support that our special educators have, we have to fully fund coteaching in the middle and high schools? because at the secondary level, coteaching is absolutely necessary to ensure that our students with i.e.p.'s graduate with all of their 8 through g requirements. we have to provide the staffing allocations for that teaching as well as schedule a school day so that those coteachers are allowed to coplan lessons. we have to ensure that our school site councils include special education in their planning process 'cause when parents and staff connected to special education have a seat at the table for the school planning, inclusion becomes a school wide priority. and finally, we have to address the service codes. the 900 codes, if you guys like to talk about service codes, which i do, have impaired paraprofessionals in our

district. we were asked to stop using it because that's not the purpose of it, and instead of finding another code to appropriately specify the service that our paraeducators were offering to these students during that time, it was put in as a supplementary aids and services which means we don't accurately capture how much time these paraeducators need to be spending with these students to appropriately support their success. so we recommend looking at the codes that already exist, and you'll see some of the codes that we found that being aratley depict what our paraeducators do in the classrooms. we have to make sure we appropriately staff the service minutes to provide the accurate allocations to our school sites when we're looking through at the beginning, middle, and end of the year to make sure that staffing can support these actual services that are being provided to our students.

>> we are looking forward to 2018 and 19, another year of comparing. our immediate -- [inaudible] >> so this past year our popular topics were disability in college, know your rights, and executive function. at our june meeting our topic is artists and support. in two days, we'll have the meeting. so our c.a.c. meetings are open to public, and we would like to invite all of you commissioners to attend. over 2018-2019 meeting topic, i would like to point out april meeting. the topic is advocate worthy excellence award, which i would like to invite all of you commissioners to attend to that

meeting. notification to our meetings are sent to all parents of sfusd students with i.e.p. [inaudible] >> and parents of children with general education school site staff, central office staff, and community members are also welcome to attend our meeting. meetings are fourth thursday of every month as support for families, 1663 mission street. and free child care, interpretation, and light dinner are also available. >> we would like to acknowledge that there have been quite a few people in the district this year that have gone above and beyond to support our learners that have i.e.p.'s, and so we're using this slide to do that.

so we wanted to thank the curriculum and instruction department for all their work this year on the processing pilot -- phonological pilot processing program, and we look forward to working even more closely with them in the 2018-19 school year as the pilot rolls out into a full-blown program. and we'd also like to thanks the family empowerment and engagement office, rack will wells, kashina turner pierce, and shem corngold, and previously isaac tan, as well, for all the work they've done to develop the s.p.a. curriculum, which will be training at all schools this coming year as part of the beacon expansion. we'd also like to thank student family and community support. we'd like to call out kevin

truitt and salary lopez for their support as well as bill sanderson for all their work that they've done to increase awareness of students with disabilitied on the s.a.c. and that's going to be one of the focuses for nominated members on the s.a.c. is to have more student representation among students with i.e.p.'s and 504's. and also our felly advisory committees, our collaboration this year has been amazing and as mentioned earlier led to a family alignment and leadership summit. and so thank you to the fellow advisory committee leadership teams, but particularly to georgia brat williams, to danielle williams, to maggie zhou for their support and guidance. and finally, we look forward to seeing you in the fall. our website has changed.

we are no longer a .org, we are a .com. i'm sure you have us book marked, so change your book mark, and our e-mail is there in case you have any questions. >> okay. thank you so much for the report. from the commissioners, are there any questions or comments? commissioner norton? >> commissioner norton: thank you, and thank you for the report. it's always nice to see you all. i'm actually really interested in the discussion of the site codes, which, you know, you and i might be the only people in the room that are interested in that, but i am very interested in that, and i would like to request some background from

staff about the -- our use of the guidance that we're giving schools about the use of the site codes and why there are some of these adult support codes that have been underutilized, so if i could request that, mr. superintendent at some later time from staff. i see miss robertson in the back, and she's nodding. >> and before any other comments from the board members, i have two public speakers that are signed up, so megan potemki and katey russell. >> good evening. my name is megan potente, and i'm here to speak, to express my support for the recommendations from the c.a.c., particularly related to

the phonological processing parent. i am an sfusd parent as well as a parent of a child with dyslexia, and i've also worked in education for 20 years. the last seven years of my career have been with sfusd. so for decades now, we have had overwhelming scientific consensus on the best way to teach kids to read. these best practices are summarized by what works clearinghouse in their recommendations for teaching foundational skills. instructional programs that are aligned with these findings are described as evidence based. we must ensure that any materials that sfusd invests in for reading skills are in fact evidence based.

for children with markers of dyslexia, early identification is crucial. so quote from the e.l.d.-e.l.a. framework from the california department of education, the most effective intervention occurs at the first sign of difficulty and much can be accomplished with immediate action. so it is imperative that all students learning to read in sfusd have access to evidence-based instruction and foundational reading skills, and that universal screening for markers of dyslexia is a priority. students with signs of dyslexia must have access to structured literacy at first signs of difficulty. the e.l.a. and e.l.d. framework for california and the california dyslexia guidelines were developed to support districts in instituting best practices and ensuring access and equity for all learners. so let's all ground our decision making in these documents to assure that students have the learning

opportunities they deserve to unlock literacy. thank you. >> thank you. before the next speaker, aleta fisher. >> yes? >> so you have a card here for public comment and for -- to speak on the c.a.c. special ed. [inaudible] >> okay. so it's not -- doesn't have -- okay. got it. thank you. >> i can get up and talk more if you want. >> no, no, no. i'm trying to manage this, so i'm trying to see if i'm going to let you speak again -- no, i just want to put you in the right category. thanks. >> good afternoon -- good evening, commissioners and superintendent. this is from a parent who could not be here tonight, jim -- kim stewart. i'm reading on her behalf. dyslexia is soul crushing, not just for the kids but for the whole family. my daughter got in the car in january lamenting about being the tunedest one in her class.

she's in therapy for low self-esteem and lack of confidence that results in high level of anxiety. my daughter wants very much to go to charles armstrong school for dyslexic kids so she can be in a class of kids like me where i can learn. the school has said that getting violet to a level k by 2019 is ambitious. she is making incredible progress with tutors and is currently reading at level k because of the tutoring and the work we do at home. i'm a mom, not a teacher. i follow the directions of the school, and for two years tried reading with her in a way as it turns out is ineffective for dyslexic children, and she continues to fall behind and frustration grew. the frustration has grown and the relationship i have with hi kids has -- my kids has been damaged. i really want what is best for

them. they are incredibly bright, but they hate school, and they think they are dumb, and they have been suffering in their friendships as well because of it. it's summertime, and we spend an hour a day working on reading, writing, and math. in addition, they have tutoring sessions just to help them catch up. and they are catching up, but they -- because they're bright, and they're being taught appropriately. a lot of kids get to play soccer, dance, and music lessons after school. that happens if you can fit into the schedule of more than three hours of tutoring a week to catch them up. the system is setup to wait until they are so far behind they give -- before they get appropriate help. the early intervention window is then closed so it's harder, and the goal of the district sets are only to mack a year's worth of growth, not to close the achievement gap. my kid will learn to read, write, and do math. i'm not worried about that, i'm

worried about how they feel about themselves. the low self-esteem and lack of confidence that grows inside them. it's a lot easier to build a child than to fix an adult. the early intervention window is closed for my kids. they already suffer from low self-esteem and anxiety. i had a really horrible night last night with kids and working with them. it's incredibly hard because i'm their mom, not their teacher or tutor, but they need to do work at home to catch up because they really can't afford -- because i really can't afford daily tutoring. i'd really like to make the meeting tonight -- she couldn't -- but i just can't. i'm incredibly spent. i felt like throwing up my hands and giving up altogether. i think this is a really sad and telling statement. having a dyslexic student myself who's just graduated from high school, i can attest that all of this is true with

my child, too, and she still suffers from lack of self-esteem. so, you know, i'm glad we're working toward this end, and really very happy about what the curriculum department is doing. and i just want it to continue because it is a very difficult project that you guys have embarked upon. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent matthews. i'm susan solomon, executive vice president of united educators san francisco, and i just wanted to say thank you to the special ed c.a.c. this is becoming a happy annual event. thank you for their tireless advocacy on behalf of the kids. and our goals in uesf are so much in alignment of the goals of the c.a.c. that i look forward for the opportunity to

working together, so thank you. >> great. thank you. any other comments by commissioners? commissioner walton and then commissioner merase? >> so of course, again, i just want to thank you for your time dedicated to this work. i know it's all volunteer, and i know you do it for the love of your children, but for all of our children, so thank you. on slide 5, i guess this question is more so to the district, in terms of -- have we cost out any of the recommendations on slide 5 around reading interventions or just for all the recommendations in general or is that something that we're going to work on just to see what the recommendations would cost us as a district? >> at this point, i know we don't have that fully costed out. i know with have a budget associated around the dyslexia curriculum and others for implementation next year, but these additional

recommendations will need more work. >> thank you. when we ghet a chance, i would just like to see what work we do around trying to figure out what we could do to achieve some of these supports and recommendation as a district, and at least know what the cost could be so we could try to prioritize. thank you. >> can i address that slightly, as well? so as a corollary, when supports are not available within sfusd, a family -- the district is required to provide services. so many families receive within their i.e.p. compensatory education. the school will pay to send students to programs like literacy. my question would be how much are we currently paying with those contracts or m.o.u.'s or whatever to support students

outside of the district now versus what it would cost to provide the sservices internally. [inaudible] >> we know that price tag, but thank you. >> may i ask something, as well? there are many parents who don't want to deal with the process of having to literally fight for those kind of reading programs? i myself was one of them and had fought to get reading in my daughter's i.e.p. on a regular basis. threw my hands up and ended up paying for it out-of-pocket for a few years. the increase -- my daughter has autism, and sometimes she can't read how she feels. but the fact that she started reading and stringing words together and seeing the things around here increased herself esteem. i can imagine what it's like for families if they can afford to pay for it independently if

they don't want to wait for the district and the months of including it on an i.ee.p. there are many students going without that necessary instruction for reading, and i just want to emphasize that because of the fact that i've seen it myself, and the fact that i also had a teacher who suddenly recognized my daughter was reading who said oh, your daughter is now reading, and i was upset, and i thought well, no thanks to you. i had to do that myself. i'm not a teacher, and i had to go hire a tutor for that. i'm just one person. imagine how many other people are out there struggling with their reading. so i just want to share that with you. [applause] >> commissioner merase? >> thank you very much for your always very thoughtful presentation. i know it represents a considerable amount of work and having been to your c.a.c.

meetings, the dedication members is so impressive. i just had two comments. one, i was trying to access your website and there seems to be some kind of problem. but i want to make sure that the school district is also linking to the right website. so i believe that might be in our public information office, so make sure that we connect that way. and then secondly, just a plea. generally, sfusd, we have a shortage of teachers who can capably teach our students with learning differences, and we need more paraeducators, as well, so whatever you can do to spread the word that we are hiring, as the superintendent said in his remarks, we can really use the help in that regard. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner sanchez? >> commissioner sanchez: thank you, and thank you for the presentation, as usual. you did provide us with a memo or letter on charter schools. did you present that in your

presentation? >> we did not. it's in there just because we know there's some similar agenda items on -- on tonight's agenda. >> commissioner sanchez: would one of you like to just mention it, what's in it, because if you're not prepared to, i'm happy to. >> i would be happy to. so in the packet of information we provided you tonight, the last item is back in january , the c.a.c. board wrote a physician statement on charter schools and ratified it with our whole membership, i believe, in february . but our position on charter schools is that charters are not necessarily bad. in fact, we have some great charters here in sfusd such as gateway and leadership that were designed to support students with learning differences, students with alternative needs. where we have challenges with charter schools is those that

choose to participate outside the governance of sfusd. there's a whole separate special education local plan area that i think is made up of 300-plus charter schools out in el dorado county. and our whole organization is built into the framework of special education law to provide parents oversight, accountability, to provide a voice and help hold the district accountable. we are active partners? we hold meetings every month, we -- we're here, presenting to you. el dorado slpa, we've talked to parents who are very frustrated with the engagement process. they meet three times a year via conference call for an hour. there's no feedback mechanism at all. you type your comments into a chat box and nothing ever

happens. there's no public -- there's no -- at our meetings, the special education department leadership team comes and special interacts with families around challenges and issues? so we -- we struggle with some of the marketing material that we're seeing right now that's -- innovate, for example, just released a special education plan a couple of months ago, and their actions and their words and the fact that they are a for-profit corporation that doesn't allow any stakeholder engagement or feedback is just very frustrating for a group of parents who have been fighting for years to get to the point where we are to have a voice with their district. we are strongly caution families that are looking at charter schools to make sure you ask a whole lot of questions before you buy into slick marketing.

>> miss fisher, thank you. >> does that fulfill your comments on public --? okay. any other questions or comments? okay. we just want to thank you very much as always for bringing us up to speed and for sharing your thoughts and ideas and for continuing to do the amazing work you do for the sake of our children, so thank you all. have a great summer. >> thank you. you, too. >> thanks. all right. so our next item is item c, our consent calendar. >> madam president, i do have an appointment to make. is that at this time? >> yes. so item 2 is any appointments to advisory committees by board members. i'm sorry. commissioner merase? >> i would like to thank my appoint eastbound, tagej shah

for her four years of dedicated service, including as cochair of the oversight committee. she is termed out as of this month. i will be appointing josephine jau, family liaison as hoover middle -- at hoover middle school to that committee. >> thank you. any other appointments to boards by board members? all right. minutes approval, i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. i do not have any public comment on consend calendar items that have been withdrawn. >> there is one item withdrawn tonight being withdrawn from the consent calendar is number 75, architect contract number 2339, modification one for s.v.a. architects, inc. >> okay. thank you. any items removed for first reading by the board?

seeing none, any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion or vote tonight? seeing none, thank you. roll call vote on the consent calendar, please, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. mr. cooke? >> yes, except on item 53, i want to disclose that i am the c.e.o. of mission bit, and i therefore reaccuse myself from this vote to avoid any conflict of interest. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> yes, except for item k-58 which was the only retroactive, so thank you to everybody who got yours in on time, but i'll be voting on that one. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> okay. item d is a discussion and vote

on consent calendar items severed and considered for -- set for separate consideration. the next thing i'm going to do is move some things up because we have some really big agenda items and we've got some kids that are waiting in the lobby. these are two items that are going to be quick, but they have some folks that are going to be speaking on it. if the board would indulge me, i'd like to move items i and k forward to be heard and then we'll go back to the regular agenda. does anyone object to that at all? all right. thank you. so item j is the introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. we have two proposals. so the public and board comment on proposals, and i have several people signed up for those. i guess we're going to hear those first, so item j, this is

on the board members proposal 186-26(a) 2 in support of increased support and transparency for charter schools, being introduced by commissioners sanchez and cooke. so we normally spend just a few minutes on public comment on this, but i have several speakers. so i'm just going to give you each a minute because there's several of you, but if i could get deidre elmsumi, guadalupe, darren, mana moreno, and saba aguilar. this is section j, and this is the public comment on the two items that we'll get introduced after public comment. so come on up, and we'll give

you each a minute to speak. >> good evening. my name is mildred coffee. i'm here in support of passing this policy, but i want to make sure that all charter schools are held to the same standards that all sfusd schools are held to the same -- you know, same standards. and i understand that we do have children in our organization that do go to charter schools, and i do want to make it clear to you guys, and we as coleman advocates want to make it very clear to everyone here tonight that we're not opposing charter schools: schools. we want to make sure, like i

said, that they're held accountable, just like sfusd students. we do the same thing for them. and also we want to make sure that if there's funding, that it's not taken away from public schools because we also need much more improvement in that area for our students. they need more resources. we need to quit joking around, playing around. you know what? i want to give you guys positive thoughts. you have worked hard to get us where we are, but we still need a whole lot of improvement. and i want to let you know also for the safe and supportive schools, our african american children, we also, our parents and the families, we also need to be felt like we are safe. that's the most important thing for us right now. not just the point that they get their academics 'cause we are aware that this is not happening at some schools. we can talk about the data all we want, but there is still issues concerning our schools. and for charter schools, they need to be held accountable

'cause we need to know what's going on with those african american students in those schools. that is all we are saying. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. come on up. [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> good evening. my name is guadalupe martinez, and i'm a member of pmac. i want to make sure that all charter schools have the same standards that schools at sfusd

have. we've fought very hard to get approval for resolutions regarding safe schools and other policies that create safe school environments and support. but charter schools don't have to comply with this. we want to make sure that you are doing right by our latino and african american children. [end of translation] [applause] [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter]

>> good evening. my name is maria elena. thank you for the opportunity to comment. i'm a member of coleman advocates and pmac, and i've worked for nine years for the betterment of our children's education. i want to ensure that the education that our kids are getting is the same quality as what the schools -- the public schools have. and now that my son is attending a charter school for the first time, i want to make sure that i have somewhere to

go, and someone to hold accountable. and now that i am learning that charter schools don't have the same teaching systems and policies, i'm very worried. coleman has been educating us about the need to participate and hold charters accountable, and i want to advocate for them

and ask you as the board of education to make sure that you keep them accountable. [end of translation] [applause] [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> and i want to make sure that as someone whose child is attending a charter school and participating in that, i am not taking away from the opportunities that kids that attend the other public schools are getting. [end of translation] [applause] >> hi. i am the teacher librarian at malcolm x academy, and as i have gotten politicized by this issue, i am becoming more and more aware of the issue of the division in our -- in the

community but also that our parents in the bayview want the best quality education they can have for their students. and i understand as a staff member in the bayview schools that there are issues. and what i want to say is we all have to work together as a community to solve these issues, and we can't just give our schools away to a charter school. as a school who is being colocated this year, we have a lot of stress about what that's going to look like from other schools who have colocated, it's not going to be a pretty picture, and we're understandably worried. so we -- please, we have to hold our -- all schools accountable to the same laws, and we can't just give our schools away to constitutional

right cha right -- to charter schools. so please, we need accountability for charter schools that are paid for with our taxpayer money. [applause] >> next speaker, and i also have melissa carbajal. [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> good evening. my name is maria del ruby, and i'm a member of coleman advocates. i have children both at a charter school and at a

traditional public school. and i'm here to advocate to make sure that we are doing right at charter schools by all our children, both latino and african american. thank you. [end of translation] [applause] [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> my name is sarai, and i'm a

member of coleman advocates and pmac. i'm here to support this policy and to ask that we stop approving charter schools in san francisco. until we have a certainty of how they are performing their academic work with our children. thank you [end of translation] [applause] >> hello. good afternoon. my name is darian tillman, and i'm a parent advocate for coleman and pmac. i'm here to speak on the situation with charter schools,

and what i had on my mind is i felt like it was hindering our youth education who are being -- i mean, i feel like charter schools are being used -- are using the youth for -- as entities and for corrupt gang without giving progress reports to the parents when they should know about their child being comfortable at the school. and that's not happening from my understanding, and that needs to happen so we can get the full acknowledgement on what we're taking on in our community. [applause] >> the thing with the progress reports, it's like they'll feel comfortable enough to participate enough in the

schools, and basically, the gentrification going on, they feel like -- well, we feel like -- that it would take a lot of the tension off the students who really need the help. and if we're just putting money in everybody's pockets at the school, and we have none for ourselves to fallback with our children, it's like we don't know where our money is going. so if anybody can tell us where our money is going, that'll be fine so we can feel secure, and that's all i have to say. thank you. [applause] >> hi. i am melissa carbajal, and i wanted to cede my time to diane gray. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent matthews.

thank you for this opportunity. and i also want to thank the authors of this resolution, commissioner sanchez and commissioner cooke for writing this, putting it all together. i'm sure you worked with your colleagues as well, but this is exactly what we need for the charter schools. [applause] >> we need to hold them accountable, we need them to be transparent, and we need any data that they post to make sure that that data is correct and that it has gone through this body, right? we need -- [applause] >> we need oversight of the charter schools, point blank, period. that is what we are asking for. if they're going to come into our city, ask to have location, operate in our city, in our district, then we need to hold them accountable, they need to report, and they need to report again to this body. and so i just want to say thank you again for this resolution.

you have many supporters in this audience, you have many supporters in this district, you have many supporters in the bayview-hunters point community. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. so julie, you're the last speaker, julie. >> wait, wait, one more. one more, one more. >> i'm sorry, sir, do you have a speaker card? >> yeah, it's right here. yeah. madam president and board members, my name is edward mays. i've been a resident -- i'd like to say i've been here 45 years. i'd like to know if it's possible that we could put prayer back in the schools.

clap your hands if you think we need prayer back in the schools? because they're taking away our most bright students. all of these school shootings, when are we going to do something about this? the kids, they have the dreams, but we'd all come together, and we need to help the students. we've got to do something about this. >> all right. thank you. >> but that's my dream. thank you very much, sir. we appreciate that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> put prayer back in the schools, yes. thank you. >> okay. under section j, we have the two proposals that are being introduced, so the one that was just -- that we had just

comment was the board member's proposals 186-(a) 2 being introduced by commissioners sanchez and cooke, and other item is board member proposal is 8626 -- 18626(a) 1. could i please hear a motion and a second for first reading of these two items. >> so moved. >> second. >> all right. so i'm reverse the item for the renaming to the buildings grounds and services committee and item 18626(a) 1 is being referred to policies and budget as well as policies and fs ises committee. so we're going to move forward to section k, so a proposal -- this is a proposal for immediate action and suspension of the rules. i need a motion and a second

for suspension of the rules to hear and take action on resolution 18626(a) 3 in support of communities and local schools funding act introduced by commissioners merase and haney. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. could i get roll call vote on the suspension of rules. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: seven ayes. >> thank you. okay. so i have some speakers on this, as well. rachita rowell, carrie gray, jackie chavez, and michelle parker. come on up.

[inaudible] >> hi. my name is rachita rowell. thank you for having me. i would like to thank the san francisco board of education time today. i strongly support the initiative to reform prop 13. my campaign began when i first started mentoring my students. not because of the lack of effort on their part, but rather because of a lack of resources available to students and teachers. the chronic under funding of our public schools is holding our students back from reaching their full potential. this is not okay. these students represent the future of california, now the fifth largest economy in the world. we must make sure that we are investing in our state's

future. though prop 13 was sold as a way to protect homeowners, large corporations have benefited the most. it is ridiculous that large corporations like chevron are able to pocket millions of dollars every single year while our students are -- we are barely able to provide a proper education for all of our students. and in order to fund what we care about in our state, the tax burden has especially fallen on us individuals. but by reforming prop 13, we can finally fund what we value without having to raise taxes on people like you and me. after 40 years of giving large corporations tax breaks, it is now time to reclaim over $800 million every year for san francisco's schools and communities. let's not forget, education is not a privilege, it is a right.

i'd also like to thank commissioners merase and haney for introducing this resolution to the board. thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is madeline cooke. i'd like to thank the san francisco board of education for your time this evening. i urge the board to pass the resolution to support our initiative to reform prop 13. i stand before you as a recent college graduate, having completed my bachelor's degree this past may. every student deserves the opportunities i've had, the chance to find their passion, graduate from high school and college to look back on their education with a sense of accomplishment and use it to fuel their career and expand upon the skills they first learned in the classroom. however, that doesn't happen when our schools sit in the bottom ten in the nation and public education is not being adequately funded. the consequences to our

students are abhorrent. we are letting children and young adults suffer in classrooms while large corporations get tax breaks. luckily there is a way to fix this. before prop 13 passed in 1978, our schools were at the top ten in the nation. property tax revenue flooded in our classrooms, and we ranked fifth in the country for perpupil spending. we can achieve this again at no cost to homeowners, residents and small businesses. though prop 13 was sold as a way to protect people, it has largely benefited large -- mostly benefited large corporations. not only is it not fair that large corporations like disney are not paying their fair share in property taxes, but reforming prop 13 so that large corporations have their property taxes assessed regularly, we can restore over $10 million every year to our public schools and communities,

and help return california to a champion of public education. thank you for your support and thank you, commissioners merase and haney for introducing this resolution to the board. [applause] >> good evening. my name is kimberly mcal centecenteallister and i would like to thank the board of education for their time. i am currently an incoming junior at the university of san francisco. during my time as a student, i volunteered at rosa parks school in the fillmore. i learned the necessity and the importance of learning activities to promote students' progress and growth. as each child learns uniquely, it is crucial to have sufficient resources to suit each child's needs and to foster success in every child. these resources should be accessible to all children, regardless of their ethnicity,

ability or socioeconomic status. reforming prop 13 bo work directly to see that -- would work directly to see that each child in california receives a quality education. at the moment, california is ranked 44th in the nation for perpupil funding. as the fifth largest economy in the world, this rank is indefensible. the reform of prop 13 would generate over $10 billion a year which would not only improve our state's rank but more importantly the quality of education that each child receives. additionally, this would come at no expense to residential or small business property owners. rather, it would shift the burden to the large corporations who could cover the expense with ease. with the reform of prop 13, we can work to ensure that california's children are provided the tools they need to succeed. i strongly urge the board to support our initiative to

resoerm prop 13 -- reform prop 13. can you, commissioners merase and haney for introducing this resolution to the board, and thank you for your time. [applause] >> commissioners, thank you. my name is jackie zapata chavez, and it's a pleasure to see you and speak in front of you, mark sanchez, rachel, thank you so much. i know you guys personally and professionally, so thank you for hearing me out. i am a product of sfusd, i am a product of proposition 13, and proposition 13, when it passed, denied me of a college education for many reasons. as an orphan, and because of funding cuts, i was not able to continue my education. so i strongly urge that you reform this. there's no reason why corporations should be making

so much more money at the cost of our children. all our children deserve a proper education regardless of their economic status, regardless of their last name, like zapata chavez, regardless of their zip code. i urge you to put this on the ballot and let people decide whether corporations should be given this nontax status as opposed to -- and take this away from our children. our children and our schools need this, we need this desperately, so please just consider. all we're asking as an sfusd mother who has put five kids through the sfusd school system, as a product of sfusd, i'm asking you to consider and just consider to put this on the ballot and let the people decide. let the people decide if education for our children is worth more than corporate tax

relief. thank you so much. [applause] >> good evening. my name's michelle parker. i'm a parent of now two sfusd students. my oldest just graduated. i'm not going to repeat a lot of what you've already heard, but i do want to say that we've seen a lot of recent evidence that there's an appetite to reform prop 13, and i think that's important to where we are right now. so i think if we can get this measure onto the 2020 ballot, i think we'll see some movement. it's a really great position that we find ourselves in. i think the projections measure that there are $8 billion in tax breaks that corporations have been benefiting from every year, and that 4.5 billion of that could go to our schools or would go to our schools if we're able to pass this measure. i think that it's really

important for sfusd to take a strong position on this early. we need to show our leadership, we need to show that there is an appetite in san francisco to reform this proposition that has really defunded public schools for so long, and also because we are educating students now that have more needs than ever. we still haven't hit that 2007-2008 funding which wasn't even enough back in 2007, so we have got to find more ways to make sure that we have smart funding coming to our schools. we're educating more students who are homeless, foster youth, immigrants, student who are impacted by trauma every single day, and we need to make sure we have the resources to serve them every single day so that they are going to be prepared for college and civic life after they leave our schools. the state p.t.a. was an early supporter of this initiative.

the san francisco board of supervisors, so has oakland unified school district, and we need to, too. thank you, commissioners merase and haney for supporting it. >> hi. i'm carrie gray, and i'm the president of the san francisco p.t.a. i can only echo what everybody else has said, and i want to thank you because this board has passed other resolutions of increased funding. you know that we have more needs and fewer resources. that's not news to anybody in the room, and with this resolution, you can show your strong support for a very timely ballot initiative that could really change the game in san francisco. i notice in your consent agenda there are a lot of unequal resources across the district. some schools have very strong fund raising, and other schools

don't, and with more reliable public funding for our schools, we can really address our achievement gaps in a realistic ongoing way. and so i'm hoping that you will again support a resolution to support increased public funding -- reliable public funding for our schools. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. so we're closing public comment. i need a motion and a second for formal introduction, please. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. reading of the resolution by the authors, please. >> in support of the 2020 schools and local communities funding act, authored by commissioners merase and haney, whereas if the passage of proposition 13 in 1978, california school funding has experienced severe limitations in what was once a main source of funding for schools, the property tax. and while the intent of

proposition 13 is to help homeowners, loopholes in the system have have permitted major commercial and industrial properties to avoid reassessment, a windfall to the commercial property owners at the expense of vital school funding, and revenues generated from the property tax have shifted away from commercial property towards residential property throughout the state and in virtually every county. and whereas perpupil support depending on state funding that's delaiclined from the to ten in the nation to the bottom ten, while california's cost of living is among the highest in the nation, and california schools face challenges in providing an equitiable and challenging education for student population with vast differences in language, poverty, parental education level, and other socio education and other factors -- [inaudible] >> -- i'm going to skip ahead a

little, whereas signatures are currently being gathered to place those schools, local communities and funding acts on the ballot in 2020 to provide for at least 4.5 billion annually for schools k through 14, and these will be above prop 98 funding and follow the local control funding formula to all students in need and all school districts and bonds will be retired faster ority ras lowered. >> whereas the act will also provide billions in funding yearly for cities, counties and special districts in locally controlled revenues for parks, public safety, housing infrastructure, health and human services, libraries and the environment, and improvement land use, provide tax relief to small businesses and level the playing field among businesses and whereas the act is full in keeping with board resolution number 1217-1281 urging more perpupil spending for public education from the state of california adopted unanimously on december

12, 2017 and provides a clear revenue stream to meet the goals of the board resolution. and whereas the act was endorsed by the california parent teacher association, common sense kids action, the california federation of teachers and hundreds of local elected officials, education, community based organizations, in the fields of health, housing, faith, seniors, social justice, environmentalis, business, among others. therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district strongly supports the 2020 schools and local communities funding act and urges individuals, organizations and communities to also support this important measure to restory sources to california's public education and local services. >> thank you. so we had public comment already. any comments from the board? commissioner sanchez? >> commissioner sanchez: thank you. thank you, commissioners merase and cooke for