so it's 1112-13-sp2, adoption of california school board association series 9000, board policies and administrative regulations to replace current board of education policies and regulations related to board rules and procedures of p120. it's already been moved and seconded on december 13, 2011. and let me have a report from the committee of the whole. commissioner norton? vice president norton: yes. it was a long slog in an empty room but we did manage to mark up our board rules at the committee of the whole and the results are what you see in your agendas, the red-lined version. president yee: so if we could have a reading of the resolution by superintendent or designee, casey coleman? yes, and if we could just have the short version, thank you. i don't want you to read every single 50 pages of rules. >> this -- as the board president stated, it's 1112-13sp2, the full title is "the adoption of california school board association c.s.p.a. series 9000, board policies and administrative regulations to replace articles 1, 2, 4, 5, definitions and exhibits a and b of current board polic

-- that we are willing to talk about and ourselves, we certainly will through the california school boards association, but also here in our district, to think about our advocacy messages and how we can really be effective at doing this with our partners. so thank you for the moment, the privilege. president yee: deputy superintendent. >> thank you, president yee. i wasn't quick enough to let you on on the national board certified, i think it would be important to recognize the fact that this past week assistant superintendent guerrero, myself and another person were at a grants summit where we were with other large school districts from across the country. what's stunning and absolutely precious about what we do in san francisco is that we were the only large urban school district that spoke about our reform efforts in positive terms, like having more and more teachers become nationally board certified as part of our strategic strategy for improving our school system. i have need to tell you that there were a number of our colleagues that were blown away by the fact that we've taken the positive appr

our individual concerns as a school district, but i will say that, on behalf of the california school board associateswe advocated for -- against competitive grant programs. we were told by the white house domestic policy staff how wonderful these competitive grant programs work. competitive grant programs are antithetical to the purpose of federal education aid, which is to provide support for every pore and disadvantaged child in america. in fact, these competitive grant programs mean we are being asked to tell our constituents is a good idea that their federal tax money is used to give money only to students in certain states and those in other states, including our state, but even if we were winners in the competitive grant programs, we should oppose that idea that the federal government ought to choose that some portions of america deserve federal support and some do not. i think we need to strongly oppose that and that philosophy to rid we have done that and we will continue to do it. we continue to believe that we are not strong enough in our opposition because among our members are winners as

school board has until tuesday to come up with a solution or risk parent appointed changes. but they are facing back lashes from some teachers groups, including the california teachers associationurned into a charter, funding can come from private donors. >> as we engage with parents and engage with community members we need to shine a light on that. that's not fair. that's not about parent empowerment when you have billionaires calling the shots in public education. that's really in some ways using parents for a very specific goal and that's not right. >> the union also says with a charter school parents do not have the opportunity to elect school board officials, taking more power away from them. the cta thinks an open dialogue between administrators and parents and teachers is the best way to come up with solutions to fix problems, harris. >> interesting. casey, thank you very much. fox's top story, revisiting and celebrating the life of whitney houston. family and friends packing the church where she first shared her beautiful voice with the world. ♪ [can you send an angel ♪ ♪ can you send an angel whisper♪ every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. ♪ slowl