Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

Thank you. I want to recognize that a lot of folks came out for kipp. I want to recognize that the board when the board originally passed the kipp petitions back in what was the first year . 2003. I was on the board and i did approve the charters. I probably wouldnt approve it now as a new school. I people not you guys particularly but kipp is a predator reinstitution that feeds on vulnerable districts in the state. We just were over ruled by the state board of education to allow another kipp school in this district. As a body that decides policies. We were ignored. Kipp went above us and went to the state and authorized the petition over our heads. That is a sad statement of affairs. I hope that changes soon in the state. I am not prepared to vote against kipp. I am not for disrupting schools in our communities. I vote for it reluctantly. I do want to ask a couple questions. If somebody from the community can come up and answer about the special education resources, offering autistic classes, that is for students with emotional disturbances. I brought information on our special education program. Let me share that. Can you specifically answer that question . Is there a program for autistic and a emotionally disturbed students. At one school we have one. Given the size we dont have pay special Teaching Program for autism. I should share with you amount schools we have a large number of students on the autistic spectrum such as the high school. We center created special programs. We are now serving 16 of the students with ieps. That has really grown over time. We are working to respond to that population. We have five students. Each one has a plan that is appropriate. Should the number of autistic children increase so we could have a best Practice Model to extend from our other bay area schools. Second question for emotionally disturbed students. We have a student in that category. This is on the sfusd kipp middle school fifth and sixth grade. It shows the Bayview Academy 20152016 cohort was 44. She followed to the eighth grade that is going from 44 to 28. In other words, about 35 of the original coheart were no longer at the school in eighth grade. For the academy it was 8365, that is a 78 of students stayed. I am commissioner collins have spoken about this in the past. We suspect there is a lot of push outs other the years. Commissioner collins mentioned something she experienced herself. We have heard the reason why the numbers are the way they are. Students have been pushed out annual these have a special relation ship regarding the law. They are pushed out to go to our schools and we are happy to take them. As a former principal in my part i couldnt have that student go to kipp because the law does not allow it. That is the issue. Can you speak of the attrition rate from 44 to 28 at the Bayview Academy . Sure. I want to clarify many davis he had shared statistics and really looked at the kipp percentage. I am talking about Bayview Academy pat 63 . It went from 44 to 28 students. Only 28 made it to eighth grade. If you coul could excuse me r one second. Thank you so much. I know you communicated with me your concern around this issue. While we average out 73 . The Bayview Academy retention rate we have room to improve there. Retaining our students as a could heard from fifth to eighth is one of our biggest priorities. I dont expect you to say you are pushing out students. What accounts going from 44 to 28 students add Bayview Academy . I am happy to seek help and guidance. One of the challenges we face is we start at fifth grade. When kids come to us and at sixth grade there is open enrollment through sfusd. They do come to kipp and realize when they have a lot of open choices at sixth grade they choose to exercise that choice. We do see a higheratric rate. When we look at 6 to 8, we are able to retain them at a higher rate. The last thing you brought up and you cant really answer this necessarily, but maybe mr. Davis can. The fact you enroll at fifth grade. Our schools are k5. Students that enter at the fifth grade that naturally that would have an impact on our schools. How many end up leaving to enter kipp ate fifth grade . Yes, we have numbers. I dont have those tonight but in looking at the overall enrollment projections we can show the effect of students from fourth grade to fifth grade as continuing at fifth grade in the district schools. Do you know any schools that have been harmed by the reduction in students at their sites . I dont know any to name at this point without looking at the data. Thank you. Commissioner lamb. A couple questions. First the governance of the kip area board of directors and how the school sight councils i understand that is at the site level i am particularly curious about understanding how do the School Councils inform or Development Policies for the organization. The second question is around at temperature dance an attendant retention, knowing that is very important within the student handbook and policies and procedures for attendance. I apologize would you repeat the last question. Understanding about retention. You talked about retention of students. That is closely linked with attendance and retention. To overtime with your students how many are retained because of at temperature dancattendance oe attending school. School side counsel we meet four times each year and submit minutes to the regional office. To your question what happens to them from there . I cant answer but we document everything that happens in the meeting. Perhaps you can take the goff verb nance ttake togovern. We get the information at the board meetings to share as part of the packets to see what is on the minds of the parents, what is happening at the School Councils. If there are items to be did to be addressed. Is there an opportunity or when you have taken recommendations from a school side counsel to inform the organization how it develops the overall vision moving forward as an organization. Take is a great question. I might need to phone a friend. In my mind i am trying to distinguish what is from the school sid side side. I would say many of the concerns that are raised from our parents come through our principals. We have a monthly principal meeting where those issues are brought to us and we address them. When we shifted to the Restorative Practices, i think that wasnt a topic we addressed and decided that was a move we wanted to mike make pass a region. There is deep Community Investment in kipp and there is a lot of work done in the 10 plu10years working in the commu. That is an opportunity where the local school side or proactive impact amount the regional level. That will be an opportunity for the organization to take that into account. They are an attempt. You make a good sofa how that depends. Your second time was do we remove kids for being absent . No that is our biggest growth as a school. We have a structure but we dont retain because they were tardy or absent from school. I want to thank all of the parents and students here advocating for the youth education. Also, as a proud bayview resident i thank you for the work you are doing for the students that live in this area. That is all i have to say. [applause] i just want to read from the 20192020 Bayview Academy team and family handbook available online. Unlike minutes and recordings for board minutes. This is available online. Anybody can look it up. Under at attendance it states since missing class reflects the students grades and could lead to retension in the current grade level. I am confused. It is in your handbook. You are saying you dont do it. That is a disconnect for me. There i is an acknowledgment that it impacts a students ability to learn. The principal has motel retained a student because they has not retained a student because they are absent. This is a leverage point this could be a reason to not be a good fit. That is something not specific to kipp, it is specific to the charter model. When i was a charter founding teacher we talked about the College Going culture. We were saying that for families that needed more support or had behavioral problems to apply. For me i am going to be straight with you. Retension is not something that is considered. I am a academic. I was an educator over 20 years. I have never heard every tension as a means of dealing with attendance. Do we have anything in our documents that says about retention . Are there any educators that are aware it is listed for a strategy in supporting students. As an educator as well, i dont see that as a strategy that is effective. This is an email that i receivedna talks about how students are recruit the. This is the families. I have heard directly from two parents who left the Public School after fourth braid. They were told it is easier if you apply in fourth or fifth braid. Kinds are skipping the fourth braid to go into forth grade. They dont be have to take a test if they start early. This parent says there should be no tests. There are more spots open if you apply early. They were told their kids should be fine. If they didnt do well they could always repeat the grade. We dont have a test for an entrance requirement and we enroll more sixth than fifth gray student. Our percent age of students has increased every year for the last three to five years. You dont have a specific class. My daughter attended a middle school with a specific classroom with 600 kids to support students with autism. Another class with emotional disturbance. We provide Public Education for all students. Do you have one of those classes in your school . We provide the services. Because you dont provide a class i am suggesting. We provide comparable services. What i am suggesting applause . She dressed the question earlier. We can move on from this question. I am going to make final comments then we are going to vote on the item. I just want to make the point you can serve without a selfcontained classroom. I am not speaking to the program. I just dont want the impression that is the best way to serve students with disabilities. May i respond quickly . There are a lot of people here tonight. I want you all to get home. I want to go home. I may not say yes because i am deeply concerned about the tactics that kids use to push out students. It is long stated and not effectively addressed. What kipp has done effectively and i give them so much credit for. It ask that your childs future is based on test results and outcomes. That is powerful to families, especially when it comes to the achievement of lated continue american students. Congratulations for the great marketing. I know you have a lot of incredible families committed to the school. I am not going to base my vote on my own family situation. My cousin did go to the kitt middle school and was pushed out because of behavior issues. It is one story. It is a narrative associated with your organization that you havent been able to come pat, turnaround. We have discussions around renewal. I dont really see you otherwise. The only reason we have this dialogue is you are funded by public money but not accountable to the public. That is an issue we cant resume. Resolve. I am putting it for those in public option with a great option for kids. I will base it on them, not on the institutions that is highly problematic and it should be reformed. I want to take these folks separately so commissioners can vote yes or no on each school. So on sp1. Bayview academy. Roll call vote. roll call . How many yes . Four yes, sirs. No. That is four eyes. Now we are jumping to sp2. San Francisco Bay academy. We didnt get the student delegates, im sorry. roll call . Still four questions. Sp2. San Francisco Bay academy. roll call . That is five eyes. Ayes. Thank you. Good night. Section g. Action on three board policies. We are going to take them altogether. Board policy 1100, 1312. 3. Board policy 6153 schoolsponsored trips. They were heard at the rules committee. Yes, the rules committee. Was that last week . 15 minute long. Best meeting ever. All three of those items were moved with positive recommendation to the full board. Commissioner collins. I want to know based on the there is anything that stands out other than maintaining the current laws. It is just housekeeping. Thank you. Student delegates. Good night. You are dismissed. Never mind. I will dismiss you later. Thank you for the report out. Do you have a recommendation . The recommended action on all three items is that the board adopt the policies as posted. I dont think we have speakers on this item. Any comments from the superintendent . Roll call vote. roll call . That is six eyes. May i hear a motion to second this item . So moved. Any discussion . Good evening. The recommended action is that the board approve the attached agreement between the San Francisco Unified School District and united educators of San Francisco certificate of classified paraeducators regarding the mayors stipends at the potential schools and related Public Disclosure document. Thank you. I think we have one speaker signed up. Good evening. I am the president of did you night educators of San Francisco united educators of San Francisco. We did negotiate this agreement and the executive board did approve it. We had a very i thought i had musical there like a show on tv. We had a really interesting long engaged discussion about this item. One of the things that i felt was important to point out, and i told our executive board i would do this. The issues about providing the services and education to students at historically underserved communities is complex and we have a lot of ideas how to make it better. The 10 million from the Mayors Office for which we thanker is just one piece of what we need to do. One thing we would really want to see and you have heard our members say this before is not just more money for people working in the schools but more people working in the schools. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you. Any comments from the board . Roll call vote. roll call . Six ayes. Section h number one. Second amended amendment to be contract for doctor vincent matthews. May i hear a second on this item. I will read this that they approve the Second Amendment to Employment Contract for soup superintendent matthews any comments from the board . Okay. Roll call vote. roll call . That is seven ayes. Congratulations. Thank you. Section i discussion of other educational issues. Doctor matthews. Tonight we have the memorandum of understanding between the San Francisco Unified School District and Police Department presenting is the Community Support department and captain williams in the Community Engagement division with the sfpd. Chief true wit and captain con kaepernick continue williams. This is my last board presentation. I expected more people. It is my last chance to get my emmy on television. I am kevin truitt. Good evening, i am here tonight and joined by our new director of Crisis Response and Emergency Preparedness who will take over this as the liaison and extremely happy to be joined by. Yolanda williams, captain of School Resources program. I am honored to be here tonight. I enjoyed my commander. Okay. So tonight this presentation will share an update of the m. O. U. Including the following. I will share the opportunities for Community Members to participate. Some of you have seen these if you are on the joint select committee these may look familiar. I will share the opportunities for Community Members to participate in the process of providing feedback and give you a sense of who attended and share resources to the Community Members. Some of the most mentioned topics we will share a snapshot of the arrest data and provide the examples of draft language in key areas where we proposed new language in specific sections of the m. O. U. We held four Community Forums facilitates by sfusd leadership. Two were in december and january, last year. We had over 50. Then two additional meetings were requested at schools. Those two meetings were facilitated by our cb o partners. Let me take that back. One at mission was facilitated bby ali and at the high school was by the sac. They had 23 and 41 participants. Additional meetings were convened with alliance for girls and the Youth Commission and were facilitated by the organizations themselves. In other words, we allowed participants their own meetings without staff. We provided with a facilitators guide and existing m. O. U. And blew up the top sections and provided feedback forms and sign up sheets and they provided it to us and we recorded thousands of comments. I want to point out there was diverse representations from the organizations and groups. I dont mean to go through by name, but you can see that we did have quite a bit of representation. Captain williams. The feedback obtained we received suggestions throughout the process and we transcribed and scanned all of the comments and suggestions. We shared it with anyone who provided emails. Some of the most discussed sections were in reference to the term innology for all to understand. For example e exigent circumstances came up a lot. We have make sure that regulations are included in the m. O. U. Some of the sections previously were not part of an amendment or appendition. Appendix. We are willing to protect the identity of juveniles with any incident of police involvement. Schools are to add here to the language that clearly states the Police Departme

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