you will have -- on the -- i believe most of the speakers are here because of the non reelect matter and teacher hey offs -- lay offs, so i'm going to allow a total of 20 minutes for this item so individual speakers will not have time to remark, but when the timer goes off at 20 minutes i will close public comment at that time. [inaudible] you will not be

individually timed, but you will only have 20 minutes total. >> my name is lenny [inaudible]. as a fellow teacher i have seen her tirelessly and patiently work with her students, especially

the neediest ones, searching for ways to get them engaged in the lessons and get them integrated in the class community. she would not give up on anyone. i have also seen the [inaudible] papers and other materials hanging on her walls revealing how she breaks down high order literacy and math skills in instructional chunks so they can be accessed by all of her diverse students from the most challenged to the most advanced. this hard work has not come without cost for tina [inaudible]. i have seen her work almost everyday of the week until 8:00 pm. and then come back to our school on saturdays. saturdays have virtual hi become work days for her. so you see a non

reelection which will bar her from working, but also from the rest of the district schools is simply incomprehensible, but arbitrary. it is unjust, not only to tina, but to our students because i am convinced that teachers of her caliber and qualities are the kind that all of our students need and deserve in our district. thank you. >> i have one of those heavenly spots that kids love to be in and i'm so [inaudible]. i'm here on behalf of one of the parents who came to me this morning who asked me to speak

for her. deer miss norton and the san francisco school board members. i am writing in regards to my daughter's fourth grade teacher. it has been brought to my attention that her position is in jeopardy, as is her position with the san francisco unified school district. i am involved parent volunteering at school as often as able. being self employed i have the flexibility to be in the classroom once or twice a week so i am able to monitor the education my children have been receiving. when sitting in her class i notice how she engages students. she is energetic and [inaudible]. these qualities we should look for in all educational professionals. it is unclear to me why someone of her

ability will not be reelected to teach next year. she's the kind of teacher that students will remember when they look back at their education. please reconsider this decision as i am looking forward to having my son in her class. it is teachers like her that restore faith in the public school system. most sincerely, glenda [inaudible]. >> good evening president norton and commissioners and everyone. [inaudible]. i hope i said that right. my name is christina [inaudible]. i am one of the non reelected teachers. i teach fourth grade at [inaudible] elementary. i'm

here for two things. one is to introduce myself and the second is to ask you to help our community come up with a solution to this situation. i will call it in the most neutral /serpl situation. i humbly and respectfully bring before you 15 years of service in san francisco classrooms with a special education professional working with inclusion children from k to 5 across the board. i also a bringing my experience as a parent and community advocate here of my children who are [inaudible]. they attended filipino education center [inaudible] and my daughter went to lowell high school and my son attended [inaudible] school of the arts high school. we always have /taubgt our kids that when they argue for something, it's to back up what they say with evidence. and i bring to you this kind of

evidence here. i bring 15 years of experience in the classroom. this is one strong evidence. the second i bring is my highly satisfactory evaluation from my first year of teaching and my recent evaluation which is on overall [inaudible] that is my evidence. and the third piece of evidence i bring to the board here is the people who have come here to support not only me as a community member -- thank you -- that is their testimonial to my fitness as a teacher and i will just quote my daughter has posted. i'm sorry, but situation in the advent of social media it's out there. it's across the uc

system. we can't really stop the kids from expressing themselves and this is what she said. if i may just read part of it. my mom is the best teacher i know. sameless bias. even though this is just her second year with her certification, they provide no reasoning for her teaching style for her unjustified non reelection. a few weeks back at my school we had a workshop on restorative practices. it's based on principals that [inaudible] central to building community and involves processes that prepare relationships when harm has occurred. my community's here not from my own initiative, but because they perceive that harm has occurred here so they're here to really come to the board and ask you how are we going to address this harm, how are we going to [inaudible]

build community and restore relationship so i ask before you the question is how are we going to address the harm done here? it's not just to me, but the community and other persons of color who continue to serve the district loyally and continue to serve the district and its children with sin /saeurty. sincerity. how are we going to address the harm here? thank you and goods night. >> good evening. [inaudible] we have known for over a decade. she not only helped the filipino community, but so many communities. excuse me, can you be respectful commissioner mendoza. the community is talking. they're

listening. okay. are you ready to listen? we'll wait. go ahead, go ahead. >> remember you have -- i just wanna do a time check. >> i think you should eliminate that because they were talking. >> okay. she serves the poor families too. thank you. >> good evening commissioners and superintendent, my name is susie and i am also one of the 33 teachers who are up for non

reelection. i teach [inaudible] elementary special education third, fourth and fifth for children with emotional and learning disabilities. i would like to read a letter that one of my parents wrote to both superintendent [inaudible] as well as miss norton. he wanted to be here in attendance tonight but his wife is having a baby so he couldn't be here and i made copies so -- to whom it may concern. i am the parent of a child who currently attends leonard [inaudible] elementary school. i have recently been informed that or beloved will not be returning to the school next year. i

would like to express how concerned and saddened i am to learn this. i cannot express how devoted miss coalman has been with our child. our child has been diagnosed with adhd, a disorder that hinders his ability to benefit from the education he receives at school. this condition requires patience and understand inging from teachers that work with him. i can't tell you how frustrating the past few years have been in maintaining -- when miss coleman was introduced to our child at the beginning of this school year she -- sorry -- she has been a god send. miss coalman is one of the main reasons -- i'm sorry -- why

brandon has progressed remarkably well this year in such a short time brandon has gone from his combative and antisocial habits to an interactive outgoing third grader willing to attend mainstream classes. brandon spends majority of his -- the remarkable improvement brandon has med this year has given us so much hope for his future. we strongly believe this improvement has been a direct result of the dedicated efforts of his special education teacher, miss coalman. it saddens me to receive news that such a young, energetic, impressionable teacher will no longer be a part of our school. i am just a parent who is

troubled by the loss of such a dedicated teacher. brandon will not only be losing a teacher, but a friend and a mentor. her efforts with brandon this year have changed the way both i and his mother have viewed the public school system in general. we have been very disappointed with the public school system over the years. brandon shows enthusiasm when he talks about going to mainstream classes. i believe these improvements are because miss coalman takes a personal interest in brandon and all her students. she communicates with us in regards to his improvements in school.

i have spoken with other parents who attend the school and have expressed similar concerns. i do not know how this will affect miss coalman's future career. if you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact us, peter and laura. thank you. >> hi, good evening. my name is sandy, was a student of miss coalmans and i'm here to speak on her behalf again and ask that you reconsider. she really deserves to keep her position. i made a little sign -- a picture of my son with

her. he's a child who has severe trust issues and it's hard for him to get close and express his feelings. i'm here to read a letter from a parent who couldn't be here due to their work schedule. it's addressed to [inaudible] san francisco board of [inaudible] i am writing this letter because the principal at my foster son school is not reelecting miss coalman. she has put together tremendous efforts for her students. she has even tutored my child in her off time after school. with miss coalman's dedication to her job and students, my son

has acquired the knowledge to read. please take my -- i couldn't express this myself. i ask you please -- this is a great /taoeper. being a special [inaudible] i've gone into volunteer, it's not a picnic, it's not a walk in the park, but for someone to want to be there and dedicate their free time to their kids -- it's extraordinary. if i could have another miss coalman, i would, but unfortunately, i can't. thank you. >> one second. may we have a time check please? we have four minutes, okay? so everybody just... >> hello commissioner. i'm here today -- my name is norene

and i'm here on behalf of tina. i've also been impressed of her awareness of the home schooling. her ability to [inaudible] her previous principal, mr. greg john noted her excellence and evaluated her stating that she possessed a quote, unquote tenacity and palpable that all students can achieve high levels. i think it's unfair to deprive a teacher who has been evaluated successfully by her principal. it's unfair to deny her due process. i have heard there's a pattern of san francisco unified school district to deny teachers permanent status in

their third year due to budget cuts. financial struggle should not be a reason to deny a successful teacher who has contributed to much to community -- her livelihood. i would ask the board to discourage this pattern and consider rescinding her non reelection. thank you. >> my name is [inaudible] foundation and miss [inaudible] is the symbol of the filipino community. i brought myself the statistics. the fourth fastest growing language in the united states [inaudible] and then the fourth is the filipino. the number one asian population in california are the fill /poe -- filipinos and

the second fastest [inaudible] because we have a strong [inaudible] and bilingual education because we /tpaugtd for the philippine education center and [inaudible] now the question -- we love san francisco but the symbol of san francisco because i was with tina fighting for the education center is being eliminated in the presence of the district. how can the community stand for this if we are the fast growing language group and yet our beloved teacher is not even noted in this diss -- district. thank you. >> hi there, my name is marty and i would really like to say really quick from the facts and stuff, certificates -- whatever -- can't you see that we are evidence ourselves. she has had a sir -- certificate,

right? can you really see -- can't you see that she has made a difference in peoples' lives? can't you see that we are evidence of her hardships, we are evidence of our community's hardships. and thank you. that is why i'm talking here. i want tina to get her job back. i wanna help all the teachers who have worked so hard to make a difference in all the childrens lives. >> my name is rudy corpus. i wanna say my hat's off to the teachers right here fighting for their jobs. they're underrated and underpaid. the most precious commodity on this planet is ininvestment in our kids so when you have teachers who dedicate their life to work

15 years with kids, it's important. hopefully you make a wise decision to reinstate tina and the rest of these teachers who is a lifestyle for them. so i wanna say this is about the kids, our future for our kids and i hope you guys make a wise decision and reenstate them because they have an investment in our future. >> my name's theresa [inaudible]. part of our petition that we've actually been going around but i'm taking this personally now because we found out that a certain commissioner is spreading word maligning tina's effort being a great teacher and that. but i'm taking it

personally because i look up to you guys as commissioners, look up to you guys, handling and taking care of our children and our community and our teachers. teachers who take care of our children in and out, they go beyond their duties, they stay beyond, they do their homeworks with the kids, they feed them sometimes, so it's hard for me to understand for a school district like this, for a school principal to take it personally -- i'm taking it personally because i don't like the way what the school principal did so i would like that school principal and whoever that commissioner is to step inside her classroom and do the job and i wanna see them really teach.

>> all right. public comment is now closed. we will move on to item k on the agenda which is [inaudible] appointments to advisory committees? are there any appointments. i would like to [inaudible] bilingual community council. all right. and moving on to item l, special order of business, i will now call the public hearing to the quality education investment act waivers to order. may i hear a motion and a second to the approval of the waivers? may i hear a second? thank you. may i have a reading of the recommendation from the superintendent or attendee. there you are. >> good evening. the requested actions that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district will hold a public hearing for the

purpose of approving the submission of applications for labor release for complying with /sraeurbs various sections [inaudible] otherwise known as qeia. the board of education is being asked to [inaudible] 52055.740 al a through d [inaudible]. the detail of the waiver is requested are listed in the table below. shall i read the table? >> could we do a -- i appreciate all the information listed here. sorry, can i -- thank you. did you explain the fiscal impact and what exactly

we're doing? >> correct. so we have these four schools receive a little under 1.4 million dollars in total of qeia funding annually. in order to continue with the funding we need to meet all the qeia requirements because these schools have particularly low class sizes in some of the grades. we need to apply for the waivers because they're over those targets so we can continue with the funding /tp-rb next year. ing -- for next year. >> one other thing. on the back -- the last paragraph -- i think that should be unusually -- small class sizes in the base here and i just thought for the board and the public we should understand that. one of the reasons for that is because we have a choice system and so these are schools that were not performing well and also had

low enrollment so the class sizes are kind of unsustainable and maybe not even educationally sound. they were just based on a snapshot in time where a lot of those schools had very small class sizes. >> any other questions or comments from board members? >> being none, roll call please. thank you. for informational items i would like to announce the [inaudible] and call the public hearing to the 2012, 2013 initial proposal for a

successor contract for service employees service employees international union. will you please read the recommendation. /stpwhr we >> we have two orders tonight. one is the sunshining proposal and then the second item for seiu is the public hearing for the district and local and i believe we have a speaker from local 10 to 1. so there's no recommendation to read in other words. >> no. >> all right. i do have one speaker signed up from the public. [inaudible].

>> good evening. my name is johnson miller, i'm the chapter president for the school district chapter and i been sick. you guys haven't seen me because i've been out for the last two months, but we have a new rep and i would like to introduce him to you. his name is [inaudible] and he will go ahead and talk about the sunshining. >> thank you president miller. good evening and to the public as well. my name is [inaudible], i'm the new assigned union representative from the [inaudible] and i'm here just to introduce myself and also to give a little bit presentation in