partnership if we did not have leadership, and so i want to introduce our superintendent of schools, carlos garcia, and our board member who has helped identify the needs of students as well. carlos? >> thank you. good morning. but the move this a little bit. there we go. this is an exciting day. sometimes people come up to me and say that summers will seems like an oxymoron. you already have school, right? in this day and age, if we're going to compete, in a flat our students are going to be successful. i have to tell you to take my hat goes off -- and he has a half, but i do not. my hat goes off to the mayor. think about it. we had all the different superintendents from southern california in for a meeting, and no one could believe that a city like san francisco would step up to fund charter school, because that just does not happen anywhere. we asked around the room, were there any other cities, and there was not. this is a special city. we have a community that actually use the children of the community as their children, like the mayor said. and it makes such a big difference, having them ste

partnership if we did not have leadership, and so i want to introduce our superintendent of schools, carlos garcia, and our board member who has helped identify the needs of students as well. carlos? >> thank you. good morning. but the move this a little bit. there we go. this is an exciting day. sometimes people come up to me and say that summers will seems like an oxymoron. you already have school, right? in this day and age, if we're going to compete, in a flat our students are going to be successful.

carlos garcia is the super intendent of the city and county. we are so lucky to have him in san francisco. we served in the fifth faster growing school system in clark county. he worked as a principle including horace man in san francisco. thank you very much super intendent for being here. nathaniel ford is the director of the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority. he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work he was recognized at the national principle of the year. and he is somebody who is on the ground and has worked to empower young people at his school. he took his school from a different circumstances to be one of the highest performs school districts in the state. jim dierck. margaret brodkin is the director of t

mendoza, and for superintendent carlos garcia. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is helen archer. i have two children at the district. a junior at george washington high, and another elsewhere. i have served on the pta. i am not an educator, but i am an experienced administrator in nonprofit health care, and i think one of the challenges we have is to stop trying to solve our new problems with old solutions. cutting teacher fte's is an old solution to our new normal. i'd like to say a few things. instead oflo

i am here today with carlos garcia. thank you for being here. the relationship with the school continues. the work with me as the education adviser

like to reach out and give a special thanks and recognition to a supervisor erik mar, supervisor carlos garciaard of education for their ongoing support of arts education. [reading names close brackets -- [reading names] the arts education master plan manager and a big thank you to the extraordinary work of the director of young at heart who cannot be with us today because she is hanging art. of course, to every student and teacher whose work is represented as visual art, creative writing, dancing, filmmaking, acting, singing and playing a musical instrument. we curate 1200 pieces of art and we have 60 live performances in those two days. we salute you all and are proud to see the promise of our arts education master plan made it real. please no and remember you are invited to young at heart which is held between may 14th and the 22nd. look for your invitations. we hope to see you soon. thank you very much. >> education has to be more than turning out really good test takers. it has to do with the creativity, thinking outside the box, working together, and bending and experiencing deep joy. th

i want to thank the mayor and his leadership and appreciate carlos garcia and his leadership of the school district. we definitely see our department as the glue that connects the city with the different departments together and to help advocate for services for children, youth, and families. i want to mention a few things the department is doing for the summer, because we are doing a lot. if you want to learn more, please go to 311, 211, or our partent-specific website sf.org. our goals are to create programs and services that meet the needs of working families. i want to emphasize working families because i received a directive from the mayor that require this to make sure all of programming help support all of those working families in san francisco, because you know how important that is to keep our families here and to have " -- quality services for them, and to focus our services on at risk children, youth, and families. we also have a lot of families that are struggling right now. we need to make sure our services prioritizes families. finally, we want to make sure would provide a h

. >> commissioners of the board of education, superintendent carlos garcia in the pink shirt -- [laughter] i rise to speak to you about two items. they are on page 32, item 3k. the item there is remarkable and commendable because the school district, through the decision not to modernize one campus and to have the contractor hurry the work at another campus to save -- has saved $50,000. that goes back into the bond fund and can be used for other projects. when you see that, it makes you worry about what is being done with some of the other bond expenditures, such as the one across the street. the incredible work that is planned for the john your campus -- john muir campus in order to create some administrative offices, when presumably, if you looked at, for instance, horace mann, you could move in bungalows and administrators could live in bungalows the same with the kids are. i also ask you to look at page 66, item k6, the employee assistance program. if you look not at the expenditure, not at the good intention of it, but how it was chosen, and not a single one of the people who are int

mendoza, and for superintendent carlos garcia. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is helen archer. i have two children at the district. a junior at george washington high, and another elsewhere. i have served on the pta. i am not an educator, but i am an experienced administrator in nonprofit health care, and i think one of the challenges we have is to stop trying to solve our new problems with old solutions. cutting teacher fte's is an old solution to our new normal. i'd like to say a few things. instead of looking at sheer numbers, i would recommend the process to eliminate ineffective we have many young, capable educators who are being laid off and we are retaining people that you would be embarrassed to be employ. you could ask any parent and they would be able to give you the names. i recommend a performance management program that works. we know from the statistics that it doesn't, the one you have now. the second thing is that central office reduction should take precedence over cutting classroom resources and to continue to focus on the classroom re

i am here today with carlos garcia. thank you for being here. the relationship with the school continues. the work with me as the education adviser, it constantly on a weekly of got every other day basis. letting us know about the programs we are doing, what more we can do. it is a topic i always want to keep in front of me. watching out for the future of our kids, watching out for their safety as well as their continuing harassment in all the programs that we have. along with carlos, we have marie sue. they are in charge of a lot of the programs that we have centralized and try to match all of the needs of their, making sure we have the best programs possible. she had a lot of announcements to make today. you will see more of this elsewhere. we are not standing on the soggy ground. now that we're doing things smarter, the recreation and parks department is there for us. they are here to make announcements about the summer programs we have had our reflective they are in his attempt to do more in the summer camp program, where more for you to mak