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Much money the employees have given back to this district to keep it going when times were bad. You know how much money will be coming to you because we all work for proposition 30. You heard today how much more money will come to the schools because the economy has been good and your negotiators with you authority offered me a 2 percent raise. And you think this is the promised taking care of our employees that we keep hearing about from the superintendent and the school board. I think its time...

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...

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...

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...

Happen. [applause] next speaker please good evening commissioners and superintendents. Im the president of the social Justice Community at rooftop k 8. We plan campaigns and events we feel will help our school community. This year we got the opportunity to apply for a grant and we took it. We designed a campaign, submitted an application and got the grant. The problem we identified for our grant was the lack of womens programs. For the past few months weve done lots of research and planning arou...

More vigor rather than just get yvette going and a couple of parents but being support by the entire school. And it was definitely i want to take on something by the president to get done this year. Finally, after 19 years i say that with some eesht we create materials in languages other than english. And this is 20 years into a school in San Francisco thats a dive city so, now our recruitment is in chinese and japanese and spanish and finally, theres after 20 years our voicemail is you have an ...

Promised taking care of our employees that we keep hearing about from the superintendent and the school board. I think its time the stop playing around. My students in first grade know that playing ing around time is for recess time. This is school time, we have serious work to do and there is a lesson to be learned and that has to do with prioritizing. Teachers and parents gave the district 60 million over the past four yours. Prop 30 will double your funds over the next few years. Today the go...