as of august 27th, 2024. special ent initiative. meeting to order. roll call. miss lena. present commissioner. bogus. present. commissioner fis commissioner kim. present. commissioner sanchez. here. commissioner. wiseman. ward. here. here. thank you. public comment for the item will take place during item c, just before usd will provide childcare for this meetin on the first floor in the enrollment center at 555 franklin street from p m or whenever the meeting ends, whichever comes first. it doesn't go past 9 p.m, space iswill be provided on a first come to 10. at this time before the board goes into closed session i call for any speakerss listed in the agenda.

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am reconvening the special meeting at 6:43 p.m. thank you for your patience as we thank you to those of you who are here in of you who are joining us online. my name is matt new president of the board of education and almost exactly 28 years ago today, a few, few, maybe a week or so off i a classroom at balboa high school on my first so i've been involved with this district for long time as a teacher, as a principal, as an and for the last several years from it's just a real honor to be playing this new role in a school district, a public school system that i really about, and i want to start going to very much miss laney mahtomedi, my predecessor, who had to step down from the board last week. i exemplary leadership qualities at the press event last repeat all of that today but suffice to had the

opportunity to collaborate with her closely and board l my time as vice president and we're all going to the board. i am also grateful for phil kim's into this new job. welcome, commissioner kim, know and respect phil a lot from his work inhe staff here, and now he'sso we're glad to glad to have him, and ton the public, i just want to say that the next four months are very critical time for sfusd i believe this is the right that moment we're going to need insisting, as we have, on transparency ensuring that we represent the? i mean that's our job. for those of you who haven't heard us say this we as a school board are your representatives, we your vision, your values. we bring that to the table tonight we're going to be alignment initiative that i know a lot of folks are very have, and are skeptical about in many ways. we are goingq- you as well. i mean, our job is to be skeptical whennd obviously to support our staff in doing the best possible work, but to e the vision and values

of our community our amazi here in san francisco. and so, you know we're going to usd's fiscal and operational health to rebuild trust with families t student learning and student outcomes, and to really create that this great city deserves. so i'm lo with all of you before we move to our agenda, i need from closed session, which is as follows. i in one matter of anticipated vote of seven ayes, gives direction to the general now we are going to move o which is the election of the vice president of the board. this type of election is it's by voice vote, a second is not it is permissible for board members to vote for colleagues, you will be voting by name if there isnation. but if there is only one nomination, we'll just vote yes or no. nominations are now open for the office of vicard of education for the year 2024. are there any nominations? commissioner lamb? thank you, president alexander nominate commissioner weissman ward. she has de throughout her

tenure as a board member, just to bring g, her deep commitment to our students and our families and the vision, valu set forward by this board. and she is, the right person at this given the leadership transition this will be her second time around as vice president and i commissioner weissman ward there any other nominations seeing? none, i declare nominee for the office o is lisa weissman. ward. miss lenhoff, pl have a roll call. vote. mr. montgomery. yes, i don't know what your miss lee, commissioner. bogus. yes yes, commissioner. lamb. yes, commissioner. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes vice president weissman w. not yet yes. she

telegraphed. well, actuagh votes already. yes, there was. and i'll give an enthusiastic yes to finish it out, i am very pleased been elected vice president of the board of educationteful that she has agreed to serve in this role, move the board forward for this year. so thank all right. and before we move comment, i also want to see if ourld like to introduce themselves briefly. we have nof each of you could tell us we have two new student delegates this every year, and it's. yeah, we're super excited from a ro just want to share your name what school you're from, and anythinge you would like to share hello, my name is lauren and i'm a junior at lowell high school, and i'm as our interim student delegate. welcomee. i'm langston junior at wash, so far this year has been a lot, but

definitely get better. and i'm excited to do this been throwing myself into public service work for a lucky enough to be picked by a superintendent, matt wayne, to school task force a couple years ago. that'd be freshman year inool now, and i was i was lucky enough to work on thellowing year as a sophomore and now again progressing. i have landed myselfd to work this year with you guys. welcome, welcomeeally we're really grateful for your service, all right. we're n public comment, before i has been some understandable confusion and some justifiedaints about public comment.mmadi and i have been working together this year in actually tryingimprove how we do public comment. so we've been trying out some the things have been working, some have not. but i want to is to ensure that as many people as possible can public comment as they desire and as is legally requiredalso to beg a reasonable hour so that we don't go late into the night we have hours and hours of public comment then

the business starts very we may be taking important votes or making important decisions at a who want to hear about those decisions or watch those decisions, it won't be able to because it's so late. so there's kind ofand so we would appreciate any feedback you have. we're board office staff is going to be making with the other commissioners. so if you have any specific feedback on public comment, please fe my email is matt alexander at sfusd. edu be coming forth with some recommendations in the next month possible adjustments. want to point out is the diff non agenda. public comment. tonight we only have agenda comment. again that's something we can discuss. moving you do have public comments and if you've submitted a card oryou're speaking online please make sure to connect your comment to the to the resource tonight's agenda. since that is the only agenda item. all right. the other thing. i'll say is that b rules in california law do not allow us, as boascuss comments or attempt to answer questions during public

commenterintendent will ask that staff follow up a back and forth or discuss your comments because last thing i'll say is public comment is not, you know, it's not it's not like iot really two way community engagement. so we are working for the board to engage in two way communi out to us if you have suggestions on that as well. you can always emang on different ways of improving our engagement, all ri move into public comment. okay. i will call, people in groups of five. so when you hear up at the podium. you'll use a little button there. you'll pressand each speaker will have one minute. we have a timer here, that so just mindful of your time. i will call. safaí supriya. anna lisa, please line up. news12 this one. okay. good evening everyone. my name

is mary. i've been in for many years, but in the position as an elementary advisor since 1986, when i was still going want to say tha mine starlet, who just said, i don't know what to say i got to use her words. i don't know what to. you've got to have a heart sacramento say, closing schools is not good, why are we even that's number one. number about the mothership. that's sf co. we're the people that you gopractices from. how can you close any small school seems to you that it's a drain on money, but it's really not a drain says it's not a drain, it's not a drain. thank you. good evening everyone. my name is supriya comment today. i just wanted to speak

briefly about the alignment issue topic. i've talked to a lot of advocacy i've done in the past few years, andessing concern about, you know whether community inputtaken into account in reality. and also ov going to happen. i understand the initial list wiln september and folks are really unsure to happen after that point. what type of consultation they'll be, and in particular, if any schools are close will be for kids, that and staff andwould need to move to another location. i think it would be really helpful to make sure that we keep lines of communication because when folks don't know there's a lot of specu lot of anxiety and it would be very helpful to keep people thank you. the resource realignment information that people shared live the dac meetings. the surveyas not really representative of the communities. and i've got a joke for for america, kip? th work, and a

thirst for making money offtization of our children have in common. what do thered friday by the mayor, and the joke's on't congratulate yourselves for further all the destruction of this school district being hollowed out by of operations who cannot stop giving money to private did not have a teacher all being stalled. i got told that fingerpr180. so i'm no excuse. there's an excusee schools and privatize is disgusting. thank you. thank you.h school principal and president of the united admini san francisco. in the midst of looming school ry connection and a statewide teacher shortage. w have a hiring freeze of some of our most important staff in counselors, our paraeducators and more. us s have candidates who've been offered positions as early ase of them moving to the bay area to work for us. andob

might not exist, despite the money being in our budget for we're being told again to do more with less and to and well-being in the meantime, it's not okay. for. good evening. i'm a parent of a fifth grader and a kinderga here mostly to ask questions, and i know will email them to you as well, because i really do want to know thearent with very limited time working full time two kids, it's hard has been very opaque, has not had good communityand i just am truly want the answer to these questions. my why this process has felt so rushed and why it went one year ago, almost today, that schooloptions that were going to be explored, and now it is the only thing about. it is the thing that is on everyone's mind. whatnt to know what happened. what is the plan for cuttin district staff? where is that? we know how being overspent on that. and you read the reports th have yet to see anything. ito know where is the thoughtful

process for what are we going to many, many other things. many que like the community engagement has completely been lacking a lot of anxiety around this. thank you. so good. so i want i need to say my name? rory abernathy, teacher, i want to speak to the fact that three years ago we were have done to prevent this disaster, and people did theposite. now we haveo we must chain ourselves to buildings if needs be,charter schools to come into this district because it'sthen i want to say that jobs for justice came need to start applying for the infrastructure money, the income reduction act, so tha we can green our public buildings. it it producesosures. because you this has happened all over country. many, many people have applied for this mone seen any applications from the city of san francisco or sfusd jobs for justifically and said when are you going to apply for the income reduction actimited funds to green our public spaces for the next ten years.. and so that could prevent,enue that

will prevent closures and charter schools, reduce class of the above. so let's not three years from now be the same position and have not applied for tha thank you. i will call the next groupchelle alexia, erica and kathy again. galen, michelle kathy. hey, y'all. my name is galen. i'm a parent at san francisco community school, president of our parent action council, and say commissioner alexander, i don't feel like thisess is matching our vision or values. closures ahead of ev that school closures will not close the district's budget problemsin five, maybe not even ten years.money like the $1.7 million that superintendent wayne tried to to approve over the summer. thankfully, that meeting got canceled, to hire company to manage closures i'm really glad that was put to the

side for now, because i our most well-fu california can't manage this, and i prefer a little eye contact fro, anyhow, i agree with what mary said, and thank you all for being here tonight. my fellow parent, michelle, just veryallowed me to come speak. i didn't prepare anything. i'm not a teacher. i have two kids at san francisco. you guys want to introduce yourself? i'm maisie. what grade are you in. i'm in first, i'm here and explain all the things that you've a single mom, it's exhausting to do this, to have to stand and i woke up at 6 a.m. kids to school, worked all day picked them up, grabbed a so that we could show up and show how hard to do this work of

being a parent, getting our kids to school, and now having towhether our school is going to be open next year. just it's not okay. and i need you to. enzo. enzo, enzo. alexia. i'm another sfcc parent. i have three kids at grade one in fourth. i don't have much to add. we have now that you've heard that this outreach has been great. i know what outreach we're talking about. if it's the survey that went seemed to have all the answers before we provided the, you know, some of the meetings that i heard happen were unspecific, very have so many friends, parents at don't even know that this is happening or are sort of them, hey, when it's happening, it's happening next year. we don't know why. and we're supposed to trust that it's going to happen for the good reason, for the good ofo find

a great solution, multiple kids in a better schoolno we don't. i just don't trust that. and so, you know, thank. hello my name is erica. i'm an arts educator proud sfusd parent, and i just would that less than a year ago, doctor himself said that school closures should be a laston to you all is what other levers have been explored i order to close the budget gap, what other levers have been explored, especially when can be quitent? this will ask you again what other levers have been explored and what can we do to make sure that we're not the backs of communities who are attending fully enrolled schools, that have passion. look at the parents and the up tonight to advocate for their schools. we're talking about are in need of your support and not

confusion and a rushed process. thank you. hi, my name is. i'm a parent at star king elementary. my kids are in first grade and third grade, i have about the re process. the would like the board to consider that no matter which schools arel all be impacted. so if there are three schools in a neighborhood and one of those schools is on the will have the critical job of welcoming and supporting those families that are experiencing that trauma. and you can expect up accordingly because of the fact that we will is, on the subject of really if it's okay thatt that that we're really upset, not just about the are coming, but that this is the same district that has landed us in. so what changes are happening at the district that going forward, this won't continue to happen? andd love to ask is instead of consistently talking about eliminating what might sfusd be better attract and retain families, we are, we let

us not assume. thank you. we assume that we can. enrollment will continually decline. we are heublic education. thank you. thank you. i will call t next group. gina eva, and sadia. gina. rory william, eva and sadia i'm the reading interventiony specialist and second grade math teacher at yick wog a social worker to every school it's been budgeted for. been hired for our position, and yet their not there. we're supposed to have severe kinder through second grade specialay class. there's a person that's been hired for the pey're not there. my school has the its budget that we had in the spring. when my positi full time by central office and now i'm told there's only money for point s coaching and

reading specialist positions in this options for me. no on the jobs board. this is not move children who don't read and turn them into readers i'm went out of turn but i did want to correct really tired. it's not the ink, it's the inflation reduction act. i that. for those that are listening, thank you. thank you eva. my pronouns are they them. i'm a parent of sfcc student and a social worker in to echo what everyone has said that to align with the values of the community and to please get meaningful feedback from the community alignment, which to me feels like a fancylosures, right? we do want to talk think being transparent, like alexia was saying, thaty people don't know what's going on and informing families and communities what's going on

closing schools is a if you're closing schools lose trust. enrollment goes down, so echoing what everyone has said, what are we doing to with what what is working? i mean sfcc has been going something's going right there, we're scaring families. thank youu rson, and i'm a former resource specialist district. and i want to talk about the school closure and how level of the job. when you don't know what's coming ne to stay focused on your students. i two students right now who are in private school. i work as a private practice tutor. those students both last left fusd because they getting the attention that they needed to deal with dysl our students who are dyslexic in the schoolslexia memo that's 13 years old and has never been sent to principals district. it specifies what support receive. both the students who i t when they were in the school district, and both of them w in this district during that 13 year period. so you have principals

that don't were never emailed never given a training never gi this memo, except in limited one on one on some cases, you could solve this and bring back enrollment to the district and avoid school closures. and. does these words resonate to you, equity fairness, transparencyll of these words, we have heard them in sfusd. so my n have been a dedicated employee of five years. a doctor william cobb have trusted m to enroll them in sfusd. and so with that being said, after hearing all of these parents and teachers and i can't find a words to express myself, you know, i don't have i feel like a little bit frustrated that, we are like this, not heard. we send emailsd we show up and everything, but none of point, we

sometimes feel discriminated and because, wellng. but i hope, we will be like, the opportunity to be treated as a, employee like they should be treated. thank you. thank you. our last two speakers are brandy. brandy markman and brandy bone. president alexander , can can we take another publico go to online after the card. so we. okay. hi, everyone. my i'm a san francisco public school parent and a member of the organizing comm education alliance. everyone here should google public schools. the advancement project dc. a couple of myths that were our schools under enrollment is a construct crea minded consultants who define enrollment relative to other and their own ideas of whate

know what schools should look like. school closures. also, ascommenter said, further declines in the district enrollment beca neighborhood school is often a charter school. i also want the san francisco education alliance joined the boards dumb club and sf berniecrats in expressing ourge that mayor breed appointed a pro-charter school. former kipp employee to oversee our public schools, and he was doing beforeoard here. matt wayne hired him to over to coordinate aclosure process. we were very disappointed. to hello, my name is brandy. also brandy but but i'm here with coleman advocates and i'm just extremely frustrat through another year of understaffing andearing the staff outside before our meeting happ like we wouldn't be so under-understaffed. and i don't think that school closuressue at all. it's only going to inflame it. it's going not going to heal it. and we're going to just see balloon in numbers. it's going to stress out our

staff to traumatize a lot of our black and brown students, especially those smaller school settings into those larger going to push them further out of our district way. and so i don't think there's any just way i think that we really need to thin how this is played out in other states schools have been destabilized but definitely our neighborhoods as so thank you. that concludes in-person to virtual public comment. please if you care to speak to any of the agenda. each speaker will have one minute. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese? pasamos a los comentarios publicos. usted tieneevantar su mano para poder. habl minuto. muchas gracias. and i'm also gonna come andhen you come on ahead please. yes. hello. my

name is erin withcisco, i want to ask regarding scores are goi for which schools to close for if more than one school has same score? then what would happen? and a set number of schools that need to be limit would be cutou. miss marshall. thank you, young sister. good afternoonshall with the naacp. i'm sorry, parents you tonight, but please know that i definitely support the and we're with you in spirit. we're very, very disappointed that t superintendent have decided to go along with school mergers. at the beginning of the school year we a community meeting, the starting of school is very, and the community at large. wait until january if you're going to do if you must do school closures and until

january 2025. now, this first board meetingparents cannot do homework with their children, feed their proper dinner. they're downtown at five five need to do is get rid of this board. get ri superintendent, because closing schools will be to no avail to our students, especially black and brown students. soexander, we are not happy with this call tonight. thank you. than. tom my wife and i are special education teachers district. i think what a lot ofs there's a lot of distrust empowered, you know empowered debacle. and who knowswhich for teachers is coming up thiscorrect? how do we know ifting hold of someone? i just try to find the payroll calendar a little bdoes go with resource alignment, because how can we trust that when they close schools with these things in mind. and these are big t say, okay we're going to close that's what it seems like, the

district and superintendent are doing without these other things that have happened to educators ofstrust, people not being onboarded, people leaving. you know, my wife and i talk maybe not coming back, but is that thought about or is it just it seems like for this district and the superintendent. things have gotten worse and not better under the superintendent. i want the consider that you have to cut you off. thank you is vanessa. i'm the executive director for parents of publ francisco. and like virginia marshall, i'm present because the spirit of publicings communities together. it's much more than just a be a commodity. it actually you know, has an impact on communities, i did publish a ahead and read it. for all of my sentiments. but i just want to tell all the parents doing the right thing. let's keep voicing our concerns. and my hope is that with matt alexander's leadership, we are going to be able of middle place. thank you, thank you. all.

jennifer. hello? can you hear me? yes, you. okay. first, i was really alarmed tor ask the board to give them eye contact. i certainly hope new commi was not one of those, folks who wasn'tcause, honestly, commissioner kim, iat you canceled out for not planting. and it alarming that after your entire career, there you areeakers. oh, come on, he did resource alignment. but'm more concerned that information in your draft presentation for tonight wincluding information the community needs not intend to have a welcoming school for every sch leads to dispersal which leads to perrollment loss. this is why nationwide school closures don't save money. it is pretend otherwise. it is time for you to dohis community. no closures, not one. thank. rajni yes. thank you for the name

is reginald montoya. i'm a grader at jose ortega elementary school in the mandarin echo all of the comments about the harm andll cause. in addition, we strongly u board to not consolidate language programs any of them. we believe that maintaining co-location of education programs helps ensure that our schools reflect the rich diversity of san francisco. it's what k public school system. we believe that wall to wall immersiongraphically homogeneous schools that could result our district back. integrated scho a much more well-rounded education. we found a model for success at jose ortega, and w we ask you to not disrupt that model that has resulted enrollment, high teacher collaboration and you must consolidate, we ask you to actually seek authenti youondra hi, my name is a parent of

a second grade student atool, yesterday i had to console my child because he overheard me speaking about this i'm here to say that i'm disappointed wit demonstrated by the school board and the lack of transparency throughout this process. i'm here to advocate for accoun responsible to the children of san francisco that please think about the impacts schoo current generations of students. what are the alternatives?ou guys are thinking about and a lot of for potential alternatives. so what is this process as community to be involved, to think about closures? and i feel like we're all in like we'reamilies, as educators, as you knowr children and ask you, like, what can we closures do not happen? thank you. anna. hi. i'm also a parent at sf community, my main istand. when

we started treating our public goods like they should be run like a business. this is meant to run at a profit. we are meant to spend our money on, you know, like closures are bad and i und under budget. but if we can find budget for police, we schools. economics 101 public goods. i'm done. thank you. like to thank every public commenter from the sf usd community you've shown more care and concern for public education this board right now. sf usd is hiring from privatizers and charter schools while you shame on every one of you. it your predecessors over schools reopening. so how many to recall you for these closures? you need these schools open. thank you. i'm

a public school in the district of two little girls and i've been watching this process all through what was, i think, a really transparent process or relatively, you know, public and transparent about coming up with the criteria. feels like it's gone into a phase of being sort as it undergoes the summer like equity audit and things like that to encourage the board and the district to, be transparent. after you announce the list about what the composite calculated them, you know, open upxplain the why behind what our obviously as we can see really, really painful decisions, it why it's been that way over the summer, but i th if it stays in a black box. and it will mean that up with the criteria in the spring was it gets picked out of thin air. so that's my comment. thank. rhonda good evening. board commissioners and superintendent wayne, my brianna battista and i am a very proud pa in as a mom. i've had children that s.f, usd, and i have a new little one, as

some of will be entering the district. and this was by far the preschool, because i had to choose one that you imagine the stress of that on top already letting a baby go back to preschool for the first time? i don't even know how many years to put it in youngest child is now a sophomore in college next to the baby, right? so it's been a very long time since i've had to do a preschool have been easy. it was full of continue to run this way. parents needransparency. we need to be partners in this process, and you guys open and honest. school closures should not be your something different. make it work as. than. hi, my name is violet vasquez and i am a third generation alumni to to school out here and my and if i have children, that would be the fourth. and i school, where my spanish class had books from the 1970s trying to of mesoamerica, and we had

to share surprising that this administration still it together. it's actually a heartache, and i've come to sfusd many, many times to come and our schools. and it's not a surprise that this administrative building or entity is bullying thoseulnerable in our cities. because i don't heart hear washington on the chopping block. i hear schools the work and doing it well, like june jo school, like the schools that the children really love to be feel included and held at. so please don't shut d. look for alternatives. thanks. thank you.. my name is alejandro have my daughter in a public school ase been in a lot of meetings, and i think we have a between

the schools, parents and school board. is everything a hot mes? because the school district is taking decisions without people at schoolhers, principals, everything. and that is the. our communication. we are the same three groups are totally apart. it's very unfair that from stanford are making decisions for parents just financial issue. the school district have af assets that should be using instead of plotting the schools. so i am echo the other par you. thank you.b caller go ahead pleasehi. yeah, my name is adriana castillo. i am aellow friend said, my brothers went to school out here. my went to mcateer high school. if you know what mcateer is, ten years ago. so mr. president, you probably is that here? academy at

mcateer. you reopened after closing is on the chopping block. so we're to repeat it. my 40 year old brother again. you go year old immigrant from el salvador. you threw him in that school, closednior year sends us to a different school. the black and brown lives. you are affecting. because that's who's affecte these rich folk, no low income immigrants like me and my family. i don't know how y'all sleep at thank you just want to invite each of you, especi get a preview of how this proces when a teache, consolidation happened last year. and now we more students than there are desks of you should have to experience what my son experiences everyis not knowing if he will get to sit down to stand up. so you do that day seeing if you're going to get a desk today, and us all. if you still think you're doing a good job robert.ert. i'm a parent

of two sfusd parents or kids, and i'm most intriguedne was given a raise obviously we're in this mess, and, i don't to that person just doesn't seem correctop of that i have noticed that sf spark draws a six figure salary from that non any of the donors to . so i'm really intrigued, especially with the newest addition to the school board. like, is kipp that nonprofit? i don't know, i'm only asking a question the donor list. i've seen nothing that say schools save money. so i of the day, i mean, i guess because it seems top your plan. the best us parents can hope forbe the doj gets involved. thank you. i'm.

hi. my name is autumn and i'm the parent leonard flynn elementary school, which is on the border of the mission, a. i just wanted to share that one of this community is because of its really rich diversity, and that comes in part because we have both a general education programt's really cool about that is there are often children education track that come in as monolingualers, rather, and so there tracks. it's a really special school. i'm like completely honored to be a member of the i just want to make sure that people are considering some the richness that we get from having those programs in one space together. my daughter's fourth grade teacher community for 21 years. it's a reallyteachers stay there for a long time please consider these communities. thank you. thank you. that does conclude virtual public comment much, and i want to justay a couple of things as

we move on to the next topic. one more first. excuse me. we'recomment is finished. i 40 years ago i ran for school board that won was a real estate developer. he ended up in prison because he was trying to bankrupt the school. and we finished public co school. no, no, i said we've already finished. so needs to submit a card. you're going to end up in prison. thank. so you can profit here onland. that's what it's all about. so the first thing wanted to say briefly is that there wereblic comments about hiring being blocked workers, counselors, paras, special day class teachers, and we've heard the board has received many other, complaints and comments on that topic first of all, that it's not even about the number of positions. it's really about the number of students that are being impacted by those, those delays in hiring. and i acceptable. and, the superintendent, i have talked and i've asked and he's

agreed to do a review on our hiring process at our nextegmber 10th. so we're going to get to t delays and learn lessons know that, you know we're be getting better. i know people have been working really hard, but it's to not have kids, to not have staff in our classrooms, for our kidshave a full discussion of that at the september 10th board meeting as part of alignment, so i just wanted to alert the public to that. and move into our conversation about resource alignment right now. and wanted to just appreciate everyone who's made, i, i, i as a teacher and later as a principal have, have and seen the past history of school closu not have a good track record at this the only word i could use to descri racist. and so we cannot do that again. and i think there is that was all focused around the need for equity. the board said that and we increased that criteria. the superintenden that, but i just

really want to validate a lot of th this city of the impact on low income families, black and brown families, need for more transparency for more honesty for explaining more details. the board, you're going to hear us asking r we're not open. we are open. it doesn't mean we'reith their work. we are. but we're going to be asking some very diff that that you deserve answers all deserve answers to questions about central office spending, about why we're the alternative options are, again, we need to get this right, and we need tomilies in whatever process you know, whatever comes outg to turn it over to the superintendent, but just wanted to rea very valuable. and we really, really appreciate people home as well, so we're movingagenda items are, linked. the first one is the update on the process for a new 2526 school year. the second one is the for potentially closing schools. explain all this. and then so there's going board is going to ask questions and engage in discussion. and again, our role as a board is to be

skeptio represent your vision and values, in line with our goahe one on resource allocation which says the superintendent transparent communication about how the allocations are all schools while addressing inequitable in excellence in student outcomes. and i think that board's expectation that really has covered a lot of what we've already heard so, just as as you stay, hopefully folks can stay and listen, that of push on that, reflect on that, and hopefully get staff the feedback they need to produce a plan that meets those st. superintendent wayne, thank just first, just a few logistics to start, we typically have these meetings as workshops because to do this around the dais and so we have at least if you can just share if anybody what i did is, yeah, at least? it's on board docs was we uploaded some slides that are excerpts from this presentation, as well as just as a few on on the discussion tonight.

and so the zoom right now. and this is all uploadedants to follow along. correct? yeah all right. yeah opening remarks. and i want to second appreciation, my appreciation of hearing fromwe started the a new school year just a week ago. and it's always an exciting time toe our students and families. and i from seeing our preschools all the way to our high sch and energy, but also recognize th a school year different from others, where the are already front and center you know, and i had parents approach me ta initiative and what it's going to mean for the future understand and recognize that we're talking about making decisions that students, our families and our, and in ways that as we heard tonightwill feel, you know could could be upsetting

disruptive. concerning and, you know will lead that. that's where many entering this room and are entering the school though move forward. and what i remind looking at our students like, so when i'm at tule and we are welcoming our new preschoolers and transitional best for them. for this school year, but i'm them for their next 13 years. and we know that overall, the sta trying to maintain the for all of our students and particularly for our studentsn most underserved by this district. and so these are decisions we're needing to make to set those preschoolers tk students up for success over the next tough decisions. and i do not want to minimize in any way the imp our community. and that's why we say we're handling this with care a why we're here tonight. i just want to asking the board of education to make any decisions tonight. we're also not sharing our school speak and talk about t through and what to expect in the coming months so that we c as commissioner alexander said, that does not repeatinge as a

district in the past. so you see, tonight we're going to n the school portfolio development process. and then we had a at the end of the school year, so we of where we are. and then there are a few topics the commissioners wanted more information about specifically how this relates to our enrollmentthis connects to budget stabilization, as well as how we're transitioning and supporting t for families and staff through this process to share about those. and then we'll have time for discussion. and so the process that we're going through. and we in march engaging our community. and we said we're going to develop our portfolio on multiple data what are our commitments to educational equity and excellence. the actions we take how we align our resourcesion, values, goals and guardrails as well as what did important considerations. and then what? then we're going to do an equity audit. and as well as an environmental audit. exander said, we heard very clearly equity needs to be a inform. thisted off by asking that of

our community. and that' typically. and we looked at other districts, the crit is enrollment buildingbe academic found a district or up front. they ask about criteria like we've asked about, historical inequities in neighborhoods in a communi, and then we're going through thi to spend a little bit more time on in june but didn't really go through this slide. and so we call our composite score. so that's we needed some objective way to sa we start considering schools and what criteria would you use to consider. and again, we didn't want to just say enrollment and building was going to end up. so we are assigning every school whatte score based on our three criteria equity use of resources. we very transparent that we need to have school sizes that allow for us to have predictable resourcese do want to use our buildings. we've invested millions of dollars into, you know, upgrading some facilities that we take advantage of that. and we're asking our community to so

we want to maximize the use of our facilities, particularly our new oneshrough on our commitments to equity and excellence, high quality curriculum, high qualityion, as well as the support to serve the whole child. and then we staffing and budget plans that schools can count on year to year what they know they'll have and not have to go through. what w churn of what's going to be available. so we have all that information now scenarios based on multiple data points, moment. we have an updated enrollment policy that we're going to implement. and so looking at things like population or where our programs are placed, and while some in the composite score, that's about individual schools. we're also using thatstem. and then we're doing an equity audit that will be party, by stanford, center for educational policy. as looking at the environmental impacts. so what does thi look like up here? this is the steps we've do want to just say how valuable our engagement was. we had two town halls with, you

knowf participants. we had over, we had 16 in-person community sessions as just showing upnt advisory committee meetings, community other community meetings. and just to hear families. what was very insightful about the hopes you know, how we can improve things, but as wellnow we're working on drafting our scenarios and looking at lens. and we're going through revising them based on the feedback we get. now we're in sharing where just to give again the update on our process and then on september 18th, we'll be sharing our recommended scwith the staff and the public. so then we're goinghappens after september 18th. but before that i want to share the relationshipicy and an updated student assignment system and co-locations the board of education of five years ago passed an updated enrollment policy rec it's been for families who enroll in our to basically say, here's 72 schools from which us where you want to go to school, and we'll do to get you there. sometimes

families get their first choice. sometimes families there's no was, no predictability around that process. to families not being able to send their schools to it has not resulted in the diversity that we need, so we the board passed a policy to have a more neighborhood student assignment system using zones. and then that policy implementation has been put on pause the pandemic before i started, and then it hasn't really been pickede're making sure that we're going to implement this policy change. and so we want to do it after school portfolio, because we don't want to create zones where we have schools that are potentially being closed and then draw boundaries around forward. so we're creating these zones after the decision school closures. and so from february to we're going to go through our process to establish elementa also update where our special education and language programs are stability. we heard about a parent talking abon preschool to enroll. think aboutis going to go. we in one of our community sessions, we hea in preschool and a special

education program at one school. than a different school for kindergarten. we, you know, we want tow, pathways and special education. and that make sense. so for 2526 and this was a big board. we will use our current assignment system and we're going to share one potential c policy in 2627, the for grades tk to five. secondary. so that was one key update to a l questions that the board had. another key update is why are we doing this isn't going to solve our budget problem and we're notget problem, i know people, i always say this, people feel like it's aresources that this is a resource we use our resources best. and that process has beenr resources wisely. how can we get new revenue, and then how do cut costs. and we've been looking at all i hear i'll skip to the yeah. and we looked at all areas. and as someone said, we needed to turn over how we can improve our fiscal situation. and so we did. w are still going through that process. last year, we did achieve our $103 million

in budget balancing solutions. we didl office staff eliminating vacant positions of these things here, which you can go back and look that we presented. but and we knew this, we still have tour budget for 2526 to achieve stabilizationbut this is as you going to be the solution to achieving that fiscal stabiliz though, is how do we use our resources to students. and this is why we are still moving forward with thisource alignment, because the question we're asking is what's a better use of resources? is it better to everything we know our students deserve, which is we talked about, a social worker, instructional coach, those kind of supports in and try to dowith two schools with 100 students in them one school with 280 students in them, righttill a very small school by any standard. and those are the questions we've concluded that it's a better use of ng to maintain buildings, but by trying in those buildings the resources that our students while there is a relationship, we will show we present

the plan because the board has asked this, that have if we meet our goal of increasing our capacity andused spaces, how is that better for students? what's why is it better to haveersus 100? we will be presenting that as part of our pl that was a question that the board asked. and our communited the last area has been what does the transition look like? what does, before september 18th, we are trying to share a lot about what's happening. we're working ileaders as well as our central office leaders, our labor partners and city partners around this, and then with our to the announcement, you it was important to have this board meeting share addit and sharing our detailed plan for families, staff, students, labor partner city partners, or public and community based share our plan, it's going to be translated our seven main languages accessible. we're going to speak to the impacted and try to be and so we plan to be out make these announcements to hear directly, immediately from our school communities and then

follow up ove months before we bring it to the board, back out at our schools have those face to face conversations, to hear the questions an come back to you and say, we have, you know, we have heard are. here's how we're addressing them as we go through this transition.re before opening up to a discussion, is, again, just aure of what happens from september really through the end as we prepare for 2526, we'll be working with staff to changes to the employment, their employment status, working wignizing, again, like we have said, we're going tonight. we're going to have staff who have been in schools for means to make a to make a change. and but we know our staf the students again regardless of the physical building.really working with the kids who they care about, who in front of them, andfamilies through any change, recognizing that, you know, they a new school community. so that means, you know, talking tobeing right up front clear, like here is the the process. if you want to do something different, here's answered. and then just being you know, operationally ready, like we commissioner

alexander said even up to now like have the best track record. so we're thinking we want to make surewe want to make sure that there's enough working restrooms. we want to, you make sure that all of that is in place and then lastly we're going to have students joining other school communities. families should councils should meet, pta should meetour other advisory committees should of that up, and that again is the work to happen fromeptember and then from the board taking action from december to the end of the want to say is specific transition suppor a policy for first reading is you know, here is the closurened. we don't want there to be any guessing for families might say we want an option to go to another school, so we'reoing to allow them to apply and go through the process. and in our current policy that basically allow preference for siblings if you live in the neighborhood.he board to change its policy just for 2526, to addo to closed schools. and we wanted to bring thisd up in front of families on september 19th, when we to the schools to have those conversations and say, you know, we have put this in place and

you can know the board will support this process if it to another school. so that's why the second agenda reading, so again, i know i shared a lot of back to i started talking about our ki the whole system. and is that students graduate from college and career ready. and langston mentioned high school task force. and one of the things that came out o force is that our students want opportunities, and they want options, r breadth of opportunities to explore their passions and different options of how to do through career pathways, whether that's being in a larger school environment, a so we're still committed to providing those options, a way that's sustainable. and that sets up, again, those kindergartners to know that when they go to their highare going to be in place and not subject to these year t when we're continually in this cycle of not having enough resources organized as if we have 60,000 studentsents. so you know, it's how we can deliver onversations we've had with our community about what does a quality high like? what would it be? how would it

be to enroll studentsuessing game of where where their families go? so with of the questions that were raised at june. i'm sure and discussion. we'll open it up to commissioner president alexandernk you superintendent wayne. so again board colleagues our job here is really to represent the vision and values of the community, to ask strategic so keeping things at of understanding, as much as possible we canific goals or guardrails which are up on the wall there so that, you know, again, it's easy to go a rabbit hole but like, let's, let's meaning into the specifics, but let's try to stay at the high level and reflect as representatives of our community and the waysh and sort of, you on on the superintendent and staff in a helpful that they can ensure that the plan that they bring forward is meets those standards. so is anyone feeling like they want to start? i see commissioner bouguer's hand over there. i like a clarifying ask is there any space now to give some time for give

any thoughts or input on kind of where we're at right now, or is that not a part ofpoint? no, we're not right now. i think we're going to the next, at the september 10th board meeting. okay well, i still ask the first question. yeah. and just just wa to recognize i asked the some of the team leaders from resource alignment to be up specific questions. and part of the reason for that, commissioner, i wouldent mentioned, i think this we all know that closing , there's actually debate about how much money it saves, actually i think there might be that might be something we want to talk more about here. but it is first and foremost we are not going to close budget deficit by closing schools. right. so that's just to be very, very clear happen. there is no way that we can it is impossible. we'd schools and that way we wouldn't be a school district. so of doing this, although there are some savings. and so that's why on the fiscal impact. but really focusing on the educational impact. soer bogart okay. cool. thank you for that clarification we could just start lifting up, i think a lot of concern community around kind of what alternative steps have we kind of taken as a district and what is

being presented the representation of kind of what is in the best interest of kind of the educational needs seeing that embedded in this here. and if thess that. yeah. and in responding to that superinten could think maybe connect it also directly to our goals. right. as as he's asking about the educational needs of students, we've we've outlined those clearly. right one second here. yeah. okay. just want to highlight, this was in of the attached materials. and when i sayhat's the difference in terms that students will, will have examples of what that will, wil 23, in the 23, 24 school year we started with 21% of vacant filled. we are in a better cause it keeps happening, it feels worse. and we're gothat on september 10th,

as you said. and, you know, we had w, when we have fear, you know, and so the most important thing is invested in improving salaries for ourls and guardrails is to have well qualified teachers classroom. so the fewer classrooms we have we're not trying to spread our resources so thin, the better chteachers. and then it allows us to use some ofces for instructional coaching, we also shared about how, sorry, can i just want to make sure that was clear quickly. and so you're saying that to get fully staffed schoo schools is going to help having fewer example of why that might? because i don't know. i'm not sureght. so when we have, so right now spreading our resources too thin, right. it means that classrooms that can not by de small student numbers that we're needing to sustain keep offering the program. so for example, you know, bilingual classrooms where we have because we have soools, we have smaller small classes below just the 20 to 1e we're looking for. and so what ends up happening is

those classes. actually that's one of the data points we do have a teacher shortage in finding bilingual teachers is rather have to find fewer bilingual teachers for classes of 20 than have so many classes below that. that's this looks like. sorry, i interrupted, yeah. no, no, this is because i think we go through this data a lot. you are you representuestions. the community asks. we're familiar with this data might it means. so here's another one, as an a lot of schools that have only teacher per grade level. and again, not by design, if we had two teachers per grade level,but first of all for our students, particularly at elementary school, when k5, that's six years of school they get an opportunity if they level to interact with other classmates. and then our teachers have ano collaborate with at least one other grade level colleaguehave said, i mean, here's how important teacher collaboration is for us. wednesday early so that teachers can don't have a grade level colleague to collaborate with, it makes it much l experience. yes, they help each other and everything but it m collaborate with a colleague

and then also what ends up. well yeah. so that's that's another example. then the third one i'll give is, you know, just as i shared pathways, we have a lot of combination classeshere students are in, you know, it's a45 combination class, third know, our teachers do their best to meet the everything they need, we do try to have as few combinatio fewer schools, we can reduce the number of have. so those are a few examples of things lead to a the kind of educational experience where we think kids will be able to better meet our students, goal our goalse stay on this topic? is this on the same topic? ok you'll be next. thanks. but can i just up questions from commissioners on this question of are you that the superintendent has explained how this process is going to address the educational needs of ourink i'm you know what i'm saying? like, if we could just stay on for a second and then we'll go to langston's topic, or maybe or maybe what what what are your what would be your follow up? yeah, because we haven'tse of how like the specific plan

addresses that. but this present. ultimately, when we present to the boardu need to know? yeah, because you're right. when we present to the board, you're going to that this is a good path forward for the district. thanks, you know, i important to be transparent and honest about themary goal of this process, and i know that to conflate the saving of money and our situation with this is why we're doing it with things ar think reminding ourselves that this is like, let's just be real. and this is an opportunity to rebuild in a way, if we doves student outcomes. so alexander and to you doctor wayne think one of the things i'm really interested about, and you've you know, social workers can't say sorry, student x, you're having at the other school. why don't you save that problem for t sorry student why you're not feeling well. well our nurse isn't here talk about how this resource alignment would improve theience of students and our educators and staffe fewer actual physical

buildings with more students in those buildings, how does how does that sure that we have those, not just educators in classrooms, but , critical folks to making sure our communities are safe and so one of the put into context is what happens if what happens iff we. so we one of the main ways in terms of meeting guardrail for around resource allocation being transparent iwe put out our first school resource and staffing guide. that said what you can expect at a school and you heard in audience in reference having one social worker per so then there's the hiring issues we're facing meeting. but but doing that right now is would nothe number of schools that we have. right this is the staffing we put out a staffing will best serve students but we need to do it in a sustainable know, our counselors, right in in that the more have where we're needing to have counselorsschools that, you know, aren't at capacity whererms of their

enrollment. it means spreading. and, again, having more counselors than we actually can afford balment. and so this allows us to and this is can have a staffing model that when i year out, you know what you can count on. people will know our schools will know what they can count on. okay, same topic or same topic. commissioner kemp. next. i haven't forgotten two things. one is somewhat more of a comment, and the second is a question 29 of the original, you name multiple factorsitiative. i think what would be really helpful is beingmething is changing with those ten factors that are this initiative, that are going to change as a resultresource alignment initiative. so one example would be of schools, we have capacity to serve more than the assumption then that we will not have 14,000 this resource alignment initiative is done? if so what's thate get that? if not, what's the rationale for that?ful because it articulates kind of the driving factors for but

i think what would be really helpful in the future then is then tyingmes out to addressing the ten that you've named here as factors. so that's just a comment. the question i know, kind of building off of commissioner wiseman ward deck, specifically ar ten, you named $103 million in budget balancing solutions, reduced central office staff in th there's reorganized central office as a costmeasure. is there what is like a plan to reorganize the wcentral office works and operates to better serve students, versus just saying are leading to cost saving measures that willn translate to a budget stabilization? i think it's is, is the way in which we're operating as to be changed so that we can better serve our current or of students knowing that right now, as it stands today we' doing as enough as we are now to serve in our current structure. does that make sense yes. and trying

to so we have, so i'll give one example in response a couple weeks ago our updated organizational chartgoing to see last year we had an associate superintendent of schools and educational services. now we just have a senioreducational aguilera. ford who, so that was an elimination of a. you know, that was an elimination of a position that will realizetrategy behind not filling that position because sometimes we had people that what we've also seen in how we function? and this as well, that what's happening in educational servi, has not always been connected to what our school leadership division is doing. so now they're all under one divisio, doctor aguilera ford is reorganizing that division so that it's more teams of leaders cross-disciplinary, su for example, college and career readiness used to in a separate division than our high school division. and th a lot more closely to meet the goal. are fewer staff members in those two departments, w

change how they're working to be more coherent and organiz that's what you you know, should see reflected in the organizati explanation is in the chart, but that's that's where wely serve our schools better from the central officei, ippreciate that. i think hearing more abow moves like that will actually enhance then the services schools are receiving both today and in the future is i think between all the different measures that are taking during over across ray. that co because right now, i do is just the very reality of schooles masks that conversation. and i think lifting up examples of i think that is where it will enhance. and alsoe some, you know, district wide activities that won't be happening, like around readiness that may have happened in the past becau trying to center on what the school needs langston. okay, a lot of what we heard was talking abouteels really rushed and it's sort of, in this

report that i have in front of i'm this report is sort of building upt, the resource alignment initiative and closing schools is goin problems that, commissioner kim was mentioningbout, the ten driving factors. and one of them here is that many in poor condition, and it shows a graph that is pretty demoralizing, sites and there's no analysis there. it's this image and that's and that's it. th will school closures help this issue but then how are it in the future, our schools need to be adaptin. i don't think closing ng to solve a lot of the issues that we see th it, so i guess that's my question is how these changes that are outlined? one going to be fixed with the school closures because going to evolve. so we don't findelves back in this position even when we have less schools thank you. and you're referring to the facilitie index one right? yes. yeah yeah. you you

were talking about the whole all of them. all ten okay. yeah. yeah. and so again, think, i mean, i think this is helpful for us to be able to when we say we want to be transparent, then like, where are we getting all this informa a facilities master plan that shows the different conditions wees facilities condition index that shows the different you know, how t schools are at. and i mean, you've experienced so then being clear about why this process more students and better conditioned and better that so we do have like the facilities think it's linked here. and then it's not clear the connection we're making there. so i think going back to commissionerim's point as well is like as we present the plan and for you as commissioners, community. so i understand when commissioner president alexander need to be convinced. it's really how is the commu term for a district this is going to taking from your question, better show a little bit more of the evidence behind somee claims, which are in different places, but need to get them very accessible. yeah.

100%, because it's not the only graph like this on hereneed explaining and then also we have this discussion is also open the tiebreaker, right that one. okay. we'll come back to it. but maybe we can have a separate discussion. i have a question about that one as i want to follow up on your question. and i don't know if, down there i want to get down there too, but just if i could just quickly follow up just langston's point around how are we not going to get there again, some people have has been shown in other places to be of doom loop, right where it's like, okay, we closed some schools and then families. it creates more trauma. families leave the district then, you know, we going to be back here in five six, seven years, closing more scho know, like what's how do yeah what's the evidence that going to happen. yeah. well i i during my talkd the status quo isn't working. right. so what we're saying is we're the status quo, and then we're putting forward a think will change it for the better in the end. like that. not that itbe worse. and so that's

where then drawing from our lessons learned from should see from on september 18th, and as is why this is different than other school closure plans where in those i think we know the you identify the schools with the lowest enrollment. maybe they haven't, aren't filled to capacity, have lst say, okay those are the schools we're going to close. and then we do that. but then you're going to haveecome the next lowest set of schools. and that's the loop we want to that we present, and that's why spending the time establishing that criteria this process, that the plan thatld present should reflect how the status quo will be changing. thy for improvement, not just, you know, a continuing a negative cycle to, the other side there. commissioner lam just pointed at me, so i'll you go first okay. so i appreciate this, and i'm a little frustrated by this conversation because it feels so similar to what we did back in june.o i, i feel like we asked a lnd still haven't gotten answers. and a

lot of these same community on zoom. and so i think that might be some of the frustration, we have a lot of work to do transparency, accountability, trust, communicatio needed, by the way, some of us weren't contact because we were taking notes, and frankan be an ableist construct. there's a lot of eye contact is very challenging. so now, okay. strategic question. commissioner. thank you, thank you. so going back to the central office reorg and some o need to in building trust and, talking about things that one of the things we've heardr of contracts and consultants and, the unintended conseq some positions oftentimes leads to us needing totor, which costs more and is a nonunion position. and so one, an analysis of all the close whether or not it actually does end up cost saving us money. we doing to review our mill open contracts and whether or notded?

what are we doing? part of th is a planned obsolescence of some of the things. the example ium. you know, if you look at any closed sessi of additional reading programs school programs or our school sites are using for just bought a new reading curriculum and we closing all those contracts? what, like what are we doing to harder? when is that review going to come, so that's one. secondly implementing the student assignment system your point, president to recognize the racist policies that we've put in past, the racist history of our city with redlining, and frank, we've done a whole lot of disinves school communities. you know, we have school communities where weinto one neighborhood we bussed students to another part of town for just blan to we're going to focus on putting folks into zones without addressing those racist policies is our overall analysis a we're talking about true

resource alignment we're actually putting the where our students live so they don't the city. and the same for families, that was the whole reason. sorry one more thing, and then i'll stop. no, that's a really good i don't want to miss your question. okay.o i'll put a pin in it and i'm going to put no, because that's a to hear the response to okay, go for it. and to follow18 when the student assignment system redesign policy was passed, theadvisory committee the district of english language advisory committee, the sped committee, we all wrote statements against itt reason, we haven't addressed the underlyingbetween the different neighborhoods in ohat and put the resources into those schools, we're just outcomes. so i want to too if we're going to force families into z this plan can you finish that statement? just because i want to get an answer? i think what you said is really really sure it gets we oh my gosh, let's see if i ted talk, how are we undoing the racist policies of

the past and equitably resource the zones or whatever we're doing to as part of the new assignment policy? does that cover it? that was a make sense, superintendent? yes for that one again, i think that's's why it was important tonight to share about the enrollment policy and new portfolio. so i think i'm going to just take that asotion of like, this is what the board is be able to approve a plan that they will students. your question is to know that if we'rechools go to students, go to school where they live, if they live in school that hasn't been invested in in the kind of programs andunities or staffing that will help our students, what'si'll just start i'm not going to give a complete answer now, but that does start in part with that staffing and budget plan that also shows how we differentiate, allocation ofnt need, so kind of much more explanation when the, when the final i just want to you said something in the to

the contracts. one just because you know, i'm goi you and former president mahtomedi credit for pushing for that transparency and accountability around contracts. so this, but i just wanted to share to the community that starti january we started posting at every all contracts that have been approved by the then, and then for, you may have noticed if you if you new contract abstract. so it's clear on why what what's what is that's being brought forward. because you often it to find out, like what actually is being being served. so using that to analyze what's being brought forward as well as analyze whate that is part of our fiscal stabilization to have a fewer relia know, i know that. so just as a start analysis that business services has done is that we approved you know top 20% of them acco so we're looking through and saying then what are require transportation contracts

and then what are required that we can pull back on. so like we pulled back on one around. you've heard us doing the work around the street data framework. but like, okay, we need internal leaders to lead not contracting that out. so there is some initial analysis on it, more transparent. like what what we're where our contract money funds are going t, and then there is a middle one between that there enrollment, there is how we'reing to have neighborhood schools, what was how are you undoing like 40 years of racist policies? basically i think that or history more than 40. you're right. you're righti think that was related to the second. so i'll stop there if it comes i'll share. thank you, i thinks pretty aligned to being consistent over the you know, we talked about i appreciateeciate commissioner kim's question around if we're looking central office staff, you know, how are we result of it to in support of our at the school sites? my question is related to, you kn, if what will result? you

know, we result in a fewer number of schools, a portfolio you know, aols with fewer number of schools. you know, how will we know that we will have better educational expe? i still have yet to at this understand certainly. i hear superintendent your intention around continue. certainly we know of our students has, particularly for our blacktino and pacific islander students have the largest equity gaps i that is why i'm honing in on understanding, you know, as we go through this we understand as the communitythere will be better educational experience for our students? i mean, i think in part that co monitoring you've committed to and doing so, we've process, when we meet the . and so far many times we haven't metknow in some areas we've met them. what we

that or what we did that didn't lead to it. and where w change course. and a lot of that, again, does mean using our resources more effectivelo, we just did our our progress monitoring around guardrail three with curriculum and instruction. and we saw having used data at we, we thought was necessary for improvemen well as getting meaningful feedback in that way. and th strategy of having instructional coaches. but similar to social to be a sustainable, ongoing model. and then also we need, you know to have the supports in place. so teachers and learning. so again, i thinkhe resource alignment. we're aligning tocreate conditions where ultimately our teachers and those who serve students can focus on what's happening in the classroom andust as i say, ourhear from teachers and staff all the time how much there is to do there's more focus can be on teaching and learning. we talk continuum of education for our students, so that

they do not only start with sfusd, but stay with us in our hopes of the full 13, 14 years. through this plan, i the strategy or the is pk enrollment part of the for our education experience students and families? and certainly, i know that the been responses related to early literacy. my question is re collectively, what is our around having thatthree? alignment and beyond? yeah. and yeah, this is an area where we've we've done a lot of work. i mean i the resource alignment. i'll speak and then if doctor aguilera speak because you're also asking, like, programmatically. right. how are we looking as we launch our new literacy curriculum? how tk students being prepared tonue with that in kindergarten? so, doctor in

the meantime, through the enrol, you know, i to what i said said before, right now, families enroll in pre-k andly knowing where they're going to end up in change policy for tk so that tk they they could know that they would be in the school if we for early ed, we want to try to create those kind of pathways and alignmen zones will do if they're going to pk in a z go. at least have a much clearer senseain, rather than 72 possible schools. even after they went of programmatically, i'll have doctor aguil to speak to that some and but thank you. before i have doctor ford respond, i just wanted to note then on the enfrancisco unified is the largest preschool provider for the city of san francisco. and my guess my antic. so because of that, i think it is absolutelyudents and families around their experience with sfusd and today, there is policies or enrollment experience for families entering into o as, i explained

in terms of program and access to instruction andurriculum, we have adopted instructional materials and are providing coaching to the earlyeachers. pre-k and tk. in those two areas. also have this continuum of the three alignment, which is in alignmentte policy. and i would like to leading this work at the state level with the coaches so she can provide some a very succinct way. good evening everyone, so one thing that's really important to talk about the p thr the curriculum for into reading, we looked atld also work for pre-k and tk, which is how. when you look at the two structures of how they're embedded and the alignment creative curriculum is one of

the largest curriculum education. they're the only curriculum that has a tk as you know. soacy curriculum was really important for us. we have in doctor aguilera said at all of our early edes that have pre-k and tk, and we're really al learning communities can happen at our school sitespreschool, tk and k three, so that we're having those conv that end goal of kindergarten readiness. when allgarten, working with our head starts around thatsystem on how all of our three four and five yea up to kindergarten. and one more thing, fromllment point of view in october this year, we will be ro application, which will enable us to provide much faster enrollment service to. all right, did you and then let's go back to commissioner bogus. i saw you, but yet, and then we'll. yeah all right. thank you. i kind of share i think, commissioner fisher's frustration. i thi the june meeting. in many ways, it's not a lot of new information, but it's worth it in a way. also, to get the same over

again, because one of the common themes that i've heard and over again is people don't know what's happening. people feel that there's not a lot ofd albeit it's much better because i'm the only one here. thatosed over ten schools back in the day 20 yearsocess whatsoever. it was just based on enrollment factors alone and disproportionately impacted negatively. african american and latino families in the process what you can do to help reassure our, our community transparent, that the process is that people feel heard, even though can hear everything and listen intently. and atthe day, when we have to close or merge or consolidate schools pe like they were not heard. but i just need to feel reassured that we're doing everything we can to make sure thatrstands the process understands when it does happen, th been heard going forward. and then second thing is what i brought up at the last ver it but i'd like you to go deeper into what the means for this district in

this process, i'm to ask doctor khanna to speak about the equity our stanford partners on this. and the back to just what you were talking about. feeling heard right into. thank you. good evening. commissioners, i want to explain t is being done by doctor alvin pearman from stanford, is based on the banty bill, which is a california bill. so. what it does is what the districts proportionalsentation of the underserved populations is by underserved populations, i mean primarily by race you take the underserved population proportions and make sure that the scenario of schoolsoes not matches the proportional in the district and does not population dramatically. and then i just, maybe as we end let

me go back to i do want to just find one resource. i think to the other, other point about that. commissioner bogus. thank feel like i got my initial question answered at least not sufficiently for me as far as how best practices are factored into what the roi reading deck final attached board docs, i believe it's slide 41 where we break out kind of the fact base for our decision making, just not seei deals with educational best practices. and hopefully someone that's represented in this kind of graphic, or if it's in the process. i think i'm just a little bit concerned the guiding light in the north star for all doing, and it makes it a very troubling process, it feels like different work areas that are involved ing together and don't represent a cohesive, clear plan of build off what eric said, i f as well as, i think what the board was briefed in anticipatio of this isn't enough. it's not enough information. it's not soonsions have been made. there's not enough clarity

really, for me ashis and be ready to make a vote. i mean, in the process we s would give us the maximum amount of time to be able to we have a structural deficit that we failed to address in other ways before we got to the place where we have a lot of pe to have a balanced budget in a way that we haven't had to in our reserves. and so i just really want to just emphasize that that's gone in, but it's just not enough for as far as we are in theecially when it comes to our higher needs students. like i point, for us to have a plan for all of our students who are behin who are in groups who are way to support them through this process, knowing that school closures, school mergers on those outcomes. we've talked about all these things, and i are working internally to address them, but those things not being shared publicly nce in the process and the commitment to the public to as a commissioner, not having it makes me have lack of conf in support what comes forward because there isn'trency there isn't understanding, and we as a board aren't. at least i wouldmissioner. i'm not fully aware of everything that's going into making these decisions. ity, uncomfortable.

i would also i t a clear plan or direction to address theture. i see fixes to some of the problems, but we district. our district isn't supporting all of our i don't see anything in here that is addressing taking gradual steps to make things better. but in my g to do something as dramatic as closing schools, we need toa larger impact and really change what the status quo is, and i quickly, i would also like to see a little bit moref how we got here in the shortcomings and our of led us to be in a place where wees that aren't sustainable and aren't set up for the best success f or across the district. i'm also not sure what board board is guiding this process and where that is repr guardrails, but i don't see anything else that's really anchoring to students and families. and that's really concerning for me. and, i'm just really troubled by the fact that we haven't found a way to do a better job of going about what equity means for us. we haven't set aside the things thatguarantees to protect students, families and

school communities that are in danger and not fair for commissioners or for the public. we're really no vision, no site around what's going to happe and we don't have to do this, and we need to have a clear understanding from the superintendent or board leadership about how thesein what we've already committed to as a district, or if it' those things, come out and say that we're abandoning all the things thathe things in our previous strategic plans, all the previous direction. so we can be clear, because right now lot of uncertainty for me as a commissioner on the board who this decision. so i'm hoping that as wemore communications, both publicly to the board in every way possible continue having this feeling of not knowing what's going to waiting for this big surprise that might really harm our communities, families so i would still post my little answer of like talk to me about how best practices aref that is a separate process and held somewhere. can i just clarify one thing? it is not the job leadership to get answers to those questions. that is the superintendent's job. so what is our jo what you're doing and our collectively to ask these what we

need so that the superintendent and our plan right? we don't the board is not creating a plan dent's job. we come here as quasi volunteers. we all have other jobs, and we represent the community to as you just did, you know. and so just to just to roles. but superintendent, do you want to respond to that question i commissioner sanchez's question. i mean, i'm not going and again, we're not asking for you to take think you're laying out clearly, here's what i need take action. i want to say two things. one, and i hear the we getting anything new? i mean i shared this even last last spring when to different committees, different families let's take a very real question commissioner bogus is like centering equity in this process? and will ourwell people really believe that when they see the actual plan. so i understand there without seeing the actual plan. what has been many people's experience with this distri we say we're going to center equity, but then the outcome of the plan that's

delivered or the way it's implemented doesn't doknow, part of my best answer will be when we show value of equity. i think the other thing just wanted to pull up on the screen, just to what commissioner sanche to me, this was really important to do second round of community input, community. and just to indicate what we'll do when we next go community. it's like after the first round wemeetings. we had, we had you know, thousa hall. we had committee mee back, you know, we wanted to be clear yeah, we're trying to present a not pretend that we didn't hear those some right. not using, frankly, the sanitized language bureaucratic administrations. we know there's concerns. we know there's name. there were real fears that were out. like on that. it will lead to a most vulnerable students. and i just put this on the screen to you're saying, like when we share the plan we're going to make term, this is better for students, but we don't want to be

difficult and have an impact on students. and and to go to a new school community. you know, when you're ar and spent your first three years here thought you were going to be there, like that's, you know we're going to need to work through go back to being a school leader. i had, you know my s elementary principal, i had fifth graders who i'd been promoted. the district closed the nearby middle school. they changed midd eighth grade, and we had to spend a sixth grade. they then had sixth grade on our campus while we were also going through share that to say like we had to come up with a sixth graders because what they thought was going to happen didn't happen. how we're you know, developing plans for what they thought was going to happen.w those plans still support them. and so that's what commitment for when we share the plan. that should answer some of these question be listening to the community and reflecting back what weear, not just saying oh, no, it's going to be okay. you know, like we've gote don't we have a lot of fears. we need to so commissioner kim has a follow up. yes. so i'm bit with threads of topics. but then also kind of go to equality of equity of equality of voice.

here so let' langstonbecause i also you want to get to the question of enrollment, which too. so or. yeah. is that all right next, or do you want to go after this and then gon. i have questions related to this, but i am like to hear from our student delegate montgomery. okay. so maybe we this. so let's do is it okay if we do commissioner kim then to langston and talk about enrollment a b your to you and then to whoever else wants to go. all right following up from commissioner remarks, building off of the the workshop presentation slide and 14, i imagine that the days leading up to the september 18th announcement will be quite stressfulstaff, knowing that that announcement is being made. i3, an laying out site leaders partners, city partners. i think what may be helpful is can parents expect to receive on september 18th? is etter? is it an email? what are they they can look at toions are

and if that if the if the if you're not able to answer that question right now that i think thaalso hearing is their there needs to be something that they kn when it comes to that day. knowing how stressful that day mayties, and just just to name in the spirit of my own thinking, i strongly believe that we should not present portfolio if we are not prepared to answer all of these questions defensible plan in place. and i would much rather see us take the actually get this right than to try to meet a deadline, think that would be helpful for families tong to be coming on september 18th? what can they tangibly, and again does not is isn't prepared right now, i think that's do think that before that date, it would be helpful for, for aware and for the board to be aware. so i'm going to of communications speak to what's planned. so far. and there might question. good eveninghe question, so my name is laura dudnik. i'm the executiveunications. so we are planning for multiple

ways on september 18th and a very honest way, so we will be sending families and staff of schools that are affected co-locations with information about what they can expect that family meeting. the following day at all of the affreparing text messages, auto dials as well to help reach families that might be experiencing low literacy. we'll make sure tha are all translated and accessible on our website, so that's going to be the direct the families and staff of the affected schools. we'reshare this information more broadly with the community, becaus the city of san francisco is going to want to know what's we want to make sure that we share this information consistentlyd at the same time. so that people receive this information directly from the school district so that iand clear and accessible. we'll be able to share more details of whateces will look like regarding the more broad message as we get closer to september 18th date. just to clarify so the day of they will receive be receiving anything before that. so we're engaging with school leaders and district

right now to get input on how how will families and staff message, so we will continue to sharethey can work with their school communities as well to give them aow they'll be receiving the message. we know that it's, you knting for and anticipating and we want to make sure that we're information clearly and accessibly for everyone. thank you. thanks. you're you. and thank you for giving my time once again before lot of us in this room, i got school in the morning. to circle quickly to this, the tiebreaker f schools affected by the merger's closures or co-locations hear that we are that, unfortunately i think it's a little it' a year too late with how we know the system workst schools will be merging, closing and co-locat because especially i know how lucky i'veem. i went to lake shore elementary on myecond letter on this. on my second letter i was able to first i was able to go to washington high school. i know how incredibly lucky i am for that to happen so quickly for to worry

about where i'm going to school on the first dayeople that have, and it feels like right now we're piling o know doesn't work for so many. i have a friend that is svusd schools that same asy didn't get a school for middle school, ended up getting on a waitlist to go to hoover school, then didn't get a school for high school again. and the system isn't changing until the year after we're closing on top of it. how are we making sure? be and the list of the tiebreakers. how are we ensuring thatd the parents as well, are that are affected by these school? not only are they because there's concerns about having to having them go across town, which you've talked about but how they're even getting a school on day one? because it's not confirmed? it's not for the students that are already in schools not confirmed to school by day one. so how are we going to confi these kids? yeah my name is lauren the executive director of the enrollment center. so the students at closing schools will be placed into a hear about that soon

after september 18th if not on september 18th. so all of them will be guaranteed a school placementst for students who choose a differentan the one that they are assigned to. and so we placement. it's just do they want that placement more any other school in the district? okay. and as, a follow up to that like how much into placements as just the same as any othe again by the tiebreaker system? it's just going t to go after siblings for most siblings, they usually get in for the lottery because particularly in entry grades, theretraditional grades. there are often larger schools, and so siblings usually get iner system. these kids will be right after siblings. and so places them in a nonrandom location right there be much more likely to get their choice than families who don't have this tiebreaker or who don't have siblings. and then as a last follow up, as then affects not only that kid that's moving from a close scho then it goes into that list of other tiebreakers then it affects on a placement. so then how can we confirm that they

also get a spo of choices, because we know not everyone is going to get theirot to make sure that they get one of the schools, be a misconception that students don't get schools assigned. everybod either in a school right now, and theyare told that they can continue in that school or they're given a scfamilies choose to decline their school assignment. however, every student gets a schoolgnment process, something? i just wanted to follow up on this is a really important point. that and kind of channeling because she and i both really pressed on this point, and just anecdote that i think illustrates it, this weekend streets in the mission, and i talked. i was talking to this, dad with a said, and i said, are you going to enroll francisco public schools? and he said honestly, i'm not sure the uncertainty. we're going to see if we can not, we may well move out of the city, even though we because not of the public schools, it's because of thestour enrollment system is broken. and i think and the board i 2018, i think, passed a new system which

and i think to langston's point, like we're wually. i said this to the superintendent when i first saw this resolution, was like so now we're being asked to endorse for another year a broken through this really traumatic process. so i think, i mean, my long term question, i hear there's logistical reasons why we may not be any sooner. my long term question would be to the superintendent yo this slide that, that commissioner kim pointed outle factors one of the points on there is enrollment taking that as a given, but i'm if we were to fix the enrollment system and have a pred feeder pattern where people knew you're going to be able to go you're going to go to this middle school and you're going to go to this high districts in america operate. i think it would dramatically change how public schools wen the city of san francisco. and so i'm curious, like, as you think again realigning our school portfolio across all those confidence do you have if we move to the is that is that going to be one of the intended outcomes education? but we also have predictable enrollment through all k through 12 so that people canrease like is

that is that a is that part of th yes. but i want to go back toner boggess and commissioner fisher said and add maybe some nuance to what you said. our enrollmentause not every family in this district wants to go we have available in this district, right, because langston said, he feels he won the lottery.e went to he got into certain fundamental problem that we face as a district feel they won the lottery by getting into school, and they feel like they've lost by not getting into school. and then know, 30% of families say, well, i'm not even going to play that lottery. private school and have the means to afford that, where they ald than, than we do. so the enrollment system is broken in that of anxiety. but it goes back to the questions you we have fewer schools, how are we going to make sureose schools are the ones that our families want to go to if they get school rather than get to choose a school, right? because what's going to be a lottery, we will still have choice in this district. so it's not going to be get assigned to your

neighborhood school no matter what, because we hav programs, we have our citywide program, but it's going to fundamentally shift that equation to say you're getting we need to make sure that those schools areke, okay, i'm going to get a good education there. and that's why we need to answer these questions. you've all raised as plan about how we're going to do that particularly in that that they're going to get that. then to why just just to respond to that? is that. yeah. is that, youur enrollment two reasons. one, as i said, you know, we portfolio is before, you know, creating the zones. but two also process really early. so for 2526, you know been developed. we do our enrollment fair ineed a full year in advance because of our enrollment system. if we did zones in place and we already had all that in january, you know, after this, we could start but we don't havereal quickly. i just wanted to, give one more comment because you said that, like everyone is guaranteed a school in the plathe. but there have been times especially in myhoice, especially on the first, the first try, which has happened to my brother this ti first try, was, visitacion valley, that is of the

city would take two hours on public transit to get there f have to leave at six. so again, like the placement is guaranteed, it's whether that placement is even plausible and the student to get to at like every single day. so but here's no and here's the challenge though. and this is again fewer schools will help the situation. because for a school students. so we have to tell students to assign students to all of our schools. other open now. yes. what we're going to share is saq we can get back students. like even starting with early ed we're going to we have think we can keep families because again, you heard how like about families who get assigned to a pre-k or tk across town. they don't we lose the revenue from giving a student, and then they may school near where they live, and they don't continue. but, you know fewer schools to try to fill, we can actually then ools that will have what they need to be situation where we're assigning students jusl open. and that's what we heard with the high school tasu know,

you and president motamedi in the past, y, you know assigning students to school schools just to keep the school open is policy, right? so we would need but then we still need them to be improved schools as well. really gratitude to our student delegates and deep conversation nversation. yes, yes, have a good have a good nigh. and thank you for being here. and you're always welcome but you are. we just want to give you thesion to leave. you know. all right. where were weright. vice president weissman. word. oh gosh, i can't forget that. i'm very grateful that your vice president was more. thank you. so us back. back to, a point that, commissioner lamm asked and you, doctor wayne, on your answer, so if i'm i wrote the question down correctly, it was like howknow that what we're doing? and by closing schools that we're actually go and i heard you there was a couple oyou referenced monitoring sessions and that we can't we

that as a look backli like when it's already happened. so i don't think monitoring sessions is be an appropriate way to determine whether we're improving student outcomes. andd that. i also i also think that like profound expertise up here. been in the weeds doing this work for over now. and i, i know information is the same that we've heard, but there is so mu information that you all have cultivated and created and culled through. so i do benefithearing it multiple times. and i know that there's different layers. and i'm hearing this differently because i have more context. so i just want to say of the information that you're generating and sharing. and i know that there's a balance be because then it becomes overwhelming and not usefulough that we can make a meaningful decision. and i don't so but i thank you for trying, but i guess i want to if i could just push you, doctor wayne, if you could descri to commissioner lamm's question about how will we know if what we're doing actually improves? student outcome a fictitious student that is i don't know, maybe in third

grade, maybe in kindergarten? like, what does it look like way that matches on to our visions values, goals and guardrails andlows us to really feel confident that those student outcomes maybe we can choose one of the individuals that did public comment mentioned everyone is from a school that is impacted through a closure or you ar to a school and the school is absorbing new, new community. but so maybe let's just use the example of the student that is hool. that's that's slated, that's on on the list. what does it l for them that next year? yeah, i mean, i think in general, like how we're i i just want to acknowledge your question. i think that's w family at each in needing to, answer that question to to get a comparable or even improved experience than year before. and so,ike i, i appreciate you asking that questi challenging us to put it in those terms. so i just want i don't

want to just go back to the examples i've given because i could just say, well, maybe a third grader who is in a, in acombination class next year won't be in a combination class. so, but i think that's helpfue present on september 18th and specifically when we gochools on september 19th as well as the t putting it in those terms not just in the i'm going to take that away as a, and you know, seeing needing and then be able to do that when we share with you follow up on that? because i think i president weisman ward said. and i mean, i was thinking something sias, let's say, a parent of a second grade to learn to read, so connected to our goal around literacy, right. third grade literacy. and in a school, and you're coming to me and saying close, and now you're going to go to another school, there's going to be all that going to help my kid learn to read? that's what's going my head. right. so if we don't have an answer to that ques, as commissioner bogus was saying i that see

colleagues nodding to i mean, i think that's that needs to be very clear on whatever is put out there. if it's goi support of this board. commissioner fisher and then and that that's my follow up to i it dovetails with all of this very nicely, and to commissioner lam' point, a school list, a school a plan, right? the one. so i think to know is. and commissioner kim had mentioned it as wellntioned it from the framework of what can families expect on september 18th? i want to know what we can like not yes, there's a family enga there's so many more components to it. youw, like what what actionable work is being in what positions by when who's assigned accountability to what. so likethat we haven't seen yet about what is happening, wh what, you know, what money have we set aside for, home visits, additional family liaisons, for additional

language support for everything else that we need for verything like that's i think when we ta about that, wh? that's what i'm struggling with in order our community confidence tha about equity. this is what i'm asked for every day. and this is what going to get from you or your team by september, i know commissioner bogusz had something to say, are there other issues that people want to bring up, or are yeah. all good. so let's go with commissioner bogus. let's and it's 915. so if we could wrap up in the n 15 minutes by 930 can we do that? yes. great. let's do that. i just wanted to go back to my question about kind of educational best practices and kind of how they're ancike i heard a response to that. and so i know, i mean it woul about it in, in the terms used on, i believe 41 and the boe workshop are i reading deck? and i guess, you know, with that with kind of the fact based, all

those things being listed, where does educational best be most beneficial to our students fit in, and how this process? yeah so sorry, slide you're referencing. what slide number was it 41 on the reading deck. final the long one. where we talk from other districts. the one below that one. yeah go. it starts with fact base then has a chart with sf sequa ab 1912. i mean. so but then you're saying where this what this slide is saying is how we're planning for equity throughout to disproportionately impacting any one community. right, right. but you'es in terms of educationally, what a practices through for closure process? i think it's a little bit of both where i off. i guess it's a little

bit of both. for me, it process, our planning and the strategy that we're implementing to executing thisices and what works best, i guess what i'm familiar with, being a budgetary need to reduce staffing andthe district, and so a district will just cut with educational best practices. we're going to just put as many kids in there, reduce the amount of unnecessary staff means anyone who isn't a teacher or a principal or who we and i guess i want to know whether or not that is w guiding kind of our thinking around like this slide in particular relying on how we are modifying the district to improve outcomes and better serve students. if that makeskay, let me let me mayb, to respond to this. and then again, i feedback to be able to move, move forward because ibed what typically happens. this is why in our resource alignment process w named what we thought needs to be some strategies based on think are aligned to our goals and guardrails. i'm going to four of them as examples.oaching to

support. right now it'sd about also how lesson study has helped with math. and that workers to support the our guardrail child thre expanded options for students in know, career pathways and to have college and career talk about this in a month, having more more students in kind of programs. and then four language programs and how we feel. you know, that's, you know, leads we want. i think what we're trying toay is we put out a staffing model and these are the things we need to to do those four things, as well as the other in our throughout our progress monitoring reports about what. we do not have the resources tow, the 102 pre-k-12, our have. so know, we likely could have 102 schools with a principal, a clerk, classroom schools. you know one

students. is that going to get us to's going to make sure we have 102 schools and we don't clos this ensures that those resources are, again, not used to we're not using our limited resources toaintain school buildings is to maintain is to provide those plans to i feel like i'm hearing from this conversation in to be put in. i just named them in systemic term in terms, you know, as commissioner weissman, ward asked, who's a parentth my parent hat on, how do id when you're saying, you know, coaching and career pathways and bilingual programs and social workers, like, okay, but what does child? and what does that mean if you at school? and that's my the big takeaway from tonight about i feel like about why what it means to stretch our resources too thin. but for the child who has to go to a different school. tha of pushing. you're providing and maybe you feel like you pushed that earlier. but just as you said, as you see, more information becomes clear as we hearg for, it becomes more clear for us. great commissioner can i just follow know we're trying to move forward. i appreciate that response. anda few

different times with staff over the course of this process, i appreciate intention that you give. and i think what's lifted up on this re rea 12 through slide 14, where we kind of breakour different equity flower pieces is like a good high what we're trying to do, how we're trying to transform. but is how is this not just talk and hollow promises? we as a distri long time talked about these things and haven't is our plan to execute our commitment to families, to functioning leadership teams at every side, and these are the syste going to put in place to ensure that we're monitoring and checking ensure that every student has a qualified teacher at the end of this pro something we can commit to and guarantee in a different way than i think that's what i'm struggling with. it sounds like we have tring the decision and the process and i feel like that's what needs tose if those things aren't anchoring what we're goals and really miss our objective. and so i just want toth appreciate what you lifted up. and i think that extra level of how we're going to see that, how we're going to feel that going to know that this process isn't just about school closures, but about how the

and the things that they've experienced up to this point that areive e going to be remedied through what we're doing to some scale. right. i wouldat and add to commissioner bogusz point, our 12th public commenter from ikwo m are supposed to have social workers and sped teachers, and we don. our positions are blocked. my position was supposed to be full time is blocked. where are the jobs? so if we already can't follow through on our commitments this year we're going to follow through onnext year or through this ra process? and i think that's acan i disconnect here? and a huge tension. yeah. and can that point. that's exactly why i asked for this after action review with our hr problems over the last month or six weeks, whateve this is something that i think has really erodedd over again we don't meet something. and again like in a huge bureaucracy like this. our staff are workingme i just think want to also give appreciation to the folks folks in central office who are working incredibly hard issues, and sometimes we don't hit the mark important and what what the board needs to

ensure is that there's doesn't mean blame, but it does mean being able to the last, you know, since june, we've had theers in we've had our hr people working. why did some of offered jobs in may not get them right? like ifanswer that question how is anyone going to trust this next thing? soa÷ sort of the purpose. stay tuned. come on september after action review. and i think that's can't go back. right. but we can say what did wee mistakes. how are we moving forward. and we can show that we're doing things again, when this portfolio comes out, i think one of the superintendent has be different from in the past. it's going to be different fromhe country. so again, i think the public and you know, i've's not nobody on the board has seen it yet. b i think it is going to be different. i'm excitedre are some possibilities. not to say it's going to be perfect, won't be need to be adjustments, but i think i do thinkde. but we have to be collectively we have to show that transparency and i just think that's i just what you just said. commissioner lamb, did you

have a yes, i get more crisp now to, to the superintendent,, starting with the flowers. you've heard my privateihr5 conversations about the flower from slide number 12 through 20. i think it's about, on the commissioner had raised is getting into thet level, the next kind of quote, click down so operational,e going to need to be in place inus to be successful to fulfill the words, to fulfill our valuesuse because time and time again, i think that's up at the fiscal and operational hea to get an understanding to the root cause, getting to the cause of how can we improve our systems, whe resources are we going to put towards themmately close those system gaps and so myd to the transition plan. so that's related to slide number talked a little bit tonight expect, on the day and

school closure list is published asl as the welcoming school communities, what i'd like to, understand is what is the amount funding amount, either both direct dollar amount or non-monetary transition process. right. so we're we're workinghare, yeah. definitely share in detail about . and i think we've we've broken it into. so there's the kind to be made to make sure we can have the desks, the room are set up, we're all compliant. then there's some of thectivities. yeah, we are going to need we're working on figuring out how build some of that capacity while not you know, not contributing, you know devoting too many of our but that's like logistics, you know coordinating the moving, you know, activities like that. and then there's the engagement piece, which is shared, like sacs meeting staff meetings so that costs extra hours, you hours

for staff to meet, extra hours for family liaisons, to help coordinate meetings. so we're getting organizing all clear budget because, yeah, it does cost money to do this process. the three kind of big buckets where we where seeing we're going to need to invest some dollars to that's my ask, is being able to understand whe that transition plan, in addition to theinterested in understanding the other are, you know, maybe less visible that is the human, you know, touch around e are supported in order to provide that best students. and families, once the news know, or the portfolio is put forward and school communities that will closures or mergers or co-locations, but the welcoming community school communities. so i'd likehat detail around what is that funding amount that is going to be necessary that whole comprehensive transition plan? okay. okay, did you want to say something before

we wrap up oh you said earlier. yeah. i just wanted to, recognizing that maybe a week ago, i would have beenable, i just want to take a moment to thank staff i recognize that. trust me, i recognize there are a lot of questions being asked, work that needs to be done by staff. and at af both at central office, as possible, to be quite frank, i just i recognizethat has on both central office staff and site staff office teams to deliver services and wanted to take a moment to acknowledge that, to also tension here of we are at a time and we are trying to do something that, quite takes resources, not just money but emotional, mental, physical load. and, and that is challenging, and should be in terms of the work that needs to happen over coming year and beyond. so i just wanted to say that, ilearly was that ifwanting to be a board and a district that does

changing and improving that, as i've heard many say befores need to change. i think the push here is what are those going to be happening that we know will then students and the more clear that wes and to our, our parents and our school communities. the better this will be. so i just wanted to close with. yeah. and i think, commissioner boggess, you may ha i was thinking of around this is metrics right? i mean oneur student outcomes and with our guardrails is to have clear metrics. so again, to that question of if we're if i'm a parent in one that's closing or merging what's, you know, are you going to areat i can look at to say, well, in a year or two, you for your kid, i don't know. or again, the more specific we can be, i, and i also want to echo commissioner kim's gratitude for ourthe frontline staff in schools that are right you know, these positions that haven't been filledhat they weren't t#rold the budget in the spring, all these things. i

mean, that's thot deal with it first and then as well our, our central office incredibly hard to support them and to build these plans. and we're other things as well. we're trying as we're as we're doing thisment process we're also balancing the budget sort of and trying to reh overhaul our fiscal and operational systems. thank you commissioner lamb, for your leadership on that committee and by the way new enterprise resource management system next year with that. but but all of these things, there's a svusd all at the same time. and we're trust and we're trying to improve student outcomes think, again, this is this is hard hard work single level of the system. we're not always going to get it right. but what we do need to do as leaders is we need to beuntability to transparency, to honesty. you know we're going to work through these issues. we' going to we're not going to just like you said earlier, we'remeet a deadline, but we're actually going to make sure we that's the fundamental message here also is like let's get it rig for our students, and take the time we need to do to you very much

superintendent wayne and staff also so you don't feel again liw, if there's something that's not you got to you got to meet the deadline and you think that's also a message that's important. thank you so much for discussion. it was long, thank you to the with us. and to the board for engaging in it. and, you know again,s is actually a little bit out of our hands for a whileeally clear about the process we are going to vote on this, thissolution that will probably be on the consent agenda at the september 10th two commissioners want to pull it off for discussion. but otherwise we'll will be the superintendent and staff will propose out on september 18th and it won't come back to a board november. right. so there'll be some time for to get feedback from the community to engage, to make any adjustments to the plan and then they're going to bring to the board in november. obviously, you can talk to us about it, and will and hope you will. but but this the a lot because they're the ones that are going to then bring a finaln to us for consideration in november. question. comment yeah. president alexander, just a timeline

we spent a whole lot of problem and asking a lot of questions the same way that we did ba answers to these questions? will we expect answers to 18th, i our next steps as far as accountability and the monitoring process here. well, can i j before you respond, i would just say that superintendent and he can respond to us. but i mean, at the in december, we're going to vote yes or no on their plan, rig for them to answer these questions. i think the next phase is really about the superintendent and the community. and during that phase, we'll be hearing and listening and learning right. and, and but but it's really between the superintendent and the. he needs you know to be able to answer some of those quest also for us. can i reframe my question then? yeah because, my job here is to reflect the values of my community and reflect what i'm hearing from the community. at of fear out here, and i do not answers i need right now at this point to be comfortable, walk away from this process and come back to it. in november. ith,

i need to be at a lot of schools hearing what the community 18th, 19th, like, like i still don't underst supporting families, through the pain that's going to that. we are inflicting and we are authorizing as a board. so i re clarity about our role moving forward hereink that's well, i think my point engage as individual commissioners, but at a board meeting a board meeting to discuss it because thegive time and space for the superintendent team to right. our job is really at the to vote yes or no. and again, we will have to be conviright? i mean, that is at the end of the day, that's ourctually not to i would argue it's actually not to job is to figure that out. so yes we need to bedon't want the community to think that, like if a community meeting, you're actually not giving feedback to us. we're just observing board observing. you're giving feedback to the superintendent because he's the onethat make sense? that distinction? it totally does. and at the community

has us to hold accountable throughote. and i take that responsibly and that. right? so andst that comes out on september 18th, we still have the sequel process, and yet we fact that there's very likely going to be more schools on the list than actu get closed because of the sequel process. right? so there i, i'm still struggling with my process, in preventing harm from be done and what our role is inhat's where i'm hoping that maybe we can, as a leadership teame talk through what our role as community engagement loo between now and november and not just sit asking for. a community engagement plan. so i think,, i do think that that might be helpful.at in the lastwe went out to the community, every single one of you were at at leasmmunity meetings. i don't know you know, of the 16, you were at them. right. and i think, i mean, i guess we are asking for the sened,

you reflected back what you heard when we hadsome of that you shared some of that. i thi is saying, that would that would continue. and so that's one thing that would you want to do any other engagement, that's what i'm saying. you all woul then just the second thing is i mean, we got a lnotes back from this. i mean, i do feel like we i go i think we referenced them some. but like, again, the three major themes we heard lansition planning and support. and then the, fiscal you know, thedget, while also, i guess i say that always overall theme how is this outcomes? but to say we are going to be providing regular updates, a lot os you asked will be answered on september 18th and then some. as president alexander said through our process. so with all that being said, i guessknow how you showed up at theo show up in this round of engagement? secondly we'll be providing updates to the community and regular updates to you. and then thirdnt alexander respond. if you want to do consider more than absolutely. i mean, if board members, the more that board memb i mean, i think our new board office, we can talk we

can think aboutalready has ideas around how we can improve our community point. and we can also we need to get all your questions that's what our board office is going to do. my just to say i didn't want to mislead the public into thinking tha micromanaging the details of the plan. that was all. so yes keep us engaged and our job to keep listeny, does a really good job of that. i, if i think all of us, you know, are out there a lot that's why you heard the questions we asked tonight. i mean, i think we are reflecting the vision and values of the community, and we need to keep doing that. i think what i would say in our in the way that that even if it's not at this dais, we're, we're in our check ins with with our briefings with staff and all that. so but but we more formal. i'm certainly open to it, if that's what you're suggesting, but through this process, i think it's fair for community to have opportunities to engageat dais and this dais and. yeah, well, let's do it about that. yeah, let's do it. thank, if there are no, just to

so for the policy, that's why we combine just want to reiterate what president alexander said. i mean, there wast was helpful to do this as a first readin the public can understand. langston helped provide a lot of clarity about wh accomplish. so if there if there are any more specific concerns about it, process you know, submit questions. but this will be on and we alexander said consent is because we don't need to discuss it again, tonight so i think we got the questions answ that comes up we'll go through our process as, as you said addressing an item like that. all right. if there's noth else, it is 9:41 p.m. and this meeting is adjourned.

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experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7n tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them that gap and work with the san francisco unified school juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challe have a couple of other providers here on site but all just been trying to work together kids move around from each their admission but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity the community. >> services on westbrook. they teach y build their own mini robot to proouth to partnerships with adobe and sonynd google and twitter. and so ught access for

our families to resources that our residents may or have been able to access in the and development corporation gave us this program. it hasn't been easy but we of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the c backpacks. i don't know if you're going to to doo try? . yeah. go for it a young man by the name of ivan mello. two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyricsn. he came as an intern and now he's running you, wertunities and there's a young man by t of eduardo ramirez. barber what's

that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, ftattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well eduardo is a so trying to find him a the tech industry was very through the effort of the office of economicrant i reached out to a fewknow. post mates decided t board regardless of his legal status. nded his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've bee doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth families,parents,

communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if one day can be in every affordable opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this i've got time i've bp got with 25 job young people one of my favorite days in s thank you to the companies that are hiring. >> (clapping.) >> the city of san francisco and united way are calling an employers to have jobs in 2012 president obama issued a challenge challenge was get disconnected young people connected to jobs and so mayor ed lee said lead this challenge that theill have 25 hundred summer 6200 jobs and been >> i'll high are ups we like to jobs so for youth this

summer. >> excellent. thank you. >> a l part of the jobs it did manual resource started off a a youth program and 35 percent of the young people working full-ti we know there the pressors looking for committed the resource fair attracts 6 hundred people if a bay area. >> we have public andvate partnership the employers came hertz rent a car and many privat sea have the city staff so the airport is is here we've been retail we have offices and so the young people will to partner search warrant with so many of the great champio the past 5 years we've willed youth to work as business they to supervisors. >> if you're job at

starbuck's the opportunity for them allows them to understand math if tire workingectural firm understanding debris a media to understand reading and writing d are opportunities that the mayor is clear he wanted to provide we're going to be do mock interviews helping young a it pulls them building inspection commission make sure they're prepared for those opportunity educational and in terms of their preparation skillseave they'll leave with jobs and newilding their network of the opportunity to i think i could focus and i to see had is available i'm hoping get a job but have employers employers give practice. >> i feel this will b way to look for jobs we can do this like you get our young people walk we capture their information so we can do follows up and we have a

our computer lab an opportunity do cover letters and talk about and i think how you do things on the internet we help quam update tare resume and can look in interviews a the spot job officers we hire one hundred young people today lee alone it is exciting of that it is if they come through with one hundred walk job. >> we'll rock and roll iob interviews it went great. >> as a youth we get to go through experiences 3 a great foundation gymnasium a positive outlook and more importantly confidence. >> we do at the end of the day exist a young person with the possibility ofe and do we have them goi want to get there let me connection with those folks and ultimately path. >> good morning caitlin i'm moved

out to california and about 8 years old andly put in foster care at the age of 9 10 had a baby at the 16 years i've kind of had this crazy like youthexperience. >> despite the challenges faced caitlin finished h program. >> i heard will mayor ed lee's program through my social worker and i interviewed with entrepreneurs after i was walking sweet spots office i thought been in that type of office ones i got with my supervisor we boptd a i got a call from h.r. i got the position andin. >> i have hired merry for 8 and saw how she did she was

going to work 8 weeks but at the n offered her a position part have those traits it has been great workingerm of 5 weeks was pretty much each other i feel like the mayors job program helped me to get in without the jobs plus program i probably would have not even had a r case she's a mother of two now full-time and making it happen so if she cferently anyone that has a willingness to ast try to make it can do >> those programs are amazing they're so important for adults to really go out there and make better future for themselves and having a traditional - you can go out there based on the prog they want to help you we'll be committing

to 25 jobs in the >> the san francisco rec and park is hiring 50 youth that summer . >> (clapping.) >> and only child born in the office development allocation to r so for me of the community that made the difference no way i'l united way this network was here for me this and professional so important we create the opportunities whohe next ceo or champion of the community is their path. >> that's the roll in san we really by helping each other out >> (clapping.) for 2017 to create if you want more information invite them at sf

>> we broke ground in year. we broke ground the day after sanmoment of silence here. it's really great to see we experienced then and we've experienced over the years playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't a for this park maclaren. we time for funding. it expensive to raise money for lot of delays. a lot of it was just mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and fixed everything.

worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the is busy all week. there is using the park and using strollers and now it's by utilizing park being the largest second par best kept secrets. what's exciting about this ac particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representacity coming together but not only on the bureaucratic also our neighbors, neighbed that today we are seeing the fruition of all in this city's space. >> when we got involved this park there was a broken and half of -- for i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are funding in a hole need to articulate what you need for yourys point as this sight as for other

communities. >> i hope we continue to work on other empty pits that are here. there are still a that need help maclaren park. we hope grants and continue to improve this park to make really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't it's here.

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