members. >> you'll have two minutes and podium we're happy to take those i'm a fourth adjudication san franciscan that is educated in the san francisco school system any family telegraph hill supports the community and it takes a village our village is your neighborhood in which we shop with that in mind we want our daughter to go to the school literally across the street our son dwrautd but our children are 3 years apart your daughter didn't get to go amp i think this is ridiculous not enough middle-aged student to partially until filling one classroom so it is per possessive my daughter age leveling 11 is not able to take public buses more save

alone on the public system there are plenty of the one study by dan gilbert has written about how disturb a bad commute let alone a child responsible parents create a home life morgan hill and legally able to protect the child a child was hit by a bus and from a schedule to the probability of bullying and harassment and fight among adult and homeless and perpetrates where is the adult to warn my child who is not supervised i'm well aware that many argue that chicagoans children benefit but that's our choice to determine where we want our child and where to be exposed to city life

noticing not the school systems. >> thank you. please wrap up. >> so basically, we should be reducing the mind it takes our children to get to school mac efficient use of the time not sitting in unnecessary long bus rides spending more time in the classroom and more importantly we've supportive parents participate in our community that's a way to encourage the families for support the schools and stay in san francisco and ask on the unified school district support us thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners thank you very much my name is jonathan a parent address resident in san francisco i've

got too young children my wife and entering the loiter next year in 2016 in kindergarten i'm a son of immigrants that tenant publics public schools my whole life and i firmly building in public education as the foundation for our children's success thought their lives i believe that to keep k tip is to undermine that fundamental goal by reassign we were stuck with the status quo 6 good and bad schools and only to take tida's kids and funnel them into the quote/unquote good schools we have an opportunity to change the status quo through our equality that in a sense has parental involvement making the schools better and defines all kinds of you sfusd resources to inclusive a quality education we

know there are many portions driving families out parents of local schools strengthen our community and disperlg children putting more cars on the road and putting children on muni buses intrukt from our community i urge your support. >> reverend brown. >> superintendent and madam chair, friends this is a hot one number one because i'm uneasy about the language that's used to suggest that children must sit in a certain section with

certain people there i'm from jackson mississippi and last month, a young man from that prominently amending african-american school the same school i went to graduated from more house 5 by the time with a 4 point average was on his way to harvard university to get a master degree in educational administration jobs makes it clear we have in this country a sage in equality whatever the money follows our child determines whether or not they succeed and not necessarily so a matter of race is a question about the quality of the treatment of the child where the bus stops

and if their teachers there's an atmosphere that is not outline inclusive it sure to come that the outcomes will not be what we desired so i hope we'll consider doing some words smithing to get this thing right the no racial group is stricken tied on a suggestion we've got to be around certain folks to succeed thank you reverend brown public comment is closed comments or questions from my colleagues. >> commissioner fewer and commissioner wynns. >> thank you, dr. murase i urge my colleagues to voted for this resolution and i will say some things you've heard before it is

kwoshth saying again, the choice some is hefrnt unequal by it's design if you can go visit 12 schools or 15 schools during october and december and you think at outdoor school get to our kids to school your choices if you don't, you don't have choice that's led us to we see a full choice system our school becomes rapidly racially segregated and what this resolution does i think a lot of people are wigged out what it does i want people to understand it dials down crisis look at not eliminate choice, in fact, those people eagle in the k tip area are preference to some of our most highly requested oliver and

immersion our k through 8 that means rooftop and so those highly and our language program schools are amongst the highest highest requested they have preference what it does two-fold one it gives parents who are enlarging our system a little bit more assurance about where their children will be attending school and for someone i'm a fourth generation san franciscan and also went to the school in my area and i have to anytime my children wyoming respect to the school in my area and a pta president i feel we're not it used to be churches and others institutions but right away right now schools are a community hub when strong schools are in your community it

is strengthening our community is it so happens there are some schools in some areas that is not happening so instead of encouraging people to leave their area where they live we to the encourage people to look first at those schools within the neighborhoods and help us build the neighborhoods we're having to build the dream of this community i think this resolution is i've heard this resolution doesn't do enough i think the resolution if we were to push this resolution to do more that more and more people would be outraged this is such a hard thing to do to small, small tweak in the process and reverend brown well, i admire you i must say i don't agree i think a racially diverse school is a great preparation

for the 21st century its about expedition and in the 21st century this word is stinging our children must be able to be amongst people not have our ethnicity and a in order for this word to be a peaceful word we have to teach our students what it is like to sit near people and share a diet or table a bathroom and lunchroom with people of other cultures and raze and economic background this is the gift of public education you can't get this in a public i couldn't teach my children they had to learn it themselves i want to every child that graduates in our high school is that a resolution that

shacks everything up in but i hope it give us a node and push to really look at those schools and it puts emphasis on it and i hope that people will look at schools in their neighborhoods and communicated and look at them as community hubs and not be isolated as they leave the community it shouldn't be you have to leave our communities to get a wonderful education that wonderful education should be right in our community it should be a helping to build a stronger community within our neighborhood and not only a strong community so i know i've that that many, many times but i don't think it can be said enough that this is not a resolution that will turn everything on its head this is a resolution that helps us push us

closer and closer to ours strategy goals and 0 remind us education is a foundation of the democracy we want everyone to participate in our democracy than i think this is time to look at the schools that are chronologically under enrolled and chronologically isolated we help to build and strengthen the community and strengthen the community in which the schools are located in (clapping.) thank you, my other figured out generations san franciscan i everyone to vote it is a strong statement to say that we're allowing choice we're not line item choices i want everyone to be clear parents can still have the seats of preference for 14

of our citywide immersion programs and our k through 8 schools i'm hoping to build a stronger community i know that is not a huge push it is a gentle push in the direction but from the board would vote on this i feel it will be a very, very strong voice in that direction. >> commissioner wynns and commissioner vice president haney. >> thank you. >> well, so i'm kind of sorry we've gone through this so many times it is difficult this was putting ourselves back in the difficult decision but i am quickly as i can say what i think this is first, as a matter of information and for the facts being on the table this proposal didn't apply to the middle so the speaker it didn't have an effect on them. >> but i want to say that one i don't agree with some of the

statements in the whereas resolution the climaxed conclusions are made are not correct i don't want to take the time but the position which i agree with somewhat that a choice system a i think equitable and is true if we really don't want to have a choice system be willing to is that what that means we have to give up on our language program i want to reiterate the last time the recent cherries on the chronicle got it broken the main segregating effect was the development of more and more language programs and their extremely popular in line with our goals about language acquisition we have this that's the real tension we should be willing to address and i'm not advocating getting rid of it

only advocating we say ross the segregating influence and what can we do within the law that's what we should be doing when the authorize says this dials down choices i want to say that's true but a small negative change it will not turn everything open its head only make it a little bit worse in my view and by the way, i want to point out that is the analysis that we got from our academic expert that came and spoke they're the same experts on who's analysis and research we base this in the first place they said, yes this would be small but the small change that makes clearly to disengage those we say we're trying to disengage and vantage those who are already vaejd not

a sweeping change but the direction this proposal would move us and i'll end by saying obviously for the record i'm absolutely against this i'll not vote for it in fact i'm for doing thing are these that are more to take us in the direction of making those changes that turn around the segregating investments we've seen involving talking about how we conducted our language programs in a different way that does not give us some s so much segregation i'll make a short reference i want everybody to realize i've not seen minimal we'll have the data on whether or not people want the data it is that the number in percentage

of incoming kindergarten families has gone down every year to the late data to 17 percent of in coming kindergarten single-family homes so the parents of 4 and 5 years olds we've seen it's been recorded in the papers but our own data tells us, in fact, equipment's for small schools named in the resolution if you put auditor area first. >> get it that's the message we ought to send to people if you wanted predictability we've gone it by putting in place putting the attention high not first or second after siblings but high you have - you can have a predictability ability and people are not choosing it i urge my colleagues to keep in mind that's the data we have i

won't be supporting this i urge my colleagues not to >> commissioner vice president haney and commissioner walton. >> first of all thank you, commissioner fewer and commissioner norton it's been almost a year process we've gone through i just early on slow down slow down let's unpack that it let's figure out what this means and put it in context i know because you brought it forward we'll have communications before the board and cultivations conversations in the media that wouldn't have happened this is a learning experience and hopefully it was also sort of a i'm becoming the commissioner bassham by i can't person but i feel like the reasons and the rational have go

tremendous agreement on the board because you brought it forward a level of urgency so i hope whatever with this resolution whether or not it passes i hope this conversation continues because this question of whether or not we're going to accept schools that every year are more racially solicited i agree around the need for diverse environment in the public schools and we want our families to feel like they can choose the school near them commissioner wynns pointed out that less than 20 percent 17 percent of families choose their attendance areas schools first, the reason is not because of seated they're not choosing and going to other areas there are

other reasons that is occurring we need to address and be intentional and thoughtful and bold around how we go about doing that with that said this particular proposal on the questions on the crucial question this change will reduce racial isolation and the number of isolated schools we have a simulation done this the what the report ranking the attention area higher than the low test or eliminating them from the test resulted in a decrease in racial diversities as well as an increase in the gap of the achievement levels of schools in which white and asian students enroll relate to african-american translation more segregation and xaend the

achievement gave him unless we have strong data that board shouldn't be taking a position that the research is going to expand the racial achievement gap and the second question of the access to the families to neighborhood schools consistence pointed out this question applies to 9 schools 9 attendance area schools in which families that put it first didn't get did there are only 9 that means 50 or 60 plus of those schools a few this is a big issue one is clare stone sea one congratulating to that we need an approach to insure those schools 18 percent of them got it have a solution that's a specific issue recommended to those attendance areas most of those 9 schools this

will not guarantee a spot in the schools of we did the flips clare ton wouldn't have a great percentage of getting in because there are a small amount of spots this will not guarantee a spot for attendance area families, in fact, many of the 9 schools this makes no difference the difference we know this will have a relatively small and what it means for race and diversity at those 9 schools 20 less black and latino students that's what we for instance the simulations we've ran we have a responsibility to move forward with the goal that the co-authorize put forward i agree reduce the isolation and reduce the gap in assuring our folks

choose the schools in the area i don't see how this does it i have the deepest respect for the could co-sponsors and i hope we can address this this is a small change but i think that the amendment you've put forward asking the superintendent to come forward with a plan and transmittal he'd those issues i'll vote on that hundred percent right now if i could vote on that pieced of it i can't support the day the simulation not address those issues but actually most of us in the wrong direction but i'll hope we support and work together around the bold issues that address the issues i think smart and wise to pit forward a conversation around.

>> sxhult. >> thank you number 57 thousand runs through my mind everyday that's approximately, how many students in the district so when we put policies forward my role and he this is best for children or families and encompassing the idea we want to make sure there's a better atmosphere in learning opportunity for this entire 57 and much like commissioner wynns and commissioner vice president haney i have respect for the co-authorize can't support is it if you look at the this is information recorded in the report we got from the professionals that were involved the tiebreaker ranging will make a flexibility issue and it talks about if it we want to increase

the quality of schools we need to do that before we change the assignment this resolution says we'll flip neighborhood priority and c tip and also going to put this language program in f this isolated and this arts ♪ rationally and disenfranchised school and this racially disenfranchised school that's something i could support with this flip from the idea of making a neighborhood school was even something that comes from in resolution and i have too much data that's not the case it is our responsibility to make sure that schools in neighborhoods are attractive to the families and students in those neighborhoods and that didn't do this our strength i

spent a good part of day meeting with the families of the community that times this resolution sponsored they feel that if we did this split up they'll have a better opportunity to go to the schools in their neighborhood i know from the simulation that's not the case it will be irresponsible to continue to communicate that will be what happens as a result of this resolution and then just the last thing i want to say i went to 7 different elementary school but we think that i had an opportunity to go with kids in the community we played together and enjoyed each other this recess didn't sole that problem i sympathy emphasize the intent of the resolution is definitely

in the right place but not bold enough to solve the issues and concerns that i share with families that really feel this is going to make a difference it is not and therefore i can't support it but again like commissioner vice president haney and i share with a lot of families ether the past few days i'd like to work on bolder increase the opportunities for to be more attractive so families not have to travel across town to go to schools that are qualify >> commissioner fewer. >> i'd like to respond to some of the comments it is great to pull of research reports but i think that i need to remind folks what was also said from the experts so dr. carter

specifically said for us to remind that racial isolation doesn't effect some communities as it does others i want to remind the board to speak broadly about schools for racially isolated she said at the point meeting quote she's the expert and that she said that racial isolation effects some adversely and some not adversely she said she was showed me showing shocked we have schools that are racially isolated their academics rating is high she also said other facts and circumstances that make a great school and not just

pure academics but other factors addressed and why opponent go to certain schools our think our language programs are a good example some don't rank as the highest el camino del mar with you most requested to what we're seeing here in that resolution i'm glad that people think that the bold and it needs to be bold eerie quite frankly wish people were bolder and make a choice to a say whether or not rerecognize racial isolation didn't serve community well, we shouldn't have schools that are racially isolated in san francisco we serve here in san francisco the majority of our students are chinese a lot of our schools have over 70 percent chinese

students, however as i said before as a dr. pursuance said that racial isolations for some communities are more negatively effected than in others let's remember that i want to say i've been to some planning meetings it's estimated that the commute to school during the morning commute contributed up to about 25 percent of the morning commute traffic so think of all those things when we are talking about a resolution like this and again, i think i'm so glad that actually, my colleagues have the utmost respect for me (laughter) it i mature, however i'm still urging