roll call, please. just for clarification, that this resolution and 125-8sp2. it is sp1. no, it s sp2, as reported on the agenda. it is on page one. if it says sp1, that is incorrect. is s it is sp2. president yee: ok. let s make a correction. miss zhang? joyce zhang: yes. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner wynns: no. six ayes. [applause] president yee: now that he successfully have gained a charter, we are going to have to continue the meeting. if you like, you can stay for the whole meeting. but if you would like to leave, please leave quietly, so we can proceed. this is still a long meeting. the next item will be 126-12 f p one, adoption of the fiscal year 2012/2013 budget. give them a couple of minutes. president yee: no. nobody has to hear. ok. i guess we can proceed, now that they are leaving so quietly and not having a discussion. thank you very much. this item has already been moved and seconded on june 12. the budget was disc
thank you very much. are there any comments from the board? commissioner murase: i had a chance to review all the materials. i know it has gone to several committees. i know the folks were very responsible to some of the concerns expressed in committee, including 2008 retention issues. they focused on it like a laser beam and were able to increase it from 86% to 92%. i feel like there is quite a responsiveness on the part of the administrators. i had the opportunity to visit. what i saw was really engage students. there was not a single kid in the corner sleeping are doing other things. really excited about learning. i will be supporting this application. i think one of the lessons from this charterers is that it in georgia a lot of community support and generosity of our community. it tells us what it really costs to educate a young person, which is wholly inadequate, the funding we are giving from the state. commissioner mendoza: i want to thank everybody that came out, pa
that. i do not see you competing for the same students. that is what i am banking on you doing. i know you are going to do that and follow up. i hope your school is full of kids that would normally not be in school. that is what i am hoping for. i know many folks that have been families that have gone through the kipp academies. they are not saying it is easy. they never said it was easy, but they are in. believe me. we tussle over that quite a bit. why couldn t you be in one of our other schools? kipp is the place my school my kid is going to be successful. we need to learn better how to wraparound a family. but if you are going to do it, please look at those kids. president yee: thank you, commissioners. i also feel some of the things that commissioner wynns has said. i share some of those concerns and values. it would be nice if we could, in the public schools, be able to capture as much resources per child as some other entity. indeed, it either way you looked at it,
roll call, please. just for clarification, that this resolution and 125-8sp2. it is sp1. no, it s sp2, as reported on the agenda. it is on page one. if it says sp1, that is incorrect. is s it is sp2. president yee: ok. let s make a correction. miss zhang? joyce zhang: yes. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner wynns: no. six ayes. [applause] president yee: now that he successfully have gained a charter, we are going to have to continue the meeting. if you like, you can stay for the whole meeting. but if you would like to leave, please leave quietly, so we can proceed. this is still a long meeting. the next item will be 126-12 f p one, adoption of the fiscal year 2012/2013 budget. give them a couple of minutes. president yee: no. nobody has to hear. ok. i guess we can proceed, now that they are leaving so quietly and not having a discussion. thank you very much. this item has already been moved and seconded on june 12. the budget was disc
kids get from our charter. in the past, i have never been on the side of voting for a charter that has impact to our regular system. but in this case, there are positive step will outweigh that particular negative. i will be supporting the kipp charter. roll call, please. just for clarification, that this resolution and 125-8sp2. it is sp1. no, it s sp2, as reported on the agenda. it is on page one. if it says sp1, that is incorrect. is s it is sp2. president yee: ok. let s make a correction. miss zhang? joyce zhang: yes. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner wynns: no. six ayes. [applause] president yee: now that he successfully have gained a charter, we are going to have to continue the meeting. if you like, you can stay for the whole meeting. but if you would like to leave, please leave quietly, so we can proceed. this is still a long meeting. the next item will be 126-12 f p one, adoption of the fiscal year 2012/2013 budget. give the