. >> john templeton, i am here to underscore the presentation to the curriculum committee last monday regarding the participation of african- american students in mathematics and science. there are seven times more likely to be in special education and seven times less likely to be in calculus. i will send a copy of the power point to the secretary so they can see that. it emphasizes the importance of adopting a standards based approach districtwide to the infusion of african-american content throughout the classroom experience. plus, we have tremendous resources. i want to emphasize that we had a number of specific action steps in the nine-page document that we provided to the commission. for instance, we have the fifth annual preserving california black heritage conference november 16 through 19. we will have a day where we focus on maritime history of african-americans including the underground railroad and the focusing on the role of leroy king and the church labor coalition, so if we're talking about social justice, and we're not talking about these examples in the community, we

we'll hear more about that and we also will have a guest presentation from a community member, john templeton, on african-american success in math and science so hopefully we'll see everybody on the 3rd. president mendoza: thank you. commissioner murase on the rules? commissioner murase: the rules committee met monday september 19 with three informational items. the first was a review of the policy for admitting non-san francisco residents to alice school of the arts. this was a question that came up from one of the previous board members on the policy on interdistrict transfers and i wanted to share two pieces of data. there was discussion around two pieces of data. first is the original admission policy approved by the board of education on october 23, 2001. and there are two provisions from that policy. one is that 10% of the slots for incoming freshmen would be reserved for students who demonstrate extraordinary potential as opposed to refined skill. and also the policy delineates that the school will limit non-san francisco enrollment to 10% with exceptions permitted based on low enrollm