. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> >> >> >> up up . >> president lopez: thank you. and before we begin, i just wanted to share a few words. a special shout-out to all of our mothers. the mothers who hold a lot of the work that we do and who've built up many of the systems throughout a lot of our lives and i want to extend my apologies to our parent advisory committee. unfortunately, we won't be hearing from them tonight. i am in touch to make sure we

will hear from you at the next board meeting and to continue to make sure that we don't make this mistake we will be hearing from them on the first meeting of every month and the may twenty-fiveth meeting in two weeks. so moving on to section b, opening item. item one, approval of board minutes. may 4th, 2021. i need a motion and a second. >> clerk: madam chair, it was the special meeting of february 2nd of this year. >> president lopez: okay. >> clerk: yeah. i'm going backwards. >> president lopez: i see. february 2nd, 2021. can i get a motion and a second? >> commissioner: so moved. >> commissioner: second. >> president lopez: thank you.

any corrections? seeing none. roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] that's seven ayes. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you. item two, superintendent's report. i'd like to call on superintendent matthews. >> thank you, president lopez. good afternoon everyone. last week was teacher appreciation week. we honor educators for their hard work and dedication. according to schoolyard, the idea came from former first

lady elinore roosevelt. however, four years before the national education association decided to stretch the celebration out over a whole week. this last year has been extremely challenging giving covid-19 and teachers had to adapt to distanced learning and now partlily transitioning back to in-person learning. i would like to personally thank all of our teachers and staff for their dedication to the students and families of the san francisco unified school district during this difficult time. we deeply appreciate all that you have done. may is asian pacific tare age month. our communities are made better

by embracing and celebrating the differences that define us. we on our apa communities each day and have some special things in store for graduating high school seniors as well as students moving on to middle and high school. this year, we are holding our first ever virtual acknowledgement ceremony for native hawaiian pacific islander. there will also be a physical graduation ceremony for our philippinex students. we're working to teach students during this month. for example, gene parker elementary and garfield teachers and librarians and garfield social workers shaerd a video to kick off their series of lessons. as the api community has been experiencing trying times as a result of both the anti-asian

hate pandemic and the covid-19 pandemic, this year's celebration is about show casing the resilience of the api community in the face of adversity and amplifying the united voice to hate attacks and systemic inequities. please join me in celebrating our asian pacific american community. tomorrow, may 12th is national school nurse day and we are excited to celebrate and thank our school nurses for all that they do. san francisco unified school district nurses is important to individual student health as well as schoolwide health issues. they're trained to recognize and respond to a wide range of health and behavioral concerns that may affect a child's academic achievements and attendance. as well as concerns that can have schoolwide impacts like infectious disease. this year, we faced a health emergency like never before and school nurses have stepped up

to support san francisco unified students during this challenging time. most san francisco unified schools have an on site school district nurse two to five days per week to provide students and families with direct services and linkages to community health services and programs. our district schools also have access to a central nurse coordinator who can assist with hearing and vision screening, care planning and staff training. all schools have access to the nurse of the day, a school district nurse who is available by phone from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to address school health related questions and concerns. on april 29th, the arts

education award. our very own balboa high school was one of those schools. congratulations. these schools engage students in quality arts education that meets california arts standards for public school and demonstrate progress on indicators on the california school dash board. they're designed to -- in addition to meeting the art standard and dash board criteria to apply to be recognized as an exemplary arts awardee, students must offer a minimum of three of the five arts discipline identified in the arts standard. they must also show one level of improvement for at least one student subgroup and one of the following three areas based on the dash board. school climate in the area of suspension rate.

school engagement in the area of chronic absenteeism or graduation rate, academic achievement in the area of english, language arts, math, or college and career readiness. these california education schools along with california distinguished schools, national blue ribbon schools and the california recognition programs will be honored virtually later this year. for more information, please visit the cde website. finally, i'd like to share the winners of the 2021 superintendent 21st century graduation awards. the graduate profile is our vision for what we want to be true for each and every young person that graduates from san francisco unified. each year, around graduation time, we honor six students that show what it means to be

the graduate profile. we know there are many more in our district. in honor of all of the graduates and our district community who helped them along in their san francisco journey, we will share a brief video at our board meetings through the month of june and i'd like to thank our graduates for sharing their story and abc 7 for being our media sponsor for this year's award. tonight, we will hear from ramesa for ready to think, learn, and grow. [video] >> hi, my name is ramesa coldy and i'm ready to learn, think, and grow. moving to a new country was definitely a big adjustment for

me. i didn't know anyone. i never thought learning a different language besides arabic. exactly. i was so little. it was very hard for me. my mother has always told me that hard work will always pay off and that stuck with me the entire time. >> reporter: imagine leaving your mother and moving from algeria at the age of 12 to eventually pursue a career in medicine. >> maybe you want to be a doctor, that's up to you, but i want you to go to the u.s. and continue your education and go to a great college. >> reporter: at the time, ramesa caldi's mother did not receive the proper medical care. >> because we're a little poorer than everybody else doesn't mean they don't get treated the same way as everyone else. >> hello, my name is richard dowel and i teach at the

galleio. >> you have to invite me to your college graduation. >> yes. >> reporter: caldi is headed to middlebury college in vermont to major in molecular biology. >> she's a go-getter. she makes things happen. >> i want to move back to algeria and open up clinics for the underserved community and make sure they're getting the same care as everyone else. >> the phrase "ready to think, learn, and grow" means i've always been thinking and learning and growing and i'm ready to face the world with that. >> so ramesa caldi is one of our six superintendents awards winners. we're super proud of her. she's representative of so many of the graduates throughout our system. you will see more of them. there were also -- we've also

had a number of scholarship award ceremonies and those groups will be presenting their recipients to you later this month. two of them are on the screen right now. congratulations shefon and kahtia. very proud of you and you'll be hearing more throughout the month and this june. president lopez, that ends my announcements for this evening. >> president lopez: thank you so much. that was really beautiful. moving on to item 3. student delegates' report. i'd like to call on student delegate heinz-foster and student delegate almanza. >> today on our s.a.t. business discussion, first we have the student delegate elections for 2021 and 2022. the s.a.c. has a legacy of

representing all the students through our student delegate positions. the last day to vote for our next year student delegate is tomorrow. if you talk timeline for the election is on the sfusds.a.c. student delegate account. please vote at bit.ly/sfusdstudentvoicevote20 21. i'm going to repeat that. again, bit.ly/sfusdstudentvoicevote20 21. thank you to all our candidates. good luck to candidates and please, please vote. >> before our second item, i'd just like to reiterate the

deadline is at 12:00 p.m. and not 12:00 a.m. make sure you tell your friends to vote as well. our second item is the youth summit. the s.a.c. managed to pull off another successful youth summit last month with over 175 participants. the s.a.c. accomplished their goal of unifying student leaders and school leaders even in a virtual world. the s.a.c. came together and participants gave us positive feedback. the s.a.c.u. summit was held last month, friday, april 23rd, 2021. we would like to thank our keynote speaker dr. matthews and president lopez and all our workshop presenters and all the students who would be in attendance. >> next, we have the ethnic studies requirement discussion. the s.a.c. hosted to get student feedback on studies for implementation for all schools. the s.a.c. will bring back the

focus questions to our peers and will regroup to share back to students in a few weeks. this discussion happened at our last meeting. thank you, mr. lowd for valuing student voice and this conversation with us as we will be the ones impacted. >> our fourth item is statement about racial profiling of jamari oliver. topic student voice advocacy for our initiatives. black students should not be traumatized. accusing jamari of stealing a sandwich after providing a receipt. providing his mother with a $25 gift card after racially profiling her son doesn't fix the issue or harm. i'm proud to be an alumni of harry civil rights academy a school that gave me strength

and taught me about leadership after the racial trauma i experienced at lakeshore elementary. i'm glad to see they're still using their voice. all black students should know that they're great, loved, and are everything people wish they could be. i'm still thankful that jamari was able to speak up and call out an issue that is very prevalent in our city. >> lastly, the next meeting will be may 17th at 3:00 p.m. via the s.a.c. meeting. anyone is welcome to attend our meetings. if you would like to attend, make a presentation, or get a copy of the agenda, please conduct mr. salvador lopez bart. before we go, we'd like to say congratulations to all the seniors for college decision day. woo-hoo! we made it. we're so close. >> that concludes our update.

>> yeah. >> president lopez: thank you. and, yes, it's definitely an exciting time. thank you all for uplifting other student voices and all of the work you do to support our students. item 4, recognitions and resolutions of accomodation. recognition of national school lunch hero day for sfusd student nutrition services dining staff. dedicated service to sfusd students and san francisco's children. i need a motion and second for this recognition and conversation. >> commissioner: moved. >> president lopez: i need a second. >> commissioner: second. >> president lopez: thank you. dr. matthews, can you introduce a designee to read the resolution into the record? >> yes. i'm so proud of these heroes and sheroes.

orla o'keefe will read the policy recommendations. >> good evening, dr. matthews, president lopez, commissioners, and colleagues. it's my privilege to express gratitude and appreciation to the over 200 snf staff. i'll read the resolution. in recognition of snashl school lunch sshero and hear row. s were the dining staff of the san francisco unified school district are committed to providing food that is healthy, culturally diverse, affordable, fair, sustainable and loved by students and whereas students on average consume 35% of their daily calories at schools with

many students consuming fifty% or more and whereas one in five students in san francisco were living in food insecure homes prior to conditions brought on by the covid-19 pandemic and where as sfusd's dining staff have displayed extreme flexibility in order to consistently fill the nutrition gap for san francisco's children during the covid-19 pandemic. and whereas sfusd dining staff have used their super powers to serve more than 6 million meals during the covid-19 pandemic. and whereas sfusd's dining staff and administrators and teachers partner together to build a strong food culture that offers nutrition meals during in-person learning and where nutritious meals inside and in the classroom. where our studies show that students who participate in the

school meal program and whereas 32 employees have dedicated over 20 years of service and 25 have dedicated over thirty years of service and one employee has dedicated 50 years of service. and why the first friday in may. therefore be it resolved that the superintendent and board of education recognize and commend the over 200 dining staff who work hard every day to provide a dignified meal experience to provide each and every student with the equitable support to thrive in the 21st century. >> president lopez: thank you so municipal for that work and before i open it up to commissioners, i'd like to see if there's any public comment on this item.

>> clerk: thank you, president lopez. please raise your hand if you wish to speak to the comments we just heard. seeing none, president lopez. i take that back. one just popped up. >> president lopez: okay. >> okay. >> president lopez: let's do two minutes. >> okay. hello, ms. marshal. hello, ms. marshal. >> i got you. thank you to president lopez, vice president moliga and also to student delegates. i've also said throughout this pandemic that i'm so appreciative to superintendent matthews and the staff for making sure our students have food.

so thank you so much for all of the volunteers and the team who provided great meals for our students every day of the pandemic that we're home with bags of food what the staff just said they wanted to make sure the students reef the meals in a dignified manner. so i think our district went beyond the call of duty and did an excellent job making sure our 54,000 students if they wanted to to come to their sites throughout the district and receive food in a dignified manner and i know those moms and dads who didn't have a job on a limited budget, i know the food was very much appreciated. for all the teams, for all the staff who did this for a year, thank you so much.

>> thank you for all the wonderful things they did to help provide meals for our families they were exceptional front line workers and made sure all of our families had what they needed and we appreciate them for that. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. that concludes public comment on this item, president lopez. >> president lopez: thank you. and, are there any commissioners who would like to share or questions or comments? i see commissioner collins.

>> commissioner: thank you, president lopez. i want to reiterate my profound appreciation for sf staff and specifically sciu leadership reached out to me just recently because when we went to in-person learning, it meant a shift in food service for grab and go and sns staff and sciu labor, you know, they reached out out of concern for families in chinatown and highlighted a specific concern for a community that relies on the grab-and-go meals and with support from orla o'keefe and her team and also supervisor peskin's office, they were able to make sure that food service went back into chinatown which families rely on. so i want to thank the superintendent, thanks office staff and also, as i said

before the food service workers and advocating on their behalf to me is the real harrowism and often goes underlooked. so thank you again for your service to our families and gat if i indication. >> i just want to shower appreciation. if you remember back march 11th, 2020, where none of us had any clue about what was going on. how do you protect yourself from it. our food nutrition workers were

out on the front lines. never missing a beat. never complaining. just got out there and knew the importance of serving meals to our students. they knew for so many of our students that the meals that they received at schools are the only meals for so many that they get during the day. i received this letter and i just want to read part of it. this is from director cathy sale from from "no hungry kid california." this may 7th is annual school lunch hero day and this is an opportunity to celebrate our incredible school nutrition staff and making sure students have the meals they need to focus and succeed. inside this box is a school mills hero trophy. engraved with your school director's name, but her name is on it, but it's in behalf of

your entire nutrition team. thank you for all you regularly do to support and this is to the team our kids and our communities are stronger because of it. so i just want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all that you've done over this last year and a half. you are true heroes and sheroes. >> president lopez: i don't feel like this is enough. you and your team have held for not only our district but our city. we're just going back in time. on march 12th was when we decided to close schools the day after we were officially out. on monday,, your team was on

the ground feeding our students. we got wind of treasure island not having access to food. and that friday, there was already a food distribution system happening and the team continued to satisfy our students and be on the ground. i've volunteered several times and i'm seen how labor intensive this work is. so it's really just wonderful to know that you and your team and everyone who's on the ground is doing this work because they truly care about our children. we've seen the value of our school systems and how much we take care of our students and this is just a sign of all of that work. i mean, i know people are volunteering, delivering food to homes still out there every sting l day and so you really do deserve so much more and i'm really proud of all of this work and really honored to be apart and to be able to watch it all. thank you, so much. and so if there are no other

comments, roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] thank you and that's seven ayes. >> president lopez: thank you. it's not often that we get to celebrate so i appreciate this work. item 5, recognizing all valuable employees. our rave award. there are none today. moving on to section c,

advisory committee reports and appointments. item one, charter school oversight committee. superintendent matthews, can you introduce michael diegas to call on presenters. >> thank you, president lopez. this evening, presenting regarding our charter school oversight will be the director of policy and planning and charter schools michael davis and then he will present the presenters who are presenting with him. >> president lopez: you're on mute. >> you're on mute, mr. davis. >> as i just said. thank you. i'm the director of charter schools for the district and i also have the pleasure of serving as the staff to the charter school's oversight committee which was formed by a resolution of the board back in 2018 and has been staffed or should i say has a membership

of some very hardworking and esteemed members appointing by the board of education. with that, i'd like to turn it over to the chair of the committee michelle parker. >> good afternoon. i'm the parent of three students who have attended sfusd since kindergarten. i'm joined. i will be presenting today with one of our members and a few of our members were not able to join us.

moving on to the next slide, please. great. so today's agenda, we're just going to give you an introduction of the committee and who our members are. it's an overview of the committee's work over the past four years. we'll talk a bit about participating in the charter school initiative. oversight committee work. share a little bit about whistle blower complaint procedures that we've been learning about this year. share a little bit about conversation around special education services in charter schools and share with you some recommendations from our committee followed by taking questions from you and conversation. next slide, please. i said my name is michelle parker. our vice chair natalie kim at coleman advocates. our secretary who is a teacher.

a parent in the district and also serves on the community advisory for special education. and anita blank is a retired sfusd teacher. this is still a fairly new committee and not all of the seats have been filled. we have six members of eleven possible. additionally five of our six members' first term ends this summer and renewals for a second term will need to be made soon. we have asked you all to consider making these appointments. we know you have so many things to do, but if you can help us fill these seats, we would love it. it's a hardworking thoughtful group of people. next slide, please. okay. this is the purpose of the charter school's oversight committee as described in the 2018 resolution called in support of increased oversight

for charter schools in relation to fiscal, educational, and associate owe emotional impacts on students. this establishes a committee that's open to community participation and would specifically review the following. demographics of students served at each charter school. demographics of student who is leave each charter school each year. demographics of students retained year to year by grade level at each charter level. teacher credentially and proper assignment and retention rates at each charter school. parent and staff representation in charter schools. the reasons for student transfer to sfu sd from charter schools where applicable. and investigations of complaints received by sfusd concerning the charter schools.

next slide, please. this is a list of the data points and information that our committee is looking for and asking charter schools to share with us when they come to make presentations to our committee. the items next to them are specifically listed. you've seen this list included in the summaries we sent you related to a couple of the charter renewal petitions earlier this year. i won't read the whole thing and the public can refer to it later on the board docs site. so now i'm going to hand the presentation over tom alita.

>> thank you, michelle. we reviewed the implications of new charter school law. you've heard about some of that from mr. davis. we also participated in the sfusd charter that was new for us this year. we heard several presentations who have been generous with our time and information sharing. we also review charter schools learning continuity and attendance plans during the fall. we identified ways in which we might increase awareness of the oversight committee's existence and work. we received a whistle blower complaint and what our role in that process should be and, finally, we are exploring ways in which charter school

students are receiving a free and appropriate education. we're going to highlight a few of those items today. next slide, please. we decided at the beginning of the year to assign one member of our team to participate in the sfusd staff review committee for each school for both new and renewal petitions. we saw that would give us a better understanding of how the schools are doing. we considered four charter renewal petitions this year you may remember we sent you a summary. it's our goal to end you a document for every school that comes our way. this year, it was a challenge because members capacity, so you didn't see it for all schools. we did, however, make a point to offer public comment during the hearing. next slide, please.

as far as increase awareness. and we got some feedback that traditional sfusd schools would appreciate more transparency. it was suggested that the oversight committee hold their meetings when we're back in person at those located schools. further, we also made a suggestion which has been communicated to schools that each sfusd authorized school post a commission on their website and on their in-school bulletin board. we want to make sure that the families at the school know where and how they can share concerns, but also they could share good things happening in their schools with the committee. next slide, please.

thank you. the oversight committee was contacted earlier this year with the complaint. since, as you saw, the purpose of this committee includes that we review the investigations of any whistle blower complaints. members of the public can reach out to the oversight committee with a formal complaint. it will be sfusd staff not the committee who conduct the investigation. staff briefs us throughout the process and when the investigation is complete, the oversight committee reviews the findings. we also learn in the process because our committee was formed through a resolution, we are required to follow the brown act including public comment and general meeting procedures. we found this out because we were wondering if we should hold conversations about an investigation in closed session. we were not able to do that because the topic doesn't meet the requirements for closed

session meetings for public body. as a result of learning this, one of our recommendations tonight is that sfusd hold a brown act training for any and all advisory committees required to follow it. next slide, please. okay. >> finally, we have spent the past few months exploring education services. all students with individual education plans and 504 plans receive a free and appropriate public education and that families receive the support and information they need to be an effective partner in their child's education. we are exploring the differences between the el dorado area and the sfusda

selpa. each selpa has a local plan. specific components to be included in the local plan are delineated in the education code. the selpa and the district are supposed to foster coordination between professional and general education for prevention. the selpa also ensured appropriate education for persons with disabilities to support a full compliment of special education services for students. the el dorado selpa is commonly used by charters across the state it's more likely to effectively serve students with disabilities as well as make it easier for families to participate. that's the gateway middle school and high school, creative arts charter school, leadership and life learning and the other seven are in the

el dorado selpa. the oversight committee is analyzing the benefit to students, the capacity of sfusd in the past if charters wanted to be in the sfusd selpa and the ease of family engagement in each. the next steps for us are we're developing a survey for charter schools leadership to understand the school's approach and effectiveness. then we hope to engage with families, educators and students and we want to also better understand sfusd families to consider in relation to families experiences within the el dorado selpa and, finally, we want to share our findings with you, the board of education. we have several recommendations for the board tonight. many of which you've heard throughout this presentation. the first we would like to host future charter school oversight committees at collocated charter schools. we want to increase awareness

and its function among charter school staff and families requesting charter schools posts on their website and on site bulletin board. we want to be able to provide interpretation with a seventy-two-hour request. we did have one meeting where a member of the public showed up and didn't speak english, so the meeting was not accessible to her. we recommend they hold brown act training to follow the act by law. we would also recommend that the board invite oversight committee members to formally share insight as part of the presentation versus during public comment. last year, we made these next two recommendations and we continue to focus on how parents are included at schools. we bring this topic up every time a charter school presents at our meetings. and all charter schools make governing board meetings

accessible to parents and staff. those that weren't express interest and willingness to do this and set timelines to follow up with us on their progress which has happened and they're very happy about that since it provides opportunities for more meaningful parent voices at their schools. next slide, please. and, with that, that is our presentation. and we would be happy to answer questions or engage in any conversation with you. >> president lopez: thank you so much for that. before we ask questions or followup, i'd like to open it up to public comment on this item. >> thank you, president lopez. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the charter oversight committee's presentation. >> president lopez: we'll do two minutes. >> clerk: thank you. hello, michelle.

>> thank you. can you hear me? >> yes. >> thank you. good evening. michelle with the parent advisory council. i just want to really quickly appreciate president lopez's knowledge earlier. two weeks. also, i would like to just appreciate the work of the charter oversight committee especially their focus on families and the family experience, family involvement, the questions around which selpa would be more appropriate and i'd like to argue the recommendation and train to go all the advisories on compliance for the brown act. thank you so much again for your work. >> thank you. hello, cal. >> hello, legal compliance is an absolutely essential part of sub service and, frankly, it's quite concerning that many of the committees and even board

members seem to not clearly understand the brown act or the laws they are bound by. so more over, it's kind of setting up these committees for failure to not give them resources they need because noncompliance can easily lead to void decisions. so, therefore, i believe it's absolutely essential that the district setup committees for success to the brown act. by committees. >> clerk: thank you. hello, lawrence. lawrence? one more time. lawrence, are you there? okay. that concludes public comment on this item, president lopez.

one more. can you hear me? >> yeah. we can hear you. >> president lopez: we're also seeing hands go up. >> clerk: yeah. they were up. >> president lopez: okay. now to commissioners. i see commissioner alexander and commissioner sanchez. >> commissioner alexander: thank you for this report. i am just wondering if there's been any discussion or consideration about strategies for bringing strategies for bringing schools into the school district. i know complete charter school in oakland has joined the school district and it's something that i think we should be thinking about exploring within sfusd. i guess i'm wondering if there's and if that seems like

an appropriate topic for the committee. >> so we haven't to my recollection, the committee has not discussed that specific topic. what the committee has discussed is whether or not it's a good idea for the charter schools authorized by the san francisco board of and was outlined in the presentation. they're looking at gatherings information to make recommendations in that regard. that's my long way of saying no, we haven't to my recollection had a discuss about the issue of bringing charter schools into the district completely. >> yeah. i don't think that we have -- i think that may have come up at some point. i don't think we've had extensive conversation on it

certainly and but if that is something of interest to the commissioners for us to just explore, then it's something we're happy to bring up. >> yeah. i think it would be interesting just to ask what would stop them from doing that or what would be the obstacles. i think if we can think about opportunities, there could be a lot of advantages to that. >> yeah. certainly. thank you. go ahead, commissioner sanchez and then i see commissioner collins. you're on mute. >> commissioner sanchez: thank you president lopez and thank you michelle and the entire committee for your work. i'm happy that you're meeting

regularly. albeit by zoom to meet at the school sites. i think that's a wonderful idea. staff, i'm hoping that staff can give us a response to each one of the recommendations so that we can follow up as necessary. but other than that, i'll leave it there. >> president lopez: commissioner collins. >> commissioner: thank you, president lopez. and, again, i also want to reiterate my appreciation for members of the committee. i also even without this presentation, i really appreciated the thoroughness that you have reviewed. i think you really help us as a board, expand our board. i helped commissioner sanchez right this resolution and one of the things we were seeing is there were so many different ways charters were managing and

so many different ways they were reporting to us. so we would see reporting in so many different ways. really, it is a lot of work. in a sense, you're helping us to have a unified approach and a unified way of assessing what's happening which helps us to see who's doing things or innovative or things we might want to incorporate in our district in ways that don't align with our values of the district. and so that is a lot of work and i do really appreciate that you've taken it on and are also leading conversations about you educated me in terms of the parents having a voice and there are few charters who are already members of our selpa which is a space where parents have advocacy and voice and

having more families have access is also i see a huge benefit to the district and also to them and to those families question about how we might bring charters into the district have more consistency of support. i also really appreciated the public comment and i do agree. i have very serious concerns about, you know, why we're having difficulty following it seems like basic guidance on brown act. and to me, brown act is about transparency for the public and

so i really do appreciate committee members but their committee members are not staff and so i really do appreciate and i think it's important to follow their recommendation and make sure that all committee members are trained in the brown act as well as all the -- you you know we have a lot of committees in our district. so i do think that's important, but ultimately that responsibility lies with staff and i don't think all of our staff, you know, when we write a resolution,, we may have commissioners appoint. and i don't think they're always informed about what their responsibilities are in terms of posting meetings and managing public comment and things like that and i have -- i mean, we've had several instances about people raising concerns with brown act. and so, i just want to name

that i'm -- you know, i don't expect individual staff members to know the ins and outs of how to manage meetings in accordance with brown act if that's not their primary role and so i want to know why that continues to be a problem and i was wondering maybe even legal can let me know. it came up around the mural. it came up around naming. it's come up with this committee now i'm hearing and so i just want to know what we're going to do from now going forward all committees that are convened by staff are trained in following the guidance. >> president lopez: if i can just jump in i know this is something that we've been saying is important as well. i just want to make sure we stay on the topic of the

charter advisory report and i will definitely help follow up with any trainings or responses from staff regarding this issue. >> commissioner: okay. i appreciate that and i really appreciate that parents are asking or community members are asking for that training, but ultimately, it's on us and it's on our staff. so, additionally, i continued to request, when we have a resolution that forms a committee or further action, i would really appreciate it if you can ensure that the resolution is also published for the public because we have a resolution that says this committee should be reconvened. i think the public has a right, but also the resolution that charges the committee and we've seen this with safe and supportive schools.

any time tells the staff to take action so they can hold us accountable and ensure we're doing what we're supposed to do. i'm sure the public may not be aware of what the resolution says we're supposed to do. and make sure we're providing transparency around that. additionally, with the recommendations, i would like to know superintendent matthews, how are we going to, the public i think commissioner sanchez has asked for the follow up on these recommendations, how can we make those public as well so the public can see the followup and status of those requests how do you. >> president: the public is informed on the followup recommendations? >> one of the ways we could do is putting them on a website,

the ones that we have tracked already. i think we talked about previously some we have trackers on. we definitely can put those on the website. >> commissioner: that would be great. we do have a website. there is a website on our sfusd web page and i think each advisory committee has its own page. i want the public to know that does exist right now and i really appreciate that, superintendent matthews. >> president lopez: thank you and i am seeing student delegate wants to share. i'll also invite alita fischer since you are a panelist and have a lot of information to

share with us. >> thank you, president lopez. i also just wanted to thank the committee and also say at our next meeting i'll definitely bring up these vacancies and hopefully towards the beginning of next school year, we can fill those up. >> it would be great to have students represented. >> we would really appreciate that. thank you. >> yeah. i'm just here if questions arise and i want to recognize both michelle and lita for the hard work they've put into the presentation and, michelle for her leadership of the committee. the reason you've had the documents you've had is the work that michelle has done. so the rest of us are working behind the scenes, but not as hard as michelle. so thank you, michelle. >> president lopez: great. well, thank you everyone. again, thank you to the

committee for all of your work for bringing this to us and we look forward to more meetings in the future. speaking of vacancies, i've encouraged my colleagues to make any appointments for this committee and now's an opportunity if there are any advisory committees by the board. okay. i just wanted to bring up there's a couple of changes to tonight's meeting as i'm sure you already noticed. we did begin at 4:00 to sort of begin this transition back to regular meetings of course, our board meeting is set up and we've been meeting in february and we can start doing that work as well. we did begin our work at 4:00, the board has already gone over

a few changes in the way we will operate to help us be more efficient and direct. we've also moved back the public comment section, so we haven't had the opportunity yet, but you will after this next item to make sure that we accommodate all of our families earlier on in the meeting and you can get on through with it. so section d, discussion of other educational issues for a return to in-person learning update. superintendent matthews. >> thank you, president lopez. once again, good afternoon everyone. so this is our return to in-person learning update for today, may 11th, 2021. next slide. and, as always, our mission has been, continues to be and will be that every day we provide each and every student quality instruction and equitable

support required for our students to thrive in the 21st century when we went into the pandemic. we began to do this in a distanced learning format to provide that quality instruction and equitable support and as we are transitioning out of the pandemic and most importantly back into inperson learning, we will continue to thrive to do just that making sure that all of our students have the instruction and the support they need so that they can thrive in this century. next slide. so, today, our agenda is to give you a status on a re-opening or returning to in-person learning. some highlights from our secondary in-person learning. i want to talk to you today about staffing, what it's been and what we anticipate regarding the secondary level and the secondary single grade

return as you see there and, finally, we will end this report with an update on labor and one of the things as you just said, president lopez, one of the considerations for becoming even more efficient in our meetings is -- as we make these presentations, we are looking to the board, looking at specific area for consideration for feedback from the board and today that area is around staff and prioritization as we bring back our secondary grade students this friday. so you hear more about that but we definitely want you to focus on that as you're hearing this presentation because we definitely would prefer to have your feedback in that area of course, you can get feedback in any area, but that's what we'd like to focus on. next slide. i'm going to turn it over to

chief lowd smith. >> thank you superintendent matthews and, good afternoon, commissioners. so i will be brief. as you well know, we are now officially san francisco is in the yellow tier and that was made last week and you can see that the cases continue to drop both on the seven-day average and per cases per 100,000. next slide. so what does being in the yellow tier mean specifically for our in-person operations? by our health and safety mou with our labor partners, in the yellow tier, we move from staff testing from all staff every two weeks to twenty% of staff every two weeks and the student testing remains the same at 20% of students testing every two weeks. the san francisco department of public health always issues new

guidance when tiers change or the cdc or the california department of public health issues new guidance. so there was a large update that we released last week and most specifically again what that means for us is that asymptomatic testing is not recommended for vaccinated persons so that impacts our staff testing. and close contacts who are vaccinated do not need to we don't have to have staff quarantine for two weeks if they've been vaccinated. also just want to direct we've had a covid-19 dash board up that we update daily and that has been since in-person

learning and as you can see. we've had 20 of them were in-person. 20 of them were folks that were not in-person. or families reporting it. vaccinations. this is from the department of public health vaccination dash board. you can see for all residents, we have 74% of san franciscans over sixteen receiving one dose and 55% completing the series and then just recently, as you know, 16-year-old and above were eligible for the vaccinations and there has been a large push to reach the 16 and older population and you can see the numbers on the dashboard in front of you.

next slide. this is also from the department of health dash board just to look at the vaccinations by neighborhood and the work that we have been doing with the san francisco department of public health is identifying working with them to support our families and getting information about vaccination opportunities. we were able to in the last weekend in april, april 24th and 25th work with the department of health for vaccine days or sfusd days at the college sites and in those two days, over 3,000 families participated in the vaccination for 16 and above. not sure how many of them were sfusd, but the link was linked, but the majority of them probably were. we continue to work with the department of public health to open up more vaccination sites

now that the good news is out that by thursday, 12 and up may be eligible for the pfizer vaccination and we're working with the department of public health to identify our school sites to be able to open as vaccination sites. next slide. i think i'm turning this over to deputy superintendent marcel. >> good evening everyone. i just wanted to provide a quick update around the secondary re-opening to date. as of this evening, we've opened 23 secondary campuses with many students at their homesites and some of our students actually at school sites. every school campus is not open for in-person learning. and that's again with some of our school sites hosted at

their positional school sites and other school sites bringing students back at a host site, i mean, another school site. next slide, please. we always want to spread and share joy. here are a couple of pictures for our april 26th re-opening. we want to share who are designed to make our first report special for our students. despite a lot of exhaustion and overwhelmed school staff, they went out of their way to feel like dayone felt like a day one. the unit called the water project where they study geography, history, and buy graphy through climate change. we're also mindful that to really lift cross learning

collaborations, student agencies and other components of our graduate profile. next slide, please. so we were able to identify over 5,000 secondary students for our focal group return. they were all offered, in-person seats and 1542 students opted for in-person learning. we have a couple quotes there that have captured the spirit of re-opening and returning to inperson. we have a t10 who said i forgot what my purpose was. i realize i'm here for the kids. we also have a quote from a site principal bringing back the highlight of my year, growing closer with my community has been the highlight of my career who was really struggling in distanced learning and has returned to in-person learning and was identified as the leader of the reading group.

the hybrid reading group and showing off his tech skills and also showing off his reading skills and he has made a comment about how he feels so smart and successful in person. and that reiterates what we all know and believe that in-person is the best option. the quote that i share with you and even the beautiful pictures are in our attendance data as well. for our secondary students who opted to return in person, data indicates that their participation and engagement is increased. specifically, as we look at the student who is are minimally engaged, that means those are the babies during distanced learning who were attending online. of those students, 140 of them chose to return to in-person learning and those 140 students have doubled their attendance rate in person as compared to their counter parts who return to distanced learning or even compared to what they were doing or how they were attending during distanced learning. i also wanted to review a

couple other attendance trends for our focal secondary groups who've returned. after two weeks, we've had 1,642 students and the attendance of those students is at 91%. better in person than in distanced learning. and this is all captured over a period of two weeks. in those same weeks, we've been mindful to compare the data and, again, it reinforces, reiterates what we all know around the importance and the ways we can better engage our students in person and just want to express our commitment to bringing our students back for full return in the fall because the data also tells us that this is necessary. i also want to just note even though i pointed out our students who are minimally engaged, you will note that only 140 of those students return for in-person and though

we celebrate those students and increase participation, i do want to name and shout out our school staff for their tremendous efforts and progress and actually connecting with many of our students who are minimally engaged and so even though that number doesn't look like it's changed much, we know it's moved a number of students out of that group. so even our students who are still in distanced learning, we've been able to connect with those students and get them to engage more. about 189 students from that original group have improved their attendance. and so they're no longer minimally engaged. we've also moved students into that group. we are working to be able to show that to the board and to the public. again, those spring attendance trends, we wanted to just shout out and celebrate the attendance trends we're seeing

for our secondary focal population as they return to in-person. i'm going to now transition to daniel to tell us more about staffing. >> yeah. thank you deputy superintendent. so we're just going to give you some highlights as to where we're at regarding staffing. we had 791 staff members to request to work in accomodation remotely. and 546 of that criteria for approval. so in terms of how we have covered that need, about 105 of those requests have been covered by our substitutes who are district employees and numbers of uesf or by

contracted. we have covered the need because if you'll note, the 105 folks i just mentioned don't totally cover the gap and so we've had a combination of strategies. i'm not going to go bullet by bullet on this slide, but coverage strategies include usf subsidy we just talked about. our contract we just talked about. we reassigned teachers on this special and we've also deployed central staff to support our schools and cover any personnel staffing needs we may have over these couple of coming weeks and i think that sort of summarizes all of the bullets if you're interested in any particular component, you can read what exactly we have done. next slide. and, the other thing that we've done is to focus on hiring new

substitutes and so by the numbers, we've received 185 applications for folks who are interested in becoming a substitute with the district. we have hired 47 of them and there are another 53 of them that we are onboarding. so they're currently in the hiring process and the remaining are being reviewed and interviewed as we speak because we're going to continue to build our pipeline of substitutes as we both wrap up this school year and head into the next school year. we know it's really important that we have substitutes who can support our students. next slide. that is it for me. so i believe i'm turning it back over to deputy superintendent ford marthal. >> president lopez: really quickly. i want to go back to what superintendent matthews

highlighted earlier. >> not in this slide. but thank you for call interesting into question. >> president lopez: perfect. thank you. >> thank you, daniel. so how we want to spend some time providing an update on our plans for secondary grade return. i want to apologize, a couple parents texted and corrected me that i was using an old term when i said minimally engaged. we want to make sure the nnous is not on the babies, it's on us. so, as we've said, we know and continue to believe that in-person learning is what's better and best for the majority of our students. we've worked tirelessly to enhance distanced learning and provide for our groups but we've also been working to see

how we might be able to engage our seniors. even though we're aware of the importance of in-person as dr. matthews and others have shared over various presentations, we have intentionally staggered the roll-out of re-opening that we've had the opportunity to provide direct support, sites and scale the opportunities for in-person students and learn as we do so. this next phase of return is our sing the day return and that's for seniors who express a desire to return to in-person learning. next slide, please. so our scheduled first date for seniors is this friday, may 14th and so i'd like folks to listen and notice that i call this the secondary senior. i call it the single grade secondary return and that's because it's a response from our seniors and families who have asked for a chance to come

back before they graduate and set forth in the learning opportunities grant that calls for us to bring in and provide an level opportunity. next slide. the turn around and timeline is defined by the parameters of the limited timeline the district may provide in-person instruction identified in the gray by may 15th. so we were opening in phases and also planning, wanting to respond to this may 15th deadline. there were a lot of questions around the secondary concern and this grant in particular is rather new as we learn and yesterday got more information from the state around what is required and how those requirements can guide our planning. next slide. some other things we know about ab6 and some other considerations we've made in preparing to return the single

grade seniors. i said that wrong. one is around staffing. we know that the model has to be served by staff and we have really tried to match our home school student groups with the staff from their school. we also know we must comply with health and safety guidance even as we plan for the return of our senior students and sofa silts is something we have to pay attention to and so all the spaces we're using for our single secondary return. we prioritize home schools where possible. currently about eight of our school sites will be offering in-person learning as a home school option. we've identified some additional classrooms for sites for which space is an issue. another consideration always is capacity. and so, of course, as we plan for and operationalize any model, we're mindful of ongoing restraints from staffing and because we have other in-person

models operating, we're very thoughtful not to make this next phase of returning to in-person for our seniors negatively impact the previously open phase. so our elementary students. our learning model requires a lot of collaboration and you will hear more about where we are in those conversations after my set of slides. and, finally, we want to make sure we're providing quality programs. as much as we can provide quality programs during times of uncertainty. and so we've opened to our 12th grade students and every students been offered a seat. the secondary groups. when you come in with your seats, we want to prioritize human connection and support and well being and opportunity for economic support around the very course work that all of our seniors carry. next slide. a little bit more about the instructional model that we have planned. similar to our focal student

groups, we'll be using a blended model. students will receive some of their instruction virtually through distanced learning some will be in person. some students were opting in. some students will choose to stay remote. we're currently working on the schedule determined by the number of students at the site and the number of staffing. as we speak, as i speak, our site teams are finalizing what the days will look like for the students coming back and as they do this planning, they're focused on listing, well being, and academic support. as we're mindful of the strengths of the unknown, we said we would look at bringing our students back for at least one day. that was our initial kind of thinking just because, again, all the constraints we're working within. as we're now closer to the launch, we'll be able to offer more students with many students doing at least three days. we know our seniors also engage

in a whole bunch of other exciting stuff. there's a lot of work that happens as a senior over the last weeks of school. they're preparing for and taking final exams. many of them are starting to take their ap exams and work on capstone and other projects as well as prepare for and rehearse for that in-person graduation and so we're also mindful of that as we thought about bringing back in-person learning. moving to the right side, you can see the response rate we share with the families of our students. the survey was set to close last week but we extended to give the opportunity for more students to respond and the number of requests you're receiving from our link line: as of last night, when we closed our survey, we heard from 11,000 -- that's not right 1,150 families who responded to the survey and this is the survey response rate, about

37%. about half of those or 565 of them have opted to return to in-person learning. next slide. so to prepare for this, we know communication is critical. seniors who opted to return will be betting assignment soon and that confirmation will be coming by thursday. this thursday.

again, it starts on this friday, may 14th, but students might be returning to a different later day on may 14th. next slide. so here's the question you were asking. so we're really proud of the fact that we've been able to open even within and during these challenging circumstances and all the constraints of working within. we've given vaccines and increased our covid cases in san francisco and we didn't anticipate the number of remote reports, accommodations.

so this is a number of things as we try to make this happen. we've been in the position to rely on central office staff just to cover the model that is we already have open. so doing so, it's caused us to pull some folks for the other work they will be doing to support distanced learning, in-person learning or the planning for the summer and fall. so it's still a constraint and our greatest concern is as we continue plate returning our single secondary grade for in-person, how do we do so without negatively impacting the current programs and grades we are serving in-person the area for the board this evening is how we might prioritize staffing for return. if we find we have a limited number of subs and central office staff to support the

volunteers who said they would come in and help. so if we find ourselves with a shortage. we move some of the in-person staff from the focal groups or the elementary grade. that's one question we need some direction on and then another one is just for you all to be mindful that also staffing this model might have implications for the current groups so they can return. we'll come back to those questions. i want to allow greg to give us a labor update that might also help inform how you respond. >> i have one slide this evening which will put a fine point on the 10 or so slides to just proceed. and so we can go to the next

slide. i want to underscore and celebrate and call out both the bargaining team from the united educators of san francisco and san francisco unified in that we reached a tentative agreement with the united educators of san francisco may 7th, 2021. we did so on short order. also, because of all of the terms that deputy ford mathel went through are in this mlu. just to connect the fact that this mlu is not a stand alone, it's connected to the health and safety agreements and the agreements that proceeded representing the fact that the district and the union are prioritized staff and safety and all of these returns. i want to just underscore the fact also that united educators partnered with us and surveyed teachers and paraeducators to

identify who might return for this single grade return. and the survey i'm sure these numbers have changed since that time, but on may 10th, 156 uesf students expressed willingness to return to in-person listenering. there's also an update prior to return so that teachers can get back into the room and get their bearings. and, again, understand when this begins and in-person learning will begin on may 14th, 2021. i think the next slide is a thank you slide and there it is. president lopez, i believe i'm turning it back over to you. >> president lopez: okay. thank you for this presentation and all of your work. we'll now open it up to public comment before we hear from commissioners and student delegates. >> thank you, president lopez. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the return to

in-person learning update that was just presented. >> sorry. could i say something real quick. students, if you're on the line, i would really encourage you to raise your hand. it's more effective that way. >> president lopez: thank you for the reminder. and there's still a section for students to comment later on if they don't get to during this time. reminding everyone that we hear this topic at every board meeting. so raise your hand if you want to speak, you'll have one minute to speak. hello, reverend brown. reverend brown. would you care to speak on this

item. i'll circle back and check to see if you're there. sopria ray. >> hi. this is sopria ray calling. i want to return to in-person learning and specifically on the lack of transparency with the school district personnel. i had asked at jefferson how many students were returned to in-person learning and how many went to continued in distanced learning i'd ask that at a principal coffee chat on friday and i have since been engaged with multiple e-mails with the principal and assistant superintendent who supervises her and have not received this information. in person or distanced learning that stigma already has in order to re-open schools.

i am advocating for students and parents and have been for quite awhile. the fact i've been told in various ways that i can't get this information without ever saying it is forbided to give to me is very disturbing and stressing. it's not a good look for any of the school district administrators. really, this is something that everyone should know and easily. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, meredith. >> so imagine this, a high school senior sits in his room for over a year of his life, lying in bed staring at the ceiling, sometimes staring at peers and teachers through a screen, sometimes just black rectangles. otherwise all alone day after day. after a year of this isolation learning, a senior read this and commented to us that's

pointless. why would i go for that. i'm over it. that's not school. you all are board of education, union leadership unapologetic clooe went after $12 million that was supposed to be going to our students in in-person learning. not for this not even bear minimum plan for a day, for a few days of supervision. what is happening here? we're not sure. why our leadership is now deciding if and when schools open, how to spend our state money. what is the purpose of our board of education if it won't push for our students that are best for our students. i wonder what these students think about grown-ups right now. instead of using that power we just went after the money. >> thank you. >> this is not public education. >> thank you. hello, gregory. >> hi. i appreciate that the district

is making an attempt to qualify for the state re-opening money. i really do. the district is facing a severe budget crunch and those funds are needed. that being said, this plan is disgusting. everybody involved should be ashamed of themselves. a good job would be all students being offered five full days of in-person learning. what you're offering is literally the least that could possibly be done. seniors requesting in-person will have one day of instruction. are you kidding could you possibly do any worse. >> thank you. laura. >> i'm feeling really frustrated to hear you claiming that secondary schools are open for in-person learning. you keep using that word, i do

not think you mean what you think it means. neither is supervised zoom. secondary students. secondary schools are the not offering in-person learning. we need all students to have the choice to return full-time to the classroom five full days a week anything less could be very unacceptable and i think we can all agree that sfunified does not need any additional lawsuits right now. thank you. >> thank you. hello. kelly. >> hi, yes, i think what i'd like to ask for the next meeting, i am getting increasingly confused about what it would look like. so we're in the yellow.

i'm not clear with where you are on safety inspections for middle and high. i don't know what i just read in person learning in the fall. i also don't know about covid recovery programs in the summer. as far as middle and high beyond this one grade in the group. so i just would like to ask for the next board meet or on websites or whatever if we can get more information on when summer starts to close those gaps. so many changes are occurring on the outside, but i just can't put my finger on what it's going to look like for the fall and just finally, one more reminder, again, general ed, special education that's my son please don't.

it has to shift for everybody, but it cannot continue for my kid. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. hello. it says random individual on the handle. hello. the name is "random individual" here to speak are you there? hello, carla? >> oh, yes. hi. good evening school board. good evening dr. matthews. my kid will be attending 9th

grade musical theater and i'm concerned about the preparation of the site for next year. i understand that the academy to re-open safely, san francisco unified school district has said it needs to complete a window inventory and provide air purifiers. our principal has not been given information about the plan and facility canceled the meeting she's been waiting all year for. the board and superintendent's office by e-mail but have not received any reply this lack of communication is causing unnecessary distress with students, teachers and staff on top of all else we've been through. just 15 days of school left. we tell our kids not to procrastinate and i would really appreciate if we can get information about exactly how our facilities will open in the fall because our students and

especially our student artists need to return to creating together in person at their homesite. >> thank you. hello, tom. >> hi, yeah. i'm a teacher in the district. i guess i just had a question about the yellow tier, the 20% of staff that are being vaccinated. it is very unclear. is staff just going to like volunteer to that 20% for each site. i would like to be part of that, but i don't want to take it from someone else who is more concerned. i mean, the district, they could just be cleared. if the nurses don't know, how are we supposed to know. thank you. >> thank you. hello, carry. >> yes. hi, thank you. i just wanted to comment on point in time fact that the staffing issue is a real thing that you need to take into consideration.

the shortage of substitute teachers that was created by the decisions of this board and the district to give so many many teachers waivers this year is real in the fact that my second grader was given 25 minute notice that she could not come to school because her teacher was not allowed to come to school. that 25 minutes meant that some of those my crying 7-year-old at home knowing why i was taking her brother to school and he was being left at home again when she was already only getting 14 days of in-person school. if you're not prepared to have staff in school, how dare you bring students back to school. kids are being turned away.

>> thank you. hello, chris. >> hi, can you hear me? >> yes. i'd like to thank the school district for coming to the bargaining table to negotiate the grade level before the end of the school year. ideally for just the more than one minimum day, uesf opened up the conversation with the district after it became clear that if we didn't open it up, we wouldn't give this opportunity to advocate or receive additional funding for the school district. i'm personally extremely proud of the stipulation and agreement that prioritizes the funds from this return go to improving ventilation systems in our school communities from the southeast side of the city that have been hardest hit by covid, poor air quality and other societal inequities. i think once the survey went out to staff, it became clear that the educators were beyond excited to do more despite our

students given from that very vague survey in a short period of time. i know there would have been more volunteers. i hope that sfusd has learned the first step in making progress is to start the conversation not to assume that your partners will shut it down before it can begin. >> thank you. >> hello, caller, the 415-627. caller. >> thank you. president lopez, vice president moliga, commissioners, superintendent matthews. i want to appreciate the district and the union to bring

students back. it's quite a challenge for parent who is are work to go have a child one or two days a week or three days a week in the case in my household. we're able to manage that because of support. and deputy marthal telling us about these students who have increased their in-person learning. i will come back to school in the next few days and i hope they all will come back in the fall. thank you so much. >> thank you. hello. molida. >> hi. good evening. even though my teachers have supported me and done a great job, i still haven't been able to get the same focus and motivation if i would if i was

in person. the ability to focus at home to stay at home doesn't provide the best way of learning. let's not forget how important it is for teens to be social and we can't do that over zoom. we need to be face to face with most students being able to get a vaccine soon, there's no logical reason we cannot be together next year in the fall. i'm asking you to promise that we will set up our schools so that we can go back in the fall. and to not be spread out. there are only 15 days left in the school year. please don't put this off anymore. please commit to opening my school back up so i can get back to school and back to learning. >> thank you. hello, hayden.

>> hello. good evening board members. i just wanted to say that while i think it's admirable that you guys are going after the money and i think sfusd really needs money right now, i think it's very troubling that you guys are doing this alternate a time when we don't even have enough substitute teachers to cover the grades that are already open and when you have your discussion later about how we want to prioritize staffing, i think there's a reason we prioritized opening the schools that are already open and i think those need to stay the priority. so i think it's great if we get this money, but i just don't think it should come at the expense of all the other students. you know, it's already been such a crazy year with everything changing for all students. so we need some stability right now and not wondering every day if we're actually going to be able to go in person or not. the other thing i worry about,

you mention contract substitutes. some of the district substitutes i've seen substitutes mock other kids. i really worry about the quality of contract substitutes. >> thank you. >> hello, ben. >> good afternoon. my name is ben chen. many students have faced severe mental health challenges during this pandemic. wellness centers help many students address these challenges. when high schoolers do return in the fall, i want the capacity of our wellness centers expanded to accommodate the growing number of students seeking help. to that end, i urge the school board to set aside more research and actively seek to hire wellness professionals. in addition, our counselors are overwhelmed by the amount of work they have on their plate especially what i see at

lowell. as counselors can devote more time to each student. thank you. >> thank you. hello, megan. >> hi, my name is megan and i wanted to give my appreciation to everybody who's put so much in trying to get as many of our students back into classrooms as soon as possible. i know that the secondary return is a puzzle that we aren't going to solve right now. we have students who are supposed to see multiple teachers a day and that's a problem that we couldn't fix. but looking forward to next year, we can think about how do we look at problems like this in a different way. pulling central staff mtsas to try to cover our lack of

appropriately staffed substitutes is not a long-term solution. pulling subs from one grade to cover the other, not a long-term solution. so we need to look at long-term solutions if we don't get changes that we can anticipate from our cdc and dph guidelines. we can't predict the future but we can definitely plan to ensure we don't have the chaos that is trying to make it work right now. thank you. >> thank you. hello, brandy. >> hi, i just wanted to respond to a few of the public comments iheard so far. first of all, if you're here upset as some of you parents are about the schools not being open for in-person instruction five days a week, upset about the district not having adequate sub coverage, i want to tell you you're at the wrong

meeting. you should be going to the board of supervisors and demanding that the city, especially the mayor allocate more funding for our public schools. that's going to yield a lot more results than just continued demands because we're not going to get to the capacity where we can have things like better staff wellness centers and things like that if the city doesn'tal owe locate the money. this city is one of the wealthiest cities in the state and the planet. if your advocacy or your groups are not telling you that you need to lobby the board of supervisors, you need to find a new group. thank you. >> thank you. hello, latoya.

latoya, are you there? hello iris. hello, iris. >> hello. i'm sorry. i've got to get it together here. i am -- >> wait, i'm sorry. i would like latoya to go first and then i would like -- >> go ahead, latoya. are you there? go ahead. >> can you hear me now? >> yes. please go ahead. >> hello? >> yes. >> hi. first and foremost i want to say thank you for the consistency and transparency and communication from the district to parents. i really appreciate that

personally. i know everything -- we're not living in a perfect world right now and this solution may not satisfy everyone, but i do appreciate the effort that everyone did to put this plan together and put these things in place. i would also like to ask that a safety component be prioritized at least as one of the top three priorities with regards to in-person learning there were some safety, physical and emotional issues that have not been addressed during covid and are trying to bubble back up again. thank you. >> thank you. and, iris, you can go ahead. >> hello. hi. sorry. i have children that want to eat. okay. so i'm a special ed teacher for access and i have a 1st grader. we are both thrilled to be back. my 1st grader is just thriving

and i am having so much fun with my students that are in person. i just would like to take this experience so that we can plan for a really good return in the fall and i would like there to be more consistency with scheduling and hearing things out and those of us who have had the opportunity to be in person can help with that plan, i'd like to volunteer myself to help with schedules for special ed mod severe high school students and transition access students because it's apparent that you guys could use some help figuring out how to properly schedule us so that things are aligned with bus schedules and that kind of stuff. thank you. >> thank you. this is a district e-mail says

owburke. >> hello, can you hear me. hello, my name is emma and i'm a 7th grader at apg middle school. i would like to start off by saying thank you. thank you for getting my younger brother back in school. you can see the change in his spirit as he can finally see other people his age. so thank you. with that being said, as a middle schooler, i urge you to get middle school and high schoolers back into school. i don't know anyone understands how really and truly isolating is. guess how many people my own age i talked to today? zero. guess how many people of my immediate family i've seen today? zero. guess how much that weighs down on mental health. human are social beings and this is not how things are supposed to be. even though the work we received is less than half of what we received in the classroom, work feels so much heavier. it's more stressful and harder than ever to get the help that

you need. i'm sure you all remember middle school and how hard it can be. the work school stress, family stress and getting out of school which makes it all harder. it makes everything harder. i beg of you please get us back into school. >> thank you. hello, jennifer. >> hi, my name is jennifer and i've called in before and talked about how my 5th grader was able to go back and how my 7th grader was able not to go back and she would really like to talk to you guys directly if she could. so let me see if she still wants to do that. can you tell them? here's what you wanted to talk about. here you go.

>> my name is vivian and i am in 7th grade. i want to go back to school so i can study and see my friends. >> thank you very much. that was vivian. >> thank you. hello, ari? >> hi, this ari tanner. i'm a parent of a 6th grader at roosevelt and it was a failure of the public school district to return to in-person learning. i don't believe there's any other district in this country that's failed so miserably. based on feelings and emotions instead of signs for allowing the teacher's union to spare the lives of thousands of our city's kids. if schools don't open in the fall with five days of full-time in-person learning, i

think the only answer would be school vouchers and certainly not throwing more money to our school district. >> thank you. hello, carla. >> hi everyone. i wanted to thank everyone for the presentation. i'm excited that we have some days for our seniors to come back. i'm back with my pre-k kids and it is exhilarating and stressful all in itself. but we're super happy at our school site. i just wanted to recommend that perhaps we should have sfdph san francisco department of public health present again about why we have not opened five full days for every single student due to their restrictions and how things need to be approved and disinfected still and how the fall will look with the outlook is so that we can give some

hope to our students and our families and our staff that perhaps since we're in the yellow tier and moving into a good position and vaccinations are now available for 12 to 16-year-olds, i'm thinking there is a light at the end of the tunnel. so perhaps having another presentation about that with actual data and science that is being adhered to, so that parents are -- there is transparency and puerto ricans do see that that is happening. so thank you. >> thank you. hello. alita. i who have scrambled for child care so they can come back to in-person learning. i want to thank central office folks especially our special

educators. but then also sticking around after the school day to host iep meetings and answer their e-mails at 10:00 at night. we've got some really hard-working folks right now who are burnt out yet getting it done for kids. so thank you so much for all of that. and, specifically to answer deputy superintendent ford-marthel's question about who do we prioritize. there's a reason our focal population students are called focal population. if we believe in the city, let's keep the focus on the focal population. >> that concludes public comment on this item. >> great. thank you for holding that. commissioners and student

delegates if you have questions and comments. >> i'm going to wait. i'm still trying to gather my thoughts. >> president lopez: commissioner boggess. >> commissioner boggess: thank you, president lopez. i guess i'm concerned about the direction on how reprioritize focal students or seniors returning. i think, for me, it's how do we get a larger pool of substitute teachers and what ways do we do it and what kind of financial incentives do we have to post teachers from other districts to help fill our needs. i just feel like we can't pit groups of students in this moment against each other and that kind of feels like that was who was proposed to us and i guess i'm just kind of curious, is it really the way

we currently look at it in no way for us to have our seniors return without us essentially ending in-person instruction for other students. . >> commissioner boggess, i think i can answer that question. so we've got about 150 volunteers, we have another 20 paraeducators volunteers. i think this is a hypothetical one for whatever reason whether it's an unexpected illness or sort of what have you, one of these folks is unavailable and we need coverage. you know, would the trade-off be to take a staff member currently serving our focal students. i believe that's the situation on the slide. it should not be something we walk into on day one.

i think this is more of a contingency question of something goes wrong or something goes wrong and we have to scramble to find coverage because we do anticipate that. we do have folks that we can, you know, draw in and we're grateful to uesf for this survey and giving us these volunteers. >> and just to confirm, volunteers those are staff who opted to return back. my second question, i think the follow up is how are we communicating i guess to families, what's the plan to communicate to families around the fact that this expansion kind of spreads us thin where we don't have the ability to cover shortages and how they can kind of prepare for that. >> so, again, i want to just emphasize that this question is posing sort of a worst case scenario. we do have folks that we're going to do the initial assignments for for the days that we were bringing seniors back and so we don't currently

have a shortage, it's in sort of a worst case of people don't start showing up. i want to say first and foremost, before we close any classroom period, whether that's for seniors, focal students, whether that's at the elementary level, we're going to exhaust every option we have between central staff, substitute. it's a hypothetical. for whatever reason, there's really nothing else that we can do, you know, what are our options and what is the direction that the board has. >> commissioner boggess: thank you for the clarity. >> president lopez: thank you, commissioner boggess. i do see a few hands. i apologize i didn't get the correct order. we'll do commissioner lam, commissioner collins, and then

commissioner alexander. >> commissioner lam: i think it would be really helpful and i understand, daniel, it is hypothetical and things didn't really come through, but it seems that we are going to be covered because i think on the slide it said that 30 staff was needed for the baseline of staffing needs of the full secondary. we're talking about 150 uesf educators plus the 20 paras additional to the central staff being able to fulfill those positions if needed. i just want to recognize that we know this isn't sustainable for long term. this is really just to get us to the end of the academic year. so i just think that just recognizing, i know it's hypothetical, but i think when we start to put that decision kind of tree out there, i have to understand the probability, right. like on a daily basis, how much staffing is needed and that's

been particularly helpful with those reports on a weekly basis because that's real-time updates. it does sound like between now and march 14th of this secondary and senior grades the returning the end of the school year so far the higher probability to meet that. i just want to also, so that's more of a comment. i also want to recognize we would like to offer more for our high school seniors and i'm glad to see there's additional possible days and i also want to recognize the district staff recognizing what they have over the last 15 months. i don't need to go over all the details from our entire system being upheavaled in the fear of the virus in the constant need to improve distanced learning and what was required to return

to in-person learning all these months. and i want to just express to all the high school seniors to have heard about this re-opening plan for what is remaining for academic year and for those who are frustrated and disappointed, i hear you. i know that we want to be able to offer more and, you know, i just want to express that we're proud of this class and that you've lived through such unprecedented times and challenges. so that's just overall the sentiment. i also want to express to the public, this board of education along with the leadership of our superintendent, we pass unanimously a resolution that is to return pk-12 full-time

in-person. i assure, you know, we're working with our board leadership to have those updates. further, we're also anticipating this week governor newsome is continuing to express the absolute commitment to return to full time in-person learning along with our assembly member. we are anticipating some important public health decisions and announcements this week and as soon as those decisions are made at the state level not that it has stopped any of our planning for the fall, it will accelerate how sfunified will adapt to that planning. so i just want to name that this board has already put forward our policy and have continued to put our policies and proactive stance along with our state leaders in

sacramento. so i just wanted to affirm that those plans moving forward. so, generally, there are comments, not questions. just overall, i hope we will continue to deliver as much as we possibly can even in these final weeks for our high school seniors which i know has been such a difficult year this year. thank you. >> thank you. and just wanted to acknowledge so far commissioners, thank you for keeping your comments short. i do recognize student delegate your hand is up. >> mine aren't going to be as short. sorry. so i just have a few questions. what is learning going to look like for seniors? i think a lot of people mentioned on public comment like zoom in a room. is there an opportunity to have our teachers in person teaching

us? >> so at that point, most of the models are looking like seniors coming in, as you know, every student has a different complex schedule. so students will still come in and be able to engage in their current course work. we're not able to bring in every single one of those teachers. however, there will be a certificated staff and we did work hard to pair staff from the school with students from that school, so there's a likelihood there might be a person teaching your course that you know. we're also thinking about how to not just make that time about the students coming in to the classroom and sitting in front of a screen but really leveraging adults in the class to provide extra support and we know seniors are working on various projects and so the adults in that classroom as well as the other students in

that classroom can assist with that as well. so it's not just come in and look at the screen although that is a part of it. there is an adult in the room to support the learning as well and provide any additional assistance as well as with the peers. >> and, i was just going to add one of the things that we've learned, one of the things we've talked about over time is that we are learning, we've opened in phases because we have learning in each phase and wouchlt of the things we've learning from opening starting with the elementary schools and then moving to secondary mod severe and homeless students and foster youth and students we've failed to engage. we've learned that when adults are back on campus and students back on campus, repeatedly we feel how good it is to be back on campus. we know there is a socializing aspect as well as i actually heard at least three teachers at several schools say to me, this was not just good for students, this was really good

for us. so i just wanted to add that to the socializing aspect of being back in classrooms with students. that's another aspect of what we're hoping to accomplish as we move back forward with the seniors returning to campus. >> and then also a second question. is there a way that we can do a school by school breakdown of who chose to return back in person? i know there's like a general the 500 responses, but is there a way to do a school by school breakdown? >> yes, we definitely have that nfgsz and we can provide you with that. >> okay. and these are some more general questions that i've gotten from students. can students engage in senior events? i know a student leader if from balboa asked me if they can do a senior sunrise now that they'll have the opportunity to

return in person. >> i'm not familiar with what the senior sunrise is. i just was try to go text one of my colleagues to see if she can answer the question for you in terms of that one in particular. but other events if she's not able to, i will make sure to get back to you ms. hines-foster. are you saying as they return or participate in the in-person option? >> yes. >> okay. and then the senior sunrise in particular. >> yeah, like a general in-person event. >> okay. let me get information for you and i will circle back to you and the rest of the board and the community. >> another question is what's the likelihood of students returning to their homesites? a few students want to come back in person, but they only want to come back in person if they're going to their school. so is it less likely students go to a larger school like

lowell because i know lowell was named as also a host site. so is it more likely for students who go to a larger school to return to their homesite rather it be less likely for students who attend a smaller school? >> yeah. so the breakdown doesn't necessarily follow along those lines in terms of size. teams are still working right now and planning, but it's looking like a number of our sites are going to be able to host at their homesites. about eight, i think i said in the presentation and some others will be participating in the host site either because their facility is not ready to welcome more students or because of other factors. a good number of these sites that are re-opening are at the homesite. >> and then to reiterate, lowell and balboa are host schools? >> yes. both lowell and balboa are host

schools. lowell and balboa are the only two quote unquote host schools. >> okay. and then another question is how many days of instruction? i know at first it was about a day, but i've heard today it's about three days, at least. >> yeah. so as schools plan around some of those other events like the ap exams, finals, and projects, many of the schools are following at this point. still planning is happening at about three days. yes. >> okay. three days of in-person learning. >> yes. for students who would like to return. >> okay. and then, also, just a question i had a conversation with one of my administrators, and it seemed like they didn't have a clue that they were re-opening their expected date for us and what they were planning for one

day they said was the 25th of may. so do administrators know that they're opening this week? >> yes. the administrators that are opening this week know and all of our high school administrators know about the single grade return. one thing i said in the slides even up until yesterday, we were getting more clarity and information around the guidance from the state and, so with that, we've been able to give more and better information to our high school leaders and they know you all are coming back and they are creating plans and partnership with their uvcs on what that's going to look like. >> yeah. my school might need a reminder. they didn't seem like they knew. and is there a policy or rule about final exams? i know when we first started off. we limited it to projects. so are students able to take tests? or are teachers able to give tests this year? >> that would be another one i need to circle back with you

on. >> okay. those are all my questions for now. also, i think we mentioned this maybe a couple weeks ago, this is kind of like a side question, not really a top priority, but is there any updates on prom? i know you discussed looking into it. >> right. so, at this point, we're not able to host an in-person live prom. we are spending all of our time investing and planning for this amazing in-person senior graduation. >> president lopez: thank you for those questions and i also made note about the several followup ones. i apologize, commissioners. i do see student delegate correa-almanza's hand. >> thank you, president lopez. i first want to say i'm thankful for this return to school option for seniors. i know it was an unexpected

surprise for me and my teachers and i definitely jumped at the opportunity. as ms. marshal said during her public comment, it's not ideal, but it definitely is a start. something i wanted to bring to the board is a concern i had about noticing a lot of the students at my school who don't want to return back to school for like one to two days and i definitely was one of the only people in my advisory who wanted to return back to school. and, for me, this was pretty concerning because as pretty as the murals are at my school, i don't want to go back for the walls, i definitely want to go back for my classmates and just to spend that time together. so i'm wondering because it was so amazing for me to hear that at lowell, washington, lincoln, they have 74% of students who want to go back to school. so i'm wondering if it's a trend in smaller schools where most students don't want to go

back to school and i'm wondering maybe what that means or if that's even a trend or it's just in jordan. i wanted to ask that and something following up with that is that i know some people who do want to return back to school but who have missed the deadline even though it's extended and i'm wondering throughout may is there going to be more opportunities to sign up for in-person learning especially because i know as students see this is what it's going to look like, maybe i do want to go. i definitely want to make sure that's an option for people and i'm wondering if that's a possibility? >> could i tag onto that? i know the presentation mentioned that the deadline was extended is there a new deadline date? >> i think it was yesterday. >> it was extended to yesterday because the original cutoff was friday. so it was extended through the weekend and through yesterday. but, right now, we're trying to

lock in the student who is are in and get those schedules cemented so we don't have plans to currently re-open it. and that's where we are right now. we're just trying to lock in both teachers and students and schools so we know who's where. >> and then -- and the question if students didn't fill out the survey, would you recommend them not to come in person? >> if they didn't fill out the survey, the survey is -- that's who will get a schedule. so they should not just show up. >> okay. >> yeah. so i definitely wanted to be on that followup with shavon about the different numbers of how many students or seniors per school and maybe seeing if there's a pattern that maybe should be addressed. but i also wanted to talk a little bit or ask about how these return back to schools

can promote community within a school site that hasn't seen each other for so long or students who haven't seen each other for so long. i know that i went to school for different ap exam and it was very bittersweet. i was very excited to be in those hallways but also knowing that it might be one of my last times. i definitely want to make the most out of it and i'm wondering if there's any plans from the district to promote that or if that's more of a school site project that they should take on. >> again, most of the sites are right now making plans with those things will look like and the things we've asked our site leaders to focus on and i know they as well as the educators on the staff are having committed to is one that focus on connection. like dr. matthews referenced as well as academic support. even though what i share with

you all even though students are coming in i know that our sites are actively preparing on things the fact that you're all in your same room again and it's something you haven't done for awhile. it's very likely going to be around that connection piece and you still engage in and take all the courses on your daily schedule. >> i appreciate that. thank you. >> i'm sorry. more questions. pretty please, can ya'll extend the deadline again? is that a possibility? >> so, right now, it's not student commissioner hines-foster. we're trying to lock in those schedules. if we can get those schedules locked in quickly and get them assigned to schools.

but right now, i just don't want to tell you something that we're not going to be able to do. >> yeah. that's fair. and then another question i had was on the slides, it mentioned substitute opportunities. i think it was like 20 spots at lowell and like 10 slots at bal. what if those slots aren't filled? what does that look like? because i know a parent mentioned a student being turned away. >> i can answer that question. those were actually holds and agreements we had with ucsf. so these also with staffing that we don't need because we have so many volunteers from uesf and so those are likely substitutes that we'll be able to reassign for ones who picked up those assignments to other places that they are needed. >> okay. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you for your questions and i see

commissioner collins and then commissioner alexander. >> commissioner: thank you. so i appreciate the dialog, i appreciate the questions from student delegates specifically and also appreciate comments from commissioner lam around just the challenges that we're facing and appreciation for staff and just working with families and patience of families as well. i guess two that i wanted to highlight are, you know, i know that we're doing everything that we can and we're focused on our priority populations and then opening for one full grade, but people consistently mention this idea that it's not necessarily, kids do need

academic support and there are a lot of folks and i'm just speaking as a parent, a lot of the reason for bringing students back specifically middle and high schoolers can do in-person learning, it's the social aspect. and as we open up our schools, i'm wondering if staff are interested and able to bring students together in open areas of the campus. i know some schools have open areas like i taught at galleleo. there's opportunities for them to bring students back even so they can see each other as student delegate correa-almanza mentioned. just so see teachers in a peer group that they care about, how are we supporting that? at a very minimum i think we should be.

i know if there's staff, if i was a high school teacher and i had a vaccine, i think i'd be wanting to see my students even if it was on a voluntary basis and i want to know how we can support that or what we're communicating to site leaders. >> so the only way i can answer that i'm just being completely transparent is we've just been fully focused on trying to get this secondary grade level back. so that isn't an area that we have been focused on. i don't know if any other staff members, if that's come through or come up, our administrators have heard from teachers who say can i bring a grade level back. i'm sorry. i said that wrong. i got it. a group of students back. >> like i'm a sponsor of a

club. if i wanted to bring my debaters back. my question is this isn't work. this would be providing information so schools could, you know, kind of and teachers and educators who aren't involved in the central planning might be able to just coordinate their own. >> so, yes, we can let you know that the guidance has gone out to site leaders making available the opportunity for clubs and activities to start in outdoor spaces and i want to be -- remind everyone that that has to fit in both the health guidance and people with existing work schedules and the very strange capacity, but i do know there are some pockets of those things happening within the human capacity of the 24-hour day. >> commissioner: thank you. i appreciate that and then i

guess another question -- is there any information i heard the fda announced vaccine approval for 12 to 15-year-olds. i know you're not the health department, but you communicate with them. is there any information on when 12 to 15-year-olds will be able to get the vaccine and is that impacting any of our planning? >> i can answer that, commissioner collins. as i mentioned, hopefully on thursday is when the official notice will be released that the pfizer vaccine is available. the department of public health is already actively working on if that is a go when they will be able to open up vaccine sites immediately and we are actively working with them to also have some vaccine sites at our school sites. i don't have any specific dates, but the anticipation is if it is approved on thursday,

maybe it's two weeks before the vaccine actually can start getting into arms, but the city is actively planning on that and we're working with them as well. >> and our hope would be to have more specifics on our next, two weeks from tonight on our in-person update that we'll hopefully depending on the speed of dph working directly with us to give specifics on sites. >> commissioner: excellent. thank you very much. and then, finally, i've been receiving a lot of e-mails from parents and we did hear some public comment specifically around the campus which is an academy which has a lot, that building specifically has, you know, there's a lack of windows i would say. i don't know if it's more at other sites. i wanted to know when we can get a followup report just planning preparedness when it

comes to hvac filtration and things like that and i'd say for all of our sites i'd like to hear because i've been asking about ventilation and we've been wanting to know about that even for air quality but specifically for those sites. i know i'm getting a lot of e-mails from families about when they might find out about just how we're doing in terms of readiness for fall at the mackiteer campus. >> commissioner collins, i believe chief pamela has stepped away to pick up her daughter from child care. let me just say on her behalf. >> i'm back. >> oh, okay. >> thank you. >> there you go. >> no problem. sorry about that. i believe the question is just one just generally what we're doing to prepare ventilation for the fall and specifically for the mackite reshgz campus.

>> i don't need a full-on. i'd like to have a full-on report. that's a larger question for scale, but specifically do you have any updates or do you know you'll be able to provide families with updates on specifically the mackitier campus. >> we hope to be able to do that in two and a half weeks. >> commissioner: you'll be able to update us. >> yeah. >> commissioner: so tune in next time. two weeks for now. >> yep. >> commissioner: okay. thank you. >> no problem. >> president lopez: thank you and commissioner alexander. >> commissioner alexander: thanks. so i want to echo commissioner collins a thank you around the clubs. i don't know if that's something that commissioner collins and i have been asking about for multiple meetings and so i really appreciate the followup and making that possible and also we really

appreciate staff for their work on getting the secondary grade open. i know it's been challenging. i guess my question is i'm just still confused about the staffing and so maybe i don't know if you can help with this a little bit because just reflecting the frustration that i'm hearing from the public from parents and students around just being three days maybe and i guess i don't understand if we have how many volunteers did you say we had? >> we have about 150 teacher who is have volunteered and about 20 paras. >> commissioner alexander: yeah. so i don't understand if we have 150 teacher volunteers and there's only 555 seniors that want to come back, i think it would be easy to have them come back every day. that's a really high -- you know what i mean.

i guess that's why i'm not understanding why it would be so many few days if we have so many volunteers. the ratio would be really small to have them back every day. am i missing something there? >> so the thing that we haven't been emphasizing verbally enough is that those are all volunteers who are already teaching a full load, full-time of remote classes. so if they're coming in to volunteer in their classrooms, then that shifts the gap to another place. we don't have 500 teachers who aren't teaching full-time already and as a former high school principal, i know you understand the complexities of we don't want to take all of the kids out of the senior english and senior government that they've been in all year to bring them in with a remote teacher because we're not able to bring the whole group in at one time and that's just where the incredible complexities of high school scheduling conflict with the realities of having

committed to make all of these choices remain open. >> commissioner alexander: yeah. i see what you're saying. i guess it's confusing. i think if i just -- i hear that and i agree, i understand what you're saying and i guess i just haven't heard an explanation that i think is clear as to what the actual staffing limitations are that would only make us be able to offer so few days. so i don't know. maybe that's just me being confused and i'm going to stay confused, but i just think there's a lot of disappointment out there and i think to the extent that, you know, if we can't be transparent and clear about what exactly is going on, then people don't understand why. so it's like why are they don doing three days and people invent or imagine reasons why if we can't explain it.

so i guess if there's any way we can kind of, you know, really explain that, i mean, we also have tons of central staff. i mean, i don't know, i was just looking at -- i have a central staff roster that had almost 800 names on it. so it just feels like we have a lot of staff that works at the school district and so the idea that we can't cover space for 565 seniors if we had them in groups of 14 would be 40 credentialed staff that would be required to have them all back at the same time. anyway. i guess i just want to say, to me, it's not clear and i think it would be i don't know if staff want to add anything, but i just think it's -- i think there's understandable frustration from the public that this is so limited and i think we owe it to them to be able to explain why.

if we can't do that now, i think we should try to do a better job in the future. >> yeah. so i appreciate that commissioner alexander and we will definitely come back next time to see if we can paint a better picture of why this is so challenging. i appreciate director castro for coming in and i appreciate mr. meninze for also trying to represent the challenges that we do have with staffing even despite the amazing partnership with uesf. we too believe that it's important, better and perhaps best for many students to return to in-person and our inability to do so on a larger scale is not because of a lack of will. but i will circle back. thank you. >> commissioner alexander: i appreciate that. and i know it's not due to a lack of will and i know the intention is there. that's what i meant.

the more we can do to help explain that, the more people can understand that. and so i appreciate that. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you everyone and, of course, staff for this information. i certainly expect to have a report on the fall at our next board meeting and a couple of items that came up today. so we'll bring that back to you in two weeks. okay. so that actually ends this in-person learning update. and we're now moving on to section e. which is public comment on all nonagenda items. so, again, this is a section where they'll be an opportunity for sfusd students to make comment on anything that is not on today's agenda and that's also room for general public

comment afterward. item one, protocol for public comment. please note public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you refrain from using employee and student names. if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employee supervisor in accordance with district policy. as a reminder, board rules and california law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the public comment time. if appropriate, the superintendent will ask that staff follow up with speaker. item 2, comments from sfusd students. we will hear from sfusd student who is wish to speak on any matter including ones that have been discussed already. students will have to up two minutes to speak unless otherwise indicated. will have up to 15 minutes in the general public comment set aside for sfusd students.

at this time, hands that are up should only be sfusd students. >> one minute or two minutes. >> we're doing 15 minutes for this section. >> okay. >> i encourage two minutes. >> thank you. hello, isabella. i believe it's isabella. hello, are you there? >> yes. i'm there. so i have two minutes to talk, right? >> yes. are you a student? >> no i'm a parent of five kids. >> this first section is just for students. we'll complete it in 15 minutes and then you can raise your hand again and have the opportunity to speak.

>> okay. sorry. >> thank you. hello, iris. >> hi daughter's going to speak. here you go, sweetie. >> hi, my name is zula and i'm 7 years old and i just want to say that i'm happy to be in school and i don't want just me to be in school, i want everybody to be in school and that's all for me today. bye. >> thank you. hello, melaina. >> hi. i just wanted to say i've always been taught to speak up for myself and so i'm going to now. this is my first time attending a board meeting like this and i can't believe how some of the adults calling in acting at the

first question. although i think there's some miss communication, i think we should appreciate that these people are still people and we can comment without calling people names and being somewhat passive aggressive even though i don't agree with some of what the board is doing, everybody is trying as best they can and calling people names like disgusting and revolting and honestfully pretty unprofessional. thank you. >> thank you. hello, cal. >> good evening. today, i'd like to use my time during student public comment to ask that superintendent of high schools bill contract be renewed. the board has said they're re-opening priority and that's also high school students and this means getting the input of high school parents, students and high school educators. throughout the entire process of re-opening, it has been

incredibly obvious that the people creating these plans do not have high school experience. we must understand that there are a variety of fundamental differences in the educational needs and effective styles that are usable for elementary versus high schools. we must understand that these elementary school solutions are not widely applicable to high school and we must seek out the expertise necessary to form late plans for high school re-opening. and, currently, that expertise lies in bill sanders. the current solutions have not been created by elementary school educators and i understand why. to my knowledge, bill sanderson is the only senior office staff member with actual high school teaching experience meaning he is the only senior office staff member who has the direct expertise necessary to create viable plans for re-opening. not renewing his contract during this critical time would

be nothing short of negligence especially if there's not another edge castor lined up to fill the spot. >> thank you, cal. that's your time. >> thank you. >> thank you. hello, franchesca. >> hi. my name is franchesca i'm from lowell high school. i'm a senior. my mom was unable to answer the survey for seniors coming back and i didn't realize it was mandatory and i also didn't see that you guys extended the deadline which fault is mine but i don't understand how i can't have an extension or another something i can do to come back to school because this might be the last opportunity i get to see

anybody and all of my classmates and i spent four years with them. how am i unable to say good-bye because i missed the survey deadline? thank you. >> thank you. >> president lopez, if there are any other student who is would care to speak, please raise your hand at this time. i believe that's it for student public comment, president lopez. >> president lopez: thank you for checking one last time. so next will be section three, general public comment. we will allow up to 30 minutes on this section and it's anything that is not on today's agenda. >> thank you. please raise your hand to speak to general public comment reiterating that items that are not on the agenda. >> and how long per person?

>> we'll do 1 minute to allow more voices. >> thank you. hello, ms. marshal. >> [inaudible] to president and vice president and the board of commissioners. thank you so much. anyway. my comment during this period of time is not to forget lowell high school. there are 47 african american students there who vowed some heart breaking issues to you. i know you've been so busy with school re-openings, but please do not forget to come back to their issues before school ends. there are some issues that the african american community wants you to address.

please do not forget the issues at lowell high school with the bsu there, they brought a list of demands to you and we have not heard, we don't know what's going on there. there seems to be no action. thank you. >> thank you. hello, kris. >> hi. can you hear me? >> yes. >> i'm a washington high school teacher, a special education teacher and i'm calling in because i wanted to express my disappointment in the ways that in-person has been ruled out and is being ruled out for students above 5th grade. sfusd. has provided consistent information and outreach to families about their option for distanced learning. i as a teacher could have helped with this outreach, but i was never given information from the districts that i could pass on to students which would of helped the seniors in my home room at washington actually get the survey that

was sent to them. please do better as we look to return high school seniors before the end of the year. again, i feel like for more than the minimum one day and do much better by using more than one method to reach out to families and students. just calling home is not enough. just putting a message on student or parentview is not enough. just e-mailing or student guardian is not enough. you need tooz all three of those things multiple times in addition to e-mailing hard copies and forms. don't just say you will do these things. you need to actually do them. >> thank you. hello. supria. >> thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to thank commissioners for enabling i

know it would have meant a lot to him to have an in-person one. i also wanted to express my concern with how middle school families, my son is now in sixth grade have been completely left out. my son cannot even go to a club at his school much less do any sports activities or anything else. i would really encourage administrators to -- like it was mentioned before of letting administrators know that they could engage in these other activities to make that message clearer and to make people understand that it's actually important. there is still an opportunity to let our middle school students do something and i would urge the district to encourage people to let that happen. thank you.

>> thank you. hello, isabella. >> yes. thank you. i would like to say [inaudible] so i saw the detrimental effect of the distance learning from kindergarten through the end of high school and even college and i wanted to ask you why is it that in the united states i see that you attack the problem in the reverse way. in europe, deciding education was not to be questioned, it had to happen and so they opened the school and then they [inaudible] afterward. they never really closed the school except for the three first weeks and no major incident happened. i don't understand why such a rich and subsidized country especially in california it was taken in the reverse way and

it's still not happening for the teenagers which is a crucial time for them to be in school. so that's my -- and also, my kids are lowell and i really would like lowell to stay the really fantastic school that it is. that was my two cents. thank you. >> two things, i mentioned covid recovery the last time. i also wanted to talk about esy. however, there's two problems. the esy and covid recovery is scheduled from june 9th through july 14th with directly conflict on both ends of summer camps which are three week verdict values. so basically if he does esy smack in the middle for four weeks, he can't do camp two

weeks on one side or two weeks from the other side and i don't know if we can fix this, but i just would beg you to reconsider because three weeks, it's mandatory. the second thing is covid recovery. i don't know if it will be beneficial so i'm just begging you. there's only two and a half weeks left. i don't know what to do in summer. i don't know if he's going to be okay. so those are my two things and i just would -- we need information and please change the dates so my son can go to summer camp at some point. thank you. >> hello, sarah. >> hi, my name is sarah, i'm a parent and also a public schoolteacher. as a parent, i'm deeply

concerned about after care programs for families, working parents just can't survive another year without after care programs and tonight i'm asking the district to ensure these programs to be reinstated for the fall. parents need to know sooner tennessee later and i hope you can provide us with a consistent plan as soon as possible. i just want to press my plan. i've been in person in a nearby district since the end of march. and san francisco unified school district students deserve the same thing. please do better for our high school students in the fall and commit for a full return for all secondary students. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, iris. >> hello. me again. i wanted to talk about a few things. so bus schedules or just

actually just communication with the bus company i'd like to see some improvement in that area. i don't really understand why it's so complicated. i've one of the lucky few that's been back in person and my students all have special needs so most of them ride the yellow bus and there's been and this has been an issue for as long as i've been a special ed teacher. we only have a few five weeks of school. there were student who is have the wrong address on the bus list and instead of making it, it should have been a simple change because the right address was where they were picked up in the morning, but then there was a wrong address for taking them home and instead of just fixing it took weeks or and lots of phone calls -- anyway. i have lots more to say but i'm

out of time. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hello, megan. >> hi, this is megan paluzza. and i just wanted to remind everybody how hard everyone in the school district is working to make this happen for our students. a lot of us are behind the scenes. i know people in this meeting right now people at central office, all of our educators and staff at schools have been working tremendously hard to make sure our students have the best possible situations whether they're coming in-person or staying in distanced learning and that is considering everything we've been up against both in a pandemic and in a state that doesn't properly fund education. so i just want to bring to light we are working hard and we're going to continue to work very hard and we may disagree about things, but i'm super proud to be in a district that pushes and pushes these student

centers. thank you. >> thank you. hello. the handle says "random individual". >> yes. can you hear me. >> yes. >> so i just wanted to briefly speak about the context of white supremacy in public education as the board seems very concerned with it. so as a white person, i just wanted to point something out to me that's obvious. there are plenty of white supremacists in san francisco, no doubt. but those white supremacists haven't sent their kids to public schools since integration. you know, half of the white kids in san francisco haven't gone to or gone to private school since desegregation. so the reality is half of the white kids in san francisco have been going to school since september and some of their parents could care less if public schools ever go back. so i think what we're doing here if we don't open schools

is just increasing the achievement gap and the future wealth gap and so before you claim your revolutionaries, you need to look at the reality of your actions and making white supremacy worse. thank you. >> thank you. hello, sandra. >> hello there. i just wanted to echo another caller's sentiments and thoughts around after school programs and just reiterate how vital those are to working parents and working families and just, you know, call out how they need to be reinstated in the fall. it's very important and that we need that information. families need to start planning for day care and child care so

that they can go back to work full hours. it's very important and please make that happen. thank you. >> thank you. hello, jennifer. hello, jennifer. >> hello. i wanted to ask why we're not utilizing our outdoor spaces at our high schools and middle schools. for example, everett middle school has a huge black top. i'm wondering why we don't use those outdoor spaces if we're worried about ventilation. thank you. >> thank you. >> president lopez, that

concludes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you. we're moving on to section f., consent calendar, item 1, the consent calendar. i need a motion and a second. >> commissioner: so moved. >> commissioner: so moved. >> [inaudible] >> president lopez: i apologize. >> that's better. >> so i just said i needed a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> commissioner: second. >> president lopez: and, we are on the consent calendar. thank you for letting me know. so let's begin with any public comment on consent items. >> thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to any of the

items on the consent calendar this evening. two so far, president lopez. >> president lopez: okay. let's do two minutes. >> thank you. hello, megan. >> hi megan, behavioral analyst in the school district. i just wanted to bring up that there's an item. it's number 43 and it is the purchase icnifor learning loss. [please stand by]

>> thank you. >> i'd like to restate the importance of renewing the

superintendent's contract. i mentioned he's the only staff member with experience that is happy to reopen we need to fill that spot with another person the deadline when they should be back in school is august 15th. leaving us approximately 3 hadn't 5 months to find a new staff member. that's not viable. we need the voice of an experienced educator for high we need the voice of an i'd like to urge you to renew the contract. >> thank you. >> hello, rebecca.

>> hello, can you hear me? >> yes. >> sorry i was in a different zoom meeting doing other stuff for the teachers union. i just wanted to follow up with megan's comment. i have a big concern in the school district we don't hold ourselves accountable in terms of the curriculum we purchased. shout out to the als interrupter. we don't get curriculums with asl. we have students without these materials. i encourage the board to make sure whatever we purchase is vetted, evidence based. we don't do that. it's not very good at all or in any way

evidence based. i'd like to cho what megan said. if you would like to effect change in the district. you will contact us and help us focus on literacy. i'm super enkeokuked all of them to start researching this. right now, we are not doing a good job to provide adequate curriculum to any students. >> thank you. >> hello, chris. >> hi. >> my apology. >> hi, i'll start that over. i'm chris and i'm a special education teacher. i'd like to. 1.7million on 23,000 backpacks that families might not be

able to use. when i listen to that and i think about the biology i go curriculum. i can not adequately implement in a classroom too small for them. it's good enough for me to run that from a general education. i think ability english learners and what it is i don't know about. it seems like the money needs to be spent better. you have parents say backpacks will be great and make a difference for their kids by all means spend it. i just, i don't know how effective that will be in terms of curriculum change. i would love to see the

district. thank you, any items withdrawn by the superintendent? >> no, they are not. >> thank you. also the first reading by the board. >> i'd like to remove-- >> first reading or yes? >> i discovered numb bier 9. >> commissioners any items? >> it would be helpful to get everything staff with item

43. >> item 9 and item 43 for the public if you are watching along. >> also item 14. >> 14. >> okay, let's do a roll call vote on the consent calendar and go back to these items. >> madam chair are you taking out number 9, 14, and 43. >> yes. >> 1-415-655-0001. [roll call]

>> actually, i apologize. i meant to excuse our student delegate that has been up since 5:30 this morning. if you would like to leave for the rest of the night you are free to go. >> thank you so much. bye, i hope you have a great night. >> okay, let's begin with can you complete the roll call. >> yes, i did it was 7 ayes. >> now we are moving on section g.

discussion and vote on calendar resolutions. it's several considerations. we have three items. item nine. items 14, mlu authorization to enter into an mlu. item 43 by the public approval for cmi summer. >> can we get information on the item. >> what's the question. >> so, i guess, i was hoping i'd like to discuss personnel related matters. this is not something we can do in open meeting.

i have concerns and they were raised by the public. i'd like to discuss them in closed sessions with other commissioners. there are some members that have been removed from may not renew to renew and i'd like to ask about how those were arrived upon based on observations and conversations with personnel. >> just to provide priority >> all of the star responding to share that. the i femme we are discussing i believe there is one

individual. >> if the folks are moving from may not renew, they are changing the status to renew or not renew, i'd like to understand how those decisions were arrived at and have a conversation with fellow commissioners. i would hold folks accountable. i'd like to understand--i'd like to collectively understand it. we can come back. i'd like to propose we could come back to that after closed session. it would still be within the agenda. >> so, closed session that's what you meant. >> so, the one thing i'd say.

we can discuss individual personnel. one of the things we wanted to do this was one of the amendment in my contract is moving these accept for the deputy superintendent that were discussed in closed session. one of the aspects we sat around the superintendent was in charge of contracts that moved from may not reach out to all board members and have discussions with them about the move. those discussions were had. >> it wasn't with my colleagues. that's what i'm asking for. i support you making recommendations and we have a role in approving the recommendations.

>> that's what it would like. >> before i vote to approve or not approve i'd like to have a conversation with my colleagues. i don't understand why that is a concern for you. i should be able to arrive at a decision and hear from my colleagues as well. i'd like to hear their thinking around. this is part of my decision making. it's very important, i think. i learn from my colleagues. you value your insight multiple insights for actual educators. high school level and elementary levels. i'd like to hear from them and staff in conversation with my colleagues. >> i think i'm just hearing

that right now that won't be an option given that we-- >> of course not. i'm proposing it. people can say no. i'd like to go on the redecides when people are not renewed. when they are removed to renew or not renew, we all benefit as commissioners we work as a board not justin u:devils advocateals. we benefit when we have conversations. with my instance also and the impact collectively we are stronger. i'm making a proposal to move this item to thursday, which is two days away. we have a conversation in closed session. we vote at the end of that meeting. it won't deter us and allow us to be better in decision

making. >> i'd like to hear from other commissioners just a general sense yes or no if this is something you are interested in and if it's an option. >> thank you, president. >> yeah. >> i appreciate you being on the record for it. i don't believe commissioners will be pursuing this outside of today's vote. i will definitely make note for the future when this item comes up. >> commissioner alexander has her hand up. >> please, just speak up. >> sorry, president i am ready to support the consent calendar but i do think it's

not unreasonable to have a conversation about it. i got the information i needed. but i wouldn't mind pursuing it to thursday. i guess what i'm saying i'm all right. i'm happy to accommodate her. >> i see you unmuted. >> yes, only that this was part of what we just talked about a few weeks ago and what we agreed to a few weeks ago. you can absolutely pull an item if you want. a staff item if you want to vote separately on it. what we talked about a few

weeks ago and agreed to the only closed session discussions you will have were on the three deputy superintendents. there are no deputy superintendent. >> i don't remember agreeing not talking about personnel issues. i do think. the public should be aware when it comes to personnel decisions we hear from community members, parents, we are hearing different

prospectives. i need a new prospective. so, i'd like the public to know i think what is being decided when it comes to that decision we are in the dark. i don't think that's in the best interest of students. they have promises to our family and staff. thank you for the time and i

appreciate you opening this up i know you wanted to put that on the record. we will don't for what's involved in conversations. let's do a roll call vote on the consent calendar item nine. >> okay, thank you. this is on the whole entire thing. >> okay. can i just say for the public this also makes it a blanket approval as opposed to having the ability to dialog about

specific employees. this is a bash of employees and not having that other discussion about that. >> sorry, i'd like to clarify, though, because if we were to do this we would have conversations about the thousands of employees and i'm not sure that's our role either. >> yes. >> the administrators are also supporting all of the names on this. that's what we oversee. i'd like to clarify that. we are going to go through every single name. >> no. >> we have a select list with this batch. >> yes. >> so, with that. we'll do a roll call vote. >> this is number nine of the consent calendar.

>> we'll do each separately. >> mr. [roll call] >> correct, i know-- >> i can take a vote. >> i'm just observing. i'm not voting. >> okay, thank you. that's seven ayes. >> thank you. >> moving onto item 14. authorization to enter into mlu with community based

organizes. commissioner, did you have any questions. >> this is where the organizes. >> oh, yes. >> so, mr. berges. >> when it comes to the vote you can abstain if it's more than one organize on the resolution. you can just observe on that one organize. you can obtain on the resolution. whenever you chose. >> thank you for that point of clarity. >> what needs to happen on this he needs to reduce

himself instead of abstaining. we need to make it clear you have a potential conflict and that's why you are reducing. re. >> okay. >> so, i'm sensing there is no farther discussion. i'll do a role call vote on item 14. >> mr. [roll call] >> that's six ayes. >> thank you, last item, number 43 approval for cni to pay for the purchase of family

summer school pre-k. commissioner alexander-- >> yeah, there are some questions that were raised in public comment were legitimate. there was a lot of money and $1.7 million for this materials. >> good evening, commissioner alexander. it's a significant amount of spending and will support all of our pre-k through 5 family. these materials were selected and we work in partnership with the city. there are several conversations, one are pre-k family. i work with the head.

we teach the materials through the course of the year and had a positive response. one thing we thought about. we are consistent that the students with access over the summer. they also had over the course of the school year. that seems to resonate with the family. we spend time with our d lack that gave us a positive response on the workbooks and trade books that were produced by teacher creating materials. that idea on materials and those students. they also gave us feedback and enrichment and where their child attended a summer location. we are working on teacher

created materials. there are literacy books for students. trade books and fiction and nonfiction books as well as a workbook. how we support their backpack. this is about how to use the backpack together. the materials inside the backpack. there is a video for professional development that families can access if they chose and give them training on how to use the backpack. we have high school internals and cool office hours for younger students if they need support. we are trying to have lawyered and present as much support as possible. yes, we have heard loud and clear, regardless of what if they chose that participate in over the summer. this gives them the opportunity for enrichment.

if there are any other questions? >> i just have a question in regards and in the curriculum in general. they are evaluating acceptance. the families that don't speak english or literacy challenges or we have support. how successful for families and how we go out to access those. >> good question. during the school year we sent home materials in english and spanish. so, that was during the school year. for the summer we made a decision for english only. many of the d families were

diding for opportunities to practice for english. we made a decision to provide english only. in terms of eback this is a new venture sending out materials in a pandemic. necessarily evaluate it. this was part of vendors that you might use during the school year. thank you for your response. >> i do think it's a lot of money. i voted no on it today. i hate to vote now on giving kids backpacks. i'd like to know more about it. does it come with materials

they can use when they get home. >> yes, what is important to hear we haven't spoke about having books in the hands of kids. they can have an array of books over the course of the summer. they don't approve the program if not accessing the summer reading. this will give them the opportunity. this is at their grade level. you read if he read n and nonfiction. that's what they are reading. this is an opportunity to do what we the literacy out-of-the hands of our family. during the course of the school year. you have used the venn did your to also do this. they have given it. it's not free.

just purchase books over the school year. they have high quality and students responded well. they enjoyed receiving those. we wanted to continue to do that with literacy efforts with the family. >> yeah, thank you. i'm still just concerned that we will at the bottom of this one for me. it seems like an intervention. are there any other programs out there we can look into.

>> they proceed from the budget office teacher created materials gave us quality at the best prices. some are more expensive. we wouldn't be able to necessarily secure books to give out. >> lopez. >> can we move it to

thursday? >> i--staff. >> moving it to thursday wouldn't-- >> it won't jeopardize-- >> it wouldn't jeopardize the purchase and distribution. >> i think i just want to--before we do that i want to see what would the effort mean for folks? >> i guess the other question is what are you looking for between tonight and thursday? what is the--what are you asking for on thursday? what are you asking to come back for on thursday. >> i'm not, i'm suggesting that. >> i would just say may 25th wouldn't be feasible. that means we wouldn't have

anything in terms of literacy. >> i'm just trying to figure out what other options are for us to land on this particular intervention that cost us $1.5 million. $7 million is a lot. i'd love to give them reading but how do we about the other stuff something so. i understand there is a timeline and opening up to my colleagues. >> before we make that move. i see commissioner alexander, commissioner collins. >> yeah, i have concerns and

process wise. the committee, just short of where was a discussion about a curricular purchase. for me, the thing around is real. newcomer families i have a lot of spanish speaking families and one of their flustrations during covid-19 was parents said i can't support them by helping them read. i know, if they get a backpack of books in english the parent can't support the child. a book in, they want their child to learn english. a book in spanish will be much more effective if there is no

teacher or tutor present. those materials will be much more appropriate then a family using them on their own. this is just an example. yeah, i don't know. i feel like there is a lot of space for--i'm not suggesting vote right now. i guess i share some concerns around it. >> thank you, i'm happy to deposit that. >> i didn't want tow put you on the spot and schedule a conversation. what i was saying we weren't ready to have this discussion now.

that autos why i wasn't asking. >> can i ask a clarifying question? >> commissioner alexander question. >> i don't know. how many books are we talking about? i think, the number sounds like a lot but it's hard for me to know how many books i'm getting for that amount of money and that helps to understand where that's a reasonable cost or not. >> in each backpack there is 10 to 12 books. i wanted to say there is a lot of research and value. we are building home librairies. that has a lot oval of vale in giving them experience with text especially the younger students. we know that has a tremendous payoff. i'd also say students need experiences reading in

both languages. that has a lot oval of val. so, we have tried to hear our families around this, so, again, it's one of those things where learning loss during the summer. i think, in education we talked about there is the learning gap. we want them to attend the summer program. should they not attend. we would like to make sure each and every child has opportunity. it's not an intervention and what we believe to be in school learning. this is an opportunity to provide access through all of our pre-k students and be sure to touch them in a way they

can ute this is the stand inning. this is what we to happen. this is what we can build out for our families. >> thank you for that. just going back to commissioner commissioner, did you want to share more? >> that's. >> i see others with their hands up. >> thank you commissioner >> thank you just, i think my colleagues know i'm a big proponent of literacy and evidence based curriculum. tonight's vote around this item and thank you doctor for

distinguishing this. for me to build-up family librairies of 10 to 12 books. the city is showing up resources through the public library and everybody reads. this city is really wrapping our arms around our students and the education recovery that's needs for owe students. i'll support this. i recognize that we are going to need to ramp up our different interventions. i welcome with dr. priestly and the superintendent around. with educators on the ground. i'll be proactive. i'm looking at the possibilities and moving forward especially as we submit to california department of education.

thank you for allowing me to comment. >> commissioner, do you want to make one last comment. >> i plan to support the recommendations. i feel we the district need to figure it out how to better communicate and evaluate. the issues are reflective of a trust gap we have. i think the fact people don't believe we are putting our best intentions forward all of the time. the board shows people the accountability to trust staff but also to hold them accountable i think this is a good step forward.

we can figure out that's pandemic centered. just, you know, appreciate the work that's gone into the selection of the materials and resource. this appreciate >> i have a final comment. >> i'm surprised that board members are surprised. i remember you talking about this for several meetings. you wering to get books backpacks. did you present on this.

>> i remember you gave outback out backpacks. parents said they didn't get it until fifth grade. i hear families like getting these books. >> do you know how much it costs per book. they aren't as expensive as an independent bookstore. they have a sense of scale. >> i can't tell you the cost per book but up do 25,000 families. >> it would be great to get feedback to find out if they

like the books thebooks we can get in homes by i'd like easily appreciate your efforts and getting books into houses. kids love books. i love books. thank you, thank you. >> yep. >> i was just on your website

and looks like they have versions with books in english with parent tip cards in spanish. if where he could just look into that. that would be amazing. i think, again, i think i have heard that complaint from parents. i can't access to support my child. it's looking like that. >> at the beginning of the school year, yes. >> we use them during the school year but not for

summer. >> the curren contract t contract. did it go out for a bid. >> we looked at others to see what they would offer us for quality and numb bier of books this was the best option. >> i just wanted to check with legal. this needs to be run through a competitive bid process. >> commissioner, the exception that applies is the soul source exception. we were looking for a specific product by one source. >> this is the only company that provides the service.

>> okay, thank you. >> okay, thank you, everyone. i appreciate the discussion and also would like to share my support for this. i understand this isn't literacy instruction but an effort to get students items and i support that. so, with that, a roll call vote. >> thank you. [roll call]

moving to section h. in light of upcoming deficits. if i hear no objection we will handle this version introduced on may 4th. discussed by the board and staff and forwarded to this meeting for action. can can nay read the resolution into record. >> where he would be happy to. >> i'll read the causes.

>> let me make sure i have it. for the public it's located on--go to the board button or option it's diversity driven. they are putting it on a scale of is hundred million dollars in the 22/23 school year. despite the fact that california ranks consistency

the college of san francisco as opposed to municipal government i'll just explain it a little. it's property tax allocations. the 10 wealthiest counties in the state of california it's 22000000.62 % of the 2 million 62 % goes to schools. 30.6 % goes to schools in our county. the san francisco community fought for and has one ballot measure and continue to be utilized to help support

sfusdand it's not enough. sfusdwould need is $80 million they have made significant increases and remains the lowest of the 10 larges school districts in california while having the highest rate of spending on instructional related sources as well as the lowest student teacher ratio as shown in the following table. so, for example, 66 % on instruction. san francisco is at the lower end. we have a good ratio at 25.4. we will talk more about it.

in reviewing large charts we have more senior system roles. for example, l.a. unified school district has 17 of these positions san francisco has 22. whereas a half decade at begunural spending increased to 84 % and funding by 60 % and we are at 35 %. whereas, school based ptas budgets raise over 5 million per year. the amount distributed and equitible for different schools. we are at the forefront and

teach core values. adopting the board of resolutions. we are achieving it to go out in vision 2025. that's as they face a large structural deficit in 2022/2023. at the same time planning for a future investment and achieve the goals made out in 2025. >> therefore, it's resolved and the board commends work today on the issues in the

resolution. we continue this work to effectively have deficits. she envisioned 2025 for each and every student. the board has a goal in classroom instucks and other school support services for the model. they can become a leader they will continue to prioritize and understand the following. to, how much they spending. three, how much is outside of

school. we effect these services. the board of education establish when baseline. it's over. they find school budget levels. each and every student we immediate them in 2025. there is angintervention specialist and students and elementary and elementary students. this is vision 2021. there was sigg sniff gant input and including staff and family. they are recognizing quality

and student needs. also, farther resolves. we make central services transparent. we have support for school. the board requests that staff continues to work on this. students and effectiveness. the category and priorities it's easily accessible. three, conducting anal disof the chart. in comparison to other school districts.

they have streamlined with equity goals. we will take this to determine in central and implications. it's accountability and transparency. we have burden requests and assistance from management. analyze the pattern >> farther resolve the board of education. we have resources and implementing that. >> there are student investments and the board of education will pursue additional resources to the

2020 start. more supervisors. we will implement it with the board no lawsuiter than september 30th. we have policy goals and it's important and with the public. we can all support the efforts to provide questions and schools and needed to achieve in 2025. >> hi, i was looking for the mute button. thank you for reading that into the record. are there any public comments on the item.

>> please raise your hand if you speak to speak on the resolution. the spending resolution. >> this is fisher. i know she's on the panel. >> i'd >> it's the revised. >> some of the supports needed

in the classroom and call-out community school model. if we can get to the point having a pair in every classroom, hallelujah. thank you so much for the additional work that was put in here. i felt so much more heard. it's the last resolution. i still have a question about oversight and accountability. that's the royal speaking. there are concerns about the accountability mechanism and ongoing training and coaching. >> so, i look forward though this and i appreciate ate the numbers included.

thank you very much; thank you. >> reverent brown, are you there? >> reverent brown. >> sorry about that. >> hello, tom. >> can you hear me? >> i'm a teacher in the district and my ears perked up when you said the personnel, i think, if you don't have the right people, that's what matters. i think to, now that we are seeing how many, you know, how valuable subs and school security guards and secretaries we need to acknowledge that. somehow, how do we get more of them.

i'm not sure how we did this. they just can't afford to do it. it's possibly that. how will that work and the more people the better. >> hi, chris from washington high school. i'm calling inferior support for everything that she said earlier. some of the things tom said about needing to make sure we have competitive salaries. they have a draw employees to the district and keep employees. we had a substitute teacher shortage before the pandemic, we had a peer educator shortage before the pandemic,

we had a teacher shortage before the pandemic. not every position was filled with someone certified and at least have their preliminary cadential. i'd love to hear about how funding is going to work next year for the emotional and physical well-being of salespeople like the 34 students and staff that tested positive for covid-19 reflecting on the dashboard. i'd love to know what the district is doing to support those 20 students studd staff and anyone diagnosed with covid-19. it's terrifying to learn you have been exposed to covid-19. this is for an individual and their family. you have it our heart goes out to the staff

members and 1,000 students. they will be exposed to those who tested positive. they reached out to support the students fragilely, and staff did your can this time. we should use the funding to do that. this thing effects us all. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello. >> hi, just wanted to speak in general support of this and just trying to keep the school sites and classrooms funded. there is always stuff we want. i'd appreciate it if there were more counselors at my school and more people at the district central office responding to e-mails. i think, what matters at the

end of the day is student education. the whole purpose and making sure the school site in the classroom. have personnel that can really help them succeed. it's most important. so, thank you. >> thank you. president lopez, that concludes the public comment. >> thank you. any additional questions for the superintendent. >> commissioner lamb and collins. >> i'd like to comment on it

being open and providing the latest revision after a detailed discussion not just among our colleagues on the board also with the budget team. our budget team has been focused on getting us, you know, to realistic before they go to light. there are challenges ahead fiscally and the this is before the end of the calendar year. i just want to thank the commissioner alexander for being open. we had tough conversations yes, the principals yes absolutely kept the instructional dollars to the school and recognizing. thank you to public comment when there are allocated they do reach the classrooms and the students. they are moving.

they create the fiscal solvency for the district in the coming years. >> thank you, commissioner collins. >> the conversation we have been having as a board this is a conversation and deciding what baseline funding is. i think, which needed to have it in writing in order to be specific. i also, we also included it from commissioner sanchez and

i in partnership with the commissioner not on the board yet. in the support of the black lives resolution. the resolution is called out in need for doing an assessment to see what it is needed. this is about instruction. it's about school safety. we don't have enough staffing on-site and we see violence in schools and we see unsafe schools. the schools come to us and need extra support. some of that is preventative. especially when it's taken back from a traumatic experience. we will need more mental health and wellness. also, you know, we had no excellions. we will have kids and adults

trying to get along. >> i really do appreciate the specificity and clarity. i'll call-out commissioner sanchez. i'm listing things at the school. funding schools in san francisco. the richest city in the world. we don't actually spend with the system. naming in the resolution and where we fall short. also, where we need to advocate and for families and educators, we are clear on this as well. statewide level and federal

level, th is at the city level. we really need this at the federal and state level to make sure we make the goals a realty. we appreciate this question and we ask it in different ways. now it's in writing and it's incumbent upon us as a body and board. i assume the process will help through the budget committee. making sure the resolution. it gets implemented ands we start to see movement on that we have been having for several years. >> i'm just curious about

which staff is responsible for developing implementation plans and you feel and resources allocated. to successfully have it including the resolutions. >> so, that would be the deputy and the team. i think, a big part of it will be, part of the resolution all of those additional resources will hit the mile markers. >> i think you said this. everything. >> i appreciate that. >> i didn't know the deputies wanted to have this.

>> thank you, dr. matthews. i'm not sure if you still wanted me to answer that question. i'd like to take the opportunity as i know commissioners and the executive director gordon, they are a strong team and the three of us work closely together. it's a lot of work but very valuable work because this is a lot of sentiments and the resolutions they have in the process of the second one.

we are on the way. >> i'd like to say a few words. first of all i'd like to thank commissioner alexander and his work with staff and deputy superintendent and chief wallace and i mean, just wonderful work. that lead to a good document. thank you you all. >> if i can just piggyback on that. the team chief wallace and director gordon have been amazing. really this goes on a lot of work they have been doing. we tried to stay in the resolution. it also raises, i think some questions that are provocative. i'd like to appreciate them for allowing them to be

provocative. i'd like everyone to know, really, i think this is laying out a set of questions to explore and they weren't in the resolution. bring in a good inquiry. we'll get a better path forward. i think you three have done amazing work all ready. i look forward to continuing this as we move forward. thank you. >> thanks everyone. >> with that >> mr. alex [roll call]

>> that's seven ayes. >> congratulations. >> moving on the section i 1201. the agreement between uass regarding reopening schools and work sites for the 2020 school year for hybrid in person district learning instructions and work. may i hear a motion in the second. this is the special order one. >> motion. >> second. >> we will read the recommendations. >> yeah, i once again looking.

>> recommended action. reopening school and work sites for the 2021 school year. for hybrid in person system. it will approve on background a little farther information about this agreement. we begin the conversation on this in 2020. we diverted from this to negotiate this. we continue these conversations just recently. so, i wanted to just mention a few of the terms within this. they divided over the next several years. there are a number of terms.

first of all, no more than three days will be taken within the 2021 school year. remaining day might be be distributed. no more than three of the days might be approved. i'd like to mention that there is a term that indicates mandatory meetings before 8:00 a.m. they will be scheduled. the district to support school sites before they reopen in person learning. there were others. they drafted the mlu in the

board documents. with that i'll stop. >> before we have our discussion can we check for any public comment on this item? >> are grow there? >> good evening, president lopez. honorable commission. i did administrators.

almost 300 are working or problem solving and potential leaders in the district. much of the supported success of the hybrid and in person learning and that was due directly to the planning and resolution oriented mindset of the demeanor leaders that are members. this, which feel this tentative agreement provides recognition of the extra hours, days weekends that they have worked and the responsibilities and tasks that have taken onto support their students and families at this site. we urge you to vote to approve this. all of whom are full-time.

the retired administrators. >> hello, tom. >> i just want to be quick and thank my administrator for helping us through. they were thrown into this. i'm glad that it's happening. thank you. >> to the previous statement >> thank you, i just want to note in the summer. the duration term that's incorrect this concludes to 20121 will conclude in august at the end of summer session

president lopez and superintendent lopez. the civil rights academy and i'll keep this as short as possible. as board members with the school district of the mlu and administrators. we will make sure the schools are open or our students in san francisco. thank you for your time. have a good evening. >> hello, latoya?

are you there? >> hi, thank you. yes, can you hear me now. >> there we go. okay, so, i just wanted to say thank you for looking out for the administrator and all of the hard work they have done to get schools reopened in the process of reopening. it depending on which school site. they put students and family first. also i would like to ask that even though it's up to a vote at this point that you also find a very few for development so they don't create more traumatic situations. it's regardless of covid-19 as well as continuing to encourage administrators.

>> thank you. >> jay, are you there? >> good evening, i'm joan with uaff. the board with the uaff for hybrid. are they are professionals and diligent and responsible. uaff is saying they mediated

between the district and did a long day in order to reach the pa for our mou. the leaders worked long hours and weekend and hybrid. they had to develop complex student scheduling. substituting classrooms and ensure covid-19 protocols are in place. they provided much sites including substitute. add they have significant during covid-19. members would held in the district and provide additional support. for this we thank you for working with us and reaching this agreement.

you will support uaff. >> are you there. one more time. i believe that would be it president lopez. anymore before we vote? i'm seeing none. i'd like to appreciate the hard work administrators have done throughout the time. i'm happy to come to an agreement on fully supporting

this. [roll call] >> ms. lopez. seven ayes. >> thank you. moving onto construction. introduction of proposals and the first reading and the board policy 6146.1 high school graduation requirements 3555 nutrition program

compliance. >> hi, i saw this on the agenda and got really excited. i have students on my iep caseload that have been struggling with distant learning and they are so ready to graduate otherwise. ask you clarify and make sure you fully understand. half of them are here and i don't want to do it to them

again. eknow e--i know the second y hear about this. hello, ms. marshall. >> the board commissioner president lopez and vice

president i hope with all of the necessary steps make sure african-americans and seniors and la tan x seniors and seniors in other targeted groups get all of the resources they need. make sure there is a plan for after graduation includes college and world of works. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, haydn. >> hi, i just wanted to express my support of the change to graduation requirements. i think it makes sense given how crazy the year has been. i think it's a good and spoke about it people should understand this can impact their ability to get into certain schools in the

future. so, i think as long as people are aware of it. i support it. >> thank you. president lopez that's all of the comments. >> thank you. are there any questions or comments from the board or superintendent? >> yes, i--this item is i think right now we suggested it be referred to rules. this is after graduation. there is one item and a special meeting and board meeting at 3:30 just for this one item so we could--if we wait until june 6th it's after graduation.

>> commissioner. >> i have questions about the high school graduation requirement change. it's good to ensure they are able to walk across the stage and graduate without being penalized. this is under plan one. i feel really concerned. this is what it means for students that no longer have

access to the classes. they have access. the moment they do that analysis and that kind of information. >> their response. i didn't hear this myself. they capture executive director for high school teams. so, policy change.

this class to graduate following plans. that's 178 more students to graduate if they pass their current spring classes and 159 on top of that. they have classes in the summer and potential 74 more if they pass three classes. so, that's the scope, it's up to 459 students that withhold be effective. it does impact they are graduating the requirements. they wouldn't be illegible to go to a competitive four year college. it's the option for anyone that would like to stay enrolled and complete their requirements. that option remains. >> do you have a breakdown of

numbers based on ethnicity as well or if they are foster youth. >> i don't have a breakdown on that right now. >> actually since is being moved to the meeting on thursday, by then, we can ask our questions and be able to respond on thus. >> thank you, that's what i was going to say. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> yes, thank you. also for thursday's presentation. we can see what additional supports we have for the 459 students around their options for community college and clarity around how we do the wraparound support. thank