indicator to give us that kind of data. some of our admissions to some of our schools is predicated upon the standardized test scores. there's a number of things that we use to test scores for. so we're in the process of actually looking at all of the implications for not having a cst and that's why it sounds a little loose to say we don't quite know everything yet by we're in the process of kind of identifying all of the implications of that. >> if i may followup for a second. two things i still need to know. one is you say we're advocating for the state paying for us to do both pilots, not just one or other, but we still have to pay if we want results that are linked to students available to us or to parents, correct. and then second when you say which i appreciate and i don't expect them to answer to it now but we

should get an answer when you say we have to tell parents that they have to pay attention to that, that's great, however, i want to know how we're going to tell parents. do we have a plan? i think of this as a campaign. we need a plan, an information sharing plan, a communication plan because we know we have big jobs to communicate a whole new system and we need to know how we're going to do that. not now but soon. >> so i want to clarify the word "pilot test." what the state is doing is they're pre-testing the items. by pre-testing the items, they're going to select items that will comprise off a test. as of now they don't have a test in place. they're just testing the items. the field items has the content to the standards but there's a lot more that the

items need to have to be put into a test. and as of now, yes it is very good practice for us as a district to expose students and the district staff both to the content and the format of the test. >> can i - i would like to suggest. this is a really hot topic and it's an interesting topic but i think it's one that maybe at 10:00 at night, i would suggest that we take it to curriculum. >> because i have a lot more questions but i feel like i can see people are starting to welt. i jut think it would be better to move it to curriculum. dr. moros is that okay to put it on the next curriculum agenda? >> sure. >> great. >> are there any more questions about the achievement presentation that we saw putting aside the discussion of assessments for the curriculum committee.

>> i just would like say one thing. it seems as though the resolution i put forward about common planning times sits nicely with what you're trying to do because how people will talk to each other, we don't set time for them. it must be planned and fiscal. i think we should look at that again. i feel this is the thing that we're going to need at all school sites to move this forward >> we know dedicated time for our professions is good. we do have common planning time in place at almost every school whether it's through an early release day or i'm sorry, an early start or early release. we have teachers coming together and we want to support and encourage that.

>> it has to be district wide because it's not just schools in some zones but schools all over because we are all going to a common core exactly. >> okay. thank you very much. >> i really appreciate the presentation. there's more to come. >> all right. we are now going to move onto item n, consent calendar review. there are none. vote on the consent calendar which was moved and seconded under section f. yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are only on item o. >> mrs. wilson would have mentioned that we needed the vote to extend the meeting. we never really do that. >> thank you very much. and thank you mrs. wilson where ever you are. i would like to entertain a motion to extend the meeting. >> extend the meeting to

complete the meeting. >> no. >> sorry. >> all right. we're moving on. >> i meant no, really. >> we really have to have a roll call. do you want to roll call vote. >> we're not going to win anyways. it doesn't matter. >> a noted statement. strong disagreement. item o, consent californiaen der. >> mrs. mcdonald. >> yes, accept on items k, 13 and 15 because they're retro active. >> mrs. wins. >> i accept k through 14.

>> mrs. norton. >> yesment. >> thank you. >> okay. item p consent calendar resolution, there were none tonight. thank you commissioners. item q, superintendent, there are none. item r, commissioner has a proposed add and has asked us to vote to suspend the rule. may i hear a motion on suspending the rule? >> second. >> roll call. >> suspension may ward. >> hanny. >> yes. >> mendosa. >> yes. >> i. >> mrs. win. >> i. >> norton. yes. >> all right. may i hear a motion and is a second for a formal introduction entitled support -- in support of the family work place ordinance. >> so moved. >> thank you. >> thank you. dr. marsa will you read us the resolution. >> i like to read resolve

clause and give a summary of what this is about. it be resolved and encourages the san francisco family fund work force ordinance by the board of superintendents. there's a proposal by the board of superintendents to give employees of organizations with 20 employees or more the right to request a flexible schedule. it's not a guarantee. that request can be denied by the employer for a number of business related reasons but it gives employees the right to request it. it's modeled after laws in the united kingdom, other countries where it has been successful and i really believe that families in our school district could benefit from this. they can be more active in their children's lives. be apart of the school

community and that's why i'm bringing this forward. >> i thought that was the summary. >> okay. i'm sorry. thank you dr. marsa. we have one speaking card. i don't know if he's here. james powers. >> sorry about that. any board comments or discussions? >> yes, doctor. >> mendosa mcdonald. >> i was curious and i don't know if you know this. with regards to our own school district, i think it's great for our employees but for our employees, what's been our

policy on this and will it have financial img pact. we're like the second largest employer in the city. >> my understanding who will correct me if i'm wrong is this will not apply to the district employees because we're a state agency. and it's for san francisco employers: >> there's a lot of parents who are teachers so my question is it wouldn't -- the ordinance wouldn't apply to our teachers and so i'm wondering what

policies are. >> i know as a school district we have it and that's when the kids are there and at the central office and i can tell you from personal experience as a general council i many currently have employees on flex schedules because i've figured out a way to do comdate. that's one section of the section. it's legal to do that. accept with a meeting at

6:00. we're voting on this. this shouldn't affect us unrelated to this proposal. it could make a decision on whether or not you want to be supportive of this because it wouldn't affect our employees.

>> the second is two weeks after that. >> president made some amendments to it, is that correct too? >> initially it was applied to employees of ten employees or more but after speak with small business and with the chamber that was narrowed to employers of 20 or more. there's no appeal process which is a bone of contention among employer group. >> do we know if there's plans for any other amendments. we don't know that. what we're asking us is to support it in its current state with the amendment that we put forward. >> it was before the land use committee and it had quite a

bit support. >> thank you. >> we took on the item of renaming on we're on item s. standing committees, and membership organizations. dr. moras will you report on student assignment. yes, we met on wednesday september 11 we with four information items. it was finding research questions investigating how district policy shaped the distribution. there was a very interesting finding that if we

focus on trying reduce the number of racially isolated schools that actually -- families tended to vote a certain pattern, our assignment process a, address the issue of isolation and tried to break down some of that isolation but what families ultimately chose was something more towards isolation rather than what the process generated. >> under the no child left

behind we're in transition. there's no -- it will be a tie breaker in the process and then we had not determined a date yet for future meetings. >> thank you. commissioner hanny. would you like to update us on the committee rules meeting. >> we had a couple of items in a major informational item. the action item we heard about the status of our district position, legislative position and our bills. we have many bills on the govern's desk. at the next meeting we'll hear what happened with that. that was a big conversation about the bills on the desk. we had a couple that were signed. we took a position.

>> we had mrs. bryant seeking some sort of direction on how we like to do that. we like to appoint a representative of the board to the policy council and then have to a regular reporting schedule that the board -- that the policy council has, the head start poll see council has to us both written and on regular basis to present to us. the revised board of education policies, we put forward the employee sexual harassment with a positive recommendation and then with board policy 1220 the advisory board, there was no changes, so there's no amendments to that. the information item we had was city college and sfusd programs

and collaboration updates. we had a number of folks from our district and from city college who were there to report on the staft us of those programs despite the questions of accreditation. we're building on the things we've done over the last couple of years with gateway college to bridge of success. one thing that we saw a drop. there was concern about that and a lot of questions about how we address that. and we communicate to our students and our families that city college is open and a credited and they should be enrolled in city college and that was an important thing we wanted to emphasize and better communicate that to our family

and students. but obviously we got an update on the situation with city college of accreditation and emphasize the importance of sfusd and the board having a voice in anything that happened at city college moving forward particularly as any kind of programs, changes or anything that would affect our students and families that we have a voice in that and we advocate in those. any questions. >> i wanted to clarify what the committee talked about with the head start counsel, when he said we discussed the idea of the board having a recommendation, that's a member of the board of education which is not how we normally would do that. that is something that would need to be -- if we, you know, say yes so that would find out how to appoint that.

>> thank you. commissioner, will you give us a report. >> the budget committee had one item which was commissioner hanny's course, resolution and there was -- while there was some fiscal analysis, it recognizes that the real implications of finances which can be considerable are the idea which is yet undefined about expanding course operation and when we would offer more courses in particular small high schools. >> excuse me. the staff is getting rowdy in the back. >> we plan to work on some revisions that will address

some of those issues. and since it was postponed this evening we have more time to work on that. we still will have -- it will come to the board when they come to us, unknown cost down the road but that will depend somewhat on what we -- the changes we make or how we clarify what we mean by expanding offerings. that was the only action item. we talked about the administrative k. i ask the staff to come back with trends. they might see what's happening there. we get the list but for the rest of the board, we haven't seen any irregularities but we like to know what we're learning for having a higher level of resolutions and money that's a probed administratively without our vote. we had an update on

the formula. was this provided to all the members of the board. no. >> yes, i believe so. the hand outs are in the budget committee. >> no, these. these were provided to us. they come from our advocates by deputies superintendent liso. if you're interested in that and i provided this evening to the deputy superintendent to the members of budget committee and to the president of the board, this packet which is from a presentation that they've been doing up and down the state. >> maybe we can make packets for all board members. i think that would be beneficial. >> i didn't make these for these people. i was going to ask if we can make copies for the rest of the members of the

board. >> as we learn about the formula, they'll go on. we'll discuss this regularly and increase and we hope the whole board is knowledgeable. the board won't meet in october. we postponed our september meeting. instead we will have our regular scheduled meeting november 6th i think is the day, correct. that's the next meeting. thank you. >> any other announcements. the committee meeting tomorrow at 6:00. we have one item only. the meeting will probably last an hour. and it's about an update on the diversity of our work force at sfusd. classified, administrative and certificate. >> i'm hoping less than an hour

if the committee members are prompt. okay. >> thank you. i wanted to do a couple of quick shout outs. i want to thank supervisor farra who hosted a wonderful fundraiser last week, two weekends ago. it was a great success. we're still calculating how much she raised but it's going to help us to continue to contribute to the schools and probably increase the number of school yards we can open. i wanted to thank secretary sean donovin who was in town and visited everette middle school. car lien was there representing the superintendent. the kids were amazing. and the new principal

there was terrific. i wanted to thank banito with kaddy college, they did a big give away to brett heart elementary school on monday which was really beneficial for a lot of our kids in the community. we also had an opportunity to launch the national launch beyond differences. it was really amazing to hear from our a group of peers on how we can address social isolation with our middle school students and it was really powerful and we had some great star power there too which was nice. and then i just wanted to congratulate the ore cal team. they're tied and we got america's cut final 8:00 to 8:00. winner takes all tomorrow, 1:15. good luck to

the -- to team america. >> any other -- yes. >> commissioner moss. >> thank you. i just wanted -- i made a couple of announcements. i won't be able to attend the one event that we talked about. but i will be able to -- i will attend the 7th annual san francisco black family day which will be at the hammel ton recreation center. they'll be doing some healthy family information, lots of activities for families for students, face painting and food and vendors. the time is 12:00 to 5:00 but before that i'll be celebrating latino heritage month from 11:00 to

1:00 and at the corner of persia. lastly i just wanted to remind folks who don't know that this year is the 40th anniversary of the children's event fund. i want to thank them for helping us focus on what we can do as a government body to support the development of children with policies that affect poverty, racism, education, health of children. i want to acknowledge their work to us and really the country and students and children. thank you very much.

>> we want to review changes that happened with the enrollment project in advance with the november enrollment fair, so staff will review any changes that are in process for this coming years enrollment process. we had quite a few parents at the last meeting concerned about those changes so staff will be walking us through those changes again even though it was reviewed in august. they will be a meeting of the student of the curriculum meeting on october 7th and finally ed match is having a big event on sunday september 29th, 12 noon to 5:00 where they have a high tech treasure hunt. you can sign up at the website and they raise money for all of the public

schools in san francisco. thank you. >> any other announcements from board members? >> all right. seeing none. we will move onto item t, report of closed session. there are none. item u. other informational items. the staff report on informational notice of personnel action and he drew our attention to that. item e, the adjournment. meeting adjourned.

>> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the september 23, 2013. the san francisco small business commission. the meeting is called to order. >> i will conduct a roll call. commissioner adams, here, dwight, here, o'brien, cartagena, riley, here. commissioner white? white is on her way and dooley has an excused absence. >> thank you, mr. president. item no.