there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.

>> 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 children represent 61% of our total enrollment and i think you see why this is is because we've had a real emphasis on helping children from low income communities accessing preschool and we started that way rolling out. this next slide which i think is impressive when you compare it to other communities in california and the nation shows that we have increased preschool attendance of four

year olds in san francisco and 80% enrollment in san francisco which is really high but we're proud that we have seen an increase in our african-american students from 68% to 79% and for latino students from 54% to 80% . this slide talks about family income. we compared children who are pfa when entering kindergarten compared to non pfa students and you can see these students earn $35,000 per year or less and again that's because we really try to reach out to the low income communities first including all the children in the district and in head start. this slide just gives you a

little break down of where our preschool for all attend. 66% of the students are served in nonprofits and title v and are subsidized child care centers and schools. 26% are from our public agencies, the school district and city college. we have 5% pfa are in child care homes and 3% from private nonprofit. this slide shows about our kindergarten readiness. we did -- worked with applied research to do an external evaluation of incoming kindergartens and compared to them in the preschool for all to those that didn't come from pfa and those participated showed an increase in early literacy

skills and early mathematics skills and more impressively in their self regulation skills so with this research and a battery of tests we are feeling and have evidence that children who participate in the high quality pfa program are getting closer to kindergarten readiness. okay. >> thank you lawr a hello members of the committee. i am barbara karlson director of the early childhood and education. on the next slide we tried to represent the number of four year olds in the city and county of san francisco which is to your left. 6209 so i'm going to bring you to the right side of the slide. currently the projected enrollment in preschool for all is 3800 students this fiscal year 14-15

and 51% of that figure. we project next year that we will expand by 550 children. this is mostly due to the efforts of the first five staff developing the pipeline which is getting programs ready to be able to comply with the very strirchgent requirements of the strm to ensure kindergarten readiness and we expect to have a jump in 15-16 and moving in fiscal year '16-17 to serving a total of 75% of the four year olds bringing the figure to about 4660. the reason that we projected up to 75% over the next two years is if you look at the national literature what's considered universal for a pre k program is between 65% and 80%. that's the national average and there's all

sorts of reasons that that's the case. we decided to pitch our goal a little bit higher with going to 75%. although 65% would be considered universal in the rest of the country. we wanted to talk a little bit about the targets for enrollment for fiscal year '16-17 because that's the groups that are the hardest to bring in the program so the first is religious affiliated programs. first five has done a great work working with many of the providers in the city to adapt the eric mar to meet the requirements for preschool for all and participate. more of that work will go on in 16 and 17 and leading up to that time. next bullet to bring in additional family child care homes. the percentages a bit lower. it's a bit more challenging for the family child care providers to get to the point that they can meet some of the requirements

and again first five has done a wonderful job of working with those providers, many of whom are in the office of family child care quality network. we will keep working with the child care group to bring that enrollment up and lastly we do know at hsa there are statistics that indicate the number of children accessing a subsidy usually through calworks and the families are using friend and family care and mostly doing that to bring extra income into the family so we would like to work on a pilot and offer part time preschool to some of the kids and keep some income coming into the family for part of the day and those read target areas. carla.

>> just really quickly i got a note that the tvs aren't on so that the public can't -- >> yes madam chair. i am making the request right now with media services. >> thank you. >> i will get started. greetings. i am the chief of early ed with san francisco unified school district and if i may take a little bit of a liberty here i would like to say i have with me my wonderful, wonderful team. my executive director of programs and schools. my executive director of program quality and enhancement. our supervisor and one of our cite administrators candace lee from noriega -- >> what are the names of your staff? >> oh i'm sorry. candace lee,

cat lynn dominguez, dr. leeber hughes and nina [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> of course and one of my -- i think she's on the staff. i think we're all together is ingrid mesquite. thank you for letting me do that. the running joke is i always come with a team because this work is around team. i'm going to take a little time to talk about transitional kindergarten and the way i'm going to do it is describe what is tk? how do we roll out tk? where are the classrooms and saitds located? what are the demographics? and exactly what is the -- >> did we get a copy? >> yes. everyone should have a copy. >> i don't have a copy either. >> there they are. oh slide

show. i don't need it. it's okay. it's up there now. then i do need to press slide show. one of the demographics of the students who attend tk and then just -- i say this very cautiously people that know me and we have a responsibility to share it and it's preliminary data and it's only two years of data and one needs 3-5 years to be confident that the data of what you're

sharing is tell telling you. in 2010 the act authorized by jo simitian changed the date and transitional kindergarten that turned five by september 2 and the students born between september 2 and december 2 are now considered transitional kindergartens. we call at this time 90 day window so tk is the first year of a two year kindergarten program. it is funded identically to how students are funded in the k-12 system. the entry date was changed in a roll out that literally every year the date would move back by 30 days or one month and in 2012 and 13 the date was moved back to november 1, so the students who

were born between november 1 and december 1 were transitional kindergarteners and that was used the following year to move it back 30 days and now we're in the last year of implementing transitional kindergarten with the children born within those 90 days and then what will happen thereafter is any child born within then has the option of being in kurd kurd or tk soptions for the children born in that 90 day window? one is that parents may enroll in a program or a community based pre k program. students don't have to actually attend tk so the option is pre-k or other alternative methods that are aligned with the parents' belief system or transitional kindergarten and i want to take time to say this is actually we think a very good thing that parents can look at

their own child and decide do i want my child to stay in pre-k and we're okay with them being in pre-k in the district or the community and to give you an example of the partnership between the district and the community based programs we have dr. jerry yang here today from the head start program who we have an amazing partnership with and this was a partnership that he actually introduced to us and for us to participate in activities with the asian museum so our centers that are located at tole elecand -- and they go through professional development and visit the museums so we have students in tk and pre-k from both there and the district who are partnering together so this option is

actually a really good option for families that they either put their kids in tk or continue to have their children in another type setting. transitional kindergarten three year phase in. in the first year that we phased in we had seven classrooms at five sites. and as the years went on we have added classrooms and sites so today this year we have 22 classrooms and 14 sites and next year we will grow by one more site and one more classroom and projecting the following year we will grow two more classrooms and two more sites. so where are the sites located? visitacion valley bay view. this is the list of where they're currently located but the next slide demonstrates how diverse our sites are and where

they're located and the map of san francisco. the red ones are where we are currently operating sites and the yellow are the three sites we hope to open in the next years and we're well positioned around the city so we can accommodate many families like we do with pre-k. tk by ethnicity. the great thing that it's open and available to all who are interested no matter the social economic status of the families. it's just like kindergarten so our tk reflects demographically what our kindergartens also look like so we have a wide range of students and the codes we have here are the codes used by epc. and you can see each year the numbers are growing in each area. one

of the characteristics of a tk classroom are -- we don't call it a program because it's a grade. transitional kindergarten is a grade. first we must have a multiple credential teacher in the same way in the k-12 system. we in san francisco which i think is amazing actually have six hour full day tk. that is not necessarily true across the state. each district -- every district was not mandated to do it. k and only if you had two or more kindergarten classrooms, and the tk had to be at a minimum exactly how you had your kindergarten. well in california all kindergartens are not full day, but again in san francisco we're lucky in that we have full day kindergarten;

therefore our tk is also full day. two other bullets and give you an example we're meeting the requirement of the eric mar must not be pre-k. >> >> and tk and meet the developmental needs of the students so we have students who are four years ago they would have been in kindergarten so we do a really good job of designing a program that meets the needs of children based on their developmental level. and we use the standards from both pre-k and from kindergarten and we overlap them and move the students based again on where they are. and this is just an example of the continuum between pre-k and tk and k. again social emotional skills are taught directly and again i'm

going to take liberty. i'm sorry. but i have to thank first five. one of the thing things to me is how the system developed social emotional that social emotional is a very important thing to have for children k and above. interesting enough that pre-k in the early ed world has always known the importance of social emotional and first five has provided us an amazing process and we're doing in tk and rolling out teaching pyramid into the kindergarten and the bay view and the mission zones so again showing how the continuity of the work starts not only from pre-k but moves up to the k-12 system so i'm going to stop here and walk you through the next two graphs and i only have three more slides