information they can share with you. >> proceed when you're ready ladies and gentlemen - ladies and gentlemenladies and gentlemen - as you commissioners, i want to let you know there's a power point with this presentation.

>> good evening board. 50i78 ranch he will i'm the parents advisory chair. i want to introduce you to everyone that's here kevin chavez the director of the equity and gloria and a pack parents. mary chavez a parent advisory committee member and our student

representative lou. good evening board members i'm a sophomore i'm the youth representative of the youth indian and i'm a member of a tribe. >> i'm also an gold member of the indian community in arrests i want to tell you a little bit about myself i'm a parent of 3 san franciscan graduates this past may. i'm a grand pattern of the 3 one at bettingcy carmichael and one at cleveland park. i've - my family have thrived

through the cultural base of this program. i want to share with you what the indian education program title vii cultural academic needs of indian and lass can needs of the school district. the parents advisory committee is a group of parents and teachers and community members that help to determine the indian education goals and the services that we provide. the current enrollment of indian students in the san francisco district 2013 and fourteen school year is 4 hundred and 65

that are identified as american indian students, however, there's only 1 hundred and 50 students enrolled in the program. some history. in 1972 there was lashed institution to establish the education act. the school districts indian education program was thriving under title 4. it was located in the mission district near other american indian agencies. the district moved across town to the cook street in the sunset where it was readily assessable to the community. students and parents mrarpgs dwindled and the program seized to operate. there was at least 5 years that the district didn't provide services for the american indian students.

finally, that was run stated it's currently housed at the caesar chavez cafe. it didn't allow space for setting up any cultural displays the library that we have is not accessible to provide information resources not only to our students but to the teachers in the district. a permanent location would allow us to continue housing our mostly family nights offering academic workshops and a hypothetically our parents advisory committee meetings as well our community events. the current space is not welcoming or inviting. in the past a permanent location gave the families a sense of

community and a plays to go and have immediate access to academic sport in the educational setting. however, with all this in mind soft our successes we've accomplished we offered directly tutoring sires for family science night and have to 2 week summer program. we provide family nights with cultural fun themes. we have an active committee that helps to determine the goals and objectives of the program biensz or based on the data. we have our student elected representative. provide expanded educational stunt with college tours to

stanford and u.s. santa cruz. support parents and guardians to understand the positive and campfire them to help with the agriculture needs. and to help with the educational language. collaborates annual event and the wisdom of moving forward event >> and our dancipowwow. we collaborator with the american indian community to support the youth and families. we received consultant oppose at the schools.

>> thank you very much. so along with our successes our changes are the indian education program which are a nonpriority and challenge is to have a permanent location. we need to set up our libraries and a sf d staff to access as well as other resources. the district needs to republic a report that identifies all the current list of american indian students. we have only the information that identifies them but we need all identifies. we need the support the distribution for those students who are identified as primary or secondary. the parents want to help with the outreach but access is

limited to district employees only. there is a need to educate number one indian students and practices to continue in city hall's. it's still taught by columbus discovered america in texas books. plus schools don't show us in our physical features. support of the identity of our youth and challenged by their myths into the different democracy and lack u67 of sensitive it. my family had to travel to get to the american indian day and we notified them in advance and

we had to get our counselor evolved to get the negative reserves. we need to integrate this into the educational system from preschool up to high school. now to change our changes into successes the indian education advisory committee requests the priority strips to support the indian program. provide a permanent location specifically in the mission district. support the distribution of those who are identifying themselves as indian. and to capture the number of indian students and the missed

turn out formula grants. it should provide all the applications in the indian education act. from a report synergy is catch all students who have identified themselves as indians and provide the names to the indian coordinator. by the core curriculum to have the indian education program library materials. those are materials provide an educational opportunity for number one native indian students to learn and to hear their stories reflected back to them.

on behalf of the indian education program we would like to thank the board for listening to our presentation. thank you. >> thank you. we have a number of public speakers signed up for this item. let me find myocarditis. so we'll hear public system first and go ahead with board commits and questions. (calling names) (laughter) you were very eager to speak.

so if you would like to give public comment you have two minutes per person. you may approach the mike. first speaker, please >> good evening. i'm mary traveling sister hell i'm a grandmother. i've been involved that the indian education program here since it was title 4. my children went to it. i've been listening to a lot of complimentary about funding opportunity that are missed. you know, needing to come and see our location. come to our cafeteria and see what we have for our meeting place. this has been going on this is

has been 20 years. we need - i mean, there's a federal obligation american indians are awards of this government. the opportunity of the 506 form that's something that's an obligation for everybody who identifies themselves as a secondary indian. that's funding you're missing. we need to educate our educators. my granddaughter talked about the challenge we had during a federal indian holiday. it was - you know, i hesitate here but i want to do this. you know, do you know when american indians were granted

citizenship to this country. 18924. that's not been it's ridiculous. that goes back to the point of columbus dloefr american here in the bay area. alcatraz. 1972 couldn't knee. i get it my time is running out. but all those things about hollywood images we need to establish a location to build what we need for your community to educate our students and educate the educators. you want to tub diversity we need to show that by example and we ask for your support. thank you. >> good evening members.

i'm georgia williams. i was a student who bend from interest program that were i have two children that are in the program. i want to emphasize the importance of findings a location. we've been uprooted and had to restart over. it's been frustrating and disheartening to have our materials boxed up and put in the girls locker room. and to us as families as part of the district i think your families deserve something better than that. i encourage you to come to the cafeteria the next pack meeting to see what it is like for family engagement to walk into that our family nights are

there. it's not very welcoming and warm environment. i want to stress our finding a location. and that's where our community meets and congregates to have community events. i want to thank you to kevin chavez to come to our pack meeting and introduce yourself as the new leadership. we really appreciate the support of the presentation you came and gave and we in support of us. we welcome anytime somebody can come by and we really expand the opportunities for district teachers and lisp to incorporate invite literature into their

curriculum. thank you. (clapping.) >> hi, i'm angela. my daughter is sitting here she's a third grader. i won't tucking take up much time i will echo the need for permanent space and educate staff from the prospective. of native people and a recognition and celebration that november is native heritage month you'll see special programs in school honoring our community. thank you. >> good evening superintendents and commissioner. i'm gloria i'm a parent and have

two children. that are sitting over here. i'm going to be actively talking about for a parent that couldn't be here. for ruth. please let the board know how much we need the title vii in the education program. now more than ever the oversights that the title vii program wouldn't be a successful without the support innovation and accountability. we as parents wouldn't feel look the goals ever our children would be possible. we'll only be statistics and lost. thank you for your consideration and thank you for your total devocation. your replacement has big shoes

to fill i'm sad to see you go i and the baby have the flu so, please send our words. sincerely. so that's on behalf of ms. mchenry. thank you. so time i'm gloria and i'm talking i'm a parent of the district of the former coordinator program. it was a challenge and difficult for me to advocate as a person who is also working inform the district payroll now that i'm no longer the 0 quieter i encourage the district to look at the needs of the american indian

families and how space is really important and for anybody who moves and you run a program and don't have the support from the district you're having to do everything it's difficult. we've created a program that as you see it very successful and if needed, however, i feel that a lack - because of the lack of support i couldn't reach out to the students that needed the support. that's invited and i'm really grateful for the department it exists now that's going to support the program coordinator and the program coordinator doesn't have to do the mail outs and the creating of the flyers and none of the clerical.

it's important to be there for the students and a parents. i'm glad the department is there. i want to mention the pack night is november 17, '89 from 6:30 to 8:30ish and we'll have a dancing with features and that's november 18th. the former program director last year there happy trails >> okay. yes dr. >> i feel we're very fortunate to have an indian program and you have a lot to offer we need to take advantage of that. i have attended two of our family nights and felt welcome

my classmate. the second time i came i came to a recent board program to rename an early education center because retrieved brown the governor of california was anti african-american and wanted to exterminate the indian americans. we had a deep discussion about the diversity. my question is about location. i am interested to know what would be the do i have location for folks. it was mentioned in the mission

district but it is it a library or cafeteria. i want some that would save the vibrant cult center that would be a further resource to the district. i'd like to address that because way back when my kids wore growing up. we had a bungalow. the coordinator was jim and we had so much there that we were able to go to as a community, you know, resource and outreach. so we need to have the stability of having a place. if you have shared space it's disrupt you you know your moving in and out.

i want to say that relocation has not been easy for the american indian. to revelocity that time and time again, it's just not healthy. so we need the stability of a location doyle in the midgets. where people have access to it. >> i would say space in such enough to house the resource center to have computers for kids to come and hang out and parents can do workshops. so a location that's not just a cafe terror but a dedicated speculation i space like a place near transportation that would

be accessible parking, you know. i know those are the main things i would definitely look for in a new space >> commissioner - commissioner haney. >> i want to thank you for your report and to say first of all, that the request that you have here are anonymous reasonable and very straightforward but meaningful and essential. rd them we're sometimes asked as a district it would be nice if we could do that but it's hard to shift through but i hope we can follow-up quickly on and we can work with you on that. the space thing seems so

critical of how you can support a community if you have that srl around space. i'm interested in how to identify american indian students we should be able to do that. if there's more we can do to push that or sort of running the information or synergy i'd like to know. yesterday to help you with that and support you in doing that i hope we can do that. this is something on the curriculum i'm interested if i agree often the way that american indian are portrayed is ridiculous and in san francisco we shouldn't be perpetually

that. the office of curriculum reduction is working on that. are they drawing on you as a resource to insure that is happening and who we should be talking to and love to hear our thoughts on that. >> one of the things about the e pc we've been working with the director and he was able to get a form a change of ethnicity form. we have 4 hundred and 65 people identified as indians, however, some are not american indian there are from india. they're to do the outreaching and running the program.

so one of the things if you're enrolling in the district if you would get a form in order for you to yes you're identifying this is what we need in order for you to identify is that - yeah. so that would be a helpful thing; right? so we would be - >> i want to address that and let the board know we were planning to meet to set up a formal process to take place. >> yes. the change the ethniccy form you can do it to e-mail instead of coming to the e pc office. the second with the curriculum is something the parents have

wanted to be part of. this is something that's still in the works. >> commissioner. >> can i just say in terms of the curriculum those resources are sitting in the storage unit that's not assessable so even if we wanted to get the materials we've got to get them out of that unit. we need the support from the district staff and we've been told we can't get in there. >> whoever said that you will get in there tomorrow. that's credible we couldn't have access to that you will get that information >> thank you. commissioner >> can i explain the reason wh