it's not working. >> okay just answer here ms. mendoza-mcdonnell comploern mr. walton and ms. wynns and mr. haney thank you please join me of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> want to welcome everyone that is joining us for anyone that wants to address the board of education fill out a speaker card in the hallway please

submit it before the item is called to ms. casco over here and also this the first reading of the epic and according to the p-3 thousand discussion w is allowed by first reading the revised special education is on for adoption flashlight special order of business and available on the tackle at the entrance here in boards meeting room that is available for public on the room one 06555 franklin a approval of the minutes, there is none tonight. and president haney good evening who is listening to us ladies and gentlemen, our first lady

month to month said it another jackson university we know the shadows of past have's not completely disappeared tonight we want to commend unfortunately recognize the loss orlando, florida people died in the biggest mass shooting of historically in that community is a place of safety and celebration secondly, i want to express our con dialogues this tragically demonstrates our country to eliminate the shadows and an culture of safety and acceptance for all people with marginalized lgbt communities pr it is no mistake that the venue was selected for a specific purpose those attending that evening were of specific organization or

orientation and of specific ethic group i want to say to the families if orlando we stand in solidarity with you over 25 years the san francisco unified school district has committed to transforming schools into inclusion not only our lgbt students but all students and students of color this act of hate and last loss of matt haney slelgz our commitment to continue our work to create a society that didn't acknowledge but celebrate all people but also the lgbt people of color we will continue through the educational efforts to bring life into those dark shadows i'd like to ask to you join me in a moment of silence for us the lives lost in orlando thank you

very much interprets in the treatment industry is a powerful way for people to share experiences and film makers see this and pushing the boundary of our visual realty and, in fact, i'm proud to announce this past our mashld were given a gift of 2, 360 video cameras by facebook for the very first 360 challenge our students were given cutting-edge equipment and this week they traveled to one hacker in park were greeted before i the mayor and the founder and marshes team were the - for the short fire system practicing their line

distance thank you to the students for to figure out how to not only use the complicate equipment but seeing the films and congratulations to the students and even though the school year is coming to a close the students at willie l. brown middle school are attending free the replenish academy willie brown will showcase is that you are african dr. murase and how to make videos and cooking and there are many students signed up in will willie l. brown middle school and a wonderful opportunities to continue they're learning throughout the summer the students take fielded trips to the san francisco zoo and learn engineering cooking and music skills the showcase will highlight what the students

learned in the programs three weeks and the willie l. brown middle school opened in the 2015-2016 in the bayview will offer students academies we want to congratulate congratulate the students and thank you for theirs enrichment learning throughout the summer months thank you very much president haney. >> thank you superintendant carranza recognition of consumption, there is none tonight. and student delegate report don't believe there is one tonight they're off to college that's good and item e advisory committee report a few the first one is a report from the parents advisory council and a representative from there.

>> good evening superintendent and all the members of the board i'd like to say thank you for letting us be a part of this year-end report to the board of education decrews a parent of betsey carmichael have three children at betsey carmichael elementary school and i'm a member of the president of the school p t o i like to remind everyone to represent the parents voices to to the board of education discussion and implementation the report summarizes the pass during the 2015-2016 year and named the challenges and identifies projects we'll

continue on working on, on the last page of our report there is a had a right that provides the apac specific goals the apac is in line with the shaped learning from what we hear in families across the city and apac members met with superintendant carranza to hear about the priorities and the apac supports those efforts this dialogue helped united states to focus our project families for the year this year, the apac carried out campaigns reaching over 6 hundred patents through our efforts for the parented input on two key district initiatives our children and families initiative and the local control and accountability to focus support and strengthen our priorities and in tenor bring perspectives

to the folks apac members met with the individual staff to discuss the issues important to families lies like the design project for supportive engage and the t k through fifth grade and the transmission and interpretation services provide for families engagement across the district apac responded for input and participation for stakeholder groups working an issue that impact students outcomes such as the safe plan stakeholders group, the team of special ed and partners for the development of a post i p survey and the ad r design team and others to review the art

education master plan apac contributed to the action as much as the apac was one of the core organizations in support of planning, coordination and outreach for the sfusd family empowerment in october the apac was an active member of the el cap and part of engagement committee and the apac helped to organize the data review effective in january, the apac is made up of volunteers appointed by the board of education and supported by apartment staff our organizational achievement include securing and renewing the funding for the senior fund and the overview lane past junior fund continuing the sponsoring our community initiatives and recruiting 7 new

members and keeping the apac members. >> good evening commissioner superintendant all georgia the cooperate for the parents advisory council this is a brief summary of the work we did throughout the year and as mentioned a chart that provides specific achievement and measures we set out at the grinning of the year the work is not without it's challenges and just highlighted a few of those as we continue to you know we're fortunate to say a source for the over the last two years but, of course, continues to be a challenge to maintain the fiscal fund we have to continue to expand our funding base to make sure we have financial stability in the future also at the beginning of the year as mentioned one of the priorities was to advocate for

the development of a district family wide engagement plan and we met with various staff district staff and board members to discuss this and despite the fact that was one of the top priorities apac members feel a sense with a lack of co-hemorrhages and conformation across the departments and really see this is concern that there's a lack of indicators for families engagement across the board so that was one source of frustration and apac members felt we want to partner are the district staff to look at advocating for more completed el cap draft in a timing manner tonight is the first reading and school a out and most of apac are not available and parents

are less engaged we know one of the areas that continues to be a challenge but looking ahead opportunities for the challenges and working on solutions so we're committed to partnering with our be commissioners and district leaders our other partners to work on the issues in the next year specifically supporting family engagement and looking at how we can build on existing structures to improve home school communication in particular and looking at other structures to build only improving the official is family engagement process and continue to work around the accountability and increasing and looking at hero systemic go approach of breaking and entering this together great input a few of the areas we continue to - are looking

forward to working on next year and we want to say thank you for you will all of you who met and discussed the issues with the district leader that made time to hear our concerns and bring the concerns across the district and share those. >> thank you commissioner fewer. >> wow. that looks like the apac had a busy year how involved you are so i have a question about your budget and the finance you're a large section an that sustained i'm wondering does any of your funding come from the general fund or all processed money. >> we have a contract with the district and so we - that's to help support our funding around

interpretation and meeting like the refresh times and childcare whether for a particular pack meeting or a larger stakeholders engagement. >> you know i know when i wrote the resolution to create a parent advisory council we have this idea that would, really independent of the district i'm seeing you're working in partnering with the district and helping us for example, with the el cap and gathering the community xhvengsz that is extensive i'm wondering i want to say this out loud to the colleagues, we should be founding that full fte for this position is it so time we talked that the pack has been in existence for how many years. >> since 2003, 13 years.

>> we've not funded it for 13 years. >> no, not the provision. >> seeing how the pack is assisting the district in the el cap and the community conversations perhaps it is time we funded the position ourselves and any entrepreneurial funding what about for the other recruitment things activity and types of training for example and maybe some of the parents to go through seminars or conference anyway i want to put that out there and seeing this is budget time and thank you. i i know the pack is 100 percent volunteer so thank you parents we appreciate that . >> (clapping.) >> commissioner norton. >> i want to particularly thank you. this year for the focus on special ed in the pack

the pack has not focused as strongly on special education and i really appreciate that and want to call that out specifically thank you. >> i also want to thank you for your work even though there is a number of things that is important we follow-up we consistently hear this concern about the district wide family engagement plain i hope we can make process this is something you i'd like to take the opportunity bring you will you i up for this us should be an area of priorities we delve resources to and truly have a strategic plan around how we understand and measure the support of family engagement i want to say thank you ton i'd like to take the opportunity bringing that forward another thing i wanted

to flag that question our el cap draft comes out and the timing is really important i hope we can have a conversation about what other district and possible to start the process earlier i agree to the extent we want to engage our families around el cap but the fact it school a out creates a barrier what we can do to make sure we address some of the concerns thank you for that and the presentation and hope you have a great summer . >> (clapping.) >> now i'd like to call a report if the cabinet advisory council a what we have a

representative from the immigrant pack. >> migrant pack. >> thank you. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> she's a president of our pack

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> our regional representative for sfusd. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> do you - because of time - do you want me to read it in english or have

people read it in - >> yeah. okay through the work of cesar chavez and migrant workers in the late 60s they recognition the migrant families to overcome obstacles faced with poverty and disruptive educational experiences >> (speaking foreign language.) >> if folks in the room can

try to keep as quiet as possible we'll appreciate that. >> an outreach integration of technology and education and related programs programs to facilitate in the secondary post secondary education or employment professional development including mentoring for teachers and other program

personnel. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> child is political for the any grant program if he or she meets the following criteria between 18 and 33 not graduate from high school as a migrant ashen worker or fisher and child or family move forward within the past 3 six months inform obtain temporary and seasonal employment in agricultural or fishing and moved from one

unified school district to another at the back is a question for the e pc one of the ways we find our students

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> so this is provide for migrant educational students for parents workshops and enrollment and home based construction and summary school and k through 8 and enrichment opportunities summary school and monitoring academic progress and the services and mentoring academic progress education and leadership development, workshops on college and career readiness and case management is needed out of school youth services that are used between

14 and 22 years of age that have left school we case management links and link the community and educational folks

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> services provided for migrant education schools and families and health and social services to insure health and well-being of migrant families personal development with community liaison and parents participation of services facilitate advisory committees and train for leadership development and parental life of their children identification and recruitment identification of any grants students through - social

services. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the first our parents meeting we have 6 leadership parents meetings is a year where families come and have childcare for the children and the parents come and get enriched and learn about many tops the support group we started for mothers they come and share their experiences and their worries and our new team member she's a psychologist and graduated with her market-rate housing and taking care of this group of parents and it's beautiful, beautiful to here them talk.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> and the first light we went to a school in la and it the a school where children are just thrown into this richness of their culture and learn a lot of the students speak a language

and learn in spanish and english have 3 languages and it was an amazing experience and the other slide was college trips where we take students 80 so they can see the possibilities of going to college. >> and get them excited.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> some the challenges and priorities difficulty with the training of puc staff with the enrollment questionnaire limit of direct services for 3 years of mandatory entitled part c and identifying the students synergy and the mandatory staff trainings on migrant questionnaire and additionally funding for transitional services and the identification of migrant students by migrant

staff >> (speaking foreign language.) >> questions and comments thank you thank you for your time and attention we're the migrants staff >> (clapping.) >> thank you so much for your presentation and hard work and commissioner norton and commissioner murase how many families did we serve with the families this year. >> 4 hundred and 50 students. >> is that pretty much a - about what it usually is the

trend. >> no, what we started when i started 8 hundred students we've gone on to 4 hundred and losing one hundred students plus because of housing issues so a lot of the students are having to leave the city and our numbers are - we don't know and it is difficult to find them because our families don't openly go oh, we're migrant workers so to find them it is a real challenge we have the questionnaire we have for abc but babylon does an amazing job going to schools where principals open up the doors not all schools understand who we or let us come and do recruitment we need to

do. >> that leads me to another question deputy superintendent what kind of training given to the principals to make sure that the students are impossible for this program gets the services they need. >> part of what happens with the induction of administrators they net e get an opportunity to hear from the curriculum and structural that is part of it as well but that is a continuing process of making sure that people are aware of the services. >> what the purposes of the services are it also for us as a system requires us to be thoughtful about the amount of time that is asked of principals to obviously migrant services are paramount importance it provide a support system for students so part of short list of what all principals get and we're refreshing every year.

>> my last question so do we receive like a state funding or federal funding. >> it is federal we get. >> does anyone know how much we got this year. >> you want to - >> good evening commissioner our regular two fund that come in one for the regular school year and one for summer school and get 200 and 55 thousand for a regular school that support of staff and other programs and summer is one and $30,000. >> actually, i ielgs a approximately i'll call up first before comments from the board (calling names)

i apologize about that. >> it's a lot of yellow cards. >> two minutes each. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> they're not going to interpret i wanted them to go -

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> my name is dee age vascular

quiz a concerned parents in the district we are very worried we've seen the standards what the new standards of our kids we are worried about the low graduation rates and we are asking for support support for things like the summer camps and the programs. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and we are asking for you to support our program like this easy assess for people with low income their opportunity to

provide because i think the programs we're also grateful for other people that are supporting this summer program for our kids. >> (speaking spanish.) >> for me this program is more. >> personable growth of opportunities for me and my family and this is something i had not be able to get in my own count country. >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (clapping.) >> high i've been a particular for the migrant program since 2003 they've helped me with support of my kids one of them has a i e p and

working with folks to get them through the translation through high school that is wonderful the acknowledge difference i've not be able to get any preschool or dir they've provided that we're happy with the migrant program we wish it will continue other people that can take advantage of that. >> (clapping.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> good evening. i'm a

migrants mother with 3 children's in the unified school district and i hear to speak about the fact that fireman has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.)>> > >> ireman has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.) >> reman has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.) >>eman has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.) >>man has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.) >>an has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.) >>n has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.) >> has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.) >> has for me and my family a great opportunity. >> (speaking spanish.) >> they good for us they provide extra support and my kids need academically and good they give us those you summer programs not easy are us to obtain. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and one outlet thing to thank them for the support they

provide to us and to thank you for thank you for your time and your support. >> (clapping.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> thank you. i want to give a very cordially invitation for people to participate it's excellent we've been here for seven years 3 this girls and

since this program my kid goes to this summer school in spanish and she's able to read completely and fluently in spanish. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and i they provide they're good because they provide important worship and give us a lot of information and i would like for more families to join us thank you. >> (clapping.) >> >> (speaking spanish.)

>> good afternoon. i want to talk about the impact this program has had in our lives for example, my daughter who is on her way to the university i think i can thank you for your support and, yes i'm very grateful was my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >> as my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >>s my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >> my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >> my kid is going to go to college. >> (clapping.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> they helped me us parents to support our children because they teach us how to support them so they can succeed so they

provide help for both of us. >> (speaking spanish.) >> so it is a program that provides layers of support for everybody so provides support not only support not only for the children but also for the parents for everyone thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> good afternoon. i'm like my colleagues here that he friends i'm also very grateful to this program we have been in this program i have 3 kids in the program for 3 years 6 years excuse me - and have known diena for this time and i don't have words enough words to thank you for the support they've provided for us.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> and they have always been the people that we can go if we have concerns and always those concerns they have a word of encouragement for me they always been able to tell me he can do that we can go ahead and the children will make it so i thank you very thankful for the support and thank you for your time and attention your support thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you commissioner murase. >> i want to thank you for this presentation i don't recall being educated buyouts migrant education program i appreciate your presentation and the testimony from participants i'll be very interested to know this doesn't

have to come tonight more about the families in terms of which of the 8 categories are most represented in terms of data i'd like to know how the families are broken down by the 8 categories their ethnicity i'm interested to know what the graduation rays of students that participate i expect hearing the testimony that had been higher than for families that don't participate and how many are heated to 4 year or 2 or 4 year colleges i'd like to have that data i want to offer a couple of resources perhaps you're aware of if not the office of labor standard is very concerned about the working conditions of migrants families they're very much a resource as of the

department of wage and hour division i want to marry u make sure that families are paid fair wages and at the mexico dedicated services window we would like to make sure your families are aware of those resources thank you. >> well mostly i think the least of those is the fishing but sometimes, we do find families that come to san francisco from somewhere else and they qualify and we would have them at photographers in the fish packing - the packing and piers we find most of family but all the other things because we go to farms and they have a

little bit of everything some have life i livestock and others to the crops and our rate of graduation this year we graduated all of - >> 9 out of 10 the high school students i help them with scholarship applications so we had 9 out of 10 graduate this year and it was 75 percent last year we're up and all of them except for two or going to 2 or 4 year universities. >> (clapping.) >> commissioner fewer. >> yes. thank you very much for this presentation i have a couple of questions so i think there is on a questionnaire provided in the

packet i'm wondering if it has been a problem if this questionnaire is not presented verbally to parents instead of parents having to read it and fill it out themselves. >> we have copies of it and our hopes that all families get it and we don't get it in return i know they have it at the bbc more than returned to us with families so i don't know what - >> yeah. i think what i'm saying all the times what you mentioned different deelections and sometimes in the written language they might not be confront filling out a form or knowledgeable is that maybe a personal interview in native language and tongs that explains about the program that's what

i'm asking have you heard anything of participants needing that service awhile improperly their children and learning about the program. >> no, we get those back but the ones we get back or helped the the spanish speakers at bbc and some of the people at bbc know us we come preparing to introduce a program and we have personal relationships through the years with people at b.c. it is just it is hard it is really hard to find our students. >> yeah. that's what i'm hearing i asked the superintendent with the bulk of the students go they are spread 0 out. >> their everywhere. >> it is critical so i want to know not only about graduation by academic process and what is academic progress and maybe also

a little bit about the housing situation so how housing is an issue for everyone in san francisco and it seems like for this particular group more difficult not a permanent residence or a credit check those things that landlord or people require so what kind of a housing assistance for our families that are migrants workers. >> none. >> it is very, very difficult and some people live wherever in garages we've seen situations that are unindirectlyable - where families live when asked for that space where do they go not a room anymore. >> i've seen those conditions

too that's why i've asked and it seems like are they eligible i wonder for also our homeless students services because actually we clarify families that live in non-stable housing situations at homeless children living in sros for example are clarified homeless they technically live in a brick-and-mortar room radio you double up on benefits i'm wondering is this something that - >> we refer them and you know a lot of them also it is their they don't have the papers and the documentation needed to apply for a lot of the programs we refer them to the homeless - >> i wonder if we can assist

somehow and somehow assist even though they don't have the documentation clearly the student population and they're in need of resources i wonder if we can work with the city partners to assess some of the services because you know even for youth sometimes will require a birth certify or some of those students may not have that but those are basic go things the families can have and follow-up on the and the academic process of the students and also just educate me for a moment is that a migrant working comes here for the city and county of san francisco how long does that migrant worker stay here. >> our families go and work in the fields during the summer

that is, we are very unique program within the any granted program we're an urban they are a lot of jobs here and summit their income they have to have the children when we go and do the work the only time is during the summer and gone for more than 20 or thirty days thirty days so the only really chance they have is during the summer and then they come back and have their jobs here doing whatever they can do and multiple jobs. >> what percentage of migrant workers are in the program and

how large is the under identification of those students. >> that's a very tough one we know there must be a lot more students we could be serving the idea is finding them that is the challenge like one spends time during the recruitment out in the schools she has doors open and finding families word of mouth a lot of our parents bring us other families because they know the services we provide that is another way to get students there are many, many more. >> i'm - reaching them. >> through the parents liaisons from the training and this helps we have many parents liaisons that are spanish speaker. >> we've done presentations we're hoping in the future to do

maybe another presentation with the parents liaisons and those are know us the schools where we have the most students they do amazing, amazing work returning families to us. >> so what you're seeing when schools are aware of the program additional families that maybe migrants workers it is very successful schools there is not an awareness and training; is that correct? >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> commissioner shamann walton. >> thank you for your presentation. >> commissioner fewer covered most of what i was going to ask i was going to say after inviting our india education and hearing the presentation tonight, i'm convinced that we as a district can do more for

some of the community of color i hope your resources are not from the federal government but will found out what we can could to provide additional support because the work with our students is valuable we definitely understand the importance so thank you for 3 and then secondly, i'd like to follow-up and come out and visit so i can obvious some of the work with our students and again, thank you for coming out tonight. >> we'll let you know we'll invited you to the parents meeting our students have so scattered i think the best time to see what the program is really about is in one of our sections that's where the families all over the district and children come to casar chjvez school we have something

like 200 parents and families we give them food and the presentations are wonderful and get a sense of what the program is about we'll let you know. >> thank you. >> superintendant carranza. >> almost done. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> for those of you who don't know that don't speech spanish have to learn the language to

know the rest of it (laughter) in all seriousness this is an important tops those students are some of the head i did working students and the rhetoric around those students and family 1941 criminal that the information wouldn't be spread far and wide about the services available for the students you have my word and the words of my administration doing everything we can the services will be illuminated and the students can assess those services those are families that want to live the american dream and want an opportunity self-defense our job to make sure they have the opportunity thank you very much for coming and sharing the good news there are dreamers. >> there are dreamers thank you, everybody. >> (clapping.) >> okay one more informational

presentation without objection i'm going to move up the african-american achievement update with the advisory committee if you all can come please for your presentation.

>> okay good evening my name is landon the special assistant to the spreadsheet for african-american achievement and leadership we appreciate the board for moving this important item up in the agenda to accommodate our parents and student thank you for honoring

that request so tonight we have two major objectives and this is to share the xhoisht and recommendation of the african-american parents advisory council and to provide on overall the amending achievement initiative and the major bodies of work we've taken on over the 2015-2016 school year so to start off i wanted to give everyone a little bit of a snapshot of african-american students in the san francisco unified school district so we have about 45 hundred african-american students in this district k through 8 and the documents reflected the kids in charter schools 32 percent live in the bloichtd and 11 percent are in visitacion valley

and second to none validate and 8 percent if the western edition and some of the schools that is larger population of african-american top by mission high school and all the way to betsey carmichael k through 8. >> the mission of african-american achievement and leadership initiative is to work collaboratively with san francisco unified school district department and african-american students families indicators and goes to develop strategies in support of african-american chucht consistent with the action all commented committed to raising the belief in african-american achievement engaging and empowering our african-american families and students cooperating the wrap around for the african-american students and insuring the african-american get will responsive relation reduce

instruction as a reminder we have a will k through 12 indicators as part of african-american achievement initiative i know there will be updated refreshed figures to the superintendent evaluation i wanted to share that the initiative does track k through 12 indicators for all our sfusd departments take responsibility for . >> so for our purposes tonight we want to give a briefly now we're at the end of this academic year as the major bodies of work part of african-american chuchltd and leadership initiative and start with our community engagement and our support of parents leadership in the district so one of the requirements of the african-american choucht and

leadership resolution was the idea of formation of an african-american community council one of the things we wanted to share provide an update on while there's no new tables set for african-american council one of our priorities has been to work with several other community groups feedback on the work in the district and engaging multiple partners on a regular basis with the african-americans post secondary collaborative what was meeting on a monthly basis to support high school students the black family resource network we've lead two of the black family days and summer programming for students as though my my brother's keeper community forum launched the african-american vinyl round table to support our students and families one of the

key tossing as we move through next year the existing tables as a formal african-american council or the leadership team and board recommendations the formation of a new table i'm going to turn it over to to two of our parents leaders that are up here tonight and appreciative to have them and share a bit of the apac and some of the recommendations that they have for the board. >> good evening. i'm sheree and i serve as secretary of the african-american advisory counsel or counsel the mission of the african-american parents advisory council to provide a forum to hear the ideas of san francisco unified school district african-american parents community, and to respond by educate and informing

parents of this district policies and programs our goal to empower the likes of all african-american children by providing the skills necessary for advocate for educational experience apac house the apartment to support the instruction for their children and the children receive and engage with administrators in san francisco unified school district we aim to list every parents voices and help them find a voice this year a number of schools and parents and community members attend our moseying as reflected in the slide our active attendance was 28 african-american parents and attendance by district staff was 13 and had over 39 schools represented with those

attendance record representatives abraham lincoln and lakeshore and martin luther king and tenderloin elementary school and june gordon elementary we reached out to families everywhere within the district good evening i've served as treasurer for the apac for the past school year we've had a number of accomplishment we achieved over the past school year i'd like to specifically highlight 3 under the collaboration was the hire this was a very special event this was a chance to slbltd our students and hard work they've put in as as senior they're going to college we have some saying oh, i'm going to a j.c. higher education matters and it is important to recognize them and hoping negotiation to have a

bigger celebration with a greater turn out of students with post secondary or career pathways in the following school year and then our next achievement we'd like to highlight falls under the advocacy table this with an was the black history month and it came to our attention many of the schools were not celebrating black history month sunlight we decided to act as a liaison the one parents and the sdriktz by offering a black history month letter and survey for all the schools to get an understanding of the activities to help us formulate a plan to insure all schools were implementing black history month so that way everyone understand the importance of the black history month and the contributions of african-american so let all the students celebrate and help them

to overcome the choucht gap and last achievement we'll talk about the el cap we work with the el cap task force they did reached out to us and together our families mad the recommendation you'll see on the next slide so those i like to highlight a couple so the african-american parents advisory county wants the boards support in funding for the african-american liaisons al at all schools with larger african-american population we would like mandated culture training for all school site staff and professional achievement must focus on communicating with parent we've heard throughout our members of the committee this is an issue the participants are trying to communicate with the schools and not getting the communications

they need ours parents strongly support ethnic studies cross the district in through k through 12 and recommend the district accountability to 86 implement best practices in all sfusd schools. >> (clapping.) >> thank you for sharing i want to underscore how important we've had the african-american advisory council to push our thinking as a staff and make sure we are stating accountable to our families and thank you for your work pushing this year. >> now we'll get into a couple

of the more specific programs lead over the course of the year one of those you'll receive an update in the march meeting the action plans for the african-american students and village round table process as a reminder the african-american goes to the round table come out came out of my brother's keeper a group of community members together with the district staff to develop that 0 concept to make sure there is a doesn't even almost tier support put in for a.m. students a focused group of students 6 sites from grade k through 12 in terms of we wanted to give a highlight of the students that participate so you see first of all, the students carve out m k the mission and burton high school participated we had some sites take on more than the 5 students

to take on and as you can see a breakdown of the grades the students were in and their gender background i think one thing not able on this slide you think about the purpose of round table in support of students that are potentially under the radar and pushed to their full academic support so though you see low representation from students with i e p and in a way to uncover a would you away for students not with the support but required the dedicate attention of the staff on those campuses as an example of how this looked at one site and we do - met with the community group that cultivated this and shared a document with each site

called out and how they approached this project what was consistent the sites with the intent of relevant learning environment went through a process with the i lab for them to think through prototype and held the sites secured and in the case of john mirror re-established after their brainstorm was an individual advised plan with a reading and math goal a presentation called who am i presentation to identify assess they had in terms of of the neighborhood they were from, from the family support and how they perceived their identity as african-american and the village gathering at the end of the academic year so this was

something we got ouch the ground in the spring and carrying out through the i lab to make sure that the schools have the funds and facilities to hold that support progress for the african-american support for the students at their sites looking at the african-american post secondary pathway again while the village round table k through 12 and expand on this work the secondary pathways have a focus on high school aged students one of the things i want to highlight we had our initial rounds for 2015 last year and continued that work this year with the class of 2016 just again looking at the demographics you see the needs of the african-american 12 graders and the free and reduced lunch and support with financial aid first generation students and the support that is required

to help them successfully navigate the pathway and support the students are referring we want to make sure we build on they decided the high school councils are one source of voices and see this is from student it recorded survey the ceo they express their members of definitely like to thank. >> community-based organizations for supporting our students up on this slide the different post secondary programs for students this is intended we're gathering report that finalize with the students will enroll in school we held those workshops in the spring a large cohort to san francisco and san francisco state and a relatively smaller

number intending to go into the uc system in california and amongst those students that are articulated they're not going to post secondary in the fall the reasons they cited were related to motivation and a shortness of things to study and others priorities the students had through the workshops we held and adopted one hundred and 70 students through the up to date they're given the opportunity to receive a spoken word performance to connect with the coaches that ultimately will support of students after they graduate and leveraging the partnership with beyond 12 and post secondary assistance and the games around college readiness activities and support students cited were going

unaware away from school before taking a major and connecting with the campus and managing priorities why we will continue to beyond 12 and our partnership with the cobras several in the room today to support those graduates as they move forward it is important we learn to the a.m. posted secondary workshops from feedback not from the workshops but the monthly meeting with the collaborative, of course, the need to focus on students earlier in high school going into next year part of my team will be supporting our ninth graders and looking at the dictated around students that are assessing the programs making sure we are starting in the in the event grade and setting them up for success and having the transfer that is the curriculum they need in the

institutions so then turning next to the african-american oversight committee so the african-american oversight committee is composed of our assistant superintendent and department chiefs and over the course of this year we've been working to come less around specific promotions across the did the the round table was an example we reached the end of the year we acknowledged the need for us to table or tackle in of the structural changes to significantly move african-american achievement we've been focusing on next year doing a school case study a deeper dive to help in creating a full plan to think holistically with a supportive of african-american student in alerting the achievement there we know that in order for our

students to be successful we need to make sure we are providing the right supports and incentives for the teachers to stay in the highest needs and will we need that it will be difficult to move the african-american achievement we know that the school choice system and for the isolation and how the program needs to be alternated that's one of the issues that was raised throughout the course of the year for the tier 30 intervention to make sure that students move from grade level to grade level and making sure that onsite we have a robust approach that addresses school attendance and social and wellness and, of course, continuing to be aware the facts

of didn't bias and that refers to african-american for special education and more suspensions for our students though the process we uncovered some of the issues and emigrate alignment around the challenges that accost exist and we are concretely looking at this to make sure we are taking a seismic approach to support our african-american in the unified school district a couple of slides open what is next that's not clear on the projection so i'm appreciative to the leadership team and the district for helping us staff a team really to support african-american achievement as you can see some of the roles around the post secondary so our support for high school students and moving to middle school students our african-american

parents advisory council corridor and administrator assistant and research manager for the team and one of the new things that is being fund for this coming year is school site support our mission high school and martin luther king and willie l. brown middle school we're looking to fill the african-american males to support overseeing students and building a positive kshltd identified to make sure we're connecting them to resources they and their families need to be successful finally one thing that came through a great discussion with some of the community partners is looking at to make sure there is a coordinator to coordinate care for african-american students so i'm working with mr. truit and the department to think about

how to define that role. >> who to use it to make sure the african-american students are holistically supported in terms of our upcoming priorities and timeline so i won't read through the entire list starting in julia mindset where the academy do the admin constituted and having the principal share on the round table and putting professional development so the instructor for the 3 sites to pick up the school and continue with the initiatives so the next consideration of the vinyl round table supports for the bs u and the class support of 2016-2017 a couple of dates on the calendar our third sfusd h b.c. is monday, september 12th

and our black family day on saturday september 17th and finally again is one of the candidates on the resolution we're responsible for at annual african-american we wanted to roll out that report once we have the data from the wave of testing so we'll have published the african-american achievement report for the next update in the fall and so before i open it up i'd like to acknowledge some of the members of my team that are here feel free to rise if you so choose t thank you. >> parents advisory coordinator. >> (clapping.) >> mr. victor our city hall fellow

working with the mayor's office. >> (clapping.) >> dr. christopher lee in the development office and supporting the work. >> (clapping.) >> mr. linda jordan our treasurer from lincoln high school thank you and like i would to unfortunately could only be here but anthony supporting our work at the high schools. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much we have a number of speakers on this item all right. i'll call you up in a couple of different sets

reverends. (calling names) >> two minutes each. >> my name is amos brown i'm the president of the san francisco branch of the national naacp and for 40 years been pastor of the historic thirds

baptist church and directing your attention the course of 40 years the application to witness over long span of time the ebb and flow of opportunities and in the unified school district and i'm concerned about all people's no person is an island to himself or herself has john don said, however, this is to remind us momma may have poppa may have but god bless the child that has their own we've not had our own as it regards academic achievement not so much we don't have brains but it is been basically as many authorities

and scholars are indicated because of a lack of opportunities and savage in the quality mr. superintendent i congratulate you for having the chemistry and the character to say that is not right and we must do something to make things right and mr. dickey is the brother who came forth to work in tandem as a team with the administration and the communities so that we would be able to look upon a messed up situation and be able to celebrate to the high heavens we left things better than they were before we touched them all we need to do is hold out hope and move forward and work with the parents, the teachers the

faith communities, the community-based organizations and none need point fingers at anybody we know that we were a part of solution and not the problem thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> keep the work going . >> (clapping.) >> how do you follow reverend brown good evening to parapet and vice president walton and board commissioner and superintendant carranza and the cab netted our beloved esther and boys and girls on behalf of the indicator and want and vice president i'm honored to stand before you tonight to support the african-american achievement and leadership initiative

i commend this board i commend this superintendent your bold visions to do anything something for those who stood at the bottom of ladders that are african-american descents you made the bodily decision to implement the african-american achievement initiative we're so grateful and thankful i recall superintendent commander saying roll out an event not the responsibility for the achievement of african-american students is the responsibility for all 5 thousand educators and the cabinet and community to make sure those students are successful and we're thankful for that that's by are better late than never my high honor with blood dickey in august and accepted we rolled out the family blah cases with the ceo's it phenomenal see which way we

roll out the spaca on member jordan and the unified school district it is wonderful and then we have the students come together with the bs u they plan their own agenda it is positively where you have and thank you to senator leno for inviting us into the state building to see where our tax dollars are and we'll miss him he termed out on december 17, '89 a great day it is my birthday but the apac members were scorn sworn in thank you commissioner vice president walton it was an phenomenal event i want the communities and the board for the apac parents there all phenomenal participants they've earned a 4.0 i watched them each month

flan phenomenal meetings and opened the door to any office they'll be okay to all needs and we do it for them but filed with the heart of bayview hunters point and with pike meetings so apac parents thank you and have many things that happy in between i mean, i'll skip own on our project we want to thank the unified school district we horn many students that earn a 3 point owe and higher give them a hand of applause we are grateful to superintendant carranza to move and support this we'll be grateful to reverend brown and others but also this pike and

the initiative had the vision to implement to show president obama it was phenomenal plug in the team and apac we thank you so we know that the manipulative work to do and it can be done i don't have my - i say thank you many, many people and in what capaci naacp and my one request on behalf of the communities mr. dickey must go through the budget process each year and the board commissioners the community requests you consider a time to fund this on a 5 year can i believe we can't see much progress in one year but please fund the project on a 4 year

project now thank you bernard shay. >> (clapping.) >> good evening good evening to all of the commissioners to parapet and to commissioner shamann walton and our own superintendent good evening again my name is a dining gray i'm the executive director off 100 percent college prep a and a proud member of the alliance of black school educators and a retiree of san francisco unified school district first of all, my organization is so honored to be a part avenue african-american post secondary pathway collaboration and we're so happy that we're part of team of landon and with parents and other what over 40 community-based organizations that is doing the work around college and career and making

sure the students stay on track our focus is making sure that we know what the root cause is; right? the root cause why our students are not meeting the requirements and getting the grades point average and why aren't they participating in concurrent enrollment inform city college or san francisco state that's the role our cabo san lucas cbos will be doing with the inch we're happy to the superintendent signed on to the commissioners are supporting that and then generally our cbos and parents in the district are supporting this effort we're as va va said moving forward this baby steps we'll want to see this initiative funded to the

extent and i'm so happy you've going done so much so far in hiring a lot of people around landon to do the work that needs to be done we're very, very proud to be part of this and moving forward thank you . >> (clapping.) >> sheryl davis (calling names). >> good evening hi sheryl davis i just gave commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell to books to pass around for the most part i want to recognize the energy and dedication of below landon dickey. >> thank you we're trying to

move the efforts forward you know i come in all the time to talk about summer that's as i work in a private school and talk about churches the biggest most segregated and it is summer; right? the disparities and the lack of opportunities our kids are experiencing so as we develop and support mr. dickey one of the things he talked about earlier of those comments for care, he want to recognize that mr. dickey and superintendent carranza had an issue with the student in kindergarten that is suspected on a regular basis they helped us not the expectation but figuring out how to make sure that the students are getting the support on an ongoing basis i think that student should be

used as a pilot; right? and one of those thing is around summer i appreciate the work in the sum summer i have hired a reading specialist to work with that student and hired we're working with the public health department to get the trauma support and i think that is something we should be doing in the district and more to say not enough time i'll pga around the books and the curriculum dcyf has contracted to use it, it is all about african-american and so how we do that more of that i'll bring in more books owe ultimately to work together and get more resources to mr. dickey for school year and summer. >> (clapping.) >> hello 23450i78z a across the city actually, i graduate

from lowell high school in may. >> (clapping.) >> i'm here to support in support of a african-american at sfusd and what i would like you guys do focus on hire more black teachers to create a pipeline for a recruit i graduated into the district we need people that relative to us we need the adults that want to generously see us pro per at higher education and even though i graduated i'm grateful that i met you guys and after that has happened we're making progress i want to be part of it so thank you. >> (clapping.) >> hi, my name is jackie scott i'll be an in coming senior at lowell high school. >> (clapping.)

>> i'm here to support the african-american students and the san francisco unified school district and i want to encourage the district too so focus an increased professional development for staff and mandatory culture derivative diversity training this does not only effect us bus the unified school district if we advocate for ourselves ourselves and other students we can bring change that effects everyone that is beneficial to everyone involved thank you . >> (clapping.) >> hi my name is sea and i'll be a senior at lowell this fall. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. >> so last time i spoke you, you on me and my fellow bs c members walked out of the school we were protesting a lack of support for minority at lowell

but at sfusd and fault taken an interest and work on implementing all of them. >> (clapping.) >> we've had private meetings with superintendent carranza they asked us the minority needs to feel safe and in coming students summer is out i'm sorry school is out and summer has given we're working and still here and listening and we expect to be kept up to date by the sfusd and the board of education regarding our demands there's been a real communication in the past but i am - i expect that the district will continue to

keep up to date on what is happening to our demands are specific to lowell i think that is important to acknowledge that many students throughout the district are going to the same thing we are and shouldn't feel the need to walk out of class to be heard and the african-american does feel supported we need to stop waiting for bad things to happen and make the changes to prevent those things from happening he wanted to take this time to thank piac and landon dickey for supporting us it's been hard but thank you guys. >> (clapping.) >> good evening i'm better

known and a tenth grader at high school i want to talk about the lack of participation in the workshops specifically the workshop i put together students alone helped to put this workshops that is boys to men training and happened in late april last year and the turnout was in my opinion apathyic for it was targeted towards young black men students to hem them succeed lots of workshops for example, a workshop to know you're right when our confronted with the police black men are confronted by the police officer

for little to no reason we need to get the word out to all the young black men for not being able to come to those workshops most of time they don't feel the need it is not important to them but is or us senior and the elderly you need to make them think that is important thank you. >> hi good evening, everybody i'm a graduate of waldon beggar high school 2015 i'm here to talk about the support of the african-american program and the support of the san francisco unified school district i particularly want to talk

about support for african-american graduates because i attend city college and notice that many graduates at city have this attitude of not role wanting to pursue education because of lack of really models and lack of none in the house telling them they can achieve and do that also i have help if beyond 12 my coach talked to her every once a month and she desires me i feel that others should be encouraged and the path program at landon dickey should, increased as african-americans we need this for all admittance we need this and the motivation and just to move past the barriers in school and look for role models and people that are confident to do

this and thank you for having me. and thank you landon dick and everyone thank you >> (clapping.) >> good evening superintendant carranza and commissioners my name is al i didn't i'm an active parents in the african-american parents advisory council and many task force number one say that i'm very proud and just have our district and i want to commend the work of our superintendent our board of commissioners for taking a stand on equality that note other folks are doing when it comes to bias eat walking the talk and commend landon dickey

and the and others on the apac and other aa will i i team members and want to say i have been so moved and spiert the leadership the lowell and mission and other high school bs u students let's give our students an amazing round of applause. >> (clapping.) >> at the same time i also want to express concerns when black students at one of the most prestigious high school west of the mississippi need to walk out like they feel their school is a place their valued and apartments elected to the to the p tsa the county president said he points the fingers at black families and being poor is

not a excuse of giving our child a lot of education or give them to expect to pick up what the parents didn't do and cry racism because the child is behind in the and will this is the current president at lowell i want to make sure we're supporting our district leaders and as parents we are speaking up to continue provide a place for students to feel safe and welcome and their families are valued in our district thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> good evening, commissioners i'm always coming hero and proud to look into the world and know i have a lot of friends here (calling names) i have sandy and other hydra i

know that you will be supportive of this initiated i wanted to take the opportunity to recognize mr. landon dickey speakers are spoken about you we're honored to have you and the young mayor the san francisco i believe the history are san francisco and i know you couldn't have done this work let's give credit to superintendent i know we look at you straight in the eye and asked you to step up you did that a fine gentleman and leaders of san francisco none other than that stand up superintendant guerrero stand up sir, thank you. >> (clapping.) >> follow the summit at san francisco state university

myself and group leaders goat together honeycutt and others we sat we participate in the unified school district and parents tried to put together a program with design and profiles and ask questions finally the history of san francisco unified school district we have a pilot that will have national implications that pilot with youth on top of the chain it is based on the round table village not the standard in fact, students had that are in the district should continue to excel not learn the set the record straight standard all they wanted to do a target the dollar achievers we know that participants need to be helped we said to hold the teachers accountable there are 5 teachers

in the san francisco unified school district and shouldn't be in the unified school district so this village is comprised of teachers and stakeholders and come up here and stanford university or anymore in the country to look at the profiles of design and the resources targeted you should use your existing resources and encourage you to go out to the city and county of san francisco there are all sorts of community benefits in the bayview district kiss across the city are supposed to be earmarked in the system we also want to point you to where those are vice president walton will be talking about so we can all together look at how to help the students develop their profiles and finally in the history of san francisco look out where we're

making progress if you put our support and everyone plays they're part we'll not be coming here throughout the country will be looking at what you've deny please the leaders look at those as our legacies because it is your legacies and talking about that note just hear here a here but outside of san francisco and going to make sure that the cities what emulate what out of under take place in san francisco so congratulations to you thanyou, sir . >> (clapping.) >> susan solomon didn't forgot about you. >> well, he represent a group so - thank you parapet good evening, commissioners superintendent and the members of apac i'm honored to be up here to talk about the work done by

landon dickey and the pike addresses the urgency of now and what we're facing with the new gym crow and a as the painfully articulated by ms. alexander the school has tried to look at the hundred years long trend it is excellent the city of san francisco the housing crisis pushing out african-american families i grew up here and we've gone from 20 percent of the population being african-american to four around now so this work is extremely, extremely important and that means to thank the apac for inviting me including myself to be on a panel to have a thorough discussion it greatly

appreciated and thank you 44 for coming to the close the gap lines in april thank you several folks were there and helpful dialogue there are great recommendations in the reports there are all good especially point out the recommendation about increasing ethnic studies a terrific article in the examiner to show that it helps to approve the academic achievement and the restorative academic and increase the development and follow-up coaching that is really important hiring african-american educators to tie in larger numbers, in fact, in there are now will be 3 teachers in 3 schools for academic - for

african-american achievement instructors i hope that to see that increase including at the elementary schools and want to finish by saying stanford is and will continue to partner on this initiative, however, we can thank you . >> (clapping.) >> thank you sew so much to all the speakers and open up to the board for questions or comments commissioner vice presient walton. >> thank you, commissioner president haney in support of the achievement and skers skewing success of all african-american in the san francisco unified school district this resolution which was was my first one with president haney and commissioner murase and others in support was more than just about words and was really about the districts commitment to make sure our black children have the opportunity to achieve thank you

to the pike for their work and mr. dickey and existed about the desire teem are a couple of questions more than a couple but one just we've talked about some of this in conversation, of course, utilized to or i'd like to see us spell out the strategies at the elementary school and middle school so we can say this is what we're doing at elementary schools and middle and this is what we're doing in high school and have that flow for the student profile and, of course, college and career and second i definitely want to see this valley have a dedicated black instructor that is concerning to me ms. veil is not spelled out with the same level of support