and redistributed. so, we are going to have a difference between the cash balances and prior period adjustment [speaker not understood] 100% expended but then still continue to show the activity really with their term, they think of it as we're just requesting authority to access our reserves [speaker not understood]. >> no, i think -- and i apologize. because i think my question -- the answer to it doesn't really matter to us, right? i think my question is how are they going to be able to tell that, right? i'm looking at two periods, i don't know how they're going to be able to true up anything with the way that they're defining reserves because it has a couple different definitions now. but i think -- no disrespect, i think that maybe thinking about it, that question i asked is not -- i don't know that the answer is for us to be concerned about. so, i okay. >> i would further say that each rops period, they'll learn a little more ~ and probably

give us somewhat new instructions next time. so, it is definitely iterative and evolving. >> you guy are maintaining the detailed spreadsheets. i can guarantee you it's going to change in 6 or 12 months. but it seems like [speaker not understood]. >> and i made sure to get the dos analyst directions in writing as well that we can remind them as well, this is how you directed us to [speaker not understood] the rops. >> excellent, thank you very much. this is not an action item so we can move on to the next item, madam secretary. >> thank you. next item is item 6, public comment. madam chair. >> thank you very much. do we have any speaker cards? >> oscar james. oscar james again. i want to bring up two things that -- well, three things

that's been bothering me. one, certificate of preference holders in south -- well, i would say down by moscone center, that area, there were people that were relocated out in those houses, too, that had certificates that has not been brought up. and i think they should be added onto the list of certificate holders. the other thing i want to bring up is turnkey housing. back in '73, '74, i served on a committee, honorable [speaker not understood] and burton and i brought up the suggestion of

about homeless housing and also turnkey housing, people who are coming out of foster care, [speaker not understood] housing. out of the 540 acre that's in the shipyard, they're going to be developing all of that. i haven't heard since that time, me and mrs. vincent brought it up in the p-a-c meetings, what have you. we need to have housing for people in our community who have been in foster care and who are turned out of foster care housing for them. we also need to have housing for those people in our community who either became homeless, fill in some of those projects or buildings for them in the hunters point shipyard. i mean, it was 540 acres. and when i served on that committee, our concern was the people who were affected in our community, and those people are people who have been affected in our community and nobody has spoke up for them.

i wish for this commission to look into that and possibly make some kind of adjustment to make those things possible for the people in our community. not only our community, also for the rest of the people in the san francisco bay area. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. is there any further public comment? >> no other. >> thank you very much. please call the next item. >> report -- the next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. >> i do not have a report with me. thank you very much. next item. make it sound very important, serious. >> the next item of business is item 8, report of the executive director. madam director. >> i have two announcements, commissioners. one, this is all good news based on the actions you've taken and the financing actions you've taken. so, on march 1st, it may have been in your packets, but we can make sure you have it. dr. davis senior center otherwise known as 5800 third street or carol avenue senior, there is a groundbreaking

ceremony on march 1st that coincides with the date of black cusine. district supervisor, the mayor, other folk will be in attendance and prominently featured in the invitation as a primary funder. so, march 1st, i encourage you all to attend and let us know if you'll be coming. and then also another good news event, april 17th, the hunters view phase 2 groundbreaking for which you authorized $21 million, that, too, is another groundbreaking that's gotten pushed, the new date is april 17th and that, too, leader pelosi will in fact be attending that event along with the mayor and other important invited electeds. and, again, your significant contributions to make that happen. so, i encourage you all to attend. that concludes my report. >> thank you very much. i was driving around last week at hunters view because i

didn't get the e-mail. definitely driving around in circles at hunters view. okay, next item. >> the next item of business is item 9, commissioners' questions and matters. madam chair. >> thank you very much. are there questions and matters? i'll tell you one thing, i know i want to recalendar the certificate of preference item to talk how the mayor's office of housing is handling that. we had questions before, but definitely talk about the dda today, yes, talk about that. but >> but the m-o-u is coming back at some point, right? >> yes, the m-o-u was calendared for your second meeting in march, march 18th, i believe. so, we would expect to tackle a lot of those issues. there were a number of follow-up items and questions you and members of the public had. so, we're in the due diligence period, making sure we're responding to your questions and concerns with the mayor's office of housing community development. >> okay. i would say let's see how march 18 is shaping up. i don't want to -- there's lots of other things in the m-o-u

and i don't necessarily want to high jack the whole discussion with certificate of preference because i think there are some questions that won't be answered by the m-o-u that we need answered how they're going to manage it, how they're going to develop that, how are they going to extend it. i don't want to get caught in that. maybe we can make it the same day hopefully. >> but you're not going to be here. >> oh, i'm not going to be here. i will talk to you about that. yes, i am actually missing the march 18 meeting. i think we can manage through the regular agenda process with the chair and vice-chair to make sure there is a balance of item and that commissioners are -- we have the full complement of the commission for matters of important concern. ~ >> yes. thank you, tiffany. [laughter] >> thank you for your testimony. okay. any other questions, matters? next item, plea. >> the next order of business is item 10, closed session. >> thank you very much.

i'd like to take a recess for just a couple minutes. anyone here is not directly involved in the closed session item, i would ask that you please leave the hearing room and madam secretary, please change over the tape and we will reconvene in a few minutes. >> thank you very much. we have reconvened regular session at 3:20. madam secretary please call the next item. >> the next matter of business is item 11, madam chair, adjournment. >> thank you very much. we are adjourned at 3:21. [gavel] [adjourned]

>> >> >> february 27, 2014, >> good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the city and school district committee. i'm joined by supervisor mark alvarez and farrell and sandra feuer who will now join our community for 2014. i would like to that have sf gov. tv.

san francisco television and our clerk mr. derek evans. mr. clerk are there any announcements? city clerk: yes. please silence all electronic devices. >> thank you. commissioner mendoza did let us know she is sick. may i entertain a motion to excuse commissioner mendoza mcdonnell and we'll do that without opposition. mr. clerk, please call the first item. item 1: agenda1401421.[hearing - update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a credit recovery program for san francisco unified school district]sponsor: kimhearing to receive an update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a credit recovery program for san francisco unified school district sfusdd students at risk of not graduating in school year 2014-2015; and requesting sfusd to present a progress

update on how many students participated, current graduation rates, and how funding was spent. 2/25/14; received and assigned to the city and school district select committee.pending introduction at the board of supervisors meeting on february 25, 2014 sf 11234 thank you. this hearing is on a follow up on a supplemental appropriation in the previous year to fund a credit recovery program at san francisco unified school district and to learn a little bit more about the progress of this program. in the appropriation of course these are funds that were previously dedicated to the school district. i think that both bodies are interested in how the credit recovery program went and the incoming classes with the graduation requirements. i would like to give any member and opportunity to speak before i call up our presenters. we have steven coffman who is the director of student learning

and support and julie chan educational policies. if sf gov. tv. san francisco television can help support the presentation, that would be great. >> good afternoon supervisors and commissioners. good afternoon and thank you for allowing us to present the 2012 supplemental fund credit recovery program in san francisco. i would like to introduce julie chan in student support. this is a new office focused on credit recovery issues on summer

school and online learning and various other programs that we have up and going. thank you very much for the thank for the opportunity. we are going to walk you through exactly what the presentation is going to be. we are going over the initial challenges and information about our credit recovery options and our 4-year cohort graduation rate and e through g graduation requirements and the credit program today and talk about where we are going with the office of extended learning and support with our evening school, summer school, online learning and sprout funds and summer bridge program. so

challenges at san francisco unified school district is a number of students have not been meeting the requirements to graduate on time. as you know 2014 was the first year that the policy came into play that the students had to be a through g compliant to graduate in the school district. in the past we that had deliver forms models and graduation was for all students because one of the key goals for san francisco unified was access and equity and we wanted to ensure that all students had access to credit recovery programs and there was no data tracking system that was going to support the program of accountability and funding and improvement. that is now what we have and we have the data

moving from this point. past systems delivery systems lacked funding and that has been luckily eased by the p funding and the commitment by the very wise commissioners of the board of education by funding the a through g recovery efforts which is very exciting for us and a brand new division in the office of the curriculum instruction. ms. chan will go over the graduation cohorts for you. >> these are the graduation cohorts for 9-11 and 12.

there is an increase in the general cohort graduation rates and you can see the breakdown for different subgroups and african and latino or hispanic students and there is a slight dip for english language learners. i'm going to tell you a little bit about the overview of the graduation requirements. a couple years ago we approved the graduation requirements that are implemented for the class of 2014. in this chart you can see the requirements itself. all these are from courses, different courses and their credit requirements for each of the courses. >> so what are the credit recovery programs? they are to ensure graduation rates

and that all our graduate students are college ready and uc and csu requirements to go to a university. most of the students who have fallen behind on classes are retaking courses to graduate on time. there is various programs provided through various instructional strategies online and night classes. we offer classes saturday and summer months and critical courses required for graduation. through peef and through the wisdom of the board of education, the office of extended learning and support was developed. the mission is to urge best practice to maximize results and credit

portfolio credit recovery whose options and rigor and tan giblity and micro funding for local school site design and program. this is all along to the rti model with an academic focus on primarily tier 2 and now tier 3. this puts into perspective the intent with the division of curricular instruction rti model. this is the summer school that the fund that the supervisors

provided. in 2013 we had four sites. wallenberg high school, balboa and burton. we had 2290 students and of which 92.2 percent -- i'm sorry, 2296 students of 2489, this is 92.2 percent completed one course with a d or higher. which is 976 of the 243 were offtrack to graduate before the program. we completed 3821, 821 courses which is 97 percent of the 2012 attempted. >> you just through out a lot

of numbers. i understood that. how many students i guess last summer they were rising seniors and rising injuries. -- juniors? how many were not on track to graduate? >> 72.7 percent of the students that completed courses in summer school were offtrack to graduate. >> okay. but my question is how many students were not on track to graduate? total in the whole district. i'm curious how many were enrolled in these programs? >> i don't think we have that data, but i think we can get that data to you. >> that would be great. so

you had 2489 students enrolled and of those 2096 completed courses. we don't know how many students were not on track to enroll in these programs. >> the total number of students offtrack? >> yes. it would be helpful to know of the 2489 that enrolled, they were not on track. so you got every student that was not on track in the program or there were 5,000 not on track and you only got 60 percent of those not on track into program? >> we can get that information for you. i have two charts here, looking back at the presentation. that shows the outcome of the summer school outcomes. in this chart we

are looking at the class of 2014-2015. during summer 2013 there were 11th graders. this shows on track students who completed courses before and after summer school. it shows how many students were on track through central summer school. if you look at the green bar, it shows how many are on track after summer school. as you look at the total, before it was 29 percent on track, but now there is 41 percent on track to graduate. if you look at the second chart, it shows the change in graduation status of offtrack students which means as you know in the on track offtrack status there is different statuses and as you gain more credits you are moving up a level in your status. here i'm trying to show the different types of changes whether there is a positive change and

whether the student moved up closer to graduate and no change and negative change. you can see the difference, i looked at 10th graders and 11th graders, all the grades are around 35 percent which achieved positive change which means they moved up in graduation status. students are able to move from improvement of their overall graduation status. >> are there any questions about that data? okay. i just want to make sure. yes, sir? >> commissioner wynns? >> as for all the kids offtrack, do you have data

that mernls -- merges all the information. they have other date of courses too. what i want to know is do we have somewhere that tells us here is where we were last spring, here is where we are now with those same students. i appreciate the grand alar information about program and it's effectiveness, but i want to know generally is how are we doing in the percentage of kids that are on track towards graduation from all the programs. is that going to be at the end of this presentation or are they all just separate? >> they are all separate but we can provide you with that. >> okay. thank you. because we won't have one way of knowing to use the horrible term that we now have to get used to. they are not unduplicated students so someone didn't

take a course or online. you will be able to do that, but you don't have it today? >> we can provide you that data. >> okay. >> moving forward through the public education enrichment fund that was generally approved by the residents of san francisco voters this summer we are offering summer school at four sites. marshall, galileo and balboa and washington high school. the communication to really establish a uniform process and policies in terms of procedures of how to enroll

students through the new synergy program and more intervention with the counselors at the school sites and just a more uniformed approach is unique because before there wasn't really that central control, not control in a bad way but to organize it to ensure that the students are getting what they need i think what's also important is at balboa we are going to have a specific school for new comers for english language development. we are funding eight teachers to specifically work with those population at galileo as well. they also have eld special english language development specialized program to support our new

comers as well. we have three sites this year for schools. washington, oh conel and burton. we have enrollment of 212 students and of those 211 completed at least 1 course. here we show that on track and offtrack students we had a completion rate of 91 percent or 241 attempted.

>> here are two charts looking at the outcome before and after the program. the first chart shows the personal -- percentage of on track students who completed the program. as you look at the chart over all before our evening school over 29 students were on track. after summer school it increased to 24 percent. if you look at the second chart, it shows you the changes of graduation status of our offtrack students. they are initially offtrack at the beginning and after the evening school program we show a positive change of 33 percent. 33 percent is the offtrack students able to move up in their graduation status meaning they are closer to graduation. it shows a break down of 12 and 11 and 10th graders. >> moving forward one of the things we have here is the

spring evening school where we offer courses in biology, english and should be noted as well in the fall evening school we had a special english language development class at o'connel that will be continued into spring . we offer geometry, history and world ii and chemistry. this year the board of education approved a new online vendor which is a through e approved. san francisco is one of the first actually in the country to offer a through g science online with a wet lab. that's been very exciting and english