there is a motion and a second for a structural calendar and mr. superintendant commissioner president murase i'd like to ask the deputy to please read this thank you, again superintendent requested action that the board of education adapts the corrected 2015, 2016 structural calendaring can you point out the corrections. >> yes. an error was bring your attention the month of september has 15 not 16 work days on the board minutes so we had to make a change to the calendar thus, the last day of school is may 27 not may 27 relationship. >> thank you very much no

public speakers questions from the board. >> commissioner wynns. >> let's clarify the new year's not wants day will not be moved new year so the public knows that. >> question commissioners next year we're back to observing the wants day a national holiday yes. >> thank you very much no further comments roll call vote. >> ms. sonata. >> mr. chin ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. mendoza-mcdonnell and ms. wynns and dr. murase it's a 6 i's. >> the committee may be seated on february 8th so review the applicants i'd like to call on simmons for the report and the

reading of the recommendations from last week's move. >> thank you commissioner president murase so all the members of the board you're aware we have to our appetite to the election commission resigned and we filled the vacancy for the last 5 year term we posted the position and received 3 playgrounds or letters of intent inadequately and also all of you received the information in a document that looked like this though if you weren't a member of the committee the members of the with committee got a black document so and so we on the last wednesday night interviewed the candidates and the committee

makes the recommendation that we at the board rotate for our selected candidates dominique paris and i don't know if am i required to read - okay so the last photograph the city charter recommended the one member a former appointee resigned may 17, 2015, and the rules committee met on - selected dominique paris to the board appointee we didn't select him this is our recommendation to the board so this special order of

business if approved will appoint him i am to complete a 5 year term it end 2018 and the members the commission are allowed to serve two consequent term up to 5 years but by the way, is unusual for our appointee should mr. paris serve out as much 7, 8, 9 the 3 years will count as a fuel term more than half arrest term and eligible for another 5 years eligible for 8 years i want to complete the report by saying the committee members were impressed by his acknowledge and commitment to the policy related to elections and to his experience actually has a degree in this area and also himself

brought of the issue of the issue of registering high school students and that is something we're interested in and certainly ask the commission to focus on tuesday. >> so i understand mr. paris is a here and wildly we would like to invite him to the table if you'd like to sigh a few words. >> hello greetings for those of you who don't know me, i'm dominique paris serving in elections for quite a few years in 3 jurisdictions in two different states i've served in a different capacity between a collect and judge and ride long coordinator and field tech and

support staff and also i've been employed for h for 15 most with the san mateo election as a coworker my specialtion was through the democracy program all students served and were trained through me it is into part of my goals would actually exclude trying to get every 17 years old to vote in the sfoifkts in the san mateo county it is easily to put everyone into a cold storage file that popped out they don't need to worry about that i don't see any problem giving any student who goes to an modern college i don't think that 18 is the best age of registering to vote when

you're going off to college i think that gets left in the fold i have two master degrees one, if world political philanthropy and the thesis on next month will be in elections and voting request with the sf policy other goals if i have the money to be electronic pole books and an intellectual butsz during emergencies as a polling station as well as consolidation of our our priblths that are a significant cost savings when it comes to elections so. >> thank you very much. >> on up to questions. >> any i don't want to have a deep discussion we p&z had

interviews but if there are brief questions or comments. >> so i'll try to give an intriguing question so are you current working at the san mateo division. >> no, i'm working in santa clara county it ended in september of the 2014. >> how long did you work there. >> 15 months. >> what did you do. >> the preliminary capacity was a pole worker trainer but it's a small office, in fact, has the highest number of voters per capital of election officers i did much more. >> is that a full-time position. >> yes. >> saenl adjusted. >> thank you very much mia any other questions or

comments seeing none, mrs. casco roll call vote please. >> i'll move the recommendations of the rules. >> so. >> i'll second it if you like me, too. >> we need to rely on our own. >> ready ms. sonata mr. chin ms. fewer no mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns that i dr. murase 5 i's congratulations this paris we look forward to your service on the elections commission and

look forward to hearing from you once a year you're on our service community myths. >> thank you very much next item on the agenda is a m discussion of other educational issues no one and the n the previous items second reading and o vote on the consent calendar that was moved and seconded seconded. >> ms. sonata mr. chin ms. fewer planning ms. mendoza-mcdonnell excuse me. ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and dr. murase 6 i's thank you very much. next item think on the agenda is consent calendar resolution for the board discussions and immediate action there are non-and item 2

superintendent proposal for first reading is there a motion and second to the wellness thoughts policy? thank you very much this will be referred to the rules and budget committee is there a month to month on the authorization to grant on the petition or deny it for the charter >> is there a second. >> move to move. >> second. >> this will be referred to the curriculum and budget committee commissioner, i wanted to mention that sarah was in the audience but i think was gone the only speaker that would have spoken just to acknowledge she was here thank you. >> the next item on the agenda r board members proposal for the first reading in support to

support and as a graduation requirement authorized that i ms. fewer motion and second for the suspension of the rules. >> second. >> thank you very much roll call vote on the suspension of the rules. >> thank you ms. sonata mr. chin ms. fewer mclaren mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns dr. murase mr. chin ? okay motion and second for formal introduction of the resolution moved and seconded thank you reading of the reds ms. fewer >> thank you very much in

support of sb 172 to spint suspend the exit examine whereas it calls for the suspension of the california high school examine and the removal of it as a condition the graduation for the fiscal year 2016-2017 and whereas sb 172 requires the superintendant to create a report that includes a recommendations whether or not to continue the exit examine to assess the academic achievement and whereas the superintendant to give a panel of experts to weigh in on the conditions and whereas when the high school exit examine was approved it was criticized that is upper fair to english learners and students of disability and low income particularly african-american and latino students and whereas

the high school exit examine unfairly punishes exiting students failed educational systems and the 0 chronic under funded and whereas it takes the research and time and money to prepare and at the time where those resources could be better used for under counterfeiting students and whereas every year the san francisco unified school district must give certificates of completion instead of high school diplomas but have failed one or more exit examines and whereas counterfeiting the results the exit examines that students are being proficient it only tests arts and math whereas brown the california assessment progress that lions to you knew

standards whereas it is crucial to have a standard in the level of this and whereas this is an opportunity for the state of california to review and evaluate the night and valid of the how exit therefore, be it resolved that the san francisco board of education supports sb if in a letter on behalf of the secretarial to be sent to the california city hall legislators there are no public speakers and comments from the board? commissioner walton >> i do want to comment also related to a lot of the public comments we're heard tonight i hadn't to look at the high school questions from the

examine they're really focused on traditional in the math portion traditional way of teaching math which the focused on computation i think we're moving in a significant way away from that fngd on problem solving and critical open and teamwork so it is very not what we're will trying to accomplish in the district i want to add that the math common core was developed by a team 6 over one hundred teachers and field tested by field teachers this very rich and deep curriculum that will not be served by the questions on the exit examines so i want to thank ms. fewer. >> commissioner wynns i've never been a supporter and don't

know what it is accomplishing it seems to be penalize students being a not reliable so thanks for bringing it forward. >> ms. fewer. >> i'd like to note that the san francisco unified school district offers the k to students 5 times in the school sites and the parent get the materials during each tested window the testing time for the arts work for the hours and math 47 hours it is from what my colleagues said it is time to look at another assessment and actually the california high school exiting examine only pertains to california students and public schools noted a private school that's inequality

in that i'm really glad and want to give credit to our legislators carl 0 oil lou from pasadena for putting this on the document to hopefully vote in favor of. >> any comment from our student delegates. >> thank you commissioner president murase i feel like the examine didn't describe who you or i feel like it was a non-benefit for people that came to our country and state and city because some people are not really good in english i feel like live taking off the test would be a great idea. >> commissioner i was not going to comment but

since i of the called i will so i think it is kind of great we're taking that off i mean, you have so many tests and you'll see other tests i feel like from students like is they're not fair to being so the the math field or the english field they're calling is art and having to take those test is a waste. >> thank you, mr. superintendant. >> thank you commissioner president murase i want to thank commissioner fewer for introducing f this and the board for strong support we're in a intriel new era of learning the cognitive learning for our students and continuing to administer this is like filling your gas tank with a horsewhip it is miss aligned it is the

common core is a deeper set of standards that asks our students to do much more complex thinking and as the board has taken a strong stance an decreasing the amount of testing unnecessary testing in our city hall's that is an excellent example an archaic testing not in modern time i want to thank the staff for supporting that as well. >> commissioner haney i want to say thank you to ms. fewer for bringing this forward i remember this of the first brought about but i think without a doubt at the canyon core changes what we should be testing for 12 graders it makes that more irrelevant i want to

make sure we a lot internally it seem like there is agreement we will like this is not an ascertainment sunshine we should be doing if we're stoougz it has in the past superintendent evaluation and in other places where it is we're looking at the process so we may move forward and want to access an indicator or measure if at all if the agreement on the board has wealthy so - >> ms. wynns. >> thank you. i'm supportive of this i've not been supportive it is one of the wrongheaded things that's irrational action that dates us because the fed's says all students note a high

school exitam so in the meantime the state should be commend for taking a much more realistic view of the value of testing and the request for another years suspension standardized test so i was going to ask whether we can put all our names. >> commissioner is that acceptable. >> ms. norton our legislator advocate is the former 123ru7b9d that supported that so i wonder how he can handle our direction. >> he's a stronger supporter of the exit exam so he works for the option.

>> roll call vote. >> supervisor mcnamara mr. chin ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and dr. murase. >> where's dr. murase thank you that's 5 i's all right. so i'm stepping in here moving on 0 sshlgs board member's reports standing committee do we have a report from any of the board dlblts or board organizations? no other reports by board members a report by the committee as a whole february that's me one informational item our digital learning framework we heard

really existing work in our district has been doing around extending a number of things one extending computer science standards k through 12 and developing those are standards and presenting a plan that will could. to the full board as to how we'll go about or about doing that and extending work around digital literacy and introduction technology into destruction and greater levels and the overall approach to keep that in mind how we make sure our students have access to the digital learning it's happening all over the school reports if the legislation committee ms. wynns >> we have already recorded and

taken care of the items two were on the agenda related to each other one to look at the perspective proposals i'm sure you're aware of they we have had two meetings one in january and one in february which was this week so white we didn't we have a review in john january of some legislative proposals that discussed recommendations with our advocates and also implored with them kinds of things the last couple of years we've seen the development that there's one or two issues that have in response to which multiplied legislation

proposals and teacher evaluation and tenure issues although some bills passed and student discipline issues have come up this year one of the main things we'll tab is the vaccination with the measles outbreaks and one thing you may all know multiple organizations in california working with coming up with model with the sb a the superintendent and i are both members of the turn off all electronic devices which will be meeting in the middle of march for the first time so we have a meeting at our next meeting you don't know i don't have the date deputy we'll be this will be the meeting we'll have a long list of bills that our advocates will review all the bills and proposals that are pending and

combed after working with our staff recommendations and things we mating may want to take positions on i urge you march 18 we urge you all to attend and make sure in didn't happen that had a you get the bill lettuce not an hour but a dye before the meeting ms. castello it will be good to review this will be the long list of the bills we'll not be finished there is is amendments and things going through the committee the last thing the most important we both reviewed our own vaccination policies and also considered or discussions at least briefly a

proposal that was in draft form recently i've handed out which would repel the provision in can state law it says that parent may send their kids to public schools if they've not been vaccinated based on their personal belief so based on the committee decision it seems always through the members of the committee remembered this compel takes positions not only recommends to the board it seemed as though the members of the committee are prepared to support that proposal i do want to alert you all that we have relatively small percentage of unvaccinated acids at the san francisco unified school district and one of the comparatively speaking one the phenomena that is interesting we should think about the

percentage of unvaccinated students especially those who are not vaccinated because of the personal belief seems to co-related to the affluence of the community not having kids vaccinated at the end not to be the kinds of action that our families take but i will tell you and you'll all were provided with the materials it excludes our current policy it says that our vaccination policy is whatever is the same as the state law and we have the committee members have asked members of the our legal office and also for those who are working on the policy to review our policy and look at it things we might do that would be beyond what the state law may do either if it

stays the same or changes this is something that should probably that would come to the full board we asked this policy review which is in a section we haven't done a fuel review some of the sections we have done but ask this be put and top-of-the-line the review of the vaccination policy not necessarily waiting until the whole section is reviewed and so we'll be subtract meetings maybe march 18 i don't know how prepared recommendations from the health programs and our legal offers about what things to do and some of those suggestions were are we we're notable, of course i don't think to publish the names of students not vaccinated but be able to we might be able to have a policy that said if