resolution the sat soot it engaged in curving tobacco in the youth program presented to the fac the opportunity to engage in the under sales of tobacco i want to thank mr. truit for helping providing us with those uniforms (clapping) so this uniform is for the youth leadership that is the citizens advisory committee and so our next fac meeting is on monday february 9, 2015, at 5:00 p.m. the fac is a public council anyone is welcome to come as an added incentive all meals will be provide if you want to attend or like a copy of our agenda

please contact our fac corridor salvador lopez our sorry okay that's it. >> thank you very much next item on the just a minute is e parent citizens advisory committee report no page report i'd like to take out of order at this point section k the citizens advisory committee report from the education report is there any objection if not i'd like to invite the indian education program to present.

>> good evening instructor and board members thank you for this opportunity for us to give our yearly presentation for the indian education program so we are packed members for the indian education program the indian education title vii supports the unique and can rememberly academic needs for the students in the san francisco unified school district and i'm going to introduce

ourselves i'm michelle and have one daughter who attend google academy of science and technical. >> hi good evening my name is sorry hi, good evening. i'm margaret i'm a third generation title vii family member in the san francisco unified school district i i am an enrolled member i have two daughters my oldest is in private school 12 years old in 6th grade and my youngest is in kindergarten good evening, everybody i'm melanie gordon i'm a third generation family involved with the title vii indian education

program my children represent marina middle school and a fourth gardener at sanchez school. >> so the foundation of our program is knowledge cultural and pride some of the part of our program that we offer for our community is weekly academic support with after school tutoring this is critical for the academic success we also offer monthly family night for writing to connect the students and community members we also a critical piece of our programs families are able to come together at least once a month to connect in a safe place that promotes education and cultural needs for our students to offer

the tours we've been uc berkley and davis and there's other students that are successfully achieving they're higher education we also have an annual event at the end of the school year an annual moving forward i believe that some of the folks are attend this event which we close out the school year honoring our rldz and students that happens at the end of the year and offer a summary science program some of the services we offer for our services k through 12 to help connect the district to help connect our community with the skilled community we also offer port to families

provide direct support to the connection of the resources one of the newer services that we offer our community is a drop in hours i'm sure you're aware of we have a permanent location at san she is we're able to offer that to our community they can drop in another certain times and access computers we have a food bank so they're able to assess that in our program we have a consultant myself 0 who works 10 hours a week primarily with the high school students timed also the indian education program is 0 on to the american indians across the strict 2013-2014 we served 23 students

and received sorry and 34 received one to one support some of the services that state includes is you tutoring and sf p meeting and have mentoring and we focus on schools with the highest american students and offering one-on-one stewart for students performing below proficiency we're reaching out to the students most at risk and on a case by case basis we collaborate with are one of the 3 indian organizations in san francisco and collaborate with the agency the health center is one and the health program history of our students we serve what i really want to point out

on the graph you'll see in the school year 2010 to 2011 we had a student count of one hundred and 7 and then most recently, the school year one count of one hundred and 45 students as you can see this is a growing our student number is growing and we feel we have a permanent location that our numbers will be growing further now we have our own location to work out of and outreach to the rest of the students so our overall graduation rate when i want to point out as well with our program it reflect there is a upward trend in our graduations rate for the american indian students this shows our program is helping the

community and ems we have one of the highest drop-out rates this is another important point to keep our students in school and help them succeed and go on to higher education. >> okay. i'm going to jump into the california department of education data and i'm going to jump into on top the discrepancies with the data and san francisco unified school district we support two-hundred and 17 counts for 2014-2015 this is where we can use your help insuring wire tracking american indian students as well as they walk into the doors having educating the sfusd about 506 forms

how many have you seen this this have you seen this form this is our 506 form this is which we hope to have available at the sfusd office one hundred percent of the federal funding is dependent on it is required to be filed out that by the eligible students my own experience in 2013 with my i did not know it daughter in her kindergarten no one knew about this it was hard to locate until i found out oh i had it and someone was able to get it to me - teachers staff here at

the ac office definitely we need to help to educate the sfusd that it's there we feel we can really reach outreach our students better if this form is available at the e pc office to reach them as soon as they walk into the door of the district so we can work with them. >> so top priority those are the parent visa cardsy committee requests to the district so clarify just to number one amend enrollment form to capture

all the students to identify their alaskan students students affiliation and the culture linguistic students that are top quota their top language and then again train the e pc the center of to train them to make sure they're aware that the indian education program is there and has the 506 form that goes along with it our greatest need is to increase

tutoring roadway two days a week our art students that's a priority that they get their they learn and have a tutor if they need help to get a tutor everyday if we had this available personally my kids with take advantage of it and then additional port for the indian education program that office can't be on everyday so we would like to have it available for the parents who need maybe they're working they need to come in in the morning or afternoon it will be beneficial to have the staff there to reach out to also the teacher on a special assignment i've actually heard if parents

the november is their bombarded with questions about the american history month it is in the best interests to have sfusd look at this and cultural sensitivity there's a need to provide professional development for teachers specifically around the sensitivity of the native americans in science courses for the participation activities that come into direct conflict with their - and we believe the exception should be permitted without reprimands. >> and we're going to take it back to - >> sorry we're going to take it back to some of the successes abused i'm going to turn it over to we know it begins at home if

you go back to the opening ceremony at san she is you see definitely see the support if the district we celebrated with you know dancing food, a tour of our facilities and again you know the beginning of where we can take 2 this program this program is just now kicking and weaving so let's take it to where we can go from good to great and you're being here we fought for the location and we got a behalf home at the backdoor my voice gets shake i didn't it was a victory so think back to the good feeling we call home as parent as a a part of pack i'm going to hit a couple

of successes we come together on a pack meeting to set our priorities you know what do our children and the district and families need for our children so studying those priorities another one taking the time to vote on it you know sitting down and voting on it and from there take off and another one stay motivated we went to a bungalow and i mean to a cub cell to a bungalow so stay motivated through the process is a success take it to the reads some of the challenges and diversities we see are need of greater visibility some of the united states have saying hey, we're actually alive and got children in the districts and families a

second one would be stereotyping of many nations of not just here in california but the whole united states again those are some of the challenges and diversities the challenges we see see. >> good evening, everyone my name is erica the an enrolled member of the pine agency in south dakota also the student rep for indian education and junior at i s a in san francisco and to close this all out first thank you to superintendent carranza and the members the board of education for giving title vii and our pack a voice

here at your meeting i hope that what we've presented will permeate to promote a better understanding of who we are we've made process to establish our office at san she is school however, we need our continued support to he'd our top priorities that we provided to you for here tonight we need our commitment to help to help support our initiative i look forward to my personal goal to keep a 4.0 gpa i know that many families and students that are still struggling just to establish goals that need support and the guidance to chief their dreams our programs are what will make it happen we want to move the data and

statistics and our collection of success and not failure so i ask you all for your continued commitment to support our program and make our priorities your priorities so thank you very much. (clapping.) >> we just wanted - we just wanted to quickly acknowledge the students and the other parents if they're not standing up if they could stand up please thank you for your time (clapping.) thank you for that presentation i remember when you came before the body before and asking us for space it was critical you needed space and i congratulate superintendent carranza and the community 40 who came to make that a reality i have no speaker cards but want to invite any colleagues commissioner fewer. >> yes. thank you for your

presentation and congratulations to our permanent home i was wondering do we have any relationship with the indian colleges at all at one time i think there was they ran a two year college program and do we know anything about that or have a relationship and what the stautsdz is now i know when i spoke to representatives they were looking to expand to a four-year program instead of a two year do we have any information no one. >> we would like to research and looked at it that. >> because they been a lot of studies when i met when them they had the retention rate of the students in your colleges and because they found a lot of standards that native-american

they didn't finish the four years but to transition into the four years there was a depress off so i wanted to know if we could maybe tap into this insight because for the retention but another thing i'm to get an update about our personnel and how many native-american we have that are teachers and professionals that came back with our students and also, if they can also be a resource of what you asked about the cultural and the special assignments do we have teachers it identified as native-american and then i. wondering about the sf pc not a difficult thing to do with the form please i'm wondering too have is a follow-up report on how to incorporate if it's difficult to

do i think that people self-identify; is that correct so ask people that are self-identifying if we could do a followup but get back information how easy that might be to implement it's necessarily an easy thing to implement. >> i'd like to invite superintendent carranza. >> thank you commissioner president murase we were taking notes intentionally so we'll follow-up and some of the concerns articulated by our pack regarding the curriculum instruction and support 3 falls within our curriculum support and our chief executive officer to incorporate those requests as we fold them both the budget process as well so they've been heard

and we'll absolutely follow-up on whatever we can do to make that realty. >> i have ms. mendoza-mcdonnell and commissioner walton. >> thank you. i'm glad you guys are a permanent home and as you opened your new space for your family i'm excited that the students are getting better supported and it's showing in your numbers i want to picking i didn't back on the forms if you're able to capture all the kids you serve has b that been done i imagine you've asked them to fill out the forms and students that may or may not go through ap c going forward is there a way spruntd to get them

to the students so they make sure that the students get the forms directly so the initial outreach piece because it seems like the students are already in the schools if they're not transitioning they'll not have transitioning so i would like to see that and but the one other piece the opportunity to insure their that your contributing in a way for the ethic studies and i hope our staff will help us think about that i wanted to put that out there as well congratulations we're happy to be able to support that. >> commissioner vice president haney i wanted to congratulate you on our space i know that

last year you were here and told us how important i'm happy to see this and thank the superintendent invite us i don't think about the end of the year i want to scombroin you and i appreciate our presentation actual points i was going to make the 09 two commissioners did so i hope we address those issues and last year when you came there was also concern about the curriculum and some of the important trades and the inaccuracy and all that i hope we can eastbound potentially assign some in our department to work directly with you to make sure we address that and have a model of what the board of education and history looks like and the boarder curriculum and ithsd through the prek through

12 and years from now you'll list the successes of where we got the changes so i hope that happens and that our staff follows up on that and thank you, again for your work. >> i have commissioner wynns and other commissioner. >> okay. i want to thank you all for being here as commissioner vice president haney said our colleagues have asked the questions i wanted to ask a request about the form and the registration i'm sure you're aware of it's is interest a question on the form about whether or not you're a member of a tribe or native-american this is we're required to ask people for about their ethnicity because of the funding and the availability and the data collection and the reference to

the different data we have an example of that so and i have to committees even though i've not checked the form to make sure that someone checks the whole process works the way it should and the availability of the form is you know that should be a no brainier real but so if we could just get a report an e-mail would be good and go to the leadership of the parent group making sure that all the steps for the places you can help us by checking on that and tells you it is working the way it should thank you for your service it's so important. >> i skipped over commissioner walton and then the commissioners. >> thank you commissioner president murase. >> it is good to see the students perhaps students are excited and you're out there

recruiting that's very, very important one question in terms of at the school tutorial how many students are you averaging. >> at your initials opening september 19th we identifyly average 2 to 7 students per day thank you. >> i'd like to add to that the need for assistance for our program coordinator trying to do everything from mosaic she's pulled a lot of wealthy and so it's hard for our program to be on everyday so we can offer that to our community it's a big need for our students that's what we sunshine have to deal with two

dies of tutoring. >> thank you commissioner norton. >> thank you commissioner president murase and i'll add my congratulations to your new home and dedication it's very important work so thank you for your services i'm wondering instructor if the board just to kind of collect it shows the questions about the report a number of recommendations it would be helpful to get a written update as time permits or when you have time to say here's the problem that the calculated identified the steps to address that so we can kind of, you know put a pen on that and understand the steps or things we can't so the recommendations that we can you know meet and why that is that would be helpful thank you. >> superintendent carranza.

>> so thank you commissioner president murase so commissioners, thank you for your questions you took the words out of my mouth so we'll be following up up in written form with an update of the issues isle you've asked i'm so thankful for the folks coming this everything what you may or may not know we initiated a process for the portable how to present timelines, etc. our indian education cabinet the first group to do the training they do a good job thank you we've got information covered in a quick way (clapping.) i think it is absolutely incredibly important that here we have before us a student in our student system who is p