>> did you have a little bit of an update your going to make? commissioner wynns: it is not on the agenda. >> it is not on your agenda. that is why we wanted to make a report. we are working on it. commissioner wynns: it is going to be on our agenda. it will be on the agenda in the coming months. >> we are talking about other stuff tomorrow. if you want to lengthen our report tomorrow, we are happy to do that. i do not mind. i have a written thing which you can have. i will save this for tomorrow. commissioner wynns: we have that already. i will read to that and make sure commissioner mendoza has a copy of that as well. commissioner yee: if we already have some dedicated schools that are welcoming inclusion, this is

-- let us just take west portal. they are not limiting their kindergarten class. that are just having one kindergarten enrollment. commissioner wynns: we are using that. commissioner yee: that is what i wanted to know. to me, that is not dedicated. commissioner norton: i have been reminded. what about the child development programs? we have not really talk about that. i know that is a separate assignment system, but what are we doing there? >> commissioner norton, we wanted to get this moving first, but then we are already having conversations about how to create a more inclusive÷inclusik

students with disabilities. so we can improve the least restrictive environment also. >> i thought we were talking about preschool age. we are supposed to be taking at least &. they get priority in the child development program for a moment. i am not sure what we're talking about. >> we have them in self- contained classrooms for the most part. >> this is not on the agenda, so we will not discuss this out. i don't know how we plan to do this, so i would like to ask the staff to give us -- let's not discuss it in the student assignment committee, that would be ok with me.

i want to know some time where we will talk about the way that it is assigned to the child development sector. since we have the priority, we have to know how people are going to get assigned. if you could discuss it among the staff members and decided where we want to put it, we will get it on the agenda. we will make a reference to it so people know where to go to discuss it. >> the suggestion i just made is that we consider how he committee as a whole, giving them a little bit of time to get up to speed. there are a lot of issues coming up with child development. it might be a good thing to

check-in. >> this requires not so much. >> except to refer, if we are going to do it there, we need the discussion about the assignment process for child development. then we will know what we are talking about. >> that is exactly what we will discuss when we have that appropriately on the agenda. i understand. that is why we have to discuss

it and get the information here. but we cannot discuss it tonight. do we have a meeting schedule? we will have to get together. we will talk and schedule the next meeting. i will need staff recommendation about whether we need a meeting in december. i think we probably do. just for the record, we didn't take any action on the transportation policy which we need to do. we think we can because the agenda does not specify an action and informational items. since it is listed as a resolution, can make a recommendation? >> is not listed as an informational item, so yes. >> we will forward the

substitute policy motion to the board. i will need to consult with staff about whether we're going to meet in a december meeting. we could try to talk about that tomorrow. tomorrow is the only board meeting in november. we might want to announce at a board meeting tomorrow whether or not we're going to have a meeting in december. thank you for coming tonight. i really appreciate the interest and commitment of the public on the subject. this is what it takes to do this kind of work. we really appreciate everybody remaining engaged and i want to thank the staff for all the hard work tonight and throughout the year. the meeting is adjourned.

the san francisco unified school district for november 9, 2010, is now called to order. roll call, please. secretary: [reading roll] president bukim: if you would like to join us in the pledge of allegiance, i pledge -- [no audio] thank you.

we have a relatively short your agenda tonight, and our first item is the approval of the board minutes from the last board meeting on october 25. do we have a motion and a second? are there any corrections by board members? all right, roll call, please. secretary: [reading roll] president kinmm: the next is a report, and superintendent garcia is not here tonight, so we have our deputy superintendent, richard carranza. >> good evening. i would like to start up this evening by sending out our condolences to our

superintendent for the passing of his mother. we will talk abut that a little later, which is why he could not be here, but i do want to send a cordial invitation for people to come to our enrollment fare from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. -- enrollment fair. this is on eighth street. last year, we had an estimated 15,000 people in attendance, so this is a great resource for our family and for our community members to get more information about our schools. this is also a great opportunity to meet the leaders, staff, parents from all of our schools, and learn about the programs and approaches that are available within our district. in roman applications for the 2011-2012 school year will be available at the fair -- enrollment applications " will

be available. if you cannot make it, do not fret. there will be a number of discovery workshops. please visit our website for more information on either the enrollment fair or the discovery workshops. we would like to take a moment this evening to think our community advisory committee, who is present this evening in the audience -- to thank our community advisory committee. we want to thank them for their service to san francisco. thank you. president kim: thank you, richard. deputy superintendent carranza won a prize, in recognition of its leadership and work in

public education, so, congratulations. [applause] we are proud that we have you on our team. and also for the audience, vice president mendoza is out of the country and will not be in attendance for this ninth meeting. -- for tonight's meeting. we move on. >> what we are working on is that we're going to work with the associate new superintendent to craft a policy that we have worked on, and we will be working with the associate superintendent, and we had a leadership workshop.

president kim: the next is our parent advisory council report. >> hi, my name is -- and i have a child. ok. i have a child in school, and my other kids, she is disabled, she goes to another. my other kid -- my other kids, she is disabled. last week, we went for a meeting to guadeloupe and another, and we talked about

what is happening. for the superintendent, and we wanted to know what is not working and what is the plan. we came away from that meeting with a few questions, like how to engage families and understand what is happening in to support them, and there are changes in the school. we look forward to this.

how to take things that were for the schools and make them available ensure the with other schools, and, for example, to understand the student needs. teachers should have access to training, as well. and then to give them the support that they need. president kim: 50. >> good evening, my name is the trees. i have a son -- my name is beatrice.

the board is creating a position for the parent engagement, but we understand that will be sometime in january, and we feel that there is a lot to get started before then. we're reaching out to the different communities. a lot of parents feel that there is no good communication with the district, and, for example, a lot of parents find out that their child is bailing when they have the first conference, and that is the first month in the school year. so we wanted to have improved communications. we are working with teachers directly to improve their ways of communicating with families, allowing teachers to of a little bit more time to prepare for

those conferences. also, parents really do not know what to ask or expect when they go to a conference. there are a lot of schools that prepare families. for example, marshall, we had our first kind of preparation for the parents, what to expect at their conferences, but this is my first time ever experiencing back, and i think it was helpful, but a lot of times, you do not know what to ask. for example, my daughter had a test during kindergarten note, and i did not know about that test until another grade. copies with things that i probably could have helped her out, and this year, she had another test, the district reading assessment. i really do not know what the "dra" stands for, but it was

really explain it to me during the conference, and when i asked for the resources that were available for her, basically, it was not very much. those were some of the issues that we were asking for. we were talking about having maybe a checklist for parents this is specifically each grade. it would help parents to know what to expect and how to help out to improve their children's -- overall, to improve their -- i do not know what the word is i am looking for, but just to support their kids of a bit more with a bit more knowledge. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. ruth. last night, i was at the ad hoc

committee and was going to give a little update on the pac's intention, and commissioners asked that i come tonight. basically, the pac, we have told you that we have set priorities for this year, and redesigning the middle school is one of our top priorities. we are very excited about the opportunity to have these conversations, because for us, it is not just looking at one big question, but it is looking at the question of how students get assigned to middle school and what the elementary school to middle school pathway is, and there are bigger questions about what works and what does not work for middle school students in our city. we are seeing how deeply issues connect with a lot of initiatives happening in the

district right now, including the superintendent's own school initiative. this is addressing improving dramatically how we provide special education services to the students that need them, changes in transportation, questions about how we serve english lerner students, and how we strengthen our dual immersion programs and are pathways and those in the bilingual programs or those who have not been any kind of language program at all, how after-school programs -- is this still working? ok. how after school programs serve middle school students, issues about restorative justice and school climate and how all of that word in middle school, and looking at how students in middle school are prepared to meet the new graduation requirements, so all of those things are connected. that is the redesign process, in

we are really excited about thinking about how to of conversations about those topics and to share the information across the departments who are working on those, so we're in the process of what kind of community engagement we can conduct around these issues. we have to look at the time line and what information we want to make sure we bring to families and to give useful information from those conversations to help district staff in shaping what you're doing. we also think it is a really great opportunity to make sure that student voices are a part of this process, that teachers' voices are a part of this process, with parents and also community providers, because there are so many community organizations that work with youths. we are really in the process now about talking what our capacity is, what our roles could be.

we are already talking with many community partners that we have been talking with in the past few years about community engagement about what we collectively can bring to this. we have been talking about our ideas and the people managing this whole process. right now, it actually feels very positive, and we know we are kind of "whoo, whoo," but actually, for members of the pac on the working team, it seems like the first time in years we've been able to plan thoughtfully and be able to bring information back in a timely to staff before things are expected to be implemented, so that is also very positive. and we think of the next report to the board is going to be in december. we will have a lot more specific information as to what we think our goals and objectives are and a more concrete plan forward.

president kim: are there any questions? commissioner norton? commissioner norton: 84 your report, and i wanted to know if we could get an update on the redesign. i am getting a fair number of questions on that, and times seems a little short. i would like an update for that. president buskim: that seems appropriate. any other questions or comments? all right, seeing none, thank you very much. commissioner maufas runs -- commissioner maufas: that is ok.

i wanted to comment on something that is much needed, just something for parents to understand what tests are going to be given at what grade levels and what the discrepancies may be, a simple explanation of the acronyms and what they mean, as some of these tests are new and developed over time, and that is in the student handbook, but, actually, that should be in the parent package. i am very glad that that was brought forward. it is common information that i think parents need to know about what that is going to be and what the acronym is. thank you. president kim: thank you. our next regular board meeting will be on tuesday, december 14, as is tradition, we will not be having a board meeting the week of thanksgiving, but board committees will still continue to meet a schedule of this month.

the next item is item f. i have one. dennis kellie. i have one. mr. kelly, or ms. plack. no? ok. then we move on to item g, which is a consent calendar. can i have a motion and a second? items from the superintendent. >> we would like to withdraw o some items, on pages 88.

and we have two corrections. the first is to some consent calendar items on page 94. the funding level remains the same, but we need to change the funding source to include a contribution from title 2-a, and that $44,000 is a certain number. and the other remains the same. we also have a correction to another consent calendar item. on page 70. the second line needs to be changed in the request for

action to 21 orth $60,590. -- $261,590. in in terms of the bid, 4 on point construction, their bid needs to be changed -- for on- point construction. there is another change. alpha bay builders, that changes to $350,000, and the recommendations, the second line should be changed to $197,000 plus. those are our two corrections.

president kim: 80. about the withdrawal or the corrections? -- thank you. go ahead. commissioner norton: can someone explain to us how this happened? for the w items? [laughter] >> bostick that was made for those of those who would understand this, it was how they based the construction, and the language was only written for the bass bid, so when you took two or three alternates, you took the bass bid and recalculated it -- written for

the base bid, so when you took two or three alternates, you took wthe base bid and recalculated it. it will shortly after the scented to esther. it did not change one thing, but it changed the amounts. commissioner norton: they made this mistake on all of them? >> yes. just a mistake. commissioner norton: thank you. president kim: any items for first reading by the board? and the speaker card -- any items to be severed? commissioner wynns?

commissioner wynns: yes, i have a couple. my comments will be related to those in k. i am just withdrawing two as a point of example, and then we can talk about the process. president kim: ok. any others? all right. mr. kelly, we will come back to item f. >> ok, and congratulations on your apparent electoral victory. [applause] the one issue is that this is a transfer of funds from uniforms and other things to create a