san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco board of education occurring june 25, 2013, will begin shortly.

>> miss fever. >> mr. haney. >> miss mendoza? >> wins? >> norton. >> lee. >> wo ng. >> here. >> thank you. >> thank you, miss castco. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> item a. >> none tonight. >> item b. >> superintendent carranza? >> you have rolled the r like a

champion. >> good evening, everyone. we did it, this is the final board meeting of the year. >> we have almost does it. >> hopefully soon we will have done it and this represents a kul maition of the exciting work that has been accomplished by the staff and the students and the parents and our community and most certainty this board. i want to thank all of the staff that made this a successful year for our students and as you can imagine while the school year is over, our work in the school district continues throughout the summer months at a higher gear. we have summer programming taking place that is provided by our excel after school programs and we have summer school in full swing and opportunities in full swing for the students with disabilities and we have a robust offering of programs and an array of professional development opportunities for teachers and

administrators. >> i would like to thank our mayor, mayor ed lee. we are well under way, and also, with finalizing planning for the 2013, 2014 school year. we are supporting the continued development of our teachers and our para professional and administrators to serve the students. tonight we will have the ability to adopt the 13, 14 budget and it represents to insure the vision of access and equity of educational out comes and with this that i say thank

you for your service this year to all of our parents, all of our students, and all of our staff members and most senator to our community that has time and time again, supported the education of all of our students in san francisco. let's end this school year with a great board meeting thank you for being here this evening. >> thank you, superintendent. item c, recognition and resolutions of commendation commissioner murase. >> i want to confirm that my speakers are here, they are not here yet? are they coming, do you know? okay. they have just arrived. all right. thank you very much. >> would you like me to read the resolution? >> yes. >> in support of the congressional gold medal tour and the curriculum about the american experiences during world war ii, february 23,

2010, the board of education voted to support a ground breaking five year pilot program at a time that other states like arizona were banning it from public school instruction and the san francisco school district studies collective led by dr. cabalis of the college of ethics studies and composed of faculty formed to implement the program and developed among several others the objective of exploring how people of color have been and are essential actors in u.s. history. and whereas to the what kind of experiences that the japanese americans and the story off loyalty and courage that it has been recognized by the 2011 confirming of the congressional gold medal to the veterans of the 100th battalion, the 442 team and the military intelligence service, who by

this action joined the ranks of others recipients of the highest award of the u.s. congress, including marian anderson, (inaudible) rosa parks, and mr. martin luther king junior. and whereas, the smithsonian institution in partnership with the national veteran's network has organized a 7-city tour to bring the medal and a story to communities throughout the country and will come to the mhd in the museum on june 29, to august 24, 2014 and whereas the partnership has developed the curriculum for elementary and high school levels and the high school curriculum is piloted at the toren unified school district and in addition in january of 2011, the board voted to adopt a resolution in observations of the civil liberties and the constitution and to commemorate the courage

of coramatso, a recipient to challenge the constitutionality of the war time incarceration. and has alled developed the curriculum for elementary and middle and haol sky level and these kits include the video giems and lesson plans and posters are available at no charge to teachers. therefore, be it resolved that the board of education encourages the faculty and students to visit the gold medal exhibit. from june 29th to august 4th and further resolved that the faculty further urge to take advantage of the curriculum available through the national veteran's network and the institute to education students about american war time experiences and how people of color have been and are

essential actors in u.s. history. >> so i neglected to call for a motion. >> moved, and so moved. >> i will second. >> commissioners would you like to do the honor and present the certificate. >> should we vote first? >> >> lee? >> yes. >> wo ng. >> yes. >> fewer? >> she said yes. >> thank you. >> mr. haney. >> yes. >> maufus. >> yes. >> mendoza >> yes. >> murase. >> yes. >> carranza. >> aye. >> 7 ayes.

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the director of the american (inaudible) historical society and there is a long history here and we were according organizations in san francisco, to work in couldersing lacing with the natural veteran's network to in a congressional medal here to the deyon and so we are honored here and so i thank you for the resolution. and i would look forward to being the host organization one with the locals, and national japanese-american citizen's league to present the curriculum to the schools and to the children here in san francisco. currently of the exhibits about to and it will be introducing the curriculum probably in the fall and it is going to be timely because we are working on a project which is about to open in the fall at the pricidio san francisco. >> it is ironically the first language school by the u.s.

military intelligence service that opened one month before pearl harbor in anticipation in the war against japan. and they graduate about 40 students of japanese ancestry, military of the u.s. army to secretly train in anticipation with this war, while we restored this building and this hanger, we planned to have exhibition and curriculum and small interpretive programming there and we will be working with our partners in san francisco to do so. so thank you very much and encourage you to see the medal and come by to the building in the city of san francisco. thank you very much. >> murase. >> we also vai presentation for representative from the

institute. >> i also was not in the room for the vote. would you put down that i did this, thank you. >>

>> okay, my name is greg martani and i have been before the board in other capacities with the japanese citizen's league. in this case i am filling in for karen who is the daughter of fred coramatzo who received the gold medal of freedom for his stand against the incarceration of japanese americans in world war ii. while this issue is something that can be discussed? a history class, i hope that this is something that can be looked at in a broader scope in terms of an individual who stood up for what he believed and for his stand against what recognized as being a wrong and instead of being bullied by the government he carried the case all the way to the supreme court. fortunately, war time prevailed and similar circumstances currently, his case was not viewed in the broader spectrum of whether it was

constitutional just that he violated the curfew and therefore he was constricted and it was until many years later that the government had put forward and held back the documents that should have been presented to the defense. and so, the situation was that his case was vacated and eventually other cases such as glen and (inaudible) and two general but we should never forget that there was musenda who was also one of the individuals who is cases went before the courts. i hope that it is not just something in a historical context but now, i would like to turn it over to karen coramatzo. >> thank you.

thank you very much. >> thank you for coming. >> thank you, okay. >> okay great. >> thank you, >> okay. all right. okay. good evening, i am sorry that i am late. i'm karin and i am the co-founder and executive director of the (inaudible) institute for civil rights and education here in san francisco and our mission is to advance civil and human rights through education. and this is quite an honor to be here this evening. and you know just briefly, my father was born in oakland,

california. and fred coramatzo thought of himself as an american citizen and that what motivated him to take a stand against the military orders that were issued during world war ii that forced removed 120,000 of japanese ancestry from the west coast. he worked on redress after his conviction was over turned in 1983 after it was found in the government's own files that the incarceration was of not military necessity and that there was government misconduct. and he worked on the redress and ref rations movement that led to the civil rights act of 1988 and then my father's mission became education. he crisscrossed this nation so that the lessons of history would not be forgotten.

and in 2010, with the signing of the legislative bill, establishing fred of the civil liberties and the constitution on january 30th, my father's birthday, we through the institute developed the curriculum for elementary and middle and high school students. that include information and lesson plans in teachers, and a one-day powerpoint lesson plan, posters, videos and supportive materials that bring relevance to these issues today. the teaching kit is available for teachers kindergarten through 12th grade who can order on-line by going to the institute.org website. and we send these kids out for free to teachers in san francisco, in california, across the u.s., and anywhere in the world.

the curriculum provides an important piece about california in the u.s. history as well as civil and human rights, education. the stories encourage and the japanese americans during world war 2, needs to be learned by the next generation and education is the key. if my father were here he would say and don't be afraid to speak up. thank you. >> thank you commissioners. all right, we have another, relevant it is not... it is a recognition and a appreciation from vice president fewer, would you like to introduce this next item mes? >> yes. >> we have a guest, our fire chief miss joanna haze white is in the audience >> and she is generating the

walks, i mean the fire...; is that correct?? >> chief, yes, so perhaps if you would like to come to the podium and tell us a little bit about it, thank you very much and this is a donation to every single one of her elementary schools. >> good evening, president norton and members of the school board it is an honor to be here. i know many of you you wanted to thank you for your service and what you do for the school district here in san francisco. i am the chief of the san francisco fire department. and 20 life long residents in san francisco. did attend kindergarten at comodore and as did one of my children and kindergarten also through the superintendent and i just wanted to say that we are very proud to do as much as we can to partner with the schools in san francisco. i am a huge fan of going out i love to go to the read along days. and at least 18 to 20 schools and we go out and do public

safety presentations and i think that all of the schools are addressed by the members of the team which is a volunteer program where the members go out and talk about the importance of what we do in the fire department and show the students what we wear, under the emergency conditions so there is not a fear when we put the protective equipment on. >> it gives me pleasure when we go out to be greeted in the manner that i am from the principals and the staff and the faculty and all of the schools that we go to and we are so very welcome at the schools. we love to partner with you further when it comes to training which is neighborhood training certainly cpr training and i know that you have a lot of high school level and at some point we would love to work on further partnering on the different initiatives what i am here for today is regarding the elementary schools whenever i go out to read along day there is a lot of books in the