City college to do a little more here or us as sfusd and to leverage, you know, resources that were getting . Because i think its a big pie, and i want us to look at it that way and own our piece, as well. Right. That makes sense and i really appreciate all your support on that. Yeah. Thank you very much. All right. Trustee randolph. Just a few quick comment that was inspired by the commissioner here. I think you make a very good point about middle schoolers and elementary schoolers. I think the earlier you talk about Certificate Programs and c. T. S and trades, the more excited the students get. I want to point to, for example, long beach and l. A. I think thats why commissioner collins and i are so excited. Long beach and other districts around the country, middle schoolers actually design a symbol sign a symbolic contract when they enter high school. So part of that is they visit college campuses, they learn about college, and they sign a contract to themselves and to their peers th
Are demographically participating that are asian. So im looking at the english language learners and seeing what percentage are asian and what percentage are latinx. In the district, when were looking at participation rates, were seeing a higher number of asian than latinx. In my head, i know what our graphics are in the district. I know that African American students are around 7 , so seeing that in comparison, you can see the gap, right . And so it would be helpful, when youre showing how many, you know asian American Students are participating versus how many students are just in the system. Those are ways for us to see where the kind of where the gaps in representation are. And then all of that kind of leads me to ask, do we have set targets . How do you set targets . Like, im seeing increases, but theyre different varying levels of increase, and im wondering, is there a goal that were trying to work towards, and how do you articulate that . Our intention is to match sfusd demograp
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