next up is alida fisher. >> good morning commissioners. my name is alida fisher.'m the proud parent of four san francisco unified school district students. i'm a former foster parent now an adoptive parent. my kids have attended seven sfusd schools. i've been a parent at each one. identifying their disabilities and learning differences. my current three sfusd students all have i'm the past chair of the advisory committee for special education and now the advocacy chair. the families for children with disabilities. i sit on sfusd's l-cap task force all about budget oversite. i've been a proud member since it was formed and also i'm a member of the equity studies task force. our charter school oversight committee. c-space and now a member of the re-opening task force. i'm a collaborative partner who works to improve outcomes when i can and also hold the district accountable when need be. i'm a special education advocate and day after day, meeting after meeting, i see how our district leaves our students behind and i really, really believe that our budget should be a

next up is alida fisher. >> good morning commissioners. my name is alida fisher.'m the proud parent of four san francisco unified school district students. i'm a former foster parent now an adoptive parent. my kids have attended seven sfusd schools. i've been a parent at each one. identifying their disabilities and learning differences. my current three sfusd students all have i'm the past chair of the advisory committee for special education and now the advocacy chair. the families for children with disabilities. i sit on sfusd's l-cap task force all about budget oversite. i've been a proud member since it was formed and also i'm a member of the equity studies task force. our charter school oversight committee. c-space and now a member of the re-opening task force. i'm a collaborative partner who works to improve outcomes when i can and also hold the district accountable when need be. i'm a special education advocate and day after day, meeting after meeting, i see how our district leaves our students behind and i really, really believe that our budget should be a

germans we must give it everything we've got there's no use merely being outraged about others or about alida's rather than constantly pointing out what doesn't work we should point out that things do work when everyone does their bit that is what i'm talking about when i talk about trust because ultimately trusting in a democracy means nothing other than trusting in ourselves for the long clearly steinmeyer talks a lot about trust and hope in his speech why is that. well in card it's because that is his constitutional role he does not set policy he essentially serves as a kind of moral compass for the nation which is why he places so much emphasis on trust but also on hope and essentially trust and hope go together he says there is good reason for hope as germans go into the easter celebration which of course is all about hope and he says the reason for hope is that the vaccine rollout is really beginning to pick up speed now people will have an opportunity to be vaccinated but they must trust in the vaccine in order to take up this up or this offer and this opportunity and therefore he makes

hello, alida. >> hi everyone. just want to say thank you to support for families and the special education department for collaborating with the community advisory committee last night to hold a town hall to families receiving special education services. we had 250 participants, actually, more than that and it was only an hour. so we didn't have anywhere near enough time to get all the questions answered. we're working on a faq document. but one of the biggest take-aways you heard last night is actually a lot of what you heard in public comment before from all of our teachers. the district's frame work that we're developing in mlus. this framework has to be individualized at every school site and that's where the devil is in the details. so this is great that we're getting to this point where we've got all these wonderful data points and all this information to share and look forward to doing more of them. thank you. >> thank you. kelly. >> hi, i have one request before i begin which is can the district please upd