Get to Public Comment as he will as possible we have a lot of people here to speak on behalf of several issues please bear with us we will have to allow you want to for everybody to be heard with that said, i want to acknowledge longer commissioner jill wynns in the audience it is good to see you. clapping. section a information for the pun were going on to section b pun were going on to section b complete a speaker card and present it to the executive assistant. Speaker cards will not be accepted if an item is already before the board. Prior to the item called and present to say to the executive assistant according to the board rules and procedures speakers will not be accepted for an item before the board superintendants report. Superintendant lee immigration mr. Walton and commissioners i have a few items to report on. One thing i forgot to do will everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Thank you president walton and something seemed a little bit out of order there so thank you for meeting that. Ill to start by alm that that is Administrative Professionals week by saying thank you to all of the harjd Administrative Professionals at the school sites in the district you are the lifeline of our organization and medic professionals week is celebrate to say thank you youre the ones that make our schools and office run smoothly and like a family it was also recently digital citizenship week the week of april 10th the age of Digital Media a powerful tool we guide the students to make good decision to take advantage of the technology in their hands and lives constantly connected is where we have to be good citizens during this week and throughout the school year we promote the positive citizenship as early as kindergarten through high school the lessons and activity at the San FranciscoUnified School District are largely shared by an Organization CalledCommon Sense Media you also have heard that California Department of education recently releases the 20152016 cohort outcome data which includes Graduation Rates and course Completion Rate im sad to announce the rates continue to improve and lead by 4 Percentage Points sfusd has a high Graduation Rate for students that starred high school in 2011 and graduated in 2015 sorry 2016 which is 86. 5 percent compared to the state rate of 82. 7 percent. clapping. this years cohort date one. 6 percentage increase in the prior years and 9 plus since 2009 nodding we weve got a lot more work to do id like to this is an everyone educators and everyone throughout the district to help the students achieve those gains in addition to our climbing Graduation Rate the imdysfunction for kindergartener increased from the 2 to 95 plus an increase over 5 percent over two years the 20162017 rate of 95 plus is the highest to meet the imdysfunction for kindergarten ever thank you, mr. Truitt and 95 he percent of seismic grant graders have recorded i want to extend a thanks to the Health Workers under the leadership of our folks and under the nurses under the leadership of mary chiu thank you very much. clapping. next in honor ever National Poetry month we do this every year it is my pleasure to welcome from the americans scores bay area an after School Program that celebrated 15 years in the bay area two students one from the moscone elementary and another elementary that represents the radio poets and kilo and leslie with 15 more students all over the city performed in the all poetry with 50 other children and selected to center their poems on 91. 7 graduations kilo and leslie thank you. clapping. thank you for your creativity and inspiration and after we have unfortunately leslie was not able to make it tonight but after chloes perform the director of Public Affairs will share should remarks can we welcome chloe oh, there she is take it away chloe. My name is chloe the name of my enemy is life in mexico is glories my dream i love it i what i likening collins clobbers and yum, yum, yum i like chopsticks in any chinese food i like Small Business owner something my dog and skin who cares we can all be a mexican in my family is in my from him the usa is my coach and this is my background. clapping. thank you chloe. Thank you for the education president walton and members of the board this is our fourth year thank you having our poet athletics were in the 15 year and strong across the city play every friday at the civic center. Thank you for your support thank you so much. clapping. so i want District Attorney indefinite thank the folks and chloe you the a wonderful job i saw you through the performance that poem a little bit ago i know youre an amazing poet thank you for coming out and joining us tonight thank you. And now i get to do something never done before by any member of the board of education by any other president prior to my term in office i get to acknowledge our state champion Mission High School choice Basketball Team. clapping. so the coach the coach the parents and those young men have had a successfully wildlife in the past couple of weeks had the honor of being acknowledged and joining the mayor and the superintendent and had the honor of being acknowledged at city hall at a rally just for them they received a key to the city which is a big deal. clapping. they also had the opportunity to be acknowledged for theyre great victory and great feat at the giant game and went to the dug out and talked with the players and now acknowledge you on our turf at the School District thank you for your great work. clapping. so just a few brief statements about this team this team was 35 and one this year and 35 and one clapping. and as we all know this marks the first time we had a team from San Francisco a Public Public educated team win the state championship in the history. clapping. so without further ado, youll get a chance to hear from the rest of the colleagues how excited for this victory well hear from the captain of the team harris. Naomi. clapping. naomi. Got you. Oh, good evening will president walton and superintendant lee and the commissioners the San Francisco board of education my name is naomi harris im the caption of the Mission Basketball team from the division 3 champion. On behalf of my team i want to impress our appreciation for this laughter this recognition this evening as i saw the team we were not just playing for that Mission High School but San Francisco and for the Public Schools as also for the community im glad to that we made you guys proud tonight. clapping. now id like to bring up the principle and head coach. clapping. thank you so much board president well do a quick thank yous and have you introduce and get to know were kind of goofy we love them they like to be grind i didnt but so first of all, i need to thank our City Partners theyve amazing people jumbled in and ready to celebrate within minutes as the state partners this is incredible youve been awesome we appreciate all the support and celebration weve gotten district folks commissioner caen eucalyptus and, of course, in my mentor and greatest person i know kevin truit i have got to thank our students if Mission High School some are here couldnt have done it without you dont know but we are amazing the best students in the world period hands down. clapping. we were able to bring a couple hundred students with us to sacramento and srp the difference between debate and victory thats the same for the families families you deserve this absolutely our phenomenal phenomenal faculty of teachers day to day supported the players. clapping. and dont forget were not graduating yet we couldnt have done it without the most phenomenal tier team an planet earth my former student we love you and the cheering thank you all this team and, of course, we have to this thing all of the coaches and teams themselves wouldnt have been possible without we dont have anything lets go bears and the coaches and Nothing Happened without the people that drive me crazy the coach of the year honorable dgo life. Thanks eric i want to thank the board and kevin and i know g d m leaders with the backbone of our run in the season from a historical stand point im humbled the first in ever in the Public Schools we werent perfect 35 and one but perfect for our imperfection one of the woman was covered by someone elses strength and those young men that achieved something from a history stand point Mission High School is a great in the greatest school and my dear friend coach chester field i was humbled by him you turning this over to me and you guys. clapping. more importantly more importantly i want to thank my coaching staff. clapping. so at this time well call the players up and remind you all oh, gee, gee come up here you missed all the shout outing can we give it up for gee, gee our head coach amazing. clapping. at this time well call up the players mr. Right youre going through and in the middle of that hours shoe first jamie m wright. clapping. now 3 junior adrian otis. Number 4, mr. Johnson number 56 you cant define. Marseille. Number lovingly willie chase. clapping. ben empathic. Number 21 harris number 2, 2 williams. Number 23, pratt. clapping. number 24 robert lee. clapping. number 3, 2 pratt a. clapping. number 34 Anthony Mcbride and finally number 4, 2 mr. Abram California Division 3 state challenges. One last time go bears. clapping. okay. And my amazing staff started with the former barrier banks. clapping. another graduate of sfusd donald dudley. clapping. my only import fred jones from st. Louis. clapping. Mission High School in 2014 graduate and our amazing coach carol bob young. clapping. all right. We have to it bunch up here. clapping. i forgot and arnold. clapping. thank you, thank you, thank you. So colleagues do we have anything to say to the young men now is the time nothing . Commissioner cook i really didnt want to be first up but fellows congratulations i mean, i think this deserves a congratulations were proud there is a lot of people that felt personally invested they saw you take the championship and because you know folks like me we grew up in the city as native that you all are you represent us at the state and show on the court but for your student leaders the types care and the standard composed and knew what that was about and communicated that i congratulate. And shout out to pe pe we we grew up together i did it here and he there you know were keeping our seats warm to take it to the championship and the claim you built for yourselves on the court. clapping. your people now our city looks up to carry that with a sense of responsibility you deserve and if you want to continue to push and improve our Community Like youve done in the school i want to partner with you congratulations and look forward to staying connected with all of you. Commissioner Vice President mendosamcdonnell i feel weve common each other we were all the friday you were playing we were sitting in a room dlirlt and inspector duffy the candidates thats the reason we were not 2, 3, 4 sacramento all 7 of us we have supported you it was wonderful to someone was Live Streaming to see you win was beauty it was representative of who you are as young people who you are as leader and the pride we have is tremendous and for for those of you who dont know all of the things weve been able to do together is we started with a warrior game where our boys got a standing ovation from the 20 thousand plus folks at the game that afternoon then went on to the giant home plate you guys were there for batting practice on the field and the look in our eyes while you were there meeting the coaches and players being on the field and our city so proud was wonderful and then we brought you to the where our state and local officials thank you you are the First High School team that got a key to the city this is tremendous. clapping. you know the key to the city has only been giving out to professional sports teams that won championship games and i think that speaks volumes to what you guys were able to accomplish this year we were hoping everybody was like we have to have a braid for them a braid for them we tried to get you in a braid youre in a tournament instead of playing more basketball during the Caesar Chavez parade but had a spot the mission is incredibly proud as well and got you know were working on a picnic in the park another delores park for you and on behalf of the supervisor sheehy you know hes raised money for every single will get a Championship Ring on behalf of the city. clapping. so we are you know we know how to do up our champions the one thing the mayor said this is great i said, yeah if they win next year i dont know if we can top all the things for you and with you for the 5 seniors that are graduating this is a moment not to forget question say over at city hall the teamwork makes the dream work and thank you to the posted thank you. clapping. commissioner murase. I want to address the team and is you show us there is nothing that you cant do when you set your mind to things you set an amazing example to all the kids thousand kids in the Unified School District i want to thank all the educators including the coaches that are bringing those young men and finally the families i know what that means early modernize and the late nights getting kids here and there really want to thank the families for hanging in there and making the teamwork so much. clapping. commissioner haney. I want to say congratulations were as School Board Members we have to represent the whole district we cant have to the best of our ability favorite schools this is not stripping 24 happened and Mission High School an Extraordinary School within an extraordinary leader principal the staff the parents, the students we knew that Amazing Things happen in the mission so when we see a group of young people that get to represent our community and city and Unified School District this is proud to for Mission High School to do do extraordinary things for the students and have young people representing that makes us especially proud and say to mr. Harris i saw this young man on tv a number of times giving interviews such incredible vision and pride in our city he said were doing this for the city we cant turn back we got to too many hills i i dont know if you got the play on words that represented who i dont know if he remembered saying that but represents who you are where you were playing the entire time for all of us we were cheering in the entire city had your back i hope you continue to feel that in the future because youve done something that nobody else will do but up until now we have a special place in our superintendant carranza and the history of the city city so tha thank you youve made San Francisco a worldclass city and everything you win a championship we get a flag thank you and congratulations lets give him the final say. Asking ms. Eng. Congratulations on behalf of the sfusd i think that made us proud to be in the School Board Even though we were not part of Mission High School but it is important to see people excelling. Thank you for being an inspiration to our generation. So everyone congratulations adding to that but other than congratulations thank you for all your hard work and now you get the entitlement now you have to push around the Young Students that feels great so you guys get to do that for the younger students and with that, you guys representing regardless of nominating and not you guys made that i envy you guys for that and i think that you guys started something for San Francisco to be a great push on soccer wrestling or football and now you guys with that entitlement get to say i was the best but get to come here and say i did it so come give more money to our soccer field our courts to our gear because ive been there we need better gear and places because theyre okay we can get better than that but also with that the many things because we deserve that raising our color early and right now like doing College Applications and man time management is crazy right now you get to demand it is come back to the Community Come on it has to keep on going i encourage you guys to follow that and with that, boss them around make them run miles i want to say for the juniors are going to college wow. Because i know how hard going through our daily lives and still wanting like didnt get better than that i deal with that pushing more to my success so like im proud of you guys thats a lot and yeah, you guys ar