thank you. i'd like to call on the chief who will introduce our guest. i'll turn this over to graham doneson. good evening commissioners. here with cpac the coordinator with the advisory council. the board of education of san francisco unified school district appoint the following people. the new appointments, sandy, allen, allison. reappointments. i'd be happy to give you some background on each of those recommends for approval.

>> could you give us a little piece on what your process is on selecting the recommendation. funded by every county in california for the needs of current consideration. 20% are community representatives. within our ordnance and by laws, we have assigned seats for the school district. head start, two resource and referrals. and children services and for

dcyf, the first five san francisco. >> that group comes together on "moly basis. it informs the school district and board of education around what's going on in the field. >> can i ask the representative for us is going to be mr. lazard. >> commissioner yi? jo i'll add to the history.

why did the department of education fund this piece they actually funded child care. we have money coming. jo for cal works. historically because education funded child care. the other thing we wanted to point out was the traditional sort of definition of child care was not what the state used for their services nor baz it what we use in san francisco. we meanerly childhood education.

people would assume it is just babysitting and not he had kiss. >> to that point, we work closely with a lot of members of the unified school district. we have really strong ties. i can voug for the a mount ys. >> thank you. there are no public speakers on this matter.

item m, there were no eye texases. item o, consent calendar. item o, roll call, please. >> no on k 1 and k 4. >> reporting on the committee of service action, there were one. the proposals for first reading. board members proposals for first reading. i need a motion and second.

>> thank you. held for action. it is in support of renaming the burnett child development center to the leola havard early education school. we have a few speakers on this. speaking on this eitem. good evening board members. my mother really wanted to be here tonight but she was feeling a bit under the weather. she really wanted him to know

the honor of the burn et school in the early development. she wants to thank you for his time and let you know when you do come around to voting the change of the name. thank you very much. >> she has a birthday coming up. thank you. >> good afternoon. i wanted to address the fact that it was 150th anniversary of the civil war. the name is being changed from peter burnett is different. he changed the tide of history

in a negative way. it's appropriate that dr. amos lee brown that came forward. he leads to third baptist church was created. the nag al park service called the underground railroad the most important movement of the 1970's. it's a loringer point that not only the larger name. the context of peter and ethics

created here. we have five black oranges founded in 1952 that still exist today. we once again encourage you to vote in favor of it. on a more positive note is the actual anniversary of the first public school in california. part of the context was the first school board chair in san francisco and dedicate that had school on april 3, 1848. every year. we started at 10. during the opening of public

education. >> the grounds committee last night. >> when i was in school in l.a., please believe me, i know more about john muir than i ever wanted to know. the days in whose life seems

equally divine. that's from the eighth grade. they drummed that stuff into us. i knew who the school was named after. who he was about and why we went up there everyday. if we are going to put names on schools, they ought to mean something and children ought to know when they mown. it's insane that maybe that's the first thing they ought to learn about how that school is named that. why that name is there that they look at everyday. >> thank you. we node to have the adults know who they are as well. jo good evening to the commissioners. thank you for allowing me to

speak. i apologize. i want to stand and commend you for taking the stance for dr. brown. if you want to know history, you must know dr. brown. to commend you from moving forward, i think the contribution is the greatest contribution african-americans can be proud of. ize our true hero. i'm happy we can applause and salute her for her efforts to our children all the generations can see her contribution. thank you for saluting her upcoming birthday as well. jo thank you. >> good evening. >> i didn't get a carted either.

my name is chris daniels. i'm representing my husband at his request. he is the naacp director for california. as educators, you are very well aware of the attention to doe tails. there's a difference that that can make. a name is not a small matter. it is everything. it's where you go every had r day, what you are a part of, a reference of pride. in honor, this is an easy one. it is an honor to one of san francisco's finest citizens.

right now, you have a power to send a powerful message. that's it. thank you. >> welcome reverend brown. >> madam president and members of the board, to the staff of our school district, i mraud the efforts while recovering. my mobility was a bit

compromised. but my mouth and mind was spared by the lord. >> it was on july 4 when i experienced this stroke i happened to have been reading the book, racial front years. san franciscos's black dmunity from 1900-1940. in the preceding chapters 1940-1900. i read there were there was a person who was like what this

marnt references when she came and stood with her child. a person who is a bully named peter a bully. and people do change, thank god, but i submitted to the grounds committee last night, that unfortunately, people never change. he didn't get converted at all. he was born in nashville, tennessee, reared in missouri, was counseled to the mormon church and followed them westward and went on northward, to oregon, and when he got there and established the first hamlet, germantown, his first order of business was to get an order neans -- ordinance enacted

saying that no black folks would be allowed in that hamlet. and if they were there, they would be beaten every six months until they left town. it didn't stop there. came down to california. got involved in politics and the gold rush and got his way to the high office of the first governor of this state. and i thank god that you all have removed another investigate tadge of our dark past. peter burnett was not only a bully to black folk but he was also mean toward asians, chinese specifically, and worked for the obliteration of native americans

. and the sad commentary is, ladies and gentlemen, that no one in high office knew who this man was and what his legacy was until i called from my sick bed and said we got to get that name off of that building over there on newco mmp b street, the one community that had been underserve for too long when it comes to opportunity for african americans and other oppressed people. so you ought to make this a big night on april 12. don't put your life on the bushel. you ought to have all the bells and whistles here, media here and let it go forth that we're

dealt with eradicating the legacy of a bully of 1849-1851 in this city of san francisco and the state of california. and when we do that, we will send a signal that we will also deal with the modern-day bullies who are still bullying gays and lesbians and anybody who is different. we ought to send them a message around the world that in san francisco, the city of st. francis, no bully even in his name, will remain on any building and particularly a place where our children are developed during their tender years. president mendoza: thank you very much.

we hope you will join us on april 12. this is the first reading and the full board will hear it again. i just want to acknowledge the audience who we haven't seen in a while, good to see you deborah. is it your aunt. so wonderful. we are looking forward to honoring her on the 12th. va, we have to move on. >> i want to acknowledge this as well. president mendoza: item s is the board members' reports, report from the curriculum. we had that report anyone want to report on that, commissioner

fewer. commissioner maufas. i was there. would you please, commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: select committee heard our summer school options and we heard from our city partners and all of the summer resources that they will be having. i know we had a summer resource on march 19 where many families wept to find out summer resources, programs, camps, activities for families and also go to that web site -- do you happen to know it, president mendoza? commissioner maufas: we talked about our summer school options. president mendoza: commissioner fewer do you want to talk about the plans for ninth grade.

commissioner fewer: during that meeting, we presented some data about the ninth graders who received d's and f's during the fall semester and our inability to serve during summer school since our budget canceled summer school. these ninth graders, this is the first year that these ninth graders will have to graduate with the new graduation requirements. this meeting smarked interest of the mayor to support the commitment they had already made to help our students achieve that status.

we will be able to offer summer school to our students who have received a d an f. president mendoza: next. >> we reviewed legislation, variety of issues, including finance, teen dating violence, cyber bullying, formal process for he appointments and working a draft for further discussion. we heard a very comprehensive report on the board policies and administrative regulations online. it's a huge job. i want to commend sues and wong

who contacted the school board association for this project. and the team is rationalizing hundreds of policies and procedures and board resolutions. so there is measurable progress on that. and that concludes my report. >> can i add something about the policies that was really interesting to me. one of the things that happened, we all know we didn't have the capability of computer rising these things but subsequent to the meeting, what i found out, the reason that we have so many policies that are not in our policy book at all is that this responsibility is to be centralized in the legal office and years ago was decentralized into departments and nothing happened after that. all the policies went into the can after that. and the huge job that susan described to us is taking what is in the policy manual and

putting it in a sensible fashion, then there will be an enormous thing of going through everything that the board passed that never made it into the manual. president mendoza: thank you, we are reporting back on any of the conferences and events you have been to. vice president yee: we were at the council of league of cities and schools legislative conference and i typed three pages of notes and i will try not to read them. one of the things that we push for, in particular, superintendent garcia, was the whole notion of the common core standards that we passed. even though we are supporting and trying to align everything to it, there are two groups right now that are working at

developing strategies about how to actually make it happen. and the discussion between -- not between, but in both of these groups, there had been no discussion about how do you plan strategies with english language learners. that's something he really pushed and we tried to reinforce that because there is nobody discussing that. and we are telling people we aren't trying to lower the bar here. we're just saying, we also need strategies, in particular in california. so and i brought back a lot of stuff -- i expect everybody to read it. and there are a lot of good studies and looking at some of our urban districts and our urban districts are really

outperforming a lot of our counterparts that aren't urban districts in regards to the closing achievement gap. that's something to look at. and the -- one of the things they talked about is title 1 but some discussion in the capital to possibly want to blend or combine title 1 and title 3 and a lot of us are fighting that in making sure that the title 3 is protected for our english language learners and don't mix it in to provide flexibility. so that's something to look -- pay attention to. and when -- the other thing in the study that they discussed was in looking at what really

mattered in terms of raising the test scores and so forth, improving student outcomes, they found that the most important thing was really the structure of the district, in other words central office and everything else, the governance also. that if we all focus on the instructional matters that that was the most important thing. it was not -- they found it didn't really matter what kind of reform you came up with, what you named it and so forth, but districts doing really well and what they had in come common was the governance and central office piece was in sync and we basically look at ourselves --

not service but support to sites. and that was kind of nice to hear them say that because it reinforces what we're doing and felt like we were going in a right direction but i never heard anybody else say it. and then the duncan, secretary of education -- arn inch e, he spoke a little bit and it was nice to hear him say, talk about a lot of things we are doing nationally. he talked about parent engagement and supporting early childhood education. the other thing i heard him talk about is that you know how we are trying to address chr