regular meeting the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for september 23, 2014, is now called to order roll call please. mr. haney ms. maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton mr. sartipi's president fewer ms. sin at and mr. chin please join me in the allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god,

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all so also doing public comment so - thank you okay. this is approval of the board minutes of the regular board meeting of september 9, 2014, motion and second please. roerment. >> ms. sonata mr. haney mr. chin ms. maufass ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns

president fewer 6 i's thank you presentation to the board of education superintendent carranza thank you and this coming saturday we'll be having our second reinforcement conference on denman school it brings together families to be involved in air children's education and 10:00 a.m. the conference begins martha will, our keynote speaker about ways to have teachers resilience in the early education our equality department and office of family and community lead and annexed our community partners in organizing this great event

please note that r.s.v.p. is for childcare you can go to the website family conference or call 415241 6185 for spanish or or english and another one for chinese this saturday september 27th at 9:00 a.m. james middle school i wanted to announce at the beginning of the school year this is a story that is important for our public to know a student at washington school was diagnosed with a physical sdanlt and didn't want to go to school the nurse take action to meet with the school counselor

and cropped the efforts with the support team the is the is now thriving at the school and excelled and attending regularly this is one of the examples how nurses from the sfusd support our ask the in a confidential way for students to participate in school nurse boyer school is one of the nurses and thanks our our enrichment education fund the number of nurses has doubled from 10 years ago this november we'll have an opportunity to reauthorize peace on the booklet that provides millions of delores to our school program and also this past friday i along with vice president dr. murase and the superintendent as well as other staff members including our chief academic officer attended our indian

ceremonies and also our commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell was there as well the indian education has a new home on sanchez elementary school that has traditionally native american food and thank you for the education with our indian education are coordinator for the event it was a true community present e event and took uppermost of the playground with all of us in attendance with that dr. murase let's have a great next week and back to you president fewer. >> thank you superintendent i understand also you have an agenda announcement. >> yes. thank you president fewer graduation up to date is

being presented at a future meeting. >> thank you very much now item c the recognition and accommodations superintendent. >> thank you president fewer we have a special service ward for our interpretation united and i'd like to invite millie smith to come forward to read the service award. >> good evening, commissioners and thank you for this opportunity to present this award this very special service award to some incredible reinstates i want to address the interpretation unit their leader is here with tonya and lillian and i absolutely want to recognize those who folks if the unit who are here working together e tonight since they

work nights and weekend to make sure that stakeholders have language capacity and margaret are some of the folks here today (clapping.) i think this a really great award one the units that when everything is working you don't notice them so sometimes they don't get the recognition this team has done great things to provide the services for the families of the school district and have worked hard together to insure that non-english speaking families have equal access to the languages they've worked hard to promote a capable team of continues improvement and social justice and took on the huge task of creating a glossary

of education jonathan you know we have a lot of jargon so that was huge. >> and feinstein finally they've developed strong connections so we can expand the languages tagalog and vietnam are some of the languages. >> good evening, commissioners and the superintendent we're honored to receive the special award this means a lot to our team the interpretation team is lucky to have talented and committed employees our work is not easy it is some

translations some clients e think we translate but it is carefully done we have bad days but our interpreters strife to do the best once the interpretation start is in the background they get the message across and get us to meaningful conversations tonight we are being recognized and beyond gratified for the important work we do everyday we are proud to get this report card with the board of education and we'll share that with our coworkers

that are not able to be here thank you (clapping.) thank you very much. >> my name is an online liquify i work in 70 san francisco unified school district for 3 years and a half many times i was asked you are listening to one language and interpreting it into another at the same time how do you do that there's no mask and i'm not a super person it is only hard work and work behind the scenes that matters it is the key to success we also get the consent information before we go to work and semi interpretations is a race against the time we have to join ourselves instead of and speak fast so practicing practicing is the mask of our work in the office our team called for a

meeting to talk about documents we do research and find retains and have multiple conversations and finalize a term in vietnam in the course thank you board and superintendent for this recognition this is really an exciting encourage time we share the enjoying enjoying joy with our coworkers and who couldn't make it tonight and especially i want to mention mr. andy who was retired an important person that set the ground work for our chinese i'm proud to be part of the team and contribute to the side community in this position i may not secure one hundred percent outcome but i'll try my

one one hundred percent effort (clapping). >> madam president, of the board and mr. superintendant, members of the board and ladies and gentlemen, i'm a team member of the interpretation of the san francisco unified school district on behalf of the coworkers i want to thank you for the recognition we feel confident you'll continue to support us and to provide all the resources we'll need not future to continue to perform and deliver the best translation to the school county of san francisco thank you very much (clapping). >> everybody come on over here for a photograph.

>> thank you congratulation thank you. >> thank you so much hurry, hurry, hurry get in there (laughter). >> get in get in all right. squeeze squeeze squeeze

okay (clapping.) thank you. >> commissioner maufas i believe wants to say something. >> i too want to congratulate the translation and interpretation department i think i've done on amazing job

in the san francisco unified school district i think you've grown so much over the recent years and all of the positive comments we hear from families that didn't expect on interpretation or the district does something we have live interpretation and the families hear all that's unhappy and the quality my, my quality of the documents you provide for our famed is incredible i thank you and appreciate our service and your true dedication not only service but dedication and to help occupying all our families feel included in the work we do here in the san francisco unified school district so i have my highest highest thanks and congratulations thank you commissioner maufas and now it is oh, yes.

>> i want to thank the interpretation group because without interpretation for we have a total of 56 thousand students i pane if we multiply that by two it's one hundred and thirty thousand i think parents that need help with interpretation or oh, sorry no way mou may without this team what can we do so thank you thank you very much senior delegate (clapping.) and now on item d student delegates report. >> thank you president fewer and good evening board of education so last saturday we had our student listener at el camino

high school in the high school we basically met our leaders from san francisco and also outside of san francisco and yesterday we had our professionalism training from ms. anderson because we need professionalism in order to develop our public speaking skills and also to learn how to basically be a leader and yesterday we also had the student nutrition department where ms. vetting a racker provided how needless monday my possibly benefit the san francisco unified school district thank you. >> okay free muni for youth survey over the last couple of

years we've retired a campaigning and as such the f ac promotes the opportunity for every student to provide their student voice and take a short 5 minute survey with the experience of muni so if you want your voice to be heard and support f this go to t y m slash s ms y so, please take the survey board of education campaign form as our services progressed the s ac will be holding a commitment form on october 8th at college located on 4301-third street

again, it's 4301-third street we currently attending our planning committee meeting so we can plan occupying all the details like food and workshops and questions and also to invite all candidates to attend so stay tuned for details about that at our last cabinet meeting we had commissioner haney come thank you commissioner haney for taking the time off and reinsuring our support with our leadership here next f ac meeting is thursday october 16, 2014, of course, at 5:30 it is a private council and anyone is welcome to attend the meeting

as an added incentive dinner will be added if you want to come or like a copy of our upcoming agenda please contact salvador bar that's it and thank you very much comments none seeing none, none okay advisors report no one at this point if i hear no objection from my colleagues i'll take out of order the charter amendments there are 5 total so seeing none, i would like first to vote on the recommendation that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district approve a mature restriction to the gateway chart way position to allow preferences may i have a motion and second

on the material revision to allow preferences. >> so moved. >> thanks may i have a reading of the superintendent mr. davis. >> thank you president fewer requested action the board of education stufth approve a charter petition to allow certain admission preferences. >> thank you. we have 3 public speakers signed up (calling names) and i know that we have a lot of people in the audience for gateway so if gateway supporters of this resolution or item to be voted on if i want to stand and

let our presence be known at this point that's great okay. great so speakers come up to the podium everybody has two minutes. >> (calling names) >> immigration commissioners and superintendent carranza my name is henry and this is my son john a ninth graderer at gateway and my other son i'm addressing you in sprongz support to have an admission preference for the gateway schools lottery our family choose this school because of the prep program and the difference learning needs as

well as the community of death administrators and teachers my child has received and continues to receive excellent support from the speaker center and it's in everyone's interest to think at graduating we know that transition from middle school to high school is difficult i wanted my children to have an easy transmission my son was lucky the transition from middle school to high school is less thanks to the staff and teachers at graduating u gateway middle school this helps him to focus on the curriculum and less so on the transition thank you for your time (clapping.)

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening my name is brianna i'm a freshman at gateway holiday i was in the first class at gateway the contingent shapes my personality and support me and gave me a sense the pride and self-confidence they helped me to learn with small class size and extra curriculum activities like pear and mentor classes and socially and emotional and starting out i felt apprehensive about meeting friends but gateway soon felt like a home because gateway middle it committed to preparing it states for college we studied to perform to the best of our

ability we were prepared for the middle school school but during my eight grade year we were prepared early on in the game as much as balboa low choose me i was accepted into the lottery he choose gateway i of time i had the best approach to school i was selected into the gateway lottery but many of my class was not so parents searched for some families it took months to get into a school this is particularly hard they felt disappointed by gateway so my experience i feel it is good for students if there's a system where students from gateway and middle can have an

assurance to be expected this will be a less of a loss i've seen first hand how helpful it is when ninth grade students know what types expense i hope you'll support gateways proposed changes to the lottery i know that gateway has helped me with the transition from high school i believe it will help many of the students too. >> (clapping). >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent carranza this my is my daughter i have a son that attended gateway so i'm

familiar with the school we're here speaking today to show our support of gateway schools proposal to give the eight graders a preference into the lottery we specific selected gateway for samantha because of the small class size and their photograph that all ask the can learn at high levels and their understanding that all students have different learning needs samantha has made progress in her learning and personal growth in the last few years at gateway i believe strongly that it would be in our best interests if she could attend gateway high school for the next 4 years thank you for your time and consideration

(clapping.) may i please have a report from the curriculum meeting thank you. >> thank you president fewer i wanted to remind everyone that we agreed to hold-off the the crime - curriculum report this is at the curriculum meeting we first of all, a positive recommendation and it was really i think quiet a frustrate fill deep conversation about what this means for not only gateway students and we've heard from the gateway families but the important question that we had at the board of education. >>was how much room would you

have more, more students not at the high school level what is the capacity and we were told that the in coming ninth grad closing class could handle 90 percent of the students not only the gateway memorial day students that's what i think received well by the board to have that understanding and then gateway as requested that i president fewer in meetings did promise that when counseling middle school students on high school options they'll also vigorously talk about san francisco unified school district high schools so the students could make informed decisions about they're high school choice and the board appreciated that as well

>> thank you, very much commissioner maufas commissioner norton. >> yes. i have a question first off about the free reduced price meal has that also been pardon of the gateway lottery preferences. >> that's new. >> so this is a new edition i don't know if i could do some background can i ask the lady in the audience. >> sharon would you mind coming up i'm sorry president fewer ms. davis did you read it. >> i did not. >> i think it's important for the audience to understand. >> the proposal and special order of business before the board is an amended about substitution as the curriculum committee the preferences as gateway has submitted them