pathways. if you could see on that slide you can see how our students, spanish students are doing and in all the different pathways and frankly what we're doing as a district is not lifg up to what research shows can be the potential for english language learners in these programs and we have to take an honest look at that and i feel confident we're up to the challenge. we will look at that data and do the work that we need to make sure we're doing exactly what we should be doing, and in closing as an advisory committee to the board of education, the bcc respectfully urges that the board of education require san francisco unified school district to address, implement and monitor all of the department of justice's concerns and mandateds outlined in the july 2012 letter. additionally the bcc

will ask san francisco unified school district to review at the next meeting how the department of justice concerns and deliverables were addressed and action timeline for 2012 and we would love to receive any questions that you have. >> yes. vice mayor fewer. >> thank you president norton. thank you very much for this presentation. a couple of things i would like to address. i think first there has been some movement on this and thank you very much for bringing these items to our attention and actually fixing them with the translation. i can't believe that they're not translated. it seems like such a no brainer and disappointing to hear that but i am glad it's fixed with the remedy. also concerning some of our translation on our websites and the availability of having

certain documents translated. thank you so much for bringing that to our attention also. i know we did get an award for having the most transparent website. i think also under questions and concerns number six and i agree with you so are there enough translation services? so i am wondering if we could have an assessment of where we are in our trangz laigz service? so i know that we have funded translation partly through our prop h money, so i wanted to know if we have done any sort of snapshot about has the population changed or has it increased? are we meeting the needs? are there new language needs that we are not meeting? meaning we are seeing an influx or a majority of students with a different need than we

traditionally cover like spanish and chinese and also what exactly is the recruitment and hiring for the translation office and have we done any sort of protocols about the evaluations of them, and also just their job duties. i think they have been classified not as official translators but outreach workers so can we do something about that and really maybe have a formal translation sort of assessment of their ability to translate in chinese, spanish, whatever language we're offering and then i think the data for the pathways is very, very interesting, so ms. garcia if you wouldn't mind sharing this because i don't believe i recall seeing that sort of synopsis about the data what does it tell us about the programs for the el's and

looking at the pathways. we have emersion. we have some of the other programs. what does it tell us about our el's and their achievement? >> so that was some of the questions that we did ask at the -- when information was given to the pac and again we were -- the conversation was very interesting because we were told that christina wong was great about showing all of the information, but in terms of gleaning any real information or what we could really see from the nmpgdz it seemed if the district was a little hesitant but we're hoping when we see the results of fifth grade we will continue to see if what the

trajectories for these pathways particularly for this and you have a copy of the report and i am specifically referring to frames 21 and 23, and these are just snapshots of how we're doing, and just as we can see with snapshots when we're closing the achievement gap we can look at them again like i said unfringingly and what is the data showing us and what can we look at and if we're looking at the data like a layperson it does seem like there are challenges that the emersion programs are showing, not what we originally hope said and as a parent of english language learners not what the district is telling us your student will

do better in -- in real measures in dual language emersion so it doesn't mean -- i don't know if we can make any decisions about the pathways but we can definitely say what do they need to live up to their potentials? >> i believe also that human resources has prepared a report that shows us a snapshot of our staff and how many are bilingual and which languages and placed and i think that would be interesting also for the committee to look at. >> thank you. we had a presentation from human resources yesterday and they're getting back to us with the questions but told us about the system is cumbersome. it's

a lot of filling in just manually. they couldn't tell us -- for instance speaking about the subs. how many chinese speaking subs we have? how many spanish speaking subs we have? and heard from parents and really affect the pathways and have subs that only speak english. it was an eye opening conversation with hr. i am very hopeful and confident that similarly when we start calling epc to get reports back us to we started seeing changes and we are hoping working with hr can support them and answer the hard questions that require answers. >> can i say something? hi. my name is [inaudible]. talking about the english service. because they only chinese for

[inaudible] -- latinos who speak the spanish full time job and the of the one is only part time and talking [inaudible]. some school is called that because -- no people [inaudible] the service and because it's a professional translation and -- and the parent -- coming and sometime parent talking to the school or parent or staff they think you like the principal and not talk -- question to principal but like talking to the tiu. [inaudible] thank you. prepare for the budget. need more money for the translation. it's good. yeah, maybe need some people -- >> [inaudible] >> yeah. becomes not only --

parents and chinese parents here. many language parents here. some school -- go to the outside center and [inaudible] yeah. and two year they go outside. meet the people at the school and [inaudible] thank you. you have the budget i know march 2 but this time you take the time, one month. okay. the budget for the translation service for the parents. they will thank you -- thank you. >> commissioner murase. >> yes, i had a couple of questions. just this guide is so very useful and important because we take pride in the multitude of languages that our school offers but it gets very

confusing. my first question is is it only available in english and my second question is where can people go to get this guide? >> that guide is in chinese as well as in spanish and it's epc has them and distributes them -- >> [inaudible] >> oh we do? yeah. do we have these? here we go. so we have them in arabic. >> spanish. >> spanish, korean and to gala. >> [inaudible] >> so it's available in english, chinese, spanish, vietnamese, and to gala and the way it's distributed in november it's the release day and distributed to all parents that go through the post counseling session after they do primary language assessment at the educationals placement center. we also send

out one copy to every english learner in the district. >> and other questions? >> any other comments or questions from the board? mr. superintendent. >> thank you president norton. i want to take this opportunity to publicly thank them for their work. the san francisco unified school district as the commissioners know is parts of the great council of the city schools and the largest urban school systems in the country and i sit on the executive committee on the council and i am so proud when we get an opportunity to share what we're doing in san francisco around educating english language learners, what we're doing with the work of the pathways but most importantly when i share the work that the bcc does with my colleagues across the

country. we tend to be prophets everywhere except our own land but i want you to know there is no other system doing what the bcc is doing and that is testament to the work they have done with us in a transparent manner so thank you for asking the hard questions. i think the bcc made a good point about the data and the data reflected in the pathway reflects the data gap in the school system and i'm going to be a broken record. the achievement gap, the opportunity gap persists whether it's english language arts, whether it's math and it's especially persists with students with disabilities so while we're very proud of the work that we have done and appreciate what the bcc said we have a lot of work to do still to close the achievement gap because it persists in every

aspect of our educational system and you beautifully captured the work of the district and what we're committed to going forward. i'm going to publicly ask the bcc to work in the transparent manner they have worked with staff going forward. i think you have heard examples from the community perspective identifies holes in our communications structures, in our families or our systems of envelope sharing and that is communicated to staff. we know that we're going to respond to that immediately because they are our eyes and ears out in the frunt so we're appreciate that. i'm going to ask us to work even closer together because you know the work in front us is so monumental that we can't let the status quo to pull us away from where we go and for the

commissioners we had a preliminary review of the data that was referenced here. we will do a more comprehensive report on the data and we will make sure it's clean and we will have a public discussion with what the data says and again thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i wanted to thank you again on behalf of the board and all the great questions that you ask so there you go. the superintendent said they might pretend they complain about you in private but they're grateful for the work that you do thank you. >> we really appreciate the fact that we're working more closely and as we did say we are really short and representatives in the bcc. unfortunately of the five meetings we had we had quorum for three so that really impacts

the work that we do so we want to reiterate if you can please make sure to communicate with your representatives. we want a full house and we want to work as fast and hard as we do. >> [speaking spanish] >> i also want to thank the commissioners that appointed us to these positions. >> [speaking spanish] >> that trust us that we're going to work towards having a better bilingual education. >> [speaking spanish] >> so thank you. thank you very much, all of you for listening to this report. >> all right. we're going to move on to item l, special order

of business. i'm now going to call the public hearing to order for the 2013-2014 initial proposal for a successor collective bargaining agreement from the san francisco unified school district to the united administrators of san francisco of san francisco and the 2013-2014 initial proposal for a successor collective bargaining agreement from the united administrators of san francisco to the san francisco unified school district. i have one speaker who filled out a card for this item. >> richard keshy president of the united administrators of san francisco. good evening president norton, commissioners, superintendent carranza. on behalf of the united administrators of san francisco and its negotiation team we look forward to negotiating with the district's negotiating team through interest based bargaining to come up with the best contract for our dedicated and talented members of the san

francisco unified school district. thank you. >> thank you. all right. any other questions or comments from the board? no? okay. with that i'm going to close the public hearing and move onto the next agenda item, item m, discussion of other educational issues. the first item tonight i'm going to call on commissioner maufas. >> thank you president norton and it is that time again. february is black history month. please come right to the dais and we will again have the african-american read in and we have here today with us mr. steve cook from the sf ed fund and we will talk about their participation which is crucial to sfusd's success in this event, and we also have

commissioner haney who will chime in with us as well, so i will let mr. cook take it away. >> good evening commissioners, superintendent. happy new year. i haven't gotten a chance to speak to many of you yet and congratulations on the recent election victors commissioners. we're back again to kickoff this incredible event. last year with the collection of a number of community partners we were able to mobilize over 300 volunteers to read in hundreds of classrooms across the city and this year we will be back february 4 at 9:00 a.m. we have hundreds of volunteers reading in elementary schools across the city. i believe you all got a list of participating schools.

the list goes on and on and we have as of today have hit our mark, so every classroom at these schools will receive a reader. [applause] thank you last year for participating commissioner mendoza was out and all of you all that spread the word and helped out. we really appreciate it. we have a number of elected officials reading and supervisors and sait senator leno so we are incredibly excited to do this again this year, and i'm incredibly excited to be a part of it. i grew up in this city and i am actually a generation of people that grew

up in the city and i am kind of stuck so i'm going to quote another alumni, mayue angelou that helps any book to form the habit of reading to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs is good for him and i am sure she would mean good for her as well, so with that i can answer any questions or just -- >> commissioner. >> this has been a flack back night for me because i was there doing what you were doing last year and last year it was 300 readers we had and such extraordinary feedback from the folks out there and i still run into folks now "when are we doing the reading again?" . february obviously so i hope most of the folks are connected with you and i'm going to be reading -- i'm going to cleveland elementary this year and i think we are still

looking for folks -- no? okay. i thought we were doing publicity. >> of course we will make exceptions for any of you. >> l i feel sorry for all the people missing out on the opportunity because it really is incredible and thank you for all the work you have done and all the folks that organize around this and i imagine we're going to continue to do it every year so thank you. >> ms. mendoza. >> i want to thank you you too. this is a fun reading opportunity for all of us. although i didn't formally register because i seldom do it for anything you can do like you did with me last year and sign up for the ed fund and place me where you need me. sometimes we have people that drop off at the last minute and schools that

want more readers so please sign me up for that list, on call emergency list. >> absolutely. commissioner mendoza did it last year and we weren't able to staff a lot of people so they were excited to have her come and helped us save face a little bit. >> vice mayor fewer. >> yes, last year i read at cleveland. it was fun. i brought someone with me. she read in spanish. it was great. i didn't sign up but if you have a slot for me i am happy to read this year too. >> thank you. >>i would -- mr. cook, hope that somehow you can find spots for our board members who i imagined would want to read especially upon your presentation today, and again there is the last empty where folks just can't make it, so if our board members are willing to be on call to go

to a site that is in need of a reader i think that's the caveat this time because the ed fund has been so incredibly well organized that they are full as of today. every school that is on our list has a complete complement of readers which is again a testament to the work of mr. cook and ms. marr at the ed fund and school volunteers so i can't thank you enough for all of your forethought and work behind the scenes and even the last minute vip's that i have shoveled to you who caught me out in san francisco and "when is the read in happening and i want a school" so i appreciate the flexibility you managed with those folks who just had an epiphany oh yes

african-american history month is coming and i want to do the reading and again the feedback is incredible. people that thought they were doing something perfurniture tory and wanted to read to another class and another class but they have school but they enjoy today and reflective of the experience. >> >> and what it's about and i want to remind folks we invite all cultures to come read to our students. it's wonderful and such a communing experience and just to read to children is amazing so i want to reiterate that we invite all cultures to participate in this event and thank you for taking lead mr. cook and laura marr and she's not here tonight but available and flexible as well and thanks for coming tonight we are having the african-american read in february 4. those

schools will see an influx of adults ready to read to students and then we'll come with report backs and how they enjoyed it. commissioner murase. >> i am checking my calendar and i know that rosa parks, my daughter's school is celebrating rosa parks day on that day monday, so if there are dropouts, people that can't make it i will be there anyway. i would love to participate. >> and you have a special reader coming based on that anniversary. i will tell you later. >> just one more thank you to commissioner maufas for her leadership. it was a collaboration that she put together and event that happened nationally but fell off the radar in san francisco. it was happening in pockets. because of the great support last year it's got a lot of people -- people want to come back. it's crazy how fast the year kind of

comes, so i really appreciate that, and somebody earlier mentioned marcos book store which we encourage people to get their books from that book store and considering donating to the school. a bunch of people are going out to el dorado, so it is a large effort that involves a lot of corporations and community members so we appreciate you all being involved and your support. thank you. >> thank you very much and thanks also to the ed fund for the support and logistics for pull this off because i know it's a big effort. all right. thank you very much. okay our next item. mr. matt martin from kalw 91.7fm, our annual report. nice to see you. thank you for

waiting. >> thank you and good to see you all, superintendent carranza, commissioners and welcome commissioner haney. good to meet you in this situation. so -- >> [inaudible] >> we will take it now. so i just wanted to -- i am sending around a packet of information, my usual station of the station report that includes recent program guides, our audit that we need to file for public broad casting and i am here to answer any questions you may have but this is my seventh report to nuthis capacity. >> [inaudible] >> thank you and i feel for the first time in my work at the station a sense that we're just starting to tap into the

potential of what the station can do for and with the community, and part of that has to do with the fact we had great improvement in our financial situation. two years ago i was here asking you approve a short line of credit for the station and since that time that can you see on the second page of the station to station report we went from zero to this and great improvement and puts in a position we're not in the hand to mouth mode and can think about the future which is very exciting, but beyond just the financial situation i really feel like in this past year we started to realize what to me is the potential of a local radio station which is not just be a community service but to be a

community creative enterprise. i think having a public radio station based in this community in the bay area the resources available in terms of the talents, the voices, the experience, the intelligence that we can draw from this community and make into radio that is compel to people here and around the world. now that we're online people listen from all over. i feel that we started to see in my mind what that could be. there are many things in the report. i want to go over three examples that show the potential of the community resource that we're fortunate to held on to for over 70 years at kalw. we had the biggest event and tavis smiley and cornell west and on a program we broadcast and said we're interested in coming to the bay