By limiting their course options. At the same time after we did that, there was this giant deficit we felt through the city through the state. Then it was how we implement these new requirements while we experience these cuts. So school sites experienced it because they got less money than they had before. And why you heard some going from a seven to sixperiod day to make those choices to support their core program. They have all done these different cuts. And then we had the additional hit of what happened from the state with the afterschool fund. Because we werent anticipating that. Right. And i think that the School District eliminated evening schools that we still had that safety net. Now we have an awareness and responsibility to reallocate and reprioritize in this new budgeting cycle. To be sure that we are meeting the needs of the students for graduation in the School District. I am not in a position to say 2. 7 but to meet the needs. This may be a question more to young or the
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the thursday october 25th, 2012 meeting of the city and county of San Francisco, city and School District select committee. My name is david campos and im the chair of the committee. Were joined by choice president chiu, commissioner hydra mendoza, commissioner sandra lee fewer. My understanding is that the other members of committee are en route. The clerk of the committee today is victor young and we want to thank the following members of sfgovtv staff, Michael Freeman and Jennifer Lowe for covering the meeting and we thank the members of the public and staff who are at the meeting today. With that, mr. Clerk, if you could please call i. Item no. 1. Hearing on the implementation of ag course requirements in San Francisco unified School District high schools. Thank you very much. And this is an item, hearing request that was actually requested initially by supervisor carmen chu. Commissioner fewer, do you want to Say Something . No. Thank you. An
Difficult for students who cant stay at their home school. There are also courses exactly like pe that have a higher failure rate that havent had an opportunity. We havent had a Credit Recovery or Summer School or Evening School pe. So we will offer that that in spring and summer including pe and biology. We also want to have three centralized Evening School sites to offer those courses. We want to explore the opportunity to really partner with our communitybased organizations. So that students could actually work on some of these courses when they are in their community, when they are at their program. And work through it either virtually new exciting online programs, the not the ones of the past, but the ones that are more interactive that we have seen success in. Just to give another option to students and thinking about other options. One thing we found in our Summer School sessions when cbos targeted certain groups of students in Summer School, with my did see Better Outcomes for
School system would meet uclg requirements. That was gone so that once they gra grade graduate and receive university admission. The policy was that equity and goals should be for all students. And the class of 2014 is the first class to graduate with these New High School requirements. This Years High School juniors. But what is sad at the same time. In 2009 to the present when the policy was passed. The district has had over 77 million in cuts to funding. That devastated the districts ability to provide the safety net that every student is on track for ag. And we have been impacted through this action plan. I receive the question if the passage of prop 30 fix it. There are no new funds with prop 30. What it does is stabilize the base. And the base is an old base. Its not restoring anything. Its starting the hemorrhaging, if you will. Before you go forward. I think what is not clear to me. So i understand that the ag graduation policy was put in place by the school board previously. I
That is web based for a lot of programs. At their communitybased organization. We know that a lot of students like to hang out and give them a safe place to study. And they can do that offsite. We want to establish that infrastructure. And then we set another group of students that we want to be sure we provide extra support for. And an example of that, the last two summers we have been able to have Summer School for the class of 2014. Because dcyf has provided some funding for that. And we also at the same time worked with an organization of cbo called Young Community developers, and they worked with a group of our students. It was 50 the first summer, and i want to say close to 100 the second summer. And the outcomes for the students who went through the program were greater than the outcomes with the rest of the students. They had 9095 class rate for their Summer School classes. We want to give an opportunity to give a boost for these students through programs in the past, where we