>> in a few words, aids is parents, teachers, and students, speaking together in one voice to help our students. >> [speaking spanish] >> why we are here is to request that decisions are not one-sided, especially for progress and changes that are to be implemented. >> [speaking spanish]

>> because we want the politics -- the policies of programs ignore positions you're taking that are affecting our community in bayview. [speaking spanish] >> [speaking spanish] >> that would be taken, considering our participation. >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> that will reflect that

education is a subject for always, and that we create better students with a better education for our future. thank you. [applause] president mendoza: thank you. >> [speaking spanish]

[laughter] >> my name is anjelica. i come from caesar troublous -- caesar chavez. i come about breakfast. i have a doctor that is diabetic. she may not have breakfast with all this starch and sugar in the breakfast they serve. because i do not have a permanent living arrangement, sometimes my doctor, because she cannot eat that breakfast, spends hours without food. >> [speaking spanish] muchas gracias. >> thank you for listening to

me. president mendoza: thank you. >> my name is jason. my daughter is attending elementary school in a lake shore. she has been out of school for a week and a half now. thank members of the boards who are trying to be responsive to this issue. nothing has been done yet. i need to get louder about this situation. i want to get action on this issue. i think teachers who have talked about leadership and accountability. that is something that needs to be addressed. i also want to recognize my foreman -- forememer dean. i grew up in the city. if it was not for him, i could not stand here today. my daughter loved lecturer

elementary. she loved her teacher. it is a wonderful school. i believe the principle and 525 kids there had a challenging episode there, but the situation for me is that there is a special needs child in the classroom. there are two in my daughter's class room. one needs more help than we think would be appropriate for a mainstream classroom. the child has assaulted people on 12 different occasions. one of the complaints came from a second language english speaker. the only complaint i got wheels was the last one i filed. my daughter has been assaulted four times by the student. i am sympathetic to the special needs of this child, but at some time we have to say enough is enough. what are we going to do about it?

we are trying. meanwhile, my wife cries every single minute. my daughter thinks she has done something wrong by telling us she has been assaulted, and why is it she could not go back to school? we have been offered a safety transfer. i encourage you to read the book "blame the victim." thank you for your time. [applause] president mendoza: superintendent garcia? superintendent garcia: it is difficult to respond to everyone. whatever the rumors are at bret harte, there were not very specific. the free to e-mail me. carlosgarcia@sfusd.edu. to be honest, i have not heard

the rumors and have not created the rumors. that would be very helpful for us. sometimes we are always the last to find out. it would really be helpful for you to get that to us. i will work with deputy garanza and we would get something organized to have an opportunity to have more conversations. that would be very helpful. thank you. [applause] also, on questions from the fairmont, we are hosting community meetings. what was presented to the board -- we have a proposal out there, but we are taking in community input so we can look at that proposal before it comes back to the board. if you go on our website, it will tell you where those meetings are being held. i wish i had that here. maybe janie bond, right behind you, will have the states. it would be helpful if you give

input there. >> i know there are going to be community meetings, but we are very busy parents. superintendent garcia: your comments here will be put into consideration if you cannot make it. thank you. >> as a fair amount family that started off at -- a fairmont family that started off at lick, we would make the same comments. commissioner wynns: i want to thank everybody who came tonight. we all know, but for the public i will announce that we are embarking on an expansion of the school bus -- school breakfast program. i would like some information. but i believe children with medical needs can have a special meal provided for them. if we could get information about that and make sure the parents who need that information have it, i would appreciate it. president mendoza: did that

parent leave? is she still here? commissioner norton: i just wanted to give a shout out to the bret harte community. i visited your classrooms a few months ago with project seed. there were some great things that i saw happening out there. thank you for everything you all are doing out there. president mendoza: deputy superintendent? >> i also want to thank everyone for coming out and sharing some words with us. i want to remind folks that we will be having a committee of the whole next tuesday in which we will discuss the superintendent zone. i want to remind our community that the superintendent zone is not something being done to you. it is this district's commitment

to rectify the historic underserved communities in our district. this board took a phenomenal step forward when they said that our children have been historical rate underserved. as we speak, you are 20 times more likely to be identified as the special education child if you are an african american male. that is not right. we have students proficient at 12%. that is not right. what about the 88% of students in those schools that are not proficient? it is very easy for us to sometimes lose track of the fact that we sit in a privileged position with high-school diplomas, bachelor's degrees, dr. ritz, and presume to say it

is not important to enforce standards in our schools, especially underserved schools. as a man of color, and want to go on record to say that if it was not for those teachers in my background but said it is known only possible, but necessary for you to learn, because that is the key to the kingdom, the key to education -- if we do not take that into consideration, we will have failed. we encourage the public to be part of that discussion. we want the public to be part of that discussion. but as someone much smarter than the one said, if you continue to do the same thing you have always done, you will continue to get the same results. it is insanity to think you can continue to do what you have always done and get a different result. we need you to be part of that conversation. we invite you to be here on tuesday. the superintendent made a

statement when he came to this school district which was very courageous. what he said was that if you are a student with disabilities, you outperform our african american students in the aggregate. that, in spite of all our progress, is still the case. shame on us if we do not do anything different in the superintendent zone. that is our commitment to that community, to your community. we need you to be part of it. thank you for coming tonight. that is what we are about. president mendoza: thank you very much, deputy superintendent. i think you summarized it well for all of us. >> i am grateful for those of you who took the time to come and make your thoughts heard. what i would endeavor to guess, if the board of education and

executive staff went to the community for a meeting such as this -- we may be able to hear from many more committee members that could not come here to tell us their thoughts, which they probably would do any number of ways to communicate about their neighborhood. i would like to see that as part of the process, us actually going to those communities where these zones are being positioned, and the bayview in particular, so it does not seem we are doing something to the community, but in partnership with the community, in the community. [applause] >> item k is appointments to the advisory committee. any appointments? none at this time. item l is special order of business. we have nine tonight. item commissioner maufas: is --

item m is a discussion of other educational issues. superintendent garcia: with the state budget, i wanted an opportunity to update you on that. >> this is in some ways and the liberation of information that i gave a preview of at your last meeting, your last regular meeting two weeks ago. understanding that you have other substantive items under this portion of the agenda, i will try to go quickly through the presentation. if you have any questions, i would be glad to try to answer them. some of this we did touch on two weeks ago. i will kind of go through those

parts in an abbreviated way. we are trying to get the projector up. we have copies of the handout for members of the public who are here outside the board chambers. the governor has proposed a budget for next year that is trying to address a $26.70 billion gap. his proposed solutions include cuts to non-k-12 areas of the budget, shift of some services to the local level, some one- time savings and borrowings, and extension of temporary taxes that were voted by the legislature for two years, to extend those tax increases for an additional five years. those are all part, individual

parts of a package that go together in the governor's proposal. with respect to the backdrop, just to give a little bit of information about the context, we do not tend to talk as much about the a look for the state economy in our meetings. this might be new information for commissioners. we all know that the state of california's economy was hit especially hard, even compared to other states, during this recession. there was an acute the the fact from the seven prime loans -- subprime loans and the housing market. we still have a 12.4% unemployment rate, the nation's third highest. since before the recession, the state has lost 1.3 million jobs. there are probably $1 million

jobs in that group. the economic forecasters at ucla -- this is a bit of good news. they say that the state is well- positioned for the recovery, and have identified education among the sector's leading the way toward recovery. also good for us in san francisco is that the outlook for coastal cities is better for the inland empire and the central valley. in some respects, we are well- positioned in san francisco. the governor's budget does continue to expect a very slow recovery for the state in terms of employment. payroll employment is not expected to reach pre-recession levels for another five years, which is eight years from the beginning of the recession. that is mixed news in terms of the state's overall economy.

the education budget -- we did talk about this last time. it has some good news and some tough news. on the positive side, there is a proposal that would "protect" funding for k-12 education. this does reflect that education has borne a larger than proportionate share of cuts in the past. i will elaborate on some statistics on that in a moment. the proposal includes no major cuts to k-12 for the current year and maintains flat funding for the 11-12 year. even though that has a flat funding proposal, that does not fund statutory cola, which has been estimated at 1.67%.

the flat funding proposal requires two things. one is that the legislature, both houses, have to agree to place on a special election ballot in june an extension of those temporary tax increases, and that has to be done by 2/3 but in each house. if placed on the ballot, the majority of voters must approve the measure. if those two things do not come to pass, it is estimated that an additional $9 billion in expenditure cuts would be needed, and we would expect to see large cuts to education as part of that package. those types of cuts have been discussed. just to remind the commissioners, we have two paths we need to plan for. one is what we are calling scenario a, the scenario in

which we would see an extension of tax increases, and we would see a little bit of a reduction in funding and our revenue limit. in scenario b, the doomsday scenario, if the legislature fails to place the measure on the ballot, or if the measure is placed on the ballot but fails, we would see an additional loss of $330 per ada. that is close to $20 million of an additional cut for the district. in addition, economic changes between now and the enactment of the final state budget could cause revision. those could be in a good direction or a bad direction. that is always the case. state finances are always a little unpredictable. this next slide is new information. this one is very important, i

think. it puts the history in context. even know the governor has in some ways created a proposal that looks like it is bearing education, that does have to do with the fact that education has taken a disproportionate hit over the last several years. this is borne out in this chart. you can see it to the current fiscal year -- i will not go through all these numbers. the last column shows the change in those three years for these major components of the state budget. k-12 education has seen a 14.5% reduction in nominal dollars. that is not trying to show failure to keep up with inflation. it is actual nominal cuts in funding for k-12 of 14.5%.

you can see higher education, health and human services, and corrections. they have seen reductions, but nowhere near the magnitude that k-12 education has been subjected to. that is the backdrop for the proposal that the governor has made. it is a good thing that there has been recognition. i think in a lot of respect this has gone undetected or unreported. it really has not received as much attention in the public dialogue. a few more slides that point to the under-funding of schools. this next slide shows three lines over the last several years for the projected versus actual funding per ada. if the state had kept up with a statutory cola, year over year

increases in the cost of expenditures, we would have seen an increase from a funding level of 58.21 in 2007 to a protective level for next year of 64.93. that reflects what you would normally hope to see in a typical, responsible way of funding schools. because costs increase, there are increases in revenue that keep pace. but has not happened, obviously. the middle line shows what if there had been no attempt to keep pace with cost increases with inflation, but we just stay at a flat level. that would obviously leave us at a funding level of 58.21. that is represented as the loss of the cost of living adjustment, the cola.

but we are well short of that. what we have actually seen is that bottom line. i am sorry that the copies do not show this well. we can e-mail this to all the commissioners so you can see it on your color copies. it does show up on the projection. if you connect the dots with the triangles, you see those figures there. we've gone from a funding level of 58.212, in the current year, a funding level of 52.39. in the better scenario for next year, we would lose $19 per ada, 52.20. in the worst scenario, we would see a reduction down to 48.90. those are very significant gaps between even flat funding, failure to keep pace with

inflation. much worse, it is a significant decrease compared to what we would have expected if the state had continued to fund the statutory cola over not many years. it is a significant and rapid failure to keep place -- to keep pace with cola since 2007. to put that in terms of our own budget, on the next slide you concede -- can see ada for a district of our size, if we were to see scenario a come to pass, we would expect to receive $5,220 per ada. that compared to a state that funded cola is a shortage of $65

million. that is not cumulative. that is next year. if you can imagine -- i know you are all familiar with the magnitude of the school district budget. you can imagine what $65 million per year would look like in terms of investments in all of our schools. if the tax proposals fail, we are looking at scenario b. we expect that underfunding to be $83 million. that is compared to the situation we would all expect to see or hope to see, fully funding statutory cola. when we are talking about the deficit factor, that really means the gap between, on every dollar, the gap between what we are actually funded and what we should be funded if the state had maintained funding for the cola each year.

it is not a small number either in relative terms or absolute terms. it is a very significant number for us. on the next slide, we show how the state funding for k-12 has compared to the national average for the last four years. very time you see a bar above that flat line, that shows that the state would have been a little bit higher than the national average. every time you see a bar below, that shows the depth the wrong-- the cap igap in the wrong direcn between the state and the national average. right now, we are looking at a differential of $2,580 per student. that is the highest it has been at any time over the last 40 years. this really is the context for

the governor's proposal that might be interpreted as bearing education, or singling out education to be spared from cuts. in terms of the board's budget decisions to date and what we are looking at with this new proposal, last june, the board decided on some budget cuts for the current year we are in now. there was a two-year deficit projection of $113 million. you can see some of the items, some of the larger decisions the board made. even if the tax extensions are passed, scenario a, well flat funding would certainly be better than deep cuts that would accompany scenario b, that would

not completely bridge the gap between revenues and expenses for most school districts, including ours. some of the factors there are that we are seeing the expiration of one-time federal stimulus dollars, the step and colorado increases -- and column increases continue for our work force, and retirement costs continue to increase. there is a need for continued budget reductions. with the school planning summit taking place on saturday, we will be preparing schools to do two things that mirror the scenarios we are going to be facing as a district. we're going to ask schools to submit two budgets. one will be scenario a, flat funding with tax extensions. the other version will