Political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want to the power to name, and the defined are now taking that power away from you. Section a, General Information number one accessibility information for the polk, public , number two, teleconference Information Section b. , opening items. Number one, approval of board minutes of the regular Board Meeting for august 13th, 2019. Can i have a motion or a second . So moved. Second. Roll call vote on the minutes [roll call] speaker cards for the regular agenda are if you wish to address the board of education, members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or time as set by the president , importantly according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will be accepted for any item for the board. Number two, superintendents report. Dr. Matthews . Good evening, everyone. Last week was the first week of the 2019, 2020 school year. Give everyone a good round of applause, a great opening. I always love the first week and the first day of school. I have the opportunity to visit a couple of sites and along with me, maryland and breed and the president , the deputy superintendent, commissioners all were there and they were there to greet the students at some Elementary Schools and middle schools. First, i went to starting elementary were Community Building is a key focus. They started lace with a schoolwide dance party. The principal helped integrate students in the Mandarin Immersion Program and general education. Throughout the year, students will hold their own Farmers Market and publish their own book along with other activities to help strengthen the school community. Then we went on to roosevelt middle school. It is one of two schools that began rolling out the middle grades redesign of grade six through eight. This includes expanded access to electives like robotics and drama, deeper learning, an additional professional collaboration time for teachers. In order to expand access to arts, Computer Science, health and languages for all middle grade students, the district is engaged in a multiyear process to reimagine how the middle grades are taught. I had a fantastic and wonderful time doing seeing all of our students excited on the first day of school. Has we begin the new school year , i would like to highlight a couple of things. First, one of our most important highlights for this year, our teacher salaries. We all know how expensive it is to live in the bay area, and even though our district is the same base Funding Amount from the state for teacher salaries, there are other places that are less expensive to live and we have prioritized raising teacher salaries while maintaining one of the lowest class sizes and most competitive benefit packages in the entire state. Our average teacher salary has gone up from 62,005 years ago to 82,000 this year. The second thing i would like to briefly highlight is San Francisco unified Computer Science. Five years ago, only seven students took Computer Science and last year that number was over 25,000. We are educating students to be ready for the jobs of tomorrow that are plentiful in the bay area and that is in hightech. Next announcement is that all San Francisco heisel juniors and seniors are invited to attend the 20th annual historically black colleges affair like monday september 9th at the San Francisco city hall. This is a great opportunity for students to speak with recruiters from over 30 historically black colleges and universities. Students can receive on the spot admissions for colleges and scallops scholarships for colleges. You should bring your current transcripts and your s. A. T. Test scores if you have them available. Our district is hosting this event in partnership with the San Francisco alliance of black school educators, the mayors opportunities for all program, black to the future, and the human rights commission. I hope to see you all there. Finally, all San Francisco unified schools and offices will be closed for labor day on monday, september 2nd, and we will see everyone back on september 3rd. One final announcement, this evening, we are going to welcome our new student commissioners, and i like to call forward to the chief chief to introduce them to us. Good evening. Each year we go through a very challenging process of selecting two students to serve on the board of education. At what gets harder and harder every year is we put two students on the board and they knock it out of the park and every year they get better and better and the bar is raised. We are challenged with, can we possibly find two students again this year that can match the students that we had last year. We are lucky and confident that we have found the two that will do this. I am really excited tonight to introduce you to come on up, jet and betsy. [applause] betsy attended Alvarado Elementary School and became a student leader when she was a sophomore. What inspires her to be a student leader is her family in the youth that will come after her. The opportunities that sfusd has provided for her to excel in Student Leadership and participating in her schools instructional rounds. She believes is important to have Student Input when we talk about the curriculum, and another opportunity for her was participation in and missions High School Administration interviews. Welcome to betsy. And jet, we just call him top gun, no, we dont, im just kidding. [please stand by] it is so quiet. Hi, everybody. I am jet. I want to say im honored to serve on behalf of my peers and i look forward to working with you this year. Thank you. Hello, thank you for allowing us to be here today. I hope we can all do great Work Together. Welcome. Lets see, number four, recognition and resolution of commendations. We have none tonight. Number five, recognizing all valuable employees. We have none tonight. Section c. , Public Comment on nonagenda items. Please note the board of education will now call for Public Comment. Please note Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction. We ask you refrain from using employee or student names. If you have a complaint about additional employees, you may submit to the employee his supervisor in accordance with district policy. As a reminder, board rules and California Law do not allow us to respond to comments or answer questions during the Public Comment time. If appropriate, the superintendent will ask staff to follow up with speakers. I have two names here for Public Comment. When you hear your name called, make your way to the podium. You will have two minutes. [calling names] you have two minutes whenever you are ready. Hello, my name is jeremy lee, i am 16. I pull evolved. Im here to request funding to purchase new poles for the team. There are 20 of us across three schools and we all go to lincoln high school. Currently several of our top vaulters perform extremely well outside the city and have already broken or close to breaking the city records. To progress further, they would require bigger and longer poles. Additionally i would like to speak to anyone from the board about funding who are interested , and her the ability to get donations from businesses in the district. Thank you all for listening. Please consider the funding. Hello. Good evening, commissioners. My name is jim. I am with the yellow i am not with the Yellow Vest Movement although i appreciate the cause. Im here to address serious concerns we have with the r. F. P. What that was put out last week for the consultation project. For the first time ever, at least in the 20 plus years that i have worked there, the district has proposed dividing up the transportation contract into multiple parts. In this case, three parts with separate Companies Involved for each one of these. In addition to creating a more logical overhead and most likely crossing the district costing the district more money, it says of the stage that two of these workplaces be nonunion, at least initially. This indicates where a majority of new hires are not members of the workforce or another unionized workplace. This is quite likely to occur. This is a serious workplace through our membership serious threat to our membership with the division of the transportation contract, there is also potential to have multiple labor agreements and multiple labor unions involved where historically there has just been one. This workforce, our workforce has been without any work stoppages are major issues since the 1970s and we wish to continue this trend. We feel this is in the best interest of our workforce, school district, and the children we all serve. We really fail to see the logic of the consultation contract and setting the states for turmoil. I feel stability should be our goal. I respectfully urge the board to consider this and not split up this contract. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. One of two of you might know who i am. I have been driving the school bus in the district for 48 years i have seen a lot of contracts come and go. They tended to split it up before but it was more economic and economical to have one contract to do it. If you take a look at the costs of the busing contract, you cant really conserve much money on buses and feel maintenance without having a lower quality. You have learned administrative costs, billing costs, technology in all of those will go up if you duplicate your triplicate lease costs. Where will the savings come from the only thing i can see is it will come from labor, even though you kindly put in the prevailing wage clause, there is still going to be an attempt to cut wages and benefits in ways that are probably skirting the language of the contract. Most of our drivers have to commute to 12 hours each way to work and have a three hour or four hour layover to get paid for six or seven hours. It is like 11 to 13 hours of work. Some people resent this, but this is the most expensive area to live in in the country and putting out an r. F. P. For three contracts is going to wind up coming down hard on the drivers and it could make it difficult for us to live and work in the city. We would like you to keep the contract in one piece if you would. Thank you for listening. Hello. I am here to talk about an incident that happened at my school about four months ago. M. U. N. One of my fellow students wore a costume that was technically not listed as a kkk costume. It was listed as a crusader costume. I am not here to complain about that, i understand children make mistakes. Im here to talk about the way it was handled by my counsellors and staff. A few students, myself included had a picture of the event is documentation that it happened because it was something so out of left field. It was something that had never happened before. So we had documentation, we have a picture of it. One student had a video. We were immediately told to delete it by the students who were the costume. Staff said we were going to ruin his life. It if it got out. We were told not to talk about it in public because we would ruin his reputation. In meetings with counsellors, we were told that it was basically a mistake that he made and that we should all look let go of it, that it didnt mean anything and that we should forgive him and become friends with him again. I understand forgive and forget, but i just couldnt. It just hurt me and my fellow students as somebody who is half chinese, i felt horrible. I felt unsafe, i guess. Sorry if my voice is breaking, that is basically all i have to say. Thank you. Hello. I am sarah. I am a half filipino student and im here to talk with the same event that happened four months ago. This is my view on what happened i get to School Pretty early so i was able to see the student pull out the costume and i understand he didnt know what it was. I dont know why he brought it to school, i dont think i will ever understand why, but i saw everybody tried to convince him to put it away because it really was a problematic thing to have out, and then i saw another student come up to him jokingly and put it on who one of my friends took a picture. After that, i went into my history class. I was still thinking about it, it was still bothering me a lot. I got called by my head councillor for a meeting. She threatened us, she yelled at us and she made us delete the picture. She really tea much made the minorities the villains. After threatening to suspend us if this ever got out, she tried to force us to become friends with the student to put it on and he got no punishment, while the minorities got in trouble for just being scared, rightfully so. That is all i have to say. Thank you. I will have the superintendent come to get more information from you. Easter sanderson, we will talk to the students from lowell just to get more information. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes general Public Comment. Thank you all for speaking. You did great. Section d. , Advisory Committee reports and appointments. There is no Advisory Committee report tonight. Do we have any appointments for this report . I just had a question. I know i know it would be great if we had any open spaces for us to make sure that we are filling spots, and specifically the charter transparency committee. I know some people have made appointments and some people havent and it would be great for all of us to know who is appointed and who is not. I know there maybe there may be some folks who are considering others and it would be great if we could get this done by the next meeting. Do you have a list of vacancies across every body . I think mike davis is overseeing the new committee. That will be the one that we will have the most questions around. But we also we also have a violin rule . If people are curious about other vacancies thank you. Do we have an update from the Curriculum Committee . Yes, we met yesterday. We talked about the resolution on the studies that commissioner collins and commissioner lamb brought forward at the last meeting in june and it was a really great discussion about shifting minds and figuring out what work we need to do in our schools, talking to teachers who are already doing this work and already experts in having these discussions with our students in a safe way and we would move forward with a positive recommendation. Thank you. Section g. For proposal, none tonight. Section h. , special order of business for the sentient proposal. Number one, consent calendar, can i have a motion and a second so moved. Second. We dont have any Public Comment on consent. Any items withdrawn or removed by the superintendent . None tonight. Any items removed for First Reading by the board . It requires that all contract proposals of the board and an Employee Organization which relates to matters within the scope of representation be presented at a public Board Meeting. Meeting and negotiating between the district and shall not take place on the sentient proposal until a reasonable time has elapsed to enable the public to become informed and to express itself regarding the proposals at a public Board Meeting. Accordingly, to allow the public an opportunity to provide input, the sentient proposal shall be submitted for adoption by the board on september 10th, 2019. Thank you. Section i, discussion of other educational issues. Director matthews . This evening we will have a presentation, i will give you the opportunity to discuss the middle School Redesign. Its an opportunity for you to get more information. We will have our assistant superintendent of middle schools leading. I like to be close next to you. Good evening, superintendents and commissioners and deputy superintendent. I also want to give a call out to the principal and teachers at roosevelt and others who are in the back right here. [cheering] i feel like eighth grade is the grade that really helps you get ready for life. You are making a college [indiscernible] it really helps. It really will help me because i want to be a divorce lawyer. So now i know to stay in school and to study. I think, what you she said, you start young with classes, you start with a bunch of classes and you see what you like and what you dont. You have higher responsibility. It makes you more responsible and more respectful. It puts a pressure on you, but more like a responsibility on you. We just wanted to start with some voices from our eighth grade students. I want to repeat again, i feel like eighth grade is the grade there really helps you get ready for life. I feel that the middle grade is the grade were you still feel, you are in between where you are a kid, where you are in between the adult life and you are thinking and dreaming, as well, so i want us to rethink about, it is not the middle grades were no longer redesigning, this year we are actualizing and making vision into a reality, so we are the middle grade initiate wonder , and that is what we are about. We went into this journey we want to be in the best position to expose students to various elements of vision 2025. It is not that far away, it is five years from now. We wanted to start working. They are organized to maintain the status quo. This is, in 2015, we started thinking about a better way. In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, here we are. We started this design challenge back in 2015 and 2016 where we adopted vision 2025 and the graduate profile and