it is nice to hear that you are on stable footing right now. a few years ago, it was different. i think what turned it around was that you invited us, the school board members, to be part of your telethon. i have been waiting for you to invite me again. it is like, hey, you know. >> may, i think may. president yee: please, if you need some help, please invite us. many of us would be very happy if we have the time. any other comments or questions? thank you very much, matt. keep up the good work. [applause] ok, we only have about 10 more

items. item n, consent calendar resolutions. none tonight. item o has been moved and seconded under section f. it will call. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner mendoza: yes. except item k1. commissioner murase: aye. vice president norton: yes. commissioner wynns: aye. president yee: aye. >> thank you. president yee: i am going to be a little confused on the next one. item p, consent calendar resolutions severed for more discussion.

this never happens. none tonight. [laughter] i am confused that we do not have any. item q, first reading, none. item r, first reading, none. board minute -- and board reports, any outstanding committee reports? i believe there is the budget emphasis report? commissioner fewer: yes, we had a budget committee meeting on january 31, 2012. we had one action item which we were unable to give a recommendation for due to lack of information. that was the authorization to grant our board an alternative to the night the renewal for the high school.

we had to approve kay rezos, which had no problems. we heard a state budget update by the superintendent lee and we developed a calendar for the fiscal year 2012-2013. president yee: or delegates to member organization? go ahead. >> i just wanted to announce that the rule policy and legislation committee, which was listed just for us, not publicly, as being tomorrow night, is not going to happen tomorrow night. we did not schedule it. but we're thinking about having a meeting on february 27. i know that commissioner murase will not be here.

second, there is an ad hoc committee on student assignments on march 12. the one to make it the same time? -- do you want to make it the same time? or do you want to do that after other people make announcements? president yee: what don't make the announcements first. -- why don't we make the announcements first? commissioner maufas: again, february is black history month. i want to thank all the schools that have invited many of the commissioners to their school events in. this is a reminder that friday, february 24, is the great african american read-in. so many people have volunteered. many school sites have requested readers. anymore volunteer readers. we need you to go to the

website, www.sfedfund.org, and signed up. blogging you into a school site, we fill the school site and move on to the next one with vacancies. that is an imperative step that people are forgetting. they think, i am with the school districts all i can go to a school site. but the ed fund is coordinating the sites that still have vacancies. it is imperative that if you want to do it, it is from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 on a friday morning. if you go to the website and say that you're coming so they can contact you or you can plug into a training, which is just 30 minutes, which we need to do it. it would make a world of difference for facilitating the process and make this happen. i want to thank all the volunteers who have said there

were to participate grid we have many elected officials, several of our supervisors, our new supervisor olague and i cannot remember all the others. but there for is spreading in many school districts and the staff is as well carried out want to thank the volunteers. if you want to do it, go to the end fund website to sign up. commissioner murase: i have a number of announcements of. several of must participate in the superintendent pre k-12 perfect attendance new year's resolution. i want to congratulate all those who made that happen. it was a thrill to see the elementary school kids get their medals. i have to confess, my kids did not get a perfect attendance reckon -- recognition. i want to thank wells fargo for their $150,000 donation to

educational endeavors, including san francisco promise, which helps our students get to san francisco state. i want to thank all of the sfusd staff who made the school planning summit such a success. it was really wonderful to see everybody pulled together moving in the same direction. san francisco organizing project is having their fund-raiser this week on thursday. on saturday, there is going to be a very exciting japanese language symposium. there will be many families and educators from our district focused on that. and on saturday, february 26, there will be a readaloud for our english-language learners in san francisco. here we are having a chinese new year benefit on february 26.

there will be a performance by the san francisco arts education project and a lot of our students are involved in that. finally, this is teen dating violence awareness month. there has been a bush -- there have been a big push by casa and are bracelets available at shopping malls, movie theaters, to help teams think about what a healthy relationship looks like. it is so important in terms of what their future is, social interaction, things like that. i hope that everybody will participate in promoting healthy relationships. >> a couple of things. i want to congratulate the boys and girls clubs for their annual event acknowledging our youth. you just mentioned the wells fargo yvette.

today was tony bennett day in san francisco. we had the wonderful thrill and honor to have tony bennett come to city hall and equally as important was the far east, both the jazz band and choir, performed for mr. bennett. and we had 70 students from the tenderloin elementary school or attend the a iveta set on the red carpet in the vip section, which was really great for them to. and also to have seized art chavis -- cesar chavez doing a webcast. junior statesmen was in sacramento. many of our juniors and seniors attended. old school café are for students 16-22 to help them learn about being in the restaurant business, also there was a

dessert and wine-pairing that enabled the kids to come and bus the tables, hosting, work alongside a pastry chef, learning to cook and serve. it was really fabulous. their next event is marked the third and it is a new orleans jazz and theme. lots of good cooking. go to the old school café website. as of this morning, there are only 30 tickets left. i want to thank the sentences go police department. there were the first police department to put out a it gets better video, which was amazing. it really speaks to our youth, our lgbt youth, and it had many of our men and women officers and some of the challenges they

went through growing up as gay and lesbian. one chief was telling me he received a call from a young man who said he has watched the video nine times and is watching it every morning before he goes to school to lift his spirits and help him get through his day because he gets mali practically every day. -- bullied every day. we are hoping to get the video our to our awareness centers for our youth to see. the middle school soccer playoffs were played at lowell high school on wednesday. rooftop, for the first time in history, won. congratulations to rooftop. it was co-ed. commissioner fewer: i just

wanted to add to commissioner murase's zone about the perfect attendance, i just want to thank the su chi foundation. they had great metals and envelops for students and they volunteered in the bay view and the western edition on a regular basis. the students, i hear, look forward to fresh smoothies the first friday of every month. they are very generous. the have paid for uniforms in that area. we thank them for their participation it was a wonderful event. commissioner maufas was also in attendance area i would like to congratulate the sfbpa on their 100th anniversary. it was excellent. we had evelyn wilson asked

district resident at the dinner and was honored. thank you. i would also like to add on about teen dating month. there is an excellent website and is www.thatsnotcool.com. it is an excellent resource for middle school and high-school students. had i would also like to mission -- to mention that the deputy superintendent, commissioner maufas, president yee, and i attended the chinatown ymca just yesterday, a graduation of chinese-speaking parents that have attended a series of workshops on parent empowerment. it was their graduation, one of many sponsored by parents for public schools. and of course are wonderful cindy troy is the one who

organized this. we had a great lunch but we also had a wonderful debate around parents engagement. i want to publicly thank them for a towering so many of our chinese-speaking parents. >> i wanted to report on my recent trip to washington for the federal relations that work for the national school boards association. the national school boards association is advocating for we authorizing the mta, which is not going to happen this year. further, they are advocating for, which i think is a good thing, because it is simple enough for members of congress to understand, for an additional $1 billion in funding for idea and title 1. that is also unlikely to happen.

but you have to ask a lot of times so that we get to the point where we can say is unacceptable to say no to these things because they're actually quite modest request. however, i do want to say that, in addition to that, a couple of things you should know. the national school board association is creating committees to work on the legislative issues that are according to school board members and you can participate in these committees by going to their conferences and meetings and also on line. they formed a committee on for the issues, world issues, preschool -- urban issues, rural issues, preschool. you can go on their web site and i will -- or you can ask me and i will forward you the

information with the background papers. i just want to finish by saying that we need, in our district and in our state, a federal agenda. which we do not have. we have our individual concerns as a school district, but i will say that, on behalf of the california school board associates, we advocated for -- against competitive grant programs. we were told by the white house domestic policy staff how wonderful these competitive grant programs work. competitive grant programs are antithetical to the purpose of federal education aid, which is to provide support for every pore and disadvantaged child in america. in fact, these competitive grant

programs mean we are being asked to tell our constituents is a good idea that their federal tax money is used to give money only to students in certain states and those in other states, including our state, but even if we were winners in the competitive grant programs, we should oppose that idea that the federal government ought to choose that some portions of america deserve federal support and some do not. i think we need to strongly oppose that and that philosophy to rid we have done that and we will continue to do it. we continue to believe that we are not strong enough in our opposition because among our members are winners as well as losers. with all due respect, that is true of the other organizations like the council of great city schools. if we really believe that the purpose of federal education support is to support every poor

and disadvantaged child in america, we ought to stand up and say that. second, i would just say this. we have opened up the question about whether we ought to advocate opening up the formula in title 1. in addition to the fact that we do not get any of the new money under the administration's proposal as most of the students in america do not, there has always been an unfair form a lot. in 1994, when we talk about opening the formula before, we agreed with our state and national partners that we would be silent about that. that it was sort of ok that students in the states in the east would get more. because they promised, and they did, for a while, that all new money that was put into federal programs would not follow the

old formula. now, if you link this to the current administration, the reliance on competitive grant programs, what you're saying is that all this money will be in competitive grant programs. the unfair formula becomes more and more unfair. especially to our students, who are 1 in 8 public school students in america. everybody says this is what it ministration said to us, that is too hard politically. we cannot open up the form a lot again. superintendent garcia will agree with this. we always said, here is the stuff that is too heavy on the political list. in part, it was out of certification -- out of respect to certain people whose leadership we supported it like senator kennedy. massachusetts is the big winner . though we might be unhappy about that, he is not there anymore.

i do not think that our allstate and the whole western part of the country and all kinds of other people should defer to a permanent paralysis in looking at fair distribution of tax dollars to. therefore, we are talking about making it the cornerstone of our federal agenda to fight to reopen the federal formula. i think we should consider being a strong and allowed national voice for that principle. i hope that we will find a place, the rules committee, here, whatever, to talk about what our federal principles will be and how we want to advocate for it. these are hard things to do. we say to our friends, we want you to consider opening up the formula. i said to them, if not now, when a. this is the moment. we have to do something. we cannot support the idea that our kids are not as worthy as

other kids. again, all of these things are things that will not get done this year. we have got to start saying this. we cannot say leave it the same way. i have really good materials from frn. if any of you are interested, please be untouched with me and i will make sure i distribute them to the appropriate staff people. thank you. vice president norton: also wanted to hear appreciate the community schools celebration that many of us attended today and. president yee, commissioner maufas, commissioner mendoza, commissioner wynns, and i were all there as well as the superintendent. this is one of our key strategies and it is a celebration of the work that has been done thus far. the moment that everybody agrees

that we are going to bring this inside and make it part of the dna and fabric of what we're doing in our district. i really want to thank you for organizing this, for acknowledging the work that has been done, and the work that is still yet to be done. it is a justification on valentine's day and i enjoyed it. commissioner fewer: -- commissioner maufas: i was attending a three-day national development conference for our schools for services department after it when i say national, there are people from all over the country attending. i have always considered school support services the glue in schools. they hold together the core elements of the school sites. some of them were from muammar and there were some other island

countries that were for disobeying. it is an amazing look out what other school support services entities do in those countries but also in those districts. on thursday, we will highlight our lgbttq work in san francisco. everybody is looking for to that conversation and i was put forward in the introduction today. lastly, the city and school districts elect committee meeting has been moved to the fourth thursday, one meeting per month. the fourth thursday of the month. that is this coming thursday, the 23rd. at 3:30 in city hall room 250. president yee: thank you for your patience, my colleagues on the board. this part is a good part for us

because it shows all the things that are going on in our school district that we never get to talk about. i went through many things recently. it has been nice to go to bisconi elementary school and see a packed house, watching their first, second, and third graders performed to a packed house. and another night for the older kids. i was able to go to a hilltop high -- to hilltop high, where the students there were able to create poems and for them to have an opportunity to read them. there were so proud of their

work. these are the type of things that are going on all the time in our school district. i wish that more of the public would know about these things. i'm going to announce it once more, the privilege of announcing the upcoming summit that we are inviting the public, parents, educators, to join together to have a dialogue about what is it that we really want to see out of this system? we are using it as a strategy. and it is important for people to get in front of this and have the discussion with what division is -- what the vision is. even though the school district has been working on these issues, we want to hear from people we have not heard from to make sure that whatever path we're moving on, we're moving on the right direction. if not, we are going to have to make adjustments.

what are some of the principles we want to assemble in terms of creating a system. we are pointing the fortunate to have a national speaker go to that event february 25, saturday, 8:30-, caught 30 at everett middle school. -- 8:30-12:30 at everett middle school in. i will go on to commissioner mendoza. commissioner mendoza: the budget meeting for this month is february 21, 6:30 instead of 6:00. president yee: item t, report of closed session actions. this is the most exciting part. closed session actions of february 7, 2012, the board of education approved the expulsion of one high school student ha, ,

and three middle school students. we approved the suspended its olson of one middle school student j.p. in the pending litigation matter, case number 2011-080980, the united states district court northern district of california case number cv-48, united states court of appeals -- what am i reading? ninth circuit case number 1117 982, a special education due process reading of appellate

cases. the board of education approved a settlement in the amount of $32,500 in exchange for which the district will receive a complete release of all claims passed and prospective through the 2013 extended school year. the board of education voted to approve a property damage settlement, 12c37c068908, for $4,100 plus car rental fees. item yield, other informational items, no staff reports tonight. item v, adjournment. the meeting is adjourned. happy valentine's day.