dr. matthews. >> dr. matthews: thank you, president cook. thank you, everyone. today, students from lowell high school and george washington high school will rehearse together on the eve of their collaboration with san francisco's grammy winning kron kronosquartet. the concert will present works from 50 for the future. this is the second year our students have collaborated with the world famous string quartet in a community concert. tomorrow, january 30, our community is hosting the second annual career path showcase from architecture and engineering to culinary arts and more, our students are getting an early start. students and teachers from all 42 campuses will highlight their work at this annual showcase in san francisco. these multiyear pathways prepare students for different careers through real world project based and work based learning. the office of counseling and post secondary success in partnership with the community advisory committee for special education is hosting our district's first college wide district and career fair for students with learn

dr. matthew. i have a 10-year-old daughter who is in fourth grade i'm the vice chair of pac. >> good evening commissioners and superintendent. i have a third grader at tenderline elementary school. she has made the honor roll you want to thank you for the support. i like to welcome commissioner lam. the pac welcomes appointed commissioner jenny lam to the board of education. we hope to meet with her soon and looing forward to working with her to serve sfusd students and families. the pac has been working with our community partners from the local control accountability plan to develop the stakeholder engagement campaign. this year marks the sixth year of community out reach to share information about the budget process. the objective are to increase transparency, understand and accountability about "pistons half-timsfusd'sbudget process. it encourage families to participate in the planning process at their chosen schools. for the past few years we saw the stakeholders connecting the dots. during s

dr. matthews for this special recognition. of course i wouldn't be here today if i didn't work with such an amazing team of educators at access sfusd the arc. i'm lucky to work with just an amazing team of educators, heidi, alongside me who i know nominated me for this award. i wouldn't be here without you. but teaching in san francisco is such a joy, and i love working with my students out in the community. i work at the most fun and most amazing school, and seeing them learn and grow and face new challenges and achieve their goals and learn from their mistakes and discover all the things that san francisco has to offer is such a joy, and i look forward to continuing in education here in san francisco. thank you so much. [applause] >> president cook: again, congratulations to our rave award recipients. number six, advisory committee appointments, and appointments to advisory committees by members. report from the bilingual community council. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is kristina wong, special assistant to the su

dr. matthews, pact from special education. this year, julia martin walked to every elementary school and made sure they had the information related to inclusive school week. but the follow-up spreadsheet, last year, 75 schools filled it out. this year, only 28. inclusive schools week for us is a good barometer how seriously schools take their models of inclusive practices. so that's very concerning to us as caa. -- cac. and professional development, we wanted to point out, we appreciate that everyone's time is very valuable. and, frankly, the conversations surrounding professional development days that were held around the instructional calendar concerned us quite a bit. one of the areas of need that we feel for staff, particularly general ed teachers, 76% of them sit in general ed, so we think that professional development surrounding inclusivity is critically important. in fact, we'd like to see -- we understand the challenges of getting subs, scheduling time out of the classroom, so we would like to even propose that some o

dr. matthews? >> superintendent matthews: that evening we'll have a presentation on the my brothers and sister keeper collaborative and presenting tonight will be executive director of the human rights commission, mr. davis. good evening. thank you for this time. i did have young people here earlier from the council, but i told them they could go home. i also want to take this time to acknowledge the last time i was here, theo miller was sitting with me. unfortunately, his father passed this week, so he is out of town with his family. so just want to acknowledge him and the work he's been doing. he initially started the work and leading the effort, so he is sorry he couldn't be here with us tonight. really grateful, thank you, president cook for the invitation and the opportunity to present. i will try to move quickly through. the three things that i really want to highlight and i hope we will -- a lot of what has been said tonight, i do think if the commissioners and the district would leverage the

dr matthews? >> the chief academic officer brent stevens will be presenting. >> good evening, commissioners. we are making a request of the board this evening that the board of education approve the c.d. advisory committee listed nominees for the 2018-2019 school year. >> we have no speakers signed up for this item. any comment? seeing none, roll call vote. >> i move the recommendation. >> second. roll call vote, please. [roll call] >> yes. >> six aye. >> number 2, proposed plan for the expenditure of funds awarded under the low performing students grant. dr matthews? >> we will have our chief financial officer read -- presenting this item with landon dickey. >> thank you, good evening, commissioners. i am the chief financial officer. i'm joined by landon dickey. the requested action is that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district approves a proposed plan for the expenditure of funds awarded under the low performing students grant. and expenditure plan is also attached

one of them being dr matthews. she was a proud member and joined providence baptist church over in the bayview. she was there for over 50 years, and she became a superintendent and won many awards and accolades. she was the first superintendent for the family. it is something they sat at her memorial. dr matthews was actually really touched by that because i had not occurred to him that she was the superintendent of the family a few years later, she became a paraprofessional, and had became a parent liaison. sheet surf there from 67 until all the way until 1998. and retired and lived out the rest of her life in the neighborhood being an active member of her community and church. she is survived by her children, and has grandchildren. she also has five great grandchildren. i wanted to end in her honor as well today. thank you. the rest i submit. >> thank you. apologies. condolences will be sent to all families from the board of supervisors for the in memoriam his produced today. mr president? >> why don't we go to n

dr. matthew walker, which of these is not a good way to get a better night's sleep? i should not rent an apartment above a dog kennel. b, final answer. >> seems like a terrible idea. that is correct. $500, good start. $1,000 question up next. which of these is the underlying force that balances free markets, according to economist adam smith, and not part of a typical wristwatch? >> your $1,000 questions scare me. hour hand, part of a watch. second hand, part of a watch. minute hand, part of a watch. invisible hand, not in a watch. it is d, invisible hand, final answer. >> but how would we know because it's invisible? so it might be there, but you're right. >> thank you. >> $1,000. don't think about that one too hard. $2,000 question. making it more vegan-friendly, in 2018, google removed what item from its salad emoji? . lettuce, tomato, the fork. [laughs] the hard-boiled egg, c, final answer. >> that's right. you got it. little trepidation there. it's all good. you got it. $2,000. let's go to 3. in 1912, thousands gathered in a kansas field to watch what extremely

dr. matthews, student delegates, my name is winnie. i was newly hired effective july 2018, program supervisor, expulsion officer. one year prior i attended the workshop with the 2025 vision plan and any relevant material that would make me make the decisions to turn down a comparable job with beverly hills unified school district and leave my family in southern california to become an employee with sfusd. none of that properly prepared me for what has unfolded in my position. in fact, there are several critical factors that have greatly impacted my role as an expulsion officer. one, not being a warm handoff. i've yet to meet the person who did this work last year. they remain an employee. agreeing to take attendance while doing the work as an expulsion officer. i knew that work required an entire another individual, but i was so driven by sfusd's state of emergency around attendance, that i went on and accepted the responsibility anyway. as time runs out, i can see that i'm not going to have enough time to read everything that i wrote.

dr. vince matthews, who is the superintendent of our public schools is here today. thank you, dr. matthews, for being here today. ultimately, i want to make sure what we do here in san francisco is push for equity, push for closing the achievement gap. as a parent, she understands firsthand, but not just as a parent. her whole life, her whole career, and what she's done as someone who has pushed to change for education. working with affirmative action, working with education super highway making sure schools have access to high speed internet services in states across this country. her work is local, her work is on a national level in trying to advocate for kids who, again, too often get left behind. so i am really excited, and i'm also really glad that our board of trusties commissioners here, ivy lee, you remember the work his lamb has done around fighting to make sure that city college is supported, the advocacy she will continue to do as someone who will work collaboratively with her colleagues on the board of education. she will focus on making the best decisions, and they wil

dr. matthews. we recommend people from our hearts, from our knowledge, and from data points, and we put these out there to look at carefully. so as you go into closed session, and you look at those contracts, i'm asking you to renew patricia field dietrich. i'm asking you to think about what you put in place as far as working conditions for administrators, the resources, the performance feedback they need to make the improvements that you want to see. >> president cook: thank you. >> -- and the respect they need to do their job. so thank you, president cook, thank you, commissioners, and have a good closed session. hope to see everybody back in their jobs next year. >> president cook: section o, closed session. the board will now go >> president cook: peace, peace. welcome back. this is section p, following the closed session, we will now resume the regular board meeting. i will read the actions from tonight's closed session. number one, vote on employment contracts for unrepresented chief executiv

dr. matthews yesterday morning. and so we're going to walk you through that in terms of context and what our requests are and personal testimonials of the conditions there. three weeks ago the head of soda's vocal department following a 4-month investigation by the school district which found she had violated the nondiscrimination policy had her employment contract terminated. this decision resulted in the immediate dismissal from her role and triggered verbal and written retaliation by soda vocal students against two african-american students, who were believed to have bought the complaint and testified in the investigation. one african-american student was aggressively confronted by a white student in the hallway. this same student was accused of having gotten the teacher fired for no reason. the teacher waged a campaign saying she had been wrongfully terminated and seeking letters of support. so these are the following things that happened. i'm going to leave it there. >> good evening. i'm a parent of a senior at

dr. matthew shapiro. dr. shapiro is a long time professor of economics at the university of michigan. he is editor of the american economic journal of policy. he is also advisory committee. census bureau. the bureau of labour statistics and the bureau of economic . are second witnesses mr. bill butcher. he is the founder of a brewing company in alexandria virginia. he is a fourth-generation and longtime beer aficionado. he wants his beer to be more like a fine wine business. they convinced him and his wife to start a brewing company in alexandria in 2011. welcome. our third witness today is miss heidi gerding. ceo and cofounder a stable veterans home business. high-tech services is a program technology solution provider, exporter from landover maryland. she's the first woman from and assented to graduate from the u.s. naval academy. she has spent nearly 10 years and academy graduate, naval officer anna woman challenging tradition. welcome and thank you for your service. i would now like to yield to our ranking member mr. chabot. final witness. >> our final witness is mr. charles p row

dr. matthew sha pirro. he's the professor of economics at the university of michigan. he is editor of the american economic journal, economic policy. he is also the chair of the statistic advisory committee the official advisory committee of the census bureau. the bureau of labor strikts and economic analysis. our second witness is mr. bill butcher. mr. butcher is the founder of port city brewing company, a craft brewery in virginia. he is a fourth-generation alex andersonen. it was this evolution that convinced him and his wife to start port brewing company in 2011. welcome. our third witness today is -- ms. heidi. the ceo and cofounder of high-tech services. high-tech services is technology solutions provider headquartered in maryland. she's the first woman from minnesota to graduate from the u.s. naval academy. her neighbor spent nearly ten years during a time when it enabled officers and a woman establish tradition. welcome and thank you for your service. i will now like to yield to our ranking member to introduce our final witness. >> thank you. our final witness

question chess ship police there in the middle at the time it seems of a diversity dr and they turned twenty five year old matthew furlong seems he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps he was already in the force. it is completely south that my confidence in the police force recruitment system had i why don't my interview form and said i was bisexual for instance there's a strong possibility i would be working for cheshire police now based on a lie. just police say they are aware of the tribunal's decision and they have agreed to review the results matthew's lawyer says it's the first discrimination case of its kind of the u.k. who put this issue up for debate with stephen morris from these democrats and political and social commentator mo and. what they're doing is they are blatantly discriminating against people so any trust people have in the police is going to be gone you know how can you trust them when you know full well that they are not looking to recruit the best people for the job they are just recruited based on ticking a box so in fact what we see steven and the others who might think like him i

matthew whelan. he's devoted his life to body modification. and dryou forjoining us. you've had a lot done, i can see your eyes have been inked, you've got various implants, you've had your ea rs got various implants, you've had your ears shaped. you are tempted two from head to foot. we are fully aware there are no regulations at this stage for the body modification procedures. me being a client of dr evil, knowing he wasn't an actual doctor, i met him over a decade ago. he did some implants in the sub—dermal tissue of the skin. i have three sub—dermal implants. he did a transdermal implant in 2015 on me which is the first time i heard about him being prosecuted. the police contacted me in 2016, west midlands police stating that they beget an extra indictment of the forehead proceeded to court case. this is a transdermal implant which is fully surgical, it's a disk against the skull and you screw it in. is not done with anaesthetic? a lot of his stuff has been done without. a lot of it is done without anaesthetic. there are some practitioners who wo

matthew. appreciate it. >> we always appreciate the matt dowd references to pop culture as well. >>> turning to other news this morning, president trump getting his annual health checkup. dr. sean conley, his personal physician, saying the president is in very good health but stopping short of releasing any details of the four-hour exam. after a health assistment last year, the president was told to step up the exercise and cut the calories. no word if he followed the doctor's orders. >>> turning to an intense manhunt under way this morning for a disbarred attorney who police say killed his mother when he was supposed to be starting a prison sentence on other charges. >> with the suspect now on the run, the witnesses who testified against him during his trial are now saying they fear for their lives. abc's erielle reshef is in the studio and on the story. erielle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, guys. it's the shocking case that has authorities now hunting for answers. a disbarred lawyer accused of brutally murdering his own mother before taking off. this morning, that nationwide manhunt for a disbarred lawyer turned fugitive accused of killing his own mot

dr. tyson. harris? >> harris: thank you very much. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge and now with more on the breaking news the top of the hour. that statement by acting attorney general matthew whitaker that he will not testify before the house judiciary committee. unless the chairman, jerry nadler, withdraws a subpoena. because he had already agreed to talk with him. catherine? >> that's right. this episode really highlights, harris, the central tension between the acting attorney general and the house committee with oversight. let me just tell you how we got here. about three weeks ago, there were negotiations between the justice department and the house committee over the acting attorney general's appearance during public testimony. that's what is scheduled for tomorrow. the justice department's position is that the acting attorney general, matt whitaker, agreed in good faith and volunteered to come to the committee and testify. is that they spent weeks preparing him to do so. with the justice department has told the committee is that if they take what they describe as the unusual step of issuing a subpoena, matt whitaker will not appear on l-uppercase-letter tomorrow as