with opportunities to work in a private sector, yet we've all chosen to be here because we believe and promote in social justice, which is in alignment wlt month sor a-- montessori principles. we ask the school board to support us. as a result of the teacher's absence due to unresolved paperwork, today a kindergarten child was lost by the substitute staff. >> hi, i also work at san francisco public montessori. i chose to work at this school because it serves the vision that's expanding the montessori method into the public sector to allow children from all economic backgrounds to access higher education. also, in addition to being public, it's a full-inclusion school. and this allows us to work

closely with children who face many challenges and heap guide them to the healing process that is needed. our newly appointed principal does not practice or support the montessori philosophy in regards to montessori. numerous times i have heard her desire to expel certain factors from our school. i believe she is targeting children who come from low income families who she claims is bringing an atmosphere of violence. i feel that she nonre-elected me because i spoke out against it. >> good evening. my name is hannah miller and i'm a probationary teacher at san francisco montessori school that has been nominated for

nonre-election without evaluation. i think my nonre-election was because i took up for under privileged children auto our school. our administration is coming under pressure from certain parents to irrigate certain children from our program. i believe they'll hire a teacher more in line with the new administration. >> i am a teach we are 16 years' experience and excellent previous evaluations and tenure from another district. prior to going on medical leave in january, i only missed one day of work due to illness. i attended every staff meeting, completed all my grades, lesson plans and all other duties

correctly. i never received a formal evaluation according to the contract guidelines. i was observed in december during a period after which i'd been assaulted by a student. i asked for a follow-up observes due to the stress of that event and back injury. the principal agreed but never showed up. i asked to see copies of any -- my evaluations twice in december and january but they were never given to me. after i was assaulted a second time, my principal said i need to toughen up. the student who assaulted me was back in school in january. i needed to get restraining orders from a judge. the own policies to have attendance collected and classes checked for discipline problems each period in. january i was told mirror -- by my administrator to write less referrals. the consultants at the school

was under pressure to reduce suspensions and referrals. since writing a referral is the only way i can get a violent student out of the room, my ability to protect my safety and my students' safety was undermined. my principal didn't give me a formal evaluation, didn't notify authorities after i was assaulted the first time, didn't notify me of my rights. left the building when a police officer came to make statements. when i went on a medical leave she claimed i didn't inform her although i did send two faxes the day before. i seriously question whether my nonre-election is in retaliation for the injuries i've served. president mendoza: just a reminder. you have about four minutes left for everybody. >> thank you, i have documents here. good evening school board members. my name is sara and i am an

intern special education teacher teaching students we emotional dishians. i have been working with students in special needs for the past six years in various capacities. on february 8 i was assaulted by a student and nine days later i was informed by emale -- email by the principal that i would be receiving a nonre-elect. this nonre-elect comes after months of me bringing to principal chung's attention the unsafe conditions of my classroom. after being injured in october as well and not being able to return to work for five days, i requested a meeting to discuss the safety conditions at my school. i'm sorry, rather in my classroom. i told her i needed consistent aides and aides trained to work

with students we emotional disturbance in order to keep the students, the support staff and myself stay safe and my concerns were ignored. on the surface the safety in my classroom seemed to improve over the school year because of the behavior management program, the economic program, the social-emotional program and the relationships that i built and put in place in the classroom. however, the safety supports to deal with crisis situations were not put in place and the diven that has led to me receiving this nonre-elect is an example of the improper support that i have received in this placement. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> hello. my name is carlos castillo. i'd like to bring to your attention on the agenda on the front page. it says district goals. access in equity makes social justice a reality.

i'm a probationary two teacher and a local artist. i was informed on friday that i was going to be given a nonre-election status by my principal, one week after i was told that i would be rehired for next year. i was a teacher at fair month elementary school for two years. i did two murals with a basis of social studies and science. last summer i approached our gentlemen over here about the possibility of teaching at a school that was under sanction with the idea of doing something for social justice and i feel that this act of being given this status is an act of injustice. president mendoza: thank you. since time is up. but i'd like to get everybody on the record so if you wouldn't mind just coming up and stating your name and what school you're from.

[inaudible] >> we ask for the board's indulgence and allow us to speak for five or six minutes. president mendoza: the only reason i'm not going to grant that is because we have another group here that's equally as large and i want to honor their time as well. i want you to come up and state your name and the school you're representing. >> david, betsy car mile middle school. >> president mendoza? could -- i'd like to request that we give the group another five minutes. could we give the second group also 25 minutes? you gave 20 minutes for this group. if we ask for an additional five and we give the other group five? president mendoza:

commissioners? >> i don't mind. president mendoza: ok. you've been granted five more minutes and fciu will give you 25 minutes, so that you have that available. >> my name is david. i'm a physical education teacher at betsy carmichael middle school. in september of 2010 i gave an order of p.e. equipment to the secretary. she said they want to know what happened to the volley balls you lad -- had last year. i told her the kid kicked them on the roof and the rest were stolen. she came back and said they'd order the equipment but not the volley balls. i went and bought the volley balls plus a few other items with my own money. i have receipts right here. they told me to ask josie about the money for p.e. i asked four times between october and december.

she said there's no more money for p.e., just for athletics. in january, i put in an order of $3,500 for equipment. wendy told me to write it up anyway. josie said there's now $800 for p.e., the rest is for athletics. i asked in december and january about the prop h money. i have copies of the emails between the group regarding the fund. i ordered about -- worth of equipment. i asked josie where is the rest of the money that's left and she said there's nothing left. i kept quiet about it. 2009, same story. i ordered some equipment, i asked her where's the rest of the money. she said there's no more money left. in 2010, wendy started putting the pressure on them about the

money. i knew trouble was coming. i asked that jeffrey be investigated for possible wrongdoing -- president mendoza: there's three minutes left for your entire group. >> against me for looking at a prop h fund. thank you very much. >> i'm lesley. i'm here on behalf of sara, who spoke in regard to her situation. i recently credentialed myself. i -- i coattailed with sara for two years, went to college with her for two years and i am horrified that this is happening to a young lady that got her nose broken from a student in her class and she's not being retabled. the funny thing about special ed e.d. is when you ask somebody what you do and you say you teach e.d. in the unified school district they go how many years. because you can't hold teachers

here. and you have a teacher that wants to be here, that was trained by the san francisco school district and you're going to lose her based on one principal in this district making a call for a young lady who has a future in education. president mendoza: you thank you. >> good evening, folks. my name is david. i'm sara's dad. i'm going to try to put that aside for a minute. a couple of weeks ago my daughter was assaulted at the middle school -- at her elementary school by a student she loved who loves her. 10 days after that it was issued her nonretention. before that she had gotten to the union and asked for workman's comp help. it was only after that that she got her nonretention. something is wrong here. sara provided to the school a three to four-page single paged program to put in place with

the principal safety measures. done by a teacher with three or four months of experience. she was ignored and nothing happened. and this assault was a direct result of nonsafety methods not being implemented and not in place. we're not crying about the assault. this is my daughter's future, as it is for all these other wonderful teachers. i beg you, look into this before you stamp approved on this nonhigher -- nonhire for the next year. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. you have one minute for the last two speakers. >> my name is cindy and i'm a counseloror at a middle school. i've worked for san francisco unified for two years. this year i was placed at marina and i've provided individual counseling to students, met with parents and

staff, etc., i'm a highly qualified counseloror, i have a license in family they are pi. this morning i met with the a.p. who offered me this felon re-elect notice and he told me he'd decided to rescind my notice. i asked for proof in writing and he was unable to give it to me. he told me he mailed it to r. -- h.r. and i'm hoping he's telling the truth. president mendoza: thank you. last speaker. >> cindy. i'm here to speak in support of cindy berenstein sibley. she has done a great job at our school. she has made great contributions to our school community. she has gotten satisfactory reviews. despite this being jerked around back and forth, you're nonre-elected. we're taking it back and

there's no evidence that it's been done. she continues to come in every day and make really life-changing contributions to the students she works with, changing their lives in very concrete ways. thanks. president mendoza: thank you. summit garcia? commissioner garcia: for example, i want to thank everyone fortune coming out this evening. this is probably the hardest decision that school board administrators make. unfortunately the way the laws are made they put people in situations to do this. so everybody falls somewhat to some extent a victim of circumstance in these situations. when the nonreelects come up, the law is specifically written where an administrator can make that recommendation. whether it's fair or not, we rely on the principals at our schools. i mean, that's who evaluates

how to review schools. we will take all of the people, you know, that have mentioned things here. we're writing down your names. it's public record, so we know who you are. we'll at least take some time to review those things. if this passes tonight, if, indeed, there's a particular incident that we've overlooked, we will review that. we can always in the future rescrinled any of those if there are particular issues. but i will tell you, being a parent of two kids, growing up and being in education for a long time. the truth always lies somewhere in the middle. so it's nice to hear your side of it but we also need to have an opportunity to hear the other sides of it. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. i want to also thank you for all coming out. our next item is the consent calendar. i need a motion and a consent.

any corrections by the summit? seeing none. any items removed from first reading by the board? seeing none. any items for the board for summit tonight? seeing none. roll call, pleas. item eight, the summits's proposals, there are none tonight. item j is a request regarding general 345er9s and we have another set of folks that we will have speaking on item j. so there are a couple of folks that are not speaking under the 10-21 group. they want to have you guys come up first because it's just a handful or it's just a few. so kimberly -- i want to keep all the fciu folks together

because you're going to have a set time. but anybody who's not speaking on fciu, i'd like for you to come forward first. so kimberly is on a general item. let's see if there's anyone else. and school staff. evelyn from cleveland, is this on a general matter? evelyn? is this on a general matter, not on a -- ok. come on up. so i'm going to have the two of you speak and just before that if you wouldn't mind letting me read the list of speakers that will be speaking after you.

[names being read] linda, you're going to be speaking on general matters also, so come up to the front, please. [names being read] evelyn, you're speaking now, right? ok. so the s.a.u. group, you guys have 20 minutes but that will come after the first group. i have three individuals. you have two minutes. >> good evening. my name is kim. i'm a student at the university of san francisco in the

multieducational program, huge rights. i've worked in san francisco schools for about the last 10 years. i'm here to express concern and share information about the university of san francisco. it's decided to evict the upward bound program that's been delivered on its campus since 19 6. and it's presently serving 136 students and provides recovery students at a time when cybra high subjects are very scares and night school is nearly extinct. the reason given from the university at the last two town hall meetings is that it's about space not refinances. the upbard -- upward bound shares its students with the rotc. they're keeping the rotc. i'm here to ask that the school board of education and san

francisco unified school district get involved, because right now the youth of san francisco need you as well as the community needs you. bobby seal will be at the university this thursday and he's going to be asked by the students to address this issue and myself along with some students in the b.s.u. are trying to galvanize the other culturally centered programs in the university to get involved on march 3 in which we'll do a silent demonstration. we ask you to consider a redecision. president mendoza: thank you very much. i'm sure there will be a few of us to get in contact with you. next speaker, please? >> good evening, everybody. we're ropting the cleveland elementary school. -- representing the cleveland elementary school.

our problem right now is that we're having cuts for the person in charge of the cafeteria. although the parents are concerned about this issue, we have noticed that she's really good with all the kids at the school. the person who is in charge of the cafeteria is very responsible with our kids so we want her to stay in our school. and we collected signatures from all the parents. thank you. president mendoza: thank you very much. >> good evening superintendent garcia, commissioners, ladies and gentlemen. i'm linda plaque. executive vice president of the

united educators of san francisco. i know that on march 1 you will have a special session to consider a resolution having to do with layoffs of certificated employees. of course, this is very regrettable but we understand that this is something that must be done to meet the march 15 deadline and and we're all hoping that there will not be layoffs in san francisco unified. but one concern we have is with the district's possible plan to treat part-time teachers differently in layoffs and in recalls as compared to like credentials -- credentialed, full-time certificate indicated employees. we feel that you should not be treating part-timers differently because this will dispo portionly affect the layoff of women. when we analyze the stats from the school district, we see that the aiming groups that are

part-timers are essentially the working mothers in our district. in other words, to focus layoffs or recalls against part-timers means that we were targeting women. mostly mothers who stay home or work part time in order to care for their children. among all certificated employees, females are 70% of the work force. part time teachers are 7% of the work force. 82% of the part time teachers are females. within that group of part-time female teachers, 37% are less than 39 years of age. 64 bank account are less than 50 -- 64% are less than 50 years of age. these are the younger teachers who are of child-bearing age. this is the reason we feel that social justice and equity is served when seniority is the

sole determinant of layoffs and recalls. we hope you use that criteria in this resolution. thank you very much. president mendoza: there was one other name -- there you are. we're going to give you 25 minutes to have all your speakers speak and we'll let you know when 15 minutes has passed. miswilson? miss wilson? when 15 minutes has passed would you let me know, please? thank you. >> good evening, commissioners, summit and friends. i'm a resident and voter in district number eight and a taxpayer. twice the school district has filed a motion to eliminate the district workers from the civil service commission and twice that motion was struck down by the courts. now that same motion has been filed a third time. i am puzzed that the school district seems to have unlimited funds to eliminate the civil service from their workers. the beauty of the civil service is that it doesn't cost the district a dime.

i want to remain in the civil service. thank you. [applause] president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening. can i ask all fciu people to stand up for a moment, please? i want to personally thank all of you for coming. thank you. my name is karen bishop and i am president of seiu school district for our local. i've been in this district as an employee for 42 years and i went through this school district as a student. i want to speak on the fact that for several years now the school district has only been hiring as-needed workers, specifically in our student nutrition department, although we have as-needed workers who are secretaries and custodians. as-needed workers have no benefits.

nothing. no medical, no dental, no vision, no holiday pay. every time school is closed, they don't get to work and they have no money. so i don't understand why we consider that temporary workers can help be a large part of this district and perform duties every day faith li -- faith fully, many of them who are parents. we've been in negotiations since last may. the student nutrition workers, in excess of almost 300 of them. they want to downsize them and reduce them in salary. they are already the lowest paid workers in our union. in the school district. we want the board commissioners to know that we will not stand

by and have our members be treated in the manner like they are an indentured servant. they deserve more respect than that. they faithfully work for you and faithfully feed the students here in this district every day. so thank you. [applause] president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening. carlos, superintendent garcia. my name is jovanna johnson miller and i'm here to talk to you about furlough days. we were closed out. we were locked out -- what day was that? february 4. and i understand there's another furlough day woman cog -- coming up and i don't know why it's being imposed upon us. as you know, we are the lowest

paid workers here in this part of the city. we don't make as much as our sisters and brothers across the street, but yet things are being taken away from us. we can't get a contract yet. don't know why that is and yet we're still being imposed with furlough days. we have to bargain those days and i think we deserve the right to bargain those days. let us do that. let us bar incident and give us a contract, a decent contract. and another thing, we want to say in civil service. if you want to take us out ask us how we feel about it. don't dictate and take us out anyway. let us know what's going on. let us tell you what we want. you don't decide for us. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is kaden. i am the field statuer for local 1021 assigned