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To be their voice. Why does it matter that you endorse the goals of the protection of the local schools revenue act. Because it is hidden, and because relative to the rest of the state, you are the experts. And what will this do . This is, and this will return the stable, local property taxes to your schools and return accuracy and transparency in reporting. San francisco reports to. I think that is it. Thank you. And San Francisco reports to its voters that 34 percent of Property Owners taxes go to fund their schools. But only 18 percent is actually getting there. And the other 16 percent is being invisiblely diverted to pay the debts of the state. That local revenue, should have gone to schools. Many voters believe that schools get all of the money and the voters dont understand why the San Francisco schools always seem in need of funding, this is a Good Government measure that supports accurate and school and state spending on services and without accurate reporting it is very difficult to make informed decisions. We ask you to join the School Boards from as far north as southern humble and san diego and stand up for children and Public Education by supporting the goals of this common sense measure that will help our schools and our state while raising no taxes or fees, you saw this matters from our local San Francisco presentation as well as the report from the youth and education law project, at stanford law school. For those of you and we hope that there are a few, those reports are available out in the lobby to anyone interested, and we will be very grateful for anyone to take a look on the those, those children paid with the future and gave up the education, which we can never reclaim, it is lost forever, thank you for caring about the children, and the future of california. Hello, i am Jennifer Bester and i am also here to thank you for all of the good work that you do all of the problems that you listen to and all of the opportunities that you try to mine for San Francisco school children. I do believe that it is hard to bring to you yet another problem or an opportunity. However, the concept of stable reliable and local funding for schools is a crucial one, we cant let San Francisco Unified School District and we cant let California School children serve the deep pockets for the state. Jill, you described in the last meeting, the gut bunch, the punch in the gut of the may revised stir contribution, issue. As long as the state can create obligations that it cant actually meet, and then hoist the obligations on the backs of the school children, we are going to keep having these kinds of conversations and these kinds of problems. And there are three Critical Concepts that we have asked you to support, and the three are that a, the schools deserve the same protection of their local property taxes, that the legislature and enthusiastickly awarded for every other entity in 2004, and just the same protection, and secondly that it is the states responsibility for pay its own debts. And not to launder them through the School Funding and third, that voters deserve transparency and accountability to make the right decisions for the school children, my own son who is in high school now will hate this but i am going to give you a quick history lesson, what we are trying to do here is provide the stable and reliable funding that is adequate in california. And we are trying to do it in one small step and this is not a hail mary pass, but last friday, many of us observed the 70th anniversary of the dday landings. Four days after those landings, so on june tenth, 1944, where do you think that our troops were . Were they in berlin . Were they on the rien . Were they in paris, no they were not even in the first objective which was cam they had secured the beaches and the few miles around them, it is time for us to make a start securing every penny of California School funding for California School kids and we are asking you to help us secure the beaches. Thank you. Thank you. Item j. General matters, done. Item k is done. Item l. I call the adoption of the qeis waivers, may i have a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Deputy superintendent, i believe that you have a designee for the reading . Executive director, okay. And could, good evening, i am jill hogen dike and i am the executive director in the curriculum instruction. Our requested action we have two parts to the board of education of the sfd will hold the public hearing for the purpose of approving the submission and the application for a waiver relief for complying with the education codes receiving the funding through the quality Education Investment act. The board is asked to approve the waiver for the ed code section 0. 55. 7405, a, through, d that requires the maintenance for the class sizes in qeia. I see, no public speakers. Any comments from the board . Roll call vote, please . Thank you. Miss wei . Yes. Thank you, mr. Logan. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Haney. Miss maufas . Yes. Thank you. Miss Mendoza Mcdonald . Yes. Dr. Murase. Aye. Miss norton. Yes. Thank you, miss wynns . Aye. And fewerer. Yes. And that is seven ayes. Thank you. Special order of business continues and i had a motion and seconded on the resolution, may i have a motion and a second, on a resolution of the board of education of the San Francisco Unified School District levying a special tax within the Community Facility district november 901 for fiscal year, 2014 15. So moved. Second . Thank you. Deputy superintendent . Yes, we have mr. Chris arm atrac. Good evening, commissioners, i am the director of policy and funding for sfusd. The resolution is for the board of education, to levy the special tax in the Community Districts and 901, your 2414. I see no public speakers, comments from the board or the superintendent . Seeing none, the roll call vote, please. Thank you. Miss wei . Yes. Mr. Logan . Yes. Mr. Haney n yes. Miss maufas . Yes. Miss mendoza, mcdonald. Yes. Dr. Murase. Yes, norton. Yes. Wynns . Yes. And fewer. Yes. Thank you. And this is item m, discussion of other educational issues deputy, associate . We have the associate superintendent kevin to speak to the memorandum. We have two public speakers signed up for this item, which while we are setting out would you like to speak now, or would you like to speak after the presentation . After . Okay, great. Glad to have you with us. I believe that there is a powerpoint,; is that correct . . Yes. Good evening, commissioners. Deputy superintendent, and deputy superintendent lee, kevin of the associate superintendent Family Community and support department and i am joined by lieutenant. You have to do this. Lieutenant coly. Dont hold it, you press it and the red light goes on and now you can tell. Lieutenant coli , from the San Francisco Police Department. Dont worry. So we are here tonight as part of the mlu with sfpd. And i will do want to go back and just remind people about the purpose of the mlu. We had the, and we should say the former mlu instead of current. But the current mlu we enter into an mou in order to insure the safety in primary and secondary schools in the city and county of San Francisco and enhance the education of the sfusd staff and the students while avoiding unnecessary criminalization of sfusd students, for whom arrest and Juvenile Court involve creates long term consequences. And that is basically one of these subjects for tonights report. In the mou, it states that in fact it always has and i wanted to show you that in the previous mou, it stated that there will be monthly reports to you with the data, so, in the new mou, we have amended that to be three times a year. So this is that time, this is the summary one at the end of the year i included march, and november, and march and at the end of the year. I do want to mention one thing about the data that you are going to see tonight. It does say in the mou and it we will be amending this, it says that it is going to be disarrogated by the school site and that is actually not the case and i was actually requested by the board not to call it out by school sites. And so, we will be making that amendment. And lastly, an important part of the mlu is also related to the grievances. And the current mou, states that the sfusd Restorative Practices task force which will be convened will have at least two youth members and i dont know if i read it for you, and this is an area that i want to be up front that we did and we have not had an opportunity and actually of the People Services have been. And however, very simply, we just have not had time to convene this group. And so, we will, have every intention of getting together, to put the grievance complaint feedback dispute resolution process in place but we have not done so. We did meet with them and kol lean and i have been meeting many, many times. And after meeting with the principals about the mou, a lot of things surfaced and so the principals did need a lot of guidance and we had 7 individual meetings with each of the differences to go over the mou and then a lot of issues rose and so we have been busy attending to the issues that came up and so now we are going to look at the data. The first comes from kark and i am actually going to ask kolene to explain this, but this will show you the last four school years of summary data. Okay, when we look at the gray, the shaded gray part of the graph, those are calls from the school to the Police Department, through our central dispatch. And so that number represents those calls that were made directly into the Police Department. That does not take into account any acalls that may have been made from the principal to the designated School Officer or a text. We are going to try to get a handle on what the real number may look like and we need to see it larger and this could be significant larger and because the areas of where the officers are on site, instead of calling the police, this might be a question or something is going to be taking place at the school they may just want the officer to assist and so it is not really a call for service. And so any way, that kind of information is also available. So if we look at the arrest it looks like from 1011 it has gone down and it went to 195 and as you can see in 1011 and 190 or 167 to 133 and in the last school year to 94. And in the number 224, next to a number of arrests those are the caseload that they have that is ongoing and so that number is larger because they continue to have the caseload and the kids that they are working with and case managing and that is what that numbers represents and then if you notice of the 94 arrests this slide will tell you what the dispositions are and the number does not match up to 93. And i do want to mention that of those 93, 17 are nonsfusd schools in San Francisco. But they are nonsfusd. Okay and the other. The and the piece in the dispositions, and the protocol for the San Francisco Police Department is whenever a student or a youth is going to be entering into the system when it is going to be a citation, a booking, something that just going to be actually brought to for whatever kind of Case Management or kark may have, every call comes from the Police Department to them and they are sort of the Clearing House and so that is why you will see not brought to kark, booked 28 and they will go up to ygc or if they are just cited to use the Guidance Center and some are brought to the kark and handled by the probation officer at kark and so there is an officer on site at kark and they are the ones that fields the calls. Can you believe that is . It is the Community Referral Assessment Center. What is that different, i want the listening audience to understand what you are using. Cark was set up 15 years ago or maybe longer as an alternative and closer to 20 as an alternative to the youth Guidance Center which is now the juvenile justice center. And we needed an alternative. To just bringing youth up and incarcerating them and so it is more of a wrap around service and probation was there and the nurse was on site and it was dealing with a lot of the issues around the youth and so in the, as the years are progressed cark became the cleaning house, so that every call will go through a probation officer and like i said they are the ones that will determine if the person needs to going to the juvenile Detention Center and whether they can be cited and released and so it is an Assessment Center where they will do an assessment. One to mention one chining about cark and that is i met with them individually, and about a month ago and then thomas has met with them and thomas, and the People Services and executive directors met with him also and because we are going to be bringing carc into the alternatives to suspensions and with the resources they work with and a lot of the Community Based organizations and so they requested to me so they could see how they could better support us in the work that they are doing and so they are going to become more actively involved with the People Services and referring the students, and also, just providing Additional Support to students. Okay. So, School Arrests to 13, 14, you will see that first of all, that number of the high schools that gray, is supposed to be 48 and i dont know why that number does not show up in my chart. But, so you will see that i will have, the carc data and then what is in synergy and i actually have recorded 70 arrests and the carc data comes out to 76 i believe, or 77, and so, there is some discrepancy there, and if they are not entered into the synergy we are probably existing on one of the old paper incident reports that were faxed in which sit with the incident reports for injuries, and cps referrals and everything else. And so, but there is a close enough alignment there. Arrests by ethnicity. It is, you see there, again, disproportionate arrests for the African Americans students and our latino students and i am using the ethnicity codes that are in synergy and so if you see the se, south east asian. Okay . But, again, clearly disproportionate, for our African American and latino students. And then, arrests by gender. And this is again, the 70, that i have. And by carc i dont get the disarrogate this way but you can see that disproportionately more boys are arrested than the girls and that is what the data shows. And then, the offenses for the arrests so you can see that these are the frequency of most of the arrests are physical injury called or caused or attempted. And then, the next most frequent arrests for knives or dangerous objects and possession. And well, you can see the data, and i dont know what to call every single individual one, you see them, okay . And i want to, and this is a list that is easier to read that way. Do i want to end by just. Interviewed one of the principals and barnaby pain of Lincoln High School and i will read this into the record because i think that it is really important to talk about a relationship and i know when i was a High School Principal i had a close relationship with the mission station and it was a very positive one and that is actually how i met chief suhr and so Lincoln High School is a long term collaborativive relationship with the station in the school car and they are well known to anything and they are a critical support, and the Restorative Practices along with the peer resources program. And the Community Service program and the lincoln families and, according to the dat a lincoln had 29 suspensions and less than half of the previous years total. This represents a reduction of suspension dating back five years when lincoln will experience well over 100 suspensions annually, school wide has increased steadily over the past four years, lincoln uses the Police Station school car as a resource for the consultation to avoid arrest and suspension of lincoln students and thank you, for your work in letting me quote you tonight in this report, and that concludes, any questions or Public Comment . . I just want to mention that i had a conversation with the principal pain and he actually attributes his lower suspension rate to having a full time rp, coach at his site with the resources and he said that he was one of the three schools that were granted high schools that were granted a full time rp coach and he just said that that was was the main factor in the reduction of the suspension and economickers any comments . Seeing none. Oh, commissioner maufas . Oh, okay, that was the c