mr. truitt spoke about the district's commitment going forward to work effectively with the communities at each school and there are certainly two schools very important to me everett middle school and mission heights school on this list and i think those of us on city government have a responsibility to do everything we can to help create the community school environment that margaret brodkin talked about and to continue the partnership we've had. supervisor, you want to add something? no. so with that i want to close this hearing. i don't know if you'd like to continue this to the call of the chair so we can bring that back. it would be the order of business. i neglected to thank john ross and carolyn lubair. and madam clerk, madam secretary, thank you so much. and our meeting is now adjourned. >> this morning, everyone, and welcome to the 2010 s justice some of. there must be justice. i want to begin -- to the 2010 justice summit. there must be justice. i want to begin by welcoming you. i am a public defender here in san francisco, and i will be overseeing the first part of the program

mr. truitt, thank you for being here. >> thank you, supervisor campos and good afternoon supervisors and commissioners and board of education and members of the select committee. can you hear me? is the mic on? all right. we want to inform you today about the -- the school improvement grant process, with the -- what the options are and where we are as a school district in the process. this is a little background information. and the school improvement grant program. the school improvement grant program is a frlly funded grant with award ranges from 250,000 to $1 million a year for a period of four yoors. the california department of education was asked to list the 5% lowest performing schools in the state by march 15th, to be eligible for federal funding. and the participation in the school improvement grant process is a state law, s.b.x. 51. and how was the school selected? the state used data grades second through eighth mr. mathematics and california high school exams data over a period of three years. the schools were then ranked by their percentage of students scoring at proficient