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Digital district is that those become dynamic and so that students are interacting with them on a screen rather than simply printing them out and looking at them on the screen. Thank you. That was a good short answer, i appreciate that. And then the last question i had, which was on slide 15, which talks about the Digital District will be executed over a three year period. I guess im going to ask a couple of questions and maybe you can give me a paragraph of an answer. Im curious and maybe you m...

Having only one guidance counselor. He helps kids find the high schools that are right for them, but helps kids with big problems and handles discipline in our classrooms. He is too busy and needs help. Im worried that when im trying to find a High School Im not going to get the help i need because he is too busy. Im also worrying that kids at bigger middle schools will have an vantage over me because they have the help they need. One common thing people think of when they hear rooftop alternati...

Were not reaching. Commissioner maufus. Thank you. I had in regards, i just want to make a comment to what you said commissioner norton. I can understand that sort of thinking which would get us over a huge hump and serve so many families, but i also see that as disadvantaging the families, that really we need to get to as well because that puts them behind them again. And thats always sort of the balance were trying not to do thats not my intent at all. Of course not. I just wanted to note that...

Would have this kind of technology. Now, i wont say this is going to be an easy lift. Itll be a big lift for us. Itll require us all to row in the same direction, require us to make a compelling case to the community and Business Community in san francisco, but i know we can do it, because as i read through our vision 2025, this is what were talking about, vision 2025. The graduate of 2025. And i had the opportunity this afternoon to attend an event with auto desk with several of the commissione...

Whether theyre private companies or wherever as to how they fit into that. Thats whats exciting about this vision and the Digital District plan that were putting forward is were laying our own vision and theyre coming and figuring out how they fit into it. I think with that we have to be individual lent that we arent allowing them to dictate our priorities. When they give money it takes our time in different ways. We use our resources, and once you build something and their funding goes away now...

An putting it on a four year refresh cycle and i think we need to do that. One of my questions for you is have you identified actually funding for this or is it more like this is an ask as part of the fundamental development strategy. Ill take a first stab at it. Great question. Its a yes and yes. So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as wel...

The second thing i had a question on and we didnt talk as much about it, but in the beginning you say here actually the very first thing, move from decentralized site based technology purchasing to a centralized purchasing and budgeting strategy. Id like to know more about what that means in terms of sites and how quickly they can move on things. With this, is there some concern or what are we doing around ensuring that sites are supported with the need that they have as quickly as possible arou...

To you, it will become less important to us. Please consider your priorities and how you want it to go forward. Thank you. Hi, im a very strong supporter of public education. Not only am i a parent of two children in sfusd for 12 years, i am also a teaching artist and teaches on grants and the sfusd public middle and high schools. Im very concerned that the district is going to lose many families. I am coming to you as an elementary parent whose child in two rounds did not receive their Feeder S...

Approximately a zero percent Response Rate that had very high proportions of African American and latino students. We got about 900 percent more responses and about a percentage point or more each for the Response Rate for the latino and African American families. Our main finding is most households have internet. The district average is about 94 percent. It ranges from the high 70 percent for American Indian and alaska native families, up to 98. 4 percent for our white families. As you can see ...

We rely heavily on [inaudible] as a middle schooler it really helps to get help if your personal or home life is affecting your school life. The district is cutting 2 3 of our current support but adding support to other schools. We started to realize the fundsing gap. At rooftop ive [inaudible] of seeing a friend go through a hard time and not being able to do much about it. Also knowing at other schools they have the proper su porlt makes it much worse. People assume that rooftop is a High Perf...