Families and crumindicate for our program if there is a threat to our coming now. Our program tha that is how it s cultural rehavent to collectively thousands of students and hundreds of families in 18 years. We are all here because we leave in our program. We have seen the act to our community. Because of our program ournewal immigrants from the philippines ar. Our english language learners are getting the support they need. They are learning the filipino angwage and culture while develops the emotional schools and learning about their identities as filipino and fil l opinion notice africanamerican the. There are a there are a lot of homeless, exposed to violence and abuse and trauma. How does the board of education serving the needs of the students . How do we all respect. That is coming from the students. Good evening. I am alexis. I am a mother. You heard my son, emery, speak earlier. I am a School District employee as a School Social worker. I was formerly pat malcolm x academy. I have transitioned with a trooper visor for the district. We heard and what we are hearing our babies, families want to be seen and heard. We also heard from a mother that she was the young person that wanted to end her life. She was hospitalized. I will also share in this last we have morn than two deaths due to suicide in San Francisco. One was an employee the district. If i want to ask this clearly. Obviously, we want to be seen and heard. We want to be acknowledged. We want to understand it was birth from community selfdetermines. As a district we look at what to do to serve our students. We have been the one we have been waiting about all this time. Again, we dont understand as educators, why would you take something away that works . Why would you take it for english learnerners. Malcolm x talks about education. Concerning nonviolence i it is criminal to teach him not to defend himself when he is the common time. It is taking time in its culture. It can never be fully itself. Please respond to the families and communities. Sorry. You are over time. That concludes the names that i have read for Public Comment. Turn the mic back on. Good evening. I am theresa. Please support the program. Please for my children. Please hear our voices for my children. They are crying every night. I am sorry. Thank you. I am director. Good evening to all of you. Happy history month. You know, i want to say as the parent to three kids that went to Betsy Carmichael, i am very proud of this program and proud of my kids. My eldest is at uc davis. She is about to take her proficiency language exam to test out of the requirements because she had the benefit of emersion at Betsy Carmichael and from the program and the parents and staff and teachers that have been there for a long time. She is able to be raised by the city. Now for the first time San Francisco is recognizing the filipino community. We have been there 100 years and we have been pushed around in those 100 years. We know the city is partnering to preserve longterm communities impacted by the development that does not serve our community. At the heart is how do we support these communities and prevent displacement and the programs the community relies on. Iit is almost hard to believe in this period when the program is to have stronger collab berratives foreign chanced services for at risk communities. You have an 18 yearold plan. It is a cut from the cultural relevance program so they face a language aspect. It is really not just about well the fact that the Program Funds has been cut by more than half. Back to education. It is cut to half, butted it is also actually. You are out of time. Any other general Public Comment . Seeing none. Okay, come on up. Good evening. I am gail flynn. My talk is i in response to vehicles to drive home from School Without certified drivers. I have been a School Bus Driver for 18 years and mother of a severely mentality disabled son. I am against the idea of transporting children, especially special Needs Children in zoom plans. They would have no safety training. School buses are by far the safest mode of transportation. They are regulated by state laws and must follow Safety Standards such as rollover protection and the red light system for loading and unloading. School bus driver is some of the most highly trained in the state. Thymuses go through 20 hours of training. I have to teach out of a manual by the San Francisco department of education. It covers laws, rules and regulations. The vehicle components, unloading and loading. Passenger management. Children with disabilities. Then we have to teach a minimum of 20 hour training in the behind the wheel guide. Once they are through that they take an extensive test with the highway patrol. They must get 10 hours of training each year. School bus drivers are professionals. We train hard putting children in nonconforming zoom bans is a disaster. They are not equipped to safely transport children. Thank you. [applause. ] i have been a School Bus Driver for this School District for 34 years. Many have commented on the transportation r. F. P. And raised concerns for home school transportation. I would like to bring up additional concern regarding the heavy use of technology on the buses. R. F. P. Calls for five four g Live Streaming video and audio cameras inside and outside. It also calls for rfid or similar readers to be electronically registered. Buses have live tracking software. Tablets, Digital Radio and other technological equipment. The contractors that bid on the r. F. P. Have to factor in the costs of the technology. It is hard to see how this l save money. It seems the district could ride on the difficult routes and work with the children have been problems instead every according and monitoring them. They are required for 10 of the buses have cameras. When there is a problem a camera bus is used. It is a better use of district funds to hire aids. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. That concludes Public Comment on section d. Advisory Committee Reports and apappointments. We have a report from the parent advisory council. Good evening. I have children at tenderloin elementary school. Good evening. I have an 11yearold daughter in fifth grade. Tonight we are going to present a report to the board of education. The role of the parents is two. Understand the voices and inform the education policy discussions. This report includes updates on the transition in the staffing of the pack. Our work to establish the priority for the year and our plans to support the engagement for the 20192020 school year. It makes sense to extend the status for the remainder of the school year. The reasons for this include that the work of the school year has already begun and michelle is engaged in several projects. The position should be determined by all to beginning the recertainly processes. The pack will pick up these at our next meeting. At the seoul meeting we celebrated we have looked at initiatives ongoing and considered new projects this year. At our october meeting we examined leadership styles and we identified the project we will focus on for this school year as well as who is leading those efforts. It includes community building. In collaboration with the research and planning and assessment department, educators from the Teachers Union and representatives to support the lomcontrol. Other issues include nutrition, transportation. Especially for the latinx students. We will support the parent engagement to the redesign of the system. They are interested in attendance, equitable fundraising. Teacher retention, available Court Options at the secondary school level and the emotional house of our students. The possibility of a schools psy. Site. The enrollment fair on october 19. This is the first event of the year and we encourage families to stop by to learn more about the pack and what we do and how to get involved in helping. Addvoy indicate and leader for your children and all students in s. F. U. S. D. Our next meeting will be hell on wednesday from 5 45 p. M. To 8 00 p. M. I am here thanking. The packs appointee to the Advisory Committee will give us an update on the work of the committee. Pack meetings are open and all are women coming. Our provided with an rsvp. Thank you for your report. Questions or comments . Have a good evening. Are there appointments to Advisory Committees by the board . Section e. Can i have a motion on the consent calendar. So moved. Second. Second. Any items withdrawn regarding the superintendent . None. Any items sepveried by discussion of vote. Seeing none. Thank you. Ms. Collins and ms. Lamb, thank you. Ms. Lopez. Discussion and vote on consent calendar resolutions. There are none tonight. G is action. Three board policies for approval. If i dont hear any objections from colleagues we will take one vote on all three. They are bored policy 36175 migrant education program. 5132. 5146. Very pregnant students. All moved and seconded at prior board meeting. We had a report from the rules committee on october 7th. Did you have a meeting on that . Yes. We will forward with a positive recommendation. Do you have a recommendation for the record . The general counsel. The recommendation for all three policies is that the board adopt the policy as submitted. They were all taken up by the rules committee as commissioner sanchez shade on october 7th and forwarded with a positive recommendation with general consent. Thank you. We have one speaker on 5146. If you are here, come to the podium. Heidi. You have two minutes. Thank you to the board and ththe administration bringing ts policy forward tonight. I have had the privilege of working with this population of students for the last 14 years. I have seen the strugglings, hardships and barriers for the parents to attempt regular. I am grateful we are naming these issues and developing policies in place. As a young mom myself, it is important that we see the mom who someones had these struggles i can people to the program of these programs to support the Young Students so they can further their education to higher learning. Thank you very much. Any comments from the board or superintendent . Roll call vote. roll call . Five eyes. Five as. May i hear a motion and appointment of the Advisory Committee for special education. Roberta havens, naheed misfeldt, heidi palomera and meghan potente. Can i have a motion and second to the appointment. So moved. Second. [please stand by] good evening, commissioners. We are really excited as the. To be re presenting their members. The way that our bylaws work is that after someone has attended multiple meetings. Im sorry good idea otherwise ill keep going. After members have attended two consecutive meetings they can apply for membership and that we bring them forward to you for approval, for ratification. Its already an immense task to be a parent of a student with special needs or support our community as an advocate. We are exceptionally grateful to our partners, family empowerment on the other Advisory Committees. We are pushing our members, i mean, membership is enough, but as you heard tonight we are pushing our members to be here and to speak, and to talk to you about the issues that they are passionate about. Hopefully he will be hearing a lot more from us this year. We would love to see all of you at our upcoming meetings as well. Our next meeting is october 24 at support for families. It starts at 6 00 or 6 30 depending on if you want to get there early. Our topic will be supports for students with dyslexia. If you need more information about any of our meetings they are on our website. Thank you. [applause] great. [roll call] congratulations. Thank you. Discussion of other educational issues. Dr. Matthews . Yes, tonight we will have the presentation of our district native summary and the california dashboard local members. This will be done by our chief of research, planning and assessment. Good evening, commissioners, superintendent and members of the public. This is our annual presentation on summarizing all of the local accountability metrics for the year 20182019. This is data that schools and Central Office have already reviewed and are acting on. I will be presenting today with district colleagues who can make connections between the practices as they relate to these outcomes, and discuss actions they are implementing after reviewing this data. To parallel the data we want to begin by showing you demographic or enrollment trend prek12. Student enrollment at sfusd has continued to be approximately 53,000, in the last three years on the subgroups have also been study in their proportions. The prek enrollment for the 2018 school year was 1570 students. Charter schools independently report their data showed an enrollment of 3633 students. Just like this slide, most slides in the presentation will report of Additional Details related to that metric. We are going to look at our spec data. Our five year trend has risen to 50 of our students meeting or exceeding grade level standards. The tranfour most of our pope populations has been an upward trend slightly decreasing the achievement gap. We see larger gains and proficiencies in our africanamerican students, specifically at the secondary and middle school levels. We attribute those gains to a focus on literacy as well as some targeted plans for those particular set subgroup. [reading notes] we definitely think our plan raising awareness of the needs of these focal students gave schools an additional tools to address them. And our work as a central team coming together to align our support and resources for these students. As we think about our district compared to the state, as this graphic shows we are higher than the state. Africanamerican students we are 12 lower in the state in e. L. A. And some lower in math. Though we have in the previous lives, we celebrate growth and an upward trend. We know this is not enough. We are not satisfied and we have to do more. I wanted to highlight for you a couple of bright spots across our district. First highlighting that there are bright spots across our district and across grades bands. No longer do we, the schools here in the schools there. It is representative of schools across the district. We are representative excited about that. These schools have shown doubledigit growth, and are more for consecutive years in upward trend sent from 201617 up to 201819. Another bright spot related to schools that we have increased the number of schools that have 75 or more of their students meeting or exceeding standards. It was nine in 1718 and it is now 121819 school year. Twelve schools in our district have an efficiency rate about 75 in both areas. These are bright spots for performance trends. Adele might cut my colleague will highlight a pitch school and share with you the data story. Good evening. Presidio middle school is a pitch school that narrowed the achievement gap as an equity gap school, their theory of action centered around providing opportunities for teachers to be in a professional learning community that focused on equity and how it connects to the instructional practices in the classroom. In parallel, they also focused on lifting the voices of the africanamerican students by conducting empathy interviews learning their supports to ensure that africanamerican students have individual learning plan that focuses on achievement and sense of belonging. For example this can be seen in students to be in in a black literacy collective in the africanamerican book club to having a mentor that they connected with. In addition, professional development on equity and professional development on literacy was given at the same time. In addition, again i want to stress that the students were lifted and celebrated. You can see for africanamerican students that they gap narrowed by 11 in e. L. A. And 5 in math. To date currently, they share they are continuing to go deeper in their work they are continuing to participate in equity through the creating braves bases training. They are continuing to attend the deeper learning conference and they are continuing to hone in on literacy strategies connected to the eld framework. As we move to High School Readiness and indicator that middle school is tracked further eighth graders local measure is High School Readiness which is defined on the slide to the right. A student is High School Ready if they meet to the following criteria in eighth grade. The gpa that is greater than 2. 5, no ds or fs in ela or mathematics. Attendance that is 95 no suspensions in eighth grade. In 201516, 1896 sfusd students that met this criteria were High School Ready. The answer ninth grade and i am proud to say that 94 of those students graduated this year. An indicator that high schools track for the incoming ninth graders is an Early Warning indicator. Eighth grade attendance, less than 87. 5 and a gpa that is less than 2. 0. In the same year 1516 there were 477 students that were identified with these Early Warning indicators that were at risk of graduating. More than one third, 30 per 7 of them graduated from sfusd in 201819. The state approves that High School Readiness is an indicator and it is highly predictive for graduation success. Therefore it motivates our effort in the middle grades to have more students in eighth grade that are High School Ready. As we move and look at the adjusted Graduation Rate which i mention in the previous slide. The state adjusted Graduation Rate which is calculated in 201617 resulted in the district and other districts in the state dropping be