what we can do to support the celebration and all the work you've done. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for the report. it was worth it. >> president norton, if i could just also convey my thanks. you brought this up as one of the original authors and really promotors of the parent advisory council commissioner fewer, thank you very much for reminding us that it is the tenth anniversary. >> i didn't know it was ten years ago, but thank you very much for the ongoing work. it's clearly a great place to be. >> okay. /tha*frpbg thank you very much. now we will move on to item s. there is none, no

cards tonight for that, so we will move on to item g, the consent calendar. may i hear a motion and second? >> a move. >> second. >> are there any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> yes, doctor crawford. >> thank you. we have a correction to 134-9k46 on pages 172 and 173. the cost of amendment request should be changed to 71,000 dollars, it is marked as 58,500. total cost should be parked to 296,000. there's an additional correction to 134-9k31 on pages

140 and 141. also to 134-9k32 on page 142 and 143. both of these resolutions are not retro active. >> that's a nice -- yes, you can vote on those. just wanted to make sure you heard that. all right, thank you. are there any items removed for first reading by the board? none? first reading and then any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion and vote tonight yes, commissioner men doe /stka. >> i would like to pull item 134-29w243x. >> thank you. any other items

severed by the board of superintendents? seeing none. roll call vote will take place under section o. all right. we move on to item h. this item was moved and seconded on january 22. mr. haney, could we have a report from the rules committee. this is regard ing >> we reviewed it and recommended it to the board for approval. >> thank you, short and sweet. may we have a reading by the superintendent or designee -- i believe doctor blanco will do the honors if she's here. i do not see doctor blanco. >> president norton, if i could ask deputy superintendent to read. >> thank you. >> happy to. good evening. we

do have a superintendent's proposal coming back to the board tonight -- 131-22 regard inging principal -- the majority of students receiving essential education services, there is an effective way to increase their time and success in the general education classroom. therefore be it resolved that the board of education hereby adopt and incorporate the following bedrock practices. it is a basic car rack -- are first

and foremost, general education students who need additional services and support in order to succeed in school. their success therefore is the joint responsibility of all sfusd educators. inclusive practices recognize the -- when juan objective service oriented process is used it is apparent that when more students can find success in general education classrooms with appropriate support and two, there's a continuing need for services provided outside of the general education classroom for some of our students. across sfusd schools, it is necessary to increase our expectations for students with disabilities, to assign shared responsibility for all and to add physical and social segregation of special groups of students through traditionally based practices.

every student is a general education student and it is essential for every educator in sfusd to embrace responsibility for the success of each of our students. >> thank you deputy superintendent. i have no public speakers lined up for this item. i am wondering now if there's any comments from the board before we vote? >> i think we can't underestimate the importance of this particular resolution. it's very clear that no longer are the needs of our special needs kids just the concern of the special education department. it's a concern of the entire school district, including enrollment and student assignment. and so i know there are going to be impacts in terms of the number of seats available at

particular schools because we are moving full force on inclusion so i just wanted to mention that the proposed equal student assignment committee meeting will be /hraorbging at the impact of the inclusive policies on a student assignment and we hope to have a good public dialogue on that. >> thank you. >> i wanted to say this is long overdue and it's about time we did this. and that also i'd like this to sort of be this idea that every student is a general ed student, that we also look at other areas in our district -- our pathways, emersion programs and hopefully we can get it integrated there and truly an inclusive school district. >> i'm going to go last unless there's any other comments on this item before we vote. this to me, is extremely personal

and partly because i'm a parent of a child with a disability and when i first became a parent in this district, it was very common to be -- my daughter, we were told, oh, well, she can go to those schools, but she can't go to those schools. i did have educators tell me they didn't have the training to work with her. a lot of fear about what do i do. i don't have the training, i don't understand what to do. this is -- it feels like such an achievement that it's underscoring our achievement and to educate all of our students. that doesn't mean educators don't need support to work with various students, but all of our students have needs, so it's tearing down the wall between you have this label and you don't. i'm just very grateful

to doctor blanco, to our superintendent who has just brought about a transformation in the way that we think about educating students with disabilities. i'm very grateful and emotional about this. thank you everybody. >> roll call. >> miss lee >> yes. >> mr. haney? >> yes. >> seven i's. >> okay. we're going to move on to the discussion of an approval of a revised public

education expenditure plan. this item was moved and seconded on march 12. vice president fewer, can you give us a report from the committee as a whole where we discussed this proposal. >> we heard this as a committee. the board had raised many questions, i believe those questions were answered via email. i believe you received an updated version of the budget amended. would you give us the most updated information about the budget on this because we're looking at a budget with a different money amount. i think there's been some new information. >> if you don't mind i'm going to make a couple of statements and then i'll punt. >> that's fabulous. >> one of the interesting conversations i had with

officials in china was explaining the whole process of a democratic process in education and how it works. during the committee of the whole session, i was actually meeting with some chinese officials and explaining to them how the democratic process works and it was very timely as i was getting updates because i was able to call this wonderful thing that we call the public education enrichment fund and how citizens vote to support public schools. they do not because they're obligated to, but because they have this overwhelming responsibility to schools. following the presentation to you at the committee as a whole on april 2, every spring the controller's office -- there's a constant monitoring of the funding source and the funding

balances and on april 2, as coincidence would have it, we received a new estimate that was verified from the controller's office. the new estimate we received on that day is 1.15 million dollars higher than the amount that was presented at the april 2 committee as a whole and that's good news because that brings the total for our piece to almost 51 million for this 2013, 2014 school year. that's good news. we haven't been able to say publically for many years that we're getting additional funding. this represents an increase of 16 million dollars over last year's allocation. this increase is because the public education enrichment fund would be fully funded by the city's ago gait discretionary revenue. and that went up with funding rising accordingly. we want to thank the mayor for not pulling

the trigger, which also lent significant dollars for what we're able to allocate, so long story short, you have a different total based on this ongoing refreshing of the numbers and that's why you're seeing additional funding. we've wasted no time and the board's direction to us and feedback is fully incorporated into these additional funding revenues to really be able to incorporate what the board said to us as a /kpheult committee as a whole. represent lee, would you like to add more to that. >> thank you. i'll make two comments and i'll punt to others who may have more information along these lines. i wanted to add two points to what superintendent just mentioned. so the specific methodology that is in question

is the percentage change that is -- that is what is in the charter that the /proep appropriation en-- this is based on the actual change in the overall city's revenues and based on that there are different points in time at which the controllers office estimates what that change will be. so we're in fiscal year 12, 13 now. the one before you is for 13, 14. so there are different points of time within each year that the controller's office will provide information that serves as a basis for the district to prepare its spending plan and actually it's

trued up based on actual revenues. that's the background information. specifically to the timing of the developments of when we got this information, miss fleming -- we know this is released from the controller's office and with that knowledge miss fleming was very aware to get information up to the day of the meeting, so the timing was not optimal because it would have been better to have that information before the spending plan was produced and developed that you considered and took up at your committee as a whole meeting during the last week, but it is good that we have that information now and it was available in time for this revised spending plan to be developed with that knowledge and especially the timing was

fortunate in being able to incorporate the commissioner's feedback that you shared last week. >> if i can also add from the committee of the whole that we had assisted the community advisory committee also present to us their recommendations and i believe we had a discussion around a philosophical difference about where we should -- should the peace fund be funding initiatives or should it be delving deeper into what they've already done. something that probably we'll have to discuss in the future. i think that this is very timely, this money. we are looking at a budget of 49 million and i think they would

have liked to seen more monies put into restorative practices and peer resources. colleagues, if i've missed anything, please feel free to add. commissioner wynn. >> well, are we just reporting or... >> yeah. then we have to do the reading and -- yeah. does that complete your report. now i'm going to ask you to read the recommendation. you don't have to read the whole resolution, but just the recommendation. >> my name is kathy fleming and reading into the peek resolution number 133-12 sp 1 approval of a revised education enrichment fund expenditure fund for school year 2013, 2014 and skipping down to the therefore be it resolved clauses. this will be revised

and presented as a committee as a whole on april 22, 2013 and adopted on april 9, 2013. and that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district approves the revised budget for the public education enrichment fund spending plan for the 13, 14 school year after examining the recommendations from the staff and community advisement on peef. the superintendent has requested to inform the sfusd school board and the board of supervisors that such amendments may occur. the end. >> thank you miss fleming. >> there are no public speakers signed up for this item so we

will move right on to board comments. commissioner wynn. >> thank you. so i see that some minimal changes have been made, which is, i think, in response to what the board members discussed, which i'm pleased to see. but i also have two things i want to say. i think over time -- a couple of things at the meeting last week i did mention in a few areas that it seemed to me it will take time for these programs to evolve and change. i want to express a small amount of frustration in the way this happens every year. that we get something that's already pretty hard to change. the kind of -- oh, we'd like a little built here, there, move a little bit. that's all we really do. and i think the

time should come, especially since we're looking forward to a reauthorization, when the board should have a discussion at some time about the priorities so we had a big discussion about what student support means. there's a lot of presumption and earlier during the time that it was passed and our discussion over the years, that it means social and emotional support services that are not academic. and now the question of support for academic initiatives is before us and i am inclined to say that i'm supportive of the budget we have now and i think that means i'm saying okay, i think we should see what this looks like. see if we can kick start some of these things, but i don't think we have had a discussion about what we need. about academic support and if we think this is the right money to do that. as i said last week, and i will reiterate

that in part because, just like we have youth money from the third third, which is thankfully in a time of horrible crisis. i think over time in resent years what i've seen is that this seems to be kind of automatic pilot process where the priorities are set and we have a process that the community advisory committee goes through and we just say -- and the administration makes some recommendations. i understand we get that same information, but it's not a discussion about policy and where we should go. i think we should move in that direction.

the last thing i'll say is that some of those things -- i'm happy to see two things. i'll make reference to -- one is the page four. this chart that shows in the next year that 10 /#0* percent of the elementary school will be receiving p funded program support, but i also am a little taken aback by the kind of split of 40, 30 and 30 in the slam distribution. i raise the question, and i any our commitment to the people of san francisco. i think their bottom-line expectation is that every kid will have music and

art. there's a very broad and not distinct division between those things because art is hard to define. i also am saying that because i know there's a big capacity issue, i know you can't go from nothing to twice as much without taking developmental time to work on that. but i think part of our discussion needs to be what it actually looks like, do we think every student actually is getting those things and is that distribution the way it should be in the future? so that's really all i want to say. i will just take the last second to say the same things i said last week -- that i'd like to look at the priorities that i'd like to talk about in the future. i'm mostly saying i think this work is good, but i think we need to be careful

that we do this deliberatively and with planning and not just let it happen. and i think there's a slight feeling of that, but i want to also express my /praoerbs to appreciation to the staff for the really good work that's been done. >> any other comments? >> thank you. i want to echo what commissioner wynn just said in regards to the protess. -- process. i think that was heard loud and clear at our committee as a whole. i think on the front end of this process, the superintendent and other leadership need to understand what the board's -- even though i believe we have

the same priorities, i think it's a little different for some board members and staff. i think we need to re-examine the piece process. not only just between the government team, but even for the committee that advises us because i know specifically that commissioner wynn had helped myself redo a purpose resolution for them. and how they've worked through that and are working on that, i don't know if it's still fully operating as the board envisioned so that's a conversation to be had. so i think there are places in the process -- in the overall

process that we should re-examine and i think i heard that very loud and clear as the committee of a whole, but i also heard that out in the community and again, that's also something that i think the pack members would know so i take responsibilities for not having appointees on that committee yet. i strongly want to emphasize us re-examining the process of the board of education and executive level staff and how we bring the proposals to the foreground. i would like to get on that as soon as possible before we get

on another round. secondly, i want to thank the staff for taking consideration and making changes that were so strongly expressed at the meeting. i do want to see more money to the things i believe are highly valued and that is peer resources. i think the amount of money that was add eded i'm grateful for. i'd like to see more and to figure out how that can happen over time. we're at this process so i am accepting i guess and it's a reluctance acceptance. it's reluctant that i'm accepting the increase. i think if we had more money, which we did have more money, it could be put

here because it didn't have a place to go before. that's my perspective. why not add it to these places? i'm happy to see restorative practices has an increase. i think their level of activity in the district and the desire for their work at every school site out in the community -- it's an ongoing plea to have restorative practices in our school district, expanded throughout schools, expanded in the community. so when there's that request over and over again, and that was stated at the committee, how do we support that? how do we make certain that happens? i know we've done so here with this extra money, but i believe this is something that cannot fall off our radar. and as new monies come to our district, what can we support? i've heard that question. what do you need help with? i think we

need to tell those folks yes, we need stem. yes, we want to ex/papbld and grow 21st century working, but there are things we know are working and people are asking for them. school sites are asking, communities are asking. we need to put money there and expand that work. and we know it keeps kids in the classroom and /pweulgdz relationships between teachers and students and families and i believe that's what teachers got in this profession to do. have relationships with their students and expand relationships. as we talk about being purposeful and how we apply our money, this is one of the appropriate answers for that question. and i want to make sure it's stated