years from now so even if we asked all the people to donate a dollar, it would be a drop in the bucket. really, the scale of the cuts that we're looking at in what's being called the all-cuts state budget is the equivalent of moving to a four-day school week. and i really want people to understand that, that california is going down this path of funding our public schools so poorly that we, you know, could be looking at a four-day school week which the state of hawaii had to do because they weren't funding their public schools enough. so i really urge everybody who appeared tonight, at previous board meetings, to really ask our state legislators to pass the revenue extensions. i mean, that's going to be key. we're part of your team. we're on your team. we want to get more money to fund music at lincoln, to fund all the programs at washington. we agree with those goals.

and then finally i want to throw out an idea to my colleagues that, in the spirit of belt tightening and reductions, that we look at our board budget and see what kind of across-the-board reduction we can make to help offset the budget problem. president mendoza: thank you. and we are already doing that and willing bringing something to you very shortly. >> thank you. superintendent? superintendent garcia: people are saying cut from the top. richard caransa and yung lee, our deputies, are holding meetings with every department in this school district and we're slashing every single one of their budgets so when people say cut away as far as possible from the classroom, i agree. but even when we do that, it will impact the classroom because sooner or later and it's almost sooner rather than later, there won't be anything left to cut in the school district.

president mendoza: other comments from board members? >> i wanted to say we're there already. there is nothing left to cut in the school district and there hasn't been anything left to cut as evidenced by the real cuts that have affected the classrooms and the schools for the last couple of years at the very least and i don't think for me there's not a single cut on the table that i would even consider under other circumstances. and i feel so much and am so sympathetic to all the people who came out tonight and in previous meetings and i was with you, tearing up, because of the testimony about the meaningfulness of the programs to students and to their families and to their future and we -- but -- we are left with no choice.

and our only option, as with the teachers here, and teacher representatives, is to fight as much as we can to make the best state budget that we can and so that's what we'll be doing, all of us the rest of the week have been but from now forward in an intense way and a number of us are about to go to c.s.b.a., to our legislative conference, which will be focused on the state budget. so yeah, i did want to -- i'll give you a little -- this afternoon at the school alliance luncheon when i -- i have to say, superintendent, to use a version of the same thing i said to the state superintendent last month is that, you stood there this afternoon and said whatever the budget, we're going to continue to improve. and the truth is, that isn't true.

we cannot continue to do this work without the money to do it and i think we need to tell the truth about that, with all due respect. president mendoza: commissioner norton? commissioner norton: i was going to also mention that commissioner murase and wynns and yee and i will all be in sacramento next week to talk to our state representatives about the budget situation but i also wanted to just say how moved i was by our student delegate remarks earlier tonight and i think they're relevant to this discussion because you talked about your school being different, that you had learned that your school was different from other schools and you couldn't compare it to what other schools had and that you had learned to somewhat accept a school that was different from other schools and that may not offer the same things of other schools and i wanted to say that

it's not o.k., it's not o.k., and it's not o.k. that there's differences between schools in our district and it's not o.k. that we don't have the money to offer what every school, what every student should have, what you should have at your school. so i just wanted to say that and say thank you for your remarks because i think it made a lot of people think tonight. president mendoza: other comments? no? o.k. roll call please. clerk: . ms. fan, ms. creer, ms. fewer? ms. maufas, no. dr. murase, aye. >> ms. norton, yes. ms. wynns? aye. >> mr. yee, aye, ms. mendoza. clerk: six aye's. president mendoza: we're sorry. thank you. item n is a discussion of other educational issues and there are

no one tonight. item n is consent calendar resolutions removed at previous meeting for second reading and action, none tonight. item o is vote on consent calendar, moved and seconded under section f so we need -- we didn't have -- roll call please on that? clerk: on the consent calendar? [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: item p, consent calendar resolution severed for board discussion and immediate action there were none. item q, i need a motion and a second to river to the committee the whole on may 17, item

no. 115-10sp1, a resolution of the board of education of san francisco unified school district ordering agan election to authorize up to $531 million of general obligation bonds and establishing specifications of the election order. >> so moved. >> second. president mendoza: thank you. roll call, please. i'm sorry. this is going to get -- this will get referred to the committee as a whole on may 17. item r is board members' proposals, first reading where we need a motion and second on suspension of the rules. >> so moved. >> second. president mendoza: thank you. roll call please. i'm sorry, this is in support of california's may 9 through 13 week of action. madam clerk: thank you. [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: i need a motion and a second on formal

introduction before the board. >> so moved. >> second. president mendoza: a reading by the resolution by commissioner norton? commissioner norton: o.k. shall i read the whole thing? i guess it's symbolic. president mendoza: please read the whole thing. commissioner norton: in support of california's may 9 through 13 week of action, whereas we are now living in a state of emergency, lawmakers have already made $12 billion in painful cuts but need to close the remaining budget deficit of $15 billion and whereas k12 and higher education funding has been cut by more than $20 billion in the past three years resulting in the loss of more than 30,000 educators and 10,000 school support employees with the real threat of losing another 20,000 educators this year and whereas our schools colleges and communities are suffering because of continued state budget cuts and the cuts to local safety and health agencies also threaten the quality of life in our communities and whereas california has the eighth largest economy in the world but continues to short change our

students of the education they need and deserve even worse some lawmakers hijacked the state budget negotiations in order to block a june ballot public vote to extend tax revenues which are still part of governor brown's balanced budget plan. and whereas california cannot survive an all-cuts budget. legislators need to finish their jobs and pass the temporary tax extension and provide a stable source of adequate funding through progressive taxation and whereas the california education coalition is asking for public support for a week of action with parents, students, administrators, school board members, community leaders and other california labor groups in order to pressure the legislature to pass tax extensions to prevent deeper cuts to schools, colleges, fire, police and other essential public services. and whereas the may 9 through 13th week of action is summed up with the acronym, l.e.a.r.n., learn. l., on monday, may 9, focus on legislative activities and the start of sit-ins at the state

capital. e., tuesday, may 10, reach out to every parent. a., wednesday, may 11, use the day of the teacher to appreciate educators and allies. r., on thursday, may 12, promote the need for revenue for schools and essential public services. n., friday, may 13, it's not business as usual. attend a regional rally in sacramento, san francisco, los angeles, fresno, inland empire or san diego. therefore, to be resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district fully supports the may 9 through 13th week of action by educators, administrators, education support professionals, parents, students and labor groups to protect california's future and the future of students and working families across the state. and be it further resolved that the board of education encourages all educators, parents and school supporters to attend the mass rally for public education and vital public services on may 13 starting at 4:00 p.m. in the san francisco civic center plaza.

president mendoza: thank you. do we have any public speakers this? seeing none, comments from the board? commissioner murase? commissioner murase: i would like to be added as a co-sponsor. president mendoza: i think we probably all could be added. that would be great. any other comments? i do want to display by beautiful jersey that i have on this evening which was given to me by -- actually, i paid for it -- by uesf. it's it represents the jerseys we're going to be giving to the teachers we're honoring tomorrow at the giants game and it's the black to mourn the budget deficit and cuts that are coming to public education and the pink represents the pink slips that more than 20,000 teachers will be receiving throughout the state and so we will all be wearing these it's the giants game tomorrow. if there are no other --

>> may i make one comment? president mendoza: yes. >> i wanted to thank all of the teachers from the district who went up to sacramento yesterday. a number, i believe -- at least one, i saw, being led away on television by the c.h.p. so i think there were some arrests and i think they should consider that a badge of honor for standing up for injustice. so thank you to all of our staff people that went up there and thank you, mr. superintendent, for being on hand early in the morning to see them off. president mendoza: seeing no other comments, roll call, please? [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: thank you. so just got a text from my son saying i'm listening to you on the radio, four-day school week, wahoo. santiago, go to bed.

>> that shows the need for education, doesn't it. president mendoza: 13-year-old seventh grader, to be clear. i need a motion and a second to -- the next item is redefining the support responsibilities and the role of the committee advisory community put on by -- i need a motion and a second to refer to rules committee. >> moved. >> second. >> if i could take this moment to advocate that the rules committee meeting is on monday, may 16, and anyone interested in understanding what the piece, c.a.c., that would be an ideal opportunity to attend that meeting and that starts at 6:00 p.m.? commissioner murase: community advisory council meeting

6:00 p.m. president mendoza: thank you. that's our board members report. standing committees, if i can get a report -- if we can get a report on the city and school district select committee, commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: city and school district select committee met on april 28 with two informational items, the library card partnership where every kindergartener and first grader will receive a library card to use their public libraries and then also an update on the san francisco unified school district budget for 2011-2012. the meeting of may 12 of the city and school district select committee has been canceled. president mendoza: thank you. a report from the augmented curriculum program committee. commissioner norton? commissioner norton: we had several informational items. we had a very good discussion on the new inclusive practices plans for the special education -- for special education students.

we had representatives from united educators and also the community advisory council for special education on hand to discuss the implications and some of the concerns around that which we then brought up in greater detail in the next night which i'm sure you will discuss further. we also heard a presentation about avid, advancement via individual determination, which was one of our strategies for underserved youth developing college-going culture and helping them achieve. we heard a presentation on the act explorer assessment which is part of our new college and career plans. i had brought this item, it was a complaint, actually, that i heard at one of the school sites about a test that was part of this curriculum so we had an interesting presentation about what it measures and the report it generates for students to begin understanding what are their particular career interests and aptitudes so that was a great presentation. i would also like to say that

the next meeting of the curriculum committee will be monday june 6 at 5:00 p.m. and one of the items i will be bringing to that meeting is a discussion of our strategy towards honors in middle and high school and how the different approaches at different schools are using and what guidance we are giving schools about whether home genius or heterogenius groupings, what are the advantages or disadvantages of each so it should be a good discussion and there's been a lot of interest in it and everyone is invited to attend. president mendoza: report from the committee of the whole meeting, commissioner yee? vice president yee: basically, the committee became the extension of the curriculum committee discussion on the special education redesign and it was more or less an update and we had a hearty discussion for an hour and a half before we went into many other meetings

after that. so -- and we'll probably have regular updates from the redesign effort. the next committee of the home meeting will be may 17 and i believe it's going to be discussing the bond -- potential bond measure. president mendoza: thank you. it's going to be on the potential bond measure as well as some of the real estate transactions that are coming down the pike, yes? >> yes. there are going to be three related issues, the potential bond measure, the 1915 mission potential uses for 1950 mission, and the last thing is the november potential other city election items on the november 2011 ballot. president mendoza: thank you. commissioner wynns? wynns wynn since it's not on the

agenda, i can't report on the ad hoc committee on student assignment that took place last night but i want to announce that the next meeting of the student assignment meeting will be may 31 at 6:00. president mendoza: the next buildings and grounds meeting will be monday may 23. are there any other committees coming up, budget? do we know the next budget meeting? or the next curriculum meeting? we announced that? sorry. do we know when the next budget meeting is? >> the next budget and -- i mean, budget and business committee meeting will be on thursday, may 26. president mendoza: thank you. and we have a labor ad hoc. >> yes, tomorrow at 4:00. president mendoza: any other committee meetings scheduled? o.k. >> isn't that enough? president mendoza: and then any of the reports -- any other reports back from -- any other -- anything -- on anything.

i do want to congratulate the san francisco school alliance for a very successful luncheon today. it's great to have them as supporters and helping us to raise additional funds and to be a thought partner and a strategic partner in moving our plan. so thank you, terry and your entire staff who was just extremely diligent in getting a lot of people in a very small room. so thank you. commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: i want to say that saturday i attended the young dancers s.f. and i want to thank commissioner norman yee for bringing this joyful program to our students. we saw dance performances, swing, meringue, tango and salsa and cha-cha-cha at the dance performance at city college and this was spearheaded by commissioner yee who is a fabulous salsa dancer himself so bringing this program to our students at bryant elementary, hillcrest, at marshall and

guadelupe schools, are fine dancers and a wonderful, wonderful afternoon, have to say it really made my day. president mendoza: great. do you want to say something, commissioner yee? vice president yee: it was such a fabulous performance. i was expecting the kids to do real well, but not as well as they did. it's for nine weeks that they had to practice with their teachers and two days a week, they had to learn five different dances during that time and they were able to accomplish that. it's amazing what kids can do. and there were a lot of assumptions like, oh, geez at that age the boys and girls don't want to touch each other and so forth. they were so cute. i mean, they had no hesitation about what they needed to do. so serious, too. and the way they walked into the room, escorting their partners

and so forth. it was just a wonderful event where everything was so positive. the kids were positive. kids really supported each other. i mean, from the different schools. there wasn't none of this booing stuff going on and parents behaved. they didn't run around the stage area taking pictures. they pretty much sat in their seats and took it from there. so i was pretty proud of that and thank you, deputy superintendent bridgette caronsa in being one of our artistic panelist and guadelupe was one of our artistic panelists that came and other people from the district were there to support and to be entertained by the effort. what's amazing is that during that day, after the performance, so many other schools that happened to be there came up to me and said we want to be part of this for next year so i'm going to have to find a way to

manage how to do this. and i want to thank the -- helped support and gave us resources to make this program happen. >> commissioner yee, didn't we say next year there will be a special board cha-cha-cha. president mendoza: i can cha-cha now, that's all i can do. commissioner snras. commissioner murase: i wanted to congratulate the 20th anniversary of the san francisco children's fund earlier today. coleman advocates had an event at city hall and most of my colleagues were there to help celebrate. secondly, i did attend the sfusd community budget meeting on may 5 and i want to thank staff members nancy wo mack, rita

notavan and nancy anderson for being there. it was a small but committed group and i wanted to remind our families and stakeholders that additional community budget meetings will be held on may 12, 6:00 to 7:30 at james lake middle school and may 25th, 6:30 to 8:00 at jefferson elementary school where you can sort of begin to understand the full weight of the budget crisis that we're in. just two other announcements. the northern japan earthquake relief fund administered by the japanese culture and community center has reached $2.5 million in donations. so we want to thank the community for supporting that grass roots effort. and then finally, on this past weekend, the san francisco dental society announced the winners of the children's dental

poster contest and this year there was quite a strong representation from our public schools. it also reaches out to our private schools, but of the over 50 prizes, there was quite a large number of our kids from stephenson, johnny ho-chin, spring valley. i especially want to thank sfusd nurses paula balm and cathy fuller for helping judge the poster contest and they will be on display at our san francisco public library and also at the airport terminal 1, i believe. so want to thank the dental society for supporting and putting together this program. president mendoza: thank you. >> i wanted to remind everyone who had been watching our renaming of the burnett childcare development site that we have the dedication this thursday from 3:30.

>> next thursday. >> thank you. thursday, the 19th, from 3:30 to 5:30 and the address is 1520 oakdale avenue and the major cross street is third street. and this has allowed ms. havert, all of her family to come from the east coast and from all of california to be there with her during the dedication ceremony at the school site. so i wanted to mention that, as well, again, may 19, thursday, from 3:30 to 5:30. speaking of poster contests, i wanted to announce that our own former board of education commissioner's daughter jade mar won the citywide environmental poster contest and jade mar is a fourth grader at mccoppin elementary school. president mendoza: she's a fifth grader?

>> and so congratulations to ms. mar. president mendoza: thank you. i have a couple of announcements. youth speaks is having their annual grand slam. if you have not been to a youth speaks event, you must go to this youth speaks event. it's happening on saturday, may 20, and it's going to be davy's symphony hall, starting at 7:00. uasf is having their retirement dinner on the 12th, this thursday, and we're also honoring all of the retirees from the school district as we do at an annual event in the green room at the war memorial and that's on monday, may 16th. thank you. and then i also had the privilege of sitting on a panel with youth works who they provide -- they work with our students to provide internship programs and the focus was

interns that have come into government positions and it was fascinating and wonderful and congratulations to our youth that participate in youth works. student delegates? >> i want to say thank you for making frisco day happen because it was really helpful and it made us realize that we're not alone in being nervous and going to college and they gave us tips that would help us survive freshman year of college specifically. thank you. president mendoza: can i add to that, so that we have over 3,000 of our high school seniors go to ucsf, san francisco city and state college and sit in on classes that will prepare them once they're on the campus whether it was financial aid or filling out application. any of our students who did not have plans to go on to college or weren't sure what they were doing, we had them apply to city

college so city college has been a really great partner for us and we congratulate all of you guys for coming out and we hope to do it again next year. any other announcements? ms. wilson? >> started doing something unusual. last year, a friend of mine who graduated before me was invited to take part in the graduation ceremonies wearing cap and gown and the whole deal. and this year, my class -- i don't know how many of them are left -- but my class, and i will be participating in the little graduation on may 25th. [applause] i graduated -- i was in the class of december 1936, but that

year they changed the class so that actually we graduated in january of 1937. president mendoza: that's fantastic. congratulations. vice president yee: i don't know if this is appropriate. but i'm so proud of my daughter that i have to say it, my daughter's going to ucla, she's in the master's program for public policy and she told me offhand like oh, by the way, i'm going to be the commencement speaker. i'm so proud of her. >> since we're doing this, i would like to say congratulations to ms. wilson and my mother will be after the end of this month attending her 75th college graduation from barnard college and she actually is going to be a -- she