i presented -- moderated two panels, one on trauma informed approaches, and the second one on new kummer schools. i encouraged my colleagues to look at the professional development trainings that are coming up. there's a two day training in san francisco over the summer, so really happy with the panels that we were able to present and bring greetings from superintendent janet schultz who used to work in our school district. her district in the east bay won their first golden bella ward. >> -- bell award. >> and we want to thank dr. merase who sat on the committee and helped plan the conference. thank you so much for your dead indication to that wo -- dedication. thank you. section m, other informational items. staff reported -- the staff reported donations for october and november are posted in the agenda. section m, and before i do a memorial adjournment, i just want to let you know right after memorial adjournment, we will have public comment for our closed session item, so we'll do that immediately following our memorial adjournment. as we stated earlier, we did lose the mayor of this

necessary american democratic club, and a retired teacher from 35 years of teacher in the first new kummer public elementary in san francisco. before the landmark decision of lau versus nichols in 1974, although bilink well teachers were hired to teach youngsters who had just emigrated to san francisco with their families, we were not allowed to use any other language to assist them. now san francisco is proud of our successful bilink well immersion programs, however r for -- san franciscans pride ourselves of many basic rights and especially decision that affect about 50% of our school students whose parents are noncitizens. why is it after 14 years these parents are still excluded from decisions that affect the children's future? how can schools expect these parents to be more involved in school matters and have a deeper stake in connection to america? why should these parents who come from tens of thousands of miles for their children's education and opportunity have to wait five years to become american citizens in order to have a say in their children's education. in this hostile poli