deal or policy in the plans in the sticks that give the community a chance to participate. i say shame on you. shame on you. shame on you. shame on you. >> good evening. scott tee hawkins o query black leadership council of san francisco. i agree with the two speakers ahead of me. but i didn't come down here for that. i came because of the martin luther king school. i live up the street from that school and was headed here for the press conference which happened to be on his birthday, actual birthday. passed by that

school and heard on the loud speaker a female voice coming over the pa system telling the students "we're going to have a march to commemorate martin luther king a birthday. wear your white t shirts. that is going to signify peace and justice" and i thought, well, hey i'm going down to the board of education to a demonstration about tobias, this good worker who put his all into the students at the school and this principal that pit this child down. i couldn't wrap my mind around that. here she is on the loud speaker talking about peace and justice and wearing white t shirts but i'm taking my retirement time because i'm retired to head

down to demonstrate against someone like that. it just didn't fit. now, i am wearing this t shirt "stop the killing. start the healing" , a campaign we had in the 80's. it started in the 80's with ben verrein where we were trying to get gun legislation and things going. we didn't wait until a bunch of white kids got killed in connecticut. we have been trying to get our community straight all that time. these children are suffering from ptsd and there should be a way they should be taken care of, the way the principal was telling that child is not the way, and if that is what you have running these schools you need to rethink who you hire, and who you have over our children, and i would thank you to do just that. check with barbara

garcia at bph and mental health and get their acts together. thank you. >> my name is mike brown and i am with this coalition and we definitely need opportunities for contract scpors i don't know what happened to prop 209 but i hope you guys stand up and do a set a side for the blacks because we want to be independent too. we see what is happening in the communities and the money is coming from overseas and we can't compete, the housing and construction and when the kids are falling through the cracks we can't catch them and we need you all to help us. i was invited to mlk from the reverend to participate in the celebration and we went to the classroom and we had them listening to the speech and it was following along with the speech because it was typed out for them. we

gave them some treats and goodies because we put kids first. i didn't realize when they were having the controversy when we were brought into the gym they were handing out certificates for the leader who is was being recognized as peace leaders. there were 17 kids called, not one african-american got a certificate. thank god that mike brown came and cave them all a certificate in mr. shornberg class and i participated and held my workshop. whatever african-americans in that class they got a certificate because we gave it to them but in that school not one black kid got a certificate and i didn't know about the stuff going on at mlk so please wake up you all. >> i'm not a preacher but my

name is fouz. i was born in san francisco -- i'm sorry. gym comment is closed now. >> >> i don't have a card for you. >> but i'm going to speak anyway. i'm the guy they're talking about. i'm the guy they're talking about that -- i'm the guy that don't have a job. i'm the guy out there homeless. i'm the guy live on third and the only one besides ought the rest of the african-americans -- >> sir, you're out of order. >> you know what they tell me? i need to have -- >> sir -- are they getting -- >> you got all the money.

>> okay. i think we're going to close public comment now. i'm going to call for a five >> public enrichment fund and we have a report from one of the committees. >> yes we have a report from the bilingual community council and bcc and they will be presenting and kim garcia misa.

>> all right. welcome to the members of the bilingual community council. you may start when ready.

>> good evening president norton and honorable commissioners and superintendent carranza and

welcome to our new commissioner matt haney. i have to say i really appreciate the fact that you hold these meetings and hear this very emotional kind of presentations. it totally drained me. my name is darlene inaya and i my colleagues are here to report on successes and the questions and the concerns of the bilingual community council, and we are your appointees and we want to thank you for having us here. we will begin by expressing our appreciation to all of those who help us in our work on behalf of the over 15,000 english language learners in our district, and we did provide you with some

written data which i will be loosely following in my beginning here. we're very grateful to our english language students and our representatives who continue to attend our bcc meetings and they voice their concerns to us and we're able to bring these issues forward, and to garner attention to them, and to make remedies. we're thankful for our translators who attend every meeting that we have, both spanish and can tonenies and some of the things that we were able to -- [inaudible] strict and with the help of our -- kristina wong

and jennifer fong, the two people we work most closely with. we have a english learner program guide and we didn't have this before and it's also translated into english -- into spanish and conton easy and serves as a guide to our english learner family who is find coming to epc and to the district very intimidating and very confusing. we work with the ioc and the mpd, the multilink welpath ways and they have given us a great deal of support, and we have -- they do come as guests to our meetings and we learn a great deal from them, and especially epc because that's [inaudible].

that's an area where english language learners don't quite know what to do especially if they don't know the language and go to epc to try to get their child registered in school and epc as a result our requests has actually created written update the transfer process between schools so that it's in writing now, and this is really important because in many of the programs that are available to english language learners the folks don't really know what the procedure is to get into them, and we have been monitoring el student access and enrollment in the dual emersion programs. it's very popular right now as

world languages become increasingly important and there is a certain balance that is supposed to exist so we visit the schools to see if that and monitor to see that balance does exist. we've made progress on our sfusd's communication with families of the el students, especially around the results of the selt and used to be in english so the parents would get the results and they would not know what it was, so although it costs a bit of money it's now translated and goes out to our families in their native language, and there was a lack of translation on the sfusd

website, and this was brought to the attention of sfusd, and they now provide the translation so that the website is accessible to everybody, and another thing that we were able to accomplish was that lowell and soda did not have their applications in languages other than english, and these are very prestigious schools and we did not want to see our english language learners exclude friday attending these schools. but the application process was difficult and now they're being translate into the two other languages. we also received a report from sfusd

staff and once again i do want to say that christina wong and jennifer fong have been just great in helping us with our duties at the bbc -- bcc, and finally we have -- their guidance. that also helps us. they have quite -- i mean the report is like this thick, so they just keep us updated on what's going on and of course we go out and do visits so those are some of the things we have been able to do this year, and my colleagues are each going to address another portion of this. >> hi. i am abe [inaudible]

and with the group with 2011 to 2012. our focus was on time in elementary and middle school. we particular focus on long-term el's and include fifth grade. we started kinder as potential student as defined by sfusd and the ioc. we request [inaudible] general schedule, and then allow us to make situation and speak with staff, students and families with ioc representation. we have five we can have more [inaudible] without ioc representative present. in our situation bcc a part of appropriate teaching strategy during instruction

time. we note that many have after school programs and emphasis on tutoring and assist for el students. we also note that working to improve communication to non english [inaudible] and el students. participation in this access to translation, access to the computer lab. many have after school program that provides tutoring for el students. we hear from some administrator regarding frustration around planning for fluctuating student population. many planned for more than in the enrollment. we see more than that originally anticipated. [inaudible] situation create planning and implementation difficulties.

both middle school and administrators express need to have more communication [inaudible] >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening and commissioners and superintendent. i am flora ramos and i'm a member of the bcc. >> [speaking spanish] >> i'm going to give a report about to update you on the current status of the members. >> [speaking spanish]

>> we need more members of the bcc and we're here to make sure that all the members are represented on the bcc. >> [speaking spanish] >> and that representatives come to our meetings. [speaking spanish] >> generally you only have one meeting a month. >> [speaking spanish] >> we have member with us a member of the bcc as well. >> [speaking spanish] >> she's our [inaudible] to you with the education on board. >> [speaking spanish] >> she's providing report to the board members.

>> [speaking spanish] >> and generally we're going to decide what we're going to focus on in 2012-2013. >> [speaking spanish] >> observations that we're going to include in that report if we can are our observations regarding enrollment. >> [speaking spanish] >> thank you. >> well, superintendent carranza and board of education commissioners as you can see in our report we have a lot to celebrate and a lot of successes we have made. i am very happy to say great progress in how we are providing services for el students and families, so i think there's a lot to be -- a

lot to appreciate and be thankful for. we do believe like we said in the beginning part of our report that we are working much more effectively together with san francisco unified leadership and are grateful for that and my portion of the report are the concerns that we condition to -- continue to have in the bcc and in reviewing the letter to the san francisco unified school district, the bcc found our concerns and community concerns in line with the department of justice and you have in the report that we gave to you the 10 points that the department of justice outlined in their july letter to the san francisco unified school district, and they are very much in line with the concerns and the questions that we continue to have. i would like to

highlight two of those concerns. one would be number six, improved communication with el families. you will see there are a number of bullet points. this isn't a comprehensive list but it speaks to the biggest concerns that we continue to have and one of the largest concerns that we have speak is in line what we spoke about in our appreciation to finally having soda and lowell's applications translated into spanish and chinese but as we look at this issue more closely we noticed that at least some of the -- soda's website was only in english and aligned with the concerns we are hearing from the families that the websites that are put up by the different sites are not always accessible in different languages to our whole school communities. that is a big concern for us. the internal parent communications

that are happening on yahoo groups or communications that are coming out from auxillary organizations like the pta they're not always translateed and it's a big concern for us. it's not a step forward in creating a diverse communities. it's not a step forward in encouraging our -- particularly our english learning family to participate fully in our school sites and so recently we sent some questions back to christina wong specifically about what the policies were for our website and the auxillary websites that they are generated and the communications in the schools and we received a prompt reply back saying "it is in the works that the district

is working toward adding protocols and processes into the guidelines for ensuring quality and interpretation services" and attached to the email. it's not currently in here but we are hopeful it's included and comprehensive protocol that we can give to sitings regarding school loop and all the other auxillary sites are happening as school generate their other school communications. the other point line we would like to highlight is number eight, enhanced dual language emersion by dual language emotion path ways. >> >> cindy and troy and i and the co-chair were present at the meeting where they asked christina wong to give a presentation of the action plan and we asked that her presentation be included in your

packet today. we are very happy that finally we have been asking for data regarding our different path ways for many years and we are excited and we have it now and starting to look more effectively how our pathways are doing. we really are very thankful that data is out there and again it's a move forward for the district and the families and the students. we are very interested in how this data is going to be used, and the way that we are going to continue to use this data to improve the pathways, take hard looks at the pathways, where we're doing great and where we're not doing so great. one of the signs i was particularly interested in how the spanish language, english language students were