especially understanding families about the option they have in the pathway. just to continue to ask bbc to do the good work they're doing and a making sure the families know the option. the uniform policies and generate the handbooks and that is a concern for us. plan more inservice program so the families know the policies and continue to use the report card and provide the teachers a copy and number 6 is the long-term english learners. we found that the sites found with this the report card because it goes k through 5 it has some more information that

is helping staff and families start to track their kids are long-term english learners. the report card is being used for an important informational guide. we see some sites that staff is still not completely understanding or aware of the classificati classifications themselves. so we're serving the parents we have to continue to serve new staff it's pretty big and difficult to understand it's changed and continuing to change especially this year w with the new star tests changes. we really want to make sure there's a continuing education with staff for the

reclassification process. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them later or do we hold questions for later do you have any more left in your presentation? we'll do comments at the end of the presentation >> i'll report on the b cc and it's challenges it's the most important how to advocate on the behaves of the folks. it's to be empathized of fourteen members and currently, we have 9 members thank you for appointing tyler woods. and with the new policies that are being discussed by the board as it relates to your board 4

team members we have we need 9 seat to be seated if we want to reach the fourteen member and we want to see how long a seat can be empty. we're concerned about limiting painter voices or the impact on parents voices that the new policies might have and really want to work closely with the board to see how long we can have the representation. one is to consider a application process where we would be selecting 4 folks who are interested in being part of the b cc and having the application

process bring the recommendation to the board and once we'll fill the seat and engage the board by having the board recommend applications during each cycle and additionally we want to receive the terms for all b cc members and it isn't necessarily clear and since the board wants their community to serve a diverse representation >> thank you. >> so we're going to end our portion of our report with four questions and concerned. the first is in keeping with the

fact that we're trying to find and repute more b cc members we often have trouble even defining to the public who we are as we're trying to recruit people. he want to know what the board of education plans are to promote the b cc as you're looking to help us be a positive part of the team working with english language are learners along with pack we want to them to know how the promotion of the b cc as well as the teaching to continue to promote the b cc. i know we're on the we are talking about and posting our agenda and what else can we do it promote the b cc. we'd a lot of the board members to come and some folks have come

and we've changed our meetings so i think there was a conflict with one thought i think it was one of your subcommittee meetings and we can be flexible and is if there's another conflict while try to resolve those. we courage the b o e commissioners to regularly check in with our appointees. but it would be great if you regularly check in with the people you've appointed to keep a finger other than the pulse of the b cc. number 2 we instructional with timely translations. it's our right and responsibility to ask for translations as better can be asking for translations for our own members.

we want to continue to exercise the right of translations and we're trying to be concerned about perhaps there's a need for - we're concerned about the workload and we're going to have those folks come and talk about how they, better do their job. we want to highlight the san francisco website was not updated for spanish and this has had a big impact on our engagement there's 13 drop down memos and all 13 were in english and 13 were translated into

china's and only 6 were in spanish and it's important because this is the enrollment period right now. we were told the response back was that all those who were not translated we're taking them do you now we only have 7 enrollment and hopefully, we'll have 13 but this is impacting our family engagement. this is one example of how the work of the translation department if they've over worked or understaffed and unable to get something as important to the districts family engagement piece as enrollment that's concerning to us. and 3 this is a question to the b cc staff do you receive many

training a question that had come up and part of the counseling practice for the families it is - includes giving the program guide and a mentioning the multiple communities to them. we know it's given to families by there can be a highlight. i know from my work from a preschools director one of the first parts people are told about take. we want to know when the b cc is giving consulting the way they engage can be highlighted. and number 4 we continue to ask the ap c educational replacement

center we're in a trajectory to close the programs. we need to understand programs are having accurate access and this end our portion of the report we'll take any comments or questions or suggestions >> thank you. commissioner fewer than other commissioners >> yes. thank you for your report and i'd like to ask a couple of questions just about some of the things. first >> tracy: 42 thank you for bringing to our attention the lack of translation. and then i have a question on number 4 improved communication with the families. in this observation report and

you have recommendations; right? >> yeah, so i think you number 4 is one of the things you've highlighted about improved communication with the e l families and i'm looking at this and wondering that you mention in our report that the parents and the e l experience the members who never attended the meeting they found the meeting to be unorganized and apparent information lacking. so i'm wondering why do you think that is. why do you think that you're hearing an observation that the meeting are unorganized and

unfocused? >> well like we said we 9 and note that we saw a rage in the limited museum of observations we were able to do with or it's a small committee and it's interesting to us we heard and went to many schools we had a rage. people felt really encoder k empowered and excited but if all fairness like the report when we heard they found delax that the communities found that the delake meetings to be disordering or to be - and i see - >> are those meetings failed by staff? i believe they are and they meet as often as the bbc?

>> i imagine that they do. yeah. and a only english and spanish they call the parents no chinese >> so we don't have any chinese recommendation. >> no, i'm chinese parents. >> on the delake. >> but they call the china's parents. >> so there's no outreach for the chinese parents to attend the delake meetings and a yes. >> can i. i think wore the bbc i think the district can answer the questions. we didn't attend as the bbc delake >> i'm only asking because you referenced it in your report.

it comes to my attention i'm wondering you approved parents communication if i see and you also plan more inservice programs to understand their rights so i'm looking so you don't have a recommendation on how to strengthen the d lake center district isn't that correct >> that's correct we probably should put one in. and we'd be happy to amend our report because it says in our report that the experience of some families going to delake is that it was disorganized. our role is to go and observe and report back >> sure i think the only reason i'm asking is because i'm

wondering is interest a need for both committees the bilingual council could those committees be combined and therefore strengthen the delake while offering diversity and your sharing your knowledge. it's a parents advocate parents are part of the delake; right? >> i don't know if the - if teachers can be part - can teachers be part of delake. >> just a couple points of clarification it's the adversities council the only requirement is 51 percent of the members needs to be parents. it's an elected bodies of the potential of including other members that are e l advocates is possible.

also the delake is facilitated and the chief oh, there are cindy choi air-conditioned and others who sit and there's parents chinese speaking parents that sit on the delake and i wonder if they have the same issues around translation provided at the meeting >> i think i'd like to ask a question. we are not the question is now we're spotted to merge with the delake that's not a question we can answer >> perhaps i misspoke i never applied that i was only wondering about it. you bring up some of those

concerns from your report my natural reaction is should we have two or one. i'm not bringing that forward and i don't believe i ever said that are i'm just questioning and whether or not i'm justrd our report and a thinking that it's data you get could also be shared with the delake and those are both committees that actually empathize a lot of he parents and now we hear that the educators can be brought to the table too. i'm wondering if it would strengthen the delake and also you talked about your concerns about the members being appointed by next august. maybe it would reach tout out to the delake.

i think those are two committees we want to see that are strong and a represent our voice of english learners. so i think when i read a report like this you said there were only 5 members there and delake could be lacking los also in strength. i'm concerned they're not up to the full advocates for our students. this is where i come from. i'm not suggesting it only requesting that. it came to mind >> sorry i'm so special because i'm charged with data over 6 years. so i'm not sure i will understand all but delake is a long-term problem because the

families are from the elementary school school it's me. and those 92 no new face coming. and another problem is the bbc person. it's a lot of information go back to school talk to the parents and for the policy what do you do and a talking for your school the parents. and b cc would catch up with the school and we part for the - for the b cc member we report what is going good for everything. and it's really different in two groups. the member is for the school for the member coming and b cc is before job and then same job is

for the student and parents >> initialing i know this is a question to go back to the state of california for delake their state mandated and the other is mandate under the low plan. you have to talk about this with the lawyers and who's going to be overseeing the delos angeles and the b cc >> again, it was just a question. i'm not saying we need to combine the two only a question in response to your report. i have also - i mean, i'm wondering under your remedies - >> commissioner fewer i think it's a good suggestion and we actually on both committees have talked about meeting once a year

and sharing information because we get information from parents at different school sites and they have commonality in relationships. we're looking for a way to structure it >> i think since the b cc has a lot of data and i'm hoping you get current and updated information. i don't believe that all the defendant lake and aclu the parents understand the data. and your concern about the immersion and i don't believe their fully knowledgeable about it i feel your body gets much more data and i see that i was surprised to see that wasn't one of our recommendations. that the b cc i hope would

recommend for academic current information be provided to the delake. i hope that information would trickle down through the delake. i think the parents would get the information and how our folks are performing in each category and also program >> i think it depends upon on the elections are at the school site but the focus needs to be continuing on the academics but people are making to mostly just to give you an example. i feel when it first started we've definitely progressed but

some of the data that needs to go to the e lake process those happened through elections. that happens between the departments. >> that modeling to the elation is a good model. and which data is ask for awhile i'm fond of to malls it's not what e lake should be doing >> exactly the problem is s in some schools they've been reduced for that. even though we push back and say this is the data you need on attention on the school and e l levels we push back but the school site pushes back on the to malls so it's not they not

questioned the information >> it's not on the e lake on the parents the on and on us is on the educator the educational leader at that school unless i'm mistaken. >> can i. finish your sentence. i think you have asked a really good question but i wonder if it's getting us far awefield from the b cc report. i'm wondering if we can unpack this idea and i think it's at the rules committee >> sorry i think i'm throwing a lot your way. >> president norton it's the fofrmgs around our e lakes and how our educational leaders are supporting it.

do our educational leaders have the knowledge to actually form a strong e lake and we depend upon our principles to be the ones to encourage the e lake and the encouragement of questions. it's not to make to malls and, of course, it's delicious but let's get real here. so that should be riverside to the curriculum committee. so regardless of our rules whether or not it's legal to combine the department i think the main topic here or issue s here is that we are seeing a lack of real painter engagement consistently at school site and we're seeing a lack of parents voices at our school sites.

so commissioner norton, president i think that perhaps we should refer this to the curriculum meeting >> i think it's a great idea i think we wholeheartedly need more parents involvement how that has impacted our work and we're interested to hear whatever we're interested to hear e l families voices those people to be appointed in whatever way ambassador our number one priority is that the e l families are recommend and enforced arrest they've done over the years and we continue

to see this as a change of how we're formed and have concerned us. it's great to hear from commissioner fewer that there is a real concern that we want the e l families to continue to have a voice and we want that community to be strong so any discussions that you have we hope to be part of those and look forward to hearing how this is going to i understand up >> just one last thing. i think it's important that we have the parents liaisons at the school sites for a long time now. there's symshould be a functioning e lake at every school if not that warrants an investigation

>> one last thing. and sandy fewer you take the minute for the b cc and for the academic and let me finish what school is for the good and held for the e l student and they'll take a minute if good school for the minute. this time we'll ask you for the school name okay. other one and concern for the e l parents and student. audits b cc take the job different for the data i try again say where the difference? for the by law i forgot how many

schools many schools are trying to get the b cc and fourteen members here otherwise and for the oh, come on and for the b cc the job for me, i'm first time coming to understand learning and different for the - it's easy to put together and i'll try again for the english parents not easy job. and f e time you have the meeting >> so we're going to talk about this at committee i think you had a question. >> you know i appreciate that we've wanted to refer this to the a committee for deeper conversation. i want to say unfortunately and

a particularly to this nobody shows up here. it happens time and time again so if we're going to refer this to a committee that we have it out in the community out in the community where it's easily accessible for families to get to. i know they don't show up for something like this. if we take it off from a regular meeting where it's televised i want to be able to have the community access this so i'm asking president norton will you help us to get this out into the community but let's have a deep conversation with a community. so well-taken. i want to remind the boa