speaker: no further business before the committee. this meeting is now adjourn. thank you very much.

>> there are no announcements. >> can you call the first item. >> item 1 is hearing requesting san francisco's pre-kindergarten and the transitional kindergarten from the san francisco unified school district and department of children, youth, and their families and control control and the mayor's office of education on the current citizen of the programs. >> thank you. we called this meeting at a request of one of the commissioners and with the coalescing of the pre-k programs under department of children, youth, and their families and the commission this committee is interested in hearing a little more on the demographics of students who are served in this

these programs and analysis of the acheivement gap of students that attended our program and those that didn't and information how we can achieve universal pre k where the vision that every pre-kindergarten student has access to education in san francisco can be realized, something they know many people in the room have worked hard to attain. before that i would like to open up with comments about committee members and hard with commissioner mendoza and supervisor yee. >> wonderful thank you. thank you supervisor kim. i am delighted that we have barba and karla and others here to present on the preschool for all as well as the programming and what the city and school district are doing in combination. i just wanted to say over the many years that all of the departments have been working

diligently on educating our youngest's residents it's great to have the partnerships that we have with all of the departments really focused on doing what's best for our youngest people, and the new office of early care and education is bringing all of that together while still working with those that have been doing the work for so long and i am just really happy that we have been able to bring it under one roof to leverage the resources for our youngest residents and their familiarlies so this is a really important topic for me as a former preschool teacher and a mother and i actually miss the preschool days but i'm over it now, and really look forward to hearing the update on how our young people are doing so thank you all for being here. >> thank you chair kim. first of all i feel like this meeting

is sort of off in terms of the timing of the meeting. i feel it should be at 6:00 o'clock when the school board actually meets. it's weird to see all of you at 330, but i think this is -- i am thrilled to have this on the agenda in regards to this piece and also the traffic safety piece on this. the preschool piece si think is very timely at this point. not only do we pretty much have all the right pieces put together now to take us to the next level i guess i am saying, and i have to say when i say "take us to the next level" we're already at a high level relative to the rest of the nation. when the

secretary of education repeatedly come back here over and over again and say "how do you guys do this in san francisco? because we're looking at you as a model for the nation in terms of early education, preschool and so forth" and as you know the obama administration has really picked up the banner on this and saying yeah let's go for it. at the local level the mayor mentioned it many times in the last months and leadership up or down whether from the school board the board of supervisors, the mayor, our president, and maybe the governor might even follow suit at some point. we just hope for that. so this is a good time for us to really look at how we can work together to bring us to the next level

so i am thrilled to have everybody here. >> thank you supervisor yee and it's really great to have some folks in the room that i believe have been really the representatives and the stalwarts and advocates for pre k and this hearing as well from the policy maker end so i would like to bring up barbara callsson who the mayor hired to lead the city's coordination and realignment efforts but before barbara i'm sorry we have the first five director laura kumack presenting the data points we requested and we have the chief karly bryant to present on transitional kindergarten. >> well good afternoon members of the select committee. i am laura and the executive director for first five san francisco. as you know i had the privilege of overseeing the preschool for

all in san francisco over the last 10 years so i'm going to present first. i think we have our show coordinated. i will present the current data and followed by barbara and karla, so the first slide shows how we have improved access to high quality preschool since 2005 and you can see it's a straight heads up directory. we currently have gone from no children in 2004 up to 3800 children in 2014. this slide is showing the ethnicity of our children that are participating in preschool for all versus the city wide population of birth to five year olds. as you can see with the chart the psa children -- asian and latino american