. >> commissioner haney. >> commissioner haney: i appreciate the work of aapac. i like seeing you bring back issues that we have made progress on and also issues we still need to make progress on. that is effective and important and i hope we'll see more and more issues crossed out as time goes on. with that, i did want to ask if maybe you could speak more about the progress on curriculum and books and on black history being celebrated. i know that this is continued to -- i've heard still a bit about it, and i want to make sure that black history being celebrated, that we're doing a better job of that. and maybe if you could speak to the progress you've seen on these issues. i'm sure even though it's crossed out, some of the work that still needs to be done. >> we continue to partner with the school sites. we actually this past year saw some of our best african-american history, or black history month celebrations. and we actually attended as many as we possibly could to show support. we continue to provide our school sites with the tool kits and offer any assist

to this end, we look forward to meeting with commissioners cook, haney and norton on wednesday, october 17, to have an open dialogue about resolution 189-25a1, developing a community-based student assignment systems for sfusd. the p.a.c. is working with leadership from apac, cac for special education, dlac, early education department, office of family partnerships and empowerment and lgbtq support services to plan and organize the second annual alignment summit. our theme this year is relationships matter. we will be offering four workshops on respecting cultural differences, addressing the community barriers to relationship-building, promoting anti-bullying, pro-social behavior, and building cross-collaboration relationships. dr. amena norris of sacramento state university will deliver our keynote address. >> the alignment summit is an opportunity to bring together your -- sorry. i apologize. the alignment summit is an opportunity for the district advisories to bring together our respective parent leaders to foster relationship, enhance leadership development and build alliances. the e

i want to double back on a couple things that commission haney and commission norton said. one is we need more of a discussion on private school entrance through the band 3 criteria. that has not been flushed out in my mind, at least this last year or two in the student assignment at committee. so we need to go back and look at that. that's when i talk about how we talk about kids and commissioner norton took the rare opportunity to admonish public speakers for saying these kids, when you say these kids and those kids, that sends a real message to our community. which is they're the other and there is no room for that in our district and our society. it's racist. so if not these kids and those kids it's our kids. all of the students in this district are our students and our kids. last year's entering class of 500 students at lowell included one african american male student. it's been an issue for many years about african american, latino attendance at lowell. there's a bigger issue that we don't tend to talk a lot about but was in the media recently which is whether we're

matt haney says it's time to open more of them. >> right now, people are coming here because of our failures. because we have a situation where people are on the street using and buying. we have street level dealing. open air markets. i stopped to talk to three young men admitting being addicted to hero heroin. christine johnson is also running for district 6. supports expanding the home ward bound program which connects those already here with families in other cities. >> we connect them back and we provide so basically a bus or a plane ticket back to friends and loved ones. i can take care of them. >> we've heard from the politicians. what about the drug abusers, how would they solve the drug crisis in san francisco. let's find out. >> after he was done shooting up twice, i asked this 26-year-old from upstate new york what it would take for him to quit? >> what it boils down is finding the right program and like, having the willpower to really stick to it. >> despite several attempts so far, he's failed. as a recovering alcoholic, daniel knows what it's like to fail. today is his 71st birt

haney? mr. moliga? murase? ms. norton? mr. walton? >> i move proposal regarding compensation, can i have a second? >> second. >> thank you, roll call. >> five ayes. >> president cook: vote on student expulsion matters. where the parties agree to waive the hearing of one middle school student, case number 2018-18 number 2 for the remainder of the fall semester 2018 through the end of the spring semester 2019. can i have a second, please? roll call vote. >> thank you. five ayes. >> president cook: number 4, report from closed session. the matters anticipate litigation, and the matter of grievance uesf, 181907. ratifies agreement to resolve the grievance and pay up to the stipulated amount. the board by a vote of five ayes approved. one case of certificate employee. that concludes tonight's meeting. tonight's meeting is adjourned. let's get started. we've got some ice cream to serve. good afternoon. my name is phil ginsberg, and i am proud to work for the mayor and be part of the one of the best park systems in our country. as president

today, alexis haney and of reddit fame, now it initialized andtal, is backing helm describes it as theirst company he has seen giving consumer data back to the consumer. thank you for stopping by. >> thank you. emily: you are a full-time the sena. this is the biggest check you've ever written. i, wecofounder gary and have always been long on wanting to work with founders who are seeing the future before we as investors can. they are obsessed with solving real problems. we have never seen a team as strong as gary's. tackle problem with brilliant software and hardware that is easy to use and look at. andy: so how does helm work how different is it from dropbox or icloud? >> helm is a personal service that goes in your home. it is easy to use. you can set it up in three minutes. from servicest like dropbox in that those types of services actually take your data and host it in the cloud. with helm, you have all the data on a server in your house. emily: does that mean helm has my data. ? >> we have the company know little about the customers. we don't have access to data on the server. emi

first item are two board policies, 5101, student assignment, not to be confused with commissioner haney's resolution, and board policy 5120.1, lowell high school admission policy. staff, in reviewing this item, we are concerned that we did not accurately capture the feedback and amendments from the rules committee. so the recommendation from staff will remain the same, but the language we would like to clarify, so we'll postpone until october 9, the next regular board meeting. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: just so there is no confusion, it's section e, board policy 5101 -- >> right. this pertains to the first proposal for action, which is two board policies. board policy 5101, student assignment. and board policy 5120.1, lowell high school admissions policy. both of those items will be heard on the 9th for a second reading instead of this evening. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: okay. so because of that, i do have a couple of folks that are here for those items, section e, item 1. so if you are here for that, we're not going to hear it. so you are welcome to go and come back on october

. >> if i may, we are also, president cook and commissioner haney and i are in the process of scheduling a meeting with the advisory committee. we are just looking for a date for that. >> section k., proposals for immediate action. section l, board members reports rules, policy legislations, october 6th. any reports? >> we reported out all the items tonight during the adoption of the resolution. >> ok. and for budget and business services, september 24th meeting. >> our chair is not here today, but we had a meeting last night and we had one action item, which we voted on tonight which is the charter school resolution and then we had three informational items. will follow up with an update on those at a further date. >> ok. thank you. are there any board delegate membership or organization updates? seeing none, any other reports by the board? ok. the calendar of the committee meetings, buildings and grounds has a meeting october 22nd, curriculum and program, october 15th. rules, policy, legislation, october first. is there a meeting date on the assignment? >> we are working on it. >> ok.

. >> commissioner haney? okay. okay. yeah. i actually had questions about chronic absenteeism because in the may report, the number was 44%, but i see here, it's 36%. >> so the 36% is based on those that you know we did have in terms of active students that were enrolled to the end of the year. so yes, we cdid look at the active students and ruled to the end of the year as the denominator, so that's what the number was based on. >> and do you remember the number being 44% in may? it was a lot of numbers. >> yeah. it was more actually number of students that were presented in may, such as number of students if you look at the slides that was presented in may. the increase was -- the increase or the upward trend was presented to you, and i'm presenting to you the percentages that go behind those numbers. also in terms of brett hart, i have the numbers here. it was 39 and 43% chronic absenteeism rate in the last two years that this year has fallen to 29%, so double digit reduction. >> will you follow up mr. stan. >> i will give y

i also want to acknowledge my board commissioners, my coautho coauthors matt haney and emily merase, and shimon walton who signed onto coauthor this. i want to acknowledge ike kwon from the p.u.c., marry johnck from the arts commission, and lydia so from the arts commission. i also want at that thank reverend norman fong for being here, and the edwin m. lee democratic club who has carried his honor as well. this is a really special time for us, and we have so many other elected officials who wanted to be part of this because he was so instrumental in each and every one of us that are up here this morning, so we'll be acknowledging our city assess or-recorder, carmen chiu, the press of the board of supervisors, malia cohen, and our very own mayor of san francisco, london breed. so thank you all for being here and joining us this morning. and we couldn't do so much of the work that we do without the leadership at the helm, so i want to it is thank our superintendent of schools, dr. vince matthews, who's always been supportive, particularly for this transition and new name change for th

. >> my name is matt haney, and i'm running to represent district six on the board of supervisors. i live in the tenderloin. i was born and raised in the bay area. my grandparents are still here in san francisco, 90 and 89. i was raised with the importance of public service and instilled with the belief that i had a responsibility to standup and make my community better. i've spent my entire career serving the residents of san francisco. i've been an attorney representing people who were facing evictions in this community. for the last six years, i've been a member of the school board here in san francisco, including serving as the president and the vice president of the board. on the board i've fought for bill, bold solutions to some of our toughest problems. we're building teacher housing for the first time because teachers can't afford to live in san francisco. that happened when i was president of the board. we're building our first new school in 20 years, which i led the fight for in mission bay. i worked to extend science and -- computer science and coding education to every

the haney thirty for example said there was nothing banning joint family joke i've been visiting each other all this changing language i think it's just paving the way for the january summit rather then talking about to change in their in their crisis status quo i'm very keen to hear all of your thoughts on some of what marginal and sorry is said but let's talk about the saudi foreign secretary in particular village a bit he's actually called this the world's reaction to crucial g.'s killing as hysterical i want to begin with. in kuwait city hysterical what do you make of those kind of language. i see in saudi arabia's foreign minister the lack of the city and the lack of even visibility i mean as you or follow up it took several weeks before there was a statement after the specialty this appeared and there was a lot of instability in the way the policy was even expressed was he what happened stage by stage. so it's unfortunate to say that action is hysteria yet yet it is very understood there are events in history i because the s.s. a nation of mr aquino and one nine hundred eighty t

the haney thirty for example said there was nothing banning joint family joke i've been visiting each other all this changing language i think it's just paving the way for the january summit rather then talking about change in the crisis status quo i'm very keen to hear all of your thoughts on some of what marginal and sorry is said but let's talk about the saudi foreign secretary in particular village a bit he's actually called this the world's reaction to g.'s killing as hysterical i want to begin with. in kuwait city hysterical what do you make of those kind of language. i see in saudi arabia's foreign minister the lack of the the missi and the lack of even visibility i mean as you or follow it it took several weeks before there was a statement after the specialty this appeared and there was a lot of instability in the way the policy was even expressed was he what happened stage by stage. so it's unfortunate to say that action is hysteria yet yet it is very understood there are events in history i because the s.s. the nation of mr aquino and one nine hundred eighty three after thre

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