learn about how that school is named that. why that name is there that they look at everyday. >> thank you. we node to have the adults know who they are as well. jo good evening to the commissioners. thank you for allowing me to speak. i apologize. i want to stand and commend you for taking the stance for dr. brown. if you want to know history, you must know dr. brown. to commend you from moving forward, i think the contribution is the greatest contribution african-americans can be proud of.

ize our true hero. i'm happy we can applause and salute her for her efforts to our children all the generations can see her contribution. thank you for saluting her upcoming birthday as well. jo thank you. >> good evening. >> i didn't get a carted either. my name is chris daniels. i'm representing my husband at his request. he is the naacp director for california. as educators, you are very well aware of the attention to doe

tails. there's a difference that that can make. a name is not a small matter. it is everything. it's where you go every had r day, what you are a part of, a reference of pride. in honor, this is an easy one. it is an honor to one of san francisco's finest citizens. right now, you have a power to send a powerful message. that's it. thank you. >> welcome reverend brown. >> madam president and members of the board, to the staff of our school district, i mraud the

efforts while recovering. my mobility was a bit compromised. but my mouth and mind was spared by the lord. >> it was on july 4 when i experienced this stroke i happened to have been reading

the book, racial front years. san franciscos's black dmunity from 1900-1940. in the preceding chapters 1940-1900. i read there were there was a person who was like what this marnt references when she came and stood with her child. a person who is a bully named peter a bully. and people do change, thank god, but i submitted to the grounds committee last night, that unfortunately, people never change. he didn't get converted at all.

he was born in nashville, tennessee, reared in missouri, was counseled to the mormon church and followed them westward and went on northward, to oregon, and when he got there and established the first hamlet, germantown, his first order of business was to get an order neans -- ordinance enacted saying that no black folks would be allowed in that hamlet. and if they were there, they would be beaten every six months until they left town. it didn't stop there. came down to california. got involved in politics and the gold rush and got his way to the

high office of the first governor of this state. and i thank god that you all have removed another investigate tadge of our dark past. peter burnett was not only a bully to black folk but he was also mean toward asians, chinese specifically, and worked for the obliteration of native americans . and the sad commentary is, ladies and gentlemen, that no one in high office knew who this man was and what his legacy was until i called from my sick bed and said we got to get that name off of that building over there on newco mmp b street, the one

community that had been underserve for too long when it comes to opportunity for african americans and other oppressed people. so you ought to make this a big night on april 12. don't put your life on the bushel. you ought to have all the bells and whistles here, media here and let it go forth that we're dealt with eradicating the legacy of a bully of 1849-1851 in this city of san francisco and the state of california. and when we do that, we will send a signal that we will also deal with the modern-day bullies who are still bullying gays and

lesbians and anybody who is different. we ought to send them a message around the world that in san francisco, the city of st. francis, no bully even in his name, will remain on any building and particularly a place where our children are developed during their tender years. president mendoza: thank you very much. we hope you will join us on april 12. this is the first reading and the full board will hear it again. i just want to acknowledge the audience who we haven't seen in a while, good to see you deborah. is it your aunt. so wonderful. we are looking forward to honoring her on the 12th.

va, we have to move on. >> i want to acknowledge this as well. president mendoza: item s is the board members' reports, report from the curriculum. we had that report anyone want to report on that, commissioner fewer. commissioner maufas. i was there. would you please, commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: select committee heard our summer school options and we heard from our city partners and all of the summer resources that they will be having. i know we had a summer resource on march 19 where many families wept to find out summer

resources, programs, camps, activities for families and also go to that web site -- do you happen to know it, president mendoza? commissioner maufas: we talked about our summer school options. president mendoza: commissioner fewer do you want to talk about the plans for ninth grade. commissioner fewer: during that meeting, we presented some data about the ninth graders who received d's and f's during the fall semester and our inability to serve during summer school since our budget canceled summer school. these ninth graders, this is the

first year that these ninth graders will have to graduate with the new graduation requirements. this meeting smarked interest of the mayor to support the commitment they had already made to help our students achieve that status. we will be able to offer summer school to our students who have received a d an f. president mendoza: next. >> we reviewed legislation,

variety of issues, including finance, teen dating violence, cyber bullying, formal process for he appointments and working a draft for further discussion. we heard a very comprehensive report on the board policies and administrative regulations online. it's a huge job. i want to commend sues and wong who contacted the school board association for this project. and the team is rationalizing hundreds of policies and procedures and board resolutions. so there is measurable progress on that. and that concludes my report. >> can i add something about the policies that was really interesting to me. one of the things that happened, we all know we didn't have the capability of computer rising

these things but subsequent to the meeting, what i found out, the reason that we have so many policies that are not in our policy book at all is that this responsibility is to be centralized in the legal office and years ago was decentralized into departments and nothing happened after that. all the policies went into the can after that. and the huge job that susan described to us is taking what is in the policy manual and putting it in a sensible fashion, then there will be an enormous thing of going through everything that the board passed that never made it into the manual. president mendoza: thank you, we are reporting back on any of the conferences and events you have been to. vice president yee: we were at the council of league of cities

and schools legislative conference and i typed three pages of notes and i will try not to read them. one of the things that we push for, in particular, superintendent garcia, was the whole notion of the common core standards that we passed. even though we are supporting and trying to align everything to it, there are two groups right now that are working at developing strategies about how to actually make it happen. and the discussion between -- not between, but in both of these groups, there had been no discussion about how do you plan strategies with english language learners. that's something he really pushed and we tried to reinforce that because there is nobody discussing that. and we are telling people we aren't trying to lower the bar

here. we're just saying, we also need strategies, in particular in california. so and i brought back a lot of stuff -- i expect everybody to read it. and there are a lot of good studies and looking at some of our urban districts and our urban districts are really outperforming a lot of our counterparts that aren't urban districts in regards to the closing achievement gap. that's something to look at. and the -- one of the things they talked about is title 1 but some discussion in the capital to possibly want to blend or combine title 1 and title 3 and a lot of us are fighting that in

making sure that the title 3 is protected for our english language learners and don't mix it in to provide flexibility. so that's something to look -- pay attention to. and when -- the other thing in the study that they discussed was in looking at what really mattered in terms of raising the test scores and so forth, improving student outcomes, they found that the most important thing was really the structure of the district, in other words central office and everything else, the governance also. that if we all focus on the instructional matters that that

was the most important thing. it was not -- they found it didn't really matter what kind of reform you came up with, what you named it and so forth, but districts doing really well and what they had in come common was the governance and central office piece was in sync and we basically look at ourselves -- not service but support to sites. and that was kind of nice to hear them say that because it reinforces what we're doing and felt like we were going in a right direction but i never heard anybody else say it. and then the duncan, secretary of education -- arn inch e, he

spoke a little bit and it was nice to hear him say, talk about a lot of things we are doing nationally. he talked about parent engagement and supporting early childhood education. the other thing i heard him talk about is that you know how we are trying to address chronic absenteism and he said it is a problem when kids don't go to school. the reauthorization we have been talking about reauthorizing that for the last two years, three years. and it seems they are going to try to come up with something before may -- the end of may, i guess and everybody was saying

the same thing. so i'm taking it pretty serious. so pay attention to our reps at the federal level when they ask for our help because they will move quickly once they get focused on this. as you already know the budget doesn't look that great for us. even though president obama said he wants to support education and if it were passing his budget, it would be supporting education, but the house passed a bill that basically did away with all his priorities. so there was a lot of stuff that was discussed. commissioner wynns and myself and superintendent garcia and nancy went to the capitol to talk to our republics about

these issues. pick it up and read it and return it a couple of times. >> i would like to say that is a very positive statement on everything we heard. i came back a lot more depressed because it sounds pretty bad to me and maybe we get reauthorization, but we may not this year, but doesn't look like the kind of reauthorization we're going to like in my opinion. >> there are many opinions why commissioner's report made me happy but i would like to share with the commissioners that as we are writing our cor curriculum work we are writing not only to the national core standards but number 15 which is integral to our work and writing towards english language learners and including that in our core curriculum.

so san francisco will be in the cutting edge. president mendoza: i want to commend a few schools -- there were quite a few auctions and fundraisers going on this weekend and i just want to thank all of our families to contributing to their schools and it's a difficult time. they were wonderful gatherings and i was happy to be able to go to two of those three and went to the lincoln brotherhood-sisterhood and i'm in love with cloggers which i wouldn't think about being in love with but cloggers rock. and the s.a.c. youth summit was great to see 200 students come together for that. on saturday, there was the industry fair, which was the -- for c.t.e.

and we had probably about 300, 400 students there and about 60 businesses that came and spoke to our kids about their industry and it was an amazing opportunity for our kids to hear about what kinds of work they can go into. and i thank our business partners for coming out and students for coming out on a saturday morning. i was there -- my kids were still in bed and we had 11th graders saturday morning eager to learn and great partners to do that with them. so i was happy with that. commissioner norton. commissioner norton: give my report from curriculum which was on earlier and. president mendoza: if there is anything different? commissioner norton: there are two things. we here about the schools. but i wanted to say at the

curriculum meeting on march 7, first of all, we had the pleasure of reviewing a donation of two books from the -- donated by the japanese american citizens league, book "zero" companion volume which is called "one." this is another lovely children's book. the other book, i don't have a copy with me but called "swimming in the american" and donated and written by the author who i met this evening. he has had a very interesting life. he was intender and refused to sign a loyalty oath before he got out of the camps, which caused him problems in his life. but he per see verdict and became an actor and wrote this which has now been donated to

our libraries and for our students to experience. thank him very much for that. and we heard a very interesting presentation on our programs for english learners. and we talked almost an hour about it and could have gone longer. we want to revisit this subject. we had a long discussion about mandarin versus cantonese instruction and part of the information i had requested was, what are we learning about which programs are most effective for our english learners because we are doubling down on that investment right now. and i think it's important for us to be looking at the data at how well our kids are learning, which programs are serving kids best and i would like to revisit that top pick. the next -- topic.

>> i want to give a shoutout to ruth from p.a.c. and the p.a.c. members and pbs. i went to the james middle school and i saw how diligent ruth was in trying to get people to focus on giving input and not allow for one or two or three of the parents to taking over. it was very difficult and stood her ground, because sometimes it seems like when two, three people start talking as a group and sometimes the group will allow for it and then complain to you later and say i didn't get a word in. so you haven't gone to any of these, go to one, it would be helpful and be supportive of

what they are doing. they are trying to help us. president mendoza: item t is report of closed session actions. board of education approved the expulsion of one student in the existing litigation case. the board vote of six ayes approved the settlement of $30,000. reports listed under this item are exceptions of gifts for the month of 2011 and informational notice of classified personnel transactions. and we are adjourning in the memory of a retired administrator who passed away on february 23. he graduated from mission high school and served in the u.s. army until 1948 and was a

teacher for san francisco in 1955, retiring in 1989. during his 34 years, he worked as a teacher, basketball coach and administrator and had a profound effect at different schools. he worked hard his entire life in order to achieve a good life for his family and extremely devoted to helping young men and women everywhere. he brightened the lives of many with his sense of humor, loving husband and father and grandfather. board of education and superintendent of schools express sincere condolences to his family. meeting adjourned.

>> good afternoon. the meeting will come to order. this is the regular meeting of the land use and development committee. i am supervisor mar. are there any announcements? >> please turn off cell phone and pagers. any documents should be submitted to the clerk.