other parents at the school do not know the truth about how and by whom our principal was attacked. so after enduring a couple of months of this hostility, the principal did submit her resignation and decided to leave our school and we consider this to be a tragic loss. she has been a very strong advocate for the large population of african american, ell, special needs with whose families do not have a strong voice at the school. these are the groups of people that we really are family very much values at the school. our principal worked to implement district policies to close the achievement gap and to implement restorative practices. she is a principal who knows and loves most of the close do 500 students at the

school. and a great many of them are very sad to know that she is leave inging and they don't know the reason why. so now we are initiating the process of deciding who our next principal will be. my voice was not heard when our principal was attacked and forced out, but now i want it to be known that i expect the next principal to be similar to miss keener, to be a strongly supportive advocate for our african american ell /spaoerbl needs and socioeconomically disadvantaged students and i want the principal to have the support to do what is best for the students at lake shore,

even when he or she has been attacked by parents. and i'd like to introduce my son. >> everyone liked our principal and i hope she has a good time when she's gone. i hope she visits. and she was a very good principal. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is sonia and i am a parent at lake shore. i've been there for four years. my daughter is now in fifth and i'm here just to -- actually, i am on the site

council board and i got the opportunity to do a lot of volunteer work at the school. i've worked on the yards, in the office, with the teachers and i've gotten a chance to witness our principal put her heart into the school. and i guess it just saddens me that such a major decision was finalized by the district without everyone having a chance to have input. and i just hope in the future that proper channels can be implemented so that everyone's voice can be heard before such a major decision is finalized. i feel that we're losing a really good principal so just here to support her. thank you.

>> my name's theresa. i've been at lake shore for 4 years. i was also a member of the executive board of the pta this year and i've worked closely with our principal and i found her to be an excellent prince /palg, very easy to communicate with, very re/spopbive to parents, but my interpretation of the issue at the is that teachers and some parents were at odds with the district policies of restorative practices, keeping african american children in the classrooms instead of sending them out when there's trouble. and to my mind, that's why she's leaving because the pressure was put on her from forces who didn't believe in the district policies. and

while those of us here wrote letters and contacted people, we didn't get any response. so i want to know how is the district going to support principals who are going to implement their policies when they're allowing subversive parents to oust them. doesn't seem like a very productive way to go forward. if i'd like to see anything come out of this, i'd like to have the district come up with a policy for investigating or coming into a site when a problem like this arises. often times i think it arises similarly to the way it did at lake shore where there's an underground group of them. >> we have a couple more minutes because we were interrupted by the president.

>> two more minutes. >> i would like the district to have a policy so this doesn't happen in the future. >> my name is doctor [inaudible]. thank you terry. my partner is officer grave here. we have a son at lake shore elementary. i'm here as a parent. i have a lot of professional opinions and personal opinions about what happened, but i'm here as a parent. my concern is the message to the children. of lake shore. we've heard about what happened already. but the key points that i intersect with the goals here is that we were privy to documents that could be taken as offense to african americans and english

language learners and just the groups that the district tends to champion and target as our general education. and so i'm concerned as minnesota who wrote letters and documented it, that parents like myself were not given equal voice. and parents who didn't have the privilege of access to email or translation were not given voice and were not heard. i think that's a direct violation of what the goals or. so we need to change the goals or enforce the goals. if there's nothing else that's heard from what i'm saying today, my issue today is that the district supports restorative justice that we're showing our commitment to access and equity and making sure the diverse families at lake shore -- all of them -- privileged parents, not so privileged parents, feel that their voice is heard and has equal weight. equal weight. and the reason i bring

this up again is that there continues to be sidestepping of traditional organization that we use. putting up non translated surveys on email that only hit the percentage of the families so i think equal voice is very important. thank you. and i support you and i want to support you all supporting us doing what we all say we're going to do. >> i have a couple more cards on isolated issues. please approach as i call your name. two minutes each.

>> good evening board members and president norton. my name is heather and i'm a parent and i'm here to talk about the 2013 special day class relocation and how it's going to effect student placement. i want to con grand jury late you on the guiding principals it's been a long time coming and i'm glad that it has been approved. it sounds like the april student assignment meeting is probably for me. is that going to be open to the public? can someone tell me the dates? >> commissioner -- do you -- >> i believe it's the 22nd at 6:00 pm. >> so over the past few weeks i've spoken to a number of people, exchanged emails with

miss norton, spoke with my teacher at the school where my daughter is a student and lots of parents both of special needs students and other /staouptds and i put together a few thoughts that i've heard from them about how different students are going to be affected by their placements. i have a son at another school and we are trying to transfer him to jefferson, but looks like that's going to be more difficult than we thought. i'm going to read this handout and maybe this can lay a little ground work for the meeting in april on student assignment. i'm here to draw attention to the plight of some families is [inaudible] to consider hiring more short term teachers in order to ease the transition

from a few schools serving special needs students. is that for me? oh, okay. please read it. >> thank you. >> we do a ton of work over at the board of supervisors and working on issues with the board of education has been very educational for us, but important for us to learn all the work you do. i'm a father of a 1-and-a-half-year-old son who i think nearly /spwruped one of the meetings at -- it's not on the agenda, but there's a lot of excitement about creating the pathway for contracting. we've been eager to engage -- we pulled about 14

other community based organizations to find out what we know and we figured out we know nothing. we don't know if there is a draft, we know some point maybe soon -- at one point i think your consultant -- we got the impression he was going to reach out to community based organizations to get our take around continuing the community driven aspects of this conversation and again, we put our heads together and we didn't find that anybody knew anything. so we have a /khrebgive request -- we have 14 organizations -- letter's here, i'll pass it out. we want to put what we're asking for in writing. [inaudible]. folkings are really excited in the community. we want to engage so if we can get a draft

copy of whatever mr. tom is looking on, let us look at it, give our input, we've done so in this letter to start that conversation, but the worst thing would be for folks to come if blindly, show up here and [inaudible] been more than gracious in sitting down with us and commissioners so we'd like to do that that. thanks. >> good evening commissioners administrators. i'm here on behalf of the [inaudible] town center. it's a filipino community center and i'd like to invite the commissioners and administrators and the rest of the staff and everyone up there that we are going to have an art exhibit on saturday. normally i don't do that here. it's, like, out there in the community, but when i found out that the san francisco unified

school district students who attend the mission beacon center on excel program will also be exhibited -- i got very excited and i said to the artists that i think the san francisco unified school district should know about this. it's really exciting to have diverse of african american, latino, filipino art work will be exhibited this saturday. it's going to be at the [inaudible] town center, 6:00 pm. i'd like to find out if anyone knows what [inaudible] is. we're going to have a big [inaudible] on saturday, 6:00 public comment. so here's the invitation. thank you. >> okay. >> thank you. just in regards

to the buildings and ground committee, i don't know if the chair had received a request that had an informational item on your agenda so people know where to come to for this local hire conversation so it just doesn't happen out there in the atmosphere. nobody knows where it lands and very much so you don't get to a vote at the board and someone said i didn't know there was a meeting. but if there could be a regular place where folks [inaudible] curriculum committee has updates on a to g. that's one of the meetings we had regarding local hire -- one of the last big meetings we had on that conversation. so i wanted to bring that through the chair, through president norton.

>> my understanding actually is that the policy is going to be introduced for the proposed policy for first reading of april 23 and then we'll go to buildings and ground or committee as a whole. but if you want to put it on the buildings and ground agenda, by all means. we will move on now to item k, advisory committee reports and appointments to committee by board members? any appointments? seeing none we will move on to l. there is none tonight. there is nothing on item m. item n, there are none tonight. item o, vote on the consent calendar. this was moved and seconded under section f. roll call please. >> excuse me before we proceed

with the votes. there is a request to remove an item from the agenda. item 134-9w 34. >> she had severed that. unless you want to remove it. >> i think we're going to remove it and have it come back in two weeks. i thought we were going to talk about it and he was going to say i'll get your information and get back to you in two weeks. >> i thought we were going to get to that after we voted on the whole consent calendar. i think we understood the same thing, but /tkp*rb >> it can be removed now or later. whenever you want. >> why don't we just go remove it now since we've had the discussion. >> we are going to hold that over for action at the next meeting. >> removal is atmatic first

meeting and that's for 3x commissioner? >> yes. >> thank you. >> so that was the only item that was severed for discussion so we are now voting on everything on the consent calendar. miss lee. >> yes. >> miss wong. >> k 43. >> yes, except for item [inaudible] k 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9. thank you. >> doctor [inaudible]. >> i. >> miss wynn? and miss norton. >> yes. >> thank you. item p, consent calendar discussion none; q,

none; r, none; item s, board members report. >> we just had a great update and report from nick [inaudible] on our sustain ability program. we will be updating books on a regular basis on this and our next buildings /aopbdz ground committee meeting is actually being discussed right now because we have a conflict on our regular meeting so we'll have that updated soon. right? thank you.

>> okay. commissioner haney, can you update us on the meetings of the rules committee. >> sure, so the book of our meeting was spent on the legislative overview so we reviewed dozens of bills. we ended up taking a position of support on eight bills and oppose on three and we're still watching 38 bills and that list, i'm sure is being added to as we speak because we met -- our meeting was on march 20 but it was around the bill introduction deadline. so our next meeting will be on the 17th. so we'll be reviewing the bills and continuing to take positions at that time. the other item that we heard was consideration in action on the schedule of advisory committee reports to the board of education so all the members of the board should have a copy of the new schedule for

advisory committee reports, both for standing reports and for the ones that will be happening /spaoerdically and some cases once or twice a year. and i was told by commissioner to read this. the board of education's advisory [inaudible] will be up on our district website shortly so we'll make that available so everybody knows all the many wonderful advisory committees and when they'll report to us and the schedule. the last thing, we moved forward the guiding principals for inclusive practices that were approved tonight. >> i believe you changed the time of the meeting on the 17th; is that correct? to celebrate your birthday? >> i think we're still working that out, but it may be a little bit early. i think it may be at 5:30 or 6:00. everybody's invited to the party afterwards.

>> we are invited? good. i was going to ask where my invitation was. now we're going to move to [inaudible]. >> there was a report on mta's traffic calming program so it was a pretty exten tensive program that's getting implemented on how to reduce traffic and how to calm traffic around schools and other public facilities that have students and families and so that has been introduced to us and it's ongoing. i actually can't recall when the next piece to the actual actions are going to be happening. do either of you? >> i think it's in several months. supervisor wanted to leave it to the call of the chair. >> and then the property

expense plan reauthorization was moved to the next flood committee meeting, which is now on wednesday, april 24 at 4 o'clock so that is going to be moved because supervisor kim and her staff and some others are not going to be in town. and i won't be in town and there's -- we didn't -- and supervisor [inaudible] were not going to be in town so we didn't have quorum so we did a poll on the supervisor end to see what day they were going to be available so april 24, which is a wednesday at 4 o'clock was their availability. we wanted to check with the two of you to see if you could be available at that time as well. and at that meeting we will be covering summer programming so summer

jobs, summer programs that will be coming up and the discussion on prop h and the children's fund are going to be part of that conversation as well. thank you. >> okay. we will move on to the report for curriculum and program. >> i would like to report on our march 4 meeting 'cause that's not here at the last school board /phaoetding to report on that. the theme of the meeting was on science technology, engineering and math programs and i want to thank staff for presentation and i want to thank nicole of mills college who presented her findings -- gender analysis, benchmarking of stem courses in sfusd, as well as the american association, women and then google who shared with us the stunning statistic that through

2018 the united states expects to have 140 thousand computing jobs an at the rate we're going right now we'll only have 50 thousand candidates. so the stem initiative is very important in terms of job market of the feature. we met on april 1 and the agenda -- we had three informational items -- summer programming offerings and for the first time ever we received an inventory, a listing, a directory of summer programming. lots of professional development opportunities for our teachers so we really encourage our teachers to access this information which should be up on our web /saoeultsite. secondly we had an update on --

and the approval of the laa plan is a requirement to receive federal funding and we had an overview of it and i think every board member should have received a copy of that in their box. >> thank you. >> we are going to move on to any reports from board delegates to membership organizations. i know commissioner mendoza, you were at the [inaudible] do you have anything to report from that

meeting? >> yeah. and commissioner wynns and were with me as well. we actually had a visit from the secretary of education during the lunch session who talked a lot more about the president's priorities on early education and the reauthorization of efpa and he also pointed out the waiver that's been submitted by the nine plus districts, including san francisco. and there was legislative visits that occurred that i actually had to get back to the city so if there's any comments that you want to make on your legislative visits to the capitol. anyone? or not. you don't have to. council always does a really good job in laying everything out and the

nice thing that i always appreciate about this particular conference is we have an opportunity to meet up with a lot of staff from the department of ed who gets to share with us up coming opportunities and the way they're laying out a variety of different policies. >> all right. so are there any other reports from board members? >> i just wanted to give a big shout out to the explore and the san francisco 49ers and the mayor who allowed 2000 of our sixth graders to the exploretorium. and thanks to [inaudible] for being there