>> for asl interpretive services and request for those do not comment or ask questions. they will not be replied to. language translation team, go ahead. >> the san francisco unified school district has interpretation call and the pin number of

[speaking spanish] thank you. >> that concludes announcements for translation. >> the chinese translation.

>> oh. my apologies. [speaking chinese] thank you very much. >> all right, thank you, everyone. welcome to tonight's board meeting. i'd like to say happy new year to everyone. the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco school district for january 11th, 2022 is now called

to order. roll call, please. >> clerk: [roll call] >> thank you and welcome also to all who are joining us via zoom. section b, opening items. item 1 is our land acknowledgement. the san francisco health commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the

caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. item 2, we will readopt the board of education rules and procedures. to the board shall readopt its rules at the first regular board meeting of the year. thus may i hear a motion and second for annual re-adoption of board of education rules and procedures series 9000. >> so moved. >> thank you. can we check for any public comment? >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the re-adoption

of the board rules and procedures. can that be repeated in spanish and chinese, please. [speaking foreign language] >> seeing none, president lopez. >> thank you for checking. are there any comments from board commissioners, student delegates or superintendent mathews? please, if i don't see folks on the screen go ahead and voice that.

>> i think we definitely should adopt the board rules and procedures today and should over the course of the next few months re-examine them and figure out if they're serving in the best way possible and what other change we need make to our meeting structure or other policy to make sure we're doing everything we can to be transparent and inclusive of the public. that's all. thank you. >> thank you. i do want to say i agree with that process i know we've been in situation where's the rules we have in place don't fit the board and i'm open to pursuing that as well, commissioner lopez. let's do a roll call vote. >> clerk: student delegate lam. >> yes. >> student delegate ling. >> yes. [roll call]

there are seven ayes. >> item 3, election of officers of the board of education. as a reminder to the board and public, this type of election is by voice vote. a second is not needed for nominations and it is permissible for a member nominated to vote for him or herself in this election. board members you'll be voting by name. if there's more than one nomination if only one nomination you'll be voting by saying aye or nay. first i'd like to check for public comment. >> if you care to speak to the election of the president and vice president of the board of education raise your hand at this time. can that be repeated in spanish and chinese, please. [speaking foreign language]

>> thank you. >> ms. marshal. >> happy new year, everyone. i want to thank president lopez and vice president moliga for your leadership and look forward to whoever is elected tonight and from the african american community we look forward to working with elected leaders. >> that concludes public comment. >> i declare nominations are new open for the board of education

for year 2022. any nominations? i see commissioner sanchez. commissioner lam. >> i nominate gabriela lopez for president. >> i nominate vice president moliga. >> if no further nominations for office of president. i declare nominations closed. i will re-state the names and vote board members we'll be voting by name if there's more than one nomination. the persons nominated are commissioner lopez and commissioner moliga. roll call on the nominations. >> clerk: student delegate lam.

>> commissioner lopez. >> clerk: student delegate yang. >> commissioner lopez. >> clerk: commissioner alexander. >> commissioner lopez. >> clerk: commissioner boggess. >> commissioner moliga. >> clerk: commissioner collins. >> commissioner lopez. >> clerk: commissioner lam. >> commissioner molega. >> clerk: and president lopez. >> also commissioner lopez. >> clerk: four ayes, president lopez. >> thank you. for president of the board of education for 2022 will continue

to be president lopez. we'll be moving on to vice president of the board. before i open nominations i'd like to check for public comment in one moment. >> thank you, public comment on this vice president. thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to public comment for the board of education. can that be repeated up spanish and chinese, please. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> thank you. if you are a panelist, please make sure you're muted. i see one hand for public comment, president lopez. brandy, are are you there? there's actually another hand. hello, cliff? >> this is cliff lee a parent with a second grader and i want to appreciate the board and if commissioner jenny lam would consider to be vice president and i admire her leadership over

the past year during complex times and feel like she's been someone who's been able to reach across many different stakeholders groups and lean in. i wanted to share that. thank you all so much. >> thank you. that concludes public comment. >> thank you for check. i declare nominations are now open for the vice president of the board of education for the year 2022. are there any nominations? >> i have one. >> commissioner collins and then commissioner alexander. >> i was going nominate commissioner moliga. >> i'd like to nominate commissioner alexander.

>> sorry, commissioner. >> i'd like to nominate commissioner lam. >> okay, i do believe there are no further nominations. let me restate the names. commissioner moliga, commissioner alexander and commissionerer lam. >> may i make a statement before we vote or is there any discussion? >> president lopez, we didn't have comment or statement on the previous vote so we should held up what we did previous

>> i don't see why we can't have discussion if that's what the chair allows and nothing that prevents us having discussion. >> it's at the discretion of the chair. >> i apologize, i didn't hear there was comment for the previous one but i am hearing there's comment for this one nomination so commissioner collins you can share. >> thank you. i am very happy that president lopez has been elected as president. and i just wanted to say that i really appreciate your leadership and the leadership of educators on the board who have been consistently supporting and advising our district and making sure that when we open schools

we did so safely. i'm very concerned about having anyone be in a board leadership position that voted against safety measures earlier this year and i believe there's members of our board that have actively undermined or have not been effective in implementing some of the safety measures including regular weekly testing, masks and those types of things i think are very concerning to me as a parent. i'm a board member but i'm also a mom and very worried where we are right now with omicron and things like that and know all of us are dealing with that but these are very serious health and safety issues that make me

concerned for the health and safety of my family. i know other families and other educators are expressing those concerns. i want to advocate strongly to my colleagues, we need to have leadership that reflects a knowledge of what's going on in the classroom and we need to have leadership that is proactive and not afraid to raise questions and we need leadership that is willing to look forward and advocate for the health and safety of students in our school including weekly testing and ventilation. those are things our credentialed educators on the board have been advocating for from the beginning and we all advocated as well for opening schools but doing it in a safe way and right now we have some classrooms are full because parents are keeping their kids at home or teachers are at home sick from covid and it's

cobbling our system. i want to strongly advocate to my colleagues whoever is on leadership as vice president as well is committed and showed a demonstrated track record of advocating for health and safety measures for our students and educators who have been currently advocating and advocating beginning this year and last year. there's no confusion on that. additionally i want to make sure the people representing us as our board leadership are also advocates for equity and stand up for black and brown students when they're experiencing harassment and cyber bullying and we have several board members on our board who have enabled some of the behavior with students being targeted by cyber bullying and hate speech

and trying to undermine the work of our equity audit team and because equity audit answers to the board leadership, i want to make sure we're committed that work and there's three board members who voted against that. that's why i strongly support matt alexander for vice president and would be open to mark sanchez but believe we need leader committed to equity and courageous when it comes to addressing anti-black racism and anti-asian racism and an advocate for our teachers, advocates and children. thank you for giving me the time

to speak. >> are there any other comments on this item? board member sanchez. >> the discussion on the election of board officers is helpful and having them express where they're good for the position is helpful and creates more transparency and understanding and not necessarily putting the people on the spot now to do that as much as to say for future board practice to have that be a part of it. >> in echoing that that's an

opportunity if those nominated wanted to share thoughts as well. >> i nominated commissioner moliga and will be supporting him as i supported president lopez in the presidency. i have confidence in our current board leadership. i think my other colleagues, commissioner lam would be capable as well and if the future others have had the opportunity to step into those roles. in this moment there's a lot of uncertainty and believe we achieved a good working rhythm as a board in the last number of months with the two of you in leadership. that was my rationale in making the nomination and that's why i

nominated commissioner moliga and plan to be supporting him. >> commissioner alexander, are you accepting the nomination or redacting it? >> i'm willing to serve but i'll be voting for commissioner moliga for the reasons i stated. >> thank you. >> just process clarity is this the majority of the board vote or whoever gets the majority of vote? >> great question. that's why i was asking

commissioner alexander to clarify. the majority of the board to vote an elected officer in a majority of the board must support it. i don't believe we've ever had this where we had one multiple nominations and one didn't get the majority. we'll have to discuss how to proceed if that should happen. >> i'm honored to be nominated for vice president and honored to work with my colleagues the past three district and a critical time for s.f. education and our children. as we navigate through the difficult times from covid-19

and the education recovery and social and emotional support for our students, fiscal stability and the hiring of our superintendent are just to name a few priorities for this year. it's also an important time to have asian american and pacific islander women leadership at the school district an i am also a parent. i'd be humbled to have the support of our colleagues and your confidence in me. i think i've been able to continue to demonstrate my ability to be committed to engaging with our communities, with our students and ability to build confidence with our communities as well as working with our staff. i look forward to the continued opportunity to again work with our students, families and educators and the broader san francisco unified community.

thank you. >> seeing no other comments. >> if i can comment, president lopez. >> of course. >> happy new year, first and foremost. tonight i came into this meeting with the intentions of serving as the next board president in terms of serving as the next school president and working towards that goal since last year. i don't know, i don't feel entitled for the seat and i will support president lopez and i'm happy enough that we were able

to land on that as a board and i do disagree with the board. we're in a position today where leadership is important and that having a change of leadership is good in terms of stability and being able to get us into a direction we've been hearing from families in terms of school reopening and the excuse me, i'm trying to get over this cold. i say all that just to say that i'll be supporting our president but i don't agree with the direction that we went at vote and so tonight i also strongly

i'm in a difficult situation as board leader now that i've been nominated and believe commissioner lam is prepared and is able to serve as a leader within the school direct and given the amount of asian attacks on the school board and in the school district i think these are the cries the asian community have been talking about in terms of asian board saying parents not being heard and she's also a parent in the school district and has a long history of experience and roots in san francisco in terms of her dedication and i'm in a

situation right now where it's difficult. i do want to say that and i respect commissioner lam and want to say thank you to commissioner matt alexander for nominating me as well. i do trust that as a school board we're going to be able to continue to move forward and do what we've been doing throughout the year and getting things taken care of and making sure our kids and our staff are [indiscernible]. >> i appreciate your comments and want to check in with our student delegates and any other commissioners.

>> i appreciate the comments thus far from our colleagues. it's been a hard decision to make for leadership for our board. i've super appreciated over the last year president lopez your dedication to our families and students and staff and commissioner moliga you've been super strong as well in your work and dedicated having continuity on our board and this is not unprecedented. i was president two years in a row when the vice president was serving in the 2000s and happened earlier in the 2000s with commissioner winds being president and so we have strong leadership. i think we can move forward with that leadership especially in the most unstable of times. that's why i will support

commissioner moliga. >> may i ask a question? >> sure, and i'll begin wrapping up to begin voting. >> i appreciate commissioner boggess' comments in being able to hear from folks in the leadership role. one question i would have for commissioner moliga you said you were in a difficult situation and appreciate the direction the leadership is going. yet you are currently ben in a leadership role and said you didn't agree or maybe you didn't agree with the decision and help the clarify if i'm wrong. that concerns me if in voting considering you as a vice president if you feel that president lopez is a bad

direction for our district that concerns me you won't support her in her role. i wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify that if i miss interpreted that. >> what i do want to say is i'm going continue supporting whoever is our president and like i committed to when i was elected as vp last year when commissioner collins had to step down i was going to support president lopez and continue the same thing. i want to make clear i'm not in support of the votes in terms of our process in reelecting president lopez back in the presidency role. i think i personal am qualified

and that wasn't an opportunity to talk about current votes. president lopez is now our president and will continue doing what i did before in respecting and supporting her and will continue and i committed to that throughout the whole entire school year. >> thanks, everyone for your comments. i want to remind board members, you will be voting by name since there's more than one person. it's commissioner moliga and commissioner alexander and commissioner lam. roll call on the nominations. >> thank you, president lopez. student delegate lam. >> commissioner lam. >> commissioner lam. >> commissioner alexander. >> commissioner mmoliga.

>> commissioner boggess. >> commissioner lam. >> commissioner collins. >> commissioner alexander. >> commissioner lam. >> commissioner lam. >> vice president mole ga. >> commissioner moliga. >> commissioner sanchez. >> commissioner moliga. >> president lopez. >> commissioner lam we have three votes for commissioner lam and one vote for commissioner alexander. we have four. wait, okay. again, three votes for

commissioner lam and three for commissioner moliga and one for commissioner alexander. >> so let me just say this, if that's the case, again for me it's really important that we have an asian representation in our leadership role and also i'm aware of the talent commissioner lam brings to the table and have 100% confidence in her ability to get the job done and trust she'll be able to work across the lines and though i am nominated and i appreciate it, i will step back and withdraw my vote in support a colleague, commissioner lam so she serves as the next vice president of the school board.

>> is that following the board's policy to revote after you heard everybody's vote? >> at this point you don't have it in your policy or rule and procedure to be precise any procedure for voting. what i would suggest is what i'm hearing commissioner moliga say is he's not accepting a nomination and have a second roll call volt as potential lam and alexander as potential nominees. >> commissioner moliga is rejecting the nomination for vice president and re-vote with commissioner alexander and commissioner lam.

>> in this case, i'd like to withdraw my nomination and support commissioner lam since it's clear and think she'd do a fantastic job and i think we should have her be our vice president. >> okay. so commissioner alexander has also reject the nomination for vice president. we'll do a roll call vote for commissioner lam for vice president. >> for commissioner lam for vice president. student delegate lam. >> yes. >> student delegate liang. >> yes. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner boggess. >> yes. >> commissioner collins. >> no. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner moliga. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes.

>> president lopez. >> yes. >> thank you. that's six ayes. >> commissioner lam has been elected vice president of the board of education for 2022. that might mean you get to shift seats since we're back in person. we're continuing with our agenda section b, item 4 approval of the board meeting minutes from december 14, 2021. >> so moved. >> approved. >> are there any corrections? seeing none, roll call vote.

>> student delegate lam. >> yes. >> student delegate liang. >> yes. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner boggess. >> yes. >> commissioner collins. >> yes. >> vice president lam. >> yes. >> commissioner moliga. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> seven ayes. >> if you're a panelist make sure you're microis muted if you're a panelist. moliga -- i was going to call on you for the superintendent's report. >> good evening, everyone. good evening to our families and community. i'd like to express my sincere

gratitude for what staff, students and families are doing to keep each other safe. it's an extremely challenging time for the community. san francisco unified continues to follow guidance and public health experts maintained schools remain low risk settings. if you've not done so, please get your vaccination and your booster. health officials said high rates of vaccinations and boosters are doing what we need them to do which is prevent severe illness and disease. we'll get through this together. on january 3, 2022 our district launched our new online human resources and business management platform empower s.f. this marks a milestone for the san francisco unified school district as we transition the

business services and processes including payroll and time and attendance to the 21st century. in the past week we have seen exceptional adoption of the new system by all types of employees through san francisco unified. our customer service engagement model has been performing at full speed and capacity and we've seen a great deal of curiosity and empowerment with the new system. more than 5,000 employees logged into power s.f. including 35 total logins and tomorrow the first paycheck will go out for classified employees. i'd like to thank the many dedicated staff and our technology and resources and business services with key implementation partners who spent countless hours preparing for this high stakes and long awaited implementation.

the california department of education released graduation rates. san francisco unified cohort graduation rate improved from 84.4% to 88.3% in 2021. the graduation rate is used as a baseline for comparison due to federal requirements that brought changes to the calculation of the cohort graduation rate. over the past decade san francisco unified has developed and implemented systems to better identify and track the progress of students towards graduation including the development of on-track, off-track measures from early interventions. san francisco unified is also implemented a portfolio of credit-earning options for students so that if a student needs to make up a course, they can do so without falling further behind. the deadline to apply for school

next year is coming up soon. it will be february 4. if you're child is entering kindergarten, middle school or high school next year, you need to apply for a new school. learn how to apply today at sfusd.edu/apply. if you need help call 415-241-8065 or visit our office at 55 franklin street or 1520 oakdale avenue. we have staff who speaks english, spanish and chinese who can help you enroll. i'd like to share highlights from our career technical educational offerings and our learning opportunities from last fall. our career technical educational offerings provides rigorous and

robust offerings in preparation for colleague and career and 13 high schools. experts representing 47 individual pathways and 12 unique industry sectors offer rigorous academic courses and project-based learning. this encourages students to apply their academic learning to real world problems and designed solutions. student assessment comes in the form of deeper community and industry partnerships where students apply through collaboration, academic discourse and hands on projects. last fall the work-based learning team collaborated with industry partners to provide authentic learning experiences. finally schools and offices will close monday january 17 in observance of dr. martin luther

king jr. day. school sites will be closed also on monday january 31st and tuesday, february 1 in observance of lunar new year. president lopez, that concludes my remarks this evening. >> thank you. >> i'd now like to open it up for student delegates report. student delegate lam and liang. >> thank you, president lopez. happy new year, everyone. first, there's a transition to the board of education office. we want to take time to thank aaron and georgia and other staff that supported us helping us keep the student advisory council running and transitioning for the board of education and we're grateful for all she has done for us. i'll pass it over to joanna. >> thank you, agnes. next we want to recognize the rise in covid cases over the

last few weeks and wanted to give you an update on what the student advisory council has done. january 6, 2022 the sac create the omicron survey to respond to the surge in covid-19 cases in our schools and better understand student safety. as of 11:00 a.m. and we see over 3,250 responses from high schools and middle schools and looking to verify final statistics but at first glance students voiced their concerns with covid-19 safety protocols citing there was not enough to keep them safe during the recent surge. we see the increase of teacher and student absences. students reporting classes are

half empty and when sent substitutes we cannot persist if the conditions maintain and need to make serious changes so we can maintain an environment can continue to learn. tonight agnes and i will be advocating for more communication in terms of covid-19 safety protocols and hybrid action made open to students who have concerns living with those immunocompromised or in multi-generational households. we'll be advocating for excused absences and virtual options if the conditions persist more than two weeks. transparency around resource distribution, better enforcement strategies for safety protocols because many have been reporting since they're not masking and things of that sort and much more.

we're hoping we can address the concerns in the item today, item h. with that the next meeting will be january 24, 2022 and you may find the meeting information on the sfusd website under the tab advisory committee. thank you, president lopez. that concludes our student delegates report. >> thank you for your report and your words. i know we look forward to hearing more from you when we hear from the item, which i will be moving up on our agenda. item 7, item 8 recognizing all the valuable employees. i'd like to call on president mathews. >> thank you, president lopez. this is committed to helping students explore career opportunities through hands on learning. we're fortunate to have many

industry partners who help our students learn in the community. in december san francisco unified hospitality panel way program toward the fairmont hotel to learn about hospitality and there's a brief story aired on the radio.

>> let me open this back up. give me a moment. >> we look forward to learning more at a later time. so i look moving up section d, which is our advisory committee reports and following is a section on safety and learning. i want to make sure our volunteer parents get an

opportunity to report at a reasonable hour and hear directly after that the update on safety and learning. so let's move to section d, item 1, the parent advisory council. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> thank you so much. congratulations president lopez and vice president lam and hello, staff, family, members of the community. i'm the coordinator for the parent advisory council to the san francisco board of education also known as the pac. i'm joined this evening by pac chair and our parliamentarian who will present themselves more. the role of the pac is to represent the parent perspective

to inform board of education policy discussions and decisions. this is our report for the january 11, 2022 board of education meeting. the pac would first like to take the opportunity toe acknowledge this has been a difficult week plus transition back to school. parents, students, teachers, school site staff are all feeling overwhelmed. there are so many unknowns and we look to leaders for plans and to provide reassurance and we're hearing first hand from other parents and our children's school site leaders and will hear more from the students themselves. our students are providing leadership. we need to listen to them to really hear what they're telling

us to respond to their concerns and our educator's concerns to give serious consideration to their proposals and demands and honor our first core value of being student centered. i'll turn it over. >> thank you, michelle. i hope to get through this also. it's been a pretty emotional week. i'm the parliamentarian for the student advisory council and to present this piece i have a public health degree i wanted in particular to present on this part of the report. many parents don't feel safe sending their kids to school and are concerned their kids aren't learning in the environment of staffing shortages and spreading covid and missing school and

work for testing and quarantine and isolation. some parents have asked for school site closures to allow time to stop the spread of covid and give time for school staff to recover. others need and want schools to stay open and the before and after school programs too because they need to work and fear school site closures will result in additional learning setbacks for their children. everyone needs timely and accurate information to make the best informed decision with their situation. but they're inbox and schools and media feeds are full of conflicting messages. it's safe to return to school but not do other activities. provide a good mask n95 but we can't provide them for students and teachers and get tested but no tests are available and appointment take days. we're not closing schools but we don't have enough staff to teach and support students appropriately. returning to school learning

would be safer but there's no money because the waiver expired and more. the discrepancy between what is being recommended is difficult to navigate and puts parents in a difficult position and for those who are not english speakers and we need clarity and action. we're asking the district provide suitable, appropriately sized kf95 or kn95 manages for children and for adults and teens and mask for all students and school site staff. appropriate covid tests at a minimum antigen test for surveillance now and ongoing to meet the needs and additional ppe supplies including hand sanitizer and other items as agreed upon for collective

bargaining agreement. they're to made available at school entrances where covid screening takes place. and provided as needed to help keep students and staff safe and healthy. a top concern from the meet in january. we'd also like to see rapid testing showing infectiousness at the time of the test. be conducted at all school sites with parents' permission and remove the burden of purchasing, scheduling and processing tests from families and we have concerns rather than running to schools with all the many demands that presents, principles have to be contact tracers. we'd like to see sfusd partner with the san francisco department of public health to conduct rapid testing and contract tracing at school

sites. parents need school site administrators to running schools and parents need to be informed if they have teachers present and whether they should keep children at home to avoid further disruption to health, safety and disruption. now over to anna. >> my name is anna. i'm the pac chair. the pac held our regular monthly meeting thursday january 6, 2022. we were joined by several returning pac members. the firm engaged to conduct sfusd search for a new superintendent and that will be an update at the january 20, 2022 on what the firm has heard

via the survey recently sent out and the various listening sessions have -- happening now and then asked pac members and meeting attendees a series of questions what is the major strength of the organization, things you are proud of and want to see or continue what is working well for student learning. are there challenge or issues and what characteristics are important for the superintendent's leadership style to be successful. strength or things we are proud of and want to see continue include our sfusd value. we acknowledge they're not always followed through with fidelity, the openness and

cooperation the pac has experienced at meetings including american sign language and other language interpretation and closed captioning, the opportunities to observe and participate in online meetings and the pre pandemic childcare an invaluable resource for in person meetings, while not perfect the services are vital and greatly support families to engage and participate in district level meetings and decision making spaces. among them are mental health services including school social workers and supports for lgbtq students.

and there's continued online programs to support learning recovery and regular e-mails from sfusd with updates and dead lines, etcetera. it seems like a lot but kurnltly more is better and having it all in one place is helpful. current challenges include the district's constrained situations and bilingual educators and physical conditions of our school including ventilation and safety and masks and control. the pac is particularly interested in getting more information on complaints and

how and where families can make them and reports received and how they are addressed. this is an equity issue and is an opportunity to elevate the voices of families who are not in the spaces like these meetings. lastly, things we feel are important qualities for the next superintendent including someone who has experience navigating through difficult personalities and perspectives who can manage the school district and many department leads. while also being the bridge between educators and district staff and the board of education and other local political interests and who can lead us out of current financial crisis. we like the current superintendent because these a

san francisco native and alum who will take the time to be in space where's we are in our advisory meetings and classrooms and should not be subject to outside political pressures but who can stand strong against it and stay student centered. to families and educators and members of the community, if you have not yet responded to the superintendent search survey, we encourage you to do so. it can be found by clicking on the square entitled, superintendent search survey. on the right side of the district's main web page, sfusd.edu. and we encourage you stay engaged in this and it's

important endeavors including planning at via the school site council or english learner advisory committee and others. thank you for your time. i give it back to michelle. >> thank you, anna. >> attending a pac meeting is good way to get involved and get an idea what it is we do the next meeting is thursday february 3 via zoom and the arts department will share a district on the art master plan. pac meetings are open to the public. all are welcome to attend and we encourage anyone interested to join us. meetings are in english and interpretation can be provided with sufficient advance notice. meeting information can be found at sfusd.edu/pac.

zoom link and information how to dial in via telephone and agendas are posted at least 72 hours prior to the meeting if you are interested in attending the pac meeting and would like to partner with the pac or have questions or comments about the report or in general, please contact us at pac at sfusd.edu. this concludes our report. thank you for this opportunity and we welcome your questions or comments. >>i appreciate that and thank you again for your service. i will open it up to public comment before we hear from the board. >> thank you, president lopez. please raise your hand to speak if you care to comment on the

parent advisory report. please repeat in spanish and chinese, please. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. seeing 11 hands, so far, president lopez. >> let's do a minute each. >> thank you. >> hello, susie. >> i'm a teacher and i want to say thank you to the families for helping support us teachers. i have filed a grievance to have kn-95s given to all teachers. this is part of the mouta signed months ago. we have not received them at my site or many sites. there's 14 of us who filed this grievance across the district. we had a meeting with labor

relations and they hung up on us. this is districtful -- disrespectful to teachers and we need your help, parents and teachers and educators. we need help. our schools are falling a part. we don't have enough subs. at my site we don't have a libr librarian. we've had multiple office people. we need your help, please, please, please. >> thank you. >> my name is violet garcia. my child has been missing school the last couple of days because the reasons everyone has been

saying. i want to share the comments from the student delegates. it was an amazing report and i want to appreciate the comments of the pac members. it's a very strong report. i think my question is related to honestly not happy about this and with the leadership of the superintendent i don't think there's been transparency in all the actions and the things the school is missing is to continue supporting teachers and students. i have -- thank you.

>> >> hello, alita. >> i'm the advisory chair for special education and would like to lift up and echo so many points in the pac report. not enough time to list them all in one minute of course but the overview that was provided of what parents and captures what so many are are feeling right now. thank you for being able to capture that pac. we appreciate you and we're always excited to work alongside you and advocate with you. the williams act violation. another area we wholeheartedly agree that there's work to be done and look forward to

standing alongside you shoulder to shoulder and continuing to increase transparency and in all counts. thank you. >> thank you. >> this is with the san francisco coalition. i want to echo for the pac and service to parent and school community i think we understand we are hearing so many of the concerns and fears out there and we see room for improvement how we got the schools and returned from winter break could have been better. we're in a pandemic and seeing

the next surge of variants. we have one of the highest vaccination rates in the country or the highest vaccination rate and have masks getting out to teachers and have test kits getting out to kids and teachers and have all hands on deck ite now and hear from the cdc and schools are the best place for our kids to be and we're happy to hear the district is still going to keep our kids in school. thank you. >> huang l. you can speak.

we'll come back to you. hello, grace. >> i'm co-signing on everything the pac just shared. frankly i'm appalled at the district's negligence and lack of preparedness leading up to the omicron surge. we have insufficient tests for families and staff and i know 3,000 rapid tests are supposed to be deployed in the next two weeks for 52,000 students and not mentioning staff is insufficient and a drop in the bucket. families are confused about when, where how to take tests and information is not up to date. you have parents waiting in long lines and having sites shut down and there's no remote learning for quarantine and don't know why dph representative are not actively supporting and

attending these meetings and the city and district leadership has been in a pattern of reactivity opposed to proactive actions and these measures were proposed in a recovery to resolution in the fall and not followed. the lack of communication communities the board doesn't care about the health and well being of students, family and staff. >> sam? i'm speaking as a parent. i wanted to echo what the pac has said and there's confusion around testing. i don't know why the department of public health is not meeting with our school board. i don't get that. that's a different thing. and contact tracing for principles and wellness staff

need help and that should be coming from the city. i want to pushback with the whole idea that schools are always the safest place for students. i'm hearing people with medically fragile children that is not the case. if we're lacking staff and testing it's not safe. most expecting testing for every student and that confuses and drops confidence. i don't want to see that. thank you. >> she hits the nail on the head. students and families do not feel safe period and as a pac coordinator michelle said the student advisory council took the initiative to create a

survey and write an open letter because the district did not take action in the first week of school. our main selt of -- set of demand and a plan for virtual school should it become necessary and better safety protocol and required vaccinations. if you would like to read the letter in full do so at tiny.com and we'd appreciate any public comments of support. thank you for the pac for uplifting student voices en when the board not doing so to advocate for our own safety. thig -- this will be elaborated on in student comment as well. >> hi. i work at the filipino community

and i'm also a parent at the past week our school site faced absences to close contact exposures at our community and friday there were 100 students at our school site absent or sent home due to covid concerns. i'm here to deliver a letter outlines concerns about covid health and safety and need to echo needing more transparency about the covid situation and more access to testing. appropriate masks and option for distance learning. i'll be e-mailing our letter of concern to the school board and hope our concerns can be addressed. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> that's all i have.

>> thank you for your service. i appreciate everyone from the board to central office leadership to our site leadership. i have a few questions and i want to say i support the pac and everything they've said and support the student advisory council and the comments they made. i have six questions. number one, what is the number of air filters total of each site? it would be nice to get weekly updates on that as well as how many classrooms are in each building and how many air purifiers are in each classroom and what type of assistance is being used. what is the extract disinfecting is being done and fourth, explain why distance learning is not an option for san francisco unified. i understand why most are avoiding distance learning and

applaud and appreciate the hayward district for moving to a hybrid model for 2022. it's important for me to have health and safety over keeping butts in seats. thank you. >> i agree with the speakers that the schools are fot the safest place to be. i would like remote learning to be an option. we have vulnerable people we care for and my son is racking up school absences and i understand people need to have

schools open but doesn't make sense to have my son using resources when he can stay home and does well on his own and we're looking at a covid peak coming up at the end of the month and that peak is based on people who get sick this week, next week and the week after. that's the peak we're san francisco we know how to control this. i think allowing kids to stay home with excused absences is important. thank you. >> hoerl. thank you for taking my call. i have a child at jefferson and apg. i wanted to call and express a different view point i feel is being expressed by many callers and want to thank for recognizing many parents want and need schools to remain open

including for their children's mental health. there's a common refrain about safety here where a lot of people think of safety and health only in terms of a direct covid illness. there's huge impacts to safety and health for children who have to stay in problematic home environments and for children who have a lot of trouble with behavioral problems and depression and anxiety and so forth when they stay home. those impacts particularly under omicron by all reports is less severe than prior variants in my view outweigh the danger. i understand people's fear and would love people to get the masks and so forth they would like to have to feel as safe as possible but remote learning is terrible for folks and what is best for students in school and not out. thank you.

>> go ahead. >> thank you, i'm speaking chinese. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. i want to ask if english is not our first language why can't we have english interpretation. our families need english interpretation. thank you.

>> can we see if repeating the number for chinese translation would be helpful. >> can you repeat the number and instructions from the beginning at chinese translation. >> and for spanish as well. there was a comment someone needed that. >> i'll put the slide up again and we'll re-do the translation information for the public. [speaking foreign language]

>> i am on the community advisory committee for special education. i have a high schooler and i'm an employee of the district and on an advisory committee. i want to thank and show my gratitude for the parent advisory committee and for all those involved and the student advisory committee because this

has been a very difficult week for all of us who have been in schools. and as a parent i'm not in my son's school but i know what's going on there. i would like to express how angry, frustrated and disappointed i am in this district. while there is a group of parents who are very concerned about us being in person versus virtual, i think this is the time to have a hybrid model and there are teachers that are sick and there's no substitute. when we talk about safety. we're not talking about covid. we're talking about your child not having enough supervision in the classroom. we are asking for masks for students and teachers. we're asking for testing that is easy to understand and navigate.

>> thank you. that's your time. >> that's all we're asking for. >> hello, yvette. >> i understand there's many differing opinions. the idea any of us can speak for any particular group is very dangerous and disrespectful. that's a lot of families right now and educators who are back and feeling supported. are they get as much as they need? it's coming. from what he with understand right now, everything is being organized on the way. could this have been done

better? absolutely. i'd like to encourage you to show up what's coming. clarify the specifics with regard to covid protocols, such as quarantining, testing requirement are s, what's coming and there's confusion among families and site leaders and they should not be responsible and i understand after the contract there'll be support. this will be easier if families are clear on public health guidelines and ask anyone who can speak from sfdph it's going to be making sure our families feel safe to come back because they're getting proper information.

>> thank you for expressing concerns of safety. s.f. parents i'd like to promote a hybrid model of remote and learning. since the covid case increasing and have hospitalization is also up to historical heights, we're concerned students and parents have the power to choose the learning style they want to learn at home or in person learning. i was very upset about the distance learning was cancelled during the last two semesters but now it's time to make a change and slow down to see what is important to us.

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i. >> commissioner: i also want to recognize that i'm seeing somewhat a pattern of, you know, you wanted to manage the agenda, but i just wanted to share that.

>> president lopez: okay. thank you. let's begin our discussion and then we will continue with the next item. commissioners, or student delegates, do you have any questions or comments on this item? and, please, if i don't get to see your hand for virtual attendees, let it be known. okay. i also want to note -- >> commissioner: student delegate lamb has her hand up. >> sorry. i had some trouble unmuting. you can continue with what you're saying. sorry to interrupt. >> president lopez: no. i was only going to note that the pack report will be uploaded i do want to check in

with judson. >> i am in mid upload. >> okay. that's something i was going to bring up. i was wondering where it was but awesome. i just want to say thank you to the pack. i want to thank the pack for being san francisco student advisory council. we are definitely in alignment in where we are right now after this really difficult week. i especially want to that the pack's words around how confusing it is to figure out what exactly we need to be following on the day-to-day and i think that's really where i want to hit more on again, i

just wanted to note that and also note the thing about the board docs but that seems to be said. thank you so much. >> president lopez: okay. thank you. any other comments? go ahead. >> commissioner: i just want to say i appreciate the work of the p.a.c. and also the student advisory council. we don't get to discuss the discussion for the student advisory council, but i do appreciate your words and your work. i do want to reinforce that for people saying that everything is fine, there's kind of a, you know, that may be true for you personally, but i think overall, folks that are saying that are really misrepresenting what's actually going on or they're misinformed because

this isn't just about schools. this is our country. this is our city. this is our district. this is impacting hospitals. it's impacting 911 availability, airlines z restaurants, small businesses, and city agencies. the impacts of the crisis are everywhere. and they're accepting all of us and while this is not a time to be snipy, we do need to come together to address this crisis and in order to do that, we can't do that if we're not willing to acknowledge the reality that we are facing. and so when students repeatedly and parents repeatedly and educators repeatedly state that they need regular testing, they

need masks and that many of them are scared whether i think they should or shouldn't be scared, those are all personal decisions or personal experiences that people have and i want to recognize and honor the families that have said that they are concerned or i'm hearing from students too that want to go to school. this is not about a binary argument, about having schools be open or not and i'm frustrated that this conversation tends to go into open or closed. this is about honoring experiences of families and students and there are students that want desperately to be in school and are also scared. so my focus and our focus should be on making -- alleviating those fears and making people feel safe and the first step to that is listen to go it and acknowledging it and we can disagree on how to do that. i'm also not about having a one-size-fits-all approach and i want to respect that and i'm telling you, my kids were in school all week and i -- they wanted to be there and they were also worried. so i'm personally impacted. my kids are reflecting this. i'm a parent and my kids are telling me the same thing

students are saying. so i know we're going to be addressing things as we move forward, but i really do appreciate as i said students and parents and i also want to say this meeting is happening too late. i called for an emergency meeting before school started. we need to have opportunities at the community to talk about our concerns in a way that acknowledges peoples' fears and answers their questions and need to be able to plan ahead. and i apologize on behalf of the board. other districts prepare better and maybe are communicating better, i want us to learn from them and this is -- i want us to be problem-solving, but we also in order to fix things, we need to figure out what we're not doing because this is not the first time that we're kind of behind the curve and we did this with, you know, air purifiers. so i just want to say, again, thank you for parents, all the parents that spoke, you know, there's a lot of different

perspectives and students and i also want to encourage our board. we need to take more leadership. there's a lot of silence on our board and we don't all agree. i think it's our job to listen to students and families and educators and it's our job to help chart a course and if we're just going to let staff make decisions and we're not going to chime in and we're not going to convene meetings and kind of make decisions like other districts are doing, then we don't really serve any purpose and so i'm challenging my colleagues to make statements about what they think we should be doing differently so that we can fix this crisis. thank you very much for the time. >> president lopez: okay. any other comments on the parent advisory council agenda item? and i am hearing none from our

virtual attendees. thank you to the pac for your presentation. i look forward to continuing this conversation. >> thank you very much. >> president lopez: next is our indian education program p.a.c. presentation. i'd like to call on jason lasoya and a reminder to the public, after this presentation, we will be hearing section h. >> good evening. and thank you for having us. i'd first like to acknowledge ramaytush ohlone for allowing us to be here tonight. i am the program coordinator for the indian on the job

indication and i am supporting indian education either success and concerns for the youth, families, and community. i have started 2021 in august and i've successfully had high school internships, hosted community events and have tutoring support for our youth and their struggles in education. now, at this time, i'd like to turn it over. >> good evening. my name is celest aguilar. i have two sons. one is a junior at mason high school and one is a third grader at sunset elementary. the indian education program title 6 serves a unique education and academic need of american indians and need [ indiscernible ] for high school districts.

the parent advisory council is a group of [ indiscernible ] on the distribution of funds or the program and services that will be provided. the p.a.c. represents what you see here. advisory council p.a.c., secretary [ indiscernible ] parent representative [ indiscernible ] aguilar. indian education program staff jason lasoya. lucas aguilar. these are the items that are according to our history.

1879, 1950, premonition they continue to threaten indian run schools. 1968, indian civil rights act. 1972, the indian defacing act. 1998, president clinton's executive order. 2011, president obama president obama signed an executive order for interagency. 2017 american indian cultural center was established here in san francisco. 2018, the first two american indians congress women elected. 2019, california state legislature 10 native day of indigenous women. 2020, columbus statue removal,

coit tower. 2020, american indian cultural district established. 2021, deb haaland, the first american indian to be appointed as the 54th united states secretary of the interior. 2021, charles f. chuck sams iiiunanimously approved by u.s. senate as 19th director of the national park service. >> such as missing and murdered and indigenous women and this cast of government with broken treaties and broken promises as well as the board of education and their decisions to remove murals at high school. cultural appropriation, racial

misidentification and stereotyping. educational barriers. we had the lowest graduation rate nationwide. economic barriers. american indians are 17 times more likely and we have the highest unemployment rate of all races in san francisco. our successes sfuc, adoption of resolution number 211, 2681 reclaiming that american indian increase teacher involvement with three native american teachers. indian education and summer internship, indian education in collaborative on redesigning and social studies and history curriculum assessment of the community. >> hello.

i'm a junior at school of the arts. the indian education program over the past year including asu at u.s. davis, parent advisory council meetings. our end of semester celebration and the first native american heritage [ indiscernible ] which took place last year on december 1st. like many organizations in san francisco including the indian education program, friendship house, native american call center, american indian cultural district. american indian cultural center, and california center for urban [ indiscernible ] . all academic 17 workshops educating on native american history, culture, and heritage

past and present. i'm honored to put together. this effort had to be done in order to be able to take place. the community's response was amazing and illustrates the need for this type of educational experience. our hope is that it can be completed at every high school in the district. >> this next slide, my name's michelle. i'm a specks person of the indian education center. this next slides ordinary care orchastrates and highlights our graduates and all of our students. and our commission earlier, we have the highest drop-out rate

so you can imagine our students. we also have no [ indiscernible ] on our elders and there's a picture of some of our elders who have been also [ indiscernible ] our students at academic centers and so we look forward to seeing what students will do next. >> good evening. my name is shauna green. and i'm in charge of the junior and senior academy of the arts [ indiscernible ] among our indian education program, under personal instruction we are requiring a municipal grant and cultural unit in the district for monthly submission units. this unit is in development through collaborations from the past, the social, ethnic 17 and cultural barriers and california native american indian community. this is to be completed by our

current schoolyard, schoolyard 21-22. in addition, requiring the collaboration and creation of land-based curriculum and military curriculum. in human resources, hiring and restriction of native americans is the alaska native teachers. and academic and virtual emotional support and immediate support of native americans the results of [ indiscernible ] loss. the immediate commitment, staffing, academics, after school, and cultural programs. and policy and operations. provide advocacy for school selection and placement for native american students. require accurate identification procedure of american indians

and native american students. collect and submit those completed forms to the indian education program and then track and intaken suring that. the indian ed to identify the number of 506 forms. lastly, sfusd board of ed completed an annual review of the revolution. our online areas of focus are an sfusd board of education coordinator. and we ask students and families to connect with community resources to support k-12 academic success. students and families. tutoring will be an hour of

access which is provided at the indian education center as well as computers for students: this collaboration is integral to supporting our students and their families. covid-19 support including technology computer distribution, referral for food and medical support, ppe and the coordination with city and partners such as the human rights commission and the american indian cultural district. our current highlights. progress in creation of language influency assessment for native american youth to assess their traditional language proficiency regarding

the new mission bay. teaming up with schools on presentations, and funding for the mayor's office to provide additional support for staff and programs specific to american indians. >> [ indiscernible ] we represent about four different tribes this year. the rockford nation, cherokee nation, cheyenne, the matchee, [ indiscernible ] nation, [ indiscernible ] just to name a few.

a celebration on saturday, june 4th between 12 and 4:00 here at the elementary school. >> thank you michelle and thank you youth representatives for speaking tonight. yes, again, native american and alaska natives are the lowest rate of percentage graduated. 7 out of 29 have graduated. any education serves all natives in the bay area. my priority is to see all seniors graduate. by doing this, i will help all the seniors at the high school. get them tutors and see who's falling behind and needs that support. and being present at the i.a.t. and set them on the right path. i'm hoping the youth can get

that same support at the schools for teachers and their counselor. we've also attached the resolution of these items. so if this is successful, we will have students graduate from sfusd. i appreciate the time you took for us and look forward to meeting with you soon. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you very much for this presentation and i do look forward to our discussion. before we begin, i'd like to open it up to public comment. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the indian ed pac report. can that be repeated in spanish and chinese, please. >> translator: [speaking spanish]. >> translator: [speaking chinese]

>> thank you. i have about ten hands so far. >> president lopez: okay. we'll do a minute each, no more than 20 minutes. >> thank you. alita. >> caller: hello everyone. on behalf of the community advisory committee for special education, we would like to commend the p.a.c. and the indian education leadership team for this report. we appreciate your advocacy and we would like to highlight the top priorities listed in the slides and echo the calls for additional academics, social emotional support as well as naming the history of the native american culture in curriculum and instruction and making sure that all students

experience at least somewhat of the native american culture in our curriculum and in our schools. if we don't name it, we don't learn about it and so making sure that's true for native american history, it's true for disability rights, it's true for all cultures. so making sure that we actually talk about it and learn about it is critically important and that our students have all the supports they need. thank you. >> thank you. hello, ms. marshal. >> caller: thank you. to the p.a.c., i want to welcome the new indian ed rec chair. i just retired from a&e, so i'm very familiar with the program. i'm going to thank you. this was a phenomenal presentation. it was historical. you walked us through the

history and then you told us what you needed and then the student delegates presented and they told us about their -- what the program had about a month or so, in the semester. so you told us what you needed and i recommend to the board to follow everything on your recommendations and just implement it and in my calls, we say iashay. it was phenomenal presentation. thank you. >> thank you. >> caller: hello josephine. >> caller: yes. i just wanted to offer compliment that this is amazing because i think every group needs to feel belonging and

indian americans definitely have a great place in our school district and i encourage you to keep that tradition and bring it forward and tell everyone every community needs to hear about you, learn about you. thank you. >> thank you. michelle, why don't you go ahead. >> yeah. i'd like to hear anna and then i'll speak after her if that's all right. >> sure go ahead. >> thank you, judson. that was a great presentation, great history report and i'm seeking as a parent and another indigenous from thes chair, i would like to say we know the struggle and i support and would like to support you even more as we align our advisories. thank you. >> thank you. >> president lopez: thank you, anna. and thank you to jason and the indian ed p.a.c. i really want

to appreciate you for your presentation and the work you're all doing. it's an honor to work alongside jason and helen and others and i hope that we can continue to align our work and, you know, please, if there's things that our pac can do to help support you, i hope you'll let us know and i really encourage the district to take these requests seriously and to really look at what they're asking for and to honor that, to uphold this and to do what's right by our indigenous students and families. thank you again so much. >> thank you. m., go ahead. >> caller: give me one second. can i have one second. i have my kid. >> forgive me if i miss pronounce. it's delloue. >> caller: hi, that was a very long time ago hand. i don't know how it got repopped up.

but i do appreciate the work. >> okay. thank you. i also have a caller with a 916 area code, 680 are the next three digits. 916 area code, you can go ahead. tradition tradition [please stand by]

>> the team and i have been working on the p.a.c. we are committed to centering the priorities in our own work moving forward. i want to lift up the work that was done by lily and miley and shamma for the incredible celebration for the native american celebration last month. it was a wonderful experience.

>> clerk: caller with the -- caller you can go ahead. >> caller: this is mary travis. i am the advisory board president for the american indian cultural district. i want to say, leadership is important. especially in the face of

controversy. votes are important as we learn in the last presidential election. in january of this year, this board unanimously passed the resolution to 11-26a1. this is the modern day treaty between the san francisco unified district and the american indian, alaska native students community and their families. we have the lowest graduation rate. the highest suicide rate, highest unemployment in san francisco. there's so much work yet to be done. equity cannot be achieved unless resources and support are committed don't let there be an every year presentation with the

same maps. we need to see progress >> clerk: paloma? >> caller: this is paloma flores, here today as a community member, a former colleague to many running indian education program for eight years until my leave on june 30th and i'm here in my role as the american indian cultural district, director of community development and partnership. i want to support this p.a.c. and support the team and call out right now that we do have the lowest graduation rate. if that's not alarming to you, that doesn't put fire to action, i don't know what will. you heard the history and seen our faces. this is nothing new. when i look and i see that we talk about the cohorts of the last four years, i like to bring to all of your attention that we

have always had the lowest graduation rate and the one time that increased was in school year 2017-2018, the year we received the most support funding wise from the district. we were at 83.3. we need dedicated initiative to lift up this community. it took the students and strong family advocates to make visibility happen on one of the largest campus in san francisco. you need to do more. thank you. >> caller: we're going to do public comments. my kid is going to do their public comment and i'm going to do my public comment and they're going to talk about some of the books in the resolution that my kid owns. go ahead.

my kid is talking about the coyote. they talking about the second favorite book, 47,000 -- [ indiscernible ] that's all. they want to let everybody know how much they love the books. give me one second. hi, everyone, i want to remind everyone that there have been broken promises between american indian students and families with the school district. i hope moving forward this resolution passed one year ago, that we can stop broken promises. we can stop the relationship

between how the government treats indigenous people and treating indigenous students and indigenous parents and indigenous families in general. i have not seen in the resolution it says certain curriculum should be used and given to educators. this is not happening. the books that my kid love that we have at home -- [ indiscernible ] books like that my child does not have access to at school. >> clerk: hello, lily. >> caller: hi, i'm lily dean.

in a district where all schools do not honor indigenous's people day. this is essential. this is organized by students. we have the assistance of our native community and our amazing teachers. i like to attention to two social studies teachers. their support was vital in making this event a reality after being told it wouldn't be possible. thank you. >> caller: good evening. i'm a member of the african-american parent advisory council. we like to state we appreciate

the presentation tonight from the native american indian p.a.c. we are excited about the strides they made and strides they will continue to make. it will be our pleasure to partner with you guys and any other things. we looking forward to greater alignment. thank you. >> caller: hi. i'm executive director for the american indian cultural district. i want to call and support the p.a.c. and echo the words those said before me. i want to elevate the lowest graduation rates, lowest housing ownership rate, lowest unemployment rates. i wanted to say that all of

those things also were accomplished. while this is impressive and amazing, please don't under estimate the group of people sitting here. it should not be that burden on him and only two people running this program for 700 students. i wanted to elevate that. there shouldn't have to be a fight. >> thank you. >> caller: hi. i wanted to say that we really appreciate tonight's presentation. i'm the president -- i have

privilege attending the native american heritage summit. it was beautiful i love learning the history and the workshop. i want to acknowledge just how impactful the summit was. i believe that we need to definitely better and learn more about everybody's history but specifically their history. thank you. >> clerk: this concludes public comment on this item. >> president lopez: thank you for that. i like to see if there are

questions or comments from commissioners or student delegates. commissioner alexander? >> commissioner alexander: i like to echo the gratitude expressed in the public comment. i think the resolution is critical for our students. not just our native students but all our students to have access to these materials. i'm curious if staff has any comment on progress or when we can get a progress report? i do think there's a pattern having these wonderful reports from advisory committees and then it's not clear -- i want to make sure it's clear what our response is in the district and what's happening and not

happening. ideally, they would happen at the same time. that will be the request moving forward. i want to raise that. >> we can do that. also, the answer is yes. >> president lopez: i'll follow-up to make sure we can hear that promptly. commissioner boggess? >> commissioner boggess: i was hoping to get a response tonight in regards to some of them to get clarity in regards to the 19 items included in the resolution, our progress on them as well as other things that were highlighted in the presentation. if anything has changed on the staff side, -- just because,

there's a certain expectation that a certain amount of these things will be done by this point in time. getting that clarity will be good if staff is prepared to respond. >> i will start. >> i'm trying to pull that up now. i was trying to get a hold of the doctor. her team had spreadsheet with other responses. >> yes. we have her who has been working closely on the resolution and members of her team. she is available to make some comments for that. susie? >> hi.

we are looking forward coming back system time -- some time next month to do a formal presentation on the status of the 19 items on the resolution. i can give you some broad strokes now commissioner boggess. are there certain items in the resolution that are top of mind for you? would you prefer that i just sort to have an organic random summary based on our notes? >> commissioner boggess: i think i'm flexible. i would love to hit on all 19 that are listed. not trying to make the meeting go long. just to give them the attention that they deserve. i know all the materials were included in the board documents. that's what i'm looking at to see what was included in the actual resolution.

>> in particular in the curriculum and instruction. i know that has been particularly around the unit in the fourth grade curriculum. we've been talking about it for since i've been on the board. >> i will highlight the items that is most relevant to curriculum instruction. if i miss or skip anything, please interrupt or ask for follow-up. item 2 on the resolution means that all materials proposals or discussions that affect sfusd

need to be submitted to the p.a.c. for review and approval. we are working on the e.l.a. team to produce a process for that review and approval. we are starting that with our secondary english language art literature and nonfiction tex. we've been coming few times to the p.a.c. meeting this past semester to share the text that are currently on the recommended green list to make recommendations what books need to be moved. to make recommendations about what books need to be added. we got little bit delayed just because of various illnesses and reschedules that refer fully committed to seeing that through for middle school and high school in the current semester.

similarly, item 4 in the resolution also asks that the p.a.c. provide oversight of all organized school committees and activities and groups and to make sure these groups don't promote textbooks, art work or any other concerns that would violate the resolution. similarly, our history and social studies team has launched a project, with the k5 and 612 text books flagging content, imagery, artwork that would violate the resolution. that's a project they have launched.

or item 7, it's similar to item 4 in regards to the removal of stereotype and misinformation about american indian and indigenous people. in regards to the textbooks, that's the history social studies team plowing through the current texts. we know we're working on identifying materials for purchase for the future core curriculum being developed clearly any purchases would be done in partnership and with oversight by the p.a.c. and the program staff for future purchases. someone who's not me should update the status of the washington high school mural and the appeal that was filed about that in november. i'm sure that we could also punt

that to our next presentation. item 7, also we wanted to make sure that we referenced that we had planned for history and service on cultural, intelligence and humility for training with all the fourth grade teachers. we were unable to do that because of the substitute shortage h is prior to this past month was a big problem. the team is currently planning for that on a saturday in the spring semester. that is a problem because it will be optional. it wouldn't be mandatory. when that community for fourth grade is rolled out --

>> sorry, this is the interpreter. please check the q&a section, somebody is writing a bunch of profanity. thank you. >> you can proceed. >> we want to make sure that units are not provided without professional development. that's something that the p.a.c. has been advising us on for many years. we will make sure seriously when this unit comes out. the unit was written and finalized over the summer and early fall. i'm not able to give a status update on exactly where it's at with its revision process for its pilot process. when we come back for the curriculum committee for the full update, we'll have make sure they'll be able to speak to

the current status of that unit and what will be -- what coming forth for that. >> thank you for sharing those updates. i want to note student delegates would like to make a comment. >> commissioner lam: thank you. i want to thank the p.a.c. so much for the amazing presentation. especially shot out to students it lily and miley. i especially appreciate your leadership and your initiative in planning native american heritage summit. i'm hoping we can connect with any other student leaders on this p.a.c. make sure we are collaborating

any way we can. i want to know more about that and how the work is going around identifying families and making sure they are getting the support, especially academic support they need. >> i'll speak briefly to the academic support. currently, we are working with

american indian groups who offer them transcript support so they know where they are in their a through g course works and what they need to all in favor towards graduation. we also offer support for high school credit recovery, which is an opportunity for students to complete courses in a through g and also prepare them for graduation. in addition, we are currently planning summer programming, which is k-12. we have for the past seven summers, offering additional support to our american indian families for opportunities in e.l.a. and math to help review what they've learned in the previous year and the upcoming year. we expect to expand next year.

those are just few highlights that we currently have in place. >> president lopez: commissioner collins and they believe commissioner commissioner moliga. go ahead commissioner moliga. >> commissioner boggess: we can head on to identifying student of students of sfusd. we've been going through the 506 forms.

we're going to be going to the wellness center, to figure out what all the native american and alaska students are. [ indiscernible ]

>> president lopez: thank you. anyone want to respond before we move on to the next comment? >> commissioner moliga: thank you. welcome jason

[ indiscernible ] thank you for the presentation. i appreciate you all moving this forward. i'm happy that the pacific islander folks. understand how it is. there's 755 of students in the school district. pacific islanders the numbers are similar but the scores are just not good. i'm hoping we can work towards supporting small groups, population of students.

my question to staff, the funding that keeping this work moving, from my understanding, is it federal dollars, or is there a mixture of revenue that's used for operations? i'm curious to know how much resources is actually out there. specifically for native american population. financial -- there's enough

capacity in there to dress the needs 750 students in school be testimony. >> thank you for the question. the program is funded by multiple sources. there isn't a direct state fund

9ed support, we do apply for that. that's dependent upon the students it toyed about toys --m -- that 506 is really important to us to reach out to our students. we have other sources, from supplemental source we can use. we team with others to

understood. the tunds are -- the funds are coming in creative ways. you heard from the executive corrector earlier, she helped uswith a grant that we won earlr in year. . we're pretty excited about getting more funds behind us.

>> president lopez: commissioner bow boggess. >> commissioner boggess: is there a significant different between the what is known in the presentation. >> i can address that. we did find -- what we found was all asterisk. we went back and included county students, students that can be in county schools, charter

schools. the number was bigger. that's what say jon and the p.a.c. included tonight for the district and testimony -- you can see what reflects there. the percentage and the numbers. we probably have numbers on the data team team for our district student -- >> commissioner boggess: could district staff talk about whether or not those numbers are reflective what is happening in our district? >> i can try to address that

again. at the district level, the state cannot certainry -- the group is small to be able to let me report it. >> commissioner boggess: someone from the data team can help share what is in agreement with the law.

>> because of the recent aggregated data policy, is that implemented now so that within our own system, i understand to a. >> president lopez: commissioner collins? >> vice president collins: i appreciate the work you're doing. i'm excited to have jason on

board. like the suggestion of having the native american -- american indian p.a.c. with a resolution. i know sometimes there's alignment there. we have that on the same agenda. i guess, i wanted to ask about the -- there was a student-led day that was really incredible. my children told me about it. it sounded like it was very high quality. student-led. i wanted to know from staff -- i know now it's really tough time.

we don't have a lot of capacity to support schools with new initiatives. i wanted to know how we capture what was done and how we might be able to share it as a resource for the future years. i wanted to know from the superintendent what are expectations are for schools in separating native american and american lasting culture. >> we're having hard time finding the folks to respond via zoom. i will follow up with that response. >> vice president collins: that sounds good. superintendent matthews. i asked if you could make an

expectation at all schools celebrate black history month. you said yes. you made good on that commitment. i think schools celebrate differently, there's been a huge investment in that. i want that for all communities. the resolution calls for a celebration. i wanted to know what is your expectation for all schools in celebrating native american history and american alaskan history? >> we're diversity driven. we want all cultures celebrated, native american culture

separated. one of the things that we have to make sure, we put the resources in place, make sure those resources are in place in order for that to happen. the expectation is we do celebrate the richness. we see the diversity of our district as a not a deficit matter but a huge asset. assets that many districts don't have. it's an opportunity for us to celebrate. absolutely, that expectation is here. we have to make sure that schools have the resources they need to do these celebrations. >> vice president collins: i want to the deputy superintendent who's been working this.

there's and african-american, black history month resource. do we have a resource guide that currently for schools that wanted to sprays this year. what's the progress? >> -- we have resource guides. we have the latinx heritage month. i don't know re. the cni has -- we actually

celebrating and highlight different ways in way schools are celebrate. it will be -- continue to be build. >> very lovely, beautiful resource good nighted was -- gu. it was created american indian mop this is really -- it has books, suggestions t has -- it's

really rich. there are some recommended lesson titles that's separated by grade bands. everything is coming from native voices and from native communities rather than from members of the -- non-members of the community. it's really rish and beautifully done. i want us to add anything about the guide gunman. >> vice president collins: the p.a.c., all of us. we knew in which a -- we are

ready to take it to the next level. i note history lith -- we'll continue to work on this. >> vice president collins: thank you to staff and sure exception for the practitioner. for your -- work for the guide. i know -- the black history celebration guide that was co-authored with the african-american parent advisory council and staff did amazing work. i'm excited to see it and share

it and celebrate it. thank you so much. i have grad -- great -- i want to know how i can be an advocate and seeing more for the work you do in the district. >> president lopez: i appreciate everyone's comments. i'm also taking notes to make sure we can follow up on number of things things spoken. we will be moving on to the next item. i'm also noting, i'm zoom now so i can see if if people attending

virtually on have their hands raised. thank you so much to the indian p.a.c. for presenting tonight. actually, i'm hoping to call for a quick 5 minute break. i'm seeing number of us kind of going in and out. i think it's time for natural pause. moving update on safety and learning and we will begin with that and then continue with our agenda ensuring we go back to

the public comments section on non agenda items. i will call on superintendent matthews. >> thank you, president lopez. i want to go over the areas we will be discussing this evening and we will go over testing and vaccinations and we'll talk about ventilation and our study and on-line programs. they are our three areas for this area and tonight, during several of the public comments, we heard statements that were not correct so this will give the opportunity for some

communication around what we have been doing in these three areas and then hopefully have the opportunity to have i'm going to turnover this first area.

depending on what folks chose to do and that was a big update we had to pivot and get h get it out as quickly as possible. and on the next slide. the other area that a lot of folks have questions about is the testing.

we did anticipate an increase demand for testing as we were going into the winter holidays and we were able to expand our testing to the fact that we actually were able to do 17,000 tests in the first week, back at school alone. the changes in the guidance happened i think they happened about three days before school opened so there was a challenge to pivot. we have been working all the time, trying to increase the testing as much as we can and this is city wide, state wide and nationwide. the type of testing we do offer is we do have the color pcr

testing which we have been offering at school sites and unmonitored mobile sites since march 2021. we launched the self-swab kits in november for students which greatly increased the ability for students to access staff testing at their school sites more easily. we also partnered for rapid test sites. we have seven sites going on a weekly basis. we ran sites at franklin street, both weekends and we were able to. >> you can go a little bit slower. with you say self-swab kits i'm looking on the slide. if there's a way to help me track. you are getting a lot of good information but it's just -- >> sure. sure. the column on the left is the self-swab kits. the rapid tests are the rapid antigen tests that are administered by other folks

where you come and you get the swab done for you and you can get your results later. the rapid home test we received a one time donation from dph as a thousand kits that we handed out and those are the kits that you take home and do yourself. and we also have received the rapid home kits to handout to students and those are the kits you take home and do yourself. so thank you for those suggestions. >> just to clarify, the rapid tests are different than the is

representing the self-swab kits with be picked up at school sites. you activate your kit and account on-line and you can swab and drop the kit off at the school site. they have a weekly courier pick up site so there are a lot of different places the turn around with the high demand in testing has increased. i think across the system i was looking, it's probably closer to 48 hours and maybe 56 or two to

three days to get your results. all students can have accounts, students 13 and up have their own account and it's the account and how many of our children you have in the school district will be in your account and you can have multiple attendance on it. go to the next slide, please. these are the covid safety practices. these have not been changed. they've been study throughout the entire two years. people are still screening at home and staying home if you have symptoms. the masking is a very important strategy. quarantining if identified as a close contact and testing and i think the one other thing that really is front and center and we should have added to the slide is vaccination. that's our strongest tool to rally combat the pandemic.

let's go to the next slide. this is just the current guidance on masking for schools and this is from the san francisco department of public-health guidance. that everybody indoors is required to wear a face mask so that's what we're doing in our schools and we've been doing that since school started. these are the kits and guidance or recommendations that come from the guidance. a well-fitted mask, double masking is effective to improve filtration and and different suggestions. the school distribution, we've been working this week to be delivering surgical masks and n95 masks and surgical and reusable masks for students and those have been delivering all this week along with the

one-time distribution of the home test kits that were given to us by the california department of public-health for each k-12 student. just an illustration of how the guidelines have changed. i mean, they've evolved quite a bit. some things have stayed pretty steady but the social distancing has evolved from six feet to three feet and then in june of 2021, there was no longer a requirement for distancing. wearing a mask has been a main state throughout the entire guidance period and then the identification or the definition of who would be a close contact has not changed so anyone who has been within six feet of someone who tested positive for a total of 15 minutes so that has stayed steady throughout these last few years.

>> can i ask a question for clarification? >> yes. >> because is vaccination a part of being identified as close contact or not? vaccination status? >> no. whether or not you are vaccinated does not determine whether or not you are a close contact, right. it does determine whether or not you have to quarantine, if that makes sense. so you are going to be a close contact. you will be within six feet of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether you are vaccinated or not. so you would be identified as someone who is a close contact whether or not you have to quarantine because of that identification of a close contact depends on your vaccination status and i think that's the next slide. did that make sense? >> if i have covid and i'm vaccinated do you look for close contacts or no? >> yes, we do. >> vaccinated or not, there are break through infections if you

are symptomatic we want to identify people who are possibly exposed to covid-19 while you are in a contagious period, not you personally but the person who is positive. can they go to the next slide. we'll go back to the vaccination question in the next slide. so, again the guidance around testing has also changed, right, so it was three to five days after exposure and it's moved five to seven days after exposure and how, this would be and again some of this is a little bit nuanced and because you are asking me to test for a positive and if you are identified as a close contact and you are quarantining and pretty much right now whether or not you are the person and test positive for the first

identified as a we're looking at recommendations to test on day five. it's not a requirement and again, if you chose not day five it does impact how quickly and return during your quarantine period or during your symptoms and during your positive period. sale talk about that later if i don't sickel back it's on the next slide. the quarantine and quarantining has also shifted and bit from 14 days and 10 days and it does depend on vaccination status and whether you are positive so i think when i illustrate and it's very complex and and and and

they have it to what we stay and i'm trying to provide it sometimes something that is complex. do you want to go to the next slide. this is where the vaccination and isolation guidelines and test positive and and symptoms for whether or not and. no matter your vaccination status and no matter whether you have had and for five days and

after those five days you take a test and it's negative and 10 days you return and whether or not there's regular tive and the reason at the point what we're doing with isolation and while they're and when you whether you are a cold and where you are con stage us and time you may still and day five, day six, day

seven, day eight, and and that's and straight so now moving on, if you are identified and a close contact and you need to quarantine and you do not need to quarantine and vaccination and again that means something different and and completed either the wine and johnson & johnson shot and now, if that

all and and the shot comes and and sunday shout and eligible and and then he will meet quarantine and now, prepared on monday, and that it says even if you were infected of covid-19 and recovered in the last 940 90 days you were and quarantine and if you are up-to-date on your vaccination, or you have recovered with covid-19 in the last 90 days and you node node to be identified and and the guidance ships and it's very hard to keep up with making all those changes everywhere you need to to troy to minimize.

that is the quarantine on up-to-date vaccinations and it'e vaccination. now on the quarantine guidelines, are not up-to-date on their vaccinations and that is and vaccination and and you have to stay at home for at least five days since the last contact with that person and it's a little complicated because for staff they could return after testing on day five and testing return on day six and for students, they would test on day five but they could not return until day eight. the guidance is just different.

that's also where confusion gets creative because of different things that are happening. so, again, if people chose not to test during their quarantine period, then they must quarantine for 10 days and they can return without taking a test on the 11th day. so that's the quarantine information. and i believe the last, i have one more slide that you want to finish the presentation or how you want to do questions. president lopez, i'll let you decide. the other thing that is happening is we have been working really hard to get the contact tracing vendors up and trained and i think you might recall you approved the contract at the december 14th board meeting which means between december 14th and january 3rd, a small group of

us spent the break developing training materials, getting ready to come up with a system that we launched on monday. it's been a bumpy ride, i'll be honest. we've got 20 more people supporting contacting tracing but we're still feeling very impacted and we're listening to all of their suggestions and the way they're feeling and the goal was that the contact tracing folks would be able to do the new case submissions and they would be able to work closely with school sites on identifying the close contacts and the vendor who has multiple language capabilities would be able to contact close contacts. that has worked in fits and starts. we did not, i mean, we anticipated an increase in cases. we did not anticipate having almost, having the number of

cases we had in the first week. it's definitely tried our system. we're working on it. so that is something that launched on monday and we're going to keep working with them and hopefully improve that service for school sites and i think that is my last slide. great, thank you, question, we have a very brief update on ventilation measures. we have cafeteria and libraries have received largely the larger capacity portable air cleaners and there were three cafeterias too large in their volume to

benefit from pac installation and those are galileo, mission and lincoln but those cafeterias have windows and i think another notable update is that we've been talking about now for a while a capitol condition assessment and we actually have started that this week. we have deployed our condition assessment consultants to several sites of the first pilot group and so that we can workout the details of the work flow so we can go to scale and complete that process for all of our building. the results of that assessment will guide my team and prioritizing sites for future investment and particularly as of interest on this topic and analyzing buildings that may need major modernizations and build in mow ambitious ventilation measures. i'd also just like to add, a few

other notes which is that we're also in the process now of having deployed most of the portable air cleaners of developing and rfp for a maintenance contract so we can sustain and make sure that the filters are changed on a regular basis as well as an faq for school sites about the operation of portable air cleaners and some general guidelines for their use and deployment at this site and we hope all of that information will be fourth coming in the next two weeks. that is my update. i believe deputy superintendent. >> thank you, good evening. so tonight i'm going to provide a brief update on the on-line learning programming for 2021-2022. we believe in-person learning is the highest quality educational experience for most students. at the same time, we understand that there are families whose circumstances at this time

prevent them from participating in our in-person option. so sfusd offers on-line options as part of our independent studies program and ab130 and sfusd board resolution. we offer two on-line learning options. olp for students who have cdc recognized diagnosis or have contraindications and students with ieps who have been approved for the program. this program is for students and grades tk-8 and our high school students are served in our on-line program using you are independent high school. we also offer an on demand learning program option or odlp and this is for students who might be put at risk by returning to in-person learning. this program is for grades tk-12. both of these programs allow for students to stay enrolled in their school of record and they're not guaranteed to return to the same class or teacher. and for both of these programs, families can request to return

to in-person at any time and the district will grant that request within five days. this slide just notes there's a principal sean shoe for on-line learning program and our odlp program t k-12 sunday the support and supervision of assistant rice-mitchell and for our students in high school participating at independence high school under the leadership of anastasia and executive director alyse castro. going to start with an update on our on-line learning program or olp. this was the on-line option that serves a small population of students. our current enrollment at 317 and grades tk-8 and 60 participating via independent high school. key components of this model is that students have assigned teachers with daily live

instruction, synchronous instruction as well as small group support and opportunities for a synchronous or independent work in the afternoon. we've been able to increase and improve the teacher training so that teachers feel more nimble with the technology and have more ways to engage our students virtually. you can see a quote here on the right from a seventh grader in the program. and a picture of our kindergarten working on counting 1s and 10s using leaves for nature. we have an enrollment of 437 students on-line grades tk-12. this is asynchronous or independent. every student a signed in this program now has a certificated teacher with whom they check in daily. and we've diverted central office expertise and the support of two tsas to help make sure the work and the assignments assigned in this asynchronous model are grade level appropriate and engaging.

reaction and continuous i am improvement. there are three emerging themes. i'll give you a quote that references each of those themes. our on-line program we're learning works well for students and families whose circumstances require a more flexible schedule and accommodation. you see we have the one quote from the first grade parent will how it's helpful for her child who has a lot of doctor appointments. we've also heard from families that students who didn't engage or did not have a strong sense of belonging at there in person school is thriving in the on-line environment. >> i'm sorry, this is the interpreter. can you please slow it down, please. >> i thought i was going slow today. didn't you notice that. [laughter] thank you. >> i was really pacing myself. so, we've heard that it's actually a really good model for students who just don't feel as connected in school or who might be shy. we see the quote about the student just feeling more comfortable and using her voice

from the kindergarten parents. we've improved our professional development for the teachers and staff in this program as well as given them time to practice and plan and there's increased efficacy so we get creative and own in the virtual via zoom. we're excited over the last several months in the ways in which the program has worked for a number of students and families. at the same time, we know there's areas of focus for as as we learn to do on-line school even still. amongst those we work on our family and teacher communication and authentic ways to engage families in a virtual school model. we have a monthly news letter for olp and we are starting to have wednesday morning huddles for families and students to

come and get information. as we do a brick and mortar schools we reflect on our curriculum and revise it to make sure it's gray level appropriate and engaging. we have been visiting classrooms in both of our virtual models and we plan to do an audit of sorts in the next several weeks, just looking at instruction and the work assigned to the students. specifically for our students in the odlp or on demand learning program, we need to do better on getting them regular feedback on assignments and grades as these students are again engaging in assignments independently. we're working closely with our odlp teachers who are regular classroom teachers teaching before hours or before school starts to make sure they have the resource to do this feedback and grading. we've had parent-teacher conferences for students in the olp program but not figured out to create a similar response in the odlp.

we continue to look for ways to have accurate attendance for broth models but specifically for the odlp again because it's asynchronous and independent. again, we continue to believe that in-person learning is the highest quality education for most of our students. however, we know that some families look for options, temporarily and long-term during this time. we continue to offer short term independent studies for families who find themselves in the circumstances listed on this slide. we're also looking at the eligibility criteria of our short term independent study to make sure we respond to the new context and we provide more information on that shortly. we know that some families are looking for longer term options as well and at this point we continue to evaluate applications to our on-line program options and place students in these programs as our capacity allows. we are committed to being responsive to changing circumstances and we continue to build out models and scenarios

that allow us to respond to our context within our constraints. i'm now going to pass it over to chief megan to talk about the budget overview. megan wallace, i apologize. >> thank you. so now that we've heard about the district to provide covid-19 safety support and on-line learning options, i want to quickly review how we're budgeting for this work. next slide, please. the figures shown here represent the amounts budgeted so far by expenditure types on the left of this table. and funding sources up on the top. we can anticipate spending as much as $26.7 million between covid testing, contact tracing, personal protective equipment or p.p.e., ventilation, and independent study. all of this work will be supported from various federal,

states and local sources. [please stand by]

i want to know the law is a critical part of our overall strategy for funding our covid-19 health andsafety work. with that i'm going to go ahead and handed over to doctor matthews for thenext slide . >> thank you chief wallace . thank you staff for this presentation . i also want to take a moment to thank our staff members of here and our students for the diligent work that they're doing and our families for doing what i asked for almost a year and a half ago. one of the things i said was we are going to have to look to each other, take care of each

other in order to do everything we can to combat covid. this district wascreated , invented, brought to life over 170 years ago. and when you saw the three areasthis evening , none of those areas were areas that really worked part of whythe district was created . the district is setin place to ensure that students get high quality education tonight you heard about what we're doing about testing . that is not our priority, at least it hasn'tbeen our primary reason for existence . you heard about online learning which hasn't been ourprimary reason and you heard about distillation . usually you build a building and ventilation is in the building but you've seen we've had to increase ventilation to

deal with covid. these are areas over the last year this district has had to pivot to be able to do. had we done any of them perfectly? absolutely not. you're not going to be able to dothings perfectly in a year . i applaud the efforts of our district to do everything they need to do to meet the needs of our sf ust community and i really appreciate thewords of commissioner collins earlier . the words of this isn't the time to snipe at each other but it is the time to listen to each other and i look forward to listening intently to the community conversation where about to have. >> thank you everyone for this work and i'm going to open it

up topublic comment on this item before we begin our discussion . >> please raiseyour hand if you care to the safety and learning updates . repeat that in spanish and chinese please. >>. [speaking spanish] >>. [speaking chinese] >> thank you. >> president: i will be limiting it to 30 minutes. one minute per person and i encourage us to speak with speakers who haven't been given a chance to comment. >> thank you president lopez. hello, chris. >> caller: hello justin, can you hear me?

chris class, some teacher at washington high school and i hopei'm not shouting into a boy . i'm relieved are outside group will be taking oncontact tracing . i'm hoping that means contact tracing will be able to effectively happen as i was incorrectly not identified as a close contact at mysite last week . i have so manyquestions about the testing data presented tonight .how many color kits were actually picked up in time to yield validresults ? my testfrom last tuesday was invalid . more my insurance provider bills forthat, can i get that money back ? many color tests have extremel delayed results? i got those resultsat 6:20 this morning . not helpful . i'm still waiting for results that i dropped off one sunday. how has the recent ineptitude impacted the reported results district wide. are you going to offer more

rapid testing options outside of school and workhours so it's more accessible ? i usethe data collectionto do my job . i hope you do too . >> hello gregory. >> just wanted to say thank you to all the teachers my daughter has been in every day and has really beenenjoying it and i'm so glad we're open . >> thank you . jennifer. >> caller: i really as a staff want to respond to doctor matthews comments opening tonight and also closing comments. it doesn't really matter whatwe as the school districts were put here to do on the ground every day .

my staff, teachers, educators are working to meet families where they are and get them what they need and what we're finding from the district office is an utter lack of care for our work and what we need. it was frustratingto hear that we are misinformed when we talk about what we don't have and what we need . i implore the central office to talk to sites. i spent my weekends contact tracing for my classroom because it apparently had not occurred to you all that we would getcases on the weekend . it's frustrating to hear that the district spent their winter break planning for assistance in contact tracing and felt like this was a lot of work. i agree. your teachers are being destroyed right now because you didn't plan in advance. at some point we need to talk aboutwhat you didn't doand have a hard conversation . >> thank you . hello, jane.

>> caller: can you hear me? >> yes. >> caller: i wanted to thank all of our teachers and our schoolstaff . i know it's been such a hard week and i'm so thankful for everyone working so hard to keep our schoolsopen . i wanted tomention for kids with iep's , it's just so important we keepthem in school and keep them getting their services . i had a kid with an iep who was on last year and it wasjust awful . offer for my child. and also i had a kid of ours who did zoom kindergarten and house now been diagnosed with a mental healthdisorder due to the trauma of distance learning last year . i really hope we can keep our kids in mind and centered as

we're talking about all these processes. i do really think we do probably need some more safety precautions in schools but i hopewe're doing everything we can to keep our kids in school . thank you. >> the initials m lw. >> can you hear me? my name is myrna wallach and i'm honored to be a educator at sanchez elementary school and i'd like to wish everyone a happy new year. i want to express my gratitude to the student advisory council for their eloquent letter. students i am soproud of your leadership . you exemplify why have been in this present professionlast 25 years . my questions are will we listen to ouryouth ? how will we ensure theirvoices are heard ? the data presented is a clear example of student agency as outlined in sfusd vision 2025.

will we as adultstake responsibility for having failed to be adequately prepared for this search ? will we model what it means to learn from our mistakes or continue to attend everything is okay. everything is not okay. in school transmission is now a reality even among vaccinated children. omicron requires adifferent response . do we valuestudent voice ? i urge us to act on student demand. trust has been broken and repair is needed. we need to moveforward in a safer and more humanized way . we can do better. thank you. >> hello, sarah. >> caller: can you hear me? >> yes. >> caller: my daughter wanted to turn up today and i personally want to thank all the people behindthe effort and

thank you to the teachers . as a public school teacher i think we can all admit it's been a bumpy start to the year but i've been with my own students this week and i'm convinced that school is positive for them. that said we need to make sure things are in place to keep teachers and students safe and that means more rapid testing, high-quality masks and more resources at the site . i hope you do everything in yourpower to listen to and support our teachers . rightnow we all need to come together and figure out how we can keep our schools safe and i think we all want that . health experts recognizeschool is a safe place for children and we remain committed . stakeholders of public schools including the district teachers,union, parents and city officials need more resources to ensure schools are safe and open . >> thank you. hello, adam.

>> caller: this is adam davis, i'm a pediatrician at a parent of twochildren who are gone . i want to thank the staff and teachers across the district during this difficult time. i want to stress how unfortunate it is to not impress on our students about the safety of ourschools . the reason that we are benefiting from the most vaccinated area of the entire united states and we're seeing thatin the continued safety of our schools . cases are not an investment in people and we need to acknowledge that we're going to have cases in schools since we have a 12 percent asymptomatic positivity in our city. we need to keep schools open for mental health andthe education of our children . i appreciate the effort to do that and look forward to

continued support of the board on that effort . >> thank you. hello, amelia. >> caller: my name is amelia. i'm currently in the district and housemate to a high school teacher. ourschools are places where learning can thrive right now . we consistently had 250+ some request daily, 300+ daily this week alone. parents are being asked to some and can't support students with 50course like parents know we need . substitute teachers and students haven't been getting adequate contact tracing their support accessing the tests you claim we are getting especially if you want us inschool without being super spreaders . central office is proud to be in person but i am so

disappointed in how you choose to put our long-termhealth at risk . respect your students, there safety demand and the over 1000 educators signed on to the petition for a two-week pause to let you catch up on the abysmal testingand contact tracingnotifications . thank you, please be brave and do better . hello, meredith. >> thank you doctor matthews and t for the update and thank you to everyone out there who's working together right now doing everything they can to retest and ppe to address the health disparities. we know they are real. i want to say i've been blown away the lunch by the sfusd community this week that's come together tofigure this out . i think we can all acknowledge

we have more of a return from winter break and it's a hard month but we're doing it together. we're getting from through it together instead of pointing fingers we're working together . and we see in that what people are doingright now to the point of exhaustion but we will get through it . parents included . we pause all of our normal operationsto turn into a volunteer engine this past week . and rather than snipe and point fingers we are working together and we're relieved with the majority of people in charge are staying steady and continuing toadhere to public health guidelines .our school continues to be aplace to learn . >> hello, joe. >> caller: my name is joe, i'm a parent in clemenspark and i wanted to thank all the

teachers , staff and administrators from our central office who have done such a horrible job something, teaching, showing up this past few weeks. i think the district can do more to make sure high-quality masks are distributed and testing is done alittle bit more effectively but at the same time public health data suggests there among the safest places in our city right now our schools . and we should not listen to a small number of folks who think that pausing forsome period of time in person learning will help . it's not a way going to help transmission and will negatively impact our kids which is what we saw over the last year and a half so please continue to focus on making sure high-quality in person education is available to all students and we will continue tovolunteer and show up and help our teachers and staff at the schools thank you so much .>> hello, uma.

>> caller: this is month, i'm a parent of a child at sfusd in elementary. i just want to quickly say that it is 9 pm and it's extremely late. second, i think everyone acknowledges the year could have been a lot better. we should have beenbetter prepared i think we are not getting there . thank you for everyone that's working on getting us all the resources and the tests. we're so happy tosee those coming through and thank you to all theparent volunteers and teachers , the staff . everyone's working really hard. trying to do a pause for shutdown or remote learning will only set us back so please let us continue and stay the

course and ride this out. thank you. >> thank you. hello, sophie. >> caller: on a sfusd parent and am thankful topresident lopez and commissioner collins for always prioritizing the help of everyone in our building . if the district had taken your safety evolution seriously in october our schools might have been more more prepared for the surge but instead we have chaos . my kid has asthma and is compromised. our family and many others have not agreed to live with getting covid but for the past week we struggle between two competing anxieties. missed school or agree to exposure to a potentially crippling virus . without regular universal testing your dashboard is really meaningless.you were prepared to testing one before

we opened last week. please stop gas lighting us with vaccination rates and telling us omicron is mild. we are not obligated to roll over and agreed toexposure to a virus that we have worked for two years to avoid . this option should have been kept on the back burner in my opinion. please consider pausing school for2 weeks . allow families who have the means to keep their kids home and provide supervision do that but we all want to stay in school. >> hello, tom. >> caller: i'm aparent and also a special education teacher . when matthew talk about that he did that in a way that he emailed and thanked only the people that came to the site last week on a certain day. that was not okay because the

problem is we have staff, not just teachers that are sick with this or caring for people that are sick with it so it makes it seem like if they didn't show up for one day or show up for a certain reason that they could be banked for all of their years or even this year of service. that is a step and when a lot of people said this is a bumpy road or we're going to get over it you're not in schools like us dayin and day out and seeing your coworkers not there, . teach with only half your students so it's not just road, it's difficult when you have to try to jumbled and meet the demands of two or three jobs and it's difficult for students to so we need to be more sensitive of gas lighting, is morethan that. betruthful . thank you . >> hello, betty.

>> caller: my name is betty hunter and i'm a parent of a student in sfusd and also an alumni of sfusd and i agree with everyone every thing everyone has said. thank you for the updates and clarification. we're on quarantine for students as well as i just wanted to raise that but then there currently isn't any protocol around excusing absences for students who have either been in close contact or are positive for covid. for me and my students that isn't helpful. i'm sure that's not helpful for our families and on topof that there is no plan in place for students to make up work . or for that work to be receive when a student is in close contact . we need to actually come up with a more robust plan. as well as the issues that have

been listed within this meeting. >> thank you. hello. >> caller: i want to ask for more clarification on the new hotline. if at some point somebody could go into more detailsfor parents . this is stable. we're in a crisis. i would like to say to people to see each other aspeople . i don't think there is a complete answer that will create or make somebody. everybody all at the same time. people are scared. people are scared of going back to remote. people are scared us staying in

person. my asked because it's painful to watch is that we see each other as people and all come together as a communitybecause i worry we will continue this . that is all. >> thank you. hello, diana? >>. >> caller: i express support for outdoor learning. this is the best solution to keep our students say that to emotional health for our students. please read the letter that i sent stating that we are facing a diverse school as well as the solutions we are looking for. teachers are leaving our schools.

teachers don't want to work at every school. thank you for your support and please read the letter. >> hello ms. marshall. >> caller: first i want to thank superintendentmatthews and staff . we for school opened the parking lot was open, last wednesday at a community meeting i was sad to hear from my colleagues that the two students went to school on monday and what was more sad is my colleagues were often protesting because some of aci because they school was unsafe .

i'm concerned about the long-lived year or two ago. we needto always operate as it is going to be another search. this is so new to us . we've never been in a global pandemic before so the main thing is keeping all the is a . if we don'thave students . students were not for them to clean those schools to learn. >> hello, they. >> caller: yes, hi. i just wanted to thank someone told staff all our schools i will be on to ensure that our students are having as normal and experience as possible.

i know that each of us have different risk tolerances. someof us going to coffee shops, some supermarkets , some to avoid doing all those things with respect to schools we have 669-900-6833 was appropriate for policy. our individual tolerances cannot be used to guide districtwide decisions that have been telling us schoolis the safest place for our children . we seen that community hubs were going, schools are safe for our students and i'd like to see us all work together to handle these difficulties that have been coming up. and if we work together we can

find solutions instead of tearing one another down and finding problems and find a resolution together for our students. my children have been thrilled to be back at school 669-900-6833. >> delloue? >> caller: [inaudible] >> could you speak of a? it's alittle better . >> caller: i know we're fighting amongst ourselves. i really feel like this is a public health crisis that was put down to sfusd as a school issue and now we have usf fighting it out when really our mayor and governor should have been in charge of this. we seen this comingand it's unconscionable . there is a big surge in opening

testing clinics, vaccination clinics, even our schools and libraries . to vaccinate or educate our families and once again it falls on the lack of sfusd to have to russell over whether we will get proper masks or not. i thought king 95 for my students so they can come to schoolsafely . this is ridiculous. >> thank you. hello, katie. >> i have two students in the district. >> i feel that the communication from the district to staff and families is consistently lacking. what should we be preparing for west and mark what is happening at sites? how can families help?

i forgot to mention on also a substitute in the district. i have an interesting perspective on bothsides . i agree that we have to stop the infighting. i agree that systemic inequities are still in place but should the district anticipated this? yes. this is where we are at . what do we do going forward now to benefit students? >> i want to say thank you to our educators and staff for their amazing work. please continue to follow as fda's recommendations to keep our schools open our familyonce our children to continue with

in-person learning . . >> hello, maria? >>. [speaking spanish]

>> i have to tell, i want to doctor matthews and the board for all your work. it's been hard for us and families. we don't have enough money sometimes even to pay the bills because we need to either buy facemasks is very hard on our economy and we need to juggle aroundand struggling with the money . >>. [speaking spanish]

>> one is want you to fighting against each other. find solutions and i want you to stop hurting our communitie . and it's important to see it with compassion and to take action and to just do the very best thing that is good for us.

i don't want to see my kids suffering and if you're going to continue with this, maybe open the solution for online classes if this continues but we need to finda solution to this problem . you. >> thank you. hello, cow? >> caller: quickly i want to touch on student things like again as many people are saying it feels like we are being ghastly because we are being told about all these policies in place protecting us from covid-19 while they're not being followed through. in school protocols need to be enforced because they only work if they're being followed. students at almostevery school complain about mask policies

not being followed . the same students should not be given 100 chances to wear a mask correctly. there are studentswill have to be asked every day to pull up their mask . even more students walking around the schoolswithout masks. there needs to be a system to ensure students who are following protocols consistently faceconsequences . secondly independent study needs to be available for all students . students who live in multigenerational households should not have to stay home because they're worried about bringingcovid home. under the system they're being punished by falling behind because they want to care for a multigenerational family member so they don't want to die from covid . >> thank you. hello, john . >> thank you cal for saying that. i'm a teacher at yellow elementary and today we have six teachers out, sixclassroom teachersabsent . as well as the principle . i know that some of them have covid. some are sick.

we also have ape teacher out and a gardening teacher at . and i so, i'm a resource teacher. i sold and covered the entire third grade. a social workercovered the entire first grade and we're exhausted and it's really tough . i don't know on what planet would you guys not have some kind of rapid testing in place monday, january 3 like la usd open unified. other school districts who have been in place. we also want to be in person. we all want tobe teaching . just make it easy. include outdoor education. we will do it. will do it outside,we will do it in parts . >> hello, kathy.

kathy? >> caller: good evening everyone. i'm a parent. [inaudible] [speaking chinese] >> caller: i'd like to thank parents here for all their efforts and i would like to know if it's possible to have a tiny path because i like to

volunteer for schools that i a , i would like to volunteer for our schools. >> thank you. rough al. >> caller: hello commissioners, superintendent matthews. this is raffaella picassolocal 1021 school district chapter president . teachers want to teach. students want to learn. staff want to work.i'm happy to be at work, i've been there during the whole pandemic but we need high-quality masks for our students. we need testing at drop-offs at every site. it's not right duties have to go a distance or travel to different locations to drop off their test kits.

we also need extended sick leave for our teachers and other staff members who getsick . five days, yes, you could come back to work but if you still have a fever or symptoms you'v still got to be off . that is going to exhaust all theirsick time . they need what sb 95 provided . 10 days, if they're not sick after fivecome back . we want our students open. nobody wants toshut down the students . we love our students, we love our community. we need to protect each other and we're all in this together. thank you. >> hello rebecca. >> caller: can you hear me? >> yes. >> caller: my name is rebecca, is on a special edteacher and futureelementary school . unlike an what a lot of callers are saying . as a teacher is has just been a really toughyear .

i love my students and love my school, my families know that. over christmas i couldn't see my family or my partner because he tested positive for covidand i've been making an effort to not not take days off for if i feel crappy continue to go in . but like mentally, i still go in because i know my kids need me. but now i'm positive for covid and i'm here usingmy sick days . i'm going to need for my mental health and they're being taken up because i'm positive because i contracted covid at school so when i have to takemental health days that's going to come out of my paycheck . unfortunately i'm moving to the uk at the end of the year and the thing i'm not going to miss is this district. i'm going to miss my schools but ... >> hello, edie.

>> i'm a teacher at second-grade and i think i wanted to start by saying i appreciate every parent that has said thank you . i do feel appreciated by the parents but by the central office i feelcompletely invisible . i feellike there's no support for the teachers . i feel like i have been trying to take care of myself over break. i didn't see my family for six months and if i get covid i don't have enough sick days to cover it so like the person before me said, what are we doingfor our teachers ? i care about my students. i want to be in person but if we're not getting adequate testing and all the things we need as teachers how are we supposed to continue to do this job safely andjust give our kids a good education ? >> iq.

hello, around. >> good evening everybody. i'm going to do my best to try to speak without coughing as much . but my daughter is a 10th-grader at george washington high school. she returned to school on monday and ended up covid positive on thursday and now my entire household is probably positive. we're having trouble getting tested. what i'm asking is for us to implement some sortof measure that protects our babiesand overall all of our families . what we're doing right now is not working . i should not have been able to go through this entire pandemic being pregnant having multiple doctors visits and having different surgeries and not catching covid only to my daughter to return back and

catch covid something has to be done to protect our babies . our teachers are crying out to you and our families are cryin out . please listen and do things differently. even with a guideline it's not clear because they're being told as long as you feel better and have symptoms you can come back. they're worried about their grades and that should not be a worry because thefamily should be of most importance . thank you. >> hello, linda. linda. hello, kerry. >> caller: can you hear me? i'm sorry. i apologize.

i'm a teacher at buena vista parks now and i just wanted to call him tonight to ask for better ppe for ourschools . please,please. since i worked at kindergarten the double masking is not doing it . these students are literally doubling over from pulling on their years. they cannot keep those masks on. we need k and 95 for our students. we need on demand rapid tests for our staff. every time we feel like we have symptoms we have to pay out-of-pocket $25 a pop just so we can go and do our jobs and the cause we don't want to spread thevirus in our school communities . we need to be get the appropriate ppe to our schools. >> thank you. hello, jonathan or i'm sorry, kerryyou were next and then jonathan . >> i just wanted to say thank

you so much to all of the central office staff, to the board, everyone who's been working so hard. especially all the site staff to get schools back open for kids . i'm glad that we are starting to get things under control. i know it was a rocky start but i think being in school is the best place for ourkids . i know how hard people are working to get ppe out. i was there volunteering today and i want to give a shout out to president lopez who was there workinghard to get ppe out to our schools . but i just really want to stress that with omicron showing that no matter if we are vaccinatedwe can still get it . there's no way shutting down school will stop it . it's just going to push it up further. we need to make sure we are pushing to get people vaccinated and get people as

much ppe as they can to keep peopleas safe as possible . >> thank you. hello, tara and please mute. >> my name is jonathan. >> caller: my name is jonathan fong, i'm a psychic teacher and i wanted an plot rossdale and the other two first-year teachers mentioned about having that extra covid sick leave available for teachers especially newer teachers have not built up sick time. i've been fortunate this year not to contract covid but i knew coworkers who have missed five or 10 days and have exhausted allotment for the year. please also make sure ppe is distributed to all schools and available for our students who can't afford to have k and 95 masks for 95 masks available. we do have surgical masks and

some of the cloth masks that were given that that's the only been effective against omicron so make that available to our students. our students are concerned when they get close contact memos so please do care for our students. we want to teach. our students want to learn and they want to bethere . >> thankyou . >> caller: tara or kathy? >> tara and then copy. >> kathy go first. >> caller: all right. >> kathy is there so go ahead tara. >> caller: can you hear me? >> tara, you go ahead. >> caller: my name is tara,i'm a parent and a teacher in the