the security contract is switching here with the unified school district. i work in an industry which is frequently run by duplicitous people. therefore, people who work in this industry must always be alert, aware. sometimes, yes, we even have to expect the absolute worst. abc security is a company which is known for its duplicity. what we're asking is that we understand you're going to go with abc security, but we're asking for your oversight on this matter to make sure that these people that work for you currently for securitas and soon to be abc do not lose their wages, no cut in their wages, no cuts in their benefits.

thank you very much. >> thank you. all right. item g, consent calendar. may i hear a motion and a second, please? >> consent calendar. >> second. >> thank you. did you want to make a comment? [laughter] >> well, you can always -- i'm getting to the next part and you can always make your comment there. any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent, mr. steel? >> yes, we have -- there is one correction to 4b. 138-13 k5 on page 105. there is a change of amount to sac code to 01-41 244-2 014-111

0-21 00-51 00-153. [multiple voices] >> the amount is changed from 29,400 to 24,400. everything else to k-5 is correct including the total cost. there is one item to withdraw from the agenda. this item 4b is 138-13 k 28 on pages 152 -- excuse me, 151 and 152. >> k-28 is [speaker not understood]. okay, thank you. any items removed for first reading by the board? seeing none, any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion and vote tonight? commissioner maufas.

>> yes, 2q, 138 13-c-2, the security contract. >> all right. 2q. any other items severed for discussion and vote this evening? seeing none, that would only be 2q. roll call vote will take place under section o. all right. item 8, superintendent's proposals, there are none tonight. item i, board members proposals. there are none this evening. and we are going to move on to request to speak regarding general matters. i have several cards. all right. actually, i have two cards. i am going to call your name. andrew russo, you have two minutes. and then reverend amos brown is going to give a slightly longer present aches. when [speaker not understood] is finished, reverend brown,

you may approach the microphone. okay, great. okay, good evening to the board so and the superintendent and appreciate the time to talk tonight. my name is andrew russo, co-founder of the san francisco family support network. i'm here to promote an event we are promoting with the district september . it's called attend today, succeed tomorrow. it's a forum on partnering to improve student attendance from the early years. ~ september 9. the questions we'll be looking at together are what impact does absence in the early years of education have on a child's ongoing success in school? how serious a problem is early chronic absence in san francisco? and most importantly, how can we as community-based organizations public departments, the school district, and funders collectively support families and our city to overcome the barriers that make it hard for children to attend.

the event is co-sponsored as well by attendance works, first 5 in san francisco, [speaker not understood], and parents for public schools. we're fortunate that our superintendent will be speaking that day. and as well heddy chang, [speaker not understood], nationally known expert in the area of early chronic absenteeism. so, i believe you all have the fliers and appreciate your help on promoting this event internally and externally. welcome you to participate. please go to the website there to register, and for those in the audience, i will also leave fliers out on the desk there. so, thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. russo. all right. reverend brown, you may speak at the podium or if you'd be more comfortable, you can sit at the table. i think the podium is [inaudible].

madam president, mr. superintendent, members of the board, ladies and gentlemen, i am amos brown, president of the san francisco branch of the national association for the advancement of colored people. for us colored comes in all colors. naacp is an all-inclusive civil rights advocacy organization. madam chair, i wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for permitting me to come and address the board this evening. i stand within the portals of the observance of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington which took place

august 28th, 1963. i was there in the crowd, leading a delegation of over 50 students from my alma mater, morehouse college when i was a student there. martin luther king, jr., was my mentor and jail mate. he taught only one class in his lifetime, and that was at morehouse the semesters of 1961, '62, a seminar in social philosophy. when i sat at his feet, one thing that impressed me most about his lectures was one concept that was advanced by dr. black man at boston university, of personalism. that idea that all persons in

this crusted earth are important, are endued with worth and dignity. and in a government of civil society, we should accord all peoples, those services and amenities that will enable them to develop as fully matured persons. unfortunately, friends, because of the dark past of this nation, not too often african americans have experienced receiving those services that should have been ours which are [speaker not understood] and afforded for all american citizens. i wish to say that it's good for us to go back in history sometime and get a perspective. i have here a copy of some copious notes from a meeting that was held in savannah, georgia, january 12th, 1865. a meeting called by general

sherman and secretary of war stanton. after they had marched to atlanta, burned down atlanta because the confederacy would not give up, they decided that upon burning down atlanta, that they would march to the sea. and as they marched to the sea, these ex slaves followed them. sherman asked secretary of war stanton, what should we do with these ex slaves? well, secretary of war stanton responded, wait, general, until we get to savannah. when we get there, we will call a meeting with the black preachers of savannah and get some advice from them as to what course we should take. the long short of it, friends, is this.

that in that meeting general sherman asked reverend gary son frazier, what do you feel the union owes these ex slaves? reverend frazier said, general, i can't speak for everybody. but at least for me and my house, i feel that we should be able to have some of this land that we have tilled on for too long as slaves. why can't we have 40 acres and a mule? so that we will be able to subsist, educate our children, [speaker not understood] and celebrate our culture? friends, from that conversation, general sherman issued what became fill order number 15 that set aside 40 acres and a mule from the coast of florida up to south carolina for these ex slaves.

however, unfortunately, president lincoln was assassinated in april of 1865. and andrew johnson of tennessee became president. mr. johnson, in an effort to placate the south, revoked fill order 15 and was almost impeached as president. they lost by one vote for not impeaching him. but what happened from that stance of mr. johnson? it caused blacks to live in a system call the peenage system, share cropping. consequently, my friends, when we didn't get our 40 acres and our mule, we were left in a state that i contend, if it had been corrected then, we would not have the miseducation, the under education or the miseducation of our peoples. the people had money, they would be able to take care of

their families. if they're able to take care of their families, they would be able to feed their children. if they're able to feed their children, they're able to live in a house that they can buy. if they can live in that house, they can create a community in which they can live at peace in a beloved community. i cite all of this history to say the march on washington that will be observed in this nation in washington, d.c. on the 24th and 28th of this month is not about a dream. that was the [speaker not understood], there was a celebration, there was a poetic utterance of dr. king. 65 to 70% of that speech was about economic empowerment. and dr. king said this nation has given us a bounced check that has come back insufficient funds. so, the march in 1963 was about

jobs, freedom, and justice. i get to my next point of saying we are privileged in this town to have a school named for dr. martin luther king, jr., and i want to thank this board for last year approving a program students of promise that will enable us to provide wrap around services for those young men brown and black young men who could build their way to achieving if they had some support for their parents, they might have jobs. if they might have support of tutorial services, if they might have some support of mentoring, and i want to thank you that you stood with us and we are able to report tonight that we had a pretty good year for the suspension rate went

down over 50%. that's something that we ought to applaud this evening for too orphan african americans -- (applause) brown children have been suspended from school. you will get a detailed report of what happened academically and what happened in terms of the spirit of collaboration and cooperation that was celebrated this past year. and we're looking forward to again this year being involved at martin luther king school, and expanding students of promise throughout the school district. for too many young people from our community are behind. and if they are behind, they're going to stay behind unless somebody helps them to run faster in order to catch up. that is our commitment. we're going to be at martin luther king school on the 19th at 9:00 a.m. sharp when preachers, parents, community leaders will be there to support the principal,

administration, and the students, and then on the 28th, all of you are welcome to come to martin luther king school at which time ms. ever heart and her entire staff will put on a program commemorating, celebrating, and saying we're going to be a part of the continuation of the struggle that martin luther king put forth so that everybody would have equality of opportunity and we will all be able to say, i'm black and i'm proud. i'm brown and i'm sound. i'm yellow and i'm mellow. i'm red but i ain't dead. i'm white and i'm all right. i'm gay but i'm godly. i'm straight, but i'm sensible. that's what this nation ought to be about. that's what san francisco ought to be about. and through the grace of god and support of all of you, we're going to make sure martin luther king is about that end and every school in this city children will go to school and

saying the words of chaucer, quietly will i learn and gladly will i teach others how to find a way to the good life. and now in spirit behind students of promise will give you a brief presentation of two of the young men, handsome young men, 17 of them total went to morehouse at the graduation this past may at which time they had the auguste opportunity and privileged moment of hearing president barack obama deliver the commencement address. thank you very much. (applause) good evening. you will notice that i sat down my portfolio with my prepared remarks because what is there left to be said after dr. amos e brown? [laughter] for the sake of time i will

pay homage to who i believe it is all about, which is our young people. to the commission and president, mr. carranza, distinguished commissioners, board and administrators, parents and community of san francisco, i greet you in spirit of education and i also greet you in the spirit of our young men. we had an opportunity this past spring to engage in an historic event, not just because this was 50 years after the march on washington or 150 years hence the emancipation of proclamation, but we were able to take 14 middle school students and also three high school students, two from this district and one from oakland whose dad literally contacted me and said, please, can you include my young man on this opportunity. i said, absolutely. and what we did was we ventured from here to atlanta, georgia where we were not only able to

attend the baccalaureate service at morehouse. very visited the campus. we also toured atlanta. but i think a moment i don't think any one of our young men or chaperones will forget is that we were able to witness our second term president barack obama give the commencement address at morehouse college. and, so, i want to say what not only that meant to these young men, but also what it meant to their parents and their family. we're talking about in some situations where there are some households where this might be the first generation college students. so, college for them now is not just someone they went to see and flew some 3,000 miles away. it can be somewhere in the near future they're going to be walking on a campus like morehouse or something similar. so, without further ado, i first want to personally thank this district not only for receiving the program, but for receiving me, coming from a distance. my home is state of ohio where we had the opportunity to share

this opportunity of closing achievement gap with our students across the state. and it gave me great honor and privilege to replicate that and also share at dr. martin luther king middle school this past year. i want to give the mic to one of our stellar young men. we have two stellar young men who is less microphone shy and he actually has some remarks. and please, mr. daunte has a few brief words for you. good evening, everyone. student of promise is -- it's

very empowering. it helps keep me and others young students -- young men look forward to proceeding in like -- and like help me stay on track and others. (applause) and in closing, as we take our seats and as a former boy scout, if i know anything about scouting i remember our motto was be prepared. he did not know he was going to speak, did not know he was going to address and be on live television. so, i think that in itself -- [laughter] that in itself i believe is indicative of the potential our students have. they are our future leaders. i'd like to acknowledge mr. franklin, [speaker not understood] also accompanied us on our trip, mr. scott who is also a stellar stand out district employee.

so i'm told. he also accompanied us and also a morehouse graduate. thank you so much for your time and, please, we look forward to an exciting and excellent school year. thank you. (applause) >> thank you, gentlemen, for coming and talking about tonight. mr. superintendent, did you -- okay, sorry. okay. i have one more card, jean ishibashi. i'm setting aside our protocol tonight. we usually do not accept cards once we call public comment. i understand you have some information for our students so i'm going to set aside that rule for you. so, you may have two minutes at

the mic. hello, good evening. thank you. we have teacher workshops that we're offering and [speaker not understood] intelligence service has been in the news quite a bit. and who is a good american, who is a bad american, right? are questions, ethical questions that are being raised in the news media with manning and [speaker not understood], et cetera. there is a workshop on japanese americans who served in the military intelligence service, and secondary teachers will get $150 from 10 to 3:00 p.m. on saturday at the presidio. if you are interested or anyone you know are interested in participating in this workshop. so, i have fliers here for anyone who is interested. who is a good american, who is

a bad american, what constitutes bias, what constructs good and bad, et cetera. so, i encourage you to attend this workshop. the other is that we have concurrent enrollment for high school students, junior and high -- junior and senior high school students, and these are courses that are offered by ccsf. we're still open, accessible, affordable, accredited. don't let the mainstream media fool you, all right. we're one of the best bargains in town. and we have courses that transfer to u.c. and csu. so, if any of you have students or are a student interested, they're being offered. they are three units. you will have fulfilled the requirement at csu american cultures and ethic is studies. at berkeley and any of the other uc systems. i encourage you, you will have a leg up in transferring or

graduating into a four-year college ~ by having these courses under your belt. so, i just wanted to encourage folks to know that these possibilities are there for the students and they should take advantage of them. and city college is there to support both san francisco unified school district and the entire community. thank you very much. (applause) >> thank you. public comment is now closed. item k, advisory committee reports, appointments to the advisory committees. are there any appointments by board members? no. seeing none, we will move to item l, special order of business. so, first is the public hearing. i'm going to call to order the public hearing on the 2012-2013 initial proposal for a successor agreement from laborers international union of north america, liuna, local 261 to san francisco unified school

district and the 2012-2013 initial proposal for a successor agreement from the san francisco unified school district to the laborers international union of north america, local 261. there are no speakers on this item. so, i am going to move on to an action item under item l. may i hear a motion and a second on approval of qtea membership appointments? >> [speaker not understood] recommendation. >> i second. >> thank you. mr. ar men trout, may i hear a reading of the recommendation? >> yes, president norton. thank you. again commissioners, superintendent, my name is

chris armentraut, director of policy and planning. [speaker not understood] appoints the following individuals for membership to the quality teacher and education act oversight committee. also known as qtea. sam rodriguez, [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood] cornell, and dan cohen. >> we don, i believe, have resumes on these people. >> mr. ar men trout, way asking president norton if there is a brief resume of the people to be appointed. >> commissioner, sorry, can't find the page right now, excuse me. page 6? we don't have resumes for the individuals. the individuals were asked to

submit applications and with questions regarding qualifications, regarding their involvement with the -- whether they had children in the school, their involvement with the school, they took a leadership role at the site, and whether they had financial experience. those were considered the main criteria for involvement in the oversight committee. >> pardon me, mr. ar men trout. yes, dr. [speaker not understood]. >> thank you very much. i had a question of the co-chairs about gender balance because of the five who are being recommended tonight, only one is a woman. can you give me a sense of gender balance of the existing members? ~ murase >> yes, co-chairs are michelle parker and jenny lam. forgive me, i'm forgetting the other members of the committee. those are our two other female members, but they are the co-chairs currently.

>> so, can you clarify for me how many current members are there on the qtea and how many seats are there total? >> president norton, there are 11 seats total. we currently have six members. >> okay. so, you -- but if commissioners have concerns about parity of gender balance or whatever, they are not obligated to vote for the entire slate this evening; is that correct? >> that's correct, president norton, there is no obligation to accept any or all members. it's at the board's discretion. >> thank you. commissioner wynns. >> it is very interesting to me that all of these candidates are parents in the school district. and while i think that's great, it's very unusual or it seems to me and the two people that you mention.

so, did somebody say they should all be parents? i gather -- i mean, i realize from reading this that most of these people are financial professionals. i'm a little sensitive this program is, you know, about professional development and really is our reform project. i was interested -- what kind of criteria are we looking for? so we don't have teachers or educators, or people who have -- in other words, did we say we want this to be a committee of financial experts? because it seems like that's what we have. >> the short answer is, commissioner wynns, yes. in our application, the criteria that we asked for, and we asked folks to present themselves was to say, are you a parent? because we're looking for individuals who had taken some kind of leadership role within their school's community. we wanted individuals who were really stakeholders from the

community, but also -- from the community, but stakeholders in our sites where this is having -- where this proposition was having such a huge impact. and because the oversight committee is primarily about the fiscal solvency and the audit that we do each year for qtea, we wanted individual members who understood -- who had a background in that, in that context. that was the primary focus for this [speaker not understood]. >> i'm requesting that in the future we have some discussion, maybe at the rules committee, about how we constituted this committee. i don't remember somebody tell me if i'm wrong, that we at the board actually discussed what criteria we would want because it seems to me that in all of these kinds of advisory groups, one of the most important things is to have various experiences. i mean, i might say for each one of these people, i might individually read this description and say, oh, yeah, that would be a valuable, you know, set of experiences to be on this committee, but i don't really