schools and see the node. sending our kids across town to raise apis is not the proper solution. we are not fixing anything here. >> what was your name? >> vivian. >> my name is david. i came here notifying what was going to transpire or be said. i'm here because my daughter is being -- the school she is going to, high school is on the other side of the city. why can't she go to high school in her neighborhood. i'm so frustrated. those other high schools are terrible.

they are so under performing. again. i'm sorry. >> i go to lotin alternative school. i'm an eighth grader and i have been assigned to john owe conal. this is a 1 hour and 20 minute commute from where i live. that would be two hours and 20 minutes back and forth. they do not provide a safe and secure environment or support what i want to do for the future. i feel this is not a fair assignment. all schools should be fair.

i feel unsafe in that neighborhood. i have no idea. i don't know whose from. i do not think that it would be a great place for me to learn. i feel that this happened to my friend too. all schools should be at a higher level so we can all get a fair and equal education. thank you. >> good evening.

i wanted to condprat late the district first of all for placing their district on the first, second or third choice. walking six blocks is now expected to go on an muni ride #-10 miles. it is inconceivable we could get them between the 20 minute start time. i suggest this maybe the priority given to that 14% of

people that get closer by. i am not planning on enrolling my daughter in that school. it would be quite ironic as a teacher if ied to remove my family from the district because i felt the situation was unsafe. thank you. >> my name is gram. five of nine most requested schools.

they are safe and will be put in the juvenile school without any input from the neighborhood. thank you. >> my name is andrea. we represent 500 households. it has been a really long day. . we have an opportunity. you have an opportunity.

we'll make this right. you need to be straight with us. we'll announce the next public meeting useful for all parties. it can't be the slick brochure or private partner. it can't be finger pointing. that goes both directions. we need to get down to business so we don't go back and do this again. we will help you. we have a lisina of four pages of well thought out research questions i would ask that the school district support us in making this plan. thank you.

>> i'm here to address the school assignment system. it is broken and needs to be fixed. 75% of parents get their choice as i embarked upon this process. it is unacceptable. with with a start time of 7:50 in the morning.

we are talking gas, environment and quality of life. the assignment is extremely unacceptable. it would mean i have 3.5 hours daily commute to get my son to school and get to work downtown. >>en fight willing me to nine years of a long commute, which is something i'm going to do. i have no other choice than to put him in private school, which i can't afford. another thing is blanketing of zip codes. does that mean someone could move into that neighborhood now and get a golden ticket. >> i need you to wrap up, please. >> when you think you've been

slapped in the face and there is nothing else that can bring you down. you have parents. there on paper but able to go into the second round. that lessens the possibility of getting my choice. >> i just want to back up everything said there and a lot of other people. >> i sow here on the wall when i'm waiting, kids care about the planet. my son was assigned to a school. i did al the calculation. i try and go public transport wherever i can.

i'm not sending my 11-year-old on a bus that takes three transfers and 50 minutes. kids care and we should be ashamed of doing that. i don't have the time. i can't do it. i spent years building and working the community in the schools. what was the point. now we can continue on in the same school. all that community building and now we cannot be a part of the community anymore. it is really interesting, you have a map of the school outside. the principal school is not even

lisinaed. is this really a school or a drug treatment program for juvenile adolescent offenders. the community discerns to know. you've been in this business for many years. you have to pay for this. our community is not appropriate for this type of project. the concentration of 150 kids who are third time offenders for drug use is shocking. state your name, please. >> mr. simon. >> my name is rita, i'm here to

contest the high school my daughter was sent to. we live 11 blocks from george washington. she went sent to an unsafe school. she said she is not going to go to this school. please consider it from the bottom of my heart. please reassign my daughter. it is equal to be thrown in the lottery for the kids who careless. why do my daughter have to be punished. we live in richmond for a purpose. i'm a nurse. i'm working in a hospital saving other people's live.

i'm asking you, maybe you could give me an opportunity to learn. she is there to learn. thank you. >> good evening. my name is nancy and i am here on behalf of the bay view community. i have always been here the reason why i am here is because i feel i need to stand up for my community. if no one speaks up, you will never hear our voices.

they are not complaints but they are concerns. historically, the bay view community has been under served. that did not begin in august of 20 2010. i received a disturbing email. maybe that's what it will take for the board to come out and hear what is really going on. we lost a stu debt at thur good marshall high school. teenagers are killing teenagers.

we could ult mountainly close the achievement gap and concerns. a teacher who can relate and understand the issues and poverty levels and struggles our children are faced with each day. if the board can please revisit. i want to thank the commissioner for coming out to our schools

and listening to the voices of our parents. thank you for listening to me. i hope we can get some help soon. >> my name is mark gram. might i have 3:00? i wanted to talk to you about a grassroots campaign called 25 teacher salary. in washington, the department of defense at that rate each one

costs the equivalent of 25 teacher salaries. we believe they can and should be the reallocation of that money to the states for the purpose of retiring teachers or paige the salaries. the states would be able to afford the other educators. there's not enough time to say everything i wanted. you could have some input to the

board as to what they wanted the school district resolution is one that asks the legislate your to pass the joint resolution asking congress to pass a bill the bill has not been introduced yet. the last thing i want to tell you is that two weekends ago in the state council conference, they approved the new business item to endorse our campaign. they asked the california legislate your to pass the joint resolution.

i have business cards for every member of the board. >> we have our external affairs member here. thank you. those are our speakers for tonight. item k, any board members have appointments to the committees. item m will be moved up. fon tonight. item is a vote on consent

calendar which is moved and seconded under section f. >> roll ca >> seven ayes. item p, consent calendar resolution. there were a few items polled. item k 23? >> yes. i pull thissed item. it's $55,000 adding on to the contract for the language bank which provides interpretation services and seshl ed meetings. were paying them a lot of money. just want to know if we made the

move to more providers. >> our new executive director for parent engagement are working on the reorganization to be able to rehire additional staff.

with the full realization that we are working for that plan oir new director gets on board i would urge that we have specific individuals the term inology is very difficult. if we could have somebody internally that knows that, that would be helpful. >> it is another great example of how all our priorities are. with our parent engagement, it's

all intertwined. looking at the special expert he's because it is so technical. >> thank you. the other items pulled. >> k 8. it is not receipt row. dates of service will be april 13 to june 30 for some reason, their dates of service will be starting sometime mid-april

through june 30. they wanted to expand through the summer. roll call, please. >> i want my colleagues to know items k 1-# were all retroactive the date of service was back in juwan. k 3 is march 2, the information not finalized before the start

of the meeting is not a sufficient explanation. we have to be careful about the dollars. you guys have been really great about these. i have not had to pull those for months. supporting these three items to note once again that the resolutions node to get involved. this is the issue we have had for many years.

it is hard to know what information is not available. we require the name of the consultant to be in this. elementary arts money. those things change sometimes. i want to know for years, congratulations for anybody who worked on it. we got rid of the j resolutions even though we rarely read them. their allocation, do we node to do this. some lawyers have opined that we do this are ways to do this.

when somebody gets it together and they are not very clear about focusing once we have give especially that school the peace allocation and the follow up of what is in their school plan. approving these is not the same thing. they have the budget, we approve them spending it on the school plan. if the legal requirements makes it more difficult making it in

response i'm sure we could have a standing ovation for every school in the city. that would be a great idea. this takes a lot of time to dub it into site plan that is is proved. believe it or not, there are places that do that. i do think it is possible for tuesday be able to do that. especially in budget times like this where staff cuts are everything. it would extend the hours.

we have 50 or # 0 of them in every meeting. the teacher that did show up. teachers are waiting months and months and months. >> i would be thrilled. my concern is that we are approving services already rendered. what i see here is that. i'm happy. this is why we do site-based budgeting. we only ought to see this if they were in the plan. some of the following lisina of