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>> welcome. wore glad yowe're glad you are . my name is romeo and i will be opening tonight's meeting as your honorary president. [applause] tonight is january 15th, 2019. the regular board meeting of the board of education for this san francisco unified school district is now called to order. roll call, please. >> thank you. [roll call] >> tonight, we open this meeting in honor of the great american

poet nikki geovanni who said, you must be unintimidated by your own thoughts. thank you for letting me open up tonight's meeting. i now turn it over to my mentor, president cook. [applause] >> happy new year. that was fun. let's see.

mr. superintendent, do we have any announcements. >> we want to welcome our new board members and a announce the commission alison m. collins, gabriella lopez and falula were sworn into four-year terms by supervisor sandra lee fewer, daily city, jefferson school board trustee. the wearing in ceremony took place on monday, january 7th, 2019 at the tenderloin community school. welcome to our new commissioners! [applause] >> section a is accessibility information for the public session b opening items. approval aboard minutes. the regular board meeting of december 11th, 2018.

can i have a motion and a second for the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> [roll call] >> thank you, president cook. >> speaker cards for the regular agenda and for 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 to the item being called. and presented to our executive who mr. steel is standing in for tonight, and the board of education rules and procedures. speaker cards will not be subject for an item already before the board. number two, we have to readopt the board of education rules and

procedures as stipulate lated i. they will readopt these rules at regular meeting of the year. may i have motion and a second for the rules and procedures series 9,000. >> motion. >> second. >> we have no speakers signed up for this item. any comments from superintende superintendent. [roll call] >> number three, election of officers of the board of education. as a reminder to the public and the board, this election is by a voice vote. a second is not needed for

nominations and permissable for members nominated to vote for him or herself in this election. board members, you will be voting by name if there is more than one nomination. if only one nomination, you will be voting by saying aye or nay. i declare nominations are now open for the office of president for the board of education for the year of 2019. are there any nominations? >> i nominate stevon cook for president. [laughter] >> i second that motion. >> thank you. >> are there any further nominations for president? seeing none, i am going to close nominations. [roll call]

>> that's five ayes. >> let's see, i announce that stevon cook is now president. [applause] declare a nominations are now open for the office of vice president of the board of education for the year 2019. are there any nominations? >> now i nominate mark sanchez for vice president. >> any other nominations? no further nominations for the office of vice president? nominations are now closed. we have mr. sanchez for vice president. [roll call]

>> five ayes. >> congratulations, mark sanchez. [applause] i just wanted briefly thank my colleagues for the honor of serving in this role again for the coming year. this is an exciting board with dynamic leaders. it's really committed to improving our schools. no one can predict the future but with this group, we can trust that it will not be business as usual in 2019. so i have a bunch of priorities that i won't share with you tonight. if you are open to hearing about them, i'll be happy to tell you them at a later point. i do want to briefly, at this moment, but in a more extended

way, later on, just send our collective condolences to our superintendent who lost his mother this past weekend. she raised a really great man. we are grateful for his continued serious for our board for the sacrifice so he can serve this district. we have more information about the services. it will be this upcoming thursday. i just wanted briefly say that before we move forward with tonight's meeting. >> thank you. >> section b is opening items. section 4 is superintendent's report. >> thank you, all. thank you president cook. thank you so many of you who reached out to me to express your wishes, your thoughts, your prayers. i just want to thank you for that. one things i did want to say is my mother worked for the school district.

as a little boy, you maybe you think five years or seven years or 10 years, i thought probably about 15. i asked h.r. because i was writing the obituary and this week i found out my mother worked 30 years for the district. [applause] she served the main role as a professional for about 15 years and a parent liaison. i'm just extremely proud to have the honor of following in her footsteps in being in education. once again, i want to thank you for reaching out to me. my report for this evening, at the last meeting before the end of the calender year, i announced the lincoln high varsity football team would be playing for the cif federation for a state title, well, of course, they won. [applause]

they defeated the san diego section champion orange glen. this victory capped off a perfect 13-0 season and marked the first state football title in lincoln's history and was the first ever state championship game and it was actually held here in san francisco. so congratulations to the players and coaches for this tremendous achievement. i'm happy to announce that san francisco unified has the high school students are taking higher level math classes, more than ever before under the new secondary core sequence and the students taking those classes are more diverse according to math enrollment data. the class of 2019 is the first students to experience high school math under board policy 6152.1. the data shows 456 additional students, a 10% increase from the year prior are taking

courses beyondal again ra 2. the students taking those courses are more diverse than the previous years. this school year, we have 34% increase in african american students taking courses beyond algebra2, a 20% increase in latino students, and a 25% increase in pacific islander students, a 16% increase in white students, a 31% increase in english language learners, a 10% increase in students with i.e.p.s and 11% increase in students who qualify for free and reduced lunch. so congratulations to our students who are taking higher level math courses. [applause] yesterday, the san francisco public utilities commission and its social impact partner, web core builders, global joint

venture, helped dr. charles drew kickoff the year by surprising its first grade students with 20 chrome books and 20 amazon fire hd tablets. sfpuc general manager harlynn kelly junior, shaman wall ton and the san francisco unified board district joined the school community in celebrating the donations. thank you to the san francisco puc and web core builders, global joint ventures for the generous donations. finally, in honor of martin luther king junior day, students at the historical figures name sake dr. martin luther king junior academic middle school will celebrate with a school assembly including guest speaker district 10 supervisor shaman wallton, a performance by brett heart elementary school's dance troop and a presentation

acknowledging students who had an impact on campus. the is assembly will signify the legacy of dr. king. this will be friday, january 18th. also, on monday, january 21st, all san francisco unified school directs, schools and offices will be closed in observance of dr. martin luther king junior day. i thank you all. that ends my announcements for this evening. >> thank you. >> number five. >> thank you president cook. good evening, everyone. last night the student leaders participated in the creating of the police and school district m.o.u. they will meet with our constituents to inquire what they feel is important so the m.o.u. reflects the needs of our student body. thank you to mr. true its to advocate and be part of this important m.o.u. experience. we look forward to more sit-in

engagements. >> the topic of campaign update. the sac as of today has already sold 177 t-shirts. which is record-breaking and over our 100 sales goals. the race was $2,656.77. special thank you to sfusd community for digging deep into your pockets and helping us student leaders meet and exceed our goals. we're greatly appreciated of everyone and thank you for your support. [applause] >> the mission high school basketball team will be having two games tomorrow and both boys basketball teams and coaches will be wearing the shirts at warmups to promote the fundraising campaign. the games will start at 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 tomorrow. please feel free to attend and enjoy the game. thank you to coaches for supporting our swag and best of luck at tomorrow's game.

thank you. >> last night, student leaders in the sac health community participated in the super meeting. the sac collaborated with the wellness center and student advisory board analyzing data and utilizing them to better serve our students health needs. thank you for welcoming us. it was a great and productive meeting. >> our next meeting will be on january 28th at 5:00 p.m. a public council and anyone is welcome to attend. if you would like to attend, make a presentation or like a copy of our agenda contact our sac supervisor mr. salvador lopez barr, thank you. >> thank you for that report. number six, we have recognitions and resolutions of accommodation. we have none tonight. number seven, recognizing all valuable employees. we have none tonight. number 8, advisory committee reports and appointments to the advisory committee by board

members. number one we have a report from the parent advisory council. if you could please make your way. >> good evening, commissioners. supesuperintendent matthews. i want to say welcome to the new commissioners. we look forward to meeting with you soon. look forward to working with you to support our students and our families. so the role of the parent advisory council is to represent and bring parent voices to the

board of education to help inform discussions and decision-making for the board. this is a brief update of our activities over the last month. >> good evening, everyone. good evening commissioners. welcome once again alison collins and gabriella lopez. my name is nicole powell, i'm part of the pack committee and i'm also a parent. my son goes to thurgot marshall high school. >> i don't think your mic is on. >> in late december, pack members met with jennifer, executive director and noel, engagement manager from nutritional services. they provided a overview of the department including the meals they served each day for

breakfast, lunch and dinner. we had discussions about what is working in areas for improvement. pack members shared their concerns. we've heard related to the quality of the food that they're serving, the vending machines and students leave campus to buy unhealthy food. we learned the actions the department is taking to improve food services and the over all dining experience for sfusd students by addressing the anesthetics of the cafeterias, expanding freshly prepared meals in five school sites, listening to students' feedback with results in 20 new recipes this year. also emphasizing local food purchasing and upgrading our facilities and working to create a central kitchen by 2028. we are encouraged by the efforts students nutritional services is taking to improve its services. at our pack meeting last week on wednesday, january 9th, jana,

the pack appoint' t appointee ty drink, she joined us to give an update on the committee's work and to share the proposed budget recommendations for the revenue generated by the purchase of this sugary drinks in san francisco. the highlights that pertain to sfusd and the proposed 2018-2019 budget are as follows. $4,545,000 in grants would go to community-based organizations for programs and health education, physical activities, food access and media awareness campaigns. sfusd would distribute 728,000 of this amount to cbo to support these services. two and a half million in grants would go to sfusd and the department of children, youth and families to support the quality of school meals, nutrition education, and students-led efforts to decrease the consumption of sugary drinks

while increasing water intake and access. these funds would support oral health in schools and the one-time installation of refilling stations in schools and the purchase of refill able water bottles. she scared budget recommendations from the students at a high school based on a research project that they conducted about the science of sugar. its impacts on the development of diabetes and how to prevent it. students gather input from their peers to identify priorities and develop recommendations about how to use the tax money. it's ideas to increase food food consumption, nutrition, education, physical activity and water access to help prevent diabetes. >> the representatives from the packs are participating on the

newly formed district wide attendance workgroup. this group is helping to develop a plan to help improve attendance issues. look for support to improve attendance across our district. this plan will be implemented next school year. participants are meeting for six more sessions. we first met on january 8th and have six more work sessions in the next few months. participants are working in groups, in teams to engage a stakeholders to hold listening sessions to gather input from diverse stakeholders to make sure the plan is informed from diverse stakeholders. the representative from the community advisory committee for special education attended our pack meeting last week to lead a session with pack members. pack members not only respond to the engagement prompts but they also help generate a list of community partners that we want to make sure are engage in this process to help inform the plan.

for example, the resource center and we work this group will be doing and across our district. pack is part of the lola count ability planned task force and we started to talk about take holder engagement for the development of this next year's control on accountability plan in the district. some initial context that we touched upon this year that we have a new governor in the state. we have three new board of education members and possibly a fourth. as well as next year's local control and accountable plan for the direct wil direct will be tt year of a three year cycle. this is our sixth year we're going to get input from stakeholders and we hope to continue to build on the work

beewe've been doing and we'll se more about that work as we develop that. and our next pack meeting will be february 13th. >> thank you. any questions or comments? >> thank you. thank you for the report. can you -- i don't know if we've been apprised who is on the workgroup for attendance. do we have a list of folks on that? do you know who is attending? >> the best person to answer that might be kevin truitt. it's take holders from across the country. >> your question is i don't think we forwarded that to the board yet. >> commissioner. >> thank you for the update. i'm looking forward to meeting you with all. just clarity.

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it's like a newcomer school. and i'm here tonight to speak out against the possibility of charter schools expanding into our space. we heard that there might be school -- charter school expansion taking over classrooms in our school. we are school that we're housing the old bryant elementary school and we were packed to the gills. it was nuts. we had all our assemblies in the cafeteri cafeteria. there was no stage or gym. it was a rough space to have a high school. we did that for, i don't know,

five or six years. and we're now at the -- and you guys supported us to move there and it's been amazing. our numbers are down a little bit because the immigration patterns fluctuate. but our school is a model in the district and i think a lot of the new comer. in providing space to them.

but whatever flexibility you do have, please protect our space. thanks. good evening. i teach 11th grade with mr. paul and a couple of other teachers. i'm here to speak against giving our space to other schools and the two points specifically, is how we use that space to support the vulnerable students socially and academically. as mr. mccarthy mentioned, they leave their countries to are a variety of reasons, which are very traumatic. sometimes they have advisories of 13 students.

you can imagine the program works better when there are fewer students. failed, but still trying to graduate. we need that physical space as much as we can. i know you it's hard to graduate and we consider the challenges

that our students have, so from -- those are my experiences and i hope you consider this when making your decision and consider your time this evening. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i am the literacy and college and internship chair and peace club advisor at san francisco international high school. i have been with the district for, this is my 10th year. i'm here to also share my opinion and to speak against the expansion into our school. this is only the second year of nine and a half years at usfsd this has been possible. for eight years, out of my

almost 10 years, i've worked in three different classrooms. i've taught different classes and different floors. where we didn't have enough white board space, so my colleague painted the table, so we could use it to write with expo markers and use that as white board space. this year, a space where students can come into and leave and it's not a space where multiple teachers have desks and have to work at the same time students are learning. we are expanding, so we'll be

taking 8th graders. sfusd has showed you're here for our most vulnerable students when you provided us with our current space. please continue to stand by your actions and make sure our students have the conditions they need to learn. thank you. >> good evening, board. my name is... i am the wellness coordinator at san francisco international. thank you for your time. this is my son. we're proud to be here and so happy to serve our immigrant population. our school is full of bright youth. and as mentioned, all of our students are english language learners. most of them arriving to the country and beginning 9th grade. a lot of our students are

experiencing challenges due to unstable housing, or trauma from their home countries. and so we rely on community partnerships to offer individual therapy, support groups. and we currently don't have enough space to do that on a daily basis. we only have 2-3 rooms to offer support groups to students. and just to be mindful that with the current administration and the politics of this country, our students face threats to their mental health on a daily basis as well as emotional instability and financial hardships. and so we're really just asking you to partner with us in serving these students that really need to have a safe and supportive learning environment. and the second floor of our

school does just that. so we ask you vote against offering two rooms to the new school. thank you very much. >> hello, good evening. happy new year, commissioners, welcome to all of the new commissioners. i'm here to speak on behalf of advocates for children in youth and our members. we're here today to stand in solidarity with sf international high school staff and students to ensure that it's clear that these young folks need to be prioritized as a school that is -- about a district that is about equity and all about art in our language. we want to ensure we're walking that talk. and prioritizing our young folks from our district who have some of the highest needs across the city, right?

so we want to say ditto. you heard from staff themselves, in terms of what is being done, how rooms are utilized and the space that is still needed to provide the critical supports for the young folks. so we would like to urge you, right, to continue to ensure that students there have the space they require, right, and also continue to engage. hopefully in more often dialogue with the team and folks over at sfihs to ensure that in an ongoing basis beyond this need right now, folks are being supported there. because we know there is critical, critical needs. so thank you for your time. we hope that you will prioritize the space for sfihs and deny the expansion for the two rooms with the new school. thank you. in flush

>> thank you. [calling of names] >> good evening. i'm the director of operations for urban academy. right here to express our congratulate feud for you all in our support in the last two years of the support, we've grown tremendously. also big shoutout to supervisor walton and president cook. and we would like to think about how we've expanded from the saturday school to being a five-day a week after school program as we begin at pal com x academy. we are really, really appreciative of the leadership at malcolm x academy allowing us

to the runway and the creativity having to implement saturday school in their building, because we have are witnessed an increase in the day school and the after school program and the relationship we've formed with their staff. shoutout to taylor for allowing us to be there and with our students. also, we're really happy to be there. this is going to be our third year with willie brown middle school. we're excited to start back up with them later this month. in addition to that, our partnership is strong with good mayor samaritan. again, we are appreciate you all support and look forward to everything that is in store going forward. thank you.

hello, my name is malik banks. i'm with urban ed academy. it's a pleasure to be here. i'm proud to announce the academy is on the way to recruiting 25 african-american men to become teachers. and so this is on schedule to happen by june of 2019. right now, we're hyper focused on the bayview area canada in a to working with partners. recently i've been spending time with operations and working at malcolm x academy. before i get into the urban ed academy plan, i wanted to say that we appreciate the leadership of marco taylor. he's been a huge help to our work there and there has been a

lot of work done. we couldn't have gotten as far as we have without him. so we are working to -- sorry, we are extending our program to have more students come early. more events like we had in october. and improving volunteerism at the school. personally, i can attest to the success, witnessing firsthand the positive effects its had on the community, the families and the students. looking forward to the possibility of the schools. thank you. >> thank you. that concludes public comment for this evening. section g, special order of

business. dr. matthews. >> thank you, president cook. we have two items under special order of business. the first item is number one, our calendars for the 2019-2020 school year and the 2020-2021 school years. this will be presented by our chief of labor relations. >> good evening, commissioners, superintendent. on the subject of the instructional calendars for the 2019-2020 and the 2020-21 school years, we are recommending the action to adopt the attached 2019-20 and 2020-21 instructional calendars.

>> any questions on this? commissioner collins? >> one thing that i'm curious about, why we're approving two calendars in one swoop? i like the idea we'd be able to be flexible and if there is any shifts we'd be able to have that conversation on our first board meeting, making a decision about two years in advance. and my other question i'm having as well, is i know as a former teacher, work days are really important. and i think just from my personal experience and what i hear from former colleagues of mine, is it would be preferred to have two work days and two professional development days. i would want that for all educators, including teachers and para professionals. i know that teachers are doing more than that in setting up their classrooms and this would be a way of reflecting that.

>> response? >> the calendars that we adopted are similar to the calendar that we have this year. there is only a few shifts due to the actual just changing of days in a year. so the committee looked at those -- the entire calendar. this is something that, you know, approving two calendars is something we've always tried to do. this is one of the first things that everyone is calling the district, when does school start and when are holidays, so they can plan. >> can you also say who is on the committee?

>> sure. there was a process. when we talked about the instructional calendars we invite the union, so we had fciu was invited, usaf, and parent groups and in attendance, parents for public schools. we had input from the assistant superintendents for the schools. so everyone looked at the calendar, they thought it was a good -- it made good sense. it aligned to what was presently in the contract. we only had one work day and three professional development days. that is something we would have to change in the contract. these calendars align to what is in the contract. >> i guess i just want to say because it's always what we've done isn't necessarily a reason i'm interested in hearing.

if it's logical and makes sense, i haven't been privy to those conversations and i'm just reticent to i proving two years in -- approving two years in advance, if we want to change things, i'd like to have that flexibility. i am a parent and know about calendars and i'm having enough trouble trying to figure out how to schedule summer school. i think one year in advance is good, in my opinion. >> i just would like to add, we've never done two years. so this is not business as usual. >> commissioner lopez. >> referring to the three teacher days is business as usual, right? >> that's in the contract. >> but i think that is what commissioner collins was referring to. that extra teacher work day is important in our planning.

a lot of teachers spend more time out of their contract setting up their classroom, so it would be important to have two teacher work days at the beginning of the school year. >> commissioner sanchez? >> this has been an issue for years, trying to make the classroom set up prior to the students arriving in the following week. i'm hopeful -- if the majority of the board would prefer that there be two work days and two pd days, then -- and uesf was fine with that, i think we'd be without -- i'd like to see if we can poll the board on that and people can speak up. but i really do feel like teachers are putting in essentially free time, their own time, to set up their classrooms

to make sure they're prepared. and at the same time, we recognize that principals have a lot to share with their teachers prior to the school year, as well as central staff coming in, so it's a balancing act. and at cleveland, we would purchase an extra day, so we have all five days of the prior week. just like we have a president -- >> before she starts, i'm going to ask general counsel to determine. >> thank you, president cook. so i wanted to encourage the board and give a little background. this is a negotiated item with our teachers union. so if we want to give different direction to your chief negotiator, that would be something we would schedule an appropriate meeting for and do that in closed session. so all this feedback is great, but in order to really have a candid conversation and be able to give appropriate guidance, we

would want to schedule that. i think one thing that is important tonight, if we poll this, we would need to quickly regroup with the negotiator and g guidance to go back to the table. >> thank you, president cook. i am echoing what general counsel has just said. this is a negotiated item and no matter what my personal opinion might be about it, we can't -- we have to use the system we have in place for collective bargaining and not bargain with the school board. so appreciate any support you're giving to teachers, but we would have to negotiate this item. it's part of the work day and work year. article 7. thank you. >> so that's what we should do.

>> this is an item we have to vote on tonight, should we continue to vote? >> well, we could either vote and if the board rejects it, then we would need to regroup and get your direction and go back to the bargaining table with all of the stakeholder group that the chief mentioned. or the other option is i suppose the superintendent could pull the item if you wish. >> i want to make sure this is clear. this is an item that has already been negotiated, it's in the contract, and that's why we're making this recommendation. we come forward and went through a process. if we were to pull it, we would have to go back and get all the groups together to get back to an agreement on the calendar which we've already come to agreement on. >> i have a question. do we have to approve two years

at once if we say, okay, like if i said, okay, fine, i'm fine with this current calendar, but i only want to approve one year. is that something that could be separated in the vote? >> because we negotiated this as a package, we would need to honor that negotiation and if we want to separate it, we would need to come back and talk about that with them. it's up or down together. >> ms. solomon. >> thank you. >> so they didn't actually negotiate the calendar. we recommended. we're not at the bargaining table. we were part of the stakeholder group that gets together for the calendar. we did bring it back to the executive board and get a recommendation which we then shared with labor relations. we are open to talking about the

second year for what it's worth. but this year, yes, this is what we recommended. >> what needed to be negotiated is the three days of professional development and the one work day. that's what needs to be opened up in the contract. >> hearing your conversation tonight, my strong recommendation, we table this item and either we'll bring it back for a vote or take direction from that point on. but i think we're getting close to bargaining in public at a public board meeting and i don't want to see us go down that road. >> superintendent? >> so, i am going to table this item. this item will be tabled and we'll have a discussion at a later date. >> okay. thank you, number two.

services, report for the year ended june 30, 2018. >> presenting this item will be the chief financial officer. >> thank you. [inaudible] >> now it's on, sorry. the requested action is that the board of education accepts the san francisco unified school district audit report for the year ended june 30, 2018. briefly the background is that this has to be done in accordance with california code. that the superintendent of schools shall provide audit of

all funds and the governing body of each district shall provide for audit of the books and account of the district, including audit of school district income and expenditures. this audit was performed by the firm of -- you'd think after ten years, i'd know the name -- it's in accordance with generally accepted standards, the standards applicable to the government auditing standards. issued by the controller general of the united states and standards and procedures for audits of california, k-12 local education agencies. >> is that it? >> that's it. any questions or comments from commissioners? commissioner sanchez. >> thank you, i think i brought this up last year. this is vtd is the auditors?

>> that's correct. >> how many years have they served as auditor? >> at least 12 that i'm aware of. >> in a row? >> yes. >> best practice guidelines to make sure there is independence around auditing, i think it's 3-5 years. is there a reason we're continuing to use the same auditor? >> i understand there are some exceptions to specialized services like auditing services that you don't necessarily have to keep changing because it's disruptive. and also, the form itself, based on their own auditing principles, do rotate partners every three years, so every three years, there is a new partner that is dedicated to the

audit of the school district, so there are internal controls. >> okay. maybe we can schedule this for information item on a future budget committee. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> roll call vote. >> thank you. [roll call taken] five ayes. thank you. section h. discussion of other education issues. superintendent? >> tonight we have the opportunity to hear an update on the safe and supportive schools policy resolution. the staff who will be presenting tonight is the chief of student

family community support department. kevin trueet.

>> first, this should take about ten minutes. hopefully. that would be a miracle. and then i'd like to respond to any questions you may have. >> thank you. the board of education passed the resolution in 2014, specifically to address the disproportionate suspension of african-american students back in 2014, african-american students comprised 11% of the school district, but students made up 60% of the suspension. so that disproportionate is what prompted this. latino students? at the time there were latino students represented 23% of the