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students. to begin your last year and be displaced is problematic. for me, with jameesha, who works with me in the western edition and is on the honor roll and it is a really great student, in a neighborhood where we are trying to encourage students to go to school, if you have a student who is active in school, doing well in school, viewed as a good student, to have been penalized for doing the right thing -- it is going to be really hard to encourage students to go to school. she went to school. she followed the right road. she still got in trouble. a relieving the process for how this is being handled is not adequate. -- i really think the process for how this is being handled is not adequate. she has been out of school since school resumed in january.
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it is not getting easier. this is a student who was preparing to go to college. i am really worried about how this lack of being enrolled in school is pointed impacter in the future. the think the process and to be looked at. i would really like to see her in school tomorrow. >> my name is jameesha. i attended galileo. i am trying to get back in school. i have a 3.75 in school. i am applying for colleges. i already applied for howard university. i really want to be back in school. it is really a drag being out of school. i am going to have to make up those days. it is just hard. thank you anyway. >> my name is nicole. i am her mom. i am not only here to speak for her, but on behalf of the other
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19 students. like they said, jameesha is a very good student. i grew up in the community. i worked in the community. i graduated from galileo with a 3.5 gpa as well. i really need to get my baby back in school. she hasn't missed a lot of school. that can hinder from going to the next level. there is another student would like to speak for a little bit. he also attends galileo and was taking a pee classes. because he had to transfer to a different school, he is unable to continue because they do not offer ap classes. this is taking a huge impact on how this is affecting these kids. please help me and assist me. please get my daughter back in school.
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>> i am here representing the san francisco naacp. our president, reverend brown is unavailable tonight. ms. mendoza, congratulations on your election to office. i just want to say about your concern with the students -- for her to have a different address i think we need to understand that in the 21st century, especially for those living in challenge communities, the nuclear family model does not necessarily fit. i think the district is having a problem understanding the nature of the blended families we have in the school district these days. she stays with her grandmother because her grandfather needs for help, yet her mother is still responsible for her hand in charge. i think it is absolutely essential that we begin to
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understand that there is something else going on now with our families, and you are not going to see the perfect nuclear models that your rules may have been designed for. finally, let me say this. rules are important. i understand that. but if you adhere to closely to the rules, and without picking up the phone and having a parent come in and say what is going on, your rules -- you end up becoming more taskmaster and the new art teacher. our job and responsibility is to teach them, not just control them. i think it is important that we take another look not just that the situation, but how you do things in the future. you are not going to find perfect families where everyone lives in the same house. thank you so much. i appreciate your time.
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>> mining is julien davis, president over at the booker t. washington community center. i wanted to congratulate conditioner -- commissioner maufas. i want to request that you do something about the situation with tameesha and other seniors being dismissed in the middle of their school year as a result of the amnesty program. the overriding consideration of disrupting students in the middle of their school year, especially high school, where the year long experience goes to
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a college experience, where you think about things in terms of semesters -- the seniors especially. for jameesha, her final year in school, it seems unfair to cut that off and separate her from her school community with just a few months left to go. i know it is in your power to issue a directive, something of that sort. hopefully, tonight that would allow you to address at least the problem with the seniors, but i think with the other age students as well. it has always been an issue. i would like you to look, if you can, more broadly. i would echo some of the thoughts reverend townsend have -- had about nontraditional family structures. as well thought out policy in one respect what of problems in another respect -- i do not have the power to change it, but i hope you exercise it. president kim: thank you.
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-- president mendoza: thank you. >> my name is london breed. i am the executive director of the african american culture context. jameesha's mother works at our context -- are complex. she contacted me prior to relocating to san francisco, explaining she needed to come home to take care of her grandmother. unfortunately, her grandmother lives in a two-bedroom place and there is not enough room for her and her other three children. she decided to move to vallejo. her doctor decided she was not going to leave her grandmother. -- her daughter decided she was not going to leave her grandmother. i invite anyone to come to her house and see it is clear that this is where she stays. what her mom did as her legal guardian was to change the address, which was appropriate,
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because that is her legal guardian. i do think there needs to be able to but more involvement from the school district to come to the homes of some of these children to find out what is going on, whether it be a truant student or a student in this case, to find out where they are living and what is happening and not just create policy and implement those policies without understanding the dynamics of these families. in our community, we have always lived this way. i grew up with my grandmother as my garden. we had people cost of living with us. one of the things my grandmother would say, even though she was not the guardian of these children, was that if you live here you are going to go to school. whatever she could do to get these kids in school, she would do it. i want this particular body to take another look and possibly pass a resolution that would allow for at least the seniors to continue, but also take a deeper look at the policy as a whole and figure out a way in
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which this can work for kids and kids are not removed in the middle of their school years and turned off completely by the education system. thank you. >> superintendent garcia, president mendoza, board members, my name is karen bishop. i am chapter president for fdi youth, 1100 classified employees in the school district. we represent 28 school and community college districts in northern california, roughly 10,000 classified employees that
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work in schools and community colleges. we have what we call a school industry council. we meet once a month with delegates from all of those jurisdictions. this past saturday, the chair asked the delegates how many met on a regular monthly basis with the superintendents or chancellors in their districts. i found myself a minority of one. we seem to be the only jurisdiction the does not have monthly meetings with the superintendent's in san francisco unified school district. the chair of the school industry council meets monthly with superintendent tony smith. she is the leader of fdi youth in oakland unified school
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district. we heard tom ruiz say how the value and respect the work of our classified members. we would like to make that request that if their work is valued and they are also respected in this district that the superintendent also accord us that latitude and meet with us on a monthly basis. thank you very much. president mendoza: thank you, ms. bishop. >> good evening. congratulations, president mendoza and family -- emily murase. you are welcome to the board and i had a wonderful time the other night. i would like to address you on an issue that our chapter is
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going through negotiations. my name is yvonne johnson miller. i am the chapter vice-president. it was requested that our superintendent come into our negotiations, which he did not. i am very disappointed that you did not come. we were looking forward to meeting with you. you were asked to come. you never did say you were not coming. however, if you have always said it is for the kids. yes it is. it is also for our members. i am requesting and i am asking you -- come to our next meeting. it is very important that you be there. thank you. president mendoza: thank you,
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ms. johnson miller. >> my name is edward purcheck. i am a parent of a 1.5 year old. i just want you to know you probably will be seeing more of me. i just want to bring up again that changing the policy on how students are assigned to schools affects us a lot more than just making the decision and changing it. my partner and i -- really, that was one of our main concerns when we bought a house. we bought a house where we could afford to buy a house in the city and were not concerned because we knew we could have our choice of schools. i know we still have our choice of schools. i understand the priority list and all of that.
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but our neighborhood school -- we are in bayview. i just want to bring up mining concern. you are taking a new map with elementary school boundaries, and your superimposing it on this map where you have designated students who reside in areas of the city with the lowest average test scores. i am requesting -- i would like to know how this board of san francisco figured -- of would like to see why our block is included in the shaded area where i live. basically, you are taking an area for drew elementary, and half of it is shaded and half of it is not. half of the students who live in this area get to choose a different school. the other half has to stick with
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their neighborhood school. that does not make any sense to me. i think spencer -- if you look at the five maps, they do not correspond. i would like to know who i can talk to about that particular issue. president mendoza: thank you. i do not know if darleen -- we are going to have to speak with darleen lim, the director of our educational placement center. thank you for being so polite. >> just one second. congratulations, commissioner yee. i never meant to slur you. vice president yee: thank you. president mendoza: next speaker, please. >> good evening, board members. i am in eighth grade at hoover
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middle school. i am concerned for my education and my future. my history class, my science education, and the temperature in the building. but i myself coming home restricted every day. a history teacher is part of the spanish immersion program. if not a program since january 3. we do not have a replacement pitcher yet. with the substitute, we do five minutes of work and nothing for the rest 30-minute class. very little learning is taking place. i do not know when it at all we are going to get a teacher again. i am concerned that the lack of teachers for to affect my grades. it is one of my favorite subjects. science teaching rarely goes on. the teacher read the book to us and asks us to answer questions from the book, which i can do by myself. he asks us why we are not asking questions. i am in class to learn and be shown experiments, to be taught
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in a group, and to be excited about learning the subject. if a lot to learn anything, i have to do it on my own. the school is very cold. when i asked my teachers if we can turn on the heat, i was told that the only person in the district to could turn on the boiler was on vacation. it has been a cold winter and it is as cold inside as it is outside. superintendent, please tell me were going to do something about this. thank you. [applause] >> i have asked jeannie pond, who is in charge of the middle schools -- i would like you do have a discussion with her. david goldman as well. we will get them involved in making sure your heating works. president mendoza: thank you for coming out. we are very sorry you have been called. we will take care of it. thank you. >> my name is ted mawskle.
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i just returned to my home town with my 2 your children, aged 12 and 10. they attended marina and clarendon. i am a graduate of san francisco public schools as well and love the job they do of teaching children here. the problem seems to be i have to get them both to school on time. i am the only driver in the household at the moment. i notice there is a bus that goes to clarendon. my daughter goes to marina. my son goes to clarendon. in the evenings, 15 minutes between times they get out. in the morning, it was 25 minutes between the time the start. what is frustrating is the school bus to clarendon -- the perceived threat of the street where we refer -- where reside, roosevelt. there is a huge plus for it
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could pull over. i am sure this is not the most ideal forum to address this point, but i think there is always room for an exception when it comes to making things run a little smoother in the city. since the bus goes right by the house, if it can't stop at mckinley -- i see there is a place for it to pull over there -- it can certainly stop at one of the muni bus stops in our neighborhood. maybe it would help me get my employment back, because i have to work as well. thank you for your time. >> you might leave your name here with susan. i will tell you -- it is only going to get worse in the future. i would be lying to europe by did not say that. one of our discussions in terms of budget cuts is a reduction of bus services in the school district. but we would like for you to give -- if it is something that we can do easily, we will see
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what we can do. >> thank you. >> i have two more speakers. jeff kaminski and warren foster. they are not there. item k is advisory committee reports. are there any appointments by the board? seeing none, item l -- no special orders of business. item m is discussion of other educational issues. superintendent? >> i would like to call on matt martin, general manager. come on up.
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>> then you all for coming this evening to talk about -- i think you all for coming this evening to talk about kalw and the work we have been doing. you are in the middle of a lot of challenges. we are facing some as well at kalw. i want to talk about our plans for continuing to serve the san francisco and the bay area as a good representative of the school district in the community. kalw is a public radio station, listeners supported, that has been licensed -- of course. i should know microphone technique. that is one thing i should bring with me. we have been licensed to the
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school district since 1941. in 2011, we will be celebrating 70 years on the air. it is an opportunity for us to look back at the legacy of the station, the role it has played in the development -- president mendoza: if i could have the audience take your conversation outside or be respectful of the presenter, i would appreciated. >> to look back at the work the station has done, to assess where we are now. right now, kalw is making a big difference for this community in terms of providing real news and information, providing an outlet for arts and culture, as it ever has in the seven years it has been on the air. -- in the 70 years it has been on the air. we are going to be reaching out to the community and using it as an opportunity to raise the profile of the station and to bring more resources into the station. every year, i give you a state of the station report, which you
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all should have at this point. i try to let you know what is going on at the station and give you an honest appraisal of what is happening so you can understand the value of the work we are doing and the role the station plays in the educational mission of the district. in this particular state of the station report, i want to invite you all for some increase in data with the station. i understand you have a lot on your plate. i invite you to accept information from me and hold my leadership at the station accountable in the coming months. i think the station is making a big difference right now. we have grown in recent years. the local news room is an example for community-supported journalism that is winning awards for local journalism organizations and is being recognized around the world of public radio. i said that not just to say people know what we are doing, but to let you know that has allowed us to bring resources into the station.
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we have national public radio, the corporate -- the corporation for public broadcasting, and other funding organizations. we have able to in -- we have been able to increase our service while maintaining a budget that is relatively steady. we have arts and cultural programming making a difference at a time when outlets for that kind of program is narrowing elsewhere. certainly, the commercial media and non-commercial media as well. we are using local partnerships to allow us to build connections to the community to provide more excellent programming with limited use of resources in the station. i think that in our 70th year, employees can tell you a powerful story about the surface kalw is providing, particularly in the area of development in a transitional period. because of issues i will talk about later in this report, we are realizing we have to
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diversify our fund-raising. we have a longer term plan for bringing resources into the station. the books may not know, when we are licensed -- folks may not know, when we are licensed to the school district, that we do not receive funding from the school district. i love burton and i love the area around it. we want to remain supported by our listeners, by our community, and to not draw on the financial resources of the district over time. that said, you know that also on tonight's agenda there is a request for a short-term loan to the station for the next 18 months to allow us to continue to cover our costs of operation. as i say, we are in the process of a change in our development leadership. we think there is real opportunities, which i'm going
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to talk about, for getting us back to a place where 18 months from now i will be saying to you we have a surplus on hand and are no longer in a position of having to ask for a short-term loan from the district. i am going to point out a couple of highlights in the report that do with programming and the work we are doing for the community. then i want to drill down on finances and development. that is where you are going to have questions this evening. obviously, this is a long report. in your own time, you conduct a. i would point out the role we are playing in the educational mission of the district, special freckly -- specifically on reporting of education in the bay area we have a daily -- in the bay area. we are part of the discussion of public education in the bay area
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and the state of california. that is a valuable contribution the station is making to the district educational message. also, i would like to point out the work we have done in our election coverage this past year. i think this district can be proud of the fact that when it comes to creating an educated citizenry going to the polls, we are playing an important role in doing, doing more than we have ever done, including broadcasting the board candidate forum that took place in the fall. we are trying to be part of that mix and provide information so that all the decisions of the city and the community can be informed as citizens go to the polls. those are a couple of things i would highlight for you. in looking at where we talk about -- i wrote about identity programming and outreach. you see the partnerships we are
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building with community organizations, but also with public radio and public media organizations that are allowing us to do more important and programming that serves the bay area. national public radio is currently funding two reporters to do reporting on police, courts, and communities in the bay area. the corporation for public broadcasting has supported our economic reporting. we have also gotten support from wnyc, which has a national transport reporting project. they are supporting a reporter on transportation issues. because we have something dynamic happening at the station, that is bringing resources in that allow us to leverage what we are doing without increasing our budget. i just want to point out those things before i go into what i want to make sure you all are well informed about that is
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specifically questions of finances and development at the station. i think the next 18 months are really critical for us. we have an opportunity to capitalize on the dynamism of the work the station has been doing on the side of programming and public service. we have a real story to tell to funders on this community. i think the work we are doing in forming the community has gotten ahead of our development efforts. that strategic position of the workstation is doing to the philanthropic community in this area is where we need to focus now. we have a lot to build on. we can show there is support for this work. in this past year, we have taken some important steps toward doing that. one of the most
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