maybe we can work on that together. >> press the button, please. >> my name is dana. i am here to bring to your awareness the issue we're dealing with on the part which street block -- bartlett street block. this is a rough estimate, but it has grown from 200 to 260 kids. that means there are a lot of young kids. when you have a bunch of abandoned cars and you have a ups truck trying to get through, you have regular people trying to get through and they cannot get through. they're doing it at accelerated it speeds and they have road rage because they have been

sitting in traffic. there have been four instances of cars getting sideswiped. to the point about enforcement, a it is something that you cannot make the parents behave the way you want them to. when there is nobody out there in forcing any type of slow, there is nobody in forcing anything, we have asked larry who committed a security guard. the security guard gets pulled away. larry does not have the resources to manage the situation. we have been patient with him. asking for his support and i do not think he has the resources. we're looking to the school board to support him in getting this situation under control because it is also dangerous for the kids when you have people flying through their, frustrated

and upset because there are parents abandoning their cars. >> thank you. we will make a phone call tomorrow to work with the city to have some kind of policing. sometimes it just takes a meter maid to come by for the first couple of times and then people start to get it. >> i think it is like the airport where you're not supposed to pull up to the curb. somebody has to be watching every day. there are three drop-off times. all three are chaos. >> the next item is item k, the report to the committee by board members. are there any appointments by the board?

the next item is a special order of business. a consent calendar resolution for second reading in action. there are none tonight. the vote on the consent calendar. it was moved and seconded already. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner murase: yes. commissioner yee: yes. >> those items are retroactive. >> the consent calendar resolution sent for discussion. there was one item, item k1.

this is a video that the high school is going to be doing. in the explanation on the video, the first sentence says the school found it necessary to have a campaign to attract eighth grade students to to the fact that the design has been postponed by the board of education for one year. i wanted to be clear that the board of education did not postpone any student assignment redesign. i wanted to get that on the record. roll-call. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner murase: yes. commissioner norton: yes. commissioner wynns: yes. commissioner yee: yes. president mendoza: no. >> proposal for a forced reading.

this is item 111 in support of a permanent name change for the high school to john o'connell high school. i need a motion and a second. thank you. this item is going to be referred to buildings and grounds. item r, none. item s, board members report on the school district select committee. commissioner fewer or norton? >> we heard a report about the summer program at the candlestick shipyard benefit agreement. it was very successful. it served many of our ninth graders with a very high rate to

its participation and success. >> thank you. a report from the budget and business commission? commissioner fewer: the budget and business committee met on october 27. we heard an update on the state's budget, are there any updates about this budget? i think it was pretty much the same we have gotten. >> yes, it was pretty consistent with previous reports. staff gave an update about state revenue collection. the key question is whether the state will project there will be a large enough shortfall

compared to the assumptions for this year to create midyear cuts. that is the major question. we have more information that has come in a sense which we -- come in sinse which we look forward to reporting. >> i believe that at the board meeting there was a question about the trigger being pulled and whether not transportation was included. would you mind reporting on that? >> but question was, after the 2 billion mark is reached, does that trigger an all at once cut to statewide funding for transportation? the answer appears to be yes.

>> we also had a budget overview of the department and we looked at a couple of budgets. our next meeting will be held on tuesday, november 29 which is different than our regularly scheduled meeting which is usually on a thursday. this will be on a tuesday evening at 5:30 in the afternoon. >> a report from the curriculum. commissioner norton? commissioner norton: we met on november 7. we heard three informational items. the first was a report of the academic and professionals on the continuing implementation. there has been a lot of the painstaking, thankless work to get all of the catalog corrected

and clean. they gave us an update on that and it is really not find work but really important and they have made great progress. we also heard a report from richard and the principle of mission high school on the early warning indicators. you may recall we discussed in these last year. we can predict with good certainty when a student has poor attendance and a poor grade point average in the eighth grade, those students are more likely to not complete high school. the question that we asked was, what are we doing with this knowledge now that we can pinpoint these students? what we doing to support them and a change that predictive power? we got an interesting report. i believe all board members got

this chart which shows the% of students who received a d or an f. having a gpa of 2.0 or less. it invites some study. i want to commend mission for all of the support they have put in place. they have done a wonderful job. partly through the help of the money which we know we do not have it all of our high schools. there are some promising practices. i want to commend them for their work. we heard a report from kevin true it and staff about school health education. we got an overview of all the different efforts of the department.

some alarming information about our follow through on board policy. it seems like we are not following our own policy and giving students required health education according to board policy. our overall health education policy needs to be updated to reflect changes in the standards. the committee did ask that we begin to look at that and update those standards. but also that we need to look at why students and don't seem to be receiving the required lessons for things like hiv awareness. anything you can think of that is connected to health. it requires 20 health lessons

and only 11% teachers taught education lessons during the 2010 school year. that is a problem. we need to continue to monitor that. the committee will meet again on december 5. that is the kickoff to the celebration and the focus. they've focus will be special education a year after our review. what still needs to be done. it will be augmented and invite everyone to attend. >> i have a question. in regards to the chart, i was looking at it but i did not understand it, especially the last column of each year. it would indicate that there is

a% of the students sit have to indicators. that did not make sense to me. >> what the chart is showing you a, a district-wide, the percentage of students who received a d or f, dropped by 13%. in comparing year over year 2010 obverses 2011, the percentage of students receiving an grade in math course who had those indicators dropped by 2%. it was a little bit complicated. if you still have questions, he is the best person to explain it. not me. that is how i am understand it. you can see this some schools,

commission made it -- in 2010, for example, 75% of students who had a gpa of 2.0, 75% of them received a d or f. when you look again into that in 2011, and it dropped to 46%. in other words, the students who still had the indicators, the red flags for the low gpa and the spotty attendance rate got a much better grades of the following year because mission had put the supports in place. >> other comments?

any other announcements? commissioner murase: 3 announcements. on october 27, the district attorney's office collaborated on a town hall at marina middle school. unfortunately it was not well attended but i urge parents to take a look at the common sense and media website. it has a lot of great information for families about cyber bling -- bullying and social media. just a shout out to be imagine bus project. they held a fund-raiser on november 3. they do work with the students, the juvenile justice center, malcolm x, bringing art to those classrooms. we appreciate their efforts in supporting our students.

finally, this friday the friends of the mission campus are having a celebration with sylvia mendez. there will be a reception at that campus of city college from 5:30 to 7:30. i did not know this history about mendez being a six year old in an orange county public school who was denied admission before the brown vs. board of education decision. has the sense left a legacy of desegregation throughout the country. there was a resolution that mary hernandez, when she was serving on this board, get together on the anniversary of the court victory.

commissioner fewer: i also wanted to let the public know that tomorrow night, aim high summer program will be celebrating 25 years. we wish them much success. thank you for partnering with us. also, i had the pleasure to go to el dorado school and is sought children making day of the dead alters about the memory of their very close family members. and had the pleasure of going into room 9 and enjoyed a great day.

>> i have a couple of things. this last week i attended the equity summit. crosshead. -- go ahead. >> i am hoping to lead a campaign in san francisco with a nonprofit organization. it is trite to bring peace to the congo and we are urging " vote to appoint a special envoy to the congo before the next election -- pogresident obama to appoint a special envoy to the condo before the next election. the picture would be e-mailed to you. on human rights day, december 10, there will be a common wall

in san francisco. i can tell you guys that if you want to know. you put out your picture and you put your face is side-by-side. december 10 at 6:00 p.m. >> i attended the equity summit in detroit, michigan. it was interesting. it was focused on poverty and community development. we have been trying to add the element of education in to those conversations. i want to congratulate the bay area fine -- science festival. it was fantastic and putting that together. they had their final -- 20,000 kids and their families at at&t park. i wanted to congratulate you speakers who celebrated their anniversary.

a partner with us as well. and richard, one of our teachers. he has the coral collaborative project which is our public schools and private schools, they have a chorus. they were invited to sing at the tree lighting ceremony in washington, d.c. they will be going to d.c. next month. we are fundraising for them. any other? commissioner yee: i wanted to congratulate all of the schools and communities that participated in the student enrollment fair. it was attended by thousands of people. it was packed. >> that was a terrific event.

i know that all of the teachers and parents came out on a saturday. i also wanted to point out there was a packet put together for you. thank you for making this effort to ensure that our families and know that john o'connell is one of our high schools. and the great things that going on over there. he has distributed quite a few disks to the eighth grade families. we have teachers they have redesigned call the o.c., which are really cute. thank you for all of the efforts you're putting in to promote it john o'connell. we are also going to have a ceremony, a brooding cutting for

the new facility -- ribbon cutting for the new facility. they will be training and apprentice ship programs. thank you for that. any other comments? >> thank you for these teachers. i want to mention that our student delegates would love one. could i get a small ind? [laughter] >> if there are no other reports, item t is a closed session action. do you want me to do november 1 quarter to want to recess tx should we recessed?

we have some -- we have one more agenda item on our closed session. we're going to recess and the board meeting now. we're going to finish are closed session and we will come back to report on our items and then adjourn the meeting. at this time i would like to recess this board meeting temporarily. we will be back and probably 20 mi