curriculum. he was unclear on how to implement the new curriculum with his old curriculum. he said that he had not taught this class before and it is very apparent. it appears very ruterless and my daughter is not learning anything any more and does not want to go to school. >> we feel his teacher methods are extremely inappropriate. on the first day of school, my daughter was asked to write a list of worries. the sixth worry on the list was a class is boring. he apparently knew at that point where this was going. my wife has just left for a week-long trip and in talking about it with our daughter the teacher said sometimes parents like to follow their dreams. they really go because they want to take their dreams and then they don't come back because you were sad. >> the last thing that i want to say, is that and this is her

quote, i am discussing inference with the teacher. teacher said, if she saw a man lying on the street the clues that he is dead is that there is a bullet shot through him, blood, not moving and you find a bullet laying on the floor. my wife and i had made the decision today to pull our daughter to pull her from the school after she cried for the fifth time. we love the school and appreciative of the school district but we told this teacher on the back to school night that we would take action and this has been our action is to remove our daughter from school and find other opportunities there is nothing that she is learning in class and there is no benefit. it has only been detrimental. we are sorry to report this in a school that has otherwise been fantastic. thank you. >> may i have ten more seconds to discuss this document? >> no. >> i really appreciate that you guys have kept it to the time and we heard the message.

superintendent? >> i also want to thank the parents for coming this evening. what i would like to offer is our assistant superintendent that supervises new, tradition is here and chief of human resources. i would ask if you could meet with them. they will take you outside and get more information from you. but thank you for coming this evening >> one more speaker. (inaudible) green wood. >> you have two minutes. >> my name is nesitaria green wood and i guess that my problem is unrelated. sorry about that. i signed up for my son to be enrolled in three schools, you know how you sign your child up

for admittance and well basically my thing is my son is still not enrolled. i have been in the 555 franklin on numerous occasions and talked to numerous people, cried my eyes out, practically pulled my heart out, but my son is still not enrolled. my problem is that i want him to go to actis because it is close to me. they enrolled him in the valley and he has a violent background, he went to sheriton he was a witness to a shooting at that school. so i want him to be close to me and in the valley i live in the (inaudible) district. and the valley (inaudible) is like, it is a safety issue in my case, because of the things that is going on and my son and his cousin, was on the bus one time and the cousin is no longer alive because in that same day, in the district, my

cousin was pulled off the bus and murdered. my thing is that i don't want my son in the valley and no one is trying to help me get my son enrolled in a school. like i said he has been through a lot already and i am a single mother with two other kids and i need my son in school and it is going on almost a month no one has called me back i can't keep crying because i can see how people feel picked on and i don't know, i feel defeated. but i want my son in school and it is very important and i need some help, some kind of feedback because there is nowhere for me to go and no one is trying to help me. i can't keep coming down here because it is hard. i am in school myself. i am trying to make a better life for my son but i don't have no help. so can i get some? >> hold on a second. superintendent richard a. carranza could you have somebody speak to miss green wood?

>> yes. president yee, i am going to ask you to speak with my chief of staff lora moran so she can get your contact information and some details and then, we will make sure that somebody follows up with you first thing in the morning. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. so that is the end of the public speakers. we are going to go to k, advisory committee reports appointments to the committees by the board members. are there any tonight? >> the student delegate megan wong. >> i like to reappoint angelina way to (inaudible). >> are there any others? >> seeing none, let's move on to item m. discussion of other educational issues. called superintendent richard a. carranza this is the university of california san

francisco science and health education partnership 2012 high school summer intern program. >> great, thank you, president yee. and i am so excited to see this. i like to invite katherine neilson and she will have the honor to introduce our special guest. in a brief intro i have the honor of attending a presentation in a summer program, where we have our own students conducting high-level scientific research. and when i mean high level, scientific research. and i am in the middle of writing a dissertation and they lost me. and how they do it and to actually have tangible results with something that i thought not only the board but our community needed to see. so with that, i am very happy to welcome katherine neilson who is the co-director and she will take it from there.

>> thank you, all. good evening, my name is katherine neilson and i co-direct. i am pleased to be here at the request of superintendent richard a. carranza and i am honored to share our work with all of you. as you all know, ucsan francisco and sfusd have a long history of working together. it is greatly committed to its community and has been working with fsusd for a long time. our particular effort and the science and education partnership is now 25 years old. each year with the staff of ten people, we support more than 250 csf partners and volunteers and students teachers. they spend more than 10,000 hours working in 90 percent of the district schools each year. and that annually results in about 4,000 students getting to know ucsf scientists and these

scientists coming into the classrooms are not guest lecturers but rather the students participate in a series of hands-on science lessons that are led by the scientists and the teachers together. and just a couple of things that we have seen from these partnerships, when we ask middle and high school students, what surprised them about the scientists that came to their classrooms, these are some of their most common responses. one, they were surprised that they were women. so, even today, people still assume that scientists are men. two, they were surprised that the scientists looked like them. and this goes to that ucsf scientists are from many different ethic backgrounds and people assume today that scientists are white. and then the third thing that they often share with us is they are surprised that the

scientists were nice. yes, we will let you make your own conclusion about that finding. >> so but what we feel is that by changing their perception of scientists these students can see themselves as a scientist in the future. >> our newest and highest profile is the bay area science festival and this is bringing excitement of sciences to the community, beyond the schools. we launched it last fall. it is a ten-day celebration of science we expect about 25,000 people to be there doing free hands on science i want to give you a brief overhaul and we want to celebrate the high school program as superintendent richard a. carranza described and i am so

pleased to share this program with you. each summer, 20 sfusd students who have just finished their jr. year come to conduct biomedical reach, while they also learn about making a transition to college. unlike most other intern programs in the country, we seek students who are not necessarily already on the college path. we work closely with the high school teachers and ask them to nominate students who are talented and have potential but may not fully see that in themselves. we are looking for students in whom the program will make a critical difference in their lives. and what we have found is of the 200 students who have been interns in our program, more than 90 percent have gone on to college when only 50 percent would be expected to based on their parents' educational background. 80 percent of those students

earned bachelor's degrees. and 90 percent get a degree beyond bachelor. that is far beyond the national average irrespective of their parents background. particularly in reaching students who are under represented in the sciences. we were honored last year with the presidential award for excellence in science, math, and engineering mentoring, the nation's highest honor. but what these numbers and award cannot tell you have the personal fight of what it is like to be an intern in our program. so to do that i am very pleased that we have chelsey stewart a senior in high school here with us tonight and before she begins, let me say that each of you has a blue folder with a lot of information about our programs and on the second, on this side, the second page is a copy of her research poster. okay? and there is also a picture of her, yes, exactly.

there she is. >> good evening, i am a senior at walenburg high school. i am from san francisco and grew up in a baby district where i have seen various things that my nation faces. the shipyard and the children at risk for asthma and the lack of produce accessible. i have experienced first hand the inconvenience and the absence of a local healthcare provider. after experiencing these experiences i have decided to become a pediatrician and educate on the importance of health. i was asked in participating in a program this summer and that in some way would enhance my experience in the medical field. thus i was elated to be nominated for this program by my physiology teacher. she told me that only three people out of her 50 students

would be nominated and motivated me from the start because she had faith in me that i out of 50 students had the potential to be accepted to this program. i put my best foot forward and was accepted to the program. >> during this internment i worked in a lab that focused on auto immune disease, it is a disease in which a individual's immune system attacks the body. common diseases include arthritis and type i diabetes. my lab focused on the diseases such as ms. and we focused on neuro myelitis a disease in which it attacks the optic nerves and can cause blindness and paralysis my goal was to find out why the system worked

against itself to cause complications these findings would help the scientist and doctors better understand how other auto immune diseases work. we mimic the disease in life. we injected the mice with proteins to identify the exact protein that would trigger a response to identify the exact part of this protein that is responsible for causing the auto immune disease. through this research, i have learned to be extremely independent. my mentor allowed me to partake in every aspect of the research even retraining the mice as they had bowel, movements during the injection, during it all, the relationship that i shared with her as she aided me in the techniques that she performed daily. to this day i cannot believe that i worked alongside the scientists and was able to actually help the lab as a high school student. more i presented my results in

both the research topic and a poster session much like scientists do. the growth and knowledge that i have gained from this internship will forever inspire me to per severe for the return of intelligence and satisfaction and to know that i may save someone's life. i was amazed for the fact that i was working in a lab with an actual phd doctor while i was only 16 years old. this was an eye opening experience that i realized that i have an unbounded faout tur ahead of me. furthermore as a 16-year-old i was able to contribute to the collective data, that will be used for the development of a theory for this disease. which is a truly rewarding feeling. this is my farewell, i am taking bio technology and i am already ahead with my class with the familiarity used. i have aspirations of becoming

a pediatrician. over all this experience was beneficial in several ways, outside of the lab the bond that i shared with the interns were you anybodying that we were working on different research and different labs. over eight weeks i was able to see how each of them had grown and seen a reflection of myself as well. lastly the supportive sep was appreciated sep supported us in preparing our posters, for example, as well as research talks and guided us through the length and time that we should use for every subtitle. to condense a ten-minute speech into a two-minute talk. in addition, they helped us with college preparation and completing two personal statements to the uc. after the completing of this program, i am more than, i have no doubt that i am more than prepared to attend college. thank you. >> [ applause ]

>> >> khelly, i cannot tell you that you make me choke up, i cannot tell you how proud we are of. you a woman, a woman of color, a woman from our neighborhoods, that is... and i have to ask you to pronounce what is the full title of your study? i can't figure it out. we are just so proud of you and so thank you for sharing this with you. what is the full title of your study >> tcell recognition of (inaudible) [ applause ] >> in >> thank you for your presentation, or should i say dr. stewart? you know, you promise when you

get your phd, you come back to this room and you tell us what you are going to do in terms of helping the future of mankind. >> absolutely. >> thank you, very much. thank you. i think that when we talked about the predicted power of demographics, this is exactly what we are talking about. >> commissioner? >> thank you. >> thank you. that was wonderful. i just wanted to say that this picture here of bruce alberts and i want to recognize his contribution and i remember when the science and partnership was started and his wife and he was the former president of the national academy of sciences and his wife was a district pta president in san francisco and is the sort of shining light of science education in the country. and so, thanks. >> commissioner, mendoza?

>> i wanted to really recognize csf and you have been fantastic. and so many more of our kids have the opportunity and the out reach that you have been doing to our kids that has not had access to such high quality programs is just fabulous and so thank you so much for all of your hard work and your continued partnership. >> yes. i have the opportunity to go to a poster session, i think that it was last year and i was just blown away by the high quality of work that our students achieved. and i just want to congratulate, ucsf. and the commission on the status where i work just released girls report and the dirth of girls pursuing science and i am confident that the programs will really help the san francisco girls and boys get better exposure to science

and have rewarding careers in that area. >> commissioner? >> i also want to thanks ucsf for the partnership. my daughter was in elementary and once a week my daughter went to the bay area the first play bay area science fair, but the scientists came in every week, women scientists came in every week and worked with them and it was a fabulous time for my daughter and a great learning experience and a family night and it was all women, dissecting, young ladies, i meant, dissecting mice and showing us stuff under the microscope and everything. so i just want to thank you for that wonderful partnership. >> thank you, and i want to join my colleagues that really talk about how you are modeling for other departments at ucsf too. to take on internships and programs and i know that the national center of excellence and the woman's health has a strong and robust program. and mount zion has one of young

men of color and it is really through the work that you have done successfully and it is not just, you know, yourselves and ucsf but other smaller departments, are taking on the roles of intern and mentorship through the sciences and really just thank you so very much for modeling so well what others can do. but seeing it done successfully by you encourages them. thank you again. >> delegate wendy? >> i would like to say that sitting here i was blown away and amazed and inspired. i like to say thank you for having these and creating these opportunities for students and it is really important and continue to do what do you and thank you for supporting the students. >> superintendent richard a. carranza. >> i could not say it better than the students. so thank you. >> i would be remiss if i did not also thank and recognize

the work of orlando elesando who straddles in a joint position. but it is really to his hard work that we are making more of these opportunities a reality for many of our students and i think that this is a very innovative way to really leverage the work of our communities in our schools and give our students like for the future dr. stewart the opportunity to really excel in the science, and technology and engineer and math. so thank you. >> okay, let's move on to item n. consent calendar resolutions. from the previous meeting. for a second? it was there is none tonight. and i must skip all wait down to r. i have to get q, first. sandra yis proposals. first reading done tonight. item r, board members proposal first reading, keeping our students safe no texting while

driving pledge day. >> lee? >> yes. >> thank you. >> wo ng? >> yes. ferer. >> yes. >> medonza. yes. >> wynn. and mr. yee. >> thank you that is seven ayes. >> is there a motion to a second introduction. >> kie move it? >> so moved. >> reading of the resolution by commissioner. >> thank you, president lee they are san francisco unified health district holds the safety of the youth people while the text messages is the main mode of communication with half of all teens sending between 21 and 70 texts a day

where the national highway administration says that the hand held is the highest among 16-year-old and according to the national safety council, texting while driving causes 1 million 600 accidents per year and according to the insurance institute. texting while driving is the cause of 11 teen deaths every day and motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers killing between 5,000 and 6,000 teenagers every year and in the fatal crash rates is four times that of older drivers and in an at&t survey, 435 teenagers admit to texting while driving. was this 35 teenagers? >> okay. i am sorry. and admit to texting while driving even though 97 percent know that it is dangerous and a driver who sends a text message

while driving not only jeopardizing his or her own safety but also the safety of the passenger and pedestrian ans and other drivers and whereas the federal transportation secretary states that texting and cell phone use behind the wheel is a national epidemic. therefore be it resolved that the san francisco board of education declares september 19th, 2012, as it can wait, no texting while driving pledge day in the san francisco unified school district. and request that all san francisco unified school district high school students be made aware of the pledge day and the dangers of texting while driving. >> thank you, commissioner. >> there is no public testimony. i would like to add my name as a co-author. >> okay. >> should we take a vote? >> yes. >> okay. vote, please. >> thank you. >> lee? >> yes. >> wo ng. yes. >> fewe r.

>> yes. >> mendoza, norton. miss wynn. >> 7 ayes. >> thank you for bringing this to our attention. item s. i believe that there is one report from the augmented rules policy and legislation committee of august 28, 2012. commissioner wynns? >> thank you. we had two items on the agenda, the first was the legislative overview, the legislature was not in session at the time, but actually this is a very timely and important meeting for us to have because it is a time of year that the governor has to sign the bills. and so the main item of business was to look at bills that have been or that had been passed by the legislature and were sitting on the governor's desk to decide whether we wanted the school district to go and urge the governor to

sign things. so we took some action on some bills and those materials results are available to everybody, aren't they? did everybody get the material from the board? from the committee meeting? >> okay, good. that is the main thing that we did at that time. and then, the second item, is our ongoing item about redoing the policies of the school district. and this is a very lengthy, time consuming, and difficult and complex undertaking. and so, as you know, we have here is the good news, guys, we have completed, what used to be p120, the actual rules of the board of education. and those are now in the form with csba's support that is no yet on or available on-line but will be. >> and now we have all of these other sections. so we are working on what is the 1,000 series. we have been for a few months.

which are essentially the general reason that the rules committee is doing this is that these are the general policies of the school district and they pertain to things like community partnerships and all of the advisory committees are on there and that is the only one that has actually is kind of in a complete form which takes into account the way that we actually operate. i just want to say this to the board that this is what we have uncovered and that is that, there are a lot of policies that are recommended that the school districts have that we don't have at all. and that is... and so we have asked our staff to look over what we have gotten and you have all gotten the red line version of this. which i don't expect any of you have read through. i have only kind of gone through the beginning carefully and most of it, you know in a (inaudible) fashion once, because that is the hard part is that there are a lot of things on there that we just don't have at all.

and i have asked the staff to do another pass through this and to give us a recommendation about if they believe that we should have those policies, why they think that we should. and too, because i don't think that what we want to do is just have lots and lots of policies that we don't think are necessarily relevant because other people have them or somebody wants to say, well, you should have that just because it is generalized. and so, we have not taken action on those. and there is going to be do we pass the one? >> at the last board meeting? no. it is coming to us. we have one policy that needs to be... we would have liked we thought that we were going to finish this section and then we would do that altogether but since we are not to, we have one that is time sensitive that needs to be update that had will come to us and we will bring this back, but we are going to ask the staff to work with us closely to actually do a review at this committee tha