i'm heather murdoch. i did want to say i recognize the very difficult budget situation at school districts across california are facing. i'm a strong believer in public education and for our education system t. does need properly funded. given, that it's surprising the district is deliberately walking away from state money by not ed keg transitional kindergarten children. the number of children who were in the mix in january were 400. that number today dropped to 190. a very rough calculation said a district lost over a million in state funning. just a.d.a. doesn't take into account english language learner funds or extra funding that come when's you enroll 200 children. that number might increase any more. district is asking for funds from the city. i'm not about to say the city shouldn't do that because i think the district needs the funds. i did want to point ut back drop is the district has for some reason chosen not to educate children and chosen to walk away from money at the same time. it's shockin

. >> my name is heather murdoch. of the things we did not hear in the san for a cisco unified presentation is any information on waivers. that is one of the main reasons this meeting was called again, to understand why they cannot implement a waiver program this year. i understand they are looking at implementing one next year, so why not this year? i find myself in a position where i still do not have a public-school options for my son next year. i did look at the option very seriously. there is a 10-minute difference in starting times and a 12- minute driving distance. unless i am prepared to be late for the elementary school every day, i cannot do the one closest to my house. right now, there is a huge vacuum of nothing in terms of transitional kindergarten programs. i would like ask why it is such a difficult thing to implement waivers this year? as long as there are children who want to attend public education and cannot, i do not think the job of the school district is done on this. suber as our compost -- supe

chris carey, usf teacher and heather murdoch. >> i'm chris carey. high schoolteacher at 6 through 12 school, small public school with 400 students. just give you a background at our school. we're about 69% free and reduced lunch. 80% african-american lan tino students . when we talk about high-need schools and achievement gaps, those are the students myself minute colleagues serve. the budget cuts, i'm faith year teacher. been drastic over my five years. and we've seen loss of teachers every single year. i wanted to give three examples of what those mean and restoration of funds such as you have been talking about, supervisor mar, can mean for our school and other schools in the district. first is drastic cuts to programming. schools at international relations focus school so above and beyond the three years of social science requirements, we require five including an international relations class and an ethnics study class that gets students to think about their lives outside of their city block and outside of the city. this year we were thinking a