>> we love our parks, but we love... >> and the community who is really the core of it all, came together and said what we need is a place for our teenager to play, not just play grounds for the kids and soccer fields but we need a skate park that will keep the kids home in the neighborhood so they can play where they live. >> the children in the neighborhood and it will be a major boone. and we have generations, the youth generations that will be able to use this park in different places. >> the best park in san francisco right here. >> creating place where people

can be active and lead, active, healthy life styles that are going to just stay with them for life. ♪ >> miss maufas? >> here. >> mendoza, murase. wynns, fewer. >> here. >> sonata. >> here? and here chan. >> here. >> thank you. >> please, join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]

>> the student advisory council has held the election of officers last night and hanan sonata, senior the walenberg was elected to the student delegate and, congratulations and on behalf of the board and the superintendent a welcome to you, would you like to introduce yourself to our audience please? >> thank you, president fewer. i'm the new student delegate, and i'm a senior, at the high school and just a little bit about myself, i am asb president at my school and i am a president of many clubs. and also, i would love to be the bridge or the voice for the

students at sfusd >> we have the approval of the board minutes and i have a motion and a second? >> >> so moved. >> second. >> any corrections? >> sonata. >> abstain. >> mr. chan. >> yes. >> mr. haney? >> yes. >> miss maufas? >> miss mendoza mcdonald, miss norton? >> yes. >> miss wynns and fewer? >> yes. >> that is four ayes. >> item b presentation to the board of education, superintendent carranza? >> thank you, president fewer and good evening, everyone. a couple of announcements this friday the star spanningled banner that was pened 200 years ago will be celebrated at the francis scott key elementary, and the students and faculty will be joined by the chief, suhr and our very own board of

education president, fewer, where the teachers will recite the four stan sa of the song and the students will share the facts and yee will sing the anthem while the brownie and the cub scouts help to raise the flag. i would also to announce that official representatives from the historically black colleges and universities will be recruiting college-bound students right here at san francisco at mission high school and interested students will have the opportunity to receive the preliminary on the spot admissions and scholarships and financial aid information and face-to-face exposure with many of the backed black institutions of the higher learning in the united states and this is the first time that this will happen here in san francisco, and i would like to invite everyone asked in learning more about historically black college to attend this event, on monday, september 15th at mission high school, located at 3750, 18th street.

and the event will take place from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. and i look forward to greeting everyone there, this is the first year of the smarter balanced assessment, which i want to make sure that folks understand are required assessments by the state of california. and these assessments will measure the students' success in meeting the common core state standards if you are interested in learning more about these, please join our staff at one of our parent information sessions and the first one will be on thursday, september 18th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., at the civic center, auditor um to learn how the tests will measure the student learning in english, language and arts and math and we will have the staff from the humanities and math to share the information to rsvp all that you need to do is to contact the office at aao, at sfusd.edu or call 415-241-6400. thank you. >> thank you, superintendent.

>> and item c, recognitions and resolutions and commendations. >> thank you. >> so i would like to ask, executive director joe and the executive director leslie gardener to come to the podium but i would like to give the background and the context to everyone watching and everyone here this evening. the school quality is an approach to improvement that is proposed by the office to preform education which is california school districts including san francisco to replace the no child left behind, accountability rules to a federal waiver process, sfusd is one of court that applies to the department of education for avenue waiver, for flexibility in these recognitions the four districts represent more than 1 million students here in california.

the school quality improvement system called for an unprecedented difference on eliminating disparity and disproportionalty across all subject and all academic content areas and also in social and emotional and culture climate domain and while part of it is to identify the schools in need of intervention and the system provides us with the unique opportunity to acknowledge the title i schools that are performing and making progress, at their schools and these schools are identified for reward schools for high progress are performance, and for the 2014, 15 high, performance schools, they are identified because they are in the top 30 percent of schools based on performance and have

within the school achievement gaps in the lowest 30 percent across all par participating schools and must also show the improvement in the lowest group and for 2014, 15, our school district has two schools identified as high, performance schools and we could not be more proud to recognize them. first is gordon j. elementary school and here to accept the award is the incredible principal, dr. chiu and one of the high, performance schools and whose principal was last year, and accepting is the new principle mayra quadro, we would like you to come up and please join me for a picture

please? >> >> we also have the schools of the reward and high progress and they are identified because they are in the top 25 percent, on the schools of the academic

schools school wide and show the progress in the lowest subgroups for the school year, sfusd has four schools identified as high progress schools. >> five schools. >> sorry, five schools so let me read the schools and then we are going to ask their representative to come forward and cleveland elementary, with their principal mark sanchez, and far mont elementary school whose last year's principal was mr. holinsk but accepting is the new principal rodriguez. >> paul reveer, prek-8 and the principal. and everett, middle school and the principal, and guest. and rosa parks elementary school, principal paul

jacobson, congratulations.

>> okay we have one more school that we would like to honor, sfusd has one school that is identified as both, a high, performance and a high progress school and we are very, very glad to honor john chin and their principal alen lee and we are proud of the work that they have done and all of the teachers and staff have done to serve our services. and so chin, and lee are you here? >> no. and could we give them a round of applause? [ applause ]

president fewer, good evening, president fewer and commissioners, and deputy superintendents and superintendent carranza, and last night we had our student advisory council, cabinet election, and the following people, were elected. and president jones. >> please silence, audience for the student delegate's report. >> vice president wong and, secretary lamb, and public relations linking and historian, rebecca borh, and treasurer, and the next and first cabinet meeting will be next monday, september 15th at 5 p.m., thank you. >> >> thank you, gavin. and so, this year, with the sac

is proud to announce that we will be having a student leadership conference, training on saturday, september 20th, and there will there will be the entire sac, and there will be do the leadership workshops, and the sac is a public council, and anyone is welcome to attend our meetings. and as an added incentive dinner will be provided at all of our sac representative meetings. and the guests attending at 5:00 p.m. also, if you would like to attend, make your presentation or would like a copy of the upcoming sac agenda, please contact our sac coordinators, barr.

thank you very much, we have item e, the parent advisory council report, is there a report this evening? >> [ speaking in a foreign language ]

>> good afternoon, this is the report, from the describes, the process that the pac established for the priorities of the year, and the highlights the past activitis for this month. and in the our first meeting was on august 28th. [ speaking in a foreign language ]

>> the park appreciates, superintendent carranza's efforts, and that he has made in the meeting the priorities of the students for the school

year of 2014/15, in his presentation, he highlighted four areas of focus for the district this year. first implementing the common core standards. and second, providing transparency about how the schools are funding and insuring that they are in alignment for the six strategis for success and supporting our students. and third, implementing, the safe and supportive schools initiative, and fourth to support african americans student achievement. >> the areas that we will be

identifying the priorities for the year. >> we will review the district's strategies and initiatives and our work over the past couple of years, and the san francisco unified school district student data to help to determine the priorities for the year. we will report on this process, next month. >> one of the areas that the

path work and it will carry over into this year's work and the local and the controlbility plan and lcap, and next week, the pac will be meeting with our district partners to discuss lunching the lc8 p task force. we will be needing to support the earlier community engagement and increase the transparency and insure the ability of the over all sap process.

>> over the next month, we will continue to follow up with the school communities that are participating in the lack community and conversation to share the report of the findings and recommendations based on the community input and we recognize, that it is an important part of the process to letting the families know that their voices are heard and valued and respected.

the pac is schedule to meet with the parents association on september 17th, and with the san francisco unified school district, youth service programs, student community on september 22nd. >> hello. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> hello, my name is angel and high son is a tenth grader and my daughter is a third grader at garfield elementary.

>> we are following up with the organizations that participate in, and in our conversations, on the (inaudible) to share our report of findings and recommendations made by the pac in this area. >>

[ speaking in a foreign language ] >> the pac will be partnering with the district and community partners for the three works and at the sfusd second annual family and empowerment conference, which is schedule for saturday, september, 27th, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at james town little school, the first workshop is a call to

engage and empower and equip parents and to connect the dots and the social networks in the connection to support the educational experience and the last one is valuing diversity and >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] . >> this conference will bring

the family and district staff and community organizations together, to support family and engagement, foster leaders ship and development and build stronger home school policies across the district, and the pac will also have an information out reach table and resource fair and schedule that day. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> the pac is recruiting for members for the 2014/15,

application is available on the website in english, spanish and chinese at www.pacsac.org and are due by october third 2014. >> that is it. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> commissioners any comments? >> questions? >> i would just like to say thank you very much for this report, and unfortunately i will not be able to attend the family empowerment conference, i will be out of town. but for our listeners and for the people in the audience, i would like to encourage you to attend, and i attended last year and held a workshop and it was many parents and it was my first introduction to the san francisco unified school district when my child was in kindergarten i attended this conference, and here i am and i would like to give a plug for the parents who are listening

to consider joining our parent advisory council, it is an advisory board to the board of education and actually we rely heavily on their advance, commissioner maufas? >> thank you. i was just going to second and that encouragement for the folks to consider joining the pac. and i am an original, pac founding member and so you see what happens if you join the pac to be sitting on this side and, so engagement is key. it is the best way to get your voices heard and to represent the parpts and i would like to parents the pac members for coming forward and speaking to us and i appreciate the diversity of the pac and to have the presentations in several language and that shows how committed we are to make sure that every voice that we have in sfusd gets heard.

so thank you for coming forward. >> i just want to say that i will be at the family empowerment conference, and it is my calendar already, and so thank you for organizing it. >> any more comments in >> no. >> thank you for your report. >> thank you. >> so now, if it pleases the board i would like to move up, item q. this is 149- 149-9sp1 - authorization to grant or in the alternative deny the petition for the new school of san francisco charte-. >> may i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> excuse me, one second. push do we have a quorum?

>> oh,, i did not see matt so sorry. sorry, commissioner haney i did not see you back in your chair like that. okay. and so, i will refer this to the budget and curriculum committee and i actually have two speakers this evening on this item. and a total of 5 minutes will be given to the testimony, and we have ryan chapman, and nanita coraruvious. sorry if i mispronounced your name. >> thank you. >> and thank you, president fewer. and thank you, commissioners. and thank you superintendent carranza, and deputy and superintendents. and my name is ryan chapman and as a educator and father of san franciscans is a