think how each of the artists has responded so that call is interesting. the common >> call the meeting to order, roll call please. >> commissioner sanchez. >> commissioner alexander. >> here. >> president ward. >> here. >> commissioner metabadi. president--at this time before

we go into closed session, i call for any speakers on the agenda. are there any speakers for public comment. >> clerk: we have no in-person speakers, i'm going to go for our virtual participants. per virtual participate apartments, please raise your hand if you would like to share your public comment. seeing no hands raised. >> >> we will read the read out from the closed session and vote on the remaining items that we have. i move approval of stipulated

expulsion agreement matter number 2022-2023-number 22 with the suspended enforcement from the day of the board of education expulsion order from 4/12/to 4/11/2024, can i have a second. >> second. >> roll call vote. >> thank you. commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> now i move approval of expulsion of one middle school student from the year 2023 to

2023, number 23 with suspended enforcement through 4/11/2024. can i have a second? >> roll call. >> yes. >> yes. >> commissioner yes. commissioner sanchez. commissioner ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> 5 ayes. >> now is move approval of expulsion student for 2022-23 number 24 from the district for the remainder of the spring semester, suspended of the expulsion for fall of 2023, can i have a second. >> second. >> roll call vote,. >> commissioner alexander >> yes. >> fisher. >> yes. >> lam. >> yes.

>> commissioner matamedi. commissioner sanchez. >> ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> 5 ayes. >> now i move approval of middle school students, 2022-2023 number 25, with suspended enforcement from the day of the board of expulsion order. can i have a second? >> second. >> roll call vote, mr. steel. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. commissioner sanchez. vice president ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> now i move agreement to the

expulsion of one middle school students for the year 2022-2023 number 26 with suspended enforcement from the district for the remainder of the spring semester, 2023 and the fall 2023 semester, can i have a second? >> second. >> roll call vote. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher? >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. --commissioner matamedi. >> vice president ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> now i'll read the board gave direction to general council in the matter of lwt versus sfedu, number 3156, the board have i

by a vote of 5 yeses with two members absent gives authority for the district to pay up stipulated amount. superior court number cgg-22-599236, the board by vote gives the district to pay the stipulated amount in the matter of usfusd, the board by a vote of 5 yeses with two absences gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matter of student ab versus sf u.s. doh number 2023020065, the board by a vote of four yeses, one abstain, two absent gives authority for the

board to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the case of superior court number cgc-22011 by the board by a vote of five yeses with two absences gives the authority by the district to pay the stipulated amount. and with that we move to our regular open items. and we'll start with our land acknowledgment. we the san francisco board of education, acknowledge that we're in the homeland *f ramotironi as the indidge

steward of this land, they have never forgotten the responsibilities as the care takers of this place. as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging our ancestor and affirming our soverne right as first people. now we move to march 7, march 4th 14 and march 27,

>> can i get a second. >> roll call. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> lamb. >> yes. >> sanchez, vice president ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> okay, thank you for that. and with that, we will go to the superintendent report. one thing i did want to highlight for folks to thed, we're going to be doing public comment a little different than normal. we're having the public comment happen in the beginning of the meeting for all agenda items as well as non agenda items, versus being able to give public comment on each item, versus on each item. if you're giving public comment

during the public hearing which we're going to have during this board meeting, there will be a separate public comment for during that item. so this is very complicated but if you filled out a form for what you want to provide public comment on, we will let you know the appropriate time when to give public comment. we'll let the folks know during the meeting. >> we're not doing comment after the csis presentation, we're not giving folks an opportunity to respond to that? >> we are not. >> i object to that, we have very few opportunities for the public can provide the

leadership team right nouz, this is one of the few, i object to that. >> we'll definitely document your rejection of that item and frustration. we'll plan and have a conversation off line so we can address it moving forward. it's something for that we're trying for this meeting versus making it a formal practice. i will follow-up with the rest of the board your concerns. >> and just to clarify, so maybe it's not clear. there is going to be public comment on items not on the agenda, correct? kevin or boggess? public comment not on the agenda. then there is public comment on items on the agenda. so somebody can submit about the c say comment. >> correct. >> but they will make it not after the presentation but they can make it and the materials are online and they can see

what we're presenting. and i think some of the idea is to give the public an opportunity to comment on agenda items also earlier in the meeting which is something we heard feedback about and that's where board leadership is talked about. let's talk about that comment and then, and respond to what we're hearing while also focusing on our business at hand. we'll be able to comment at that. >> thank you for that clarification, i think that helps and it still does not necessarily address the fact that there are often thikz that come up in the staff presentation, that the public would like to comment on. you cannot see everything from an 18-slide presentation, but when you hear the context behind it that the staff provides, i think that leads to a more authentic dialogue than front loading. i think it's important to recognize that there are people that have come and wanted

comment earlier, thank you for this. i'm not sure why it's not a yes and we are moving forward with town halls. we're doing a lot to do better in public engagement, but i don't think we're there yet. >> thank you for that commissioner fisher. i definitely will direct additional comment after the board, meaning that the public has thoughts to direct them to us as we continue to move forward and figure out the best way to have the public provide comment and give input on what we're doing. and with that, we'll transition to the superintendent report and after that, we'll have the student delegates property and we'll move from there. superintendent? >> good evening, everyone. i'm excited to start off with sharing of what commissioner fisher referred to our upcoming town halls.

so we've been working on l.cap development and align to our new vision values and guard rails. and as part of that process, we want to make sure that we're talking with our community. there is been various forms for people to be engaged but we wanted to have a place where people can come and share their ideas and where we, means the governorance can listen and engage in the conversation. and so, we have various opportunities, are we getting the prebtation up? --presentation up? if i do it on zoom? yes. >> i want people to see when this is happening, hold on a second. let me go to, i need to get into zoom first, right? >> yes.

as a reminder, they cannot have a majority of them together when we talk about school businesses. and the first one is coming up this saturday at 10:30 in the morning at shellsway elementary. we've been sending this in more forms, if you want to know more, check out our calendar and you'll see it.

but we're excited with these conversations with our community. okay. oh wait, and i have to, i can just see that there. okay, we're also pleased to celebrate the diverse culture and contributions of our arab american population, we do that all year long but especially during the month of april it's arab american heritage month. and we've been working with our community and making sure that we're sharing information about this month and the different ways that, the arab american community celebrate the day of and the contributions they've made for us. we're excited about the celebrations. also we've had a lot of discussions about school safety at our schools. i do want to note that, there are serious issues that we're facing in our schools and that we've seen recently. and we're working hard both in

school and outside of schools because they're happening outside of schools to make sure that we're supporting our students and staff so they're safe. but also getting the tools and resources that they need so when issues come up, they don't escalate. the way we expect kids to resolve problems, that we see things happening lately. but i will say, i make a point to go out to our schools. and i like to do drop in visits too, just to see what it's like in our schools, not with a planned visit that they know the superintendent is coming and rollout the red carpet but just roll up like i i did on a friday at balboa and say i'm here to visit and see are there kids in the halls wandering around? what is administration doing, what lessons are happening? and got to see, administration meets weekly and we went and got to visit some classes and

got to see some amazing wellness center and saw the support. and i share this because sometimes i think, i don't want to minimize the real issues but sometimes it does not match up with the reality that many of our staff experience on a daily basis in our schools. similarly, i went to deniman and popped over there and same thing and got to visit classrooms and got to meet 2-10 and so, just wanted to share that we are, you know we're collaborating with the city, we have weekly meeting about what is going on inside and outside of schools. you know, again, i want to recognize that in our schools there is the leadership there and our teachers and staff are doing great work with our students to keep them safe. also got to see our student showcase their learning in our

career technical education showcase on thursday april 6th. listen to this afternoon, i got to see student performance and dancing, got to see a video name that was designed by student and got to do cpr on a dummy that a student taught me the updated with cpr, i learned new techniques. got to eat a little cresant that students made. and need to see, so i really appreciate this showcase and encourage you to learn more about our pathways and the education that is happening at our high schools. and then, we get to celebrate our arts as well as and our city wide arts festival and it's going on for a couple of weeks. and there is a one-day event on april 15th. it's so excited to see our art skills as well.

and lastly, this is also pride month and, and you know, sf u.s. d really takes pride in a support of the lgbtq ia plus community. when i got started in the community, i got to learn about the steps and recognize curriculum in the schools. so you know, this is something that we take pride in in april and all year long. at the same time, we heard and i do and heard recently about the need to demonstrate even more of that commitment and make sure that we are following to ensure that our students are safe and have a place to go and that the issues are responded to. so while we're proud of the work that we're doing, we recognize there is more to work in this area. so that that concludes my report. >> thank you, superintendent and with that, we'll go to our student delegates report.

>> sfcc is excited about our youth day coming up at fort mason. we're inviting student leaders to attend this state long event where we'll have affair and workshops and social issues like climate change and of course a student delegate debate. we'll welcome speakers like london and breed. additionally a couple of weeks ago, they began to accept. if you're interested in running, fill out this interest form which you can find/student delegate 2023. tiny url.com, eg a te2023 on the scc instagram. as a candidate you'll be required to attend one of two meetings taking place this thursday and friday.

finally i'm happy to inform that they're part of the effort to select new and updated curriculum to be piloted next year. we're glad that the district is taking an effort to include a variety of stakeholders including students in this process. thank you. >> and can you just explain why is your colleague absent tonight? >> yeah, so my co-host student isabela, i'm going to let her announce where she is going. but she is doing a college visit to the college where she submitted to the next four years so that's why she is not here tonight. [applause] >> thank you, she is usually here it's for a very good reason that she is be. we'll let her announce where she is visiting when they comes back.

>> thank you so much student delegate and with that, we'll go to our rave awards. >> thank you, we have two rave awards to present. and i'm going to bring up the presenter for our first one interim head of pre-k schools, denise mitchell. >> good evening,ing so excited to do this. good evening, commissioner president boggess, excited to present this rave award. principal manning has so much love for her entire community. when you spend time at harbor, you know it's a special place for students and families and alumni thanks to principal's care for her school. students center and fearless and passionate educator and always happy to share any updates within the community to

help showcase the beauty and brilliance of her school community. during teacher conference, she made sure that each student received a home learning kit. this is help to encourage families to study at least 30 minutes a day and including books and flash cards and other materials that pushed stud nts towards their learning goals. as a result of her instructional leadership and guidance, the benchmark data that was used, we saw an increase by 14% in her school community. i'm happy to bring up, principal mckayla manning, we did not plan these outfits but she does look mightly cute. [applause]

>> thank you for this recognition and honor. i'm here this evening with a tremendous amount of gratitude and i would like to name some folks who have played a role in this accomplishment. first my parents who i think are on zoom. thank you for supporting and cheerleading my aspirations to be an educators and to my siblings and cousin who allowed me to believe the teacher and principal every time we played school. and my colleagues and fellow school leaders. it's not easy being a school leader right now, right? so is thank all of you for inspiring and motivation that we give each other every day. finally, i would like to thank the staff, students and families of dr. george washington elementary school. families, thank you for choosing us to be your child's

second family. students, achievers, thank you for showing up in your brilliant curiosity and creativity every day. and finally to my team at hare var thank you for trusting me to lead us through a global pandemic, our community is something special and i'm grateful to be part of it. thank you. [applause] >> ms. manning, if you can come, we're going to come up to give you your award. i just want to say too, you're one of the schools where i popped in and did a visit and really appreciate the community you've created there and your focus on academic and on each and every child the your school. so thank you. >> thank you.

>> next up is nutrition services. >> i'm so excited that mina has won a rave award. i'm the chef at the kitchen, we

serve soda and on the stand alone pre-k. and has been on my teach and we do great food and student nutrition, we believe in nourishing the whole child. and where mina stands out, you will see at meal time, she is the star of the show. kids come to city to see mina in the morning, they come on time to classes because they want to stop in and get a meal and say hi to mina. it's the most amazing thing. and it's so wonderful and like i'm, i'm really i'm a food guy, i like people are great but i most at home, with my hands in a bowl of ingredients tossing things together buzzards going off. but the people are so important

to building a school opportunity to nourishing to creating an atmosphere especially when we have very challenging times all around. so sorry, i'm just so excited about this. i've never been nervous at this podium before. a thousand thank you to mina, you do such wonder fm things for our kids. i could not be more excited to present this award. >> thank you, joshua, i'm kind of nervous. but the kids, when i come there in the morning, i come there for the kids. i love seeing their beautiful faces and smiles, and it's a

joy seeing these children every day for breakfast and lunch. i'm out there talking to them, encouraging them. matter of fact, i will be presenting them with their at graduation, i'll be presenting them with their diploma, i did it last semester, the kids are we want to you present us with our diplomas. i'm going to be retiring in about two or three more years i guess, but i love it. demytris because when her two children were there, i was there for 17 years old, i came to the kitchen in 2014 and i love the kids. like they say, it takes a village to raise kids and i give the kids my undivided attention. and i'm so happy that they nominated me, just know parents

when your kids come, and your kids are going to be school of arts and academy, i'll be giving them their love. i love everything about them. and like always tell my co-workers hey, these kids up here, they are getting ready to be adults and they will remember you. you treat them with love examine respect and they will give it back. as a matter of fact one of the kids said, mina i just started to working and he's working at sweets parlor and i asked him what he was doing, he was a cashier. and i said are you meeting and greeting the customers when they came in. and he ed mina i'm emulating you, and i thank you for that. i love the kids they're my babies. and i want to thank each of them who is looking that i

appreciate them recognizing me. >> thank you, to our award winners and presenters and everyone for their patience.

i now open the public hearing on initial proposals for the san francisco unified school district to the united administrators of san francisco. and from uasf to sfusd, i'm going to call on the superintendent wane to present the designee . >> we're now entering a regular meeting, both the union and district are obligate today share their proposal this was done for at our last meeting and then allow for public comment. that's what we're doing right now and the board accepts our proposal, the ones that we will then be sharing with u a in the negotiation process.

this has to be done before negotiations commence. so it's a time on the public to comment on the sunshine proposal u district or uasf partners here, so we can hear from them now. >> thank you we have nine cards. i'll call the first five, if you can come up to the podium and you'll each have a minute to speak. ana cluster. [applause] [cheers and applause] kate walter, kate walter, claudia anderson. mayra clawedross. and allen wong. [applause] >> ready? >> hi, colleagues, good

evening, thanks for having me. i'm ana, i'm a high school principal and director for ufsf, long time listening first time talker. just like our teachers school leaders are leaving san francisco for many of the higher paying districts throughout the bay area. a city of like san francisco should be offering competitive salaries to recruit and remain the best administrators. how can we be the first class city with the last place wage. our students and communities deserves the best. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> good evening, i'm kate walter and i'm leave reading anonymous excerpt and i want to note that several of our bargaining members do not feel

comfortable speaking in front of the board. please know that empower has made every aspect of our job harder with so many positions that we spend substituting in classrooms which to be honest, i love, but unfortunately my real job does not get done when i'm substituting. because of this i spend hours on the weekend doing the work that i would have done if i was not subbing. causes staff to be unable to get the personal needs met, resulting in more absences and the cycle repeats over and over, it's not sustainable for our administrators. they will be seeking better protections for our members working conditions. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> good evening, i'm claudia anderson and i'm one of the coexecutive director of united

administrator and also reading an excerpt that and i repeat that there are a culture of administers afraid of speaking out. this person stated at the beginning of the empower rollout, i raised concerns about how central office administrator calendars work and how it didn't seem to fit with the time system. i was assured that it would all work. as requested i wented my holiday days in december with pay, however it resulted in me not getting over half of my normal paycheck. after three weeks with no response, i filed a grievance through the union, the district did not pay me what i needed. in the meantime, i charged bills to my credit card and had

to borrow money from relatives to pay my rent and expenses, this is unacceptable. not one person should have the financial quality of life threatened due to not getting paid. i'm suppose to be getting my late fees back with interest as promised well that was in february last year and still nothing. our u u.s. f gar beginning team will be seeking better protection. thank you. [applause] >> congratulations, mckayla. my name is mayra and this is my 20th year in sf u.s. d. i'm up here with u a sf because the working companies are rough. i spent most of my school year with no help, i did not have a

social worker until six days ago. i've been working 50 to 60 hours a week and no one consisting can work this road especially without extra compensation. i love this district, i still have a long career in this district. and i want to help, come by nutrition, i'm ready to partner with any of you to make this district better. please do the right thing and not only listen but act, also while i have you, i personally have two outstanding empower tickets from february 2022-if anyone would want to follow-up on this sometime this year. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, my name is evening wong and i'm reading this excerpt from one of the bargaining union members.

on a daily basis, i'm covering classes but still required to do my administrative job. subbing in classroom does not allow me the time to serve in classrooms and main responsibility of a principal. teachers not receivinging timely feedback does not serve our students, instruction cannot improve without on going feedback. subbing classrooms does not allow me to have quality time, with thoughtful detail as well as creating presentedation for staff pd. if the poll continues to be, i would like to see it back to me that would allow me to complete my presentation, so i'm not spending my weekends doing this work. so our bargaining team will be seeking appropriate compensation. thank you. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you. >> final four, claudio, and dr. louis rodriguez, rafael picasso. >> good evening, i'm the principal of community school and i'm reading this excerpt from one of our bargaining union members. they state for those who were admin before the pandemic hit, we carried the state of emergency that has not let up. we're not seeing the systems to support us with real behavior issues and attendance. it feels like it all falls on individual sites to figure it out. i appreciate our administrators lead team. my job has never been easy and

my school site has always faced many challenges. it's also impacting my ability to take care of my own family and children. i cannot rely on the deep community that i support. it's not sustainable, enable both classified and certificated need to a raise that--i know that additionally, we need financial incentives, in dealing with issues that our sites so that we can focus on teaching and learning. administrators need to find work hours and need xhenization compensation on weekend and holiday weeks. i hope that it results in real changes that will keep us serving our students. this is example of untabable working conditions that our

bargaining team plans to address. thank you. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> speaker: good evening, i'm dr. louis rodriguez proud principal of apartment--school. and my statement is a excerpt, and it's a little bit long so please be patient. they state, i love my students and curious about the world around them. i learn about them every day, i worry about them, i care about them. i love my staff, they are committed to the kids, they support each other and they mostly have a positive attitude. i learn from them every day, i worry about them, i care about them. but i hate parts of my job. the conditions of my job

prevent me from using my leadership schools, the conditions make it nearly impossible to effectively support teachers for better outcomes. as of april 7, 2023, i have covered 134 classes, and sometimes covering a class is the best part of my day. however the demand of covering classes really means that i cannot do my actual jobs. i cancer and make movies. >> thank you. >> i cannot get into classrooms for observations. i'm unable to get into classroom. one more sentence, i was reschedule meetings, i work every saturday and sunday, we need better working conditions. thank you. >> thank you, rafael before you go, real quick, we do have additional speakers norma and

oscar james. they will go before michael. >> i'm rafael picasso i'm chapter president for school district. i'm here in with solidarity with the hard work that they do. never had a good understanding until i met michael and working with the union of uasf. we were able to open up and safety protocols, open our schools and up and running but we could not have done it if we didn't work with adults, all our unions work together. thed work that you guys do, really need to be appreciated. you take on so much, and you do so much for the kids, the employees and the difficulties that you deal w.believe me, i met with some of you guys and

it's respect. and they are worth way more than what you're paying them today. just like a lot of classification that is underpaid. we need to retain employees, we're short in every department and every division, we need to pay our employees so they can keep our quality workers here. thank you, thank you commissioners. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> hi everyone, i'm one of the assistant principal over in balboa, thank you dr. wane for coming and visiting us, it was important for our community to see you and connect with our community. to the board, i grew up in san francisco, i am an sf u.s. d

kid growing up and now i am an educator. i just want to make sure that i communicate this to you all. living in san francisco is really hard. i grew up in the projects, if there is no money to pay for rent, and food, you cannot make it, it's really really hard. i need you all to understand that everyone here that showed up and who has not showed up is really overworked and underpaid. we need the board and you dr. wane wayne to know about the salary.

if we don't have that, it's going to be a last thing for everybody. and the ones that are going to have a tougher time is our students and our society as a whole. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, i'm a native resident of san francisco all my life, 77 years. i went to public schools and i have grandkids and great grandkids in the public schools right now. your staff, these teachers deserve to be paid more than what they're getting paid right now. i made more money than the teachers made and i have no no college degrees, i did a couple

of semesters in college but like i said, i make more money than they did. now these people, excuse me for saying people's, they go to school and college, and they have monies that they have to pay back for going to college and still they make less money than i make. it's a shame for them to educate our kids who are our future. if they don't teach them, what are they going to be doing. we have a problem with most of the people can't read and a lot of other things, but it's not the teacher's fault. you need to give the teachers more money, thank you very much.

>> can i ask them to share the value of uasf to uf u.s. d, all members take the day from the board and central department and turn them into day-to-day actions. uf u.s. d is siri and practice. what we're discussing are the improvement for students and improvement. they reside on how you members choose to implement the vision, values and guard rails based on uniqueness of each site. schools have changed by the decrease insight, those

increase demands, change the working condition in a world class city, that pays the reflect demands. if we want to improve our culture of african-american, then the pay for those smonlt or direct services must increase. we can't be a first class city with last place wages. we cannot work for less, it ain't worth the rest, we need respect, r.e.s.p.e.c.t., vision valley and goals and guard rails of the district. thank you for your service and commitment to our students, r.e.s.p.e.c.t. [cheers and applause]

>> can we see if we have any virtual public comment? >> clerk: at this time we'll be taking public comment. can we have that repeated in spanish and chinese. [repeating in different languages] >> thank you and currently we have 7 hands raised. >> this public comment is

exclusively for the public hearing. if you have other comments for other items, please save those comments for later. >> seeing five hands raised. okay. so i will call those five names, magdelana, wendy chris, ms. marshal and melissa. ms. wendy go ahead, please. >> speaker: president boggess, board commissioner dr. wayne, my name is wendy and i'm a

educator at feinstein, we are respectfully and desperately measuring that sf u.s. d allocate certain funded assist apartment principal to support all the students and especially our students in the program. there are families and extraordinary staff who have experienced stuff with experienced trauma and still come to work every day. diane elementary school had struggled to all students and staff as we support our students are ieps.

specifically our students in the classroom, as you know, our school is one of the only one of only two schools in ufusd that have a special day class for students identified as having emotional disturbance. >> thank you, ms. wendy that is your time. >> speaker: due to lack of staffing to other schools who have programs close this year. >> ms. wendy that's your time, thank you so much for your comment. >> thank you. >> hello i'm chris and my

family and child have been impacted by educator staff at our school. my child does not receive the services that they are owed. i believe we need to pay our parent educated a competitive wage and in support of proposele for rates. also i also like to talk about for the superintendent, when you dropped into better schools and you have fun, people watching to play video games. did you stop at any of the special ed classes? the ones that need opportunities to learn to be kept safe, the support that they need so they can excel. you can tell who is happy and getting a check versus the ones waiting for their money. that's all i have to say.

>> thank you, and gentle reminder, this is we are taking public comment on the public hearing that we just had. so again, this is the time that we will hear please share your public comment. if you want to share your public comment on another item, that will happen later in the agenda. >> and just to clarify, if you want to provide public comment on the united administrator of san francisco, so that's the collective bargaining union that the public comment should be in relation to which is different than the teacher's union. sama. >> yeah, i want today second the last speaker, i'm a speaker.

and i'm really displayed by how usf is treating our most vulnerable of our special children by not investing in educators and i really urge you to make sure that they are being paid a fair wage, it's an equity issue. thank you, that's it. >> thank you. alfredo. >> speaker: [speaking spanish]

mi nombre es alfredo. [speaking spanish] >> translator: i'm sorry, my name is alfredo markes, i'm from stat on elementary school. >> excuse me, excuse me.

just as a reminder, i believe you're just speaking spanish, chair. >> yeah, i'm speaking in english. i have a child who is nine years old she is in the fourth grade and she has, an iep due to intellectual incapacity. she is a social butterfly, she loves to go to school every day and i appreciate the teachers doing their best to help us out. >> speaker: [speaking spanish]

>> translator: yes, my daughter i know that the teachers are doing everything that they can to support the needs of my daughter. she is eligible through her iep for 1095 minutes a week for services with a professional but we're not receiving this. >> caller: [speaking spanish]

>> translator: i know that she is not receiving this because there is a lock of professionals to support this services that she needs. i know the san francisco unified school district is doing everything to cover this positions that they have not been able to cover. >> caller: [speaking spanish] >> translator: and i think this

reflects a lot of commitment from the san francisco unified school district with our population. a population that is advantage. and they're doing this by not pawing a comparable salary for professionals and teachers assistance that they need to provide these services. >> i'm sorry to have to interrupt, that is the time and we want to allow for other people to share their public comment. >> caller: gracias. muchas gracias. >> thank you. >> just want to remind public commenters that we reached the end of this public comment.

that if you're not speak abouting the proposal between sfusd, and uasf, if you're not speaking on topic, i'm going to let you know that you need to wait. so if you are going to speak, let us know or i'll have to interrupt you as we continue. >> thank you, ms. marshal. >> caller: thank you so much to president boggess and vice president ward, commissioners superintendent wayne, the african community is in support of their salary request. if the board staff are paid correctly, you have an excellent school that we need

for our children. we support all of work that you've done so again, we support the and their request to have comparable salaries, increased salaries and they do not have to be in the classroom that they're in the classroom that takes them away from their work. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> magdalena. >> caller: can you hear me? >> yes. >> caller: i taught in the filipino program for 26 years. i'm retired but i will continue to advocate for a strong filipino as a world language

program. >> i'm sorry is not related to this item, i'm going to ask if you can save your comment for the general public comment that is coming up, please. >> clerk: thank you, president boggess that concludes our general public comment. >> thank you for that. and thank you for everyone that provided public comment. sorry for the confusion on how we're doing public comment today. it's a little different. are there commissioners who have thoughts or that they would like to add at this moment? seeing none, any comments from the superintendent? seeing none, we will call for a roll call vote on the staff recommendations. >> no vote.

this was a public hearing. >> my mistake, so what i will now close the public hearing and we will return to the regular board meeting. thank you so much. and as we return to the regular board meeting we will begin with public comment. so just to notate, we want folks to submit speaker cards. and if you're virtual, it would be helpful to raise your hand so we can see how many people we have. we will start by taking public comment from students, then we will take public comment on non agenda items, and then we will take public comment on agenda

items. i think what we'll do is for folks who have submitted public cards and are students to feel free to identify yourself to come forward and we'll pull your cards and move you to the front. so if there are any sf u.s. d students who are here who have submitted public cards for public comment today, whether it's, public comment on one of the items that we have or public comment that is not on the agenda today, we're going to encourage you to come forward at this moment. and as get to the microphone, please share your name so we can identify.

>> speaker: hello i'm mahama and this is my sister. i have been in the program for more than six years. the wallace program is important because it helped my friends who were born in the philippines. teachers speaking in taglo to help them solve math equations. living in a moment will inpact fourth and 5th grade students. students may have a chance to be. combining the 4th and 5th grade, classes will be harmful to both students and teachers. teachers are working hard and this will make it harder. they will have to meet the

different developmental needs. betsy carmichael is one of two schools so it's hard to find programsed like this. the enrollment for the program will make it harder for the students. please do not cap the enrollment and support the filipino language. thank you. >> thank you. >> are there any other students today. okay, i'm going to call five at a time, come line up. it's one minute, the buzzard is not very loud but you can see the countdown there. all right, joyce espinal, ruby tarab, jay, espedido, teresa

daladula, sorry if i'm miss pronouncing. and eva. >> i want to remind folks, that we're asking folks to comment on non agenda item. is that how it's set up? >> yes, it is on the carmichael issue, which is non agenda item. >> we got the yellow shirt. >> all right. you can go ahead. >> good evening, i'm raoub owe teralda i'm a middle school parent and my child was part of the filipino world language in elementary school program. many community foekds and you just heard from maya are here to talk about the resent school decision to consolidate the 4th and 5th. i've wlaernd about and witnessed firsthand multiple times when the school has made top down decision to see weaken

or cut back fill pi na students. clearly violates one of the district's guard rails which ensures a quote consultation with a parent and garden and staff who will be impacted by the decisions. unquote. combining the fourth and fifth grade also goals against the commitment to strengthen the program on the feasibility study. no consolidation to filipino classes. thank you. >> hi i'm a mother of two students. one here, emily who is six and joined well he is program as a

hinder garden and i have a 5th grader at fourth grade. i would have moved my child a little earlier, as a mother who works easily 60 hours a week, it's that easy to come to the district and en roll them in a pathway class. i'm very disappointed with the news that we heard, that the program will be having for fourth and 5th grade without hearing any data. so i just want to highlight the

importance of the filipino program for carmichael not only for filipino but for those born here, we rely on that program to teach our kids, not only the language but also the culture. and values of filipino. please note to consolidating. and after hearing first time, and we're just asking really simple request.

it's a really great program. we're not asking for another translator, we heard here there is tiny translator and also spanish translator and they're coming from different language we could be asking for that, but wallace is really simple don't combine the fourth and fifth grade. thank you so much. have a good evening.

>> i'll speak on her behalf san francisco is a welcome be nation and empowering communities. and we're commit today doing better. these were the words of our late san francisco mayor ed lee, that he said in april 2014 exactly nine years ago when it was announced that the filipino language is going to be one of the three official certified languages in san francisco. good evening i'm eva i'm a proud parent of two san francisco students stella here with who is shy and the other one is gabriela who is now in high school. my family has been part of the school, both of my children attended the filipino pathway or what school term as filipino world language.

they've attended this program from 5th grade. my oldest daughter is in high school and she is conversing in filipino with her lola. this is not one year that i had to a fend the program. i'm tired of district trying to devalue in our district which have already mentioned is only one of the two schools in public schools in the united states. that is something that we should be proud of.

i'm tired of the district to perpetuate the inhity serving low income community such as betsy carmichael. >> thank you. >> hello my name is teresa, eva said 10 years, i'm 26 years, my children from the filipino elementary school. 26 years is more than that. 26 years of not disrespecting our filipino bilingual program. my children are product of the district and high performers. my daughter is school valedectorian, i oppose to this fourth and fifth grade

consolidation. it really matters to me when community input is not being respected. making decisions with our parents and community is totally disrespectful. yes, thank you superintendent, you were showing everything there. it's really nice activities, please include the bilingual filipino program in our district. we need transparency in this district. please make that happen. if the the problem is money, please look for it, okay. >> i'm dwg to call next group, and reminder one minute each.

wilson, please step to the podium, you have a minute each. >> good evening, i work at saddle market network, we support pet see carmichael. i work with elementary and high school and an issue is a lot are facing is identity. trying to find themselves, they teach the language but also the culture and those are crucial, foundation to their identity. last thing please hear our community, this is the community that you're deciding on. whatever the city wants to do. we ask the board of education

to stand with us, in supporting the betsy carmichael. we want school site in the filipino program in order to meet the community needs. thank you. >> hello good evening, i wanted to introduce myself my name is charm and i'm the director of the filipino education center, quality children program. and avid community supporter for the betsy carmichael for over 15 years. and filipino is very important to me, this is one of a kind as one of the programs mentioned and it's in the whole country, two, two schools only provide filipino language and and one

is being con so the dated. not only will this help the families born here in the u.s but supports a lot of our immigrant youth and deals with a lot of mental health issues as they come here as an i immigrant. me being one of them had experienced this hardship as a 12-year-old. >> thank you. >> i had no one to talk to in my language. please please, do not consolidate fourth and fifth. and i wanted to share a petition that a parent made and i wanted to hand to anybody that i can give to here.

>> i'm sorry, some filipino create the visibility and celebrate the contributions of the filipino community to prevent the displacement of filipino residents and developed initiative for the filipino community to slide. approve by the mayor and the board of supervisors in combination. one of the key strategy is to have access to programs teaching filipino languages. what is being proposed is the opposite of the strategy filipino program should be

expanding not cutting. and families in san francisco. combine classes in our community. thank you. >> hi, my name is jodi, i teach 6th grade and science at carmichael, filipino education center. and i'm here to speak as the community right. our community was informed without warning about these consolidation. and this is despite the fact that it is a combination does not best serve academic or emotional needs. the families face numerous challenges.

we constantly lose resource sxz have to fight for the student's fundamental needs. our families and community stakeholders should have been consulted by impactful decisions. we need to be allowed to maintain our 5th classes. our success is also the success of district. please ses us up for success not failure. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners i want to thank you for the opportunity and want to be able to say that the families of the betsy carmichael that's come out to fight and i stand with them.

i'm in front of the board to discuss middle school algebra. it's an issue that is going to be in the front of the board in the near future. the pace of innovation has been great and provides skills to solve problems and gather and evaluate evidence and make sense of what they study. mathematic is the language of stem and algebra is the gateway of higher mathematics.

i just want to encourage this board to be able to about the importance of 8th grade algebra. thank you very much. >> okay, calling the next group, maya, susan, rex ridgeway, jeff lucas and chanel. >> my son was the last with algebra one in 8th grade. everyone took it then with your own data, 100 students failed that year, that's 4% not 40% as previously advertised. i've heard many times, i don't need calculus, my child does

not need calculus, times have changed. it's not equitable to prematurely close the door on 13-year-old trajectory. we need stem, some have not had that pathway. every child deserves the same access not just those with money and privilege. they deserve raises, thank you. ?fm i want to share, i had to put her into a summer course that paid for her before her 9th grade. she had to repeat it in the 9th grade and did algebra she is

in the 10th grade she is outstanding in math. so is knew about it, i worked around it and there is a lot of parents that are going to do the work around because algebra one has been moved to the 9th grade. okay, two parents that were assigned to lincoln because they couldn't get to lowe, asked me about lincoln, it's a great school. and these two parents, got back to me and said, they're concerned about the compression force and they don't like it and they're going to private school. >> thank you, my name is susan fong wong i will not repeat what rex and wilson said before. since 2014, the board policy on

math, has plunged students or these students could not higher course, we're going backwards and it's going on for far too long. i don't like how it's been turned a blind eye, deaf ear to ten years worth of explaining about what is happening. and also not acknowledging that this is what is being done. tangible harm. so now that the students are being sued, i hope you listen. i act, i urge you to settle the lawsuit.

>> this is parent of a scene yo, the board, this is not about superintendent work, this is about board would besinger the placement policy is bad and inaffective. the policy is bad for two reasons, it caused students to repeat algebra that they have successful completed and it gives advantages to students that have resources. the policy is inaffective because the math gaps that the policy was suppose to fix, has not changed in ten years. we needed a strategy. hopefully we'll talk about it in two weeks in the monitoring meeting. i recommend that you fix this board policy a map. we collectively own it, it's up to you to fix it. students should have a voice in their math.

do not hold math instructions, the students are ready for and want to take. thank you. >> 6 and 11 grade and fall 2014, san francisco school district algebra one. has been thoroughly and comprehensive vas majority of staffer rejects the work of professional who has advised school district put algebra one. keeping a b average. the common core math is the same that he studied in elementary school. we want him to be challenged.

brings back the spark and love in math that he loves so much. we need to diversify stem and offer students to reach their potential goal. restore 8th grade math. and thank you for being service for our cubs. >> margaret, becker, william patterson, diana, and amy clark. >> all right, also talking about math. i'll start with some definitions for equity. the quality of being fair and impartially, a situation where everyone is treated equally. so when the they took over my country in the name of equity

or whatever, my mother got herself and me out of there. life was hard but her focus was education, reading, writing and mathematics. she wanted to make sure that she had all the tools to think and wanted to make sure i was on equal footing. what does have to do with us? previous boards have been vocal and yet our curriculum has degraded. so when i think about what equity means, i wonder. without a great education and the tools to think, they will face bias and favoritism against them. the very thing i think we were suppose to be fighting against, thank you. >> thank you.

>> speaker: hello i'm a parent of two sf u.s. d students. i'm here to tell you that many students left and still leaving every day. please restore 8th grade algebra. more students back means you will have more money to pay our educators. who are here earlier. many kids are taking sources to make it out of life of education. sf u.s. d is accepting the credit. kids are forced to repeat the classes.

some already left, we face a decline. please restore 8th grade algebra. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm here to discuss about the shortage of parent educators and teachers in our classrooms. i'm so grateful for our school, they have been trying to do everything they can to support our children. but we do have a shortage, we have come to a state emergency in our classroom with lack of parent educators. i had to help my children back. they also don't have, parents for them to have inclusion into general ed classes. sxl that is something that they need to socialize and to be more with the community,

children with autism need that. and if they're stuck in a room with not enough parent educators to help them. how are we getting to these kids. they're not getting enough support as they need to right now. they need, more parents, we need higher pay for them. the city is a high one of the number one cities in the whole world, why can't we pay our parent educators a livable wage to help our stud entsz. --students. i have two students, two, not one but two in special education. i need the support for these children now. >> hi my name is amy clark and i've been teaching in san francisco for over 20 years and i was not prepared to speak but i'm happy to speak here tonight i learned a lot from all the issues you brought up. i'm lucky enough to be able to

mainstream two of the students one of whom is her son and i also have a student in my class who with an intellectual disability who is suppose to have a full-time parent, but he is does. i cannot be a full-time para and teach my class full-time. we have many many paras out, that means we have to get volunteers to meet kids at the buses, that means our principal has been on duty. we're one of the most amazing financially resourced cities on the planet. and you can do better, we can do better, we're going to do better. thank you. >>le hello i'm parent of three students.

i first want to thank you for your service and thank you superintendent wayne for stepping into this very important job. and for pay increased for both united educators, it's a little confusing on your agenda. and passion of our teachers and staff and para and people like kate walter who is here tonight. it's hard to hear the testimonials and it's so important to show our respect through the work we do through adequate pay. i want to thank you and i also want to echo the parent

earlier, i was shocked and displayed to learn that math standards in the district are lower than the rest of the bay area, the state. please get our standards where they need to be. thank you. >> i'm a reform resource specialist with the unified school district. i left because the resource specialist job is unsustainable. to point out a few things, we have paperwork that equals a full-time job and student service that's equals full-time jobs, we take one home and we do it on weekends and at night. it's unsustainable. and into a resource program that does not work. we went from case loads of 12

to 14 students for inclusion, up to case loads of 28. and went to 28 you should start at 24 and with the 12 to 14, we should be starting at 10. so the parent who spoke about her two children in the classroom should be seeing a case load of students. i don't know if that is happening but for those students who are main streaming they should not be on the case on the 28th. i'll submit those things for record. >> president boggess that concludes in-person public comment for non agenda items. >> please raise your hand if

you would like to give public comment on non agenda items. >> can we have that repeated in chinese. >> thank you. president boggess we have 14 raised hands. >> let's start with a minute and we'll go from there. >> each speaker will have one minute. jessica go ahead please.

>> hi, i also students that would like to speak, can she have a minute after my minute, they've been waiting the whole time. president boggess there are students that would like to speak after jessica, is that fine for them to speak? sountds like they're on the same line. >> caller: great let me know when my name is over. i'm a parent and counselor at diana feinstein, due to lack of staffing to our program close this year, already strained classes are filling quickly with little or no time for stabilization. our school prides itself on welcoming each and every

students and disrupting discrimination. our classroom demonstrates the proportionate of black and brown boys as eligible to receive special education services. the academic and social emotional needs are unique and significant stemming from trauma as early as in euro and housing stability and vas learning and cognitive diversity. our staff is commit today following the protocol and service of our students, specifically that authorize offers alternative to suspension. >> that's your time. >> okay, my kid just wanted to make a comment as well as stew

student ated diane feinstein. >> i think we should keep mr. stone because he is good with kids. >> i think we should keep dr. jones because he's nice to us and he's really helpful. >> okay, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> dr. salwa. >> caller: hello can you hear me? i'm dr. sawasaki, thank you for to wendy, jessica and our wonderful two students. unfortunately, unfortunately

disproportionate alt of our black and brown boys, despite our staff following store protocol and safety care training, some members are spit and disrespected on a daily basis, several including myself have been sent to emergency room several times. and yet, we routinely work overtime to ensure bus safety and keep data collection up-to-date. we care deeply and unselfishly to serve our students. we are respectfully and desperately requesting that they allocate to support all the students and especially our students in the store program, their families and extraordinary staff. >> thank you, that's your time.

>> they help them access their education and keep them safe. but it's more than that, they help retain teachers and bring an extra love to the full class. a parent who wants a job that aligns with their school. but right now, i cannot ask faiths in our school to apply for the position. please read our community with respect. living wages now. safe hood instead have to stop. thank you. >> thank you.

david? >> caller: i'm david outside of uf u.s. d that has been affected by sf u.s. d that has been affected by removing algebra from 8th grade. we know the united states department of education clearly explain the importance of offering algebra 1 in 8th grade. we know our standards recommend. they should take such courses that is in algebra one and they

should offer this opportunity to students. all you've done is proof why these recommendations exist. put algebra 1 back in 8th grade, thank you. >> thank you. >> h kelly. >> hi, i'm putting my special education for tonight. they need more pay but our staff needs more support and resources. from what i can understand, everyone is stretched to the limit and impacting everything. so we just need to use solution. somebody down the line, i don't

know if i can talk about agenda items or if i'm suppose to come back. >> this is the time for non agenda items. >> caller: okay, so i raise my hand again? i apologize? >> yes, so you will, you will raise your hand again. >> caller: okay, thank you. the second thing is i just want it talk personally about my son. he is he has multiple learning disability, he's a special students. but the area where he shines is math. so i don't want to speak from same thing that i heard before i support it but mainly because there are kids out there that i'm a low income family, we just access to choice.

not all students are the same. >> thank you. >> thank you, i'll call back and call back. >> gentle reminder that everyone will have a minute to speak. ana go ahead, please. ana go ahead please. >> caller: hello my name is ana and my grandson is special education.

i'm concerned about my grandson's education and safety due to lack and support. i hope you will agree with me that we need to raise the special educator salary. we need our kids to be in a safe education and loving environment. thank you. >> thank you. jason? jason? betty? >> caller: hello i'm betty and i have two children that attend uf u.s. d elementary school. i want to advocate for higher wages for educators. they need a higher pay to do

the paras. the roles are critical to the school and education classes. it's impossible for the teachers to perform their job well and for the students to be kept safe if the classroom don't have the paras support they need. their pay is lower than many. but do the most. thank you. >> thank you. hell hello? >> david ortega tonight, who would like to speak after me. i'm a parent of desi carmichael

filipino education center for 7 years. the fourth and 5th compromise is learning. this is an even equity issue. one of two the whole country. this is communication transparency making decision for the community goes against affective. please keep the fourth and 5th separate, thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. now i pass it to my son. >> good evening, commissioners delegates and superintendent wayne. my name is emery david ortega and i'm a 6th grader at betsy

i'm a filipino for six years, starting in kindergarten without having any classed combined. my experience is great because i had classed where my fourth grade and fifth grade, they were focused on teaching us what we need today learn. i wanted this experience for other students and the decision that the capacity team made to combine the fourth and 5th grader is unfair because this affect running and puts a lot of work on the teacher who to cover all the lessons with classes, there are only two filipino programs in the school district. and we must do everything to protect our programs.

>> thank you. tamika? >> caller: thank you. i'm tamika and i'm a parent of a students in a special day class. it's unacceptable that our children cannot attend the school on days. the students and special education are getting glorified babysitting, this is not from a lack of care from our teacher but lack of support. some of our students including my non verbal son has a voice,

thank you. thank you. >> sahri. >> caller: hello i'm chari, and i've been involved with the education center for years. the program is important to me, because this language program uplift filipino culture and language. to explore and understand their fill which no and intentional in being inclusive about the diverse culture. not only will residents empower in themselves but also empathy. the decision to create a combo affects the students and

families we serve. because it will limit access to learning filipino. this is an equity issue. as a city's official third language. we ask the board of education to stand with us. we want school site control of the program in order to meet our community needs. thank you. >> thank you. >> parents for public schools. >> caller: i'm enrollment coordinator at parent' school, and i would like to comment on

the combination of fourth and fifth grade class. this program needs to be supporting as our filipino community is growing in san francisco. furthermore consolidating a fourth and fifth grade does nothing but to ensure the bottom line of the district's fiscal responsibility. otherwise it hurts and damages every other asset. and this will not happen in any other program and should much less happen in a program that has a small presence. parents have reached outleting us know how much they oppose consolidation. and what are your next steps in order to address the needs of the community that you're directly responsibility for serving. thank you. >> thank you.

>> jennifer, i'm a former employee and i have a third grader and kindergartner. my kindergartner received an iep, and being supported by para, before he was support, he was hitting teachers and that parais not only supporting him but the rest of the kids because they're no longer being impacted by my kid's aggression. i've been a para myself which was helped me to becoming a teacher, i cannot support a family of four in san francisco on the current parasalary.

please support by giving them a living wage. thank you. >> hello, we learn about valuables, we hope that everybody has the same opportunity to speak up especially session. work to go deliver voice and concern so the representation on the board of education. we hope that cpac is recognized and has the same representation

and communication channels in the district. just like other parent bodies such as a a pac. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> can you hear me? >> is remind the board when making an important decision that your number one priority is students education and needs. the map policy is taughted as a successful program this current math lawsuit points out sf u.s. d has violated several education codes. given that the sf u.s. d has

lost many lawsuits and spent millions of dollars defending their weak position wz the questionable legal department. i ask that you change your policy and be more physically responsive. reminder per the california education letter dated september 15, 2021, quote freeze all unrestricted general fund discretionary expenditure unless operational discretionary. unquote. >> thank you. >> rian da. >> i'm happy to have this

additional time, but also i'm calling to express my frustration with this new process of agenda items and non agenda items and having to advocate for multiple during one public comment session, i feel that's very very disruptive to the balance that has been created thus far for advocates who call in and able to address particular items. we can't advocate if we don't know what the presentation is. we don't know what the narrative is going on until after it's been presented. so i respectfully ask you to try to silence parent's voice and allow us to continue to give comment in the way that we have forever. if this is one of those new

guard rails, this is making it worse. >> thank you. e meal. >> caller: i'm currently an ethics study professor and california [indiscernible] and -- ~>> i'm sorry, i'm sorry. >> caller: and the resource

and teachers in order to have our teachers, our classes really perfect the curriculum and programs. so we have the program. so i'm against any kind of consolidation and there needs to be a discussion in order to really come up with the kind of solution but no cuts. >> thank you. >> christine? >> hello. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you.

>> caller: hi i'm christina, culture district that allow the filipino community to thrive. this involves students and family members having the opportunity to learn and remember their roots and for community members to feel connected to their culture and history. our report that was approved by the mayor and the board of supervisors last year, includes the key strategy to expand access and strengthen programs that empower and address the health of filipino children and youth. attempt to combine classes is ab an attack on our community. we ask the board of education to stand with us in supporting

the best filipino program. we have school site control of the carmichael schools, classroom sizes in order to meet our communities needs. thank you. >> i'm an the organizing team of education. we're an affiliate of our revolution, the largest funded progressive organization in the united states. i'm speaking out in support of para professionals getting a respectful wage. i do want to offer the boards to keep in mind the vas discrepancy that a lot of our consultants get paid an hour and the rate that our para

professional make. secondly, i'm speaking out in support of keeping the math curriculum in the alliance. we have math teachers who are advisors and i really hope that any decisions about a math curriculum being made and centering the voices and have expertise in teaching math. we don't want to turn back the clock and go backwards when our math curriculum has decided a lot of information made benefit. thank you. >> thank you. >>le just want to note that we're going to take about five more and then transition off this item as we have 30 minutes. >> ms. marshal.

>> yes, african community we're in full support that our children know algebra and a foreign language in 8th grade in earlier. math should be taught with a math teacher. we don't know what this new format but do not silence parent and community voice. and we're also in support of the parent, they need a full living wage. sxwh lastly, i want to ring this bell to be there in person and on a great educator.

some--in honor of my dear friend stella educator patricia clark. >> thank you, ms. marshal. >> caller: hello can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> we have two staff on medical leave.

the support has been depleting the life force of our school is the gentle way to put it. we all attempt to fill these massive gaps. in a school with where we have 19 positions. to survive the staffing shortage. i'm in full support and my families are in full support for pararaises, i believe that raising pararaises is one of the things that you can do.

sarah? >> sarah. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can hear you. >> i'm calling to express the view that we need to put algebra back in school. i know that there are students that do struggle with it in middle school but i believe the strategy for that should be to offer free summer school in the lower grades for students who are struggling with math so we can bring our students up to the level where they can succeed if they so desire. not every students need to take

algebra in 8th grade but the opportunity should be available. when it's not available you're only punishing those with the least economic means who cannot afford to have those opportunities in private school and they also can't afford to offer shooters to take approved classes in the hopes of being able to test to geometry in high school. >> thank you. >> we have paraposition opening

in the district. and paraplay the important role for our special education students. the teacher has to fill-in to support students as a parathen the teacher is not able to teach the class, then that's really affecting the whole class. no son is not able to a generaled his general classes and affecting his learning. it's not acceptable, please do something. thank you. >> thank you. and then our final two will be

melissa and venus. melissa go ahead please. >> caller: excuse me, magdalena. >> go ahead please. >> caller: yes. the staff to student racial is not equipped to teach the basic. let alone learn, the situation is getting worse, i keep my child home on some days, due to under staffing. you're failing our students, they have a height to learn.

and work on retention. that's it. venus go ahead please. >> caller: hello i'm venn i'm a child at elementary school and i support the union proposal for rates and please reconsider to allow our purpose and the school site to support if there is not enough stuff, thank you. >> thank you. that concludes. >> sorry. >> one more.

just before anyone goes, there was one person who was online who was stopped from speaking previously and who we said we would let speak general comment. so i think we'll do then and then finish the in-person public comment and proceed from there. >> thank you. you want me to speak now. >> yes. >> caller: hi i'm magdalena, i taught at jessica michael for 26 years, when i started in the 70s, there were a lot of immigrant kids and they needed to learn the primary language which was filipino. i don't want to be technical about it and today it's filipino as a world language.

we are offering to our diverse community. when i was talking to foundation, they wanted our kids in the program. and i visited the kindergarten, elect. and it is so diverse, it's so beautiful. the cam bonian and asian americans, and mix, you know, mixed ethnicity. that's a gift to be at the city of san francisco school district. let's grow this, let's expand it, it's really beautiful. i just want to say that. >> thank you. >> before we take our last public comment on this item, we wanted to discuss our student delegate, it's time for them to head out. thank you.

>> hi, thank you for letting me speak even though i lost my card. i'm the parent of two students including one with an iep at ipini middle school. their para staffing is even worse. they have about two-thirds para professions that they need to be fully staffed and fully meeting all of the expectation to see support the students that they have there. people are just surviving the days sometimes. they're dealing with behavior and not academic expectations.

we're not serving our students, it's not okay and you have the power to fix this. do you remember when we had that dire shortage of school bus drivers, we raised the wages and the problem went away. that's what we need to do. thank you so much. >> okay, and that would conclude the public comment on non agenda items. hello. >> you can step to the podium and you have one minute to speak. >> hi, this is weird with the public comment so i just want to name that i appreciate the parent who said that. i'm calling, i'm here, about c

space and i want to thank all the staff and volunteers who worked on that. but we have asked questions and i guess a lot were in writing. we did not see the presentation. how are families and educators going to be informed and moving forward. it's going to be implemented. i want to say that it's important that we have a space at the cabinet, it's important for the voice to be heard in that main space.

thank you. >> can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese. >> thank you. go ahead. >> this is for agenda item. >> this is for agenda item.

>> it's very difficult to make comments without seeing the presentation. from what i understand this is the first type of comprehensive curriculum, it may not be the first but it's certainly a new one. and i am very protected. please make sure that it's working for students. beyond that, really struggling to comment without seeing the presentation.

thank you so much for allowing me to speak again. >> thank you. >> this is for paying a fancy dinner and not eating it. you have listened to a comment from the public especially the parents. and we're going to do that after each agenda item. i don't know what why you have changed the format but i hope it's just for tonight. you cannot lou one parent or one community member to have

equal assets and this feels like not having aoek al access which is not great. >> this will be our last public commenter. >> vanessa. >> caller: hi i'm commenting on item j, i'm vanessa and we laoefsh that together we can provide solutions to the problems that we're facing our marginized groups. i just want to emphasize what is going on. this is challenging to engage in this way.

and one of the most important is for the district to eliminate disproportionality at large. we want to really raise this issue with you all, that we have to work a lot more diligently and adamantly so that young people especially those who are african-american are able to be in the classroom without disruption, thank you so much for all the work that you're doing, have a good evening. >> thank you that does conclude virtual public comment for non agenda items. >> thank you to the public and to all the public commenters, folks do have more comment related to the public comment process, feel free to direct those to me or board staff and they will get those to me. with that, we'll transition to the next part of agenda which

is item g which is payroll state of emergency update. so we'll move to g-1 and i'll call on the superintendent to share the update that they have. okay, all right, good evening again. sibs declare the payroll state of emergency i've been providing regular updates at our board of education meeting. so i want to provide an update this meeting. one of the most resent updates

shared overall. hold on. thank you. okay. let's tries that again. hello. so i, in the last couple of updates, i shared what it looks like for to us have fixed our empower system, that's what everybody wants. you hear the frustration, and the on going frustration people have with dealing with some of the issues that arise from empower. so we talked about and i shared what does it look like when it's fixed? and identified these key indicators for success. new issues and fully staffed

and with limited reliance on technic on outside contractor support. and i know people are eager to find out when this will happen. and we're trying to uncover all the root causes of these issues and put in place the plan to address them. while also dealing with the thousands of backlog concerns that our employees had because of issues that transformed. and so what we have done and what we have shared in february, was our focus for the next 90 days to start working towards that process. and we identified three key indicators of success. reducing the backlog by half and mapping out timeline and filling vacancies in our business technology and human resources teams.

we're almost at april 15th and how we have done. we've made significant progress and met our target around reducing employee backlog. we made good progress on identifying the root causes and mapping out the resolution while that is a check not a plus, we're still working on the timeline and we have struggled to fill vacancies. to share a little bit more about our progress on each in each area, i have marin our head of staff who has been helping lead in the command center and our business stabilization lead. let me go this way. >> good evening, commissioners. what you have in front of us is a slide that many of us did not believe we were going to do,

which is the reduction of number of tickets. we're projected to be at 1500 tickets at the end of april. this puts us at a point, should i stop? so as you can see a lot of progress. all of these issues related to empower. so lots inputs were taken in consideration including the tickets, input from the field,

that allowed anm to develop the root causes which allowed to define the symptoms which resulted in groupings of known issues into what they're calling war packages. it's a way to work smarter and not harder and fix the issues all at once not in chunks. and now the next slide. we identified fifteen packages, which once would be the best to address. what we're right now is operational packages, considered a sequence from discovery planning designing the work, building the process and then implementing and testing. so this is the work that is in

front of us to operationalize the first four work packages. it's a little technical but it's a sequence to ensure that we're working, the metaphor that we use in the past is if you lift, if you're going to open the engine, make sure you fix everything in that corner before you move to the next one. now turn it over to dr. clark to talk about staffing efforts. >> good evening, commissioners. i think you've seen this slide before where we discuss the positions that they're working to fill. we started off working actively to fill 44 positions as of today, we have filled 12 positions and you can see we're short of the 44, we have 32 positions to be filled. i want to point your attention

to this slide. this is very important. one as respect of this is to ensure that the operational of the organization are continue to go move forward and then on the other side is ensuring that we have the staff that we can dedicate to empower full-time until the project is complete. and because we have this number of vacancies that are still outstanding, this is impacting our ability to move many of the elements of the project moving forward. i'm particularly concerned about the number of positions that are still outstanding in hr, technology and business services. we have continue to go work with hr, to make sure that we are utilizing an active recruitment model.

in the meantime we're hiring temporary staff to stand us up in different areas, one area being case management. in addition to that, we recently completed an rfp with an extent to come into the district, i believe they were about 40 companies that submitted information for the rfp but out of the 40, ten emerge as qualified. so you will see the final rfp with recommendation for approval come to the board on april 15th. from there, we'll continue our pool to help us fill the gaps until we can get the permanent full-time people in the positions. we'll say that we'll we're still using temporary staff, we

want to have the permanent staff in place. the next slide is just giving the board an update on the tax withholding issue. as of today, we have submitted all known information to the franchise tax board as it results to personal income tax, state disability issues and unemployment insurance. so if there is any additional correspondence we have yet to find any. just to continue to ensure that we have, done a thorough job of reviewing all the data that was submitted, i instructed the staff to move forward to review the federal tax submission we're in the process of reviewing that data. i'm hoping that by the end of this week and next of next week i'll be able to provide you with that update. we worked closely with the city of san francisco to offer advise to the employees and out

of the conversation we were able to engage with the traction preparation service that is able to work with employees who received a w2c which is a correction to their w2. so i'll turn it over to marin, to dr. wayne. >> thank you, dr. clark and marin. >> thank you, dr. clark and marin, that's the progress we made over the last 90 days, and we've also then, updated what will the next 90 days will look like. so as we lower the ticket backlog we're finding that there are more challenging tickets that have few interdependent sees so it's been harder to eliminate. so we're setting a goal by another half which gets us down below 1,000. we're not getting that backlog grow. and to do that, we need to

resolve those tickets as quickly as possible. so this will be a metric and start sharing when they come in. then also, you know, we really want to be in the green on all indicators of success and recognizing the challenges that we've been having with recruiting. i want to thank dr. clark and others being creative where we can find staff to fill these positions. and lastly, this is a key mild stone for us, that we i want to push us to get here. you heard about these work packages, now we know what we need to do and how long it will take to get it done.

we can say here's what you can expect. and we're out of the state of emergency. i know people wanted to hear that a year ago, six months ago, but you've been able to see the progress and efforts that we made. i want to thank the team at the command center that have been working hard. i want to thank our anm partners as well for supporting this project. and i want to thank our partners and staff in the field. ue has been an incredible partner making sure that we're responding to the most urgent issues and they have issues that we know are impacting

people's livelihood. it's been a team effort as we end this payroll state of emergency. that concludes our report, thank you. >> thank you superintendent and staff for the comments. are there any other questions? why don't we start with commissioner lam and we'll go around. >> thank you to the team and update. i'm curious, i know it's been on going challenge, but it would be helpful to understand how long it does take in order to do hiring. and what are some of the barriers. >> there is the recruitment i appreciate the work that hr has done. and i asked them to identify

the timeline and then set some targets for how to improve that. the city is working with us to help expedite the process. >> that's helpful because i know that there have been directive to try to accelerate the hiring. so that would be helpful, we have learned how inter tiend our systems are with the city. so i think that is important for transparency, it's important for the public to also understand, those processes and procedures and why does it take the time na it

does and what is involved. and i appreciate dr. clark and the team in trying to you know, find creative ways in the interim while we recognize the temporary staff is not a long term solution but absolutely necessary in order to make the progress that is needed on behalf of our staff. so i just want to say thank you. i would like to hear from the team anything you want to hair around this as you dive deeper in this. things that you want the board to be aware of of what may be more challenges moving forward.

>> sure so i think the district has done a good job of servicing all of this. so we know where we need to go. we've identified where we want to start. the challenge is going to be as we lay it out and we start mapping out who is going to work with us on those particular project if there are gaps in terms of staffing. we would love to be able to run all the packages concurrently to speed the process up. however with the limb tated amount of staff, you know if we start seeing the same person, name show up on four different packages, that is going to tell us it's not realistic to run all packages. so marin and i are working closely with it department as well as anm and emphasis to

enlist those packages, without over taxing our staff but yet doing our best to keep the projects moving forward. that piece right there is the biggest challenge that we're going to have in the next 90 days to move everything forward. >> commissioner fisher. >> thank you for getting the presentation on board dox, it was not there before public comment. i don't know that we do have comments now that it's there. i think my real comment for you, dr. clark and for mr.

trew hiyo, are we moving any of those permanent employees as the opportunity arises? what would that take? there are barriers with taking civil service exams and things like that. would that help with our staffing needs? >> yes, it could help. we have reached out to individuals that are working with robert to see if there is any district in working for the district full-time. those individuals have been referred to human resources and going through the process. and as you said, it takes time to move through that. the other thing that we're doing for any individual that we're bringing in, we're really trying to hit home on individuals that have certain skill sets.

as it relates to human resources and payroll. so as we expand out, you know out reach we're trying to find our best to find individuals that have. if we have individuals that are great employees and can help, if they don't have the experience, guess what, we have to train them up and that takes time. moving the project forward. >> thank you and then my last question is when we look at the work packages prioritization, i see that termination and retirements has relatively low impact, except for that small number of employees who are trying to retire who are giving us a lot of time and emergency and their life. do we have any work around for our retirees?

we're hearing from some of them that are struggling. what are we doing to make sure that they can retire? with dignity? >> so as a project, we also have a project that is under way to look at stirs contributions going back to january 2022. so for any individual who may plan to retire, you know within you know, this year, the goal is to to be able to look at their accounts and reconcile and make correction to see stirs that does not mean that we can't make adjustments. there may be some fix that's need to happen. but the reconciliation of the accounts, we can still upload the information and any corrections.

and i envision pers, okay. >> thank you. although you're see that some are low effort, nothing is low low. there is very strategic work done of all the things that can be done, those four will have the biggest impact and it will create the trickle affect where they will resolve them. it's a little bit of pain at the beginning to have as we move forward. >> i was just going to say, when there is an an individual issue that may get a ticket related to retimer and benefits, we're still addressing. this is describing the system fixes that sometimes, does not lead to everybody but for some

individuals. >> thank you for that clarification. >> seeing no other comments from commissioners we will transition to our next board item. thank you so much. >> before we go to our next item which is consent calendar, i wanted to make some corrections from the read out from closed session. so i wanted to indicate that in our report back from closed session, in the matters that we spoke about the two absent members was sanchez and motamedi in regards to number 2023030065, the one member that abstained was commissioner fisher, so we wanted to make that clear and also wanted to indicate that i misread the level of one of the students

facing expulsion for expulsion number 24 it is an elementary school students and not a high school students as i had previously said. so i wanted to update that as we move forward. and with those corrections, we'll move to item h. can i have a motion and a second on the consent calendar. >> so moved. >> second. >> any items withdrawn or connected by the superintendent at this time? >> no. >> can we have a roll call vote on the consent calendar. >> yes, commissioner alexander. >> yells. >> fisher. >> yells. >> lam. >> yes. >> vice president. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> thank you for that and with that, we'll go to consent calendar retroactive contract

can i have a motion and a second. >> any items withdrawn. >> no. >> with we'll have a roll call. >> alexander. >> yes. >> lam. >> yes. >> vice president. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. 5 ayes. >> thank you for that. and with that, we will transition to item j which is discussion item, early intervention services presentation, and i will pass it to the superintendent to report. thank you we have our director

of special education here to present. before they present, i want to share the presentation getting on the screen. i want to share some plan, this is a plan that we need to present because we have been found disproportionate that we're referring students in a way that significantly disproportionate in this case our black students to special education for emotional disturbance. so we need today work for a few years on this plan and we're presenting the 2022 plan. what i wanted to share before starting, this is the first plan we're presenting.

for goals for students railing as well as guard rails. so it's afforded us an opportunity to see how we're going to make sure that we're aligning our work towards those goals, even when sometimes that work is driven by requirements that are outside the district. so that, so we've been going through the planning processes required by cceis and also how do we incorporate our guard rails and as well as the action that we're start to go plan. so we've been talking about and since the first draft of this plan, you're going to see some shifts that we're presenting tonight.

first, we want measurable outcomes and smart goals like how our goals for students. and second the team has done a good job. so we're clear on where the connection are. and then third, there have been working to make sure that the actions are connecteded to the plans. because we want to make sure that this is not one more thing that everything is in support of our broader goals but taking that targeted approach that we need here to make sure that we're serving the students that we have not been serving. it will not take their time from the presentation and i'll turn it over to janice first.

>> thank you. >> comprehensive, it's a sanction and regulation in the individuals with disability education act. it also requires 15% of the federal id a money to be set aside to invest in general education to inter disproportionatity, three or more years of representation of african-american black students and special education under the eligibility of emotional disturbance and other health impairment and disciplinary actions. next slide.

this plan is a part of a larger puzzle, it's anchored in the adopted board and guard rails with much input from our educational partners, community members, parents and district representatives. the red puzzle piece is indicativeness. the last piece of the puzzle is approval by the plan by the cde to be able to release the funding to begin implement of the plan. the shared understanding this shared understanding take place and takes things into consideration for the assets of all. >> so the process involves four

phases in pass planned development. monitors this through quarter progress report. later janice will detail the plan. the plan is complete through phase 3. after tonight's meeting we'll submit the plan for approval. with this we'll start phase 4 which is implementation and evaluation of our progress. so this is multiple screen shots that they generate.

it shows only the third year of disproportionate *lt. it outlines the column with african student data compared to other ethnicity. please note that the district, that the district is disproportionate when the ratio of a student group is above this threshold of three. you'll see they also mark it with an ovr. this was also true 2020 and in 2021.

has 7 elementary, five middle, four and two early ed schools. our sko scholars. if you want more detail feel free to click on the link on these slides. our scholars have specification, two of which illuminate. the black scholar must be selected majority but not 100%. the african-american is ited enters have been under served and will be provided additional support in the educational setting. next slide. cceis is under the umbrella of

superintendent mission of knowing each and every rising scholar by name. our plan incorporates a shift to case management which focuses on knowing every cc eis scholar by name and aligns with the cde. next slide and within the promising conditions of the guardrail. next slide. okay. remember the phase one and two culminated on the full day which some of you participated. this lead to the selection of root causes and development that informed the staff action and how the district throughout

this plan will measure the student outcome. note the through line from the root cause to see student outcome which are cceis plan measurable outcome. there is a footnote at the bottom of each slide including the golden guard rails in which the cc eis plan are built upon. the first is tied to academic. the second is tied to decrease suspension and out of class time. our third is to increase attendance. measurable outcome number 4 is to increase our family partnership. measurable outcome number 5 addresses the need to update

our policies practices and procedures to align with the needs of our students. thank you for your partnership in this very important cc eis work. >> thank you so much for your presentation. what we'll do is take comments from commissioners. i think i'll go first and then we'll go to vice president and then we'll go around. thank you so much for your presentation and all your hard work. the thing that i'm struggling with, and i'm not sure if the staff or superintendent is best to address it. this is something that we've been working for a long time and we've put a lot resources

and energy and great minds to help solve the problem, and it seems that we're still struggling with it in a lot of ways. i'm curious how to get in this issue. especially knowing the issue that they're facing in the special education but throughout the district. so just understand that we have a plan that we're getting to implement and not devalue the hard work and energy that went into that. i'm wondering if there is anything above and beyond that we should be aware of or additional commitment that we need to make as a district to ensure that we're finally able to turn the corner on this issue. wiz is something that we've been dealing with for a very very long time in our district.

>> yes, our team can talk more to the action. janice mentioned this. each and every child receives the instruction to thrive in the 21st century. when you look at the students, it's important to track aef one of them by name to understand what their needs are and where we can provide additional support. so we recognize that this the district level we're not in the schools but there to give them tools to make improvements. when you look at the more details plans, you'll see opportunities of regular review of the data to see how our interventions are working.

one is accountability to track the progress. if janice and margaret want to add more, feel free. >> so this past was the first year that we were able to go to scale with the plan and hired a staff. three admin that serves the k-12 sites. in addition we have support that works out of our pa group. so we have more to dig into to build off this year. and with that, we, we that case management was a really

beautiful duck tailing. because they're monitoring and what their expectations are. now that we have our people. now we can build our relationship at the school sites and have those conversations so that the relationship and the nature of expectations that our staff is having might start shifting so that we're thinking more from asset. how can i be different in this room. so i think that we're really at a really positive place to move. i know we've been working, i do

first names, alita and kevin, you've been coming, i believe we had a meeting and then, i've been really keeping the chorus but being able to work through the pandemic and keep it moving, i feel good about. i'm really hopeful that we can get to the next place. i probably shouldn't says this but we're on the heels of this, we're gearing up to write our 2023 plan. we have been notified that we have a 2023 plan to write. i don't want that to be a surprise when we come see you in november. this issue and this effort is a

top priority. and failure is not acceptable. where we have been for sec sus and we're developing the next plan to get us there. the thing that i worry about is the things that exist odd of a plan. how do we ensure that we have a paraprofessional. so i think for me it's really how we get to the next level of plan and implementation follow through. and we're interested in ensuring that we're successful. i think if we don't hear, we're going to come to you and we're going to see a lot more progress than we have been and

all the hard work. i will close my comment there. and i will go to vice president ward. >> thank you, i'll start off by echoing and confirming president boggess's last statement that this is absolutely top priority. whatever we can do that we're in this position. i want to start, i want to transition now to a couple of appreciations and then i have a question. so i was able to attend the all day summit.

and and i was blown away that our african student where they're able to thrive and allowed to be their best version of themselves. i really appreciated the community and space that was that summit. i also really appreciate the shift from the earlier versions of the presentation really show that i think what we're looking for which is a continued desilo approach. it's got to be in an tension al fashion. if we're doing good things, we're probably not going to make achievements that we need to make.

i'm looking at the ratio and i understand that three is the threshold in terms of being understate watch? to me if we're 2.99 is still too much. so i'm wondering in terms of the plan. if you have the support that we need, can we get the numbers down so they look like the other ones? for example african-american 1.9, pacific islander 1.31, can we bring that to 1.2 that's

just a random number. i guess i'm asking 2.8, or 2.9 does not feel like it's good enough if everything else is below too. >> it's often said our referrals are too high and once our students get an iep, they seldom leave the iep. the item that a student will be welcomed back or part of the general population and having, having, having success even with an iep in general ed that needs to stay in the day class.

i want to emphasize that, the first part is, let's reduce the knee jerk reaction to refer a student for an iep when the students is not learning. what is happening at large, the community that the student is in and what is happening in the classroom and the relationship between the teacher and students and dynamic on the classroom. and having the parent having a comfortable conversation around how can we, how can we improve the experience that your child is having?

wla can we learn from you? you know, oh i guess we need to refer. if we can change the quality of those conversations in the way that we think, i do think that these numbers will go down. will they go down by next year? that 4.11 is pretty scary. and the discipline, it's not getting better. if you look at the numbers, i don't mean to sound, i'm concerned. and i do, i've been around this for a long time and i would very much like to see us be able to make a change for what we say we stand for.

>> commissioner alexander and then commissioner fisher. >> i want to commend the excellent work and attempt to bring it be more coordinated and holistic. the one thing i wanted to ask and i would love to hear more about. is actually what you were referring to, what i would describe as a social cultural. that is only is a piece. if the classroom or the school environment is still not providing as you said, they're still a lack of consistent

practice and still lack of consistent intervention practices and behavior support, if those still present in the environment of the school, it's going to be, really really challenging for those young people to succeed. as you think about, what are the sort of cultural shifts that need to happen whether it's in lead in the schools in the system. what are the shifts that would need to happen for this to be affective? and i know that's a big question and maybe you're thinking on it. i know you know, it's not just one team.

>> i was clearing my throat because i had to clear my throat not to say look at me. so one evidence is actually who is behind the team. you have our director of our african achievement leadership initiative. and our head of special education rpa right there. and they're there because this work can't be done in silos. even though this is not my presentation, i'm part of this work and being here for that. so thank you for being here.

you have maybe be have heard me talk about each and every child by name in goal around literacy for kindergarteners, so it's the same concept, we realize, it's different kids that are targeted but we can use the same idea. and then another dashboard for math but creative way of being. this is how we're going to approach the target universal aspect of the work. that's how i wanted to share. >> i would just say, i heard you both mention coordinated efforts, those come from you as well as everyone that you just mentioned behind me.

so we're working together and happening in the moment. and they make a difference. and this is my default and i know and have been in every part of my being, that this is going to work. like you said, this is important work for me you and priority work for me and my team. so some of the staff action that you talked about from the root causes, like providing and monitoring anti races and coaching student voice, that's something that we're going to make sure happen. and it's this is what we are doing at our tier1 level. >> thank you. commissioner fisher did you have comments? >> oh i have lots.

thank you all for this very very important work. i want to thank the african advisory council as well. these root causes that are listed here came out of a lot of work with the african-american parents in our district 2. she shared their trauma and pain with the district for free, so thank you for that. i'm really enjoying seeing this work moving forward. i would attend meetings over at the beach and watch as margaret and colleagues would present data to other peers that were there to check boxes as they were on their computers

answering emails. so to be here really wanting to do this work is a change, so thank you. i want to go back to one of the things that we like to say this, student outcome don't change until adult behavior change so we have a lot of work. those are behavior, focus categories. what we're not seeing is our brilliant black scholars being identified for a specific difference where they're it struggling to read because they have dyslexia.

we're seeing the behaviors that come after the fact and to its something that i cannot emphasize enough. i'm also fruft ated that we take 15 percent from special education and put it into gend? and along that line when we talk about doing it differently accountser we need to talk about accountability and transparency. so we've asked questions about how to make it work this time? i would say that we need to tie our outcomes. we don't see students receiving

student services anywhere. we don't see students with eip, same thing with math and college career. we need somebody at an organizational level to do that. i look at the activities. and when you see the last column, i see a whole lot of actions but i don't see a lot of resources aligned behind them and i think that's a huge glaring area. we need to align the resources,

i could go on but i think that's enough for now. thank you for all the work. >> commissioner lam. >> thank you to the team for this tremendous work. and i echo on what my colleagues say. that's a call to action for the superintendent as we're moving forward with the budget planning. i know that's been something that this board has been raising while certainly, it's going to be a ramp up of aligning our budget to matching our goals. and we have not landed on what that progression looks like. we're going to need to name and

for the transparency to the public and through this board as representatives of the community and our district values so that we can measure those resources to making that impact. and i more broadly have questions in more of a point rather than a question but i'm very intrigued around the early ed work. because of our expansion that we know as a district we'll be taking on through our transitional winder garden. early ed is and knowing that there are dollars through the

prekindergarten, i'm curious to see what is being leveraged and utilized. how are we not relying on general funds when we know that they can be leveraged especially through historical investment. again those are just some overall comments and thank you all for the tremendous work. i look forward to the continued alignment and monitoring that we'll get a chance to reflect on. >> once again, thank you for your hard work and with that we'll close out this discussion item.

>> thank you and i appreciate the comments from the commissioners. and with alicia getting up, i see others. you'll be hearing more about this progress in this important work. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> with that we'll go to item k, which are our action items, we have two of them. we'll start with k1 which is the management salary schedule can i have a motion and a second for this item. >> so moved. >> okay, i will pass it to our superintendent to introduce the recommendation into the record.

>> okay, if we can have the first the slide right up. the organization slide first. as we're working to look at student outcome focus and organizing our board meetings a bill differently. we talked about what should be on consent and what should be action items and discussion items. so for example, you may have itemsed that you did not have to take action on the cc eis plan. so it's required though by the state to present to include the plan and present the plan but it could be included in the information at items. but this is an issue that we know is important to the commissioners and to our communities. so we thought it was appropriate to share and

discuss. there are other items that people ask why is this on action? why couldn't this be on consent? so there is another area that needs to be on action for board policy as well as california code. so california government code recovers that when an executive is getting a contract, it needs to recommendations needs to be read allowed prior to the board taking action. but then the government designs what the executive is. and the government and department said. similarly the board of

education has a policy that for administration, the board will maintain a salary schedule. that that is an action item na is noted in public. so tonight we're bringing forward, we're adding two columns. and i want to give context, all you're voting on is two items. as part of the budget process and working towards the goals and guard doing a reorganization and senior leadership. here's what senior leadership looks like before this year. what you see here is a

organization where various levels it's not clear what the reporting lines are. for example the superintendent deputy as well as heads with different departments but also heads would report to deputies and heads would report to other heads and just the superintendents reported to a deputy. so you know, it was not fully clear, how, what the roles and again the lines of responsibilities. so in an effort to traem line--streamline, i'm presenting the assistant the level below, the deputies are the ones who report to the superintendent. i don't have deputy, i have social superintendents, those are leading the five divisions. we have serves and business services and operations.

so they're all responsibility for that area, the as the name implies. so leading the school decision and all the programming that supports the education, human resources is clear as far as technology and operation that's are like, sorry, facilities and student nutrition services. and then, head of staff, head of communication and head of accountability those work across the division. examine then you also see the changes that is resulted in having fewer senior leaders. so i want today share that context. so if you can go to salary schedule. so one, we eliminated, that's is interesting.

not moving forward with any deputy positions. so since the social superintendent is, we had it a long time ago. we need today add that line. and then, the other line the grade 5 is for like a senior executive position. so we're i've beening taking some of the positions and having them be a different level just trying to streamline and have feuer of that leadership level. so having that director position gives us that flexibility. that's all you're voting on tonight. wanted put it in context. in your next item we have some of the contracts for some of

the positions and don't have it for all the positions. so those will be coming in may. that's the formal recommendation is that the board of education approves grade 5 and grade 8 on the unrepresented management salary table. >> thank you, superintendent. are there comments or questions from commissioners at this time? commissioner alexander please. >> i just want to say how excited i am about this. my colleagues will say, ever since i've been on the board just having seen over the last decade plus how the upper management grew in the district. and i think we've been long

needing a thoughtful reorganization and reevaluation and just want to really appreciate superintendent wayne for doing that thoughtfully. and the new organization, while there may be tweaks that we can make it's a bit more traem lines and we've shared on charts. i just really appreciate that work and it's going to set us up for success. these are people that are going to be hired moving into next year but it's going to be making a big difference. so thank you.

>> i had a question, can you speak to the salary and thoughts and consideration of that going into it if that was a factor at all? >> yes, so i think one of the things for grade 5 in the previous, that grade didn't exist so there was a big jump between what was, you know, executive director and the assistant superintendent, like position. and so, this gives again, it's a middle ground where we can have people, the senior level is like assistant superintendent and above. and for social what is comparable and so this is a range that makes us competitive

but for san francisco, being in the bay area, there are other districts that even more competitive. this gives us a chance to get the right folks in. >> and with that we'll have a roll call vote. >> thank you, management salary schedule, commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> fisher. >> abstain. >> okay. commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motabonedi, sanchez. >> ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> it's four ayes. >> thank you. >> and with that, we will go to item k2 employment contract for district executive employees can i have a motion can a second on that. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> so as a shared in the

previous one, when there is contract, those need to be come forward and how those need to be presented before the board takes action. this is the first batch of executive contract. and social superintendent of schools we're still going through the process with the other ones so we're anticipating bringing those back on may 9th. in the area of general administration, payroll, those areas we don't want to make reductions so you see a group of assume an resources and then, also research planning accountability.

these are grant funded positions they're specifically to support research planning and accountability. so i'll be bringing those forward as well. so our legal council martinez will go through the formal process of sharing the information. >> thank you superintendent. commissioners so what is going to be presented here i'm going to read through these several of these contracts, you're going to hear the details and i would recommend that at the end of the reading adopt and mass the contracts with three type graph typo graph cal errors that will be connected at the end. i'm going to begin the, the board will consider approving agreement with tamrerice mitchell social superintendent,

this agreement will run through june 30th 2024, the salary placement for tammy rice mitchell, demeettris rice mitchell associate superintendent, grade 4 of the salary schedule. the board will consider approving an employment agreement with chris artrout director, this agreement will commence on july 1, 2023 and run through june 302024, the salary placement for chris director will be salary grade 3 step 8 of the management salary schedule. the board will consider approving an employment agreement with ruby nee, director will will run through

june 30th, 2024. the salary placement for ruby knee director will be salary grade 3, step 7 of the management salary schedule. the board will consider approving an agreement with jenny jimenez pain executive director will will commence on july 1, and run through june 30th 2024, the salary executive director salary grade 4, step 7 of the salary grade sted. the board will consider an employment agreement with sandra philips said, executive director, this agreement will commence on july 1, 2023 and run through june 30th 2024. the salary placement for sandra philips said, executive

director will be salary grade 4, step 8 of the management salary schedule. the board will consider approving an employment agreement with hung may pan head of communication and external affairs. this agreement will commence on july first 2023 and run threw june 30th 2024. the placement external affairs will be salary grade 7, step 2 of the management salary schedule. the board will consider approving a agreement with head research planning accountability this agreement will commence on july 12023 and run through june 30th 2024. salary placement forehead of planning accountability will be salary grade 7 step 8 of the management salary schedule.

the board will consider approving agreement with marine trujillo head of staff. the salary placement for marin trujillo will be salary grade 7 step 5 of the management salary schedule. i would like to read the final three with notations as the correction. the board will consider approving employment agreement with lena director, with this agreement will commence on july 1, 2023 and run through june 30th 2024. the salary placement for lena director will be salary grade 3 and this is the correction, step 8 of the management salary schedule.

the board will consider agreement with margaret the director this will run and run through june 30th 2024. the salary placement for margaret will be salary grade 3, step here is the correction, 8 of the management salary schedule. the board will consider agreement with reyez executive director. this agreement will commence on july 12023 and run through june 30, 2024. the salary will be salary grade 4 step here's the correction, 7 of the management salary schedule. the recommendation is that the board adopt those a for mention contracts with the a for

mention three clerical corrections. >> thank you so much and with that we'll take comments. i was wondering, as we bring forth these names, not to go through one by one but if you can talk a little bit about your judgment and offering these people positions with the district and i guess your hope for their effectiveness to continue with us. >> yes, i'm glad to welcome back, we have continuing staff who have been working really hard. just to speak a little bit about the senior leadership team team members that we've been working. and then the social superintendent of schools is a

new position so we've gone through a process to interview and very pleased to select mitchell who has a long history i think she knows everybody in the school and they all know her. it was a good fit. and then i rely on division and department leaders to make recommendations for other staff to move forward. and we do have our evaluation processes and look at people's performance. i've worked with these people and have their confidence to lead. >> thank you for that, i also want to confirm that we did move and seconded this item already. >> yes, we did.

any other items? if not why don't we go have ahead and have a roll call vote please. >> thank you, on employment contracts for district executive employees, commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> ab staib. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> vice president. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> that's four ayes, it passes. >> thank you so much. and with that, we will go to item item l, board member report. seeing no reports at this time, we will move to item m which is my adjourning this meeting at 10:26 and we are officially adjourned. ...

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access to this food, and we're just really glad to be