because at the secondary level, coteaching is absolutely necessary to ensure that our students with i.e.p.'s graduate with all of their 8 through g requirements. we have to provide the staffing allocations for that teaching as well as schedule a school day so that those coteachers are allowed to coplan lessons. we have to ensure that our school site councils include special education in their planning process 'cause when parents and staff connected to special education have a seat at the table for the school planning, inclusion becomes a school wide priority. and finally, we have to address the service codes. the 900 codes, if you guys like to talk about service codes, which i do, have impaired paraprofessionals in our district. we were asked to stop using it because that's not the purpose of it, and instead of finding another code to appropriately specify the service that our paraeducators were offering to these students during that time, it was put in as a supplementary aids and services which means we don't accurately capture how much time these paraeducators need to be spending with t

i remember the class that she used to coteach with my former boss at chinatown community involvementnd the work that they so intentionally dead to bring our community together. i still hold those words dear to my heart today. it was an incredible loss for both of us and many of us were in this room when she passed away in january. she has proved yourself as chair of the budget committee over the last two years, and as many members of the public have noted, has been an incredible advocate in taking on one of the most difficult issues in this country today. which is how local police work and how we can ensure everyone feel safer when they see a police officer walking down the street. and what that actually means. i think that that is an ambitious goal, a challenging goal, but when you have truly taken on. many of us have shied away from it because it is a difficult issue. i want to appreciate how much you've studied this issue and what an advocate you have beco become. it has been incredible to watch you at both committees and advocating on this issue, among with many others. i would l