Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Kids, one who is now autistic. Since vaccinations cause autism, but now i have some good news. U. C. Davis, right over there, has just done a great m. R. I. Study of children with excess food on the brain fluid on the brain. What it proved is babies with excess fluid on the brain, 100 of them, develop autism. We know what causes autism. I urge you all to do your homework, a google the u. C. Davis m. R. I. Study. See the evidence. Dont listen to what the mass media says, they are working for big pharma. We need an end to this autism epidemic that is driving the cost up for the School District. We have more and more autistic kids in the school every year. Black lives matter. Four times more black students fail in the San Francisco school system. You report every year. Four times more. Why . There is a movie out called fax. It starts next week nationwide. It points out that four times more black students get autism from vaccinations then do every other student in the school system. I suppose i could mention it i should mention, i am also a dr. We have to stop this epidemic. One out of 45 boys now have autism in this country. It is getting worse every year. We must stop it. Thank you. [applause] good evening, commissioners and employees. We are all, i am an active music teacher and im speaking at this point in the meeting to address the issue of participatory budgeting on all levels, not only related to the curricular issues, but basically my point is i have worked at schools where that happened in the principal is very open to setting the staffing and the budget, and it results in a lot more efficiency. I really dont know of any process that erases article 25 at the teachers contract, i have been encouraging you to think as you go forward when the with many of these goals that the people that i think know best how to allocate those resources are the people that are good doing the work. They have a lot of efficiency, could add a lot of efficiency to the process. So thats basically my point. It will be addressed in whatever you do, but i would encourage you to develop a districtwide process, participatory budgeting , as well as at the cool school sites and encourage administrators to do that as well. Thank you so much. Thank you, those are the Public Comments that we have for items not on the agenda. Section d. , his Advisory Committee to the report. We have heard this. Number twaddle under that item is are there any appointments to the Advisory Committee . I want to point alida fisher to the charter committee, please thank you. Section e. , consent calendar. We need a motion and they second so moved. Second. We have no Public Comment. Are there any items withdrawn . None tonight. Any items or mood for First Reading by the board . Any item severed by the board or the superintendent superintendent for discussion about tonight . Seeing none, roll call, please. Thank you. [roll call] that is six aye. Thank you. Vote on the board for separate consideration. There is none tonight. G. , proposals for action. Authorization to grant or deny the renewal petition for life learning e. , academy. We need a report from the curriculum and Program Committee which met on may 20th. Commissioner lopez . We gave it a positive recommendation. Thank you. Deputy superintendent lea . Yes, presenting this item is michael davis, director of policy and planning of Charter Schools. Thank you. I am here to read the superintendents recommendation regarding Life Learning Academy Charter Renewal petition. The superintendents proposal, 1941 sp2 is an authorization to deny or approve the petition for Life Learning Academy. Pursuant to california Education Code, Life Learning Academy inc. , submitted a petition for a renewal of Life Learning Academy Charter School to the San Francisco Unified School District and where as pursuant to california Education Code section 47605, et cetera, the board of education of the district received the petition on april 9th, 2019, and whereas a district complied with all timelines for review and action on the petition as required by law, and whereas the board of education shall consider the level of public support for the Charter School and shall review the petition and all information received with respect to the petition, including supporting documentation, and whereas the district superintendent and district staff have completed a review of the petition, and issued a report and recommendation through the board of education regarding that review, therefore be it resolved that the board of education shall grant the petition subject to the requirements set forth by law. More specifically, the superintendents proposal, the board of Education Report on the superintendents proposal states that the action proposed is that staff recommends approval of the renewal of the charter for Life Learning Academy located at 6,518th street Treasure Island for five years beginning july 1 st, 2019 and june 30th, 2024 to serve approximately 50 students per year in grades nine through 12. Thank you. We have Public Comment on the a10. Please address the podium. You have two minutes each. [reading names]. Hello, good evening. Thank you so much for allowing us to comment on this item number. My name is denise coleman, and i serve on the board of Life Learning Academy. I am also the director of youth justice for Huckleberry Community Assessment and resource centre, better known as park. In my capacity as the director, we see about 250 kids a year. We are San Franciscos diversion for respite kids. As we talk to our young people, at least 75 of our young people have issues or problems with their behavior, attendance, or grades in school. There is an even larger percentage of that 75 that feel of feel like they just dont fit in a traditional, standard, unified school, and when they give us that kind of information in the first place, then we turn to the Life Learning Academy. I know that they specialize in young people that feel like they dont fit, and they engage them in a way that is warm, that is loving, that is teaching, that gives them an environment, and a space where they want to learn, they want to try new things, and on top of the academic and the social learning component that they have inside the school, they are now providing, or very soon to start providing a residential component, because there are so many young people that come there for a school day , come home, and are incredibly discouraged, and dont want to come back to school the next day. They dont have to do that anymore. Now they can go to school, go home across the street, have a good, hot meal, or find a good place to sleep, and they can come back to start the academic day all over again. Thank you so much, and i support the charter for Life Learning Academy. [applause] hello, everyone. I am a senior at Life Learning Academy, i will be graduating next week on tuesday. [applause] it is bittersweet to say that , yes, it is, but im pretty excited. I want to thank terry and everyone who have taken me to become a better person. I would like to tell you guys a little bit about what l. A. Has done for me. I want you guys to see through my eyes how it can help other students, and i wish that the dormitory option was open for me when i first started because if that was open for me, i feel like my life would have skyrocketed 100 more than it already has. I would really like to consider that we have i say we because we are a family, i dont think we are a school. I go there, and a call occult my home. I say, no, im just going to terry. I like to let you guys know that we dont think of it as a school it is all family. We all know each others names, we know everything about each other. We see the light in each other. We know we all came from something that is not extremely perfect. We all come from something that can be family related, it can be self related, it can be school related, but we all come from something, and we are all there to make ourselves better. That is what we see there with each other. I have learned to be very outspoken, and before i wouldnt be speaking to you guys, and i would really appreciate you guys for letting me come up here and speak about my school, and how the academics has really helped me. I think i have been a more intelligent person for life, and not just for school. I feel like im ready for life and i am ready to skyrocket off to my next adventure in life because of the Life Learning Academy. Thank you so much, and i hope you guys consider keeping us open, because we can excel in so many other peoples lives. Thank you. [cheers and applause] good evening. My name is jamaal, i am the chief academic officer. I will give you a little review of some of things we do in terms of academics. Our school, it combines academics and vocational and life skills. We are curriculum our curriculum provide students with an experiential learning environment where they can put to work what they are learning in the classroom right away. We have an integrated curriculum , so we do all of the traditional subjects. And we also do workforce development. This comes through in our classrooms every day. Our steam class, not only do they learn about the design process and the tools that students need to implement such, things like being able to design and build a stage for our theater program, or greenhouse were greenhouse for our organic garden, and so next year, our students will be using the greenhouse to conduct science experiments around soil biomes. They will be learning as they work in the garden. They will use that garden to produce food for folks who live on the island and selling things at the farmers market. It is a really important way for them to apply what they are learning right away and to have a use for what they are doing immediately. Denise hasnt told you all the things she is accomplished because of take much more time. Shes poised to graduate and then she will take what she learned this the semester in our program, and she will be in the Northern California Carpenters Union union preapprenticeship program. [cheers and applause] by the end of summer, she will be getting hired as a union carpenter. [cheers and applause] she has a few steps to get there, but i have absolutely no doubt she will accomplish it. As you heard from her and her poise, as well as many other students in our school, they are learning things that will last them for life. Thank you for this opportunity and for improved approving our charter. [cheering] i go to Life Learning Academy i transferred from Galileo High School in San Francisco. I played football all four years there. Life Learning Academy has provided a lot of opportunities in the Different Things that you can do. They let me play football at their school when i transferred. I just really want to say thank you, you know, for everything. I thought that, i dont even know, i wasnt even planning on going to college. They allowed me to become better before, i was just a student, and now i am more of a student athlete. Im looking forward to going to college. [applause] i just want to keep be being able to be good and setting a good example for my little brother. I want to continue to be a positive influence to my community. In my school, we have a ton of support. We are not a school, we are more of the community. All of the students there, we know each other, the students there in our school are not Walking Around on our phones, were talking to each other, communicating, and we have a lot of respect for each other. You look around our school, we dont charge around. All of the murals and the paintings you see, the students did that. I live in Treasure Island, so i wish i had come to Life Learning Academy right when i first started high school. Galileo was pretty big, i felt that, im kind of nervous right now. You are doing great. Thank you. [applause] good evening. My name is barbara, i am a secondgeneration parent and grandmother at Life Learning Academy. I had six children who all graduated from the San Francisco Unified School District, but i had two children who graduated from Life Learning Academy which have not which would not have been possible in the setting they were in. I had one daughter at balboa, and i had both of my kids were up elbow, and for some reason, they were able to get off campus and do all this extra stuff. I had all these people calling me to come get them. So my son went into a deep depression. He didnt want to tell me that he was doing really bad in school and he was depressed. I found terry, and she saved both of my childrens life. Now i get to the point where i am and i have a grand i have a grandson who had his father murdered in 2012, a mother who is not in his life, but he had a strong background with my sister and i. I stand firm for him, and i stand firm for Life Learning Academy and terry who was more like, i dont know what to describe her, my daughter what if she was here, but it is an awesome experience. I was really afraid for my grandson. He was getting in trouble all the time. He ended up at why p. C. , and i said oh, my god, i feel like i was in a dream, the kind of kid he was, like why is he here . It was a company he was keeping. He always wanted to be the class clown. It came down to, either i find somewhere safe or a better learning environment for you, or i might be visiting you in prison. So i called my sister, i said, hey, i have the Perfect Place for him. I know it works. It worked for two of my children who are now productive members of society. And my grandson, with everything he has on his shoulder, when he gets there, it is still like being home. Life Learning Academy is built on love. It is education, and my grandson can cook. He likes to cook and i love it. Thank you for your time. Good evening, board. I graduated from the Life Learning Academy in 2008. I was a kid that was on the wrong path very fast and having Life Learning Academy mean something in my life actually saved my life because from that point on, i learned how to live, i learned how to grow, i learned how to do so many things that i would not have been able to do before because i did not have much confidence. I was hanging around the wrong people. Life Learning Academy showed me a family that i really didnt have, and they also showed me job skills, they showed me life skills, jamaal mentioned the greenhouse. I was one of the students that held built that greenhouse. To actually hear about that greenhouse when i got to the school, if you ever go out and visit, it is spectacular. When i got out there in 2005, it was too far. Now, you know, the academy, and the board and the academy, and the garden, which has been around since 2005, 2006, whenever i was there, and they also taught me job skills. I currently work at a tech nonprofit that supplies other nonprofits with Tech Services such as microsoft, adobe, a lot of the big tech giants. I worked directly i work directly with partners that wanted microsoft cloud services. None of that would have been possible without Life Learning Academy guiding me in life. I thank you. [applause] hello. I have an 18yearold. He attends Life Learning Academy i came across im a single parent with three boys. Terry has been absolutely wonderful. She is more than just a principal, she is family. I can call her up any time of the night, i can text her. She always responds to me. My friend gets into galileo, and he started following falling behind. I got to the point where he didnt want to go to school. So they welcomed him in with open arms. It is like a. Second home. Even helped build the school, the housing on Treasure Island for the high school kids. He has a few certifications for construction. You got those before he turned 18. The school was a wonderful place i just want to thank terry, the staff, and he knows how to cook. They have a culinary class there it is nice. I go to work from 4 00 a. M. Until 1230 in the morning. I dont have to cook. I can come home and dinner is done. He has grown so much, very responsible, a good role model for his younger brother. I also have a 17yearold. They have helped with college preparation, getting this applications and everything, and overall, it is just a good program. I want to thank terry and the rest of the staff. I really do appreciate you guys. [applause] all right. My name is sienna, i have a 17 yearold at Life Learning Academy, i have been an island resident for 15 years now. I am not only an island resident with my own 17yearold child, i also have foster children from