i am a parent of a student at george washington carver. research has shown that one of the largest negative factors in lower test scores is teacher turnover. the teachers we have chose to be here. other teachers have chosen to leave. don't our children deserve teachers who want to work and be at our school? so many of the students in zone 6 face, or significant environmental challenges. they find our school to be a sanctuary. with so many of our teachers being at risk of layoff, the strong relationships will be destroyed. we have to spend tremendous money on training the staff, because we have to teach a challenge in population. they have made great strides. we will not

i have a grandson who just got suspended from george washington carver. he's kindergarten. he's 5 years old. he has the -- the education of a 2 -- 2nd. he can do 2nd grade work. he speaks chinese. he speaks german and he also speaks spainish and remind you he's 5 years old. i can't say his name. i was told not to say his name. they put him in second grade. a teacher named mrs. mcgee was his teacher. he was getting good work. they put him in the second grade. he was performing well. they put him back into kindergarten. he is not performing because he knows his work in kindergarten. we want you to teach our kids the once that are advanced, bring them up to second grade but we want to make sure that black history is taught in our schools and that the teachers are prepared to teach black history. that is the reason a lot of our young people are not going to san francisco public schools are fallen off because they do not learn anything about themselves. >> thank you very much. two minutes are up. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. i'm randolph james. i'm speaking on behalf o

i work at georges washington carver elementary school -- i'm talking for all of us i'm hoping. i would like to make the first point that as an educator i would love for everyone to keep their jobs of the it would be the easiest and best thing to do for the district. i would like to thank the five board members that wept out on the limb to affect the status quo because there has been a stat tuesday "for some time. and i hope it brings real change. i hope that everybody in the room can decide to work for me. and i would like to work with you and discuss the issue with you if possible. hope to see you real soon. >> good evening. tough crowd. i'm not talking about that issue. i'm a parent and i'm here because i know you heard other parents talking about the transal -- transitional kindergarten and it is affecting me because of the timing. and they told us -- basically sent a letter and i got mine last week, all the applications, they're done, they're finished for this year. i don't have a place for my child. offering me two spots in bayview and i live in the haight. during the rush

washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had fre

charles drew, everett, george washington carver, horace mann, john o'connell, leonard flynt, malcolm x elementary commission elementary, paul revere, and thurgood marshall academic high. employees may not be teaching under the credential or authorization listed above during the 2011-2012 school year. in order to be awarded points under one-five as described above. criterion no. 6 shall be used in the event that is necessary to apply the same date of hire criteria to certificated -- employees assigned to the superintendent zone school. any time this occurs after application of these criteria shall be resolved by lottery. i have already read the paraprofessional services resolution. i will now read the early education department resolution. this is a short one so i will read all that. where is due to lack of funds in san francisco unified school district, the board of education under the authority of section 8366 hereby finds unnecessary and in the best interests of the district to eliminate the full- time equivalent fte of the employees in the early education program as specified belo

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