leola havard is an important trailblazer. as an exemplary principal, she set the bar of excellence and a clear vision of what achievement can be for all students. i had an opportunity to hang around john muir a lot. she was a masterful teacher, a leader of leaders, and a principled principle. always model in the way for others, challenging others to do the best work. today, as we struggled through the issues such as special education and dropout rates, i believe that we should look into leola havard's tenure of john muir school, and there we would find the answers of how students of all backgrounds would achieve high-level spent so i stand on the shoulder of leola havard. an experience that have is because she paved the way for me. in closing, i believe that my aunt was driven and determined to provide teachers and students with what they could do. these are all our children. we will all profit by or pay for what they become. she worked hard every day to ensure that society would profit from the students who passed through th

it is resolved that we honor leoloa havard by renaming the burnett child development center in her honor. be it further resolved that this resolution suspends the policy of the board of education to allow with all deliberate speed the naming of this energy -- of this school for a living person. [applause] ahead >> we have quite a

it is resolved that we honor leoloa havard by renaming the burnett child development center in her honor. be it further resolved that this resolution suspends the policy of the board of education to allow with all deliberate speed the naming of this energy -- of this school for a living person. [applause] ahead >> we have quite a few public speakers. >> madame president, mr. superintended, members of the board, to the member of our honorees face committees -- to the member of our honoree's faith community, to all san franciscans that know how to do the right thing, i wish to start by saying that this evening b espakes -- bespeakes a new vision for the sons and daughters of africa. in years past, some things happened. there were perpetrators against descendants of africa. i thought about those things. when i walked into this room and i saw the slogan that says "diversity means." for us tonight, not only do we honor a great hero who is deserving of this honor that is being bestowed upon her, they've changed the name of the school. as we honor heard, we are honoring ourselves. we are writin

it is in support of renaming the burnett child development center to the leola havard early education school. we have a few speakers on this. speaking on this eitem. good evening board members. my mother really wanted to be here tonight but she was feeling a bit under the weather. she really wanted him to know the honor of the burn et school in the early development. she wants to thank you for his time and let you know when you do come around to voting the change of the name. thank you very much. >> she has a birthday coming up. thank you. >> good afternoon. i wanted to address the fact that it was 150th anniversary of the civil war. the name is being changed from peter burnett is different. he changed the tide of history in a negative way. it's appropriate that dr. amos lee brown that came forward. he leads to third baptist church was created. the nag al park service called the underground railroad the most important movement of the 1970's. it's a loringer point that not only the larger name. the context of peter and ethics created here. we have five black oranges founded in 1952 tha

room at horris mann and i was able to report about the decision to change the burnett campus to the havard school because as we learned peter burnett, the first governor of california, has been very -- has some very racist policies, including extermination of native people. so they welcomed that news. i just wanted to share that the cam county of science haas has some upcoming free day -- the california county of science has some upcoming free days. may 13, 14 and 15 will be free for families in zip codes 94127, 94131 and 9413 and families can look that up on the academy of science website. president mendoza: thank you. i attended the district four, district seven budget town hall. i'm not attending fun stuff like you guys. but it's been really great that the mayor and supervisors have been including the school district in that discussion and i know that others have been going to the district meetings and there are a couple more left and then we also attended their rec and park egg hunt that they had for 4,500 students and many of our students actually performed onstage as part of the ente