>> miss collins can you hear me? mr. cook?

[ roll call ]. >> these are extremely trying times. we don't know how long this crisis will stretch out for. we do know we all have -- as [ indiscernible ]. >> especially doing incredible work as well as my colleagues on the board of education. proposed change items two of the

agenda. and that is why essentially furtherer direct approval to allow supervisor to change as we practice social distancing other than household members. the board of education agenda will focus on information and presentations and boards [ indiscernible ] information pursuant to order 2520 executed by governor newsom on march 12, 2020, code section 549-e7 has been extended according to the executive order with the

commissioners of the board of education. section d regular meeting of march 10th. >> so moved. >> any corrections? [ roll call ] and modified, members of the public have provided individual prior to gather and present it and members of the public are permitted to address the public

as in section c of public comment. number of comments. >> thank you. >> thank you. as has been stated, commissione commissioners i'm a parent and thank you for your leadership during this challenging time. a lot of our city and state leadership promises to slow the spread of the virus. having made those first steps now is the time to take leadership to as someone who follows public education across the country i know you can move faster in transition and this is

ready. other transitional excuse me, traditional systems are up and running. this is true in new suburban and your honoran communities and networks. students are engaged in formal learning and creating community and advancing their knowledges. in some school systems teachers covering the same subjects are banded together with one teacher sharing classrooms and conference with them individually. there is work to be done, but get as many students as possible back to formal learning as quickly as possible. and before it is too late. thank you. >> next statement will be everyone is taking questions.

the fact they've not put in place two learning methods with students at an extreme disadvantage compared to private school. these inequities are not having a system in place for students to continue learning is just that, an excuse. whether resources for the kids, i don't have the numbers and hope that all have access to a cell phone and wie eye so not is to stop educating the masses. there has to be a better way. my tax dollars are paying you all to figure this out in a timely manner, i am sure you can look at other districts and learn from them. i understand that this can take time, but i am sure it should be done for the children of one of the richest cities in the richest states of the richest country on the planet.

bureaucracy may be, began, just get it done. shove aside extra time dealing with meetings and excuses. the kids of san francisco demand it and thank you, and for being safe. >> school board i am writing to ask the school to replace one of the greatest achievements of human civilization, handwriting and cursive. i see the detrimentation, it makes it difficult to take notes and jot things down and scribble notes. to make a list, and i am reading that college professors have had it as a constant keeping of lap tops in class.

curvive, i am learning we learn things better when writing with our own hand. curvive. and we come to know ourselves and claim our knowledge when we see it is on the page and so any teachers that been in elementary school, work on penmanship and curvive return because the u.s. has taught curvive without letters, translates in that to a letter. please hear that as an emergency. sincerely, mayrion sheri. >> this coronavirus it is important to use our resources for education matters. it's to help create community for parents and children topics and see more programming there. this is a comment for the board of education meetings.

and a mom of a 5-year-old resident of san francisco for 27 years. this time, so many platforms opened up for kids to use free. example, zoom. all need an sfusd address. anyway you can give addresses to the kids? i'm frustrated when they're trying to use these platforms for free to kids. julia klein. next it is a question from a certained and involved parent. when is the short, medium and longer term plan for students for involved in learning at home because right now, for my own child is that students are

devoted to their phones and playing video games. and as an example, why are there no assignments like reading a book? making a book report and doing class with the teacher? thank you. dave watson. and tonight's sfusd news letter that public comments should be mailed so they can be read aloud into record for march 24th meeting. not sure if public comments will be limited due to the agenda and i will try any waive. i'm writing to include a resolution by early education department to ask professionals to offer additional kinder garden for district classrooms. tk students enter the classroom through age four years old and to reflect practices of learning and importantly the safety. and general recommendations from early childhood experts say two train adults should always be

present in a fuel group of 12-0 preschoolers between ages of 3 to 5 years old. and also arcs topting a revision model with regards to special education with students with special education needs. these are the minimum learning standards and this is also a justification for providing educator support and examples. whether transitional kindergarten and working upwards with each grade level. achieve early education to make a priority in setting a budget for next year that supports our tk classroom teacher was the right level of learning that we owe to our children. thank you. a parent of an early education student. i am writing to you with regards to my experience with family and special needs kids. many people in the city who are health care workers as well as disaster service workers have

kids that have special needs. they have special -- they have difficulties balancing because there are no program and services pen fitting kids at this time. they are to stay home to cake for their kids and use whatever sick leave they v not knowing how long this pandemic will last, without paid leave. who might be out into the summer as well as stay at home mandate. there are emergency day care service for regular kids but not for special needs. please advice, thank you, david. i am submitting for public comment and i understand the most-important issue is supporting families and staying safe and healthy. it is my concern that we are able to return to on site education before the end of the year. the arupt cessation for students

and we work to create a classroom community that is note going to be the same until a low learning environment. i believe the possibility of the public health crisis it could be emotionally healthy to resume and afford the classrooms if just for a week, i'm hopeful we'll be able to at least use school sites to provide more care for familys who need it. especially families who are struggling to find care. thank you for all you do for the community at this time. sincerely, jennifer nguyen. tk teacher. >> dear board members during this uncertain time with our state, country and world, and those in charge have not answered the call. the station in our district have been virtually quiet in keeping our education community

informed. this week, while other outlets are having shows about school closures and keeping kids on track and educating at home while care workers juggle work is ready to rerun and [ audio indiscernible ]. at the very least there should be reminders of which facilities are open for free breakfast, lunch and dinner and which should be open or not. if they have libraries open for extended mrams last week due to low enrollment numbers. maybe if people didn't -- might be this might not have occurred. a little more, the program five days a week, monday to friday and 10:00 a.m. respectively. a slot could be used to have a

show devoted to our students in education. what a novel concept to have care givers chime in on what they're doing while the district is shut down to stay motivated. we should be doing better, we can do better. this is from kevin robinson. and the last is hello. i am the parent of two sfusd students, one elementary, one in middle. writing to express my disappointment how funds are being utilized by sfusd particularly in light of our present health crisis. sfusd could and should use a minimum provide updates to parents about school closures, and child care opportunities for working parents, and online learning opportunities. the ability to reach our community by radio is a capability that sfusd under

utilizes in even the best of times. i urge sfusd under utilizing that even in the best of times. and i go to parents, including regular shows. thank you. >> that is it. >> all right. >> advisory committee reports? consent calendar? we need a motion. >> second. any items withdrawn? >> there are none.

>> items by commissioner? >> thank you. [ roll call ]. >> section f, resolution calendar separate for resolution. section g. section h, special order of business. so first item is regard to amendment of city adopt a board of education meeting calendar for school year 2019, 2020.

add that general counsel. >> asking to include a regular meeting this friday at 11:00 a.m. >> we need a motion and second. >> all right. comments? discussion? >> any other comments? >> yes. yes. [ roll call ]. >> thank you for the and just

wanted to give the board an update and answer questions the board has in regards to the district's response to the board around conversations around exposure. currently, the bulletins by the school district are posted every monday, wednesday, and friday at 6:00 p.m. on our website as well as sent out to families. these are regarding child care resources around the board of education meetings, around meals

for families and we're beginning to update around several comments in during the updates as well as the commitment so next week to give updates is around our website and there are comments about a reminder to the public and the board the district's public owned station of the programming is through

public donation. so it is not a district-owned state. we do not have goals over broadcasting that we have on kalw so just wanted to remind the folks of that. so right now, we're extremely proud of how they're working with staff and volunteers to be out when our students have come in for people to have a opportunity and i want to tell you how proud i am of the quick turn around that our sns department is able to do in terms of getting food sites up and those meals are continuing to increase and continues to be wrapped up this week.

and so also, thankful for the food banks that are with us. in those regards. so i continue to give updates to answer questions. and then as requesting up ate daiting our students on what we've done and give you an update on the projected dates. >> thank you. i'd like to agree with how grateful i am with all of the work that has been done and related to the digest. i'm excited about this information getting out because it's really helpful when you read through. i ask this question and i'm hoping that the website has ability to translate it. but is it available in different languages on our website, as

well? >> so the site, are you on? i'm here, can you hear me? >> yes. >> okay, great. the website has built in translation and we have built in translation through school messenger which is how it gets sent via e-mail. it uses google translate which has been found to be increasingly accurate according to many of our people who work with our english learners, students and families. so, when it comes to urgent messages we're getting custom translation and working with our translation unit as well as out side contractor so any kind of breaking news updates such as the meal, our first announcement about meal service, and any announcements about school closures or anything like that we do get custom translation. but for monday, wednesday,

friday updates we're relying on built in translation through the website and school messenger. okay. thank you. just to clarify if a family has a preferred language, any message they get from the district will be in that language. >> if a family has a preferred message, excuse me, preferred language for urgent translation we do custom. that means we'll send to the families in the six primary languages that we get translation in. and then, we know which language they've identified and we sent a message to that in that for urgent matters. for the regular bui bulletin, j because of the frequency and turn around time, it gets sent to families through e-mail or website and they check a box for the language they want to read it in. there are several languages they can check to view it in. does that make sense? >> yeah.

thank you. >> sure. >> any other comments or questions from the board? >> i have a question about whether they prioritize getting devices for students? and explain a little bit about how it's going to work? how people are going to get them to the families or -- >> there is more information on the next digest, but to be able to look at that head of technology here.

>> how it's going to be distributed. and for families that are, and may be out of school that aren't in the prioritized list but we know are priorities, how they're going to get support and speak to what we're doing currently around if there is a way to make a donation to the school. >> so if morning, good afternoon. so, we have started in earnest tomorrow with the distribution. we're going to do them in grade 3-12 and prioritization is looking at our high schoolers first, middle schoolers and students in four.

distribution is taking a multi pronged approach because we want to get out our revises as quickly as we can. this week, most schools are doing appointments so we have volunteers, we have volunteers for them that will go on site and help them prep the devices and where he have systems in terms of tracking the devices and have a master data base of that. if schools are not able to do that, we'll centralized them through our distribution centralization and we'll do it that way. we recognize that a third option, so already schools doing delivery and they're looking at building that for next week during spring break. we recognize that some schools

under different places in terms of deployment and bring them together in a centralized approach while recognizing the contact of the schools and what works for their communities. so we have about 24 schools that are currently scheduled for the week but that is increasing daily. it's not to say schools and cohorts 1, 2, and 5. they're in the process of assessing need. we have a standard in online forms that rotates into the family that comes into a central data base for us. then, we have a way, some schools are called in with the best way to reach them. we have a way for them to provide that data for us. >> i just wanted to add, melissa called out high school, and cohorts 4 and 3.

we're doing muir and tenderloin. >> so, innet -- internet access is a challenge for us in sfusd. we have a limited number of hot spots. so these devices we have, we have identified, prioritized and population for example we have a number, we have several, about 200 students, hot necessarily all needing internet access but who are taking rules which moved on line only. so we're able to get to a needed hot spot in that co hoert --

cohort hot spot and looking at students in foster care and so also, we're working with the city on other options and opportunities as well. a number of the providers are offering service that are either free or low cost. but each of those, they're teach a unit set up and system. so those are hot spots throughout the city so options are limited in specific neighborhoods and communities so. working yesterday with the city department of technology or how we're approaching this from a citywide level approach as

well. now, emphasis obviously is to assess the need for hot spots. >> so our standard that we're deploying you are chrome book. chrome books are easy as well as for us centrally. we're able to manage chrome books centrally. so not asking for donations of other types of lap taps. we're asking to bring in financial resources to help us replace technology in our schools. part of our strategy is deploying devices in our schools today. that is where our largest inrenatory is.

so donations can come in to then replace that technology so that we have technology in school as well. if there are donations for others for chrome books that would be a definite yes. and other options would be financial support. >> okay. and such as we need to make sure that if we're asking for donations that we make sure we get specifications out for donations will be meeting our needs. to dropping off appropriate sites. >> right. we can get that information out. >> and make sure that is available publicly. okay. and so, we're accepting that for donations. what about my sort of hands on deck we need in terms of

delivery? is that something we're also coordinating? >> we're coordinating that as well. we have a central coordination with 18 and we're working with the -- through our circle to schools program as well, bringing in resources as well. so volunteers that can help clean and prep devices and deploy devices at locations so they can come to our networks and i think we have a centralized volunteer form we can get that listed as well. >> so last question about continuing to get what they plan to do for the public so there is in confusion about, you know -- bras audio indiscernible ].

>> and i'll chime in first, and then, if you can add to anything i have that would be great. so we have issued guidance there and there are entities that we're trying to respond to an faq. most commissioners, information that was sent out, i believe back on friday the 13th, i believe the last day prior to announced closure for three weeks. so the intention is that there is wide spread availability of staff, central staff needed on

site to allowed to work from home, we understand that that is more--students in middle roles but if an employee is at home and is available to be on call or to work from home, that their service should be counted as paid service. if, on the other hand if they need to be off the clock by taking time off, then that is also an option. whether they can, if they're not available and if they can't be available or accessible then they have the option of taking sick leave or other vacation leave. and do not require that documentation of medical needs for sick leave. we're in discussions with united educators of san francisco regarding a substitute.

so hopefully will be resolved regarding an agreement. >> sorry this is daniel. can i chime in? can you hear me? >> yes. >> hi, everyone. afternoon. i just wanted to clarify a couple things. yeah. so all regularly-assigned employees whether teachers, or central office staff we're paying folks. and asking that supervisors assign out duties remotely to the best of their abilities. if you're unable to work because you're feeling ill, you can use sick leave and we've -- we're putting together policies for folks that don't have sufficient sick leave to request it and get an advance or just dip into their extended sick leave and at the on set, the only group we've not covered are day-to-day

substitutes and we're this negotiation with the union witness now and we're fielding questions. weaver created an e-mail account, and we're fielding question rz employees and clarifying policies in addition to faq that we have published online. >> the appreciation i have for showing up for the workers that are going out in the morning. make sure they're appreciated. commission commissioner lam? >> so we put in -- so we have put in an original order of 4,000 chrome books.

those have been delayed and they're supposedly in route to san francisco. they have not yet arrived. knowing they're not on location we put in another order of chrome books and the balance of those we'll have access to by the end of the week. so in addition to using our site inventory. so i am told the second order is on its way to san francisco. part shipped last week and part will ship early next week. >> thank you. i want to echo everybody's appreciation for or s and s workers and for everybody at central office and everybody going above and beyond. i know it's appreciated. i've to then a lot of comments

about that. i just want to publicly call that out. i also wanted to note that it's antidotal. i've only heard a few comments but we're both, they're all positive, both positive about the way that the letters getting out is very, very smooth. and i just wanted to ask not today if we can get a report on the standard report we get on the run, and how it went. and also if we can, what if parents start to log into parent view and accept their assignments online to if we can get an upd