my name is margaret reyes, i'm employee number 18505. i'm here tonight to again request that the superintendent and the school board put an immediate moratorium on the san francisco unified school district peer review or par program. the various members are in receipt of various whistle blower letters that show that sfusd are targeting teachers over the age of 40. given the data, the numbers are too high to ignore. although the data set isn't enough to make a definitive conclusion, it does appear that labor relations completely omitted reporting at least one ethnic racial group. racism and ageism aren't identical twins, but we know that they are certainly siblings from the same family of oppression and abuse of power. given the data and analysis that we have seen, and the fact that the evaluation committee has not met in five years, the suspicious reporting of the data and the various ways that sfusd p.a.r. is operating in violation of our own contract, the california -- the completion of the age discrimination and employment act or adea

so let me start with richard raya, and then, let's see...richard, margaret reyes. this is susan solomon, brooke jones, brittany sterling, and then, breanna hall. hello, richard. >> hello. good evening, president commissioner mendoza. my name is richard raya, director of mission promise neighborhood. it's wonderful to be here on such an inspiring night. five years ago, mission promise neighborhood was a met work of more than 20 community organizations that worked with the school district and the city, namely president mendoza and mayor ed lee to win a federal grant to coordinate services for children in the mission district. it funded the appropriation of a powerful case management data to wraparound and coordinate servic services at four schools. after five years, we saw preschool assessment scores and high school graduation rates for latino and african american students increase dramtly where student mobility rates decreased by half. we are pleased to announce the department of education has awarded us a two year, $6 million grant to continue our progress by align