congratulations again for the work. thank you, staff, as well. >> anyone else? okay. great. so this is just a discussion. we don't have a -- >> we need to discuss the financing and how that's broken up. >> for this evening, are we we presenting or is it going to budget. >> it was just noticed for discussion. >> yeah. >> we can't request to bring this up -- >> bring it back after we have e need to have some conversations around budget at either -- we'll figure out where that's going to go. does that sound right, mr. lee? >> if i can make a suggestion. we have, i think, the relevant information about the proposal to incorporate into the budget

development process and that's going to be taken place over the next several weeks. in terms of looking at the various priorities that are identified and to incorporate this, the committee's good work in that process. so i would actually recommend against having a separate discussion at the budget committee, if that discussion would be for the sole purpose of determining whether there should be a budget ask. i think we're clear on the proposal, i think. >> okay. so, again, thank you very much for your collective work. it has been really great to see the cooperation of our community to provide us with such a great and strong recommendation. so we will figure out what we're going to do next on this. thank you so much for all of that. go ahead, georgia. >> i'm going to speak because

this actually came up in the parent circle. one of the challenges was -- one of the reasons i'm sitting in the committee is because the other parent representatives weren't able to actually take time off from work, and that was a challenge, i think, as a committee as a whole that we have a lot of wor working parens the delegate couldn't participate any longer and same with other members. so this has been something that parents have brought up over time is that they volunteer time but to think about when they have to take time off work, that's compensation. >> were meetings happening during the day or -- what time were you meeting? >> 8:00 to 12:00. >> oh, wow. okay. yeah. i can see how that can be a challenge. all right. and were there other members of your committee that are here that -- okay. i just want to be able to acknowledge your other committee members and thank them for the report as well.

yes. >> it's hard to resist a chance to serv service one other -- something that's not reflected in the recommendations but was a concern that came up over and over again. it was computer based testing. put it on the bucket of really important things to take into consideration. as long as a test is computer based and there's vast difference in the implementation of access to computers, you name is, hardware, software, it teachers, how many elementary schools? what are we really testing? there's a question mark. we'll leave it for next year, but i'm also very, very pleased and grateful to have had the opportunity to work on such a productive committee, and i think it is really a good model for moving forward. thank you all. >> thank you. and despite your retirement, we hope you'll continue to participate as well. thank you, everyone. our next item is item i, consent

calendar. there are none tonight. next item is j, section j, instruction of proposals and assignment to committee. we have three policies. one public and board comment. sorry. i have one speaker on the proposals, but i'm going to read them and call for public comment. so board policy 5145.11, questioning and apprehension by law enforcement. and board policy 5145.12, search and seizure. these are policies being referred to the committee unless legal, you think, they should go somewhere else. all right. i have one public speaker on this item.

>> good evening. i am a policy director. i've been keeping tabs on things that we have passed with this board in the pastas well as things that are coming through in the future and have had technical things we want to comment before it goes to rules committee where there will be further discussion. first, with regard to 5145.11, we're pleased to see students are required to speak with an attorney before interrogation but urge the board to set a lead and a higher bar than what the state requires. instead of setting it in place 15 and younger, we believe it should extend to all minors, age 17 and younger within the school district. we also urge the board to include language from sections 16 and 18 of the mou between sfusd and sfpd into the section of related to police arrests of board policy 5145.11. the language provides guidance about how to minimize with carrying out arrests.

that's important to be consistent across all policies. with regard to 5145.12, with school officials searching students, they want to be clear we should not be condoning the use of metal detectors. he can withent respond to school shootings and fortify systemic racism in our education system. allowing them have been proven to make students especially black and brown students feel like suspects, not scholars and policies like this do not improve student sense of safety which i know everyone on this board really cares about. they do, on the other hand, increase opportunities for racial bias and differential treatment of students, increase violations of students rights and increase the experiences of trauma among students. we also want to flag that police are still being called to respond to student issues even with our young students in elementary schools. so that should be dealt with -- these are issues that should be

dealt with by school staff. it's important to train officials in relevant sections of the mou between sfusd and sfpd sections 11 and 14 related to when it's appropriated for school officials to request police involvement. finally, parents and guardians should be notified of any search before it occurs. section 17 allows parents to be present for questioning of a student and so we think the same should apply when it comes to invasive procedures like searching our students or property. >> thank you. we hope you'll submit the recommendations for our committee to review. these will go to rules. can i hear a motion and a second, please, for first reading. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. so these will go forward to rules. section k, proposal for immediate action and suspension. there are none tonight. section l, board members reports

and standing committees. let's see. what do we have here? curriculum, commissioner norton isn't here. neither of you report up on -- >> we have an update on the partnership with the new tech network, an overview of kindergarten readiness. a presentation about emergency preparedness so we can go over the policies of how students are being prepared for a natural disaster or emergency on campus or curriculum related to that.

>> thank you. commissioner murase. >> we met on may 3rd and had one information item and several action items. the information item was really about the look back at the work of the committee the previous year with the addition of demographic research conducted. what's important for my colleagues to know is that at the end of the staff presentation, there was a set of recommendations that staff has made that was presented at a committee as a whole meeting. i wanted to refresh everyone's memory. teacher staff preference for their children, so the recommendation is to allow

permanent site based certificate indicated staff to live in san francisco and wish to have their child attend a school they work will have a priority in the appeals process. secondly, for the update to continue, we've not gauged demographers to let us know of any major changes. and then there are three recommendations that staff has asked to be put on hold, but actually, as a result of the meeting, they will come back with options for us. that includes the willie brown middle school preference for the school of the arts, secondly, bayview elementary school preference for middle schools, and finally, the transfer mechanism. so staff will be coming back with options for the board on those three items. in terms of the action items, we

reviewed several board policies, and one of the issues is related to district residency. i just want to flag to my colleagues that we're looking at potential changes to what happens when a student's family is discovered not to actually be living in the district. members of the committee are concerned about the impact on students when they're pulled out of their schools midyear for particularly elementary school students for a decision that their parents made in terms of a fraudulent address. so we've been talking about whether students should be allowed to stay through the end of a semester before they're asked to leave their school. so that's coming back.

it was also discussed in rules committee and it's going to come back to the rules committee for further discussion. happy to discuss these with my colleagues off-line. >> thank you. before we go to rules, i would like to excuse our student delegates. thank you very much. i know you have ap exams tomorrow. you should mosey out of here, please. commissioner sanchez. >> we discussed our appointee and that was heard last night and discussed and voted on with a positive recommendation. we had several other items that we discussed that are going to be voted on by the board at the next board meeting. so we'll hear more about them at that meeting.

>> thank you. so item 2, board delegates to membership organizations. any reports on those, commissioner muiration. >> murase. >> i did review 60 workshop proposals. i hope my colleagues will plan to attend a conference in december. there is a delegate a simply next weekend. i'm not able to be there. i'm not sure about my colleagues. but i do think -- i hope my colleagues will show some interest in -- i think we're missing a delegate or two. >> no other reports?

any other reports for the board? commissioner murase. >> i want to invite families to the second sfusd family welcome day on sunday, june 3rd. it's an opportunity for school communities to come and have -- spend time outdoors. we'll be at the park located behind bryant elementary school. again, on sunday june 3rd, 12:00 noon to 3:00. the superintendent will be stopping by. we hope to have -- it will be the last weekend before school let's out. a couple of other things. i wanted to congratulate the parent leadership group that met on april 26th, commissioner walton was able to stop by as well. really amazing work by this particular network, really great sharing, really great best practices at that meeting.

i want to thank the members of the community advisory committee for special education. i had the chance to attend their awards program and wanted to congratulate will patterson, david miller, dj irwin and patricia for receiving awards that night. and then finally, i wanted to thank president mendoza-mcdonnell for residing over the 12th annual sfusd retirement celebration which she helped start with then mayor gavin newsome and then dennis kelly. it was real eye a -- really a wonderful event. >> vice president cook. >> i wasn't at the last board meeting, but i wanted to shout out to all the organizers of the black family day that was hosted at willie brown a few weeks back. it was a great event.

i got to serve on a panel with incredible young people. i just appreciate the multiple years that that event has been hosted. also, commend the educators for the really wonderful he are tirement -- retirement event that i attended last week -- retirement/scholarship event, really, really inspiring evening, and congratulations to all of our educators that have retired and our students going off to multiple four-year schools. i commend your success and service to our district. >> thank you. commissioner murase. >> we didn't read the names of the scholarship winners. i would like to do that quickly.

[ reading names ] >> thank you. i just have a couple of announcements also. this thursday, may the 11th, we're going to be welcoming a life-sized ceramic panda which was the winner of a competition that was hosted by the chang do sister city friendship city committee. it was something that the mayor put together as part of their relationship building between

china and the u.s. and the winner came from dian die finesn helementary school. it's been replicated and it's now almost a four foot panda that was replicated by a famous artist. so it's going to be displayed in the foyer of the element real estatelementaryschool. they are going to name it edwin, which i thought was very sweet. we also are going to be honoring five teacher of the year awards and four principals. we're going to be honoring a para-educator which we're really excited about. that's happening on may the

18th and the giants will be hosting the teachers for teacher appreciation at a home plate ceremony with the giants playing cincinnati on may the 14th. then we will be also honoring -- providing $1,000 scholarships to students in sfusd or former sfusd students currently in college with scholarships and we'll be hosting that on may the 2 3rd. any other announcements? all right. thank you. great. our next item is the calendar of committee meetings. we have a standing ad hoc and joint committee meetings coming up. budget and commissioner services, commissioner haney. >> it's at the end of the month. i don't have the exact date. the 30th. okay. >> thank you. wednesday, may 30th is budget

and business services buildings and grounds will be monday may the 28th at 6:00 p.m. curriculum and program, vice president cook? we have it monday, may 21st. that one will be at 5:30 p.m. rules, commissioner sanchez. >> june 4th, 6:00 p.m. >> ad hoc committee on student assignment is to be determined. labor relations, vice president cook. >> thursday, may 24th at 5:00 p.m. >> and the ad hoc school district city college joint committee will be thursday, june 14th, at 6:00 p.m. and it will be held here at sfusd this time. section m is other informational item. there are none tonight. section n is a memorial adjournment and there are none tonight. and then we have superintendent

matthew. >> i made the announcement that we would be making a donation in the memory of your mom. we collected from the central office managers and central office administrators. i want to thank you all for stepping up, and this donation will be made to the filipino american development foundation which provides scholarships to filipino students in $1,000 in memory of your mom. we just want to let you know that. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. i wanted to thank all the staff that contributed to that. my mother finished third grade and raised a family of 7 and brought us over and never had the opportunity to finish school or even go on to college. she saw several of her children be able to go on to college.

this was just a really wonderful gift in her memory. so i just want to thank everybody who contributed to a scholarship that will be given to a young person and i'm -- we were thinking about what characteristics we wanted this young person to have, and as you heard when we did the adjournment in her memory, she was an athlete, and she was very committed to serving others and so those will be the characteristics we'll be looking for. thank you very much for the contribution and for helping a young person get on to college which is an opportunity my mother never had. so thank you. okay. so at this time, we're going to take public comment from those who have submitted speaker cards for closed session items and then we'll have some time just

before public comment -- i'm sorry -- just before closed session to hear the comments. so section o we're going to go into closed session. so the board will now go into closed session. thus, i call for a recess of the regular meeting. i know that there were several family members here or parents and community members from cleveland that are still here. so if we can have -- let's see. so we're going to clear the room. if you're from cleveland -- >> excuse me, president. i just want to reiterate. we have to take public comment in public even though it's on personal matters. >> okay. all right. so this is a new process for us. so if you are here to make public comment on personal matters, that will be heard publicly. so i'm just going to read off

the names of the cards that i had earlier, and if you are here to make public comment and i have your name, would you please step up and before we go into closed session we're going to hear public comment. so myrna vasquez, maria gonzales, johana, evelyn rodriguez, c strong, evelyn, martinez, david alam, n, elizabeth castro smith, and doris chan. are any of those people here. if you are, please come forward.

we can't invite you to closed session. it has to be only the board. >> so just to be really clear, people that are going to be speaking for clos closed sessio- you have the opportunity to speak about if there was a comment that you wanted to make about a principal from cleveland and then this opportunity now is to speak about a teacher that is on our agenda for closed session. so if you're hear to speak about a teacher, a teacher that's on the agenda, then we'll allow you to make comments. if this is to reiterate or make another comment about the principal, this is not the appropriate time to do that. that was in the previous

opportunity. so if you're here to speak about the teacher on our agenda, please -- [ inaudible ] >> how many are here to speak on this item? >> this is very different for us. i've been on this board 12 years and we don't typically do did thido itthis way -- please moved if you want to speak so that i havihave a better sense who have wants to speak. in our previous process, we would also only allow five minutes for the entire discussion in closed session. so if you can show me how many

people would like to make a comment, i'll have a better sense of how much time to provide you. okay. so there's roughly about ten of you. i'm going to give you ten minutes to speak which is double the time renormally provide. so if you could just be brief in your comments and just go one by one and let's go ahead and go forward on this. thank you. >> good evening, everybody. sorry. i'm going to take less than the ten minutes, but thank you for giving me the ten minutes. i've been here for hours ever since you guys started. i'm just here because as a concerned parent, it came to my attention that two very wonderful teachers are going to be pretty much fired at the end of this school year. we -- me as one of the parents, i'm just concerned because we never got a letter or they haven't given us a reason why. it's sad because both of my

children have these two teachers and they've came home crying that they think it's so unfair that why is it that these teachers are being fired when they think they're amazing and they have helped them a lot. both of my daughters are good in math, but because of this teacher, they've gotten even better. they really have gotten up there. to them, it means a lot. every time they come home, you know what i learned today? i learned fractions or this or this. my third grader, i told her let's go to support your teacher. she didn't want to come. she said it was devastating for her to come today because she said that if she would have heard that her teacher was getting fired, she was going to cry. so, i mean, i just want to put it out there. even a child, if they're 6, 7 years old, they have feelings, you know. i can't talk for them because i'm not there with the teachers. i can't tell you what they experienced, but me being born and raised here, i was part of the school system, and i can say

it has really changed a lot. it's not what it used to be back in the day. it's sad to see it's degrading, unfortunately. i hope we can give the best for our children. that's all. thank you. >> thank you. >> so you have a short amount of time. so be as brief as possible, please. and we would like to allow the students to come up and speak first if they could. i know that you have been waiting. we would love to hear from the students first. and i appreciate that you're not mentioning the teacher's names. if you would continue to refer to the teacher as just the teacher. thank you. >> hello. my name is juan, and i don't want one of my third grade

teachers to leave. if he does, i'll miss him real bad because he helped me with a lot of math in third grade. when i'm in fourth grade right now, i moved up a whole bunch of things that he teached me. i'm trying -- my parents are trying to keep -- try to stay because even my little sister wants him to be her third grade teacher. i really -- i would really miss him if he left because he teached me a lot of stuff that i didn't know in third grade, a whole bunch of words that i didn't know about that i was going to learn in fourth grade.

thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> hi. i am here to speak in honor of my two favorite teachers -- i can't say her names. i feel sad they're going to get rid of two of my favorite teachers, and it's really unfair because they don't deserve to get fired. thank you. [ applause ] >> hi. my name is nathan, and i'm pretty sad that they're going to fire my two favorite teachers that i had, one in third grade and one math. so my teacher in third grade taught me a lot of stuff.

he taught me a lot of stuff that i didn't know. i've been growing up, and my math teacher has been teaching me a lot of math. my math teacher taught me a lot throughout the years. mithered gradmy -- my third gras well. i'm sad they're going to get dismissed and they're not going to be teach them. i really, really like for them to stay to teach. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you.

>> [speaking spanish] >> good evening. i'm the father of nathan, the child that just talked. the reason i'm here talking to you is because we have been having a lot of problems with the -- i'm hoping you take action about the problem we're having with the new principal that you assigned to our school. he's getting rid of a lot of the

teachers that we like, as you heard. >> i'm sorry. are you speaking about a specific teacher because we're not going to be talking about a principal. this needs to be on the agenda item. [speaking spanish] [ stand by ]

>> all right. that's not an item that's on the agenda, so thank you. so just another reminder that we're only hearing items that are on the agenda, so comments about the principal or other questions about the school will not be permitted. thank you. [speaking spanish ]

>> my name is teresa jano. i'm a mother at cleveland, and i see here that we are sad, i'm sad, the children are sad because we're losing these teachers. i don't know really right now if they're being fired or not. all i know is that they might be leaving, and the kids are really sad. my kids have been with these teachers for a long time. my fifth grader has had these teachers for a long time, and really, they're -- from what i understand, they are letting the math teacher go because he

doesn't speak spanish. and honestly, a math teacher doesn't need to speak spanish to teach math. [speaking spanish ] >> and i want to know -- i want to know if there's a possibility for the teachers to stay in our school because they are really good teachers. and it's not just because i'm saying it. a lot of people say it. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. [speaking spanish ]

>> good evening. my name is -- >> i'm sorry. i'm going to stop you for just one second because this is a comment about the principal again. so this is not a discussion about the principal. [speaking spanish ] >> but that doesn't make any

sense because everything that's happening is because of this new person. >> but the discussion that we're going to be having isn't about the principal, and if we're going to be having a discussion about -- about a personnel issue with regard specifically to the teacher. so if you'd like to make a comment about the teacher, i'll allow that. [speaking spanish ] >> so then i'm going to ask how

come the teachers at the school, punishing the kids? i think kids go to school to study and play. and you put your kids in the hands of people that you trust, that you trust that they're going to treat the children properly. but then, they are punished, and they are traumatized, and i'm wondering why. >> okay. thank you. so i'm going to allow one more speaker. so i'm going to allow one more speaker because of the translation. [speaking spanish ]

>> good evening. my name is guadalupe hernandez. i am a mother from cleveland, and i have been at this school for five years. and i'm very sad because several of these teachers that are leaving -- and i don't know if it is because they are being fired or if it is because they are retiring, but they're being let go. and some of these teachers have been my kids, my son's teacher, and he's been crying and telling me that it's not fair for them to let go of these teachers. and i have to say that these teachers that are being let go,

they are exemplary teachers. they have been very good teachers. [speaking spanish ] >> and unfortunately because of the situation, i have to take my kid out of the school, and i think this is a very sad situation because my child isn't going to be able to finish this school year, graduate this school year the school where he started school. [speaking spanish ] >> and i decided to take him out because i don't think it's good, and it's not fair for my child to be crying because his teachers are being letting go -- let go. thank you.

[applause] >> thank you. so we've heard from several parents. i'm going to allow one teacher to speak, so if there is one teacher that hasn't spoken, i'm going to allow them to speak, and then, we're going to wrap this up. >> hello. thank you, board of education for giving me the opportunity to speak before you. my name is david aleman, and i am currently a bilingual teacher at cleveland elementary. to tell you a little bit about myself and why i'm in education, my parents were immigrants from mexico, and they were migrant workers. i come from a family of 15 children. my parents knew the value of an education, and they didn't want that life for us, being a migrant worker. so they ensured that all 15 of us graduated from the same high school. 15 kids. now, eight of my siblings are

either in education or teachers. two are principals, so the value of education is something that my family truly, truly knows, and i try to instill that into my students. so i've been at cleveland since 2011, first as a bilingual paraprofessional, and then as a third grade teacher. this is my third year as a third grade teacher. in all my time at cleveland, i've never been the subject of disciplinary actions. as a first year teacher, my students' writing scores were the highest of three third grade level classes. furthermore, the third grade team that i'm a part of, they've seen progress in their math scores for three consecutive years.

so considering all this, i'm just trying to understand why i am the subject of nonreelection. this year, i was voted on the ubc committee, and i have to say, and what i really want the board of education to understand is that my students are at the center of me being a teacher. if they are not the first priority of the decisions being made at my school, then i know something is wrong. and i've spoken up and been vocal about the changes and the decisions made at cleveland since the new principal came at the beginning of the school year. now, what i really try to think of as a teacher is i try to think this, like, on a daily basis: how are my decisions -- what am i doing? how can i help my students to be better students? >> i'm going to ask you to wrap up, mr. aleman.

thank you. >> thank you. i just wanted to understand that being a teacher has been a dream of mine, and it's been the loveliliest work. and i so appreciate the students and staff members that have come out from cleveland to support me, and i just would like to continue my work fore the school district. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. so at this time, we're going into section o, which is closed session, so the board will now go into closed session. so if i could please ask all of our guests in the room to clear the room so that we can go into closed session. thank you.

>> thank you. thank you. so we are back in our regular board meeting. this is our readout of our may 18, 2018 closed session in the matter of victim ho, case number 2018208366. no action was taken tonight. in the matter of uesf chinese bilingual teachers, the board by a vote of six ayes and one absent ratified -- in the

matter of uesf griefance elizabeth sin chair, the board by a vote of six ayes and one absent rad identifies an agreement to resolve the griefance and pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matter of pm versus sfusdoh, the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matters of db versus sfus d&a t versus sfusd the board by a vote of six ayes and one absent gave directions to the general counsel. the board by a vote of six ayes one absent approved the contract for one assistant superintendent, the board by a vote of 6 ayes and one absent approved the contract for one director. the board by a vote of six

ayes, one absent approved the contract for two executive directors. the voboard by a vote of six ayes, one absent approved the contract for one supervisor, the board by a vote of six ayes and one absent approved issuing notice that three supervisor contracts will not be renewed. the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent, approved issuing notice that two program administrator contracts will not be renewed. the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent approved issuing notice that one executive director contract will not be renewed. the board by a vote of six ayes one absent approved the release of 18 protectionary zero certified employees -- probationary zero certified employees. and the board by a vote of 6

ayes one absent approved the release of 14 probationary one certificated employees. this meeting is adjourned. thank you. good night.