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it's in the proposed budget. i've been the clerk for 11 years. when i became the clerk, the board of supervisors wanted to competitive i bid analyst services. at that time it, was a $2.6 million contract. with this cola, it will bring it, 11 years later to, $2.3. i wanted to give you that historical reference as to where we are at in the cola. and just getting back to the last two sl .we also provided you an update in february on some of the current projects, legislative management project, digitization. we're moving forward on both of those projects. and, finally, redoubling our efforts on strengthening the emergency department planning and continuity of operations. you'veeen our outreach to offices and pursuant to the charter we will submit for your
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consideration authorizing an alternate location that the board could host an offsite meeting if the building or chamber is inaccessible. we'll utilize the existing budget for that work. in response made by members opposite, our ongoing efforts to expand and modernize member legislative accounts in ways thatvea no budgetary impact, such as authorized expeditures willlude purchases for incidentals with public meeting refreshments and board honorees. that concludes my presentation. i respectfully request that you approve this budget and i and my incomparable staff are here to answer questions. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. fantastic presentation. i want to go back to constituent management system. just dive down a little bit. i think it's $110,000, is that
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what i saw? one-time cost fo '18/'19. and this is for design and configuration. and $70k moving forwar the licensing fees. what is the timeline on this? when can we expect this product? >> this product is -- currently we're working with sales force. we have issued the r.f.q. for the services in april and we're in the process of selecting a qualified vendor for that. >> supervisor cohen: how many vendors applied? >> i think there were three. five, excuse me. >> supervisor cohen: okay. >> we will be working with your offices very closely on what that scope of services will actually like that in addition to any add-ones -- >> supervisor cohen: i'm grateful to see this in the budget. i think it's important -- it will enhance our ability to provide better service for our
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constituents. i've always said a database management tool wilelp u and increase our efficiency. one of the key things that i'm interested in is making sure that we're keeping up wth the technology, although costly, some departments are further behind than others. and although we have fairly current monitors, c.p.u.s and fast service, even the wi-fi in the building has increased since when i became a member in 2011/'12. so keep wor on that one. next week, i want to talk about lasco. this has always been an interesting, precarious place, interesting department. we still have a commission, c.a.c. meeting, if i'm not mistaken. sandy, you used to sit on it?
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>>upervisor fewer: yes. i curtly s on it. i can answer half the questions. the board decided to eliminate the position and we've hired an executive director, but before we did that, we asked california lasco to cnd d give us a training on the parameters of what lasco can do. >> supervisor cohen: let me interject a question. if we eliminated the position last year, how are we hiring an staner that legally we're required to have some kind of a representation locally? >> supervisor fewer: it's by contract and consultant. it's not a city employee. that position has been eliminated. it's a consultancy. >> supervisor cohen: how is the contract laid out? did you put out an r.f.p.? >> supervisor fewer: yes, we did. >> supervisor cohen: and you
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worked with ms. calvillo? >> supervisor fewer: yes. and we had an independent body. i wot on that body i interviewed personally the top two candidates and, actually, i wanted to explain to the board that we did go through a process of a workshop presented by california laf on what lafcos have done and also through a workshop discussion we have decided on a couple of issues at they're looking to or we're keepin the money in the 're continuing work with the -- p.u.c. also on clean energy. and also looking into other issues that lafcos have looked into in the state of california and what our own lafco has decided to delve deeper into. >> supervisor cohen:
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ms. calvillo, want to pivot back to you, changes in the budget. talk to me about the changes to lafco. i understand the management ange,o i assum that the fund appropriation is an enhancement from where w were last year and years before? >> so in february, because lafco had not reviewed their budget -- they don't usually until may -- i sought permission from the board to revyw noune, which we had at $297,000. the committee approved that we add the statutory amount. traditionally, they've looked at their budget and said, we understand our workload and we will not need the full, statutory amount, but they reserve the right to request it. they've agreed that with their new executive director and new work plan, they will need the full amount. and so we incorporated the current, requested amount in our
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budget back in february. so there is no budget change between february and june now. >> supervisor cohen the budget change i was talking about was from last year, the previous fiscal year. am i wrong? >> no. you are correct. the specific amount that we requested last year was $193,168. >> supervisor cohen: so almost $100,000 more. >> and then utilized their carry-forward for c.c.a. activity or for lafco activity in addition to that $193. supeisor cohen: for the final changes on the sheet, the budget legislative analyst contract cola, 3%, is that what i saw? >> correct. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i have no other questions. colleagues, do you have any questions? no. we're going to doomething a little special with this presentation. we're just going to take public comment on item
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item 7, that we heard. if any member of the public would like to come up and comment, please come up and do so. seeing none, public comment on item 7 is closed. thank you. madam clerk, i'd like to make a motion to continue items 5 and 6 to june 14 meeting at 10:00 a.m. colleagues, is there aond? >> supervisor yee: second. >> supervisor cohen: and we can take that without objection. thank you very much. madam erk, is there any business befehis body? >> clerk: can we take action on item 7? >> supervisor cohen: my apologies. sorry. i make a motion to approve item 7. >> supervisor fewer: second. >> supervisor cohen: and we take that without objection. ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. thank you.
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your seats, we'll begin our regular board meeting of the board of education of san francisco unified school district. today is june 12. and this meeting is now called to order. roll call, please. [roll call]
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>> president mendoza-monnell: thank you. if you would like, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. please stand. [pledge of allegiance] thank you. section a is accessibility information for the public. section b, opening items. item 1 is the approval of board minutes of the regar meeting from may 22. i need a motion and second. >> so moved. >> second. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: any corrections? seeing none, roll call vot please. [rol]
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>> clerk: 6 ayes. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: this is a reminder that speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session are necessary. if you wish to address the board of education, members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior it the item being called. we will not accept cards once the item has been called. if you hand a card over, we will not honor it. and presented to -- please give it to ms. casco. according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. our first item is the superintendent's report. dr. matthews. >> thank you, president mendoza. i must begin our remarks by congratulations our golden state warriors. [cheers and applause] on winning their third nba
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championship in four years. today fans celebrated began with a parade in oakland. congratulations, warriors. [applause] it is officially the first week of summer, but that doesn't mean learning stops. it's essential that children eep learning through the summer months. most children will lose some of the ski theyevelop throughout the year if they don't continue to practice this. this is referred to as summer learning loss. there are school sites across the city open for enrichment programs, career exploration, credit recovery, college-level courses, math acceleration courses and more. many programs' registration periods may have closed, but there are stillores evailable. public library and rec have several great op-in, summer learning opportunities. also, our school lunches do not stop. every weekday from june 7 through august 17, 2018, anyone
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under the age of 18 can receive a free lunch and/or free snack. this is at 100 sites throughout san francisco. if you want more information on this, please go to our website at sfusd.edu. i would lake to share some exciting news on math in our district. more students than ever before e tinevelath courses. we have more students positioned to take a.p. calculus or statistics nextar than in any pryer co-heart. 77 latinos took a.p. calculus last year. this next year, 154 students are signed up. the graduating class has earned more math or science credits.
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african-american students are earning one more semester of science than the cohorts before them. finally, all san francisco unified school district communitybe are invited to join our second annual contingent in the pride parade. this is on sunday, june 24. our district has been a national leader in providing lgbtq support services and inclusive curriculum for nearly 30 years and we're excited and proud to celebrate and represent our core values of social justice and diversity and inclusion in this year's parade. you can find out more including a link to the sign up page at our website, sfusd.edu. and that concludes my report for this evening, president mendoza.
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>> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you, superintendent. item 3 is the students delegates report. >> thank you. for the first time this year, we do not have a next meeting as part of this agendand wi start this off by presenting our cannabis-free school resolution. our goal is to limit student exposure to cannabis by limiting advertising around school property. >> although school ended, the vesum rests. our interns will contact a new item. our inter wl start this coming monday. >> we also have an increase on extracurricular activities. we've completed a survey and will present to the rules committee tomorrow with our alyzey data and. we w t ensure that the students from all schools have access to extracurricular
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activities. >> unfortunately, today is bittersweet, as it is our last day sitting here student delegates. its safe to say that we couldn't be more grateful to work with such an unspiring board of education that really cares about the students. i will not forget the values and lessons and i will continue to advocate for these same values throughout my life. >> i just want to say thank you to the board, to the city, my teachers, fellow students. you all have been ir replaceable in my life and for long time i didn't know what education was. i went to school. istudied. i learned, but i didn't know the individuals that made my education and the education of 56,000 students in our district possible. my te on the board really changed that.
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sitting here alongside all these great people and hearing the stories from people that stand up and raise their voice, i think i will remember this the rest of my life and i will be sure to take all the things i learned froy time here in s.f. and continue to implement these things years and years in the future. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: i wanted to give board members an opportunity -- go ahead. that's part of the student delegate report? >> yes. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: go ahead. now you are all prepared to think about something lovely to say. >> i would like to introduce our incumbent president, who will introduce next year's leaders who will be filling our shoes.
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>> good evening, president mendoza, superintendent matthews, board of education, over the last year, it's been my honor and privilege to lead the san francisco unified school district council as president. i've seen the passion of superintendent matthews, board of education and all sfusd employees ensuring students' safety and in growth. so behalf of the students, thank you very much. now it's my pleasure to introduce the new leadership team. clarisse aruna. >> i'm a senior. i'm exciteded to represent the filipino-american community and also interested in social justice and women's issues.
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thank you. [applause] >> we now have galahad mai. >> good evening. i'm proud of being an sfusd student. i would like to work with the board to improve. it's my honor to be with the board. thank you. [applause] >> finally, last but not least, my successor, cassandra gatica. it's my please bestow this gavel to you. i'm confident it will be in competent hands. [applause] >> hi. i'm cassandra gatica, thurgood
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marshall high school. a! [applause] and i'm really excited to be interimresent l the student advisory council next year and also excited to lead my fellow peers and this coming school year i'm -- iant to touch with women's rights. [applause] >> thank you very much, again. i know that i'm leaving the student advisory council in very, very capable, very good hands. we're sure you will do an amazing job. [applaus >> and that concludes our student delegate report. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: at this time, i want to offer my colleagues a moment to say something about our student delegates. >> commissioner murase: thank you very much. first of all, i want to welcome
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the new student leadership, really excited to have your participation. and i want to thank the outgoing chair for most student nights being here until late in the evening, grappling with some challenging issues. once a student delegate, always a student delegate, though you may graduate to becoming a school board member or elected official. it's been a pleasure to work with you and please stop by. esther is always here. please let us know how you are doing. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. >> commissioner walton: i want to thank our newly elected representatives. i want to say, one, thank you so much for your leadership when we had the policy about fees and terms of -- for performances and
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extracurricular activities. you brought it altogether and led the way in the past and made it about our students and what they thought and did so in a thoughtful way. i want to thank you, both, for your leadership on that. i want to wish you the best as you get over this last summer for your high school years and wish you the best for your higher education. i know you will do great things. it's been a pleasure to sit here and serve with both of you. thank you. [applause] ce president cook and then commissioner haney. >> e >> vice-president cook: i've adred our policy as a district. we should be proud of the students we've had. i will say a little more but where are you going next year? >> i will be attending ucla. >> iill be right across the
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bay at berkeley. >> vice-president cook: impressive. i alsoteommend your ship on the issue around school performance fees and you stepped right into that. i think that -- there's also been a lot of thoughtful engagement about how to involve your students and these issues across the city. i'm excited that thurgood marshall is represented in leadership next year. t-train, what's up? [laughter] and that we're bringing on new people that are really committed to ensuring that this district is working on behalf of students. students are our biggest constituency and should be driving policy. i want to commend commissioner mendoza for shifting up the seats a bit so have the students at the heart of the
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conversation. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: commissioner haney. >> commissioner haney: i want to thank you, both, for your service. i agree with vesiice prnt cook that this is a really special part of what we do as a district and i can't imagine having this board without the student delegates. it's not something that's required of schl boards and most school boards don't have student delegates. they tried to propose this at lausd. it because controversial and the board rejected it. for us, we can't think of having the conversations without you here and the central perspective that you provide. both of you represent the best of student leadership in our district. i know i got to know you when you were meeti around making sure that folks had -- young people had a voice and an opportunity to vote. and i hope that you continue that both now in san francisco and in the future, that young people should be at the table, should have their voices heard
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on the things that matter to them. and i want to thank the folks and welcome the new delegates. really, we look at student leadership as a pipeline. i kno you're supported by a very strong s.a.c. and trained new leaders and made sure that people are prepared to sit up here next year. i thank you for that and they're only able t do their work here because you are informing them and have a strong sense of representan around them in terms of what matters for students. thyou. go, bears. go, baby bears. [laughter] really great choices. sorry. i went to cal. that's what they called them. no. they're extraordinary schools and you will do great things. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. mmissioner sanchez. >> commissioner sanchez: thank you, president mendoza.
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i,to want to congratulate our student delegates. i want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues with your work around student equity and right to have performances to our schools and to do it in a way that made sense. that went through rules and was going to the full board and you put the brakes an it so we could have more thoughtful conversations, so thank you. i want to welcome and congratulate the new student leaders as well. it's the cal bears, right? and ucla bruins? face-off. no. i'm a double slug from u.c. sainta cruz. thank you. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: i wanted to invite chief kevin truitt to come up and make some
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remarks. >> thank you, president mendoza. od-bye so lon good s we s luck to our student delegates. you guys are amazing, absolutely amazing. on a selfish note, you have no idea how hard these guys work. they are hereeveral nights a week, several hours, many, many hours, and on a selfish note, i owe you a debt of gratitude. now that i am no longer a principal, i don't have go-to students to fill my heart. so you being a part of the third floor and letting me get to know you and work alongside you and work closely with you is something that i look forward to. you're the best part of my job. i will tell you that.
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you're the best part of my job. all of you. we want to send you off. onehalf of all of us, a gift for you [applause] and you didn't ask where sojay was going. announce, please -- >> i'm going to be going to harvard next year. [cheers and applause] just a little school in boston, my hometown. so thank u, you. we love you and wish you all the best. for the new students, i want you to say, you're in for a treat. again, we keep impressing -- they keep iessing us year in and year out, but cassandra from
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thurgood, she may look tiny, but she's a powerhouse. she's dynamite. they're amazing and w're in for another great year. thank you for stepping up. to the three of you, all the best. >> pove you. sident mendoza-mcdonnell: congratulations. thank you so much for all of your service. it's been -- i know it's hard herding cats at times and the leadership skills that you have demotedra have been tremendous. we wish you the best at harvard. >> bring a jacket. and the gentleman behind you, has a few degrees from harvard. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: and cassandra, from one female president gavel to another
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female president gavel, congratulati. i'm excited to work with you. and to the student delegate coming in, congratulations. we look fore word -- forward to working with you. it's been an honor. your leadership and ability to capture the voice of the students has been critical for us and we really look to you to shareith us what's on the ground and i think you both have done a tremendous job in doing that. i think part of what we are looking to do is to build city leaders. and so on behalf of the board and our late mayor ed lee, we had a -- we have a scholarship fund that we've been able to allocate to a number of students. this year we gave it to3 students, but we saved two of them for the tw of you. [applause] we are going to be giving
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berkeley and ucla $1,000 towards your tuition this year to help you out a little bit. i know that you both have worked extremely hard. and one of the things that mayor lee was adamant about is not only beptply students but models for your community. h wanted to be sure that you were doing some for of work and being on the school board is a perfect example of a form of work. it provides you with an experience that you can take with you going forward. so we hope that this experience has been a positive one and you will reflect on it as you move forward. to the both of you, we want to honor you by giving you the scholarship and thanking you for the time and energy you have devoted to the board and the students of sfusd. thank you, both. [applause]
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>> goodbyes are really hard. thank you for indulging us in that. these two have been reay special for us. item 4, we'll be recognizing several other scholarships that have been provided throughout the school year. so we'd like to make some other scholarship announcements and some awards that were . if w could have the representatives from united administratos of san francisco, united educators of san francisco, and the filipino educators of san francisco. come on up, whoever is repping, and share with us who will be getting -- orho got more scholarships, thank you. >> good evening, president mendoza-mcdonnell, superintendent dr. vincent
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matthews. i'm a former high school principal and it always gives us joy to honor graduating high school seniors and on behalf of united administrators of which i serve as co-executive director, we give ni scholarships to nine high schools one year and nine to the other nine the succeeding year. and this year, we gave our principals, who are our unit members, the chance to pick deserving graduating seniors scholarships in the amount of $1,500. so let me name the recipients this year. from balboa high school, izabeth ambrosa.
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[applause] >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: why don't you list them all and we'll give a round of applause? >> from county community, jason christian. from hilltop high school, the recipient is anna ramirez. from independence high school, where the principal is anastasia claster, the recipient i ieda allen. from abraham lincoln high school, where sherry manalang is the principal, the recipient is beatrice flores. from lowell high school, where the principal is andy ishibashi, the recipient is loreen fudge. o'connell school of technology, where the principal is susan ryan, the winner is oripie rec
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is -- not the tony, that was sunday -- cellar navaro. from s.f. international, where julie kesler is the outgoing principal, the recipient is augustine herrera. last but not least, from ida b. wells, consider the principal is catherine inkle, the recipient is hyram diaz. thank you very much. [applause] >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. congratulations to all the uasf award rep recipients. how about uasf? >> we havevene recipients. we'll read their names. i was not able to get their high schools that they were attached to.
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but we did each -- we always goodor a divup oerf students from across the city and we're also very much enjoying the opportunity to support a group of beautiful and brilliant, young scholars kevin inge, lison chan, sabrina lynch, amy clock and raven elias. and our scholarships are named for former uesf presidents and other people that have contributed. and we host a party, too, which is so fun. next time we'll invite you all. thank you. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. and congratulations to all the uesf award recipients. freedom. >> thank you, president mendoza,
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dr. tthews, board commissioners. real quick, we were able to re-establish the filipino-american educators and employees sfusd organization. [applause] emoyees with philipfilipino 500 ethnicity. and this year we were able to award 11 students scholarships. from lincoln high school, emanuel malig. from high school, dominik rimo. from burton high school, melanie caro. from hilltop high school, maueren veleno. and lincoln high school again, jessa colo.
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and the academy, celine kristie siva. this year as well, in the name of president mendoza's late but great mother, beltran mendoza from school of the arts. [applause] >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. congratulations to all of those award recipients. all right. so that was our student portion of recognition. item 5 is recognitions of valuable employees rave awards. there are no rife awards tonight. section b, continuation to item 6, advisory committee reports and appointments. item one, report from the parent advisory council, the p.a.c. if i could have the p.c. representatives join us.
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>> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. superintendent dr. matthews, commissioners. i'm sarine. t advisory council. i have a 9-year-old dauter that is guadape elementary sc whohool,s going into 4th grade. >> good evening, superintendent, president, and commissioner, i'm john amar, chair-elect for next year. i have two children at alamo going into first grade and second grade. and i wanted to thank the student delegates for their service. so this is year-end report to the board of education for the parent advisory council. this report provides an update
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on activities of the p.a.c., including work we did in the 2017-2018 school year. they collaborated with dionssiith those that live on treasure island. many families impress a sense of isolation, feeling of being forgotten and want to ensure that tr voices woul help to shape anyn t system by the district or city as a whole. participants ask that we share the messages with district leaders and san francisco city officials. students have different needs and choose schools based on transportation. how can you discount us out here? no library, no school, limited community youth programs. and they say, come here.
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visit us. and they emphasized that more in once. in late april, the c. was invited to sacramento by the portunity institute to participate on a statewide panel gemt wit t chance to holder highlight the work as a collaborative, areas that we need to build upon and why the work is important and one aspect of the work that we need to rethink is how to shift to a sustainable model of gathering stake holder feedback, especial as w support efforts or all students to be more inclusive and transparent. many schools are modelling the practice, others need support to engage the communities, particularly families and stude t benefit frome the fundi district priorities. >> at a p.a.c. meeting in april,
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we revealed and discussed the policy to provide feedback. p.a.c. members agree with the policy, but have questions about accountability and implementation. questions that we have he for example, who is held accountable? who is responsible for the follow-up? how do we getthe support that we need? the p.a.c. shares this edck with other programs. we have community and school partnerships and ask there they attended our meeting on june 6. we discussed family culture and climate surveys. p.a. members wanted to discuss the possibility of using the survey for family feedback for
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areas of concern that we've mentioned during the stake holder engagements. we want to know building communit, relationships, and cultu itivnsy. how they raise their stud' access to technology, academics, and those provided to community planners. long-term absenteeism for students, and, finally, understanding restorative practices and implementation at their schools. p.a.c. members would like to see that theyhould share the results of the survey more broadly with families across the district, as well as plans to adjust the service from the survey. it may be challenging to change these questions since the survey
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is part of the favors of the nine school districts, including ours. >> and the rest of the report is a brief summary of the work that the p.a.c. has done over the last year it's the for you to read at your leisure. we've wanted to make sure that you had t information available to you. thank you, again, for a productive school year and we're ready for any questions that you may have. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: great. thank you, both. and thank you to the p.a.c. for continuing to share ideas and bringing voice to the parents to us. any questions or comments? commissioner murase? >> commissioner murase: thank you. thank you for the report and members of the p.a.c. for taking time to reach out to other families in the district and i want to acknowledge the leadership of georgia williams
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that shepherds the p.a.c. in a solid, steadfast way. thank you. >> w want say, georgia hasen a fantastic help. thank you for acknowledging her. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. any other questions or comments? seeing none, thank you, again, for the report. >> thank you. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: next item, if i may, i would like to move the items from section h up under these reports. so section h is the update on the san francisco alliance for my brothers and sisters keeper and update on the support and achievement of african-american students in san francisco unified school district. if there is no objection from my gr up.gues, i would like to move thank you. and, mr. superintendent, do you have -- do you want i tee this
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up for us? >> thank you. so this evening, we're going to have -- bringing up both items? >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: yes. >> so two reports. the first is an update on the san francisco alliance of my brothers and sisters keeper. presenting to us this evening will be the executive director of human rs commison ch date davis and hope s.f., bill mueller. and then we'll have a report of all african-american students' achievement and that will be special assistant to me, mr. dickey. >> good evening. thank you, president mendoza-mcdonnell, superintendent matthews, commissioners, it isobering to present on something that was a signature commitment of the late
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mayor ed lee. it's a pleasure to be here. we thought it important to thank the san francisco unified school district, which was a signature, critical partner for us for my s nd sisters keeper. i know this board has come before it many times confronting our students and district, pacific islanders or latino students. and we know that we cannot do this without each other. i want to thank the board and the school district for being a critical partner. so i just want to briefly go through the timeline of what my brothers keeper was and eerie to think back to the president that was in office when this first
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started. 2008, 2012, there was a robust focus. in 2014, president obama launched the my brse keeper challenge to cities across the country. fo ar maral leaderip. i remember being in mayor's chambers with president mcdonnell and it was debated whether or not san francisco would sign on and mayor lee was unequivocal and we were an early adopter. over a series of 18 months and al in which many ity fors ofhe commissioners, including commissioner haney, mmsioner walton, spoke at and others, we launched an action plan, which you can find at mbsk.com. and there was a commitment on be s oool district for a five-year, longer-term
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alliance what was really signature and i will hand it over to director davis, mayor lee found a home foshi wk appointing cheryl davs director of the human rights commission, regarding permanent funding and this aligned with our children framework. the short story, really, the san francisco alliance for my brothers and sisters keeper was about the data across the course. it was about looking at kindergarten readiness. the impact of violence and juvenile justice on our young people. of course, high school graduation rate and the precipitous decline of low-income familiar lives color being able to stay in san francisco. and the alliance had a direct and explicit focus on racial inequality in the city and
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county of san francisco and the intergenerational trauma that our families were experiencing. so we launched this with a bold goal too something different across the life course. >> so thank you, again, for the opportunity to share. cheryl davis, human rights commission. 5 want the superintendent to know that i'atchg the timer and i will try to stick to my time. i want to hit some things pretty quickly. want to recognize and thank the full board of education, the commissioners, for this opportunity and president and vice president for giving us time and space. there are some of you with us tonight. we launcd the mbsk youth coun that has been picked up by opportunity youth united. we'll be using them as community action team for san francisco this is trying to show that the heart of this, it starts with
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the youth and it builds from there. and we want to make sure that mbsk is moved by young people. the next most important part is our community collaboratives. those partners in the packet you have, there's a list of the five and one ofhis possecoary p bang focused on how we're supporting young people how they graduate from sfusd and what that process looks like. and then lastly the larger partnership with ocof, which has been doing the groundwork around data collection. we want to make sure that that tabsle ha both city and community and that the city is responding to community. and we're grateful and wan acknowledge that we're building on the work that's been laid, the foundation of the partnerships that we have with the district. the life course framework, the dual generation approach. i've been very happy with the
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partnership both through the superintendent but that has been advocated for from president mendoza-mcdonnell as well as commissioners walton and cook, who have been very supportive in helping us to navigate these framerk mrwhether it be with families or schools. we were able to do a training with office of counseling, with all the counsellors. i think it's 0 to 300 that we did o the course of two days. there is in your packet a resolution that the hrc put rward for data collection that we'll move forward. want to thank superintendent and those that presented on the data being presented and being willing to partner with that, the lit's -- literacy work and
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looking at what are the ways to suppuil a upou .e the other thing i want to call out, c.s.i., community initiative, which you have a packet for. stanford did an evaluation of hat program and you have the white paper and the glossy in your ferighlights that work. this year, we're expanding the pilot through funding from silicon valley foundation to launch in oakland and then in san jose. so both san francisco foundation d silicon valley. thank you for partnering with us on that effort. what we want to continue to build on and this is something that the superintendent has mentioned, building on pitch, an initiative from the differestrsd the superintendent. we want to do more with professional capacity. the superintendent hadffered up the possibility of doing some of the trainings in august of the institute. want to visit that and drill
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down. th first round has been focused on african-american students . d as we develop the curriculum, there's very little material for our a.t.i. community. so being intentional about how we build that out and what it looks like. we've done somekshop at community and school and want more intentional and build on what we've done. this is a quick snapshot of what we've done, h.r.c. has done in the last year or so. the equity ambassadors that we work with five schools. 51 youth. want to recognize the supervisors from the districts gave the youths certificates for taking that on and working within their schools. they did gender equity work, racial equity work. the speakerries, wh ore than 2,000 folks. and the presenting on the curriculum that we've developed
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across the nation as well as we were able to take students from wallenberg to hong kong to present on the work they did. grateful for the partnership, but want toigure out how to do more and what that looks like. the transformative mind sets, which we talk about and how do we build this work and be intentional? we're working with university of san francisco, stanford, as well as ke,o drill down on what is the actual impact of the curriculum that's been developed and to have it be more of a strategy that can be used. trying to tie it to the work that's been done. and this is a sample of the work we did with students at wallenberg. 69% of those students from the b.s.u. shared what they wanted to do and how they wanted to do it. i want to recognize and acknowledge the superintendent and commissioner cook, who really helped us with some of the challenges and issues and
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helped to elevate student voice ant wo recognize that john o'connell had 300 of the 450 students sign the petition and that the administration at john o'connell has actually bought into the three requests from the students. those requests are in you your folder as well and they're working to implement what the students ask for. this mind-set about depth versus coverage and having intentionality with the students. and then collaborative culture. this is where we want to work with the district, dealing with family and community engagement. literacy program, you have samples of the curriculum we've been doing that we've been working on that we work with u.s.f., library and other places with. the john lewis books and then the workshops we did this year. grateful because a lot of schools sent students.
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roosevelt sent students over and then other schools with larger numbers. so we saw probably 200 students in that workship. -- workshop. we're grateful. mr. miller and mr. dickey have been working on this for years we're grateful for the opportunity to present to you this time around and what we're actually asking for is the ability to continue to partner and be more intentional about professional development and those trainings that can happen and sharing the curriculum that's been informed by community and young people. as we developed that curriculum, it's in that space. really thinking about how we can be intentional, thinking about the literacy work, and i know we've talked in the past to kevin truitt about some of the work that they're doing around literacy and some those in schools and we're able to partner in be in that. and the data coherence and
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access. we're grateful for the partnership with mr. dickey, but do think as we build this out to include our pacific islander and latin population that we need to have additional support and that there can be somebody that's dedicated to this. we really want to work to show the progress that's been happening and we think that we need a person that's able to track what's happening in communities and make the direct correlation between community partnership and school partn partnership and what makes the difference. as young people are getting support in schools, we don't want to discount the impact of partnership with communities. we think there are great partnerships that need to be elevated and the best way to do that is to have someone assigned for that. so, again, thank you for this opportunity. we're really looking forward to it. i know the last one will require
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a little bit more, but the first two, we're hoping to move forward and be able to implement for the next school year and begin during the summer. so i will pass around, lastly, i will give it to -- samples of the curriculum and then i wanted to just share these wonderful posters that the students made around gender equality and being upstanders and not bystanders. and, lastly, sample of the curriculum that's culturally responsive and that deals with african-american songs, slave songs. it deals with really looking at sojourner truth and what it looks like and what it means? and when we talk about persistence, that we have folks who persisted even before and how do we recognize and acknowledge that. with that, i will say, thank
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you, again, for this opportunity. i started to bring you books, because folks that are here know that i love to do that, but i was walking and had three bags, so couldn't do it. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you very much. so i do have -- i don't, actually. i have something for the second item. i want it thank you, both. it's an important initiative that we've been doing collectively and have seen some impact already. the idea that we are all on the same journey and that we're not doing a variety of different things without really thinking about how collectively we can impact our young people has been really critical. i want to see if there are any communities or questions from the board. [please stand by]