superintendent carranza. >> thank you, president norton, and you haven't lost that rolling of the rs, very good. so, good evening, everyone. i have some extended thoughts this evening to kickoff the school year. but needless to say, i and the rest of the staff are very excited for the start of the new school year. a few weeks ago we welcomed back our administrators and this week we welcome all of our teachers back to educating our students and collaborating with their colleagues in preparation for a great school year. we are not starting the school year with a lot of -- we're starting the school year with a lot of strong systems in place to support our students and teachers and we have multi-tiered system of support so that our schools know what it means to have support from a central perspective and our teachers who have the greatest need are getting the modethv services in those communities that have the greatest needs. as the year progresses, we will share more and more information and more details about just how our approach is rolling out. we also have a refreshed strategic plan

>> superintendent carranza. please welcome him back up so we can welcome us to school. >> [applause] >> good morning. wait a minute. you've been resting all summer. rights were to do this i want you to blow the roof off of this auditorium. when i say good morning i want you in your loudest most excited voice to say good morning back. are you ready? take a deep breath. sit up straight. here we go. good morning >> good morning >> that's what i'm talking about. it's great to be back in school. it's great to welcome all of you here. i want to especially welcome the parents and our teachers and our paraprofessionals in our demonstrators would've been here for, believe it or not, over a week preparing for this very day. to get ready for the first day of school something of great experience. now if i understand correctly your sixth-graders, correct? >> yes >> no? this is what i want you to do. by the way, i was very impressed that you actually knew my name. so thank you very very much. this what i want you to do. i want you to think about when he went to kindergarten. do you remember that?

carranza.nk you, president norton and good evening everyone and i i have a few thoughts that i would like to share with everyone and listening in the public. last week we were honored to welcome our students back to the classrooms for learning, for the 2013, 14 school year. and i'm very happy to report that the students came back and you can hear the excitement in the air on the students that i visited that day. >> i did have the pleasure of visiting the sites on open day and i could not have been more pleased with the teaching and learning that was happening on the first day. i joined with the parents and children at gratan elementary and i saw so many signs that encourages the students to mroer including a garden to see how the water system works and an interactive computer, and ecology theme and tents inside of a classroom. and i also had the opportunity to be at the middle school where i saw the students in math classes using ipads. to supplement their learning and the ipads in their hands,

superintendent carranza was able to visit her and meet with her last year. i have been privileged to know ruth and her family for more than 20 years. i consider it an honor to have known her and to have learned from her. and as we mark ruth's passing, we remember how much she contributed to our community. recently her san francisco fountain in front of the hyatt hotel in union square brought her life and work back into the news and we also have the beautiful fountains in japantown, large keep tour on the embarcadaro both based on ruth's work and research and complex paper folding, the mermaid fountain at the square, [speaker not understood] san francisco state and murals in several san francisco schools that were done part of the workshop. a memorial service for ruth will be held on tuesday, august 27th, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the band show on the museum concourse at golden gate park across from the de young museum. donations in ruth's honor can be made to the ruth [speaker not understood] fund and sent to 111 6 castro street, san francisco, 94 114.

. >> superintendent carranza? >> you have rolled the r like a champion. >> good evening, everyone. we did it, this is the final board meeting of the year. >> we have almost does it. >> hopefully soon we will have done it and this represents a kul maition of the exciting work that has been accomplished by the staff and the students and the parents and our community and stcertainty this board. i want to thank all of the staff e this a successful year for our students and as you can imagine while the school year is over, our work in the school district continues throughout the summer months at a higher gear. we have summer programming taking place that is provided by our excel after school programs and we have summer school in full swing and opportunities in full swing for the students with disabilities and we have a robust offering of programs and an array of professional development opportunities for teachers and administrators. >> i would like to thank our mayor, mayor ed lee. we are well under way, and also, with finalizing planning for the 2013, 2014 school year. we are supportin

superintendent carranza. excuse me my voice is kind of given out i have a little problem that i have been dealing with since the first of the year and it has caused me to be off of work quite a bit but i am here tonight to talk to you about the contract. as you know, it has been 7 years since we have had a raise. we have not had increase but we have had take away which includes furlough days. our teachers and our parents and the crafts and the trays and their share and we wish to get ours. we are the first in the schools, we open the schools, we close them. we have student nutrition workers that serve our children we have custodians that clean our schools and health workers that tend to the (inaudible) as well as the secretary and the clerks in the schools. and as you know our clerks and our secretaries are over worked. we also have this new program called go fast that you have put on the secretaries and now that is included in their job as well. yet, we get no raise. and so, we are asking you tonight to cons

year which is scheduled for wednesday, august 28th, and we look forward to welcoming superintendent carranza who will be attending that first meeting and welcoming our newest pac members as well as our experienced leaders who will be returning. so, thank you. any questions? >> yes, [speaker not understood]. >> thank you very much for that very thorough report. i'd just like to know for the september 28th family engagement institute whether you have a time and location yet. >> we're looking at that right now. it's possibly -- that is being negotiated right now. i don't want to say what it is. ruth [speaker not understood] is the one kind of spearheading that, office of family and community engagement. and she's been coordinating the collaborative working group through the family engagement network to help make sure that the planning has community based organizations calendars' in mind, school staff calendars in mind. that was the date that came up there was any particular conflicts. ~ there wasn't any particular conflicts. >> thank you very much for your report. we will now move on to item f,

. >> good evening, and my name is luparas and good evening superintendent carranza and the general public. i am the representative of the local service employees that represent and the living 100 workers that work here at the school district and i am also assigned as the chief spokesperson for our bargaining unit. we have been bargaining since march. and the last meeting we had was on june 19th. and both the parks are way far apart and particularly in the economic aspects. and we are a little bit disappointed even though we are optimistic that we will be able to get a contract, and attentative agreement, but we are a little bit disappointed because in the proposed budget, our researchers have found out that the district has allocated 2.6 million dollars for the (inaudible) for compensation and other benefits but did notify or include the classified employees. if i, if our researcher is wrong on that matter, we need you to correct us but that is what we found. and so, we tried to really meet with your negotiateors but they are holding on and understands that the budget does not reflect, yo

. >> next to him is richard carranza and the superintendent of san francisco unified, just started in the summer of july. prior to that he was the deputy superintendent of innovation and social justice. [applause] next to richard is nancy o'malley, district attorney for alameda county. she was appointed in 2009 and elected in 2010 and has an amazing background dealing dealing with violence against women and domestic violence, elder abuse, child abuse and threat management. she's a wonderful addition to our panel so thank you nancy. [applause] next to nancy is tony smith who i loved his biobest of all and started he's an oakland resident and parent of students in oakland public schools. he was -- became the superintendent in 2009. he's a local boy including university of california berkeley background where he was captain of the football team and he did not include this in the biobut i know it and he wrote his under graduate thesis on emily dickon son so he's kind of a renaissance dude and he's 6-foot something. next to him is -- [applause] and next to him is george gaston and elect to

carranza, distinguished commissioners, board and administrators, parents and community of san francisco, i greet you in spirit of education and i also greet you in the spirit of our young men. we had an opportunity this past spring to engage in an historic event, not just because this was 50 years after the march on washington or 150 years hence the emancipation of proclamation, but we were able to take 14 middle school students and also three high school students, two from this district and one from oakland whose dad literally contacted me and said, please, can you include my young man on this opportunity. i said, absolutely. and what we did was we ventured from here to atlanta, georgia where we were not only able to attend the baccalaureate service at morehouse. very visited the campus. we also toured atlanta. but i think a moment i don't think any one of our young men or chaperones will forget is that we were able to witness our second term president barack obama give the commencement address at morehouse college. and, so, i want to say what not only that meant to these young men, bu

rebecca and the school district we started public information a year ago and my partner richard carranza who is an incredible superintendent, someone i am proud to work with. first of all let me tell you that bullying takes many different shapes. it can be physical, it can be emotional, it can be verbal. i can tell you having been a non english speaking student and immigrant early on and quite frankly times that were very different that we were bullied all the time and didn't know it was bullying and right to the point i actually dropped out of school, and i think it's also important to recognize it's not kids on kids and sometimes adults are part of it, and sometimes unfortunately staff members are part of it. i remember being accused early on by a science teacher and told i was using lsd and i didn't know what it was at the time. i was in the class for three months and didn't work english and the teacher didn't realize i didn't speak english and there was only 20 in the classroom and bullying can take different shapes and not paying attention and caring and while we're focusing on what

. >> good evening, superintendent carranza and members of the board i want to start by thanking you all and the teachers that were recognized this evening for your work with and for our children. deeply appreciate that and we live in the city in the fortunate city, where it is vibrant and it is progressive, and you know, where we merge and from the recession before everybodiless and we also live in a city with one of the highest union densities in the country and those two facts are very closely linked. and i work for the operating engineer's union and we represent the surveyers and conception inspectors and heavy equipment operators and so we have have a broad range of careers available to kids and we look and we actively recruit from the school district. with that in mind, please consider the threshold, why would we want to exclude anybody from something that is so positive as a career. and with that, i hope that you will reconsider, thank you. >> and support the pla. >> could you state your name? >> charlie.... >> thank you very much. >> good evening, board members, my name is michae

and i just want to recognize our superintendent, richard carranza, who has been working very closely with superintendent of multiple districts up and down the state. he has really proven to be a leader among these superintendents. i really appreciate you and the whole team of district staff who put together the waiver. >> yes, commissioner wynns.