Of education law and the process and i was talking about a principle today and she was explaining the difference between an io4 and the other document. In my heart there is a lot of issues and its like going to the doctor and getting a diagnosis that youre uncomfortable with. I want to urge our legal team, communications team, and those that work with family liaisons, i dont know know of ways that were educating people on their rights. Parents can request assessments and its confusing how do we do that. I dont think its Common Knowledge that a parent can say theyre concerned about their comments and they want them assessed. If your child is assessed and you want them to go through the process, im not aware of any protocol for educating families on their rights. Maybe we have that, but its not visible on the website. If i dont know it, im assuming im one of those pretty involved parents. I look for those handouts and things to help families. I dont even know where to look. So i think we really cant partner with families and we need our families because theyre the capacity that we dont have. They increase our capacity to serve students when we work in partnership with them. Were less likely to get in lawsuits and less contentious relationships with them when we feel welcomed. If you can speak to anything around the Parent Education around rights, that would be great. Thank you for that. When you were asking i know youre doing the rights and i appreciate that, and i reflect a lot, did i do that or that. In special education, every time we communicate with the parent via any kind of a document, we give them how many pages . I hate anything that has too many pages because i run fast. I have a lot to do all day. I want the cliff notes version. We have to give a short version. They go home with any document, i believe that its one of those things that its very heavy. When i was a resource specialist back in the 1990s, there was a book, i think a 20page book, and it had a lot of white space and it was perfect. When i joined this position and started working with my partners, that was one of the first things i said and it was in three languages. After that another book that came out by Charles Schwabb and our ombudsperson just found a copy. Were looking at the simple pieces we can get out there before we do our whole fiveyear mapping plan. That is something we are working on to get a parent friendly sort of thing. When i was a first year r. S. P. , that was my plan book to help me navigate all of the timelines to navigate. This is something that we could work on. Thank you. If we could make it available on the website in our language. It is on the landing page of education for families. It linguist to the content developed by the special education folks in the past, but there is a link there. So it can be updated when ready. Did you want to add to that . We have a memorandum of understanding with the parent facility in San Francisco. There is a conference that is coordinated that is all about Family Engagement. There are workshops in english, spanish, chinese once a month that support families and parent workshops all the time. There is a huge amount of Family Engagement that is done and the process is overwhelming, but the work is still done and we still try. Thank you for your patience. Just in hearing the discussion tonight and the fact that we are all at capacity and this is work being done by the department of education, what are they doing to support us reaching this . Is there is that yeah, im just wondering . Its frustrating. I think what susan said about the ieda moneys not coming. We stomped in washington in may to get better funding for all of us so we can do this good work. The c. D. E. So our partners statewide are unified. This is not unique to San Francisco. These issues are happening across the nation. So the Technical Assistance stuff is interesting. They monitor us and tell us what we have to do, but dont tell us here, this is what you have to do. They will steer us to some resources on the web and we can pull from each other. We also have a very active sort of engagement with each other as the selfa directors. We share ideas and best practices that way as well. We helped our partners out as well. They liked our presentation so well that some of our partners will be using the template for their presentation to do their report, but no one is coming to us with the package and say were going to give you this, and, and this. This is engaging your community, think out of the box, silo the issue, prioritize, and get to work. I think were at a critical point to start thinking different. Its not to say the demands arent valid, but the reality is why we have what we have. So i wanted to focus on any advocacy or to push to get any resources. We need to put our reform hats on right now and started thinking differently. Picking up on what commissioner lopez raised, because were on the policies committee. What im curious about is taking your recommendation and looking at reform and things differently, if there can be some sort of Business Analysis around what would it take to quote all districts and not just ourselves, if were part of the a bigger network, what would it take to address the corrective actions. From there, we should raise that to the state of california. The governor has put forward his education agenda and there were some bills that went through the Legislature Last year that were funding potential education and looking at some structural opportunities and they did not make it through. So i think this would be a prime opportunity for the district to also take some leadership and to leverage that into Something Like you said, its beyond ourselves and were at a crisis moment. We have been for a very long time. That would be my request. Maybe when Capital Advisers comes back to our next rules committee, i like to start asking what the budget process is going to look like and how we can work with our sacramento partners. Thank you. I appreciate that feedback. Thats making me think that we need a revolution, and we can start it. I think again we can address this. Legislators are thinking about the california budget process. I think we should look to that as an opportunity. We have been looking at the multiyear plan and how that measures up for our own planning process. Thats another presentation, and im happy to take some time to go to the rules committee. We did go to the rules committee and we will be responding to you, but we are twothirds of the way through the planning process. Our consultant is out in the field. We have a consultation tomorrow. We have a lot to share about what weve engaged, but were not done yet. There are Many Community partners that we need to engage with. I know there was some oneonone time with some of the commissioners. Then were going to put meat on the bones and look at order of operations for our priorities. We do have some of our priorities popped out. We need to look at the case loads and our sore program. There is just a litany. So you will be apprised of that throughout the rest of this school year. Then we will be ready to literally hit the ground running. Weve already started some pieces in play. I cant wait for that to start, but i hope that answers your question. Its an ongoing process. Were about twothirds two. Shes about to start in january, but theres a whole plan for it to continue into the spring. Prior to that operationalized plan, im assuming well have budget implications . Yes. Budget is always a part of it, but yes. Huge budget implications. Thank you for the presentation. Section k, introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. Number 1, board and comment proposals. We have a First Reading to the board policies 0460, accountability plan. 0520, intervention for underperforming schools. 0520. 1, comprehensive and targeted support and improvement. Also to number 3, board policies 1431, waivers, number 4, 3553, reduced lunches. And to number 5, resolution 1911112a1, the Affordable Housing policies. Can i have a motion to second First Reading of the board policies 191112a1. Seconded. So moved. I see we do have Public Comment on the new resolution. Thank you. Ill be brief. I want to thank commissioner moligo for putting together the resolution on having a housing policy. Now that the voters of San Francisco passed proposition e with 75 of the vote and prop a with twothirds of the vote, we now have material to work with. So its we talk so much about housing because we have to, that this i think having a policy in place will really help us get on the road to realizing what we need, so thank you. Thank you. Any board comments on the First Reading . Im going to refer the policy to the rules committee and the resolution of the building and Grounds Committee and Ad Hoc Committee on personnel, labor, and affordability. Section l proposals for immediate action and special rules, theres none. Section m, Board Members reports. Before we begin, i would like to announce that i am last time commissioner moliga is switching with me. I remain as a member of the committee that this change is effective as of today. Report from recent Committee Meetings. Vice president sanchez has reported out. Is anyone ready to report out before i start calling on people . We met at the budget and Services Commission meeting. It was a packed agenda. A lot of it was updates on some of the Business Service items that have been coming up. Those continue to happen. Im very excited about that as a means for us to communicate with families. I want to state that a lot of families who have i. U. P. S are supporting their students. I encourage folks to look at the board docs because our budget team created a comprehensive overview of our budgeting process. I encourage all commissioners to look at that as well. It is a nicely done document because it shows at what point in time throughout the year we have very budgeting items that come up and with our budgeting and different points that come before the Budgeting Committee and the full board. I think thats a great way of getting the longterm plan. We spent most of the time discussing the latin x resolution which im excited about. And i want to thank commissioners lopez and sanchez were introducing it. I wanted to just inform other Board Members that while there was i think expressed support for this muchneeded resolution and i think folks echoed that as an initiative we supported these students, we dont have any currently that call out the needs of the Latin X Community and students. Many of the supports that were provided are kind of directed as supporting students with language needs, but we dont kind of address the cultural and just specific needs of the Latin X Community. I do appreciate the resolution. At the same time, the Budget Office has difficulty quanti quantifying how we would potentially fund the initiative because we hadnt had a conversation with Curriculum Committee to outline the staffing and resources needed. I think the Budget Office did a wonderful job of presenting a potential model and they based it on the ali initiative, we agreed that wasnt necessarily an appropriate model to use and further discussion was needed. We decided because we felt it was needed and this was a conversation we want to move forward and we do support it, we decided to move it forward with a positive recommendation with the understanding that we needed to flesh out the specifics of what types of staffing and supports we needed to implement it. We wanted to make sure this discussion process is an iterative process and doesnt prevent us from putting it in in a timely way. Its going to come back before the Curriculum Committee meeting, but then were going to have one day and its going to come back before the full board. Commissioner lopez is going to meet with commission and Community Members to get a clear idea of the actual implementation so we can have a richer conversation at the Committee Meeting because were going to have a shorter amount of time. I encourage you to engage with staff if you have questions on that or commissioner lopez. Thank you. It was actually my first budget meeting and it opened me up to a process that is trying to be highlighted. There is already policy and plans in place so what were really trying to touch on is pulling from what were using and utilizing what we have, not necessarily starting up something new but having the conversation of whats in place now is not effective and being able to participate in that with the lens of funding was really enlightening. Unfortunately the committee was canceled because of an abrupt shift that came last minute, but Many Community members planned to be there. Were hosting something informally tomorrow to share where we are in the process in preparation of the december 9 meeting. We meet every month. Im very dedicated to hosting these meetings. Were meeting tomorrow and then hopefully having enough conversations in between so that when we vote on december 10, we will have all the information ready. Thank you. Number 2. Any other reports from Board Members . Commission commissioner, congratulations. Calendar of Committee Meetings. Lets see, the standing ad h ad hoc okay, budget of Business Services is disease, december 4, at 6 p. M. Rules, policy, and administration is monday, december 2, at 5 p. M. Curriculum and program. Its monday, not wednesday. Its monday its monday, december 9, but it says wednesday. Monday, december thank you. Building grounds and services is monday is that the week of thanksgiving . Yes. Monday as of now, its monday, november 25, at 6 p. M. , the Ad Hoc Committee on personn personnel. The committee on Student Assignment is monday november 18 at 6 p. M. The joint City School District is friday, december 13, at 10 a. M. That meeting will be held at city hall in the legislative chambers. Any other members posted in the agenda or the following staff reports. Number 1, the Quarterly Report on williams uniform complaints for august through october 2019. And an annual report on williams uniform complaints for 2018 19 school year. The Vice President and then commissioner collins. So the williams report tend to be pretty pro forma, but i do have a question. I dont know if anybody on staff is here to answer. If not, we can get back to this later. If you look at the document, there is 11 facility complaints, and nine were resolved and two unresolved. So i want to know first of all, i would like to know what the facilities and the complaints are, because there is no supporting documentation around that and what the timeline is to resolve the issues. I dont know, dawn i can follow up on that and get you a response, commissioner. But an even bigger issue, and ive been bringing this up in different matters or forms, the first item is textbooks and instructional materials. I would contend that part of our instructional materials at the elementary level is having a robust Classroom Library and we dont have that. So i feel like were violating the williams laws or rules that are set in place by williams, which actually was part of my first time on the board. Because the textbooks are not really being used in elementary schools. If they are, shame on us. So i want us to really look at this. How can we put robust, meaningful, culturally relevant books in our classrooms so that teachers can do the work that theyre supposed to do and theyre trained to do the in classrooms. Can we put that in click cim aluminium . We are going to address that in the december 9th meeting. You read my mind. I was concerned about that as well, but i want to highlight this textbook that i keep bringing is the social studies textbook, im hearing that its racist and teachers dont want to use it, but they dont have materials to supplement it. I dont think teachers should use this textbook, but this is considered as compliant and that is a concern for me. Additionally, my daughters english teacher has a place in the school and she is being asked to bring these back in. If i personally walked into schools and asked, do you have enough books for reading, if were just counting textbooks, were not counting enough this says instructional materials, this is more expansive in this thing in what im reading here. So im not seeing that. Additionally, i received an email from a room parent saying that its freezing cold in one of the rooms and they didnt know that was a potential complaint nor did the teachers. So one of the things that comes up for me is that parents and educators dont even know what williams complaints are for. We could go to the educators and ask if the room is too hot or cold. In a lot of times they dont even know they could be filing williams complaints. How are we educating families on the williams complaints. It says we are supposed to post information in every classroom. When i met with the student advisory committee, they have a whole list of high schools that they say the trash cans are overflowing, the trash cans dont have toilet paper, thats a williams complaint and they didnt know that and theyre student leaders. So we cant doing our job in educating Community Leaders about what williams