noticed as a layoff to standardize hours across the division. we are noticing 79 special education per professionals. overall, the layoffs are approximately 60% of all laid- off paraprofessionals. the next slide compares the per professional layoff for last year and this year. by the time we sent the final layoff notices, we were able to significantly reduce that number. in the end, all but 17 paraprofessionals were called back. we are hopeful that will be the case this year as we continue to gather information. in conclusion, given the uncertainty with the butting process in san francisco, we have no choice but to be prepared. we are asking that you give us the flexibility we need to do with the uncertainty of our funding. the can tell you the superintendent said to me before this is the worst day of the

year for me and members of my staff. it is the last thing in the world i want to be sitting up here doing. thank you. we have a number of people here to answer questions. president yee: there are clarifying questions right now. i want to move on to the public testimony, and then come back to comments from the supervisors. is that ok? >> i am sorry. i was just searching for the presentation. i missed the beginning portion. is there a total number of proposed layoffs, the savings? is it in here? just tell me the page, and i will go there. thank you.

>> will you press your button? >> i am sorry. it is 210 teachers. correction. certificate teachers. the entire total of the layoff is 333 full-time equivalents. >> is there a dollar amount associated? >> which include administrators. >> is there a dollar amount? >> yes. if you include the entire layoff, it is approximately $35 million, but that is high. we are over noticing administrators significantly. it is around $25 million. >> between 25 and 35? >> it will not get to 35. you would have to lay off almost every administrator in the district.

if you choose to do that. >> i am going to take a guess. there are some people that might have left already. there are basically two groups that are here to speak. those that have some objections to ward the resolutions -- the other group is there to support certain pieces of the resolution. i am guessing those are the two groups here. if that is the case, if you are not in those two groups, you can form a third group, and you go last. rather than reading off all these names, which will take another 10 minutes, what i want you to do now, if you are here

to support something about this resolution -- please line up right over here. you have one minute each. what you need to do is give me your name. i am going to cross off your name. if you did not sign up -- if you do not have one of these signs today, do not bother getting up here, because i will cut you off. if you called in earlier, i have those names also. this would be the group that would be supporting something about the resolutions. right after that, if you have some objection to something in the resolution, or the resolution itself. are you set? you have one minute each. i did not do a very good job with the last group of speakers,

cutting people off at the one minute mark. because there are so many of you, i hope you understand i will have to cut you off. otherwise, we will be here forever. are we ready? here we go. press the button. say your name. go for it. >> my name is chris rosenberg. i want to start by saying thank- you to all the board members. i think you have done a great job of trying to avoid layoffs, which is what we all want. layoffs are bad for all of us, bad for our kids. in the event there have to be layoffs this year, i am in support of skipping the superintendent zone teachers. those are traditionally the schools where we have the highest turnover, the students need the most support the can possibly get. we have spent a lot of time and money with professional development. we are committed to reaching our goals. i would ask you to support this

resolution. thank you all for your time. >> commissioners, superintendent, president yee. i am the proud principle of everett middle school. i support the resolution to keep the teachers in the superintendent's unsafe, so we can keep our promise to equity social justice, keep the consistency, the continuity, the investment, and the momentum to move toward excellence. a lot of time and money has been spent. the right people are on the bus. teachers are there because they want to be. 27 in my school have joined and the remaining half want to stay. they are therefore the right reasons. please support this resolution. >> good evening, members of the board. i am the proud principal of

cesar chavez elementary school. i am here to urge you to support the resolution that skips or 70 teachers in the mission school zone. i am proud to say that as an english lerner, an immigrant, and a latino woman, i am here to lift the spirits of the bulk of these students. and all the investment we have made in the past year and a half are beginning to show some traction. i urge you to support this amazing work we are doing to transform our schools and lift our families to an equitable education. thank you for your time. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is beatrice warrants. i am the mother of four kids. i have one in cesar chavez. i am here to support the teachers'. a lot of you are interested in my school. you are doing a great job.

i think we are spending money on them. i think we should put more effort into keeping the teachers that we have. i am very helpful. >> good evening. i am a teacher irving. i am speaking on behalf of two parents that had to leave because of the late hour. one parent in particular had a student who was challenging. the transition to can the garden was extremely hard and violent. it was a violent beginning of this school year. because of the dedication of teachers working beyond their powers, the child has successfully transitioned. the have a mission to make sure every student leaves reading. i'm honored to speak on behalf of those teachers. although the lack seniority, they possess all the skills of a tenured teacher. i ask that we keep those

teachers on the force. thank you. >> good evening. my name is donna smith. i am a parent of a student at george washington carver. research has shown that one of the largest negative factors in lower test scores is teacher turnover. the teachers we have chose to be here. other teachers have chosen to leave. don't our children deserve teachers who want to work and be at our school? so many of the students in zone 6 face, or significant environmental challenges. they find our school to be a sanctuary. with so many of our teachers being at risk of layoff, the strong relationships will be destroyed. we have to spend tremendous money on training the staff,

because we have to teach a challenge in population. they have made great strides. we will not have any money in the future to provide for this, so what assurance would you give us? the new teachers -- are they going to be qualified are professionally trained to work with our students? i have heard so many meetings about achievement gap, and talking about the civil-rights problem. this is a problem we can solve. please do not lay out our teachers. thank you very much. >> i have three grandchildren ago to carver and elementary. i am not just talking for myself. i have heard parents say there has been a great academic growth in the school. if you take our teachers away from the school, our children have to go through another

transformation. we know what kind of transformation and went through last year. thank you. >> good evening. my name is ray mendoza. my son is a senior at high school. he has always struggled in grades. but there is now a kind of magic. all of a sudden, he has been on honor roll. he has done good. he went there as a junior, and he kind of guru. they want to get familiar with the teachers. especially the parents, they want to see this consistency in our school system. i have been to a lot of pta meetings. it is like a close-knit family. i just want to make sure we keep

our teachers where they are right now. last, i want to say it is the place to be. thank you. >> what was your name? >> dr. gomez is our principal. my name is rain mendoza. thank you. >> good evening. i am actually a parent from john o'connell high school. my kid is a junior. he has a 4.0. i am very proud of this school. i am actually supporting all of what they are doing. it is remarkable in transformation. with three years of being in the school, it made my son very, very academically -- very

actually good. just to let you guys know, we would love to keep our teachers as much as we can. have them come back to all the teachers that have been there for so long. thank you. this is the place to be. >> hello, board. and you for having me here again. i just wanted to start off by saying there were three parents that had to leave. the student that took off running was probably one of our students. he cried leaving the board meeting, because he wanted to stay. just to start off, i know with hydra, we are looking at the same kind of thing. the big thing showing success with african-american students

is having stability with the adults, earning trust, training teachers to better assist and help the students that really need it. right now in san francisco, the api is 7.96, which is great. in the nation's own schools, i do not know if any of them are above 700. we are looking at becoming good to great in the superintendent zone schools. this is where we need your support, especially in these communities that have low ratings. if you are ever in the area, please come see what we are doing. our staff is fully committed. the had the opportunity to leave, but they stayed because they wanted to be at o'connell. thank you very much. >> good evening, members of the board. my name is maria. i am the principal of buena

vista, and immersion spanish school. i am here to ask for support for our teachers to stay. i think that the merger created a special condition for our students, mitigated only by the fact that the teachers that were there for buena vista last year and that were there for horace mann were returned to the site. that created that stability for our students. again, begging for continuity. i believe the 28 points earned last year on the api are because of that. as we strive to create a model dual immersion school in the nation, because that is what we are striving for, we need to keep our teachers as they are. the specialty of our program demands that we have that continuity, as teachers

collaborate to insure construction for all students. thank you. >> good evening. i am the supervisor of professional learning. i am going to talk quickly about the adult practices of professional learning that is happening, what roger calls the special training to meet the needs of students. we have put in place a robust system of professional support for teachers. it is based on the best practices of professional learning. it takes place on site. it is collaborative. it fosters collegiality and leadership. i know you have gotten a list of some of the professional learning that happened. to make it real, i am going to list it. there is english now, read 180,

constructing meetings. these are professional meetings to support english-language learners. there are mathematical instruction guides, focused on core curriculums. the list goes on. in order to continue the growth and development of the teachers within the zone, we need to have them there. thank you. >> i am jennifer bird, from everett. i am here to support the resolution not to give pink slips to the teachers in the superintendent's school zone. let us stick with what we are trying to do and continue. thank you. >> good evening. i am the program administrator for mathematics in the superintendent zone mission district. i am here to ask your support

for this resolution, as well as to share a little bit about the specific support we have given our teachers in terms of professional learning, so they can deliver more effective mathematics instruction. because we have dedicated and equitable support for some of our neediest kids in the district, our math coaches, our acceleration teachers, have been able to provide not only professional learning for their schools, but we have also been a leader in the district for some of the district priorities. especially i would like to highlight the core curriculum work. we piloted the instruction guide. we continue to analyze the data to inform and monitor progress. one thing i am especially proud of is our work with performance assessments, which is forward looking for common core standards. i would like to see that

continue. thank you. >> [speaking spanish] >> i represent bryan school. >> [speaking spanish] >> last year, we can to ask you for growth for our school academically, and also for the general community. now that we are a model school, we come to find out some of those committed to our schools are going to be moved.

we are here to ask you a question. one of the pillars of teaching in san francisco is what we do to improve continuous education. we would like you to explain to our students where the killer is of the broken promises. to the professionals in education, they can tell you that to get it right the first time is one of the most important things to get things right in the 21st century.

so i asked you that in regards to our school to look for another strategic plan to help for school. thank you all. please help us. >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening. my name is maria gomez, and i come for bryan schools. i am here to tell you just as my partner did that i do not agree with what we are doing. i am asking you to maybe look for other strategies.

we have great schools, great teachers at the schools, academically and also as people. i am here to tell you to please take us into account, and please take into account our children. that is why we are here. we hope that the fact we are here is taken into account. we just hope we can get a positive answer.

he is my son. he says he wants to say something. >> we do not want to lose teachers, because they are so nice to us and the respect us. >> [speaking spanish] >> thank you for being kind and listening to us. please, they are our future. at least think about it. >> good evening, president, superintendent, and board. those are my family's. i feel proud to stand in front of you, saying that it is time to be bold. i'll say it again. it is time to be bold. it is time to be bold, to really keep these promises to our families. they so deserve it. i am here to really advocate to keep the zone teachers, and to

really keep an integral to our community, to the relationships that have built with each other, with ourselves, and with their families. like i say, this is about being innovative, but it is also about being bold and courageous. i ask that you really stand for the voices that had to leave because the could not stay late, and the voices of the 240 children and families i represent at brian elementary school. >> i am the new principal at bret harte, and want to speak on behalf of excluding the zone. i cannot be more eloquent than superintendent garcia about the difficulty of creating stomach long-term change in a constant state of transition.

we were working on the budget and thinking about what we were going to do for professional development, planning the budget for that. one of my leadership team members said, "do we also have to budget for the five new teachers who did not get the professional development we had last year? there was a pause. will they be here next year? what are we investing index it is very difficult to produce systemic change in a constant state of flux. the other thing we talk about a lot is doing our students through a trauma lands, because there is so much trauma. there is so much inconsistency in transition in their homes. one of the best things we can do to recognize the goal of equity and social justice is to recognize that in our schools. thank you. >> good evening.

i work with mission schools. i work in professional development. i'm one to talk about the framework of what we are doing. it is a process. it truly is a process. many of our teachers are already in the second step. just taking them out of the schools would take that away. also, i just want to tell you a quote i just read in one of the books. it is not educational. in god we trust. everything else, i need data. look at our data, please. that will tell you the story from our schools. thank you. >> thank you, board, for allowing me the opportunity to

come up and speak. i want to thank dr. gray and superintendent garcia, and the deputy superintendent. i am so pleased that the first year administrator came to see you on behalf of the students and superintendent zone. just to have that courageous leadership -- you can easily just go with the flow. i appreciate you standing up for our kids. i think in order to break the cycle of policy and poor performance in our schools that effective research has shown the following to be essential for positive transformation, and to resurrect schools in the superintendent zone. i have heard a lot about that tonight. just thinking about leadership and the approach to leadership, in terms of putting a

distributed leadership and not going from the top down, but from the bottom down, including our community, that is essential. the goes into our community ties. this community is hurting. there is a lot of healing that is taking place that cannot be measured in numbers. >> that was principal more. i represent the common leaders who could not be here because of fiscal side council meeting where there were deciding how to engage their community in this conversation. two things you should know about carver. last year, carter had a new principle come in, after having come to the board to ask for an investigation of a principle that was hired because of the sig implementation process.

one of the things that was the hardest to witness for the school to decide was which teacher was going to leave. 65% of the teachers at harvard left last year. teachers said goodbye to students at the end of the year that they have had relationships with for five or seven years before. if you do tonight vote to not skip these teachers, how are you going to explain this to the communities you have told to trust you? you continually say you are going to keep your promises. tonight, if you do not skip these teachers, you will be breaking their promise at the worst possible time for these schools. >> good evening, board members and superintendent garcia.