i'm going to turn it over to dr. murase for discussion. >> thank you very much ms. fleming for you and ear or your team and thank the public citizens advisory committee for reviewing the proposed changes we will now move to public comment and then enter board discussion i want to call on the state's first so i have (calling names) we say quite a few speakers to limited to a minute and a half please come up to the microphone. >> the additional folks on this item (calling names) but if you could please let the

students speak first. >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> good evening, everybody. >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> we appreciate the one formulate position the school is offering. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we're happy that the filipino language is part ever our learning in elementary school school. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we hope that the middle will have a chance to pick a filipino class just like we do

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you. >> very nice thank you very much. next speaker please. >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we love our teachers that

help us to speak and understand english better please love them too give them a chance to do a better job thank you. >> nice job. >> next speaker. >> >> commissioners do you need a quick translation of that so jay ward is 9-year-old and studies at betsey carmichael a newly arrived combntd he loves his teachers so we can catch up and mainly because his american english is different than he grew up with in the feigns he's asking to help his teachers give them for fund they need their help to catch up at school as a newly arrived cabinet and the rest how he loves his teachers.

>> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> hello, i'm michael lewis i go to west after-school program i'm in betsey carmichael filipino education center i'm graduating i got accepted other powell i understand tagalog but i don't know how to speak it i never learned next year i'm going to lowell they don't give any language courses involving filipino or tagalog i wish they had it there's a population of 2 thousand seven hundred students that go driver's license and one hundred and 89 kids from there is filipino it is about 7 percent of the whole school so i feel like we should have it

we need to take at least two years of our language to go to any uc we have tagalog or filipino it is going to be the first to take classes and have an externals of learning the language. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> (speaking foreign

language.) >> commissioner i'll provide translation this is robert the father's of a student another betsey carmichael and going to west bay after-school program he is thanking the commissioners and the school district for linking to the requests we're

very happy at the additional allocation for the filipino youth their requesting that well perhaps this could be increased sometime in the future he is saying his child and other filipino youth need additional support from their teachers that understand their language and culture teachers do have boxes and materials they have to accurately their own materials to teach filipino they're asking for sufficient support those teachers can give his child and other filipino youth in san francisco the right or the appropriate education in tagalog they need and in addition to that children need to know and our community needs to know that filipinos are valuable here in san francisco thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm george the after-school

program teacher as a youth i didn't have connection with my filipino background couldn't speak the language i took a study at the university of san francisco yet i'm still not fluent to know the sfusd has a marginal amount of funds for filipinos disheartens me we need more fund for students of tomorrow you've heard from my fellow youth the city can change our k through 12 and now it the opportunity to let our voices eastbound heard thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> commissioner president murase and superintendent carranza and the rest of the board i want to applaud you for taking the step to go from zero to a one point

fte is quite amazing i think for people who have come here and articulated clearly and you just heard the children who invested interest in the decision really is something to build on may i introduce you to all the filipinos in the room that came today would you, please stand up so we can - this is the seriousness behind this issue we're on fire this issue is on fire i'm so happy that you met our expectations but i will also add we will remain having any landed this is not over lowell versus nick he lives four years ago, we started

the filipino services this is not over we get it a tip to you some of our teachers came from the their mentor was a filipino professor at sfauft our tip go down to sfusd and you'll see them something to learn from. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners i'm vivian from west bay thank you very much i'm here for listening to us and for. tagalog pathways this give us more hope and makes us filipinos building we're not being empowered but eventually more can, done for the community filipino has the highest

drop-out rates in san francisco at least monk asian-american our high school drop-out rates more 7 percent this problem was tracked about 7 years ago and this problem persists today we believe that the lack of support for our filipino youth is to became for the in case and the wealth gap in san francisco we are going to ask you, please give our youth for support our community helped the city and we deserve our support thank you thank you very much. >> good evening. i'm a literacy support starch at the filipino community education center thank you for your support our youth nodes the

filipino in k through 12 and we need to open the doors for them to repetitive their fullest potential hopefully those are an entrance to our classes and a newcomer immigrants have the right to have the filipino who deserve the right to have ceasing access to filipino access and as well as opening the doors for ethnics? the filipino language and want to embrace our culture as people that joined our after-school program and thank you. please continue to support our families thank you very >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> (speaking foreign

language.) >> commissioners i'm going to translate so he's a senior in the senior program we served

seniors as well and considered the grandfather of the youth that go to our center he feels compassion for the filipino youth can't any public comment? tagalog and for the youth who are newly arrived that are having a difficult time catching at school because of their inadequate proficiency in english he is hoping in the future that there will be more allocation for those kids that he goes to west bay that will go a long way to make them feel important and our culture filipino being appreciated and hose hoping that one day you'll see that filipinos are given even more importance here in the city of san francisco thank you thank you very much i'm going to read the remainder of the numbers on item f

(calling names) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> your invited to a party thank you. (laughter) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i want to say hi president and commissioners and instructor and you'll see community i'm a mother at betsey carmichael's elementary and the corridor of the parent coordinators group is what people consider ppo we're more than a name like implementing tagalog we want to insure that the request for more funding for the multi lingual people is not a fly-by night concept it is a fly-by night we do not want to

handle it that way the response to the subject matter we need to see what it takes to have tagalog according to the center for the alienate i was that promotes assess and culturally difference people 48 hundred schools including the district of columbia in the past thirty decades as a in addition, we have come if 3 immigrant programs now we're at we have to wait for research we just have to utility those tools efficiently so that a sustainable program can be maintained for tomorrow's generation awhile our comfort zone may lead us to other

popular programs like spanish it has many programs and french has 41 programs yet no tagalog programs but having programs in a larger group of native-american we have 24 thousand strong groups of larger indigent folks in alaska so whether or not a program should be implemented or sustained shouldn't be an issue. >> please wrap up. >> there are 4.4 million filipino that is multi racial children and 4 hundred and 54 thousand live in san francisco tagalog is the largest population in san francisco and this is the. (off the record.) consensus >> i'm sorry your time is up.

>> it should be looked not a problematic issue it is a questioning requester for more funding for the thank god for the filipino we can show had you such programs will. >> thank you very much. >> sorry. >> thank you very much for your comment i have to be fair to all the speakers. >> (inaudible). >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm john wells i'm a parent of a korean student and on the board of sf p f the nonprofit that was formed by parents at lilia to support of filipino program i've people spoken to the idea in the

context of requesting support and tonight i have the pleasure of anticipation of our passing the peace budget and thanking you for the support we've had and in that context i want to thank both members of the board and members of the school district staff for the support and he means our program is the smallest of the school district and many of us felt we explicit get attention but happily that's changed in the last year and a half i'd like to thank everyone but lemon say that the support from the staff and members of the board for the last year and a half for our little program is extraordinary i as a parent and

member of the nonprofit i express my thanks and extend an invitation i know most of you have nice offices and stair at computers the next time you're sick of staring at the computers jump out felt office and visit us. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> also on the san francisco coroner and coalition line i want to come out and say thank you as well. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i'm mike a parent of a student at the immersion program i want to say thank you to commissioner president murase and superintendent carranza and the entire board for our support in providing the much needed fund for the pathway all the way through middle school thank you for your support and i'm just

glad to say we're no longer going to be fighting for where the funding is coming from thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm david wise i have a 9-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter in the immersion program i'm on the board of the immersion alliance. >> thank you to commissioner president murase and superintendent carranza and board members for allocating this additional funding that is finally making our dream come tow truck true a pathway all the way through elementary school and middle school and high school for korean pathway and onwards thank you very much for your support and we look forward to reaping the benefits of this wonderful program thank you,

again. >> thank you very much. >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> commissioner president murase and commissioner vice president haney and commissioners and superintendent carranza deputy superintendent lee i've been here before i'm a parent of two children in san francisco san francisco unified school district and also the president and executive order of sf and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. we're hoping you'll pass the peace as amended and if so is that i have said it before thank you we came you licensed, you responded and on behalf of the students parents and teachers in the san francisco korean immersion education program thank you. >> thank you very much that concludes public comment on the approval of the public education and enrichment fund we'll

entertain discussion by the board. >> commissioner walton. >> thank you to the students it caught it is wonderful to see them participate in the process and thank you to the peace team for being thoughtful about the budget process that is something you brought back to the board you listened not only to the board but to the community in terms of suggestions and you worked diligently to make this turn around quickly tutor that the one thing i do want to say i'm hopeful we revisit the lower track project i was seeing the amount of money they wanted to proposed but i believe that it is a worthy proximate cause so hopefully, we'll figure out a way to move own that definitely didn't think the resources should come out of that i lord

to supporting this. >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you this committee for the hard work and effort and making the adjustments and entertaining a lot of our requests and supporting the changes you've presented in front of us i'm role pleased to see all you have in here first of all, and just want to comment been the filipino language program i want to thank all the community advocates that came out and shared the importance of their heritage language and the value it has in keeping our communities together as well as supporting many of our students who have both speak the language and want to learn the language as many ever you know languages are important to me and it is also important to have well

articulated programs i think the allocation that multi language departments has given to add to the .4 to provide a one .0 fte fellowship language specialist who will help to develop the program is critical what we want to do going forward so i do want to thank chris trainee wong for spending the amount of time with us and really understand where our deep concerns were coming from and really hamburger hearing us out in any conversations with christina we talked about the kind of the gap in elementary school versus middle school and high school and how our skids need to be be able to come through a program that is well articulated with a smoothed

transition we've had challenges because we haven't had the support in our multi lingual department to insure our teachers and our community is well supported to insure that articulation is managed well and that the resources are provided which includes the curriculum materials and strong language program i think what this one point get we'll finally be able to have one a filipino language speaker and advocate in multi lingual that will be able to help us understand the gaps and support our teachers more fully so we have a fully articulated program from k through 12 so i also wanted to make sure that i add

that currently at betsy a k through 12 articulation programming that's been supported but we also have our kids that are in third through fifth and 6 through 8 i want to make sure in the transition of adding a new staff member that one we do not create a difference in programs we're not taking our middle grades and starting something that doesn't flow with our k through 12 which will be growing so i think that the investigative work and research and the planning that the person will be facilitating will help us to understand that i absolutely does not want to see our kids not in the early articulated programs so again from third to 8th grade fuel there the cracks and not have

support that insures the fireman they choose when they went to betsey carmichael in particular is intact in some way i want to say that out loud it is important to make sure we're providing strong articulation again that goes through all the grades somebody that helped us to fund the program at balboa i think our intention is clear we want to provide an opportunity for students going into high school to have the opportunity to learn or retain their heritage language or other speakers that point to learner the filipino lunge what we're worried me about implementing that program you know with principle caring was supportive is that the lack of

having it be sustainable so my expectation again is to have the filipino language program specialist role look to see how we sustain a program if the high schools you know through the funding support and allows us in conversations with the budget committee to look at going forward so again, a huge thank you to the advocates we got you know you organized, i got leave folks to rally around this and expressed the importance of our language and i really want to appreciate all of you that cute in particular our young people that shared what it means to for them to be able to keep their language to be able to communicate with their families and stay in their communities without getting lost bogging