Vote on this tonight i have concerns around the multi lingual pathways and the dollar amounts weve allocated for particular programs and i guess my biggest concern is around is not knowing exactly what our strategy is for growing programs be stabilizing program, aligning programs 13,000 for the tagalog program is nothing id like to have time to understand our plan for stabilizing our k program and how that feeds into the high school before i will allocated an amount the alternative not to allocate the dollars tonight but to put in x number of dollars that go into the multi lingual prop programs and for us to work through a strategy around this because i think it is very specific on how many ftes are going to programs and im not clear on whether or not those are the appropriate program to move our language programs forward thats my concern around the pathway programs and the other thing that came up for me in reviewing this we break down the excel role well and i guess i have questions
Families and in our agency we serve the Agencies Mission it is that sign that hung a long time on the facade of a building on stockton said no filipinos loud it sign no longer xitsz but today it feels like it does in this proposed budget that sits aside only a certain amount of money that makes us filipinos feel that sign is still up so commissioners please join me and lets take down the sign that says no filipinos by putting in the budget for filipino language that accurately reflect the no idea of our community our community, of course just desire as the others were overall 5 percent of the student population we need the see population to be taught like we need at least two fulltime employees to accurately represent us 30,000 wont help us so thank you, commissioners for considering a correction what we feel is incorrect we do feel you want to do something about this. speaking Foreign Language. thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Our next speaker is going to speak if tagalog i
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