to place one of the classes by replacing our library and then to move the classes no money for upgrades no furniture this is unacceptable. jefferson's parents and teachers took it upon themselves to come up with ways to prevent the loss of our library but no concrete plan. we're only able to focus on the struggles like our lack of commuter and the incorporation of our curriculum jefferson teachers and parents wasted time n engaging conversation now we're at the end of a school year we're here to let the district know we need the resources and money we want the board of education that the policy is good but need to be

backed up by more than word we want the fund to support it. we at jefferson are going to stand up for that our students and an accurate space for them to learn in thank you. (clapping.) >> hi i'm high on a hill it calls to me hub borrowed a parent at the jefferson two children a california licenses architect i own my own business and have many years of institutional projects designing and public spaces. i've been working with the jefferson community all year along the to come up with viable solutions to bringing in the ucsf clamor where we'll maintain our library and classes. i dedicated my own firms resources to developing the

plans and options for thank you for the opportunity the current teachers room into an classroom to demonstrate that's a wonderful space actually. i also developed plans to show you how the library can go down into this space. this is all presented in november to assistant superintendent bret stevens. in that meeting at the end of the meeting he promised that w he would work with the jefferson parents on those judge's of turning the teachers lounge into a temporary classroom so we won't have to lose the library upstairs and promised he welcomed mayor edwin lee me to work with him so i yet again use my firms free resources to help the unified school district develop plans to make it work

for everybody because we want a welcoming environment. and two days before the meeting with bret stephen's and the facilities i was asked not to attend. so we're tired of we get promises and we're promised things and it's rein the first degree on i. i appreciate the letter on friday with those promises of allocating funds and working with us but i'm weary i want to see a real plan we want to find a solution for everybody that's why we're here so we want you - >> thank you very much. to follow through (clapping) >> good evening deputy superintendent and

commissioners. i understand that after education is important i support it i don't understand why the board found it necessary to postpone public comment so it would be later on the agenda; right whether there are educators that need to talk about the proposal of their economics and parents that have to wait who have serious justifiable concerns about the new staffing guide. and then you did it again. and you did it at the last meeting when we talked about the contract now an hour out of your arrives is not earth shattering but when you keep the educators and parents waiting that's the symbol and measure of our disrespect (clapping) as you know teachers and par

approvals have to get up to take care of the students so they're not here they had to go home and a lot of them don't live in san francisco, in fact, thirty percent can't live in san francisco they can't afford to we need san francisco to show the respect to the educators we saw way back in the first hour of this meeting when we saw educators honored and other schools that showed respect. another way to show respect is to pay people a decent wage (clapping) not 2 percent when proposition thirty will almost double the district revenue over the next seven years not to present when we gave the district 60 millions

when times were hard to keep our schools open. not to present what par professionals in this district can hardly ever get a right job do the right thing give us a raise we deserve >> good evening board and deputy commissioner. i'm dan harris is early appendix for the united educators of san francisco. the scholarship recipients are a testament that caveat in the classroom truly make the difference of our students. they demonstrate that highly qualified and well contemplated educators perform better. i'm here as a member of the

boorg team to echo that educators need a living wage. i'm also here to highlight social justice issues. we've been talking about social justice for the last several years in san francisco but when we think about social justice issues we think about our students. we fail to realize we have a group of individuals that are pled by the school district who are having issues with the social justice. those are our par professionals. (clapping.) as an early educator in the district i daily enact and work with par professionals i personally couldn't do any job without the help and support of par professionals in my

classrooms. at my school personable 95 percent of the par professionals two 20 years and 25 years and just recently one of my par professionals i'm still earning the same amount of money today that i earned 15 years ago. social justice is a verb. thank you. (clapping.) >> that was a learn experience pay attention. pay attention >> and thank you for that lovely interrogation i'm josh i work 0 for early education you've seen me he several times. i want to talk about how kids

learn by example in san francisco they don't only learn in the classroom they also learn by seeing the interactions of the adults in is an important part of the process. in that process we're sort of building the future of san francisco. ; right? we're putting together the city that's going to be here when we are gone and some will be gone sooner than later because we live in vallejo when you give people a protecting wage what does that mean when workers come to school sick because they don't earner enough money and people have to commute what does the student learn when

the difficulties can't pay rent what kind of example is that for your students. when our kids grew up what kind of city will we be just the people to clean their cars or continue san francisco diversity and quality. thank you. (clapping.) >> good evening societies and superintendents and commissioners i'm ken tray a political director of the united agency in the san francisco public schools a teacher. about 10 days ago the first page the chronicle had an article in which the most important line when something like that this

this is the in san francisco the rich are getting richer and the poor falling behind and the middle-class are skipping town. if you're looking a fair compensation package there is not one person in the top 10 percent none of them are the rich getting richer and they're the people doing the work a whole bunch of the people are the poor that are fueling farther behind our employees the educators that you're supposed to that nurturing to do the work to educate our students. you'll find a lot whole lot of folks one resort said there was

up to one thousand people an irish unusual board of education meeting. the middle-class skipping town eave heard stories about the teachers who are doing exactly that. and par professionals one par professional friend of mine xhiepts from va levy one of my teacher friends moved way down to half-moon bay so the time is now to stop the native of the rich getting richer and the poor falling behind and the middle-class skipping town you can do your part by reordered the priority. just like we were detailed in speaking to you tonight once again but this board.

once again, we're our voices detailed also our demands for just compensation has been detailed far too along the people that kept this district and i float during the revisions we have our time now to live in the community in which we teach and educate the students. (clapping.) >> good evening. i'm gordon a parent and here with the close the gap and close the gap is a coalition of diverse folks with patent and educators i'm here to make a couple of quick points. we're urge the district to agree to a fair wage for teachers and the recommended by sf. those folks have given so moved so much for the people in the

district during the economic hard times so they deserve the salaries to continue to work and in live in san francisco. this is important for our community and students the second point i want to echo one of the main points in the presentation and comments about the local accountability built plan close the gap is concerned that the first draft of el cap is convince in general and board language with no concrete numbers. others have stated this makes it hard to access how much of the board assess through the input process is really going to be genuinely included some general questions that we want address

in el cap what will you do to increase the services for high needs and how what are the concrete positions and programs your funding for the students and how do you define the capacity building and we also very much agree with the important questions by the delake folks we look forward to the opportunities coming up in june to see the definition of el cap to invest the precious resources that are intended for the students thank you very much (clapping) >> good evening board president lee and deputy suspended germany restraining order and all the commissioners. when susan or ken mentioned to

you that you've jumped the line a few times when you moved the possibility of comments it's not sandy i didn't see fault that's your fault look at our agenda it says that public comment comes not last night 7:30 you can say i want to move the agenda to conform what may i see it, sir? what's written it's all your fault. how do we take that as extreme disrespect as extreme disrespect the kind of proposals at the table it's extremely disrespect and the board of education extremely disrespect. anyhow you've heard them toub talk about lessons learned what's the lesson your teaching us that goes through us to the

children. it's not one you prefer to teach i'm sure it's a terrible one. i want to thank deputy superintendant germany restraining order because in conversation he mentioned something i found significant with the african-american population if san francisco shrinking to 75 percent 71 percent are working and living in poster. a thousands of those people living and working in poverty are pled by you if you want to talk about social justices await making an evil grin or snicker you've got to do something you have the opportunity to do something. we told you we need across the board raises for everybody and want special attention paid to par professionals we want to

raise the standards of par professionals i have dealt an early education department and a department of special education that rides on their backs. and yet you treat them like absolutely scum. and that's all of you. we have enforced all of you one way or the other in our lives and considered the friends we enjoy working with you but you can't continue to treat the people who do the work in this way. you can't can't do this we were stunned with the district came in and wanted to eliminated 5 days for negotiations. that's what they said today, we'll consider that and if they

can't have people there so be it but the district created the calendar. now the district is taking it apart. where's the respect. everything we've told by the district norwalk terrors that you sit around and pass the decisions along to them. so some of you tell me slightly different stories but the way it's coming down it's all on you, the disrespect and the failure to attend to care about the necessary he social justice to take care of the people you employee. i think you'd better in so soon closed session start thinking about this and hope you can come up with a different altitude

that will premeditate the way it goes i'd like to love to see this contract settlement but this is just status quo from your district new yorker we're not making any progress that way. thank you (clapping.) good evening board members and deputy superintendent i'm many mccarthy one of your day to day substitutes the flow of information has revolved around the specs he want to think about a particular quotation respect for the rights of other it the essence of peace.

and this district has not been peace promoting separately our pares are desperate for fairness and fairness should be the criteria that comes from this board. i can't images individually that you had enforced the idea the disrespectful idea of saying 2 percent think of your own lloyd within our families over the last 8 years has that been our likelihood been geared to 4 percent that day to day substitutes from an hourly wage $18.71. and how many days a week do they

generally work around 3 not counting the new substitutes that come in and their taller than is tremendous because the economic considerations but in the case of our substitutes overwhelmingly they're certified teachers teachers in this is strict are predicted upon their training and ideally to the degree substitutes equally so as fully certified teachers should fall into the same category. respect that's something as the president sited you can give subscriptions to our bargaining team on how to be fair.

>> (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i'm stephanie the san francisco distributor there's no better place to educate our children about health and education we over a weekly education about balanced diagnostic mean also monday was a way for people to save money and resources during the world war ii. john hopkins said there was a way to fight obesity and several scapegoats including la los angeles and san diego adapted this program along with hospitals worldwide their

implementing means also mondays to help people form habits for lifelong benefits for the meals creates a weekly opportunity to you teach the students will nutrition and eating for fruits and vegetables and whole grains. implementing that program will help the students and paternities to tangling the press disease crisis. affordable favorites like harvesting chile and bean are high in protein. the san francisco board of supervisors passed a resolution declaring mondays vegetarian days to improve the health of as follows. students as well as many parents and teachers assigned the

position and support ♪ their schools. this promotes healthy bodies and minds we take steps to be responsible by implementing the mean also monday >> thank you (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening commissioners and deputy superintendant we're the representatives from international studies academy. i hope i have this handout in front of you. so i'm carolina i've been a teacher for 6 years and i'll be the instructional reform teacher and currently, the site liter of our community and those folks are part of the p lc. i'm here to talk about why

we'rey signing the program. i can talk about the percentage of our students that are experiencing complex trauma no african-american males walking across our stage for graduation and our scores and other go things you might hear or prime to hear about an unenrolled high school but your students need more hope and possibilities than the traditional ones. so i want you to look at the handout you have and this big graft at the top. it notes what we know about the approved gap for our students as we increase their opportunities we're fatiguing this tremendous grandpa for i don't know people

limited paths and for others are on a path to board opportunity and choices in life. we've been thinking about as the school community and as a staff is what are the influx points that are taking us on the green apathy what's on the pathways to change the futures of our students to make schools truly transformal. thank you >> i'm pete a school counselor and part of the c a team we're redesigning the academy we started on this venture about 5 months ago we're made up of a team of roughly 14 staff members a large percentage of our staff at i s a as well as community

participants as woody allen w a way to dive into this we've been historically thrown a few curve balances we were motivated to create this investment anonymous to focus on providing a unique and engaging and powerful experience for our students but preparing them for a rapidly changing world. we been meeting twice a month in order to dive into this growing together and asking difficult questions and having discusses. through that we've agreed to adapt a graduate profile that was donated in the 20025 vision in june we'll have the building blocks for going forward. we'll be open for business for

2014 school year and so during that time we'll be focused on creating at learning community and expanding our capacity to doesn't care on project based learning and how to implement that into our classrooms and excited about the opportunity and i and wanted to know you're with us on the journey (clapping) >> hello, everyone i'm jessica with the parents in school innovation i want to talk about the partnerships this p lc as enabled because of this in the process we've been been servicing as a partner to align with the district it's been amazing to as pete mentioned the visioning the work.

we also participated commissioner haney was doing a design workshop and some of the students partnered at i s a school to hear about their vision for the future to one of the students came to the p lc and responded on the facts. we next year there will be two professionals in the school full-time engaging the kids serving over one hundred 50 students 6 days a week for the service learning outside the school day but also into the curriculum. this will also engage the students this summer in over the sum participated