okay. the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for new mexico tuesday, may 27, 2014, is now called to order. roll please. mr. haney. ms. maufas. okay sdrvm. ms. wynns.

president fewer and mr. loosening >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> ms. csa could please note the attention of commissioner maufas. before we begin we have an agenda announcement. president fewer i want to announce i'm withdrawing the amendment related to the teacher taller than federal grant proposal the resolution withdrawn on page two and three

and withdrawing a second resolution levy a tax for 2014-2015 on page six and seven. the approval the board meeting of april 22, 2014, is and the special minutes of may 6, 2014, and may 20th, 2014 may i have a motion and second. my corrections. seeing none, roll call vote please. oh, >> second. all right. roll call vote >> ms. away. mr. logan arrest a ms. maufas. menus. ms. norton and ms. wynns and president fewer. items b the presentations to the board of education the superintendents report.

deputy superintendent >> good evening i have the privilege of substituting i want to share today is at the white house science fair to get more boys and girls into technology or math and u.s. 2020 said san francisco was the winner of the national competition for the mentoring eight of the largest occupations between 2020 are in the stem fields yet most states have not had the opportunity to meet and learn from a stem related professional. u.s. 2020 will change that u.s. 2020 led by uc science and health partnership in collaboration with the mayor's office and the san francisco

unified school district and tech bridge will connect them with local students >> that's a great announcement (clapping) we know this is a special time of the school year was as we close out our days many of the schools are celebrating one of the highlights is argon elementary has a wonderful tradition to recognize it's fifth graerz they've started a new farewell walk for an all school good job the staff will greet their fifth grade class to get high-fives and best wishes congratulations to outline your fifth graders moving on.

(clapping.) tonight we'll recognize and celebrate several numerous scholarship recipients in addition to tonight recipients more than 70 very special graduating are seniors will be heading to college with awards they've defied the odds to bring them to graduation day more than half are on to universities and graduation to our mason scholar award winners (clapping) it is graduation season i want to graduate all our graduating seniors our 20 our two alice griffith other graduates easy we wish you all the best in your

future many held promote ceremonies for our kindergarten next fall we know that many of our youngest students have been silverstein with caps and grounds and many parents are proud graugsz congratulations to all our scholars. >> time for recognized and accumulations. >> we have a couple of distinguished awards first tried that i michael hill. >> good evening. i'm michael hill i'm the electrical supervisor for the grounds i'm

going to read a letter about what i - this morning my electrician was working at the guarding lop school he noticed a teacher in room 7 crying and asked her what was wrong she was experiencing severe chest pain and pointing to the upper side of her chest. the gentleman called 9-1-1 and got the paramedic go responding he guided here to a chair and she said he was short of breath. he moved her to the floor and waited and gave her improvement and monitored her conditions. the paramedics responded on the scene in about 4 minutes after

his call he handed the teacher off to the paramedics and subsequentially she was transgender to the hospital then manny moved on to the next school this is an accelerant example off our training he didn't hesitate he acted in advance medical care and the teacher was then at the hospital well within the golden hour able to get the care. i wanted to share this with you i think you should be aware of this action pursue i'm proud and grateful that he is in my shop and firmly believe this exemplifies the staff at the unified school district. (clapping.)

>> bravo. >> thank you very much. come please say a few words >> ladies and gentlemen, happy to start here today so receive the award and thank you so much

everybody. (clapping.) >> manny thank you for your truly actions. we have another rave award to be given (clapping) >> good evening distinguished and board and district leaders that's an honor to pleasure to too an educator are and woman and mother mrs. court of appeals white thank you for your dedication and committed and outstanding service to the students, staff and families at dr. george washington careful over the past 10 years you make a difference you are my and many

others unsung hero he get through between 7 o'clock and 7:30 everyday with a half an hour commute. i want to say that school wouldn't be where it is today thank you kim letter thank you for you for nominating ms. white and others who set the ground work (clapping) i want to tell you i know about two wagon one the school buses almost tipped over and the bus driver left the scene and came back those kids were scrambling in the streets trying to find shelter and ms. white was trying to get all those kids asia ms. white was the one that called

the police and that's each and every day for the kids who don't have cloths and we have motherless kids she's there to be that mother in addition to learning synergy i go to her, her job is becoming increasing technical so high heart and stipend goes to you thank you several from the bottom of my heart there's great things in the bay area including stem (clapping) and we have a lot of great people and it's not only the principles but your secretaries that are making it happen i salute you thank you for your service (clapping) where's the carveer family

(clapping) >> amen. (clapping.) >> first given an honor to god i would say thank you lord for all you've done. for me (clapping) i would like to say thank you to my fellow colleagues and thank you to my foundation ms. wade thomas if it wasn't for her i wouldn't know anything thank you and first of all, ms. astonishing i can't my best friend i know god has things in store for her and i want to

thank kimberly and my husband who has a job at the church thank you baby and i love you for taking the time to come out and see me get this award tonight (clappin (clapping.) one more coming >> come on down. >> (clapping) >> 94 it is time for ask the

scholarships and awards. i i would like to call on the following and this order to come to the podium and announce the scholarship award did he see and announce the scholars first, the united principles of america >> the united administered of san francisco gives 4, $2,000 scholarships and we oversee $11,000 scholarships we have 6 of the 3 here please stand up when i call our name. james waning from international high school and he's going to uc santa cruz

(clapping) congratulations. stay up here >> if you want to come up. >> and gloria tran in the audience oh, good (clapping) gloria is from john o'connell and going going to mel's college and joyce wang come on up her mother is here and she's going to uc irvine (clapping) and i'm not sure if kelly awe would you is here. no. then those are the $2,000 scholarship winners.

we have one, one thousand alicia i know she's here (clapping) and alicia is from john o'connell going to uc berkley >> and last but not least i don't know if victor mills is here okay. well 4 out of 6 is pretty good so thank you so much for the wonderful scholarship winners (clapping). >> and on behalf of the board of education congratulations to everyone. let's get -

>> congratulations everyone. >> stand on this side. hurry up, hurry up. thank you. 1, 2, 3 perfect. (clapping.) >> congratulations (clapping) thank you very much. united administers which san francisco the next group are united educators of san francisco

(clapping) >> good evening ladies and gentlemen, and members of the board i regret to inform you, your coordinator is out sick so we don't have our scrip award he's we give them in the names of 3 colleagues and we give grants that are not scholarships those will be presented next week in. >> ceremony at our office we have all those other fine people here. >> president kelly do you have the names of the recipients to be on television? okay. so we move on to the alliance of black school educators (clapping) so if you wouldn't mind telling us about your organization and

the scholarships >> okay san francisco black school educators is on organization over 25 years we're growing and supporting african-american students and teachers we have several, several scholarships. (clapping.) so we only have two recipients because many of our recipients are receiving another one in oakland. i want to call up our recipients >> do you have the names of the rips so. >> can you call it out because it's televised. >> i'm marcus the principle of the galileo. so from galileo school jessica back baker >> victoria bryant.

bryant from her twin sister ms. clenz and o'connell is antonio and galileo is jackson and martin mission high school is manuel and glal low other ask the and ms. smith and washington high school you can't repel smith and our two recipients that are from admission high school he will be attending western springfield in massachusetts that's ring with the harmonies of liberty; necessarily. come on up ring with the harmonies of liberty; necessarily

(clapping) and from lowell high school she's be attending in indiana ms. wilson. (clapping.) congratulations again. >> excuse me. but jennifer is also from michigan. >> (clapping) congratulations. >> come on virginia. right in front of the podium. scholars over here

1, 2, 3 >> congratulations (clapping.) and now we have the association of chinese teachers. (clapping.) so would you, please say a little bit about our association and about your scholarships, please. >> thank you. good evening, everyone. i'm here on behalf of the chinese association the association of chinese teachers and your organization has been in existence over 45 years this are we have 13 recipients of 2

thousand scholarships (clapping) our first recipient is casper woe who attends mission high going to uc berkley (clapping) next, we have shining you who attends galileo high school going to uc san diego (clapping) then we have vanessa lee is who at the marshall high school going to uc berkley (clapping) next, we have chloe you can't know two attends balboa high school going to ucla. then ms. woe who is going to

westerly college (clapping) and then last we have you didn't know she lange who attends mission how to mulling bush college (clapping) she's not here excuse me. >> there were a few that couldn't come james woung who will be attending uc santa cruz next year and lisa from geola low to cul-de-sack ton college and art and design student going to uc santa cruz and michelle

from galileo to trinity university (clapping) i'm going to recognize the two recipients who couldn't be here tonight first is susan lee i don't know from lincoln high school going to uc davis in the fall and the last one is sue lincoln going to uc berkley in the fall (clapping) actually there's one more evan lou from washington high school is he here. >> did he make it, all right. . he will be attending uc irvine next year (clapping)

congratulations. come on in front even though our hiding (laughter) >> she's got it down. >> on the end. >> come over here right there. all right. turn this way and everybody. all you adults come on. okay. right there. deputy superintendant. come on. all right. come right here. right here. there you go. everybody.

and you're all one. 1, 2, 3. one more. thank you. (clapping.) >> okay. so the next group is from the filipino american educators i know they're in the room tonight (clapping) >> good evening. >> tell us about your organization good evening, everyone i'm a educator and teacher a proud usf member yeah. (clapping) so our organization is filipino

educators of san francisco actually, it's like went to sleep for a decade and in 3 years ago when the ucsf asked us to attend i went back to the fire extinguisher teachers and said we've got to do something for our students so my daughter who graduated doesn't experience this i'm touched without the u.s. sf improvement and other filipino educators this wouldn't be, you know, this wouldn't have been done. i want to recognize our filipino educators that attended the event last may and i recognize one of the lady and our filipino educators if you're out there in the room i am waving and students i met you once but i

have pictures and you are getting a picture and also the program. where is esther >> right here. no, no i gave them to her so this year we recognize one hundred and 23 filipino filipino-american students who made it to say honor roll and one hundred and 23. we also recognize them by putting their names on the program but they didn't have time to respond to the application 23 responded and all of them got money awarded to them. so i think stand up if you're here. anyone oh, there's my son he made it (clapping) i would recognize the 23 from balboa high school and ask