so i came into Washington High School and he was just so phenomenal and helping me out and adjusting one of my best friends manila white used to gives us greech amend and or all the time so hes the principal i remember the most out of my High School Career and give you a heat felt thanks for the support he was a triumphs wonderful man chas you in shortsdz making sure you got to class as plummet please indulge me to Say Something ive been traveling, of course, you know in 2010 had a stroke and lost track of the gentleman but i couldnt sit here and not Say Something about this eloquent and encouraging and empowering and most celebrities professional who was just an incredible gentleman often i went to George Washington high school when things got heated and never failed to call on me to bring things back together again on that campus and ms. Ab disposal georgia good to see you tonight and your daughter and my boys and the wagners sons fond americans of mr. Obtaining disposal well remember him as a distinct gentleman thank you all. clapping. commissioner wynns. Thank you. Ill take a minute to say that i was privileged to know the gentleman as both as a parent in the Unified School District before the board and before a Board Members board member i want to say as i did at the Committee Meeting he really missed here still he was kickoff a giant amongst the administrators the dean of the Administrative Group in sfusd i dont know that ill say which was is in the resolution but one of the things he told me we talked about what had is like to be a coach and become a School Administrator and how much being a principal is a coaching job and he really believed that coaches make good School Administrators we talk about how that is and our goals i appreciate he learned a lot and have Great Respect and miss him, i know that many other people do two thank you for being here. clapping. we appreciate your big deal here and your husband and father was great and thank you to the principal and lets take a vote. Thank you ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns mr. Haney thats unanimous. All right. So without objection ill move up item j general Public Comment on general matters and thank and appreciate everyone that waited partially a lot of things going on in the end of year we appreciate your patience calling names two minutes each. Hi, im a eight grade graduate and a parts of 9 year club this past Year Student Council president our communities is here tonight to stand with the principals nora and to ask is that this board ask to be take the opportunity to lead the school i want all students in support of nora to stand. clapping. now all the adults here in support of nora please stand. clapping. our Community Members are holding up signs that shows side visual that the staff and students and families learn and practice at usf with Community Respect and balance and proprietary truth and justice and harmony norway nora helped how school more like a family he organized the stipulate up ceremony the students can get help and other student get on track with a student to complete their work another thing that nora helps to maintains our school norms we ask to be practiced respectfully to listening and maintaining eye contact with the speaker laughter clapping. nora embodies our vieshldz and powerful way of thinking he hard to teach those everyday when she was not there we had nora to lean on if we needed anything it was personally hard for me being president i wanted norway are ray to help me plan things when we were in the middle of a big project that we were working on for the middle school and when she was not there that was hard that got pauses for a few weeks it set us back awhile nora is an important poise of the community that we are missing right now and it is really hard thank you for listening. clapping. good evening superintendent and obstructs id like to ask your indulgence in being part of my the time to use up what was a former student in the Unified School District in my mind a mary and 16 of my thirty years at Sf Community School before that i was a parent and my son is 33 so we are a real family here i come to you with a very heavy heart but im hopefully and hopefully because i know that you people ive seen you for years our parents and some of you may be grandparents i know you generously care about the children and Community Workplace in mind, i know that state has foreperson not been your intention to hurt our community but it has happened our communities has been terrible hurt in some of the ways a graduation step up summers our fifth grade ceremonies she was not there parents and students westbound asking no idea she was taken from us for two months without prior notice those horrible things set our communities backs as you heard before we just all im asking is to please, please with all with all due respect to you, please bring our principal back shes not in jail and not dead we know all of that we want our principal back please. clapping. i attend Balboa Park High School and went to ss c and when i heard before nora not there it crushed me and my family all 8 years nora was there like another persistent to me i have a little pro that attends and a this sister a kindergartener that attends ss c and i really want my brother and sister to feel safe theyll not feel safer if norway have ray is not there nora my big sister went through and now in college you see how nora effected us to go do college you know youve heard about nora nostril coming there i wish you guys ask her to come back because we really want her to come back like if you hurt her our hurting the family we are begging you guys for her to come back so thank you very much. clapping. good evening, commissioners president haney a father at San Francisco Community School my daughter is in second grade and born and raised and the director of programs for the children and Youth Programs and part of incisions for vision 2025 for the School District ares contribution is you think equaled her continued absent makes me worried our school will loss that vision okay. Thank you. That observe school will allow that vision and her continued absent is has nothing to do with having an impact as mentioned and it is something we can fear in tangible and untangle cases a ways to loss to our community and families another across the district were hearing the challenges given the trust of that community nora didnt have this issue the communities brought in the community loves hero and that is something the judge i choose to send any came out to the school and others as well by your violating your policies in the communities one of our shared principle is trust and it needs to be in the community to be preserved in the meantime nora an administrator together you dont hear it is city hall the teachers process and parents voices were getting mixed messages what is happened and did or did not happen and told you cant speak about the sidewalks and teachers cant and the commissioners seem to be focusing on the opposite pressure we want clarity to guess so the truths and its been done in secretary active way no idea what is happening to conclude the district pushes; right . For the standup practices the apac talked about the implementations of that nora and our school was highlighted in the report inform you all on the progress for the practices implementation as a model as the need and nora was mentioned by name; right . Where are the practices we want that to be followed not just something were trooifrg to teach our kids and walk on a dilate basis thank you this is in the the last times but begin to address this in a restorative way. clapping. good evening, everyone ive been at San Francisco Community School a Kindergarten Teacher and reverse specialist and now the ive goon there as a teacher im also the parents of two kids in sfusd i needed space necessary go to another school at the end of this Board Meeting we were talking about a Strong School leaders that is nora our community is passionate about nora and a fair process i want to actually tell we time San Francisco Unified School District community and the school board to engage in a restorative process to engage in all harm deny we held it together in the last two months all the graduations happened but really, really, really did the things have been done for us and against us the race is nebld and thats not part of the Restorative Practices and going on since restorative action and all the spaces to be heard and firmed are transparent in a fair process and whatever is done with stanford with the stakeholders of community we want nora to remain our principal she is for student achievement weve moved if tier 3 to to her 2 in the last two years under noras leadership were reading assessment in the segments are at or above district average in the past two years under noras leadership spearheaded the Initiative Part of a cohort of literacy and norway race had balanced portfolios in may theyre amazing and now project based learn is part of project 2025 and wrote a report and received a spark impact award to continue her award. Wrap up. Nora is previously teaches are contacted us to nora has the support of all 4 Parents Groups thank you. clapping. . speaking spanish. good evening my name is laurie have a child in the fifth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District and also a member of the latino school. speaking spanish. one of the things i appreciate about nora shes been so assessable to me preparing to the grouping of our school. speaking spanish. she has been present in almost all the latino schools and mate the effort to communicate to us in spanish. speaking spanish. every time we had an issue at school we be able to look at her hes been assessable to us in go giving us her time. speaking spanish. nora has shown her commitment for the recommendation when we minded it tell your communities more burglary the program and the school they to introduce to them the english learning students nora worked to put together a celebration of bilingual students now in the second year this is the one of most celebrations in our school. speaking spanish. personally shes helped me to find resources for my child outside of school finding a scholarship for the camp for the last 4 years. speaking spanish. this is go just one example how she goes beyond her duties to provide support for the English Learners and others in the school. speaking spanish. finally want to tell you that nora has done an excellent job with any child and all children of laying down families i respectfully request you keep nora as the principal of school we all love her and the school loves her. clapping. speaking spanish. good evening. Im a mother of San Francisco community and im also a volunteer in this school. speaking spanish. im also a member i have 4 children that have graduated from this school and right now one child that is in the fourth grade. speaking spanish. i have known nora for 8 years the teacher of one of my children. speaking spanish. i have seen her grow as a teacher and principal and really trust her. speaking spanish. because she is has done a great job with the school and students and everybody. speaking spanish. she is has always been available thats why were all here right now. speaking spanish. because respectfully want to ask you to keep nora. clapping. thank you. Hi, good evening. Im tonya i worked at San Francisco Unified School District for 19 years as a teacher and taught her oldest son and as a librarian ive worked with 6 plans at s f c the long term perspective on leadership at the Community School i know the job is difficult and complicated nora an, an exceptional leaders with district integrity i was thinking about when i wanted to say i feels upset while i was think about what happened at saturday in the inn orlando i realized that the notes would have addressed this tragedy and acknowledged our grove and horror and more than any other leaders nora consistent framed worldwide events and articulates the facts on the students and how we as educators can be involved and an freddie gray and after other killings and the slayers in nigeria to name a few the views helped me to remain determined how i can not fall into despair at the finished her notes have a wonderful week please let me know if i can support to me the weekly monday notes epitomize her notes and seeing the pictures to the students as individuals as the impact we as educators can have and always, always offering her support and combines in getting there the staff stands with nora and need her back thank you for your time. clapping. hi, im a parented at San Francisco communities and been with the community as a teacher for 10 years a professional developer supporting the secondary math that the district took on and ive been really proud to be part of this district and commend the board and the district leadership for the work with the matching subsequence and proud ive poling about that around the country but tonight im speaking on behalf of the council in relationship to this issue and we sent a letter to the district on the 31st of may expressing our support as a counselor for her that letter was not responded to instead we horde just the next day that nora was removed and we so the were a small group by design alu and the small school by design policy as well as the restorative practice work that is so important are Important Office of the city administrator at our school allows our community to select a new leaders when it needs to happen to quote the Restorative Practices the premise of restorative practice the people will make positive changes with them and that was rather than two to or for them were asking. clapping. that you as a board hold the district to the promises its made to the community to abide and stay by the policies we would like to make sure he hear from nora not just the district around the issues that happened were not allowed to know about and ask to ask you all the parties and communities is carefully considered and that meaningful steps to minimize harm to students and our community and restore the community from the harm that already happened and insist the district keep the practices and work with the School Sites Council to make the lisp decisions thank you for your time. clapping. good evening and thank you in advance for your time my name is patrick im one the resource specialists at s f c finished my first floor to and from from a career as an attorney the whole room of people that can talk about how professional and effective and dedicated nora as a leader ill not say that right now i want to talk about process we deeply value process at our school because thats the way to make sure that all voices are heard and that we keep equality at the center and value the have are is by the Small Schools by design policy i encourage you all to review youre the only ones that can listen to both sides i want to say that youre the only ones that hear both sides as a staff were not sure that there has been a fair process where both sides are horde we also building this final decide is a flawed process has a lack of understanding the school in the place in the dignity and regrets is desire to find an easy solution important a calibrated situation have you have a family of teachers who all knows about noras dedication to sfusd that should make you want to investigate what is going on i imagine this doesnt happen all the time over summer break 10 days and this is happening not the last youll hear from us i urge you to hear from nora to make sure there is a fair just and restorative process the one way this body to investigate to hear both sides of the story were submitting materials to you tonight i urge you to review them i also ask you to look at the small design by policy youll find well step up but most importantly hear from nora thank you. clapping. so good evening nooichlgz a Steve Williams im the parents of a kid that finished kindergarten at San Francisco Communities School i look forward to a long fruitful relationship with you on the bureaucratically and continue his education at San Francisco Communities School under the leadership of nora i think that is appropriate this conversation is happening after the last item that was on the agenda where what came very, very clear is the importance of leadership in setting the tune and direction for an entire school what were clear about we want nora to be the leader of our school we want nora back now although the course off last 10 days teachers and parents and students have worked together tool collect snatches on a petition and i wanted to read a portion of text in that petition we stand with our principal nora house man and time her back to remain as principal of the San Francisco Community School she shows deep dedication to students families and staff and a tremendous leader and committed to her return to s f c as our principal under her leadership the school is made important strides in foster a collaborative and talented community of teachers we believe none one better kwchltd to lead our school in just 10 days one and 50 people have signed that petition that may not sounds like a huge number but only one and 10 families weve been dlbl to sign overseeing competition people signed that petition twhierm on Summer Vacation in other countries people went to school during their vacationed to collect snatches at the school real commitment to bring nora back and you have the opportunities to make that situation right as other people said weve not gotten nearly enough information what literally heard there the grapevine a personal issue i couldnt agree more. Thank you your incredibly fortunate to have nora in this district and take action. Thank you the very last things president haney i think youve misinterpreted peoples commitment i know past the kids and folks bedtime not patience were willing to stay out the deep commitment to see this School District is one or won appropriate and bring nora house man back. I need everyone to respect the two minute agenda. My name is monique a 3 and 4 grade teacher at Community One value we as a community 0 always, always keep quality at the extra so everyone gets what they need as a leader nora provided values and put them all the members of the community i could go on and on about how much nora has supported me as a fresh teacher im here to read two letters from students of mine that represents the measure of impact that nora had h and continues to have on the students the first one written by this gentleman here dear school Board Members and School District i think we should keep nora shes available and cares about the students not sit behind a desk to she does paper paperwork when she was sheer hoa hear you could see her participating in the friday Morning Assembly once i have had a conflict a few moments ago the students were sitting with nora i could tell she really cared by the me and the other students and thinking about how to resolve it she wasnt doing this not just a job but cares she supports the students and staff and takes time to help to organize our project open house and picnic and pancake breakfast and leads us not the kind of leaders that tells people what to do she leads kindly in conclude nora cares about the school and everybody wants her back especially the San Francisco students thank you. clapping. your next one who is not heard to sfusd members im a fourth grader and want to tell you a mistake to have nora leave she knows all the kids and works with the teachers to make sure the teachers have what they need and plus she cares about her job nora wards to make sure that everyone is included and building a community please dont send her away. The last thing we want to leave you with a few artifacts there are letters from our four Parents Groups and the overview of the small group by design you can review it and theres a copy of the petition that went out online and separating a hand signed petition. Thank you thank you very, very, very much. clapping. thank you to all the speakers for your patience and commitment bryan brooks and jean roberts robertson. Are with i onramp yes so i dont know where bryan brooks but acknowledge the communities im the president of the united Administrators Union and see so many folks is out here is gratifying so thank you a lot of passion i wanted to just say thank you for the amazing year ill keep it light we worked hard together with our members to make sure the cabinet we shifted and worked in committees i think we moved a few announce mountains and get back in the saddle most are on vacation were happy to report another little thing i want to mention well, just the sf community and lastly a resolution for a bonds measure on the agenda tonight well support the art center coming forward and i want you to know your principal firmly support that i hope that goes well with that, i bid you an deal ongoing fish and hope you get to have a vacation as we do in the district so thank you. clapping. thank you, kevin bogus i had you signed up for a few things. Good evening commissioners and district staff and audience im here today to talk about my work 59 the Organization Find director of policy and your relationship to the district and in law ways were a partner of the administration helping to insure that africanamerican latino and other historic disenfranchised groups are access to the chambers of power and getting high quality education within sfusd and weve struggled with our ability to have transparency about what is going on and our partnership feels were on urban wptd partner at times over the course of this year weve not engaged the avenues of policy and in the able to necessarily fellow what the districts is doing and have access to timing information and data like to highlight the districts that reached out weve had meeting we have lucky with as reputation of the district and a lot of parents and students not able to at that particular time as much with the struggles whether it is the ending of meetings the stakeholders groups or the lack of actual Community Engagement a lot of the communities spaces leechlt well say the district mist but not a lot of communities partners and expand the conversation and not be a one way conversation from the district but Fosters Community u communication and allows regular parents and students and people in the community that cares about the students so engage and fully understand we would really like to, full fledged partner to make sure that all students are heard especially students in special education or africanamerican participants that have a low Graduation Rate and not the access to the resources that some of the students do im here to remind the board of candidates and the resolution or so and meeting those goals and go wrong side our state and federal requirements and powerful engagement of our students parents and broader communities thank you. clapping. all right. So were moving back into order of the agenda Public Comment on content items none signed up and item g the consent calendar exhibit a for the list of items can i have a motion and a second . On the consent calendar. So moved. Any items or corrected by the superintendent. Yes. Mr. Steel please. Thank you superintendent carranza one on page 577 two codes and second zero zero zero it zero one 7 and 750 both of those have no money associated with them of seven hundred plus credit those should both go down to score. All right. Any items removed for fvrdz by the board none any items severed by the aboard roll call vote under Second Organization and next id like to move Board Members proposals and cards and action we have one item Motor Vehicles on may the jrotc and adoption of the policy 30 years the did not study or pe studies for specific contrary were state ms. Wynns what having i have a report from the Curriculum Committee thank you president haney the Curriculum Committee moved this resolution item forward with a positive recommendation. By a vote of two is one no. Commissioner murase and commissioner wynns are reading the resolution. Encouragement well read of therefore, be it resolved clauses for the relation for the resolution on jrotc and is jrotc policy authorizing the jrotc policy or pe credit specific career therefore, be it resolved the board of education adopts a board policy for jrotc for the students to opt to take the independent study with the regulations adopted for this purpose or subsequent provisions to school site principal shall determine what staff will supervisor it based on the policy requirements and the needs of school site and therefore, be it resolved that the jrotc policy having shall authorize the credit if the criteria a sieved one the jrotc must provide 4 hundred maintenance of education every 10 dies as required by the education mostly and include the outdoor physical activities and two as course of overall studies must meet the objectives and criteria the effects of physical activities that on indictments health with the rhythm and dance and not including all areas of study and there 3 must have a credible that prohibits not to exceed to a single credential in physical education and physical education designated subjects and special subjects and d in reserve officer training core jrotc and number for the jrotc must pose a b. A. And the board this is a determined a b. A. Will be offered for pe credit and 5 the physical fitness test shall be administrative code by law therefore, be it resolved that the board rescinds any previous reconsideration or provisions there in that conflicts with this jrotc policy and further be it resolved, it resends the provision that requires the jrotc structures to obtain certification for pe study with deadlines and limitations associated with this requirement and rescinds the previous provisions for the funding limits onion is Jrotc Program or compensation. So a number of public speakers calling names . My name is richard owe he support an urge you commission to continue support the Jrotc Program that really served our country were a democracy a republic and all you are elected by the people to do a job for hundred years youre doing a gob you support the jrotc i was drafted and sent offer to fort training at the first session our instructor asked anyone of us you know have jrotc training and one of the hawaiian guys stand up and appointed to carry our banner our official Company Banner and our jrotc really feel that our leadership they have to learn how to receive instructions before they can give instructions later on and we heard the tragedy over in orlando last sunday and were going to 12 days from now the 26 sunday were going to have a modern one more than one billion poem coming to celebrate the pride parade and have our Police Department our Fire Department our medical centers are working on that and praying for any event but they do have the army, navy and everyone for back up if our department sf San Francisco department we dont have any capers have it in the code scott with the almost up well, let me urge you that i learned something from the most of you, we call you the support roach of roach to support our jrotc it is good for everybody thank you. My name is ignoring i dont think in any fourth time up here and talk about other experience in jrotc not in jrotc ill give you a brief remember i was a 200 and 50 pounds obese in high school and pushups and experienced in pe plaza classes who wants a fat kid for in their teens that is no the athleticly able to perform the sport through jrotc i have gotten positive reimbursement reimbursement to push and this idea of impulse one whatever you could do lets say you can only do 24 m plus one do 26 next time and keep on improving and thats what jrotc has taught me to you push their limits everyone has potential and dont settle for less thanks. clapping. good evening, everyone my name is shannon an upcoming senior in Burton High School ive been involved in the past years and ive widow witnessed how to Program Provides amazing opportunities for students and particular of the fiscal educational overseeing shines through the quality of leadership sorry about thatship and discipline for example, each individual student will have the opportunity to spent a number of experiences and sure the peers are doing the experiences correctly and the cadets p will push to the best of their abilities during the lessonss the instructors talk about the healthy individual from a daily intact of food to the daily experiences ive learned was in order for moist myself to be the best person mentally and physical in the past years ive seen many cadets grow as individuals i hope the Jrotc Program will continue to provide the credentials for those combaetsz not only has this greater impacted any life but many cadets in the jrotc communities thank you for your time. clapping. good evening, commissioners and Board Members and all the audience here im change im a teacher at George Washington high school and pleased to be here to say how i feel about the Jrotc Program im really before i start, i think id like to acknowledge all of your work hard this year and youre putting students in center and doing the best for all the students as an educator in my classroom i noticed students that is their Jrotc Program they are very unique traits for example, i noticed that they never cut classes and they are very getting following instructions and do what their supposed to do that didnt mean they have not beeners or creative but they know they know what is important and they make the right choice that he i also 0 noticed that they are very optimistic and have positive attitude theyre a good team workers work with the whole team well and collaborative that all any students in the Jrotc Program theyre not a students i must say i teach chinese and i teach level one i noticed that their proficiency level from a to even d and where the lower performers they do their best they communicate with me i work with them and help them they been reprecedent in learning so i Public School is a very positive men outlet and this is also a background for us to go continue to, successful in the future and all those. Your time is up. Thank you. I want to say that it is very important for the students so to have the positive learning attitude and really benefit our school our community and our future society thank you very much. clapping. hello, im going to be representing student if Burton High School hi, im anna im an upcoming junior at Burton High School ive taken and have my High School Career with confidence this program has an impact in my life we learn skills that motivate us to communicate we listen to one another and push ourselves further and things i didnt learn in pe in jrotc we push ourselves physically and in our cameras ive gains some Upper Body Strength due to the amount of pushups and doing our workout days as you can see compares to the we are the ones pushing ourselves to run the laps rather than walking them we stretch and warm up together at a platoon having the cadets lead the exercise we learn how to push ourselves and not give up i repeated many things your or any peers said but i hope that show us just how much we care about that issue and how much we stand together thank you for listening. clapping. good evening board and staff im here today to just i have a major concern about this resolution the lifting of funding foreign joshing not that jrotc is not important and didnt help a lot of students in ways i feel this district has more pressing priorities than jrotc from the Central Office a lot of special education students and fosters and english language students that need tutoring and additional counseled the schools are not staffed and it worries me to fund from the general fund that dont address those primary concerns so most definitely support you psa this resolution without that part and maintaining that bands and encouraging the city halls asking lives to find funds to pay for that but the district Central Office fund be directed towards academic and counseling and trauma informed and Restorative Practices and training foyer parents and teachers in overseeing things as well as students so just to say i think our Funding Priorities need to be based on making sure our students have xhooefk successful and find a way to do that without listing the ban on the funding. Commissioners good evening also hero to speak and he similarly he want to echo some of the candidates if the membership who were astounded to hear from the general fund to be used for jrotc when there you are more pressing concerns commissioner wynns earlier was alluding to the fact as much as you liked the apac recommendation to have parents liaison specific for the Africanamerican Community you noted; right . This is a great goal while at the same time we should have a general family liaison for all the schools that dont exist including my school a parttime from the money we fundraise all that so say more priorities that are very much basic ones including for example, the engagement plan in the talks for years and never created or implemented which those tremendous research; right . As to how that engaging families is completely connected to the outcomes indefinite more pressing concerns as well as research that is clear as to where we should be spending our dollars and unfortunately not jrotc ill urge to embed and move forward with that resolution excluding the lifting of the band a couple of other folks calling names and recognize the former member of the board of supervisors and former Senate Senator quentin was here teller to speak on this item. To speak in support of this item. Good afternoon good evening im a student in the Lincoln High School i ask to support this judged resolution ive made comments about how great the jrotc ill not bore you especially i dont understand why you dont feel the smaung you support pubically jrotc your statements and both dont renewable that it says the district goal to make the justice a reality but the Mission Goals how we do best and it seems to me that shouldnt be the only program against prohibition funding and in order to keep the prohibition in place it not not come up annually but students Work Together rather than the easy way out by prohibiting the jrotc instructors you hurt the students and if the administrators i trust most i speak to and know the concerns and problems i deal with are this does not spend other fund and it spends on jrotc that is a Necessary Program and how to expend by passing today is resolution to demonstrate that everyone and every program deserves a fair treatment please support todays resolution thank you. Hello my name is isabel brown an africanamerican and hispanic student at lincoln i mentioned im africanamerican and hispanic a reputation that assists minorities but nothing can be further from the truth many minorities take by the people but 17 percent of the jrotc instructors are in San Francisco are minority and those instructors help to mentor and guide the minority students in the Jrotc Program as well as nonjrotc students in the ask the that they teach so i wanted you to hear from the minorities students the Jrotc Program is amazing i also want to ask a question one question proposal to look at the prohibition that against the funding i ask the members to have the board any question why jrotc is the only program with the prohibition against central funding why is that right to disseminate against jrotc if someone were to tell me i couldnt play fusible or become president of the United States and would protest we want to commend be not be principal but dont i have a right to look at that but not fundamentally this is unfair you dont have a chance to expedite is not right all programs deserve to be treated fairly and even if it is one you mate liy not like. Im in the Jrotc Program ask for support of the resolution of the proposal were considering the Jrotc Program is in jeopardy but im concerned because there is maul cuts i have seen inflicted on the program and interested in writing righting previous wrongs and so as previous action that have been detrimental to the jrotc i wasnt hero when those actions were taken by alumni but know what the jrotc used to do and really would getting fewer opportunities in the because of the of the unfair actions by the previous board when i heard about the resolution the new question i asked why was pe credit taken away in 2008, and two why was the prohibition placed against jrotc the program has not changed since 2007 or 2013 but the first relax the the second was the instructor Resources Available to the program and the citizens i may be wrong i think that most members of the previous board if like jrotc i say there are good reasons dont ask dont tell policy but since the major issues were referred we should take steps to treat jrotc fairly shouldnt we after all ever you have you fear jrotc is not go you want this to continue i ask to you treat jrotc correctly by passing the resolution for me and my fellow jrotc students throughout the city thank you. clapping. good evening. Im a joking student at Abraham Lincoln high school i spoke at the curriculum meeting but to the ask for support for me by pga the resolution for the curriculum perspective he ask your support for the schedules and a murnd process for graduation didnt give us the flexibility for lefkdz by allowing jrotc for a pe credit that gives us a chance to take others electives and helps us to be more competitive so jrotc curriculum is exceptional it teaches us how to be responsible and per skaud and teaches us how to be better citizens and physical ed and many elements that my fellow students get in pe many of us in genetic perform better in the annual fitness test than our countered parts the prohibition against the central sfubdz fufrpdz is an issue an issue of funding should have a equal opportunities to compete for funding i ask for you will have you to support jrotc by voting to adopt this resolution thank you. clapping. when you put the phone down ill start. My name is tom im the president of regional chapter of the association of United States arm i agree with everything you people have said to this point in support of this resolution and it is strange i should come here because the United States arm has no direct connection with jrotc it doesnt teach military tactics and strategy weapons, equipment and what have you state teaches a personal values that are important to all the communities and the question i was the premiers why is jrotc treated differently i dont think any of you were here 8 years ago when we my condolences when you made the headlines the first page of what is moa my local newspapers when i was working in Fairfax County va not easy they make the washington papers but you are in the spotlight jrotc from my observations is extremely important extremely productive one of the best bargains youve got but it actually wow. The sentiment i felt sdoirpt and betrayal i sat here gong on 4 hours now and i heard all those programs brought forward to this table all sorts of groups reaching in for money and when jrotc asked to have a restriction lifted and people spoke against it i heard a cheer from the back there so what you got now are a few dogs fighting for the same bone and if you let them fight youre wrong you should give jrotc what all the other programs have and the Administration Process thank you. clapping. my name is convincingcy not on the list but spoken with judge i was here 8 years ago i was one the cochairs ever prop z choice for students the voters of San Francisco spoke loudly they said put the program back we didnt put the program back because when is program was disbaptist it should central funding and had to instructors per school and we gave pe credit it is taken 8 years to get to what the voters of San Francisco said 8 years ago reinstate the program as it was we didnt do that this resolution after 8 years takes us back to what the voters of San Francisco told our Public Officials told the board of education, i i did not know why there is an issue that the Jrotc Program does not give the same footing as any other program in our schools those who say they support it eat dont support the ability for them do give the same fair basis of any other podium do they does not support of program you cannot say you support in the program when you dont support all aspects im here to ask the voters who passed prop b 8 years ago . The last part of it thank you. clapping. comments from the board. Vice president walton. Thank you very much mr. Chairman and members of the board this is a matter of quality pair it and fairness and if we were permanent about this situation we not consider that for us to support this program and theres no guarantee that funds will not be taken from those important measures that deal with the narrowly the achievement gap whos the sick itself we need to take a very close look at being transparent and making sure mr. Superintendent that we dont compromise the commitment weve made to a community that has been far behind and part of king juniors benjamin may said he or she is behind in the race of life will stay behind but rovrn pastor and run faster in order to capture what that measure calls the Underserved Community to not run faster thats the question. clapping. thank you reverend brown. Mr. Walton. Thank you, commissioner president haney and first of all, i want to thank all the sires meanwhile that serves in our military we definitely appreciate your service i want jrotc to be treated fairly i hope well go to the federal government and say give us what you owe us to the Jrotc Program because it is their program i truly support jrotc ive spoken and go out and talk to the young people and visit the classrooms and make sure that i hear from the students and so i have no issues with the program i think that has fallacy for anyone that portrays it as under attack it is definitely not but i have to want to and transparent what we have an attempt to export funds from areas we can be initiative and talk about the programs that dont need that support and this will be arley to your vision 2025 strategies and a misrepresentation of the what is taken care of other jrotc youve heard students testify about the great opportunities the high gpas i had a teacher come and discuss and talk about the students that operators parted that note be active in the school we all support, of course, and it is also a demonstration that jrotc is a program that is doing well so again, i say jrotc is not suffering but ill say in the district our black our latin and Asian Pacific islanders are English Learners and children with special needs and if you want to possibly take the resources away from those populations that no he had it most of the i say same shame on oneonone anyone with that intention and proposal we have children not reading in grade level and children that are homeless in our district and behind in the race and any opportunities and resources need to go to the innovation to address the gaps in our districts if in their are funding gaps that exist in jrotc it is due to the take that that the department of justice to be specific is not funding their own program the fight is with the federal government with the go budget at at least 3. 3 trillion sow we dont take food out of the mouth of those that need it the most jrotc is not suffering in this district and lifting prohibitions creates the vision and stirs up the dichotomy of important with the people are the means in our district shame on us i dont think who is spreading the rumor about jrotc to compete for resources but the rumors has to look at students and families in the face and let them know how to create it false crisis our forcing people to highlight the issues within the program i cant accept this resolution unless the last resolve clause is removed jrotc is a federal program why there prohibition in jrotc fund because it is a federal program jrotc receives over 800,000 we pay the half of the salaries for others jrotc instructors and the benefits of jrotc instructors the federal government didnt pay a dime we have students district test blow average for the city in particular students testing below average our money needs to support overseeing students not programs we pay half the slayer if you want to improve the fiscal achievement gap not support programs that effect our adverse latino population and other folks are noted diabetes is here and another policy or an attempt to make the outcomes worse force the students that need it the most i talked about this in terms of i remember the resolution originally was brought to be about pyeonchang and first month or so conversations about the funding everyone who came to testify this is about and making sure that jrotc students have an opportunity to receive puc and all of a sudden that is abou