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

and don't just say that is too much. and don't just say, status quo. make some responses so that we get a feeling for where you folks really are, and we are ready to get to the point where we can actually have a contract that is signed, and sealed, and makes people comfortable about working in this district. and so that we don't have to have, the situation where there are 84 positions where we have not been able to reach out to people, who want to come here. to work. thank you. >> thank you. >> and good evening, superintendent and commissioners, i am amy ellis and thank you for hearing me today, on behalf of the jewish community relations council of san francisco i am here to encourage you to do everything in your power to settle the labor dispute, could lead to the first teacher's strike in decades, a long history of

advocacy for the quality of public school and the majority of the schools are enrolled in california public schools and we take great pride and we respect the professional and value their work and the success of the schools depends on their efforts on a personal note, a tended roosevelt middle school and washington high school, during the different times in my youth i had teachers that went the extra mile for me, without their help and guidance i would not be standing before you today, the teachers in the district served me well and for that i am thankful. thank you for your time and consideration, we hope that it can be resolved quickly. >> good evening, my name is chafon lieu and i am with the chinese progression, and we are a grassroots social justice organization and we work with the chinese immigrant community here in san francisco with tenant and workers and with youth. and see a whole range of issues

that effect them, especially right now with the growing income and inequality gap that we see in san francisco. and our families face tremendous pressures, they are often unmoimd or under employed or working long hours and sometimes living in sros where the entire families are sharing a bathroom and kitchen with several other family and living under tremendous economic and psychological pressure all of the time. and so, in this context, the school system is really one of the very important and key institutions that help to stabilize these families and provides a center for the folks to be able to find the resources and to be able to also reach their dreams because a lot of our community came to this country to be able to provide a better future for their children and to provide the educational opportunity and unfortunately, when the very teachers and service providers who are expected to help

stabilize, our struggling families find themselves in similar living conditions and as these very families are meant to serve, it really you know, starts to have this system deter ate and we are seeing the deteration of the ability of our public schools as an institution to really stabilize our community and serve the lowest income and the new comers and the folks who are trying to just to survive day-to-day and i just want to urge the board to take seriously, this plea, of des desperation of the please, and for them not to to be commuting and also it is more support for the professionals who are a key layer, for the support for those children, and finally, we need more support for the elementary schools. >> okay. >> would you state your name, because i don't have you on the

list. >> shawsan, liu, and i am with the chinese progressive association. >> thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent, i am gordon mar and i am here to support on a fair contract for the hard working teachers and para professionals and i work with the job to justice which is a coalition of community and labor groups to promote the economic security and justice? the area, and we are working on the campaigns to raise the minimum wage to 15 in the city and to pass a retail work of the bill of rights, which will provide, the job and i am working to stop the eviction and create the housing and many campaigns to address the economic crisis and that low income and the families are facing in the city and we very much see a fair contract for the teachers and all of the school staff as the integral part of the agenda to close the

economic divide in the city. and just to close as a parent. and to let us go, to the back to sxaol night on thursday and at my daughter's school and i am just reflecting on how tremendous, the tremendous work that the teacher and other school staff have provided to my daughter and, her friends and the school community. and they are given a fair contract, and it disturbs me and scares me to think that they, the teacher's union, and the members were felt so disrespected and so far off from a contract that they voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike and just thinking about what that and the disaster and the consequences could mean for the school communities in the city and so we urge you to do everything in your power, to settle up your contract with our hard working staff, thank you.

>> thanks. >> next speaker? >> hi, i am josh from the sie, and i also cook for the early education program and i like cooking for the kids and i do not want to take a day off for a strike, or i am sure that the kids would not like, maybe some of them would like to be home and i suspect that they would like to have the lovely food that i prepare for them every day, and secondarily i have more interesting things to talk about than contract negotiation and i would love to talk about the farm program at soda or the new dining experience or any number of things that are going on in this district that are very important and interesting, and exciting work, but until we have fair contracts for our workers we really can't get a lot of progress on these issues so please help us to have more interesting board meetings for

you guys by moving forward on this so that we can get to the other important work. thank you. >> good evening, my name is james tracy and i am a member of the jobs for the justice of san francisco, and long time housing activist sxim here to ask you to pass a contract that gives them the chance of actually staying in the city that they serve, and i used to be a para professional and i have seen first hand, the top notch work that has happened in our schools and i used to work at burton high school and i also know directly the consequences that if, the school district has a majority of the workforce working outside of san francisco. and it is less quality and ininstruction and it is more exhausts of the staff people and it is less after school opportunities. and we all know that. and if you read the newspaper last week, we know that one of

your para professionals, santiago successfully stayed in the city and thanks to the direct action and he is a para professional and his eviction was defeated and but i tell you that the housing movement of san francisco can't go after every single last landlord who is evicting one of your staff people and it is time for this board to step up, and to make sure that the teachers and para professionals get what they deserve, thank you. >> good evening, my name is tony, robles. and i am a native san franciscan and i also went to george washington high school, and roosevelt middle school and i do remember, qualified teachers that i had great teachers such as mr. redlic and mr. rodity, who taught me many, many things outside of the classroom. in terms of being a conscious

person, and i think that it is of the utmost importance that we respect our teachers and our para professionals who work with the public schools and the public schools have undergone, a lot of changes, and a lot of assaults, and i really believe that there has to be really more respect for the economic situation that many of the teachers in san francisco face. and one of the speakers earlier mentioned the case of santiago who is a teacher that he teaches music to developmentally disabled children. and now, that is a great thing to do and a great profession, he also has a disability and he is also dealing with his own physical issues but that has not stopped them from pursuing his love for teaching, and for

fulfilling the mission of his life, which is the love for kids and the love for children and for the love for sharing that art, which is enriching the lives of the children that he comes into contact with. and so, that being said, it is bad enough that he has to deal with an eviction and that has drained him of a lot of his energy, but he has fought through it and he has been victorious in fighting that back, but again there have been other teachers that are really struggling to stay here, and because of the threat of eviction, or the fact that they have been evicted and they have had to move to different parts of the bay area. and so, i think that what the issue that we are talking about is stability, and the economic stability for the teachers and paying them a wage, that shows, that you know, they are respected, and because let's face it, i mean, outside of being a mother, a teacher is probably the hardest job out there. and you have to be dedicated and on a very big level, you have to love what you do and you have to love the people

that you work with and you have to love the kids that you teach. and so let's make a fair contract, for para professional and teachers, and let's make that a top priorities and being a former student, having grown up in san francisco, and also, been inspired by teachers to become an author, of which i have written two children's books, and which stories take place in san francisco. and tell the story of communities that are in struggle trying to stay here. two minutes, please. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent carranza and everyone, my name is lamp ares and i will speak for the two organizations that i represent, and i am the president of the

asian pacific labor alliance and we have the fishers and the classified employees, and i am here to support the fight for a fair contract, and it is so shamed that they are living away from san francisco, or the para professionals who are members of it and the members who are members who are living in poverty because of the situations here m san francisco and so i urge you because apala will be be behind and support and supporting the teacher's union if they go on actions and i will also and make a massage of the local team. and the last several months in the negotiation, because you are negotiating teams and saying, that until the teacher's union was filled and

that we have to wait and that is so, ridiculous. but we are patient, because we know that you can deliver, and to the classified employees a good contract that will reflect the values, of san francisco. and so, i asked and asked you to settle the contract so that we can have peace in this community. >> thank you. >> okay. >> good evening, my name is norm, and i will give you all of my titles so we are not doing that. so i am going to be doing this, and that is the most important. >> and that is that i am a third generation, native san franciscan. i have two boys, and they are fourth generation, native san franciscans. okay? and they went to walenberg high school and i feel like i am a

lucky one right now because they are in college, and just imagine if these teachers don't get the support that they need financially, and just for the home life, you are not going to have qualified teachers any more. i hope that you guys are going to set your pride on having the crapyist system, i don't think so. and i think that everybody has to work together, in forming, a coalition, to really do the best that we can. and it is basically, where am i speaking? because i am hoping that i will have a fifth generation san franciscan that can afford to live in san francisco. and that will be able to go to quality san francisco school.

and i urge you to support you for the fair salary and there is something going on about the $15 minimum wage and across mcdonalds how much are they making and what do they need to survive? just think about. and if you were making minimum wage, could you survive in san francisco? >> i would love to ask that question, and does everybody on this board live in san francisco? >> you know? thank you for your time. >> >> thank you. public comment is now closed. >> item k. advisory committee reports, appointments to the advisory committees by board members? >> anything? >> seeing none, l, special order of business, none tonight. >> discussion of other educational issues superintendent do we have something? i think so, educational

placement center, preview of the november enrollment process and time line? thank you, president fewer and so we would like to invite executive director from the education center who is going to do a brief overview of the time line and the procedures for our enrollment cycle which is rapidly approaching and including with some of the time lines may be, and how to register and enroll the children in the process. and so, executive director darlene limb?

>> good evening, commissioners we have just started a school year, but we always start thinking about the coming year. and we just finished our enrollment cycle for the 14/15 school year and we are now planning and getting everything ready for our 15-16 enrollment cycle. and so i just wanted to run through some of the updates and give you a preview of what we have in store coming upstarting in october, when we launch our enrollment cycle. and so, just, this is just starting up and we are going to be going through and an agenda that includes, information about the enrollments there.

and the key dates for the coming year, and the application, process. and the resources that we have developed. for the families. and some of the out reach activities and our language assessments, and some changes that we are looking towards for the coming year. and so, we always march our process, at the enrollment fair and if you have not been to the enrollment fair, i encourage all families who are looking for a school and looking to enroll their children into kindergarten, and looking for a little school or a high school, and to come to the enrollment fair and that is the one stop shop where you can see all of our schools represented and talk to the parents and talk to the principals and staff, and learn about our schools. and we encourage the families to open up their minds and look at a lot of schools that they can choose that might work for

them and their families and they are also going to have workshops on the enrollment process and our process, as well as language pathways and special education services and we are going to have the district resources available. and these are our key dates, that families need to remember, and think about. and because after the 25th of october, we are going to be launching our enrollment cycle, and applications will be collected, immediately, after that enrollment fair, until, january 16th. and that is our application deadline, and we encourage all families to participate in round one and apply on time and

that is the best opportunity to really get the schools of choice. >> and this is from the deadline that we messaged out earlier and we moved our notification deadline up by one week to the march the 13th so that we can align with the private school notification and that way all of the familis that will have all of the information in order to make their decisions about school enrollment. and on april 10th, that is going to be the deadline for all families to go to the schools. after they have been assigned to register. and we encourage family to do that. to secure their placement. and then, on may 8th we will have our second notification and our round two, notification, and may 22nd,

will be our waiting pool deadline so that the family cans participate in the waiting pool, and on june 17th. we go into our available school assignment period. now the application process will begin on october 25th and we are going to be accepting applications, and it is not a first come and first serve process and we encourage the families to take their time and look at schools and take the tours, and we will have until october the 27th and they will have until january 17th to submit that application, and the application deadline is december 12 and this that is earlier because we have a different process, for the loewe l l enroll and we have been getting a lot of questions about that already. and again, january, 16th, is

when the applications are due. >> and now, all of our students who are already in our schools, who are in pre-k, and all of our fifth and 8th graders will be receiving a mailed, and we will be mailing it out by october 25th. and to help our families and to support them, through this process, we have a lot of resource and this is the new enrollment guide and that we will be launching and this is the different look this year, as well as all of our english learner program guides, and so, families who are looking for more information, that enrollment guide has pretty much all of the information that they need in order to apply for schools, and learn about our process.

we will be releasing where the schools are locate and we will show the middle school feeders as well and this is a resource that the families find very useful and valuable. and we have the school tours beginning in october, and we ask the families who are so anxious to get started on this process, to kind of wait and let us settle in for the first month of school, and then, they can contact, the schools to make appointments for tours. and we also have websites, that has all of the materials and the forms that are on or that we publish, they are all on-line as well. and so they can access that information on-line. and, we encourage the parents to come to a workshop and an enrollment workshop and we have set some early bird workshops because, we find that some families just don't want to wait until the enroll, you know the enrollment fair, they want

to start early and they are asking us now, for information, so we do have some early bird workshops that are going to be we also have a special education services focus, for one of our workshops and although all of the workshops does cover, special education services. >> we will be bringing all of the materials out to the neighborhoods where the parents can come and talk to the staff

and pick up enrollment application and other resources and we also are going to have some satellite collection sites where the families don't have to come down to the epc and they can drop off their enrollment applications at certain sites on certain dates in the city. a lot of the out reach is going to be focused on the schools and the head start sites and other prek sites in the specific areas. and we do mailings, through our housing authority. and we collaborate with the community partners and we also walk the beat out reach and we stand on the street corners and pass out the post cards with the reminders and the information about the enrollment and applying for school. >> but it is also going to be conducting language assessments

and counseling, and we have these one to one conversations with the parents. to help them to understand the kinds of programs and pathways that we offer. so, the students who are applying, may be contacted by the epc, to make an appointment to come in for a language assessment. >> an update for the changes that we are looking for the 2015, 16 enrollment cycle and the admissions process and we are getting a lot of questions about this, and we, we don't have standardized test scores, and so, we will be administering the admission's test to all of the students who

are applying for the lowell for ninth grade admission and that is approximately, 1800 students that we are going to be planning to administer this test to and we are going to be doing this test, over 4 evenings in mid january. and we will be pushing out that information, with our lowell admissions, and our applications. and we are very excited about this that we will be opening a new middle school, willie brown, little school and we are going to be going out into the community and doing the targeted out reach to all of these schools that have preferences and to everybody, and to everybody who is interested in applying for middle school. we do have middle school feeder preferences for the schools that are identified for the feeders, and such as brett

heart, and carver and malcom x, and lou, and taylor and maraloma and that will enable us to go out and do the targeted out reach and recruitment and we also have the preference for the students who live in the 92124 zip code area if they are interested in attending a school in their neighborhood. >> and, we are working on an on-line application process, and our it, department, is currently developing an on-line application system. and there are some concerns about security, and other considerations so, we won't be able to roll this out, in time for our october launch, but we are planning on phasing in the on-line application process. in january. and in time for our round two process. and, we think that that would be a good time to test it, and

and we will not be dealing with the volume and having the risk that, we would in terms of processing 15,000 applications. >> and okay, so, we are hoping that families will get in touch with us and they can contact us, and come to the educational placement center, we have staff, that is dedicated to work with the families one to one. and meet with them individually to talk through, what their choices might be and what their situations are. and to give them information about schools. and we are open every day, from 8:00 to 4:30, they don't need appointments to come in or they can also contact us by phone or by e-mail we have enroll in school, at sfusd.edu where they can find all of this information again on our website. >> and so, this is the most important date that we want