syntropy. >> good evening, everyone and welcome to another evening, another meeting of the sfusd board of education. miss casco, roll call, please. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: thank you. >> great, thank you. if you would, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ]

>> thank you. just a reminder -- i 'm sorry. accessibility information for the public is in information section(a). section(b) are opening items. we have an approval of board minutes for the regular meetings of march 13, 2018 and february 27, 2018. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> i need a second. >> second. >> thank you. any corrections? roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: five ayes. >> thank you. as has been announced in the past few meetings. members of the public are advised if they wish to address

the board of education, they can complete a speaker card which looks like this. they are a tan colored card that are out in the foyer, and you must give us prior to the item being called and present it to miss casco. important accordingly to the board rules, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board, so if you plan to speak, please get us your cards before the item comes up. item 2, superintendent's report. superintendent matthews. >> thank you, president mendoza. good evening, everyone. i'm happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for the superintendent's 21st century award, which honors graduating seniors who kphonor the honors in the sfusd profile, going to 12 senior demonstrating particular strengths in one or more

characteristics of the graduate profile. the award is $2,000 cash. this award is available to all district senior students regardless of citizenship status. apply on-line by april 23rd at ppp.sfusd.ude/studentaward. this past saturday, san francisco unified school district students from four elementary schools, bryant, flynn, daniel webster and marshall received 100 donated bicycles, helmets and locks from the rotary club of san francisco. this is the second oldest rotary club in the world. the donation marked the club's 10th annual bike build event. rotary club members began assembling bikes at 8:30 and students and families arrived at 1100 time to select bikes,

while san francisco fire department provided rules and tips for riding on the streets of strisk. thank you to the rotary club and sfusd for supporting our students. did you know that six of our schools were named state recognized schools? join me in recognizing them who are announced at honorees in the distinguished school program in the 2018 program. the 2018 california distinguished schools program recognizes california elementary schools, kindergarten through 8th grade that have made exceptional gains in implementing academic content and adopting performance standards adopted by the state board of education. the program returns this year after a three year break and replaces the california gold ribbons schools program. in addition, this year california also recognized

exemplary districts that have made a positive impact on student outcomes. our district is being recognized as one of the 22 exemplary districts through its work with the african american achievement and leadership initiative. congratulations to the award winning schools, and our commitment to the highest quality education for our students. finally, come join us for the 7th annual black family resource network, black family day, milestones to excellence. this wonderful event is this saturday, april 14th, from 9:00 to 2:30 at willie brown middle school, which is located at 2055 silver avenue. the day will feature workshops for the transition from pre-k to kindergarten, fifth to sixth grade, and eighth to ninth, and 12th to college and career. the day will include

information for summer programs and on-site resources from community programs. this event is free, and includes exciting student performances as well as a raffle for tablets, gift cards and warrior tickets and we'll have a complimentary buffet brunch. three shuttle buses will be provided. for more information on the few pick up locations or to rsvp, please call 415-603-7628. you can also rsvp by e-mailing aapac@sfusd.edu. hope to see you all there. madam president, that concludes my remarks for this evening. >> thanks very much, dr. matthews. our next item is items three -- please switch this around. student delegates report, miss men and mr. ong. >> good evening. signing off, last meeting, we

had miss mary richards come and present to us about the sfusd graduation planning and where the sfc would come into play. we provided student input where we discussed and created plans to implement a better future where each and every student in sfusd can graduate with a college acceptance. we have some very hopeful outlooks on what the future will look like and how that happens, so thank you, miss mary richards and her department team. >> we also have another resolution in the works. the first reading of it actually took place yesterday monday, april 9th. the sfusd wants to limit exposure students to cannabis. the reading of this resolution will take place at our next s.a.c. meetings on april 23rd. >> we want to reduce our carbon footprint and provide alternative protein diets for the admin to consider, and we

would like to support a coresolution in the making. we would like to thank kristin thank you very much andly michaels for supporting this. another voice for student input is out and live. on the survey, students can provide student input on our school district budget plan. s.a.c. will spread and promote this survey to get the best information for our students. >> we also have updates on the extracurricular activities board policy 6145. we've created a student survey, and we'd like to distribute the survey and gather student input. if you want to see where students stand on the issue and use the info we get on the survey to conduct a focus group. we will follow up with our representatives at the distribution process at the april 23rd s.a.c. meeting. as i said our next meeting will

be on april 23rd in the board admin room, which is here. if you would like to attend or make a presentation, please contact our s.a.c. supervisor, mr. salvador lopez ibarra. thank you, and that concludes the report for today. >> thank you both. sure. commissioner? >> i want to thank the student d delegates and the s.a.c. for doing a survey on the extracurricular. i think that's going to be really helpful information for us so thank you for your leadership on this. >> thank you. item four, our recognitions and resolutions of commendation. we don't have any this evening. item five is recognizing all valuable employees. our rave award, we don't have any tonight. item six is our advisory committee reports and toimts to advisory committees by board memo members.

if our p.a.c. representative would join us. [ inaudible ] >> good evening, superintendent matthews, president mendoza mcdonald, and commissioners. my name is johnny nabler, and i'm vice chair of the p.a.c. >> good evening, president mendoza mcdonald, superintendent matthews, and commissioners. my name is georgia williams brett, and i'm the coordinator

for the parent advisory council. so i just wanted to say that the role of the parent advisory council is to bring parent perspectives and voices to t board of education to help inform their decisions, and this evening's presentation is bringing information around the -- focusing on earl ay education department's enrollment process, and what we've learned through stakeholder engagement. so the parent advisory council and the early education department collaborated, and i want to just take a moment to thank the staff in the early education department who were part of this process, and that is dj sati, margaret harris, nancy lambert, did he obserebrd we reached out to various

people to gather their ideas, they questions and concerns about the idea of streamlining the earl education department's at a stream lined school enrollment process, and we asked them to identify some solutions to help to make that overall process more family friendly. [ inaudible ] >> so we used various methods of gathering feedback, we conducted family focus groups, one in the bayview and the other in the mission, with language interpretation offered at both. we conducted meetings and interviews with site personnel and supervisors. and this slide shows the family demographics of the ethnicity of the participants and the specific student population represented by families. we intentionally only collected the demographic info of the participating families, and not of the site administrators and other employees so that we got a reflection of the people that

participated in who use this process. and it's in appendix of the company report, just to let you know. and then once working with the ost enrollment, at sites, no appointment is required. there's flexible hours to drop off paperwork and recertifications every two years. sources of support include especially rolement specialists, a list of required documents and materials available in various languages, and the ability to speak with staff in their home language, and this was important to families. and. [ inaudible ] -- create a sense of community, and the ost staff had knowledge of the program and are very familiar with the changes as they develop. so in terms of the families for areas of improvement, they wanted better alignment from site to site to develop consistency across the programs. people had different results and -- and interactions,

depending on the site, so that's something they want to be more eveningly distributed. better communication among staff to prevent breakdowns during the enrollment process, and the need to clarify the transfer systems for families and staff. more flexibility and extended office hours so families can enroll their children without missing work. that was vital. and many working families make use of this, and they were concerned about the hours and ability to do work, especially if they had to come down to areas and wait a couple hours to get their paperwork in. and customer service training for staff to communicate effectively with a compassionate effective understanding. and then areas for improvement, both families and staff expressed the amount of paperwork is overwhelming, too much, and documentation needs to be much simplified. they talked about the list and we also talked about types of missing documentation and not realizing it and having to go back.

families and staff urge the district to steam line the ost enrollment process by creating an on-line system, and that can answer both their questions and help with the facilitation of submission of paperwork, and things like that or getting back responses from the district. families made suggestions to improve the program quality by expanding access to resources and activity such as language classes, sports, activity clubs. and we went into the different models and in the site based model, some of the pros were staff and families able to foster relationships. a lot of families spoke about they liked the site staff, and they liked working with them, and it was very helpful. one-stop shop. families access services quickly, left the lane before service begins. able to share student information with the teacher before it's due to short turnaround time for some of the information.

tonight have longer hours in general, and then, i just want to interject on the relationships, they also liked the fact that usually, the sites were close to where they lived, so that helped with the -- getting over there. >> so in terms of looking at the site base model, some of the cons for families, staff and administrators, looking again at the inconsistency across -- from site to site in terms of the eligibility and quality assurance, and also the challenge of families having students enrolled in multiple locations, and if there was limited language access if a site wasn't able to provide that interpretation translation, and then, marketing, outreach and recruitment for ost sites varies, depending on the site capacity, so that's one of those cons. and site clerks, also looking at the working hours, most of them only have part-time schedules. >> and i forgot to mention that

these were -- these pros and -- were identified by the participants, so not with site staff. these were from the actual participants in our surveys and meetings. so for centralized system, some of the pros are consistency of service, hours of enrollment and marketing, less gate keeping of students accepted at sites, ensuring greater equity, one place, one person, one file, one process. it's all theirs. citywide enrollment list is working, and then centralized location would stream line across site, making it more equitiable. >> so some of the cons that were highlighted, and this is the perception of the stakeholders that having a centralized system wouldn't be able to meet the family's immediate needs that there's a two way delay before services will begin. and that location is not convenient if it's centralized here at 55 franklin, that some

parents have to take time off work to come and -- due to the restricted office hours that are here. and that a scheduled appointment is required, and at the moment, it's extremely limited. also, the perception that pre-k families can get lost in the epc shuffle of enrollment. so there's more details to each of that within the greater report, which was sent to you earlier today, but i wanted to really highlight some of the concerns that surfaced, and one of them was that the site -- there was a fare that site clerks may lose their jobs if the ost process was centralized. and what we really wanted to call to your attention is that if we think about it intentionally, that this shift could actually provide additional opportunities for site clerks to support family engagement and build stronger relationships with families. and for example, so if some of the paperwork were centralized, that they would have more time to actually follow families

around attendance, and we know that chronic absenteeism begins early, and so if site clerks had more time to actually help with on boarding and follow up say with the families or elementary school to find out if the student was absent or absent in the after school program, that would be a way to develop or partnership across the elementary schools and other programs. the other piece to point out is that the out of school regulations have changed from the state in february 2017, so staff still doesn't know all of it -- the impact in terms of the workload, and how -- what impact it will have on the families, as it's still being implemented. and i think one of the bigger pieces that we really wanted to highlight from this whole process that our district is committed to the pre-k third grade alignment as an approach to really look at improving student out comes, and in particular, really narrowing the gap in achievement early

on, and so if we real he loly t how with can strengthen our supports, our systems and our services, it's an opportunity to explore where we can improve that to really fore identify that alignment and the set of recommendations that developed out of these conversations are with that thinking. so there's five recommendations that were developed out of this process, and in the written report, the longer written report, there's some considerations and implications that we actually kind of flushed out a little bit more, and we want to encourage you to read those. but basically the five recommendations that we have for the overall early education department enrollment process is, well, you know, is to move -- the first one is to move the early education enrollment process to a digital platform. we really want to kind of point out that in the process of the -- looking at these findings and through these listening sessions, we also discovered that any recommendation for the out of school time enrollment process

would actually require a shift in the overall early education enrollment process, so it was keeping that in mind. and the second recommendation is to think about creating a hybrid system of on-line enrollment and the paper application process, as well. and to think about how can we establish flexible hours to accommodate working families, and one of those considerations, for example, is thinking about what the conversations would be around union negotiations for that to happen, right? the fourth recommendation is to develop a pilot program plan and implement it at a couple of after school programs to transition to a central model. and finally, it's the recommendation to establish an on boarding transitional plans for students and families for new enrollment as well as transfers. so -- so some of the big take aways is that we know that any kind of transition with a system like this going from

site-based to a centralized system really requires intentional, well planned coordination and in particular, loorking how do we work with our educational placement center, and how do we think about the early education system -- enrollment system in concert with our -- our tk, transitional kindergarten, through 12th grade enrollment process, and how do we work together to really fore identifore -- 23 ort -- 23 ortify that alignment? >> just for the next p.a.c.c. meeting is tomorrow night, 6:00 p.m. so that's wednesday, april 11th. it'll be here on the fourth floor. child care is provided. we're also still recruiting for p.a.c.c. members, and you can see the p.a.c.c. website for

details about that. and are there any questions? >> thank you both very much. commissioners, commissioner merase? >> thank you very much for this thorough report. i really appreciate it. i totally support the alignment issue of trying to get this piece of our youngest students right, so it will set the students up for success as they grow older. so i really completely agree with you. i want to acknowledge the work of carla bryant previous to this and minuya scherr who continues in the value of investing in the early years. i have two questions. you in the report described the demographics of folks who came to your focus groups. can you talk a little bit about the outreach to administrative staff and clerks. did you get a good representation among the staff

who were participating in this process? and then, i have a second question. >> so we facilitated a conversation at the principal's meeting, for example, where site administrators were, and likewise, we had a conversation with the clerks -- site clerks, as well as an on-line survey for them to participate. >> thank you. and i support your recommendation about the site clerks, that perhaps their job can be transitioned to more work on attendance issues. i think that is he aa great idea. my second question is about looking at the demographics of the participants, and there seems to be a big under representation of asian pacific islander folks, of the folks -- people who are involved in the engagement sessions. i'm trying to figure out is that because they don't participate in the pre-k early education enrollment or was there something we could have

done to outreach and get more participation? >> so there were two conversations with families, and one was out at leo havord out in the bayview. and the other was currently enrolled -- that site is partnering with carver elementary school, so the outreach was through that community. and then, in the commission it was at las americas, and staff helped with the outreach to those families. we actually expected to see more chinese speaking families, as well, and for some reason -- well, it was raining that night, too, so that might have had an impact, as well. >> so i would just say that we figure more outreach to asian-american, pacific islander students. there are many chinese families

living together who rely on student resources to bring opportunities to their students. >> i just want today have one comment. so we had interpreters there for the various languages, and i actually did notice that even among the different groups, the concerns were very common about -- i was actually surprised when i saw that. it was very -- so even though i understand your concern, i -- i think some of the findings would still be consistent among the -- the different groups. >> commissioner walton and they be commissioner norton? >> thank you, commissioner mendoza mcdonald. thank you for the presentation. nice change of pace with the powerpoint. just two questions -- well, three definitely related to the topic here on the slides, and then, the third one just to get legal offset with me for going off topic. if we look at the first slide

where we talk about areas of improvement, what do you mean by transfer system? >> so when a -- when a student is transferred from -- switches over -- from, like, elementary to the after school program, going from one program to another. >> and then, just a question for leadership of the district, because i believe we have other eed enrollment sites because 55 franklin. i think there's one at everett and somewhere citywide. just out of curiosity. how is that possible and how can we do more of that? >> we can work directly with epc to see that -- i can get back to you with an answer on that question.

>> good evening, commissioners. think minnie ahshad, chief of the early edu. we have two, which is one at neil halverd, and then we have one at 55 franklin. those are the two, but we are interested in the recommendation, and our wanting to think about how we can do -- be more flexible and do more hours and that sort of thing. >> thank you. and then third question is if we have groups or organizations that, like, want to give tickets to the ballet or want to do things like that, would that be something that the parent p.a.c.c. would be interested in to having available for parents involved in the p.a.c.c. and their young people or would you rather it go a different way? 'cause if so, then i will connect somebody to you. >> yes, i think that the

p.a.c.c. would like that. >> okay. great. thank you. >> commissioner norton? >> thank you. thank you for the report. i think it -- i support the recommendations. i think it's great that the p.a.c.c. is looking at this and bringing up this issue, because it's been sort of a -- a prap attic part of our -- problematic part of our issues, they're both complex in different ways. but i wanted to ask staff that as we look at these recommendations, i would also like us to look at possibly adding some kind of a preference for our educators and enrolling their own students in early ed. i received an inquiry from one of our special education teachers who kind of at her wit's end trying to enroll her

toddler in an early ed program that works with her schedule. so it would be i think yet another possibly easy way to try to keep our educators in san francisco and make their lives a little bit easier, so i would love to see us study that and consider whether we could do that. >> is that -- is that a -- wait, who can answer that? >> i don't need an answer right now. i mean, it's really i'm just hopeful that staff can kind of put that in the hopper with some of these other changes to consider whether this is a change that we can do because it seems relatively straightforward to me. >> thank you. >> i was going to say, i took notes on that, so if we do that in the future, i would definitely add that. because i have actually heard that, too, so... >> great. thank you both.

section c, is consent calendar. i need a motion and second on the consend calendar. >> so moved. >> second. >> okay. thank you. i don't have any public comment on any of the consent items. are there any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> yes, there are corrections. mr. stihl will read the corrections right now. >> thank you, superintendent matthews. we do have two withdrawals from our on-line k resolutions. first is 18410 k 8, and second is 184-10 k 8. we have a withdrawal, number 16 on the calendar. the first comment of the six is being withdrawn. >> thank you. any items removed for first reading by the board. any itemed severed by the board or superintendent for vote or discussion tonight? seeing none, roll call vote on

consent calendar. >> clerk: thank you. [ roll call. ] >> yes. no on items k 1, k 12, 13, 14, and 20. all retroactive. >> clerk: thank you. >> thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> all right. section e are proposals for action. we have several items. board policy 4019, professional standards. this was already moved and seconded at a prior meeting. a report from the rules committee on april 2nd. if there's anyone on that, do you want to just lump all these together or do you want to take them individually. >> i'm happy to have the board vote on them together unless there are questions or reasons we should separate them out? >> okay. does anyone feel strongly one way or the other?

okay. why don't we do these all together? so you want to do all the -- all of the, including the charter school authorizations and over sights and all of that? >> i would suggest we do perhaps items one and two and then take item three, the board resolution separately. [ inaudible ] >> what she suggested was one and two. >> yes. >> so yes, we're going to do them all together. okay. thank you. all right. so we'll also include bp 0420.4, charter school authorization, bp 02042041, charter school oversight. and bp 7160, charter school facilities. so all of these have been moved and seconded at a prior meeting. who can give me a report from rules from april 2nd on this? okay. commissioner merase? >> on behalf of chair mark sanchez, it was very -- it was

clarified to us at the meeting that the text of these policies are to align us with csba standards, with ed code. we're not going beyond anything, so it's really just formalizing policies that are in keeping with our state law requirements. >> okay. great. thank you. >> they're all moved with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> okay. perfect. thank you. all right. so i have -- oh, superintendent, would you like to call on this out to introduce it into the record? >> would you please introduce these into the record. >> we're asking tonight that you approve four policies together. board policy 4019, professional standards; policy 420.4, charter school authorization, 420.41, charter school oversight, and 7160, charter

school facilities. >> i have no public speakers on any of these items. any comments from the board? okay. seeing none, roll call vote, please, on all four items. >> clerk: thank you. [ roll call. ] clerk clrk five ayes. >> thank you. next item is resolution 183-13(a) 1 in support of equitiable services and staff for our hawaiian or pacific islanders. this was already moved and seconded on march 3rd, 2018. a report from the committee as a whole meeting from april 3rd, commissioner cooke? >> yes. we got an update from staff about the suggested strategies

on if passed, how to move resolution forward. staff also followed up with questions that couldn't be answered at informational update. so we really appreciate all those questions being answered, and it seems like people are thinking really thoughtfully how to connect resources to achieve the objectives of this resolution. >> thank you. at this time, we're going to have a reading of the resolution by commissioner cooke and i. you're going to rt start, commissioner cooke? thank you. >> resolution number 1(a)3-31(a) 1 in support of equitiable services and staff for hawaiian pacific islanders and staff.

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. >> i'm going to skip down a couple -- few whereases. [agenda item read] . >> thank you, vice president. so i'm going to continue. therefore be it resolved in order to provide the equitiable support required for our nhpi students to thrive in the 21st century, the board requests the superintendent of schools to work with staff to expand additional support for nhpi students, and be it resolved to further advance the mission of the san francisco unified school district to support our students attending college, the district shall one work with the samoan community center and

other development groups to recruit nhpi for positions throughout the district. in staffing schools, one, nhpi students are most demographically populous. the district shall work to ensure that staff is culturally competent to meet the needs of our nhpi students and explore all options to support new and existing college and career readiness programs designed to meet nhpi student needs in a culturally competent way, and expand sfusd's partnership with the oceana and star supports. further be it resolved, san francisco unified school

district shall provide community space for nhpi community partnerships, including but not limited to, involving community partnerships for practicable to advance nhpi disproportionalities and inequities in san francisco unified school district and to supporting culturally relevant curriculums for nhpi at all grade levels. these should seek to preserve preserve and pass on traditions with parent and community involvement where practicable. three, exploring all options to ensure the samoan community development center to continues to operate within sfusd, including facilitating a joint use agreement or other legal instrument to share facilities with scdc and exploring all options to facilitate the creation of an nhpi wraparound services center in the building currently housing scdc with the

goal of addressing nhpi health disparities including but not limited to nhpi focused youth services tuthtorring and college readiness programs and culturally competent services. in order to measuring ongoing progress, the superintendent of schools shall work with staff to comply with federal -- federal and state mandated data standards from api data and to further breakdown data by pai ethnic groups to further capture nhpi data. so there you go. how about that? [applause]. >> so we have a few public speakers on this. so i'm really glad the community came out. it's so great to see all of you. so noah frigaut, helga, john,

and hifo, come on up. [ speaking native language ] >> it's really emotional. tonight's a historical moment for pacific islanders, as everybody in this room should know. so i am really honored to be here, and i first and foremost want to thank the district, thank the leadership of the board. we've been doing this since august, right? we've been at this since august, and we got here. it took some pulling and pushing and figuring out what to write in these papers, but we're here. on behalf of the p.i. community, the p.i. community that are in the house, we want to say mahalo, just mahalo,

continue moving forward. this is community driven. it is formed by the community. we are in partnership. i was here at the committee meeting earlier. i saw there was one position on there. we're advocating for three positions, so we can get in there and do this work. i spoke with kevin truitt a little bit earlier, and there's a recommendation that we're going to positive the p.i. community. as we move forward, continuously working on some immediate needs currently today that we can do with this building, but again, i'm just going to keep it like that. thank you so, so much. mahalo. [applause]. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is epha, and i am a tongan woman.

[ inaudible ] >> one of the classes i'm taking this semester is called pacifica. i was also taught the definition of culture, and that is when you as people are given a space to manipulate. how we manipulated the spaces, one component is the tatau, or other words, the tattoo. the identity that you hold today is fluid, which means it's going to change. the tattoo is supposed to solidify your reality. the reason we told the tattoo in the samoan culture, it's a moment you are supposed to hold in your lifetime. these classes that i take are my identity, and they are my

tatau. the more classes i take, the more fluid my identity become. i am here to advocate for more classes for pacific islanders so they can have the same opportunity i had. i am advocating for the pacific islanders who are pushed out of the schools and kept away from realizing who their people are and who they really are. and i am here to advocate for the pacific islanders who are kept from getting their own tattoo. i am tired of the -- i am tired of being a teacher for my ownoppressions. we are tired to say we are struggling. we are tired of repeating ourselves, but what we don't want to do is forcefully get it from people. that's why our people always ask, and our people are always

giving. thank you. [applause]. >> good evening. madam president, commissioners. my name is john nauer, and i'm the coach here of the pacific islanders association. this is very historical and as well as emotional for us. i mean, just listening to some of those statistics, the only thing i can say, it's long overdue. it's long overdue. it's been a problem that our city and many other cities haven't yet addressed, and i thank you for putting this together for our city. and i encourage the rest of the commissioners to please vote yes on this. this is the first step -- let me give you a scenario for a young pacific islander student

in san francisco. if you walk-through the door, and you don't see anybody that looks like you, they see their teachers, they see the dean, their council, their principal, you kind of want to just walk right back out the door and find the first doorway you he had se had -- you see, get you a pack of cigarette and a beer and drink. there's no motivation for our young people. that's why there's those statistics. the proof is in the pudding. a lot of our kids are not making it. that's because they don't have an identity. when you do not see yourselves in an authoratitive role, why should you go to school in for us, it's athletics or clubs, especially the polyclubs, but that's a lot of culture and dancing and stuff, but it's not going to take us where we need

to go as a community. i really appreciate allowing us to partner up with our community. there's eight organizations. we're working hard, we're going to be back and hold hands with the district and make sure this is the first step. let's get our young people, let's help our community. let's make an impact, you know, let's change instead of just shooting for becoming an nfl player which is what, one out of a large number, let's shoot to get some doctors, right? let's shoot to get some more doctors, teachers. i mean, that's what our young people need. as you see, we have a larger community, but most of our folks are not used to partaking in forums such as this, but this is one great step. once we get the word out in our community, trust me, the next function, our numbers will be a lot greater when we show up. thank you so much. [applause]. >> thank you. our last speaker, please.

>> good evening, commissioners. my name's noah, and i am a policy analyst with the human rights commission, and on behalf of staff, they really wanted to offer our full support for this historic resolution. we are really excited and want to work with the board as this moves forward or -- and just to focus on one example of how this resolution is so forward thinking, for data desegregation, when you're looking at asian and pacific islander statistics together, it really masks a lot of the issues that you highlighted in the resolution. and so pulling that out and looking at pacific islander

specific data and then desegregating that further, like the resolution says, really goes a long way to make sure that students receive the supports that they need and that they're not statistically invisible. they're -- just to say how far ahead of the curve sfusd is on there, there's state law about desegregation, but it's not set to take effect for another 4.5 years, and it only applies in health situations. so this is a really important resolution, and the human rights commission is really excited that the board has taken it up. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, noah. so at this time, i'd like to open it up for board members to make any comments.

commissioner walton? >> one, you know, i want to thank commissioner -- or president mendoza and president cooke for bringing the resolution forward. this is a conversation that we've been having for a while in community and with the board of education and with the district, so it is long overdue. but i also think this represents the commitment of this board to make sure that we provide specific and static opportunities for the groups that have the biggest gaps in the district. so i'm excited to see us continue with the specificity like we do for our black learners, like we do for our minority learners, and as noah mentioned, actually carving out our nhpi community.

that's important. and just the last thing that i want to say as i talked at about last week's meeting, it's important that you leverage what's out there. i always want to say on record, the role that they need to play as we continue this work within the district and our city for all of our populations that we're working with and targeting and streamlining our services because we know that with our initiatives, with role masterpiece in the latino community and black to the future, we have resources available to do the same thing in our nhpi community. just to give an example, we fund in school support positions with black to the future in a collaborative soul. it supports our young people in the classrooms, but it also supports or educators, so it is important that we leverage our city resources as we work within our district, too, because this is all of our

children and this work is important. again, just excited about this work and looking forward to how we get deeper into getting this done as a unit, so thank you all four coming out and thank you for bringing the resolution forward. >> thank you, commissioner walton. commissioner merase? >> thank you. i'd like to ask the authors if the rest of the school board members could be added to the resolution. i'm strongly in support. i want to thank the young woman from june jordan for being so articulate about the importance of this initiative. i met with mr. zuniga earlier this year. i want to recognize his key leadership in making this happen. i do want to comment on the committee of the whole meeting earlier, because in a subsequent conversation with mr. moliga, i know that staff are looking into sort of internal strategies for improving nhpi representation

in the school district. i want to be sure that execution plan for this resolution is aligning with community needs because the feedback that i received was there's a real need for student support services and strategies for providing students enhanced support, less of a need or emphasis on sort of sfusd internal. so any way, i would like to continue the dialogue and just make sure that the implementation of the resolution is in keeping with the community needs. i will be supporting the resolution tonight. >> thank you, commissioner merase? [ inaudible ] >> vice president cooke? >> i really want to thank everyone that came out to observe this being read into the record. i especially want to highlight

the tongan leadership for working with us to bring this resolution forward. as a graduate of schools mostly on the south side of the city, i went to school often it was with the polynesian, and as a member of the african american community, i saw how a lot of us were struggling with the same issues. it's really been people at the site that have tried to hold on and build and create something of an affirmative community. that's gotten a lot of diverse participation and it's been an important cornerstone at school sites. today, we say your -- your issues and concerns are at -- a top priority for the school district. that's what this resolution says, that you're not doing it alone. that we are completely behind you, and we want to see all

these issues be something of the past. so in acknowledgement of that long-standing site work, i also do want to acknowledge century fatoue, who i met at thurgood marshall, and was just the glue for all the students in that community. he's been an asset to every school that he's served, so thank you for that. and i'm really excited about all the things that we can bring to bear as a result of that resolution. i want to see that drop out rate drop. i want to see more people get hired. i think that recommendation for three staff is good, and i think if we can continue working with current staff to resolve the issue, then we're going to continue to do the things that we have gotten results. i look forward to see this playing out over the course of the years to umm can, so i hope

my colleagues support this resolution, and i'm excite today get to work. >> thank you, vice president cooke. i also want to thank the community for coming out and for really spending some really quality time for us. i'll really praud to be a coauthor on this, and i want to thank vice president c # ooke for his leadership on this. i just spent two weeks family. my sisters are all married to pacific islanders. it was just a reminder to me how important our cultures are, and when we come forward and honor one of our elders, and we think about what it's taken for us to get to where we are, it's not only been standing on the backs of so many people that have suffered, but to ensure that those that we want to get pulled up get pulled up through a variety of