Feeling bad. When i asked for help it was difficult to talk to the principal. He never had time. He practically left me talking alone. At one meeting he told me if i didnt give medicine for my son, there wasnt much they could do. I found new school. Now, i feel they listen to me and my children will be able to have a Better Future because they are surrounded by people who care about us. I come to ask you to authorize renewal of the license from the Wonderful School to give us the opportunity for the school where the children can receive an excellent education and be part of our beautiful community. Thank you. [applause. ] [speaking spanish. J thank you, thank you. applause i will translate and add that she is a single mom of three children with very poor eyesight. That is why it takes her so long to read. I am nat natalie. My oldest son is in a private school and my youngest in fifth grade at new school. My son benefits in the education at new school since they value different ways of learning. It is important for my son because he is happy going to school. When a child is happy to go to school they are giving him the attention he deserves. He must have a middle school to continue as a community. As member of coleman i have come to the San Francisco board of education to support rights of children in San Francisco. I can be both and dont have to choose between the two. Thank you. Hello, i am emma. I have been her since kindergarten. I would like to tell you why it is an awesome place for kids. We learn by working in groups. We get to learn from each other research and make discoveries every day. Second, i love that there are all different kinds of people at school that are different from me. I learn be from them and they help me see the world differently. I think that it is special to go all the way through high school with my friends, many started kindergarten with me. We know each other so well and love and support and care for each other every day. Fourth, i love our teachers. They are excited to see us and support us in all that we do. They make learning fun. Iit is a magical place and we hope that you will renew our charter to keep learning and exploring. Thank you for your time. [applause. ] i am grace. I have been a member of the new school of San Francisco since kindergarten. I am now in fourth grade. I am here to share what i love about our school. I enjoy learning at the school for so many reasons especially the teachers, staff and cultural learnings. All teachers are excited to teach. I like working on my projects with friends and diving deep to Big Questions. I felt like i wasnt good at math and was bored until i started school here. Teachers make math more fun and something i am excited to learn about every day. This school is special to me and makes me want to be a better student and person. Thank you for listening. I hope you vote for new school to keep going so we can continue learning here. [applause. ] hello i am a member of new school in San Francisco. Hello. I am also a member of the new school of San Francisco. New school is great because they accept everybody different and unique. Another reason is because if i have a problem my teachers are there to help me solve it. My last reason is when i make a mistake my teachers are there to support me. Thank you. [applause. ] some of the reasons i love new school because the teachers work hard for the students to educate them to make sure students have fun while they are educated. Whenever a kid needs help teachers do their best to help them. Also, whenever i have a question, the teachers do the best to teach me whatever they know. We also have five values that are respect, kindness, courage, responsibility and to be curious. That is what makes new school special. We love new school. Please vote yes for new school. Thank you. [applause. ] good evening, i am denise. I wear two hats. I am a Founding Team member of the school and proud parent of a first grader. My story is not typical. Five years ago when the doors were open i was the operations manager. I jokingly explained i did everything from order toilet paper to manage payroll. I also gave birth to my daughter at the. She has down syndrome. We are trying to figure out what support she needs to live a full and joyful life. At the same time i was also watching the incredible teachers creating Inclusive Learning environments to welcome all students regardless of background or learning need or ability. I noticed that social Emotional Learning was at the stern of everything. They invited students to ask Big Questions instead of prioritizing them rowzation. I ii memories. I was moved. I was so moved, in fact, that at 39 with two young children, i made a Career Change and decided to become a classroom teacher. [applause. ] i took a paycut and enrolled in grad school and i am now in my second year of teaching fourth grade. It is a lifechanging event for the right reasons. I am most proud i am a small contributing member of a community where i know olivia and kids like her will be cherished for who she is. She will have a full and joyful life. Please vote for our reauthorization so olivia can continue to be at our school. [applause. ] good evening, i am marie. I am 10 years old in fifth grade at new school. I am cassandra and in fifth grade. I am leslie 10 years old in fifth grade at new school. I like new school because the teachers help me with my needs like eyesight, writing and listening. They help me stay focused and it makes me feel good. People dont get judged by how they look, learn and live their lives. I think new school is different because the kids are nice to each other and it makes me feel safe and included. They dont accept boring teachers. People dont get discriminated. The school doesnt just accept white peel. It accepts everyone. We learn about other people and how they learn. We want to continue our education at new school because we love our friends, we get what we need to learn and love our teachers. Vote for new school. [cheers and applause. ] that is a tough act to follow. Good evening. I amnishia. This is my first year teaching at new school. I was hesitant to leave the School Community which i loved deeply and where every student looked like me. You see, i used to believe those were the students whose teachers are at risk. Now, i believe we are all at risk. It is a moment in history where we do not bridge the racial and cultural divides that inhibit us from making our world a better nor just place. As a child, i attended racially and socially economically diverse schools. I am quick to step back and listen to the stories of others. I have deep empathy for those who do not look like me. These are gifts. So i made a big change. I took a pay but from assistant principal to a classroom teacher at new school San Francisco. I changed my commute from 30 minutes to over two hours each day to be part of the School Community i believe is on the cutting edge of equity and inclusion. I cant be more confident in my decision. Here is a snapshot of the fifth graders i teach right now. 25 have ieps or 504, 13 english language learners, 32 students of color. If in your in new school we have tough conversations about race, privilege and equity. Not only that adults have and my students have. It is hope for a brighter future. Please allow my 48 fifth graders continue to sixth grade next year. [applause. ] good evening. I am jason miller here from the long firm and i am proud to support renewal a k12 Charter School. At september 10th meeting i addressed the fact the single petition is renewal. New school submitted one charter without any factual support it is determined there are two petitions. I am displayed to be two separate items renewal of k5 and material revision never requested. It would be outside the district jurisdiction had it been given because the schools current authorizer is the state board. New school is and always has been k12. It is miss characterization of the language of the charter to suggest otherwise. In 2014, this board sited a k12 program to deny the charter. New school as authorized is steadily adding a grade level each year. Grade one was in year one. Grade six will be in year six. Staff reports suggest the state board upon hearing the appeal in 2015 changed new school to can5. The state board had no such authority. The appeal by the local board to deny the charter petition must be made with de novo review. In 2014 it was a petition for k12. We are concerned any action on the agenda would cause uncertainty. We would prefer to see the resources going to education of the children of San Francisco. We urge you in the clearest terms to vote on the petition submitted not what are on the agenda with no rose. No vote. We ask you to approval the k12 petition as submitted. Thank you. [applause. ] good evening, commissioners, president , supervisor matthews. I am the past chair of the Community Advisory committee for special education who was to go next. We would have started an hour ago. We also have children. In the optics of us being pushed back as the parent of a student with iep getting ready to talk being pushed out of the way for a Charter School, that doesnt feel good. It really doesnt. But having said that, i am here a bunch of new School Families reached to talk to them and share their stories. I was grateful. I heard great things about new school. Two teachers in lower grades one and a half in upper grades. Resources fantastic and there are a lot of policies and procedures and board resolutions to do the same thing in s. F. U. S. D. Schools. It is all about resources. We would love to be more like new school and many of the schools that are not. It comes down to resources, and when you have 11,000 per student being drawn to go a Charter School, that reduces what s. F. U. S. D. Can do to implement resolutions and policies in all schools. As the parent of my schoolers and middle schoolers and college kids. The fear of sending a child with disability to a middle school is a difficult experience for many students. We have to acknowledge that. I wish more schools to be like new school instead of separate and unequal Charter Schools. Thank you. [applause. ] i am Julie Roberts speaking on behalf of the San Francisco families union. I like the idea of listen to learn. As equity minded school i imagine the new school is familiar with impact over intent. I dont doubt the intent. We have to look at the impact. If we are asked to vote on whether or not they will implement the program put forth. In 2014 they said diverse by design kthrough 12. The board of education thought they would be unable to implement. The board implement. They have created a majority white school with 52 white families. There are only five Public Schools in sfusd. They serve a fifth of the percentage of low income students and third of percentage of english language. If what they are asking for it would cap at 33 , one of the most affluent schools in the city. The impact on the students that is new school is not serving. There is another beautiful School Community last Board Meeting mlk facing 300,000 in budget cuts related to enrollment. The board was able to restore that. Each class of 60 students if new school were to expand to middle school would take 600,000 of enrollment related funds out of the middle school pool. The board estimates there is a 3 to 4 million impact from the new school in San Francisco. There is also prop 39 impact. They are taking space away from sku students. What i heard tonight are similar to what i heard in the Public Schools. If it is a middle school, the new cool would be a majority white middle school. The only one existing is Charter School. The rest of the Public Schools have 25 white families. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Comments from commissioners or superintendent. So again, we are going to vote on the first proposal 19625sp1 which is staff recommendation is to renew as k through 5 school. roll call okay. I have a couple questions. First of all, can you clear up what seems to be a misunderstanding in the sequence of events as far as what new school petitioned originally in 2014 and then subsequently as far as the configuration of grades . New school did submit a petition for k12 in 2014. Before they submitted that petition, they had some discussions with the superintendent and others. They were advised that k12 probably would not be looked upon favorably. Then there were discussions that happened between new school and district staff after the petition went to the budget and Curriculum Committees. New school before the petition came for a vote on october 28, 2014, sent a letter to the chair of the Curriculum Committee at the time saying that they proposed that they could ask the board to approve a k5 Charter School with the intent that it would come back later to expand in later iterations of the charter petition. So the petition that was submitted to us for voting on october 28, 2014, was by their amendment k5. No, it was k12. The discussions were had about making or approving k5. That is my memory they were willing to make that change. But then they went to the state board with k5 . They went to state board with the same petition they spented to sfusd. The Advisory Commission recommended a hearing to approve a k5 Charter School for 2016 through 2020, and that is what they did. It is true that the petition itself never changed the wording to say that they did not want k12, but they were approved as k5. Then i am going to move on. I am interested in the memo new school submitted to us a number of memos after the findings came out on friday, and one of them around special education says that it was the district and not new school that declined the opportunity to Work Together as part of the sfusd. Can you talk about that at all . I just read that memo. What i can say is that their original petition, and i dont have it in front of me, but i believe if they said that it contemplated becoming part of sfusd that is true. The board denied the petition. It was appealed to the state. According to what they say in the memo, they received a letter from gina plate. Who i is not a district employee. Yes. They are saying that sfusd is not willing to cooperator with having the charter. I can only say that if it was contemplated in their original petition and if you had approved the petition, then we would have entered agreement they were in the sfusd unless you voted to deny that part of the petition, which didnt happen. Are you aware of any conversation why we said dont be part of it if you are not an sfusd approved charter. I am not. Do we have state approved . We do not. Have any wanted to be and we turned them down . The last discussions with were marry l booker which was denied by this board. At the Advisory Commission hearings there were discussions about marys assertions people in the sfusd had discouraged them from wanting to be part. They had no official discussions with me or anyone else regarding that issue. Does it seem reasonable to you that we would have discouraged a state authorized charter from being part of our sofa . It would be reasonable people involved in special education in the district may not look favorably upon that. We didnt have any official discussion. There is no policy or procedure about that . There is no policy. The board has made it clear we would prefer our charters state authorized or not be in the sofa. We have said that a number of times. I have a question also because on one of the other memos there was a reference to new schools desire to add free or reduced price lunch to the diversity criteria. There is reference saying they admitted 10 students that qualified for free or reduced price lunch. Do you know how they would have obtained that information or could we ask them . I would not know how they would obtain that information. The rules would be selfreported by families if they ask it on the application because the rules say you cant collect the free reduce price official form where people sign to say what their income is. You cant start accepting them until like july 1 of the school year, right . That is my understanding. So if a school is using that is what i have been told for why it is problematic for us to use free reduced price lunch as a mechanism for diversifying kindergarten it would be selfreported. There some not another way to get that official data, it would somewhere to be selfreported . There is no way i know of. Can i ask, ryan or emily, how do you get that data . It is selfreported. Okay. I mean i have concerns about that. I applaud the desire and i know that a number of charters are trying to use this and other criteria to diversify. You know, the speaker read off the diverse city statistics for the school. There was a reference to 18 of the kids having ieps. Our numbers show 7 which is well under the district 12. 2 of kids with ieps. Her reference was 18 of the ieps at new school are students who have services at least 50 of the day. There was another reference in the dye verity memo diversity memo. Also, i have to say and i appreciate and this is a conversation we need to have in our society. I appreciate the speaker that said the school is interested in taking on white dominance. You are 52 white. Ththe diversity is getting worse from your first class to now. We are struggling with the same thing, but i just think it is not that really concerns me. It doesnt appear the efforts you are making however well heartfelt they are are working. Those are my questions for now. Commissioner collins. I guess i wanted to followup. I am sorry for being late. I