several months. i d also like to thank staff for this in depth and very lucid and easy to comprehend the document on this, on all your findings. thank you very much. thank you. other comments? commissioner yee. vice president yee: i want to thank the staffers and for the analysis and i really appreciate the practice of analysis for an english language learner piece of this which really gives me a lot of concern about this proposal, or this petition, so just, thank you. president mendoza: other comments? i want to thank mr. cohen, i actually wanted to thank you guys also for this. i don t have any questions, i just have a comment for you. this is one of those things where, i actually spent time with preston to talk through this. i was disappointed that my other board members have not been reached out to or didn t have the same find of information i had. i think it s aen it s an interesting concept, but i was disappointed not to have a deeper conversation either in co
elements. thank you. any questions? president mendoza: so i have two people speaking so i have two people speaking on this matter, evan collins and preston smith. come on down. i have two minutes. hi, evan cohen, manager for rocketship, we re here tonight to answer any questions the board of superintendent may have. thank you. thank you. so comments from the board? superintendent? commissioner wynns? commissioner wynns: i wanted to thank the staff for this. this is a good, cogent, clear analysis and i don t in any way mean to imply let s just say that ones we have had in the past have been more just hitting points without the context being explained, so i really appreciate this. i think it s an excellent document that explains to us in the community. commissioner fewer. furefure so ms. richards, just fewer fewer commissioner fewer: so ms. richards, for context, this was brought to us for first reading, we were going to take it to committee, we wouldn t have be
together, and she came back right after her baby was born. i m upset and devastated that these decisions were made. but i m taking into consideration how the parents will feel. thank you. good evening, commissioner. commissioners and superintendent. i am betty robertson harris, i m the chair of the child development committee. i share a lot of the same feelings that several people have spoken about. one thing that i really would like to bring to your attention is that our department has been experiencing major changes for the past five years and change in itself can be extremely challenging and difficult but change that is not meaningful, thoughtful, is not including all participants, is change that is led to destruction. transparency, social justice, building trust in relationships and building relationships are key and critical parts of a child development education. it s particularly important for young children. i m here to talk about specifically over 94 of my peers
item 116-28sp1, an authorization to gran or deny the petition for rocketship san francisco charter school. i ll call on mary richards. just when she thought the got away from doing all this. happy to help. good evening. superintendent, commissioners. members of the public. before i read the amended language of the resolution into the record, i just want to make a couple of brief comments. the board members, you should have all received staff s written factual findings concerning this matter, just to explain to the process, it was not a typical review process, only because of the summer schedule and schedule of staff actually here during the summer. when speaking to the petitioner group from rocketship, i conveyed this several months ago before the summer recess so i clearly laid out the schedule, the potential schedule. we did make a request for an extension of that schedule for review and the petitioner group felt it was necessary for us to come to a decision within the