and you'd get >> good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. got a packed house tonight. welcome to the board of education for the san francisco unified school district. today is may 8th, and the meeting is now called toar to o. roll call, please. [ roll call ] >> thank you. if you would please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ] >> thank you. section a is accessibility

information. section b is our opening items. approval of board minutes from the april 24th, 2018 and february 13th, 2018. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> approved [ roll call ] >> that's five ayes. >> thank you. as has been announced, members of the public, an individual can complete a speaker card which looks like this and is located in the foyer before you enter the boardroom. prior to the item that is being

called and presented to ms. casco. importantly, according to the board rules and procedures, speaker calls will not be accepted for an item already before the board. i'm going to say this one more time. you need to have a speaker card if you want to speak or you need to have called in to be on a list to speak. if you are not on the list, we're not going to allow t a alu speak this evening. we want to be respectful for those of you who signed up. there are many speakers on a couple of items. if you're here for an item where there are more than 20 speakers, i'm going to be limiting the time for you to speak. so i will give you a time limited amount, and i am just asking you now to organize yourselves so that you can speak within that time frame. but i will call everybody's name at the time to speak. item 2 is a superintendent's report. dr. matthews. >> thank you, president mendoza. good evening, everyone.

this week is teacher appreciation week and today is teacher appreciation day. all week we celebrate hard work and contributions to teachers make to our students, education, and society. i would like to personally thank all the remarkable teachers we have here in the san francisco unified school district for your dedication to students and families. i know how challenging and rewarding teaching can be. the to do list can be endless. the impact you have on the lives of your students cannot be overstated. please join me in thanking a teacher today, this week, and every day. let's give our teachers a round of applause [ applause ]

balboa celebrated the 90th anniversary. it's the 6th oldest high school in the san francisco unified school district. in 1995, the san francisco board of supervisors voted to maim it a city landmark regularring its special character and special historical architectural and esthetic interest and value. according to city documents, balboa high school represents san francisco's golden age of school construction because it was constructed between 1920 and 1930. our district added 49 new school buildings amid citywide population in growth throughout the school district. tens of thousands of students have graduated since the school opened in the district in 1928 with 653 students and 23 teachers. notable alumni include calvin simmons, the african-american conductor of a major u.s. orchestra, and grateful lead

guitarist jerry garcia. hammy birthday to balboa high school. tomorrow may 9th from 5:30 to 8:00 is the avenue i ca the afrn signing day. they'll be welcomed at the university of san francisco where an evening infor to honorr post high school plans. it will be to celebrate the students who plan to attend two or four year colleges or professional training programs. the event will include catered food, live performances, guest speakers, and student incentives. the event is in collaboration with alliance of black school educated and achievement and leadership initiative. the initiative is part of first lady michelle obama's job to

inspire students to complete their education path high school. it will be 2130 fulton street. look for balloons and welcome signs and arrive early to leave time for parking. finally, on wednesday, may 16th, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., there is a local control and accountability community forum. lcap. it's part of the local control funding formula which requires districts to parents, educators, and employees in establishing our plans. this forum is an opportunity to participate in this engagement process and learn how families and community partners help students and schools to succeed. you also will be i believe to learn about resources to prided to schools and share your ideas. i encourage you, the community, to attend this forum next wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

p.m.. interpretation for spanish and cantonese will be provided along with free child care and refreshments. president mendoza, that ends my comments for this evening. >> great. thank you, dr. matthews. our next item is student delegates report. >> good evening, everyone. at our next meeting next week, they will be deliberating on the second meeting of the meat willing monday resolution is to reduce carbon footprint and provide alternate protein diets. >> we will be announcing the winner of the district elected student delegate campaign. so they will have big shoes to fill, and we will be announcing the winner that will be representing our students next

monday. moving on, we have on update on 6145. we collected student input and presented it to a focus group. we plan to present our findings to the rules committee at the june 4th meeting. >> and be the voice and join the student advisory council. we are exception applications. if any of the students here know anyone that you think would be great for representing their school in our student council or if the adults know anyone, we welcome you to see us for an application or contact our supervisor. we would like to recruit more delegates from schools to have a more diverse an and represented sac. >> our next meeting is may 14th at 5:00 p.m. in this room

that concludes the report. >> thank you both. item 4 is recognitions and commendations. mr. matthews. >> we will be honoring the lowell varsity girls soccer team along with their combs amber wilson and gene. this season, they won the aaa city championship and then went on to win the division 4 nor cal regional championship and they took down that powerhouse rippen high school by a score of 2-1. [ applause ] congratulations to the team and coaches and everyone who participated. i would like to call up the principal to say a few words and introduce the coaches.

[ applause ] >> we are fortunate to have great students, staff, and outstanding coaches. i would like our coaches to say a few words because it's their team, our team, the city's team, and northern california's team. >> is it working? got it. all right. we don't have amplification on the soccer field, so i'm not used to this. superintendent and members of the board, thank you for your recognition of our championship season. this honor tonight spotlights the fulfillment of the players

own hopes that articulated at the beginning of our season, to have fun while improving their game and representing their school. but as you know, they also did a lot more, successfully representing the city and county of san francisco and the academic, athletic association. we achieved something else in the nor cal championship match against rippen high school, something that i consider more important than the victory itself. we gave our best effort and played our very best game of the season. congratulations to our players for that. [ applause ] none of this came about easily or quickly. aaa girls varsity soccer began league play in 1994, a historic development due in part to the efforts of a legendary teacher

and soccer coach. since then, the lowell girls have won 23 of 25 league titles, including an incredible run of 21 consecutive titles, defended and extended again by this current group of cardinals. you can see why i feel so privileged to have been part of the coaching staff for 18 years. this year's graduating seniors, for example, have never been defeated in aaa competition, accumulating a league record of 64 wins, no losses, and one tie. [ applause ] to washington, let it be on the record. at lowell we have been fortunate to have players from families that support participation of female student athletes, along

with invaluable support and encouragement from our principal and lowell athletic director, support that together with assistance from the ptsa and the alumni association has included access to funding for things like team buses and gender appropriate uniforms. as well as years of continuity and stability and the coaching staff. going forward, we may not always win, but we will to represent lowle, and sfusd with respect to our referees, opponents, and diverse soccer family. we will continue to promote the value of combining team sports and academics in high school education. in closing and with an eye to

the future, i would like to invite my assistant coach amber which will come twhich willwilsw varsity girls soccer coach. [ applause ] >> thank you. no pressure. as the assistant coach and schoocounselorrer, we are procef them as representatives of lowell and sfusd. i want to welcome our cocaptain to say a few words. thank you.

>> thank you so all of you and the board of education for all your support in our journey. i would like to thank our parents who have gone both near and far to support us and cheer us on at games at home as well as four hours away in redding this season. i would also like to thanking our coaches, a coach who has been with me the past four years and made this such a great experience and also to coach wilson who i am very excited to have her on this team this year and also to see what she does with the team in the next years. this season has definitely had its challenges especially in our postseason and our cif nor cal competition. we came into the season not knowing what that was going to be like. we didn't know what nor cal really could mean to a district, to a city, and we had no clue what type of competition we

would see out there. but the girls brought everything. they brought 100% to all their games, three games against amazing teams in five days, and then bringing also their mental toughness into these games after long bus rides coming out and within an hour being ready to play, ready to put their all on the field. so more than anything, i'm thankful to all of you but also mostly to all of my girls here, all the amazing players who have worked so hard both this season and for many of them in past seasons to bring us to where we are today, to bring us to a championship in nor cal and to make such a team that is not only strong on the field but also that has become a great second home to me and many of the seniors over the past four years. so thank you, everyone, and i look forward to seeing you guys axe sell ihe -- excelin the fut.

>> while the superintendent is giving you certificates, i wanted to rattle of your names and congratulate you one more time. as parents of kids at lowell and a husband who went to lowell, it's just such an important part of your academic success to be able to do both what do you on the field and do what you do in the classroom. so congratulations. then i just wanted to acknowledge who the seniors are. so i'll let you no he wh you knr seniors are. [ reading off names ]

>> this is a point of privilege for somebody who happens to know the young lady who scored both of the goals at the championship. sara, we're really proceed of you and -- proud of all of you. our next item is our student scholarships and awards. i'm going to excuse the soccer girls and congratulate them one more time. in any of our students that are receiving scholarship awards

this evening, if you would please join us in the front two rows, we would love to be able to honor you as well. come on up. we're going to do this in this order. the alliance of black school educators, latin-american teachers association, and then the association of chinese teachers. so if there are any other students that are getting an award tonight, please join us up front. let's see. who is speaking? there you are. wonderful. welcome. >> hello, everyone. thank you for having us. i am a member of the san francisco alliance of black school educators. i'm over the banquet.

>> good evening, i am the cochair for the scholarship. >> so this year, we had 13 scholarship applicants, and they all won. thank you. thank you very much. simpson is from john o'connell. he'll be going to san francisco state. another from john o'connell. raven is from mission high. she'll be majoring in chemistry. victor is galileo. he is going to san jose state. he is majoring in astrophysics and astronomy. mike gregory attended john o'connell and transferred to bishop, but he was our emcee for the honor roll for two years and the last three years, he was the

chairperson for the black student union summit held every october. he is going to ucsf. wwe have tatiana going to dillad university majoring in criminal justice. we have kayla here. she goes to mission high school. she will be attending uc merced majoring in psychology. we have kiante jones from washington high school going to sacramento state majoring in business. we have sheldon here -- shelton. she attends lowell and she will be going to dillard university majoring in psychology. we have -- i'll no, sir

pronouncing her name wrong. she attends washington high school and she will be going to ucla studying neuroscience. last but not least, we have golden van jones who is a lowell high school student who'll be attending uc berkeley and majoring in business. she changed to ucla. all of their gpa was above 3.5. it was not without any hesitation we elected them. would any of you like to say anything? >> i just want to say thank you for the scholarship was going to school is really important, not just to have a good job but to

be educated is to educate other people. so thank you for helping me make that possible. [ applause ] >> i just want to say thank you to the san francisco alliance of black school educators for sticking with me. it's not my first or last time at the board meeting. i just want to say thank you to the educators here th and the pe rooting for these kids, not just so you can say i went to this college and got this degree. it really changes you and changes the way you think. to say i came from sfusd is the proudest thing i can ever say to somebody. so when i go down there, i'll rep you guys with pride. just thank you to everybody. thank you to the board for sticking up for our education. we really appreciate it.

[ applause ] >> good evening, everyone. i would like to thank the san francisco alliance of black school educators for giving me this scholarship and i would also like to thank the san francisco unified school district for being with me through my education because i've been in the district since i was in kindergarten. it's like i've been meeting people who have helped me and brought me up to this point where i am right now. so thank you all. [ applause ] >> virginia marshal could not be here. she's about to be a grandmother. she's on the way to the hospital. thank you for your time. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. latin-american teachers association. >> good evening. i'm president of the latin-american teachers association. with me is our new vice president allison martinez. she will share with me the

responsibility of announcing our scholarship winners. this past friday, we celebrated our 9th annual scholarship dinner dance. in that, we were able to give out 17 scholarships. 16 to high school seniors and one teacher scholarship to an aspiring sfusd teacher. would wwith that, we had 142 applications. we were able to give out 17. the names include christian moreno, diane a, diego mesa, e -- reading names. (reading names)

>> two years ago, our organization started teacher scholarships which would be to award it to a teacher looking to go into sfusd. i was the first recipient of this school two years ago, and this year we are lucky to announce our scholarship recipient. she plans to teach first grade in sfusd. [ applause ] we would like to give a shoutout tshoutoutdr. murase. i know mr. matthews was there as well. thank you all for being in attendance and supporting our organization.

[ applause ] >> wonderful. congratulations to all those students. the association -- the association of chinese teachers, do we have a representative? >> they sent a message late this afternoon that none of their board members could be here tonight, but they did present 16 scholarships. >> another 16 students there. congratulations to all of the students that received a tech scholarship. commissioner walton. >> again, just want to congratulate all the students and also reiterate the fact that it is a shame that we do not have the media here to highlight when our students achieve and are doing well because they are quick to come when things are happening that are negative, but when our students are being successful, they don't show up.

so congratulations to all of our scholarship winners. [ applause ] >> we were expecting the san francisco achievers, but they weren't able to be here. we congratulate all those award winners. our next item is 5, recognizing all valuable employees, our rave aards wa. we're not giving any this evening. item 6 is our advisory committee report and appointments by board members. we don't have any reports tonight. are there any appointments to advisory committees by board members? commissioner sanchez. >> yes. liana, the principal -- she's one of my appointees. she has left that body, and i'm appointing gabriella lopez who is a teacher at flynn

elementary. >> okay. any others? i actually have an opening also. i'm going to be appointing greg peters who is a parent and the director. section c is our consent calendar. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment on consent items. i have one speaker on consent. let me see. hold on one second. i'm sorry. this is on item 11. >> lynelle bailey.

this is on the student travel to taiwan. it's item 11 on the consent calendar. come up and press the button until it turns red. >> to superintendent matthews and board members, my name is [indiscernible] i want to thank you for allowing us to travel to taiwan. [speaking foreign

language] [ applause ] >> wonderful. thank you. any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent. >> none. >> any items removed? any items severed for discussion? none. roll call vote on the consent calendar. [ roll call ] >> six aye. >> thank you. section d, there were no items severed. proposal for action, there are none. f is public comment on general matters. so i have quite a few folks here that are prepared to speak.

so i'm going to start with those that have comments on general matters. then i'm going to then next have me a moment because we're getting last minute cards here. so there are several -- okay. but these are all mixed up. okay.

>> i'm going to start with those that just have general comments. then i'm going to go -- there are large groups with the air resource and organizing center and a large group with malcolm

x. so i'm going to give you limited time on that. then we have a group from cleveland, a group from redding. so i will bring you through on those as well. the first group i'm going to have come up are margaret reyes, li ta blanc and steve seltzer. if you would come up while we're sorting through the rest. i will also have -- jose luis, i have a couple on general matters and not on anything specific. where's jose luis?

then i'm going to have rianda bautist and marie robinson and linda antwan. come on up, you guys. we've got a lot of folks speaking. if i've called your name, please come up. two minutes each on this item. >> steve seltzer, i want to speak on the issue of privatization and charters going on in this district and in california because the charters are really siphoning off millions of $6 billion a year from public education in california. and frankly, we need to organize

a campaign to stop and shut down the charter school industry in california and nationally. [ applause ] >> it's short changing the students, and these companies like kipp run by the fisher family, the gap foundation are in it for business. they're profiting off our kids. that's inexcusable, we need to protect public education and our teachers. and frankly, it's outrageous they're trying to attack malcolm x school, to bus that up. i think that has to stop. and i also think that this par system that you have -- and i brought it up at the last meeting -- is part of privatization. it's attacking senior teachers and african-american teachers. it's been proven in studies. we're going to call on you to terminate the par program. it shouldn't be used as a disciplinary program and we have to stop terrorizing the teachers. why don't we defend them instead of bully them. that's what we have to do.

also, i think what is driving education in this city are the billionaires, the tech billion billionaires. they're interested in making profit off our students. that is what's driving them. that's what they did in los angeles. they made a deal with apple and sears, the testing company, to basically scam off the students. we need to put the public first, public education first. we need to defend public education in our students. although they're not a large number of charter schools in san francisco, they have their eyes on many more. location has to be opposed. you don't have to agree with it. you can sue the state of california to say it's unconstitutional, prop 39. it needs to be stopped. unions and school districts have to sue to stop prop 39. it's illegal. it allows cherry picking. imagine in san jose at independence high school, there are three charters schools and one high school. that's an out ag outrage and it

destroys public education. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, i did -- i signed up to actually speak about not colocating kipp at malcolm x. so that's what i'm going to speak about. i believe this is a bit of a litmus test for the district because of the many, many sincere words that i have heard from every board commissioner and the superintendent. virtually everybody i've worked with at 555 about prior, supporting the children at the bayview and the communities that surround them and the teachers that serve them and the educators that serve them. it's a choice. we understand that under prop 39, you have to offer space. i don't have the five

classrooms. i'm wondering why can't they colocate at maxwell? that's a big middle school. i bet i could find five classrooms, but i just think it's -- it sends the wrong message to the children and the educators who we have pledged our support to. it does open -- we know san francisco, thanks to a strong vision of the school board over the last 12 years, has not approved new charters, but this is a way of pushing out our public schools in the neighborhood that we have identified as one of the most vulnerable, if not the most vulnerable. go back to the drawing board. figure it out because the parents and the students and the teachers of the malcolm x community, they want to be able to stay at their school and continue to expand the programs that they have put in place for next year and they do not want to see a single student pushed

out, approache poached is the w. they don't want to see a single teacher consolidated because of dropping enrollment. i beg you to go back to the drawing board and figure out something better. [ applause ] >> good evening. i'm the cochair of the african-american council. i'm here this evening to speak on behalf of apac. i would like to express our commitment to san francisco public education and we believe in sfusd and the incredible work that has been going on to shift the narrative that often plagues or communities. while we're committed to working hand in hand with sfusd, we support parent choice and

understand sometimes for a variety of reasons, including feelings that our children have not been adequately served or because their hopes and dreams are sometimes found in different settings, parents may opt for charters or home schooling. we'll we respect everyone's choices, we stand firmly in the belief that students in the southeast section of san francisco and throughout sfusd are brilliant and capable and can grow in our public schools, but we know that being part of a community that has poured resources and love and expertise into ensuring nothing but success, that charter schools is not the way to go. we do not need anymore charter schools within our community. we need a commitment that will sustain success in the schools that are currently there. we have what it takes especially within our community and our schools currently. within cohort 3 to support our children. thank you.

[ applause ] >> i'm the other cochair for apac. we hand here firm lee with malcolm x academy and with the other schools. while we are small in number, where you powerful and mighty. our children are doing amazing things and they have a right to a solid foundation that's not broken up by having two schools within the same school. we are trying hard to continue the legacy that we've had in bayview of having the top tier schools. that is something that we want to bring back. so we ask that you decline the charter school's encroachment on our bayview schools. thank you. [ applause ] >> my name is linda. i'm back again.

but i'm back because it really hurt me that i fought for some doors at carver, and malcolm x and stuff, i feel like if you bring in these charter schools, you're affecting my child's health. i feel like because if you overcrowd the school, that means that you bring in more different sicknesses because the kids are overcrowded. they -- i mean, you're going to have a lot of kids with disabilities and all these problems, and i feel like when you overcrowd, you bring stress to people, to kids. i feel like you bringing in other schools in -- i feel like, you know what? let's not go there. i feel like when we were down at the bottom, i'm 55. when i was little and i was raised over there, i went to those schools and everything. you couldn't get someone in the bayview to go to those schools. now, it seems like you put these buildings over here.

hello. you all build it up and now you're going to bring this priority in from other schools and all these charter schools and all this and all that. i feel like why would you all want to overcrowd us when i feel like our test scores and everything, we're improving. now you want to slap in our face. now you want to bring us back down. i don't feel like we should have to share something with another facility so more schools and my kid should be -- i mean, uncomfortable knowing that now my daughter washes downstairs and upstairs she has a whole different environment. that's sending miscommunication to my daughter. i don't like that because the fact is, when i have my own room, i want my own room. i don't want my brothers and sisters to have to come in my room. my door is closed, my door is closed. due to the fact my kid has been at carver and bayview and balance come x, i feel like you should have have a reason to

come in there and throw us out of there for other people. sooner or later, you're going to throw us out and keep them in. i have a problem with that. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> so before the next speaker comes up, i have margaret reyes. if your name has not been called, i'm not expecting you to be speaking. so the only other card that i have right now is margaret reyes. did i call your name? >> i placed a card. >> if i haven't called you, you will have a turn if you gave me a card. i'll call your name. >> i'll wait. i'm patient. thank you. >> margaret reyes, please. >> all right. thank you for everyone's passion. i'm changing the subject a bit. thank you to san francisco school board and mr. matthews for allowing me to speak tonight. i'm employee number 18505. i'm here looking for answers regarding a labor management evaluation committee.

i'm seeking to better understand a staff member's rights regarding evaluations and placements in programs run by our partners. on january 12th, the legal department communicated to a community member and whistleblower that the labor management committee has not met between the years 2012 and 2017. i personally asked uesf for further context as to why the evaluation committee has not met, and i was told that uesf was refusing to participate in the committee because of anti-education groups influence on the evaluation committee. as a teacher and community member, i remain very confused. my understanding is that this would put the partners out of compliance with california education code 44660, and uesf, sfusd section 16.13.1. there is much about the

evaluation process that warrants further review. for at least a decade, uesf has received various complaints that evaluations were not honest, fair, and discriminatory. uesf acknowledged the lack of honesty and targeting exists in many evaluations. but pro claims their no rights to hold the district accountable. the only thing teachers could do is write a response. i received a disciplinary notice in human resources department. throughout the notice, i was criticized for having written responses to evaluation. it was cited as a valid reason to discipline me. the sfusd hr department cited it as a displace of unparallel [indiscernible] for asking that my evaluator relook at the evaluation. >> thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> next speakers, kelly walsh,

raul avila, julia roberts fong, and austina homemaker. this is on redding. no one speaking on redding? thank you. >> the next group that's speaking is on cleveland. if if you could please be in the room for cleveland speakers. >> my name is julie robert fong. i'm a parent at redding elementary. i have three things to squeeze in. >> this is -- i have your card. so this is just on redding. >> okay. we'll be called back for the

other two? >> yes. >> thank you. that's great to hear. we're over 80% of families qualify for free and reduced will nolunch and we've had budg. our school has been -- is being renovated so we've been moved from tinder line to across the hill to russian hill which has been difficult for many families and it's destabilized our school and upset our enrollment. in the past, we've had -- we had to come out last year to advocate for cuts to be restored. we are, again, facing cut to our social worker to 50% time. even as we're going to be moving back to where many of our families are in transition and many of our families are also immigrants and refugees. some who had very difficult transitions to this country. so we also have dollar cuts from the mtsf supports.

we also are experiencing dollar cuts that are going to result in a 3/4 split. we already have a 4/5 split because kip takes students from our school. there's another private school and they both tell students that they should ply to middle school early. so we end up losing enrollment and dollars and our upper classes. we don't want our fourt fourth s to be forced to have a split. we want to school district to restore the cuts to make sure we're able to maintain a fourth grade classroom and a full-time social worker. one of the pieces of this is that the enrollment guide was printed with the wrong address with the address for us at our current location. so we ask that the district hole us harmless and not make our students suffer for cuts to -- that resulted in a mistake by the district. thank you. [ applause ]

>> next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm kelly walsh. i'm also a parent at redding. i wanted to urge the school board and the district to return our social worker to full-time. for me personally, i have a son who has pretty severe adhd, and his transition to kindergarten was really difficult. what that meant and what happens to a lot of kids who have behavioral issues are labels of being aggressive or a difficult child. you know, without the social worker to help him to provide that social and emotional and behavioral support, he wouldn't be where he is today. kindergarten, first grade, it's night and day. the social worker was able to work with him and provide support he needed. it's not just my son. it's all the kids that have these difficulties, that are going through transitions that, are going through trauma. the social worker is key in

providing that extra behavioral and emotional support in order to make them feel safe in school and thrive. so i urge you to restore our social worker. thanks. [ applause ] >> hi. good evening. my name is austina. i'm one of the parents at redding elementary. i'm here mostly just to hear what other people have been saying about the funding issues at schools and to point out that our school is very small to start with. because of our 100 year improvement that we luckily got this past year, we had a great year before that in which we got lots of funding and help with our students in transition.

we improved enough that the next year we sort of funded out of getting assistance. i don't know how that works. so we petitioned last year to get full funding for our assistance with kids in need and for getting an extra teacher to give us going with the classes we had. now, because of the fact that we moved, we lost so many students and our funding dropped, but our next year funding is based on that. it's dropping again. basically, we are trying to understand or request that we shouldn't be held liable, i guess, is the best term, for having a transition that caused us such upheaval because even through all of this, we are still receiving students in transition and trying to deal with keeping them on an even keel and improving their lives. we love that redding is there and able to do that.

it's one of the schools that does that for students and parents who need them to have that done, that help, but we don't know how we're going to do it with losing, you know, a teacher next year, which is what we have to do to accommodate the budget that we're going to be working with. we know for a fact, even where we are, far away from the [indiscernible] that we have students still coming to us in transition. we'll be getting more. >> great, thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> raul avila. >> yes. hi. how are you? thank you for giving me the time to speak. i just wanted to say that i've been a parent at redding elementary school for 7 years. i remember when i first started there, i actually didn't even pick redding as my school because i did what many parents did. i went online and picked the

best schools with the best scores, but i got redding as my default school. honestly, it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me and my children. i decided to give redding a shot. i reached out to the principal who was -- actually, i can't think of her name right now -- bonnie. there we go. sorry about that. but any way, i had been a very active parent, and i had been working on parent participation, parent participation had gone up significantly. in addition to that, our fundraising has gone up. ever since julie joined the team, things have gone to the next level. with that said, our school is going through a renovation right now. unfortunately, we had to move to a temporary site. when we moved to this temporary site, it had a great impact on our overall enrollment. so it went down significantly because of the fact that we

could not provide transportation for the after school children. since most of our families come, they need an after school program because they're working parents. it's a matter of survival for them to work. we don't feel that you guys should cut our budget because of the fact that, you know, we had to move to a different temporary location. so i would greatly appreciate it if you guys would take into consideration not to cut our budget because i do believe that our enrollment will increase as we go back to our beautiful school. so thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> this next group is a large group. you're going to each get a minute. let me just remind you that this is the cleveland crew, and we

are requesting that you not name names, but you can name the positions of the person that you're coming to speak about. [ reading names ] >> come on up. let me get clarity. we have general comment and then speakers for closed session. is this for those of you that are speaking for cleveland? are you here for public comment or closed session? is there somebody that can speak on their behalf? >> some of us are here for closed session. [ inaudible ] >> how do i know which ones are which? so if there's anybody here from cleveland that is speaking during public comment, which is now, if you would come up.

i'm just going to call everybody's name and then if you're speaking in public comment, great. if you're speaking in closed session, we'll clarify who you are. [ reading names ] >> if you're speaking for public comment, come to the podium. you have a minute to speak when we have translation. yeah. [speaking spanish]

>> i'm here to talk about an incident that happened at cleveland elementary school. my son was hit, and the principal didn't do anything. i brought a picture so you can see how his eye looks right now. [speaking spanish] >> so he's also doing a lot of things that he shouldn't be doing, like taking out the after school programs, and this is a

program that the kids need to bm because they need to be there. he's also taking teachers that he shouldn't be taking out of the school. thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> hi. my name is maria gonzales. i'm a parent at cleveland elementary. i'm also an ex-pta member and also the president of the pta when there was one. i'm also a volunteer at the school, and i had been in the school since 2008. i have seen a lot of changes and a lot of people go through the school. lately, the changes have been really, really hard and has been affecting a lot of the students. a lot of the parents have been also part of that, and have