language ] . >> i have a kid who are attending... spring valley elementary school second grade. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> okay. and everybody in. >> i have no public speakers on this item, are there any comments from the board? nets vote and we can welcome them. >> seeing no other requests for comments or questions from the board i think that we should do roll call. >> ly >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas.

>> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase? >> aye. >> wynns and nor? >> aye. >> on behalf of the board of education and particularly commissioner maufas but everybody, welcome to the council and we are pleased to have you. [ applause ] are there any other current pac members that you would like to introduce? >> no, there was one more who was on her way and she has not made it. >> hello, thank you, my name is (inaudible) fisher, thank you.

>> my son is second grader at lake shore elementary, thank you. >> great. >> congratulations everyone. so, now we have request to move up actually item i. so unless there is an objection from the board members i will hand it over to vice president fewer, urging the san francisco unified school district to assist undocumented students file for deferred action. >> thank you, president norton i was honored that the student advisory council asked me to author this resolution and it would honor me to have me read it into the record. since this is a joint resolution between the youth commission and our own student advisory council, student delegate windy ly will read the first half and commissioner lick las perski will read the

second half. would you mind coming up to the desk, please? >> whereas back of the program that allows for the discretionary determination to defer the removal of the action as an act of prosecutor discretion in providing eligible for the authorization for youth under the age of 31 as of june, 15, 2012 and whereas the docket program offers deferred action for the undocumented youth who were brought to the united states as children and who have met the specific requirements as indicated on the us citizenship and immigration services and whereas the members of the san francisco youth commission have reached out, and the student advisory council and to work to support the eligible students, and whereas, the youth commission and immigrant rights commission have also adopted a

joint resolution on supporting the eligible students at the regular meetings of friday, february 19th, 2013 and march 11, 2013. and therefore, be it resolved that the student advisory council and the youth commission for starting the resources web page on its sight that includes a overview of the daca and process. information on the local community organizations that provide free legal assistance to undocumented students and families interested in applying for it. the web platform where the applicants can apply for the transcripts and enrollment on-line with the fees waived and providing said information on both span sxish chinese. be it further resolved that the student council urging them to support the office of civil engagement and immigrant affairs and (inaudible) with the grant funded organizations

providing legal and application for the exclusive service for daca as well as assist the organization with the out reach efforts. and further be it resolved that the student advisory council and youth commission urges the san francisco school district to continue to create a centralized process that of the san francisco district to stream line it for the students applying for the program. and the student advisory commission (inaudible) urging the san francisco school district to up hold the information and further be it resolved that the student advisory council and youth commission urges the transcript office to continue to wave all fees associated with daca in light of the $400 and 65 application fees and provide the information on the website and further resolved that the commission urges the san francisco board of supervisors

and mayor to work together with the san francisco unified school district to do whatever possible to support the undocumented students and traditionally aged youth. >> and i don't have any public speakers signed up for this item. are there any comments from the board or the superintendents? >> commissioner maufas? >> with the permission of the authors, would i like to know if my colleagues will be able to sign on as well. >> i defer to the student delegates neshe is nodding our head yes. >> thank you very much >> and thank you for bringing this resolution forward, thank you. >> delegates, thank you. >> any other comments? >> yes. and so shall we pass the resolution in support of this process earlier. and this one is really just

specifically to cooperate working with toot he and so that is... and we don't think that it is going to require us to do anything, and i mean what i want to do is make sure that we are already doing all of the things that we want the district to do. right? and just for the public record i think that it is important. >> i see a nod from wong who has answered all of the questions in a e-mail to the commissioners. >> thank you. >> mr. persky. i just want to thank you guys for supporting the student advisory council and the youth commission throughout the past few months in this process and i wanted to thank the superintendent and his office and especially wong who has been a champion and we hope that this continued collaboration between the youth commission representing you know the san francisco city and county and also the school district will continue to happen and just to kind of give you guys an idea the youth commission, me and a couple others are thinking about a

daca day on an august to celebrate the one-year anniversary of deferred action when it started. and this will kind of you know reengage interest about the program. because there was you know a very high spike in interest of the beginning of the program but since then, we have seen the number of applications go dramatically down due to a variety of factors that were mentioned in the resolution, so we hope that we can, you know, reengage that excitement and i want to thank you guys for your support throughout this process. >> superintendent and then vice president fewer? >> thank you, to the youth commission, and thank you to all of our students and i think that this say wonderful, wonderful resolution. and to the youth commissioner and i also want to thank you you for your philentropic measures and thank you very much for your donation to our

schools. >> i believe president we are prepared for a vote now. thank you. >> thank you. >> ly. >> yes. >> fewer in >> yes. >> hany >> yes. >> mendoza, murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> norton. >> six ayes. congratulations. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> thank you for bringing this to us. >> all right. we will move back to item f on the agenda which is public comment on consent items. i actually have one speaker who called ahead, langin decosta omy pro system woulds like to address the board on 132-... >> you can take the mic and you have two minutes.

>> thank you, my name is (inaudible) and ceo of (inaudible) assistants based in san francisco a local company, we have been doing business with the school district since 2007. providing all of the hp, desk topps and laptops and services and doing that with very much a pride and distinction and i have been made to understand that they want to move in another direction. so all that i am asking is to give me a fair chance as to why because no reason was given after all of the effort that we have put into the district for providing same day service and some of the people here might know our company. and so that was the reason that i wanted to address all of you and see if i could be given a hearing. i have a meeting with the cio on june 14th, at 11 with the hp staff. and so i wanted to see if you guys could give me a good

hearing after almost 7 years of working with the district. you know i think that they are trying to fix something that is not broken. but so that is from my side. so that is what i want to ask you request all of you to do that. >> did i take my two minutes? >> okay. >> we get special pricing from hp, what we call big deal pricing, which is lower than the retail pricing like the computer land which is what the cio had emailed me saying that he did not give me any explanation as to why, but he said that they want to move in another direction and i believe that they are looking at is based in los angeles and we are local, and certified by the san francisco (inaudible) commission as a small minority business and i believe that the district gets some sort of points for using a local

business. because we are (inaudible) from every school in the district. and we are based right there in the (inaudible) post office and i have been there for almost 20 years. >> thank you, >> thank you very much >> thank you and have a great evening. >> all right. we will move now to item g, the consent calendar, my i hear a motion and a second >> moved. >> i second. >> thank you. >> are there any items withdrawn or correct by the superintendent? >> thank you, commissioner norton. there are two, they are corrections to 135-28, k48. this is on page 148. and 149. the bottom of the page states richmond district neighborhood center, 178,586. this total should be corrected

to read 17,586. >> i am sure that they were so happy to read the original. >> quite sure. >> also. commissioners please remove from the agenda item 2 e, this is on page 15. item number 1 35-28 b5. and this should be removed from the agenda. withdrawn from the agenda this evening. >> remove it, completely withdrawing. >> yes. okay. >> thank you, dr. crawford. >> and are there any items removed for first reading by the board? >> all right. and any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion and vote tonight? >> can i... >> yeah. >> thank you, president norton. i would like to have further

discussion on the item that was just spoken to for public comment. so it is 2 f135-28 b6. >> okay. so we will sever that for discussion. roll call vote will take place under section o. >> all right. item h. we have superintendent proposal and approval of material revision to the life learning academy charter petition and to reflect the change of governor ans structure, may i have a reading of the recommendation please? >> good evening, president norton, and superintendent carranza. and commissioners. what we have here is a proposal to approve a material revision to the charter for the life learning academy charter school. superintendents proposal, approval of the material revisions to the life learning charter petition to reflect the

change of governor ans structure whereas san francisco unified school district is the charter authorizer for life learning academy charter school which is set to expire on june 30, 2014, and whereas the board of directors of this will be the delancy street foundation on september 27, 2012 approved the change of governor ans of life learning academy charter school to the newly formed life learning academy non-profit public benefit corporation and whereas the charter school submitted request of an approval for the revision of the charter school's provision to reflect the change of the structure to the san francisco unified school district on february 13, 2013 and whereas the charter school specifically requested a revision to section i, the standing of the petition to be effective july 1, 2013 and include a supporting documentation of the new non-profit public benefit corporation and whereas

pursuant to the sections 47605 and 607 they shall review and act on revisions to the charter school petition and be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district shall approve the revision to the charter school's revision set forth by the requirement of law. >> thank you. >>vy no public speakers signed up for this item. are there any comments from the board? >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you. >> i have some questions. i am wondering this charter which i have always strongly supported in part is our support has been based on our partnership of the delancy street foundation and there is no explanation here of why this is being done, further, it gave (inaudible) and found out that the staff does not know to ask the question or to wonder about

some of the synergystic activities that have been done with the treat and so i am a little, and i kind of like to know more about this if possible. >> sorry. good evening, i'm terry (inaudible) and i have been the principal for life academy, for 15 years since its inception and i am also with the delancy street for the past 30-plus years. and so our school was part of the local action plan 15 years ago. and local action plan had numerous other community agencies that we started. all of which ended up being given back to the community to run. the schools just taken a little bit longer and it has always been our idea for life learning

academy to become separate from delancy street, although the model itself will never change it is what makes it successful. i am someone who set up a number of replications which we have all across the country, that are delancy street model replications that have been unbelievably successful. and we believe that our school, will continue to be successful as it has always been as a replication which is pretty much what it is. >> and so that is the reason. >> okay. so, so for instance, in the past, this school has had sort of surfaces, that came from delancy street and so in a while ago and i have not talked to you or anybody in several years about this but there was a time when most of these kids were picked up at their homes and returned to them in the evening. further, in the beginning at

least, i think that almost all of the girls that attended the school lived in group homes that were run by delancy street and further one of the things that i have many times referred to other people have told them about the things that were being done there was a time when every student at the school had a mentor of delancy street and so those things still go on? are they... my question is we could... discuss, i mean that it is not up to me, >> sure. >> but those were included in the charter model. >> when it was presented to us. >> so i am wondering if that has changed, it seems to me that i am a little concerned that the material changed to the charter is not just a different board. >> yeah, no. the thing that did change is, which has been so beneficial to our students. is that you know, it was, the vans, that we had to pick up people, has not been for two or

three years. and we stopped doing that a while ago, because it turned out that only 50 percent of our students were getting on the vans, so what we did and said which would be amazed what a hot breakfast does, which we included more of our kids come now due to a hot breakfast than when we were picking them up from their homes. so that part has changed. and the money that we have saved for 30,000 dollars a year on gas, we now send our kids through school, through college. this has been huge for us, all of our kids last year that graduated in the last two or three years end up going to college and we paid for them. and so, you know, as time goes, and things begin to change, some, i think that is probably the biggest thing was having to do with our vans but everything else, the mentor and we get from the people in the

community and some from delancy street graduates and all of that model has remained exactly the same. >> it seems to me and the staff told me that the charter is up for renewal next year, what we are going to need is for the staff to carefully go over all of those things because basically if we have not changed the charter and the charter makes reference to the things that are not doing any more that are part of the model. i am not even certain that just passing this, adequately, you know, it just, says that the board is a different board, but, it does not necessarily make all of the changes that actually need to be done and also, i would want to when we do that, know more subnatively that we would need to make some sort of an assessment about whether, you know, the charter accurately reflects the program in the school now.

>> i am the principal and i have been there since it opened and i have run the school for the past 15 years and i think that any changes like the ones that you are mentioning would be completely disdescribed in the charter that we will submit next year and he would love for you to review and see the school and visit as well. so i think that you know that is when we will be able to respond to the to the additional questions that you are raising right now. >> thank you. >> any other questions or comments from board members? seeing none, oh, if there is a problem we would hear it from our counsel. >> other than the realignment of the board which is considered a material revision of the current charter, i don't

see another issue before us. did the counsel review the charter itself or the provision about the board. what i am concerned about and i think that it is probably okay and frankly i think that all charters are loose to put it bluntly. but, it seems to me that we would need to or that the just changing to another board has far-reaching implications because delancy street was a integral component of the model of this school, so i am sure that there are other things that need to be changed in the charter, however, i am prepared to just say that we are going to look at it in depth next year and see what we can do. >> i mean, because wouldn't there have, there is sort of specific conditions, aren't there for us to actually open up the charter, outside of the

renewal process? >> you are asking for a material revision? that is what we are doing. but they are saying that is the only part that they want to revise is the board. and what i am saying is that it seems to me that this charter in particular was written in such a way, that it actually was a partnership with another organization and that organization is the one that we are taking out of the board so whether there are actually doing all of those things and i don't know if the charter makes any reference to picking the kids up or anything of those things, we need to look at that carefully. >> and legal counsel, is there any reason why we could not vote on this tonight and then if there are other issues... if there are other issues that would legal issues that we would need to take up before the charter comes up you could advise us to that later? >> correct. >> i can and i will and there is no reason why you cannot vote on this revision tonight. >> i am going to call roll call

and we can examine these questions off line in greater details. >> thank you. >> ly. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, murase. >> aye. >> wao*ins fp wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> aye. >> six ayes. >> thanks for coming we are going to move on request to speak regarding general matters. i have two speakers... where is my list, two speaksers, that called ahead, and so i am going to call first maggie (inaudible) and tina (inaudible). and you may each have one minute of time.

okay? thank you. >> good evening, i am actually here tonight with the celebration and i would love hearing the different names of the different communities and i like that and that is the reason that i am speaking tonight and this is about the filipino language pathway and i am speaking as a parent and a community advocate that two things here that we would like to make the district and the commissioners know, good evening, by the way, that we would like to work with strengthening the pathway with kthrough 12 and right now we have kthrough five at long fellow and we don't have 0 in the middle school and three years ago with the help of

commissioner mendoza we started one and that is one issue and the other issue is the curriculum development and it will help if we have a staff that are developing a language and culture in the multilingual department right now and there is no one that speaks that language and therefore the curriculum that comes out of it is i am not going to say anything any more that is my issue thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners, my name is crina and i am a community advocate and i am a fourth grade teach and her in keeping up with tonight's tony would like to congratulate all of the high school seniors that we honored tonight and also, we would like to bring up the issue of if we are to expect these students to continue on the road to success, we should

continue to make sure that there are teachers and staff who represent them who feel like them and who speak like them and who speak their language share their heritage language and culture. and this, it brings me to this point, i would like to thank the superintendent for continuing our dialogue with the filipino community and thank you for opening up the chance to have a meeting tonight as we speak with the superintendent margaret chiu and thank you for giving us that opportunity to speak with her about our concerns. and i would like to thank you for meeting with us a couple of weeks ago, and thank you. >> and this is a sign that we are having this dialogue and hope that we can continue to really engage and collaborate as a community. and i see it personally as a road towards practicing the restorative practices and thank you and good night. >> thank you for your comments. >> all right we will move on

and we have two speakers from (inaudible) you may each, if you require interpretation you can have two minutes, but if you are speaking in english, one minute each. how many minutes? >> i am sorry. >> one minute? >> i am nervous and i am taking the power to talk to you, the first one that we are going to talk about is we are having a lot of relational trust issues at the elementary school. and if you ever wondered why we are hard to staff school you might want to look deeper into the practices there. and the first thing is that we have had a lot of non-reelect and we had two last year that

were rescinded because they got word of them and they were rescinded, and we have one that happens to be our deaf and hard of hearing teacher. and it has torn our asl community apart and it has been difficult for our school and we have a petition that were 200 signatures from family and 30 staff of the talking about this teacher and how the non-reelect should be rescinded and also, our library teacher is going to be removed because he is not bi lingual but yet we don't have a bi lingual vice principal and i am a computer teacher and i am not bi lingual. my position was reduced to 80 percent, even though we are ordering 100,000 worth of new laptops and ipads and i don't know why that would happen. but there has been so little transparency and like we said, we had multiple staff