personnel. k-11. president yee: any others? ok. seeing none, roll call vote will take place under section 0. item h, superintendent's proposal, helper speaker cards and action. i thought we had about 20 of them. what happened? none tonight. item l. oith l. board members' proposals, helper speaker card and action. none tonight. request to speak regarding general matters. we have a few speakers who have two minutes each. carolyn tom, andrea torres, adam avalos, jennifer lowe, may l., charles sanchez.

komafe savasehim and susan sullivan. come on to the mike. you have two minutes. go ahead. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners, superintendent carranza. congratulations. my name is darilin tom. i'm a high school teacher at mission high school. i'd like to just kind of, if you don't mind, take a few seconds at the beginning and actually end after the other speakers. but first, i'd like to introduce many of them. we have speakers tonight that want to talk to you -- well, all the speakers that are here

tonight want to talk to you about the deferred action in regards to obama's executive order about allowing undocumented students the chance to be here without any threat of deportation for the next two years and also to get work permits. i'd like you to hear their testimonies. and how it impacts them and why i feel as a district employee why this should be a priority for all of us who work for our students and our families. so if i can end at the end as well, i'll let these speakers come up and speak to you first. >> defer action is a discretionary determination to the removal action of a person. on june 15 of this year, the secretary of homeland security announced certain people who came to this country as children and who meet several criteria may be considered for deferred action for two years. these people will be able to

obtain a work authorization and renew after two years. in other words, defer action will protect undocumented youth from deportation and provide a work permit to legally work in this country. defer action is an important step in the immigration system because it allows young people to live in this country decently and legally. as you know, many of the qualified applicants are high school and college students and it is important that the san francisco unified school district supports their students and families towards the path being considered for deferred action. my name is andrea torres and i graduated from mission high school in 2008. i will be graduating from san francisco state university next year, and i will benefit from deferred action. i will be able to get a decent job, a well-paid job, and we need your support. the families of these communities, we all need your support. thank you. >> hello, my name is charles an

she says, i'm a her of aspire, which staggets for agencies promoting immigrant rights through education. i wanted to briefly share about the requirements that's needed to be eligible for deferred action, so the requirements of an individual needs to be eligible, one, you have to have come to the united states under the age of 16. two, have continuously resided in the united states for five years preceding the date of the department of homeland security memo which is june 15, 2012, and are present in the united states. three, currently be in school, have graduated high school, or obtained a general education development certificate, or honorably discharged veteran of the coast guard or armed forces of the united states. four, have not been convicted of a fellonny offense, a significant misdemeanor, multiple misdemeanors, misdemeanor offenses or otherwise pose a threat to national security or public

safety, and five, be born on or after june 16, 1981. these requirements must be proven in order for someone to be granted deferred action. the individual does not have to be in removal proceedings or have final orders of removal to apply the overall cost of deferred action is $465 and is required unless you can obtain a fee waiver and it's important to. even though it's not required, it's recommended you have the consultation of a lawyer, either nonprofit or private when figuring out whether you want to apply for a deferred action or whether you're eligible. once again, my name is charles, i'm part of aspire which is housed at the asian law caucus. we'll be having free clinics coming up and also i attended oakland public school since kindergarten. so thank you. >> hello, everyone. [speaking in spanish]

>> my name is ann avalos. i graduated from mission high school and now am currently attending uc-santa cruz. i wanted to talk about the deferred action requirement. there are actually three steps to show. so to establish identity, we'll need a birth certificate and a copy of passport from the country of origin and it's proof we came here before 16 which is since june 15, 2007. we have to have official school transcript, medical record and letter of recommendation from teachers. and to prove we have graduated from high school or have at least obtained a general education, diploma or currently attending the school, we need a high school diploma or equivalent or official transcript. so i just want to say that hopefully you guys support this issue. i think you know we all know that san francisco is like the big immigrant city and there's

a lot of students who will benefit from this, myself, my friend, my community. you have no idea how much this community will be impact and we need the district to be an ally. thank you. >> hello, my name is may and i'm going to talk about my testimony about why d.a. is going to be really important to my particular story. i'm also a part of aspire and am currently an undergraduate student at uc-berkeley and also am an undocumented chinese immigrant currently in deportation proceedings. my family has been in the u.s. since 19 and i've grown up here ever since becoming at heart, an american. we became undocumented the last years of my high school career after a second application for permanent residencey was denied. since then we have been passing as normal citizens while shouldering a huge burden. being undocumented has led to

many struggles, from lying to close friends about why i didn't get a driver's license in high school to having to appear in immigration court on the same day as an important anatomy midterm at berkeley. when deferred action was announced i felt part of that heavy burden lifted. the action is essential because it will stop my deportation and allow me to have a work permit. when i graduate i will put my heart to good use and won't have to go to immigration court to fight against an unjust system and can become financially independent which is quintessential to my future. being undocumented makes me feel paralyzed and understanding so much but not able to exercise my knowledge and enthusiasm. i'm excited that students in high school eligible for deferred action don't have to go through the experience of shames and hardships. i can't wait to have my first job and gain real experience as a true adult. but deferred action is not and cannot be the end-all solution. it does not affect my parents,

so they are still threatened with deportation and the sacrifices they have made for my siblings and i in this country cannot be for nothing. deferred action is also only for two years where afterwards i would have to reapply and because it was announced as an executive order it can be taken away if obama is not elected, putting me back in the same situation before deferred action. this new development will temporarily help many young people like me but we need a long-term solution in this country to tackle immigration policies. please support us in spreading the word for deferred action and join us in the fight for better immigration reform. thank you. >> i'd like to close but anna has a few things to say in terms of demand. at mission high school, i think many of you know i've been here years coming to you and asking you for your support and as advocates and allies in terms of my immigrant students. they didn't choose where they were born, neither did i but i

was lucky to be born here and i think this is really a struggle we all need to be part of. senior carranza, superintendent carranza, i think especially now, this is a really good time for you to take this as a priority in this district. so i'm going to challenge you as i challenge my students in chemistry to really take this up and make this a real priority. at mission high school, we're going to have two forums that we are going to do to actually invite the community to come and be part of this. we're going to invite families, families of students that go to mission now and families who had students that graduated from there in years past. we want them to know mission will always be their home. this is their family. this is their community. so we set two dates, september 7, which is a friday, and september 8, which is a saturday. and i'm cordially inviting you right now. i've already spoken to mr. eric gussert our principal and he

supports this 100% as well. i know many of you do. so please come and talk to me. you know where i am. my room number is 303. i start on monday. i'll be in there every day from that point on with my students. so i would cordially invite all of you to be there. anna has a few demands she'd like to end with in regard to how specifically we think that the district can support this. thank you. >> hello again. now i would like everyone's attention as a unfind student from the district, i think i have the right to demand this district. so i would like to demand the district to help us reach out to the community. since we don't have everyone's address, you know, so we want the district to have -- to pass it down to the families any time we have information that the parents and the students need. we want every school to put in their youth letter or their

website and their school site council such as the s.s.e. and the elac. also any information be translated into the language. i would like to translate them but i only speak spanish and english and i think there are so many other languages that need to be translated and so many families that need to have this information. also, i would like to have the district to support community forums and there are community forums and all the students now are not getting paid. i'm not getting paid for this and it is a community forum that we're willing to give our time to put this forum to help our community. so we would like to have lawyers who can provide legal services to individual families and in their specific situation. since you know every case has their own specific questions. also, we want translators that will help to provide information to those families that do not speak spanish and english, such as chinese, arabic, and vietnamese and

would like to have the translators in the forum so everyone can have this information. also, i'd like to the district to help us have the media providing any information about any community event coming up on this issue. so thank so you much for hearing this and i hope you guys take on the responsibilities in this. thank you. president yee: thank you. so i think it -- >> can i ask a question? or do you want me to wait until they're done? >> staff, really. i just want to ask the question, it seems to me that the things that jumped out to me that we should and have an obligation to facilitate is providing transcripts to our students that need them. so we have that service. you know, i just think it needs to be made easy and facilitated so could you, you know, give us

a report on what we can do to help, especially in the transcript area. >> they can't get from anybody except us. president yee: let's see. did you sign up for speaking? >> i did. president yee: what's your name? [inaudible] president yee: go ahead. >> thank you. good evening. everybody. i am gumatise dahavan, a parent of a elementary child who attend sherman elementary and represent over 50 parents who have been affected by a bus service disruption from sherman elementary to five different after-school programs. this disruption has caused many parents to consider change of school, going out of the public school system into other school

options. i also think this is going to have a negative effect on working parents who aren't able to come in the middle of the day to ferry their kids from school. ççoj bus routes to obtain and which

bus routes continue? is it a function of the number of students, the location, or how hard it is to get to certain schools, the timings? and are we being negatively penalized for living in a particular neighborhood where perhaps public school enrollment is lower? as tax-paying citizens, we would like to realize the full benefits of supporting and can advancing for public schools, enrolling our students, our children into public schools, and i just fear that this has been a very abrupt decision. i think there could have been a way in which to phase this, even balancing whatever your budget requirements would have been. currently you provide a seamless transition to students to go from school to after school. and these after-school programs are private after-school programs. there might have been a way if your budget permit you, to allow you to consider through auspices of your organization, perhaps certain other private providers? so this is just a plea once again to reinstate bus service or provide us with some feasible alternative. thank you. >> thank you. >> if i could ask staff for a reminder of the criteria that was used for eliminating the routes. this has been in progress for a

long time. i'm getting a lot of requests. >> if we can get the speaker's contact information. we have a rule that you have to sign up to speak. >> i just want to add a couple comments. >> i want to stick to the rules. >> i just drove five hours to get here in time. you have to give me one minute. it is regarding, and you cut out the one bus stop that has a program that is open to all

children. it does not accept kids in the after-school program unless they go to that school. you cut out the boys' and girls' clubs. there are 10 parents to use that bus. you eliminated just that one. i have called every other one and they do not accept them. i do not understand why you cut the one stop that is open to everybody. >> can you -- you got it? >> i feel like i'm doing this backwards because i want to say greetings to the new school year. we look forward to another year

of working together. i want to piggyback on what the superintendent said. we have a tentative agreement. the final voting day is monday, august 20. i am hopeful so that we can move on with it. i want to add a couple of details. we are very pleased that the furlough days do not directly affect kids except for that last half-day. members will be taking in one- and-a-half furlough days. the one that does not affect children is giving up a professional development today. i am sure that we all look forward to the day when furlough days are a thing of the past and we do not even have that in our vocabulary. of course, the other piece is proposition 30.

we have are people starting to work on that. we know what a mess we will be in. this is not a spending problem. this is a revenue problem and we have to solve it. i hope he can work together. >> itek k. -- item k. i would like to announce a proposal for the san francisco unified school district, the local 261, a public hearing on this proposal will be held on a special meeting of the board of education on august 21, 2012.

and the discussion of other issues tonight? there are not any tonight. consent calendar resolutions removed the previous meetings for a second read in an action to. role call. ms hwang? >> here. oh, yes, sorry. >> mr. -- >> yes. >> aye, except for items k2, 4 22, 23, 24, 25 and 30 because they are retroactive.

>> thank you. dr. murase? ms norton? ms wynns? >> item -- consent calendar resolution for immediate action. there was one severed by a commissioner ross said. >> i want clarification to know if this is the same classification of security guards we have been talking about in the context of budget negotiations. >> the same classification, this is an outside vendor that we use

for the same classification. they are not police officers. but they are not district employees. last year, he wants me to explain what we did? last year upon the request was that we offered through the high schools and middle schools. that if the security at the school chose to offer to doo-doo overtime to supervise those games, we would offer it to them first and we would reduce this contract by the money that went to those personnel. there is a process in place. we communicated that to the security guards and they signed up with their assistant

principal and then it was sent into the commissioner of athletics. and i just spoke to susan solomon and she agreed to do the same process again this year and i will contact commissioner collins myself. >> yes. >> aye. >> aye. >> that's six ayes. >> item q, none tonight. item r, for establishing a

common preparation and professional development time for all schools. is there a motion? is there a second? this will be referred to the curriculum committee and the budget committee. thank you. board members report. any reports? the second one would be board as delegates. the national school board association, any reports? good. all other reports by board members. any of the reports?

commissioner murase: i wanted to report on what an amazing job the new superintendent did at the administrator's institute. it was first-class all the way. i want to thank everyone who participated. i was pleased to see that common sense media was on the agenda. we have tried to start a working relationship with them. i want to thank them for their presentation and the exercise that followed. it was meaningful and impacts of. and i wanted to congratulate you night for students, holding workshops that a back-to-school event held at the community center over the weekend. there were so many families, so many kids getting free back pats. all of the organizations that

supported that. just wanted to congratulate them. president yee: i also want to acknowledge, we were invited by the democratic club to give a presentation to them. in regards to what we are doing around issues of lgbtq. it was a great presentation by staff, many of our staff numbers are involved in helping with that issue. i learned a lot myself on being there, realizing that we have been addressing this issue for over two bang decades and i wanted to say commissioner fewer when she brought up again

to strengthen our efforts in this arena and the data that we had that we brought there was remarkable in terms of the ability to collect and understand and give us better guidance of what we need to do. thank you to the superintendent and several other people. >> i would just add a little bit to that that i think that we have made great gains in the anti-harassment of our youth. one of the things i want to commend staff on is that we had our first ever family dinner, a

standing-room-only, even though it was freed. we did not expect it was going to be such a huge success. when you will need a bigger venue, we will need more people to donate money for this event, since isn't -- since it is not allocated in our budget. it is such a nice feeling. i thought it was absolutely fabulous and wanted to come and staff for doing that and also adding to our health curriculum , diversity and gender identity. i think that will be huge. >> also for the listening audience, you could actually go on our website and get lesson plans and so forth, the things that we do to