a unified school district meeting for november 15. commissioner murase: here. commissioner wynns: here. vice president yee: present. president mendoza: please join us for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flight of the united states of america and to the republic for

which it stands one nation under god, indivisible, are here with liberty and justice for all. i move for the approval of an ordinance for the regular meetings of april 12, april 26, may 10, may 24, october 2015. >> secondary it. president mendoza: roll-call vote please. >> now for the board of education superintendent's report. welcome back, dr. garcia. >> thank you. i just got back from china, so a little bit of jet lag her it how to start off by mentioning that this month is a busy month for everybody.

i wanted to thank 3 -- i wanted to thank everyone who worked in the enrollment there. our school communities are really active. i want to especially thank the staff at the educational placement center for coordinating this great event. we have over 10,000 attendees for dissipates. that is a lot of people. as usual, this fair kicks off the enrollment process of. we have modified some of the things, so it is in full swing. do not forget that the enrollment applications are due january 27 of 2012. i know that seems pretty far. but it will be on us before you know it. since the board adopted the new guidelines, i want to remind

everybody that we are still falling through. i know that the ballot initiative or whatever. we have already moved forward on what we are doing for the coming year. we want to encourage parents to follow that process and encourage people to read through all of the different guidelines. if you are interested in more information, go to www.sfusd.edu and get more information. we are so blessed to live in san francisco. in these tough times, we almost got a 71% vote from the public to pass proposition 8. that is just incredible. congratulations.

i know our board president was active. all of the board members, it was a team effort. i do not think we would have had a chance if not for the great work that our facilities department did. they have done such a good job in building schools and bringing projects in line. just a class act. world development when you look at how good our schools look. now we have our last third to get through to fix the facilities so they look as good as the ones where the previous bonds were passing. it is great to be in a community -- think about it. 80% of people in san francisco do not have children. yet, when there is not a single item on the ballot this last election that got more votes than this. even if you do not have children, it is good that you

are good stewards of the future. the children our our future. it is great that this community has rallied behind them. we are great to have that. we are going to build a state of the art school. that is pretty darned exciting. i am excited about that. i want to congratulate our new mayor, ed lee. it is a tough campaign, but we are looking forward to the school district and the county and city. we have always had a great relationship and want to maintain that relationship area we are ready to roll up our sleeves and continue the great work that we have been doing as a city and county, together with the school district. another item i want to mention is this will be the last board

meeting for our legal counsel. get that smile off your face. [laughter] we want to wish her well. she is going to a private practice down south. thank you for your service in the school district. almost four years now. time flies when you're having fun. she did a lot of great work for us, saved us a lot of money, and we want to thank you for all of your work. thank you carian -- thank you. [applause] since this is our last meeting for the month, i want to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving. we have a lot to be thankful for. that is what makes living in san francisco so exciting for all of us. we have so much to be celebrating. i hope you use thanksgiving as not only an opportunity to give thanks, but to celebrate the success of these last elections.

and all of the great work that are 56,000 children are doing out in our schools. and all of the faults helping our teachers. everybody have a greater thanksgiving. and thank you carry. president chiu: item indeed is the students delegate report. >> we have joined the school health programs review task force and the task force meets twice a year to review a curriculum or supplemental classroom materials. and we are welcoming three new members from a mission and ida b wells high school.

>> in addition, leadership san francisco has invited representatives from mission, burton, marshall, and low oil to their education system tomorrow at the conference center at st. mary's cathedral the assumption at 1111 ghost st. the focus of this session is high school leaders, what is needed for education in san francisco. each group of students will meet with a small group of leadership san francisco participants to discuss issues such as what works and what does not work in san francisco's education system. in will also make an active

action recommendation to our group suggesting how we can actively improve the san francisco education system. additionally, yesterday, we had a meeting and -- in which we continue to work on our bathroom policy. president mendoza: thank you. item e is our parental advisory board. that report will not take place because the meeting is taking place right now. they cannot accommodate us after we change our meeting. the next meeting will be december the 13th. it is okay with my colleagues, i would like to move up item em. -- item m. the san francisco you commission

is going to present a report on the immigrant summit that took place last month. seeing no objection, if mario and happy with like to come on up. welcome to the board meeting. you can sit at the sap table. -- at the staff table. before they begin, i want to congratulate all of you for an amazing event that you put on. our youth commission can do both the school district and the mayor's office for support to bring together as many of our immigrant youths to gather and talk about many of the challenges that have. they will tell you what they have done. we have had the opportunity to

be there for you in the morning. the kids are really engaged and value the time that you gave to them and information that you provided. happy, do you want to go ahead and start? >> yes. honorable commissioners, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you. i am a senior. i am the youth fellowship leader for the use summit. i want to give a big thank-you to you for supporting the youth summit. president mendoza, with your help, we were able to hold a meeting including 99 students

from seven public high schools, including mission, ifa, third marshall, washington, linkedin to their first-ever youth summit on friday, october 28 to. i want to thank president mendoza for supporting the use -- the youth. i would like to share with you how we got started area i came to the united states two years ago. when i first came here, i did not speak a lot of english. i had to translate for my parents and i got disconnected from this new life. i did not know where to turn to for help. after i served on the u.s. commission -- on the youth commission, i realize there were

a lot of education and political opportunities in san francisco. i hope that i can connect these opportunities to other immigrant youth. i formed the committee with a student advisory council member, with commissioners, and we decided -- we hope to use this summit to connect with these opportunities with the use and raise awareness of our needs with city officials, you guys and the board of supervisors and the mayor, we are going to also present to them we also hope to gather data through interaction with students to make policy recommendations to better serve the youth. this is just a preliminary

presentation. i hope you understand our needs and support us. next, i want to share with you about what happened on the day of the summit and what we learned. the summit happened october 28 and we had exciting speakers, such as president mendoza, rep from the assembly, supervisor campos and supervisor avalos, and we also had a resource fair for immigrant youth. we learned a lot of things from the meeting. first, many immigrant youth are not well informed of the existing resources, programs,

services. second, there is an inconsistent quality of experiences and resources offered to youth the heading on where they go to school in grid for example, students from washington shared that their school provides specific sites to cater to the needs of esl students, but students from other schools did not mention that. third, for documented youth, teachers and counselors should know more about the resources and programs that affect their lives, such as the ad540. we hope to work hard to have more cooperation with schools and teachers to ensure a quality experience for our students. after the event, last wednesday our committee met and decided a

series of actions that we want to do, which are first, we are now working on a student stairways and a small group discussions to create a report with action steps so that we can make a more comprehensive policy recommendations. second, we want to continue to inform students of resources available to them. lastly, we go to schedule another meeting sometime with the board of education, teachers, officials such as the board of supervisors or mayor to make sure we include more comprehensive plans about how specifically we want to recommend you to help the youth.

finally, we want to identify a date for our next summit. that concludes my presentation. i look forward to any questions. [applause] president mendoza: thank you. are there any questions? >> thank you for your presentation and congratulations on a wonderful event. i would like to know what country some of the students came from? >> a lot of them were from china, vietnam, mexico. those are the main ones. after we tally up our survey, we all know -- we also asked about their ethnicity so we can give you a more comprehensive report when we come back. >> thank you. president mendoza: commissioner fewer. commissioner fewer: thank you for your presentation.

it was so interesting. what i would like to hear back is some feedback on how we are serving our esl students. are they given academic counseling, are they kept up-to- date on the new opportunities? what kind of opportunities, employment opportunities might they have for other services -- where other sources of financial aid might be available to them? and many about our counseling department and whether our academic counselors are meeting the needs of our students in terms of talking about opportunities to go to four-year universities or colleges. and their parents, we have also done a good job of our reaching to their parents. applying for college is a daunting process and a crazy process, quite frankly.

it may be unfamiliar to many of our immigrants to this, and particularly our students who want to give a lot of encouragement to students to attend the college university. i have met once today who said to me that she could not go because she was not documented. i'm hoping for some feedback of how we can better meet the needs of our ad540 students. >> i will take that into account when we write a report. we will definitely get back to you. president mendoza: other questions or comments? in i am curious, just in terms of the survey results, what your next step is with the youth? will you continue to connect with them? and will you do this again next

year? >> i am the director of the youth commission. your second question remains to be seen. the youth commission, by charter, turns over every year. and we also have 17 new commissioners to train. it remains to be seen whether or not we will do this next year. it depends on the direction of the commissioners. we know that in january -- commissioner yang spoke of coming back here. we want to do the same with the mayor and the board. we also like to do school specific presentations. one of the things, from the cursory look of the surveys we have looked at, president mendoza, is that those seven schools, more individualized attention. we would like to give more

specific presentations admission, lincoln, washington, etc. maybe we could do that three president mendoza: thank you for. if any other comments? congratulations on a wonderful day. i know that you worked closely with the sec as well. a really great by becoming from everyone. -- vibe coming from everyone. [applause] we move on to public comment on consent items. i have no speakers on consent items.

just as a reminder to the public, in accordance to 11.2, and individual wishing to address the board on an agenda item can call the board at 4 ko'd 30 on the day of the meeting or by completing one of the speaker cards on the evening of the meeting prior to the item being called. if the car is turning at the same time of the item, it will not be accepted. item g is the consent calendar. i need a motion and a second. thank you. any items to be drawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> wii one correction. the first paragraph of the program description should be stricken. the service description should start with the second paragraph that starts off with the sentence "with the goal of

increasing student education and increasing the climate." it should start there. president mendoza: any items severed by the board for discussion tonight? seeing none, i would actually like to pull k1. thank you. roll call police. -- roll call please. i have a couple of speakers. how item j. when i call your name, please come on up. cardoza, hernandez, jackson, enkel, samiyoua, flanagan.

come on up. you have two minutes each. >> the reason why i am here is i got involved in paul revere middle school. there is an obvious problem between the parents and the prince of bel -- principal. in the year 2011, the problems that are going at paul revere are happening where we have police reports of kids being

tied up in the basement and reports of psychologists that are seeing our children because they have been affected by the principle. we had a demonstration about one month ago. what i am trying to voice here, in this meeting, is that hopefully you will take this matter into consideration because a lot of kids have been affected. i know that as a school board, you have to defend your principals, that is part of your duties. please take a look at what the parents and children are saying is an issue. there is going to be a lot of denial back and forth, but it is a serious issue where, i know a mother who, on a daily basis, she has watched the underwear of for son because there is a

policy that they are not allowed to go to the bathroom. on a daily basis, this child comes home with soil and underwear. that is one of the issues that i am aware of that is going on. obviously, there is a major disruption of education going on at paul revere because of the issue with the new principal. hopefully, before you approve for new contract, which is coming up in december, but that all the petitions that are coming out from parents involving this -- involving these issues. thank you for the opportunity. >> could you tell us what ace stands for? >> the alliance of californians for empowerment. >> i am a parent of five children at paul revere elementary.

first, i would like to say that i brought my police report in regards to the incident with the principle grabbing my son and i have a witness. here is the police report, if i could and that in. second, i want to speak in regards to the education of my children that is being handled by this principle. in the spanish immersion program -- there is supposed to be a certain percentage of children taught in spanish cree and that is not happening with my kids. they're being taught more in english than in spanish. i can give an example. my daughter is being taught two hours per day in spanish. the rest is in english. this is supposed to be a spanish immersion program. when i approached a teacher had asked her why there is only two hours of spanish, she said, let me talk to the principal and get back to you in. i have not heard anything since. another thing i would like to

bring up is that they are doing the mediation's at the school. they are a waste of time. they do not working. they tell parents the war -- that of parents that want to work with community and everything, but as soon as the meeting is out, it is the same thing. they do not follow sig, there has been no change since these meetings have been going on. there have been two presently, and i have not seen anything. there was an incident with my son this week and i was not called. they stated in the meeting that the principle is irresponsible -- the principal is responsible for issues with our kids. i did not get a phone call. i stand strong saying that i think the principle should be removed from the school. that is for the community at our

school. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> i have four kids at all revere. -- at paul revere. i have had several incidents with the school staff and i have talked to the principle. one of them is that they send the kids to silence once and recessed. -- to silent lunch and recess. every time i have a