the space was offered by the san francisco school district. and gloria r, davis was built to revitalize that district, the hunter's point district and since then five schools have been locate there had and they have failed, all five have failed. and the area has not been revitalized and continues to have a reputation of high, crime and gang related activities. this location is not acceptable for our children. and the students already face many challenges during their years. the schooling years, safety, should not be one of them. san francisco flex academy needs a new safe location. and our high schoolers deserve your support and your mission statement says, to provide each student with equal opportunity to succeed, by promoting and it goes on to list and intelligent

growth and creativity and etc., and physical and mental health. and so i am asking you to please support us and find us a new location, thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> hi, my name is terry and i am also a parent and sf flex. and i just want to say that i have been a parent in the san francisco unified since my son was in kindergarten. and i was at sherman before it was a good school. and i helped to build that school into the gem that it is today. and i helped to build that school that the school yard that you hold up as an example of this amazing project that the parents came together and did. and my son went to roosevelt, and i was a pta board member for both schools and so i believe in the district. and my son, was struggling at roosevelt, he was struggling with the concept of 30 manage kids in the classroom and he learned differently. and if i could have found the school that would meet his

needs, in the district, i would have done it. but instead, we found sfflex and it has been amazing for him. and he has gone from being a struggling student who tested high, but had low grades, to you know, a dean's list student. and that is the potential that he had, but it was not being met by the school district. all that we are asking, and we are not asking for money from you, we are asking for a better location, an unused site and we proposed several different sites other than davis and we were shot down. and we offered to pay a premium over what you are required to give us, and we offered to pay more per foot and offered to give more money to your schools for your teachers to get more money and all that we got back was no, davis is the only site that can work. and as far as transit, it is just hard to get down there. you know, there is examples from people trying to come from the east bay but for san francisco people it is hard to

get down there. i mean for my son to commute from our house down there it is going to be a long ways. and it is hard. so that is all that we are asking, we are asking you to consider that there are other district buildings being under utilized and we asked to partnership with the leadership high and they agreed. thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> excuse me, just for clarification, i just think that if you are not from san francisco, you may not realize, that we have one of the largest concentration of school aged children living in that area and that area houses many, many of our families and actually, in san francisco, we value our diverse population, thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good evening, everyone. my name is ana and i have been with the district for 14 years. working in the benefits office,

eight years. i have had no evaluations, no complaints, on february 14th, i was released from my position. because of unprofessional conduct from an employee that had said stuff about me. i was put on a leave for a whole month, once i was returned i was told that i did not have the position. i have done my position very well working with everybody in the district, i am one of the analysts that work. and i get this, unjustice, my salary has gone down like 25 percent and that is my mortgage. i have two children, and i am a single parent. one in 6th grade and my daughter in college. and i need your help.

i need my position back. this is not fair, i have asked if there is something that i need to change, or be, or be helped, and i you know, i am willing to do that. but, you know, you don't give me a chance. give me a chance. don't just throw me, you know, into a clerk's position in the file room after all of these years that i have worked for the district. >> i am just asking, please give me another chance. this is not right. thank you. >> okay. >> so i am going to call a new set of speakers, chad shapiro, tam mcar they are, and susan

soloman nicole warner, moran and eugene, pearson and josh davidson, and lesser rubin and norman and lisa, and for the evening and you have two minutes each, and first speaker please. >> good evening, this is susan solomen, again, united educators of san francisco and the executive vice president and as you already know from throughout this meeting our members are very passionate about their jobs and about the contract negotiations that are going on, the parents and staff of new traditions spoke eloquently about some of the issues that we are addressing through the contract negotiations and i want to thank them, there are three major areas, that we are looking at in for improvements in contract negotiations.

one is salary as you know, we have proposed a 21 percent raise over 3 years. during the hard times, we gave to the district, we did that because we wanted to give our students what they deserve. they deserve to have their educators with them. we gave 60 million dollars to the district, we need now in to help to prevent high turnover and increase the stability for our students by giving our educators the raises they need so that they can stay in san francisco, while rents and housing costs are increasing. and we also need improved healthcare for families. and as you heard, cristina say she is not covering her own children while she works with other people's children. another major issue is that we want to treat the para professionals like the ones that they are, they work with the most vulnerable student and do we really, do we really want

them to live from paycheck to paycheck which is what they are doing? is that how a professionals should be treated? they deserve the respect and the professional compensation that is warranted. we are also turning particular focus on supporting elementary cool teachers and we know how important it is to provide the quality education at the youngest ages and we want to see the smaller class size and that is the priority of our community group and prep time that matches middle school and high school, thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> my name is caroline and i am a special ed para professional, at prek-through 8. i am a product of sfusd, my mom went to sfusd, and both my sons, two of my grandkids are

here now and my third grandchild will start in the fall and i have been here in 24 years and so i am very invested in this school district. i am here tonight, to ask you to please support the 1500 para professionals, and the students that we serve. day in and day out, we see our students with the ieps and we work with the family and students who need additional services and we keep the peace in the schools. many para professionals have worked decades of service, yet, for years para have been given part time jobs and low salaries. many only work four hours a day and the average salary is $25,000 a year. that is below poverty. now, is the time for the

district to show respect for the parents. and for the students we serve, by providing more hours, and a wage that we are able to live in our communities that we serve. and please, give the para professionals the professional respect that we recognize as the parent work that we do, we are worth the investment. >> next speaker please? >> hello, high name is jed, and i am here to talk about the allocations of the p-funding and i am going to start off by quoting part of at san francisco unified school district mission statement, that we are to provide each student with the equal opportunity to succeed to promote the physical and mental health so that each student can achieve potential and we are not providing it..., and most are non-compliance, with the 400 minutes every ten days and,

657 out of 908 students, 75 percent, have earned less than 20 pe credits the students are a unique group of students that come from different backgrounds and these are working towards a high school diploma. and these students provide the schools provide comfortable safe environments for the students to get back on track and although many are not are not enrolled for a limited time. the goal is to get them back on their credits and ultimately they have not been provided access to the quality physical education program and it is time to make a change and provide access and equity to all students. this year, the sites have provided pe programs, delivered by a physical education teacher.

each school site receives about on average, 100 pe minutes every ten days, and the state mandates 400 minutes every ten days and although we have made an impact... >> thank you for your comments. >> i want to let you know that the county schools are getting a pe teacher next year. >> thank you. >> and two two minutes are up. >> thank you for that. 2.5 would cover all schools. thank you for that.

>> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening and i am mcauthor, one of your day-to-day substitutes and i want you to aware that this district like every other district in the state has been trapped with a concept and that is a daily rate and a daily rate in this particular district is for a day-to-day subsidy and we have a variety of categories, $137 a day. and that comes out to be 18.28 an hour and if you take that and you are able to extend that to a four-hour week and a 52-week year and it comes out to be a reasonable amount of money but that is not the way that the substitutes works and much the way that paras and substitutes only are available to teach or to serve with the students of san francisco. and when the students are open. and so many paras come in the

summer time and no job. and on top of that, so many paras have a not a full day, but substitutes then again and operate on a 7 and a half hour day, and so, three days a week, on average, comes out at that rate, to 401 dollars, and on a monthly basis, and remember, that it is not a job, 1748 dollars does not go very far in san francisco. and remember, that this is not disposable income, this is gross. and on top of that, where i cited before, and during the summer time, of course, is there was no school but there are 7 holidays, and vacation and christmas vacation, and so, of the total calendar year, 84 days are not teaching days and as a result, the substitutes are precluded from any in that

juncture and by march or april, some substitutes have reached that magic 79 day threshold, a bonus and they at that point, they reach $2,000 a month. next speaker please? >> hi, my name is eugene, pearson and i am a third year teacher at burton high school and i teach ap biology and three sections of sports medicine and physical therapy this year. and of which i tell my friends, that my only qualification is that i work out. which brings me to my first, and which brings me to my first point, or one of my first points, and my three years i have taught six different

courses. and i have had to learn two new courses every single year. and between my qualifications and what i need to do and the common core changes that i need to do and just reaching for my own classes that because of cte requirements have evolved, and i have to read a textbook for my sports medicine course every night and these are all spinnings that are above and beyond. there is things that come up like this week i learned that i have to do a chemical inventory because of some department of health provision that was passed and i have to convert it from metric to english standard. and which is terrible for a science teacher to do. and additionally theres that been a loss of apple funding which when i went to school, to become a teacher that i would be getting $20,000 of my loans

reduced for becoming a science teacher, that funding was eliminated by the state, and i paid $650 a month in student loan payments. five of my colleagues, five of my young colleagues have left the profession, two because they have gone to private schools where one of them makes a multiple of my salary. and the other makes about 50 percent more. and three of my friends or three people that i have known have moved to the private sector, these are really qualified people. and i urge you to support the pay raise so that you can keep the young and good teachers. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> good evening, my name is nicole warner and i am here with my daughter and i was born and raised san franciscan and fourth generation and i am going on my tenth year as a

teacher and i currently work at washington high school and i am here to represent a face for all of you to know that i am a single parent, since the day that she was born and 100 percent of the time and i fully support her by myself and in all of these years, the reason that i became a teacher was that i have always worked in my community and i started at school of the arts high school and working part time for credits at paul reveer, and as the art aant teacher and decided it that i wanted to become a teacher, within, basically when i started my maternity i had to pay for my substitute on the maternity leave that got me into such debt is that when she was going to preschool, i am so nervous, i had had give up my apartment and live on the friends couches for for months so she can go to preschool and i can go to work, and in all of the debt that i

have, then, allowed me to live illegally down stairs in a friends house without a kitchen in it inlaw. and so that some of the management comes i have to pack up all of my stuff so that they know that we don't live there and last year i worked four days a week, 18 hours a day and i twoent washington as a full time teacher and until one in the morning and go to sleep and wake up at 6:00 to get her ready for school and i indicator and i work for an ice cream company in the summer and i used to sell books on amazon and i hustle like there is no tomorrow and the only reason that i am here now is because i will do whatever it takes to keep my heals in the cement and not leave the bay area in july i might have to leave, and there is nowhere that i can go. i am not going to be able to go in where, i want to stay here and work for you and the communities that i grew up in. so look at me and know that

this right here, is a dedicated teacher, and i struggle every day, every single day to just get food. that is what is going on. please consider giving us all of us dedicated teachers raises. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> i am josh davidson, and in the education department and our members work every day with the members of uesf and very closely and we see the dedication and we see the concern for the students and i am here in solidary with my brothers and sisters tonight because they deserve a raise and the paras deserve and the teachers need the support time to prepare for the students properly and you can't expect the people to do all of the work at home and come and do another full day's work with the students during day.

>> teachers? >> hello my name is lesser and i came up here with a slew of things to speak about, but after hearing about all of the speakers this paper goes down and in particular what is to say is what is relevant and what is important and what is vital and what is essential, when all of you go out you are like the big engine and you step out and among this crowd, and you go to start your car, you can be the big engine but without the battery, where do you go? without it, the car does not move. and want to go to it quick and i want to make it quick because i only have a few minutes on the safety and the security of the san francisco unified school district. and there are several schools that are really not all what it seemed, and in particular, i know that we, and i have to look at aour students and we look at our teachers and we look at this and in this day

and age, i am born and raised and looking at schools then and now and it is time for things to happen, in the terms of the security from the president of the america to the corporate america in downtown san francisco and to our students, the security should be intact in the morning, the security should be intact when the students leave, we should not leave, 15 minutes when the bell rings and there is hundreds of students around. it is very vital and it is important, and i brought up the car issue because hearing all of these speakers speak, they are sperps and every one of them are important and essential and we should look at it that way, because, yes, we know about budgeting and all of that, but the thing is, if you, you keep that as mind, when you are making the decisions of your own, you will see, in the long run, that you succeed.

and you will be even better than what you thought that you were and i know that i think that way and i have been more than just the schools and i worked for the government and the business and you will succeed and if you look at the short run, get all of that, and they are important and the security people are important, and every one in this room is important. >> next speaker. >> good evening, superintendent carranza and president fewer, and members of the board, and all of the members of the public and the educate ors and my name is norman and i am a teacher, and i live in san francisco and i am a proud home boy teaching and living in the community that i grew up in. earlier, in the report, it was mentioned that as it is a teacher's responsibility to provide the students with opportunities and i asked myself, i wonder, who were those teachers going to be to provide those opportunities and

more and more of my brothers andcyss sister to leave the city and who is left to give the responsibilities. and they will come in and it is enough for the folks right now, to be in this and try to get an education and that is a struggle and then to come here, and struggle with how expensive it is here, and what you will get paid and it does not make any sense, when you come to the district and we have better place to go, and i am a teacher, because i love the teacher in the audience believed in me, and he knew who i was, he helped me to become a teacher and i think to myself, i am doing what i am doing, and i am looking at my brothers and sisters in my classrooms and they are me, and how many of them are going to grow up to become teachers and serve their communities? i don't know. i can't think of anybody in my classroom who is going to have

the opportunity within the next five years, they will be gone where are they going to go? where are they going to go? and we have to invest in the future and in the kids and in the school and believe in us and the city and help us to stay where we belong in our communities. thank you. >> next speaker? >> my name is shane, hoff and i am here representing united transportation union, which are your san francisco, school bus drivers. and we came here tonight, because we want you to know that we are 100 percent support of the negotiating teams from the united educators of san francisco and what they have put forth at the negotiating table and we stand with them and i hope that you are as moved as we have been by the statements from many of these teachers, that need to be able to stay in the community of san francisco. with the children that they

teach. and these wonderful para professional whose help us on the school buses and we love you, and we hope that you get your raise. >> my name is lisa and i have spoken to you before as a bcc member and as a rank and file member of the united educators of san francisco, but tonight, i am here to talk about my passion for education. and i retired after 30-plus years in public education, here in san francisco. first, just a mom and then as a para professional and as a teacher.

>> our security guards and they need their eight hours, there is just no reason why they should not have the full hours and my personal opinion, and my personal opinion, all parents who want the full living wage, should be allowed to do so. we cannot have a funding for education for our students unless we work together as a team, and we finally have the money, and so hey, let's give the respect and the deserve that all of us deserve, now, and not have any more excuses, thank you. >> good evening president fewer and superintendent carranza and members of the board. name is ken tray, and i do so

after teaching in the classrooms for 25 years in this city at mark twain continuation high school and the high school and the school that i started at, balboa high school and i told some people the other day. on the streets as we were marching to defend the teachers who were facing eviction, that the best decision that i made was in 1985 when i became a teacher. we are grateful for the work and the contributions to the community and i left my notes out and the enthusiasm on the sidewalk, but a few people have noted, recently, an article in the new york times. and which was based on a study, of growing the disparity of every single metropolitan area in the united states and it focused on the city in seattle

but, guess what? it took note that the greatest disparity, and it used the terms and the new york times used the terms, not radical, labor agitator but there are growing disparities between the have, and the have, nots and now, tonight, the elected board members and we are speaking to you because you represent the people of our town. >> and tonight, you have the opportunity to start from this evening to do something about the disparity that is driving the educators and the familis that we teach out of this town, out of this town. and now, is the time to do it. and uesf with our labor allies and one prop 30 in 2012, we have millions more pouring into the towns through the local control formula and this is a city that is growing divide and

they must not invade our schools. and you need to have educator and schoolworkers, that feel secure in their house and in their employment. and who can provide for a future for their students. and that decision is not the superintendent, it is not the youngs and it is the elected board members and we believe that the people of san francisco are watching very closely and are demanding and will demand that you do the right thing, thank you. >> public comment is now closed. >> i now call the public hearing, for 2013, 14, initial prosal for the contract, to