>> 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 pleasure and a privilege to present to you the charter petition, when developed the new school of san francisco will be diverse, school that puts learning by doing and equity and doing at the center of a child's education, over the past eight months, we have taken inspiration from parents, educators and community organizations and school leaders from across the city, region and state and we have held 50-plus conversation and network with more than 45 local organization and visited 30-plus schools and we believe that the petition reflects the collective expertise and, priorities and expectation and aspirations and sense of what is possible, uniquely possible in public education. we have also found great inspiration in the work with the district and the 20-25 vision, demonstrates your passion and commitment and drive to innovate and a powerful statement of the city's opportunity to transform of what it means to teach and learn in the 21st century, this is in response to the call to

action, it is our intention to partner with the district and to add to the echo system, and that will generate change and specifically we will hold ourselves accountable instilling the love of learning now and preparing the students for rapidly changing future and insuring that preparation is not just accident, but equitable for the students with barriers and for the families to take a empowered role in their students education and making it accessible for the children's schools the tremendous resources that the city has to offer and demonstrating the benefits of a school and museum partnership and we have had the pleasure of meeting many of you individually, and so, thank you for your time. and for those who have not yet met with, i will welcome the opportunity and i will be in touch and i also invite you to join us for the upcoming budget and curriculum meetings in early october and most importantly, we want to

introduce to you, whose two sons, juan and deigo attended the first program where we piloted the model and learned a tremendous amount from their experience and i invited them to speak on behalf of the parents that we have the privilege to work alongside and to share their thoughts. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> good evening, we have two

sons, juan who is ten and diego who is 6 and our experience with the new school over the summer was really amazing. and we saw progress, with our two sons, and they were enthusiastic and they were excited to learn and they kept wanting to go back. >> and that is what every parent wants for their child that they feel confident in themselves, and that they are happy that they are fulfilled and they feel motivated to learn.

with the system, that is called... learning by doing. the children learn about projects that were more interested to them. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> on the other hand we were happy with the communication between the teach and hers parents because it always kept them informed for what was happening throughout the day.

>> another advantage is that it will be k-12 which is important because the children are not he have beened by all of the changes that are necessary when there is a transition, their friends change and their teachers change. we believe that diversety should be a priority and to teaches the children to be with each other and to respect each other.

we trust that the new school will be a great opportunity for all children in san francisco. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> now we have public comment, one speaker signed up. >> thank you very much, commissioner fewer, and ladies and gentlemen, members of the board of education, and commissioners, superintendent carranza, and other and all ships at sea. >> there are two things in the agenda that i want to talk about today, one of them was not mr. davis's usc tie. but, i don't know if there are any stanford people here, but he is sitting right there. >> i just want to draw your

attention to case 14 for a moment, k14 is what you paid to have a consultant come in and really not as the description says, not talk to the uesf team but to talk to your folks about what kind of money they had, you paid $8260, for a guy who came in for a day or so to talk about what everybody else already knew about. and page, 33, and in that area, though is really what i wanted to focus on and that the personnel actions, and if you will look here, you will see that you have 84 people who are hired. with some designation, either for a special education class, or a bi lingual class, and these are people who are hired as temporary intern, and all kinds of different people on the waivers and all of those kinds of things which means

that they do not have their credentials. now, we understand that you don't necessarily have to make a williams report on all of those classes because having any piece of paper counts as having a credential under that. but, there was a wonderful cartoon, just a week or so ago, which shows a king, talking to the man who was doing menial labor at the castle and said, you know, i tell you that it was such an ugly term let's call you an intern instead. and we hire interns into all kinds of positions we hire people who because they have to take classes, while they are also providing classes, virtually have no lives. and they have a very difficult time succeeding. and in bi lingual and in the special education classes, on just this agenda, those are 84 of your hires and i don't

understand really why that happens. i don't think that it is happening in quite these numbers, that i have ever seen before, and you know i looked at it and i look at it two weeks ago, and two weeks before that, and there were also significant numbers of special ed hires, that were in these kinds of categories and provisional and all of that. if you want to do anything seriously about social justice and about the school district, you must prevent this kind of hiring. you must have a human resources department, that can fill the positions and fill the positions that are necessary, with appropriately credentialed people that mean among other things, that the people have to work full year. and in human resources and in all of the departments. that means that the school district can't shut down in july. and it means that you are going to have to put an additional emphasis, on getting these places filled. and we have not had this kind of a report in the previous

five years. and i think that it is absolutely shocking. thank you very much for your attentionment >> thank you. >> and item g. consent calendar. and we have a motion and a second on the consent calendar, please? >> so moved. >> may i have a second? >> yes. >> thank you. >> any items that you want to correct by the superintendent? >> yes, we have one correction. >> yes, please? >> 149-9 k9 on page 64 of your agenda, the name of the consultant should be regents of the university of california, san francisco, science, and health partnership. >> thank you mr. steel. and any items removed by first for first reading by the board? >> and any unsevered by the board or the superintendent for discussion and vote? >> one second, please?

>> one second, please. >> yes, you can talk. commissioner maufas? >> yes, thank you. >> i don't want to have the discussion tonight, but i would like to request that item, is it, item... i left my page in it. and is it this s1 through s15, those are all good. >> thank you. >> and our agenda, we normally have a report from the personnel committee, and it goes to the personnel labor, and we usually get an hr report, on the beginning of the year, hires and classrooms status and etc.. and i don't recall seeing that. so i would like to request that that discussion and this list of it,

>> and i think that commissioner norton would like. >> i want to call, item f1 through f15 for discussion later in the meeting and i think that what you are suggesting could also come under that. and so that is, is that... >> that is fine. >> i can wait until then. >> thank you. commissioner maufas. >> and roll call vote will take place under section 0. >> item h. superintendent proposal thises is already moved and seconded on august 26, 2014. excuse me. and yes, and as reported at the last board meeting a positive recommendation was given to this resolution as the rules meeting held on august 20, 2014, this is 148-26 sp2. and revision to board policy, bp 1342, community relations uniform complaints. public speakers, none signed up this evening, and any comments from the board of

superintendents? may we have a roll call vote? >> sonata. >> yes. >> chin. >> yes. >> haney. >> s. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, mcdonald, dr. murase, norton. >> yes. >> wynns. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> that is five 5s. this is the request to speak regarding the general matters and we have a few cards for the people who would like to speak, and as i call your name, please come to the podium, everyone has two minutes, please. >> maria rohas, josh davidson, and jay, cosad, emmy ellis, and daz, lomp aras cat x general and tony robus.

please, and first speaker, please, you have two minutes, and please press the button and please identify yourself first, thank you very much. will you please take the time? >> yes. >> basically i am here is because i want to, and i want that board of education to help me to get assigned my son to a middle school closer to my neighborhood and we live on lower haze and they assign me to valley on bay view. my son also has a 504 plan, and he has three appointments weekly. and i am a single mom with a full time job, and i am having the family no family in san francisco and i have trying to get the school closer since

march 2014. and also, i applied to other schools, and on the right time but i could not get assigned, so, i just want to get the school closer, which will be like easy for us to get into, because visitation valley is 1:30 from our home and i don't have a car and i have to take two buses from one way, and another one to come back home. and i just need your support, for me it is hard for me to take my son all the way over there and i am a single mom and i really need a school closer, he needs to take these appointments weekly, and i don't have anybody else who can help me to do this. so, i don't know if you can do something about it? i was trying to reach, mr.

carranza, and e-mailing other people, but it is kind of hard so the people can talk to you and everything. and i just need a school closer. >> thank you. and mr. steel, would you please take down her information, please? and connect her to the proper people to speak to? thank you very much. >> thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> were you signed up to speak. >> no. >> i am sorry, have you to submit a card. >> thank you very much for coming this evening, thank you. >> mr. cosak you are next, two minutes, red button thank you. >> i am jay cosak and counselor at george washington high school and i want to talk to two issues and i don't know if i will get to two of them. i want to talk about what language and special education,

okay? and equal access and very important. and okay, did anyone, anyone up here plan how that was going to happen? anyone here? i mean, i think that that is one of your jobs, so how does it play out at a school like george washington high school, we have an additional 60 to 80 students to put in the world language, okay? are the classes at 36, 37, and with six ieps yes, that is how it is, okay? please don't tell me any mumbo jumbo about the weighted student formula, we don't have money at the school to buy anything and, so here we are. and is this a successful way to launch a program? is this a successful way or just a way to do it. it is terrible. how do you do it that way? any planning with this, could we have gotten a point to a point, for some help, the

classes are fulfilled. okay? and second point, different point, students coming, from across the border, yes, we need to do something for them, they need a lot of help, you are giving us one teacher, probably can't teach all of the periods, and so we are going to get a teacher, and the other students are going to have to fill up where the other classes are and the other classes are full? yes, okay. and so, i don't know, it may work on paper, but, in reality, it is going to be hard but what i am asking for is this. can we get a spanish speaking para at the school also? can we get someone that will help with the effective part and not necessarily the academic, part, because they are going to be with the students the whole time and they can find out what some of the issues are like abandonment and home sick, like, they are in a new family and they don't know anyone. we really need someone, that

can really be with the students for part of the day so that we can help them that way. >> okay. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> next speaker. >> good evening, again, i'm dennis kelley president of the united educators in san francisco, in june you took an action to take the negotiations between the teachers and para professionals to imp as s and by going to that everything was put in the hands of a mediater and that means that the meetings have been stopped and we have not made the progress on the contract negotiations up until now, we are very hopeful, that we will have a negotiated contract and that we will have it very soon, we are very hopeful that once again, the teachers and para professionals who are very concerned about the contract, will be able to

turn their attention to doing the kind of work that they want to do to make this the best possible school district. and that is a delay that you put in, the delay that you called for, with the impass, is a problem. and it is, and it means that, we have not made any significant advance on getting a contract done. and now, we think that it is significant that mr. scarlato have been able to sit down and talk about these things and we will bring together the bargaining teams to discuss them, there is no reason that we could not have done this in june, there is no reason, why we had to have you declare imp ass so that the process was stopped, i urge you to do whatever that you can, to urge mr. scarloto and his team to please, make responses to the things that we put forward. and don't just brush them off