>> yes, commissioner maufas? >> thank you. i just wanted to reflect on one attending event that i did last night with the superintendent. which was the plan ahead celebration for our work, and i am going to leave out one of the supporters and it is the pearson foundation and the gap, sfusd and our other parter superintendent? i may? >> hersh and associations and pearson. >> thank you. >> and really coming together, under the leadership of dr. valinteno and his team and, their team in curriculum and instruction, and our deputy superintendent garelo really to celebrate, actually all of the work and how successful the program has been and as a superintendent highlighted that it is in battle tested by our teachers in our classrooms and in tweaked to where it is really the curriculum that it is supposed to be so much so that it is the department of labor came out to san francisco unified school district and was so impressed that they have actually posted it on the website and it is now an open source throughout the state of califor

haney arrest commissioner maufas dr. murase. commissioner norton public utilities commissioner wynns and president fewer thank you. okay. this is now item p. we're going to oh, go ahead >> consent calendar resolutions severed for the immediate action. yes. commissioner maufas you pulled an mo u with 9 san francisco police department oh. >> thank you so, so much for staying i trouble appreciate it i know it's been a long day and probably a long week and a long evening. a long life t is good. but i pulled this so we could have a public conversation and have this go through without us board members making some commentary on that i -- i know you and i had a conversation about the issues we those issues were brought forward in any public comment? you know, for public advocates and our good friends and kohlman and i know they're all part ever our big family that care about kids and a care about how we're treated and the partnership with we have would with the police department. i want to put on record i understand that the chief throu

. >> miss maufas. >> here. >> miss mendoza mcdonald, dr. murase. >> present. >> miss norton? >> here. >> miss wynns >> here >> and miss fewer. >> here. >> miss wei. >> here. mr. logan? >> here. pledge of allegiance? >> we are voting on the regular board minutes of february 25, 2014, do i have a motion. >> motion. >> second. >> any corrections? any none, roll call. >> miss wei. >> yes. >> mr. logan. >> we. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> norton. >> yes. >> and miss fewer? >> yes. >> wynns. >> yes. >> six ayes. item b presentation to the board. >> over the last few days, march 5, through 7, 207 san francisco unified school district skaouts received free eye examines and classes through the vision ban program sponsored by one sight, a foundation group and i would like to on behalf of all of the students, make dr. albert lee who is coordinating this for the last few years, including organizizing more than 150 volunteers from all over california to work with our students, this effort was coordinated with the school health programs and in special recognition to the school

culture is really important. >> commissioner maufas? >> i'm interested in what we are doing in curriculum instruction and what we are doing with professional development. a report maybe good to begin. i want to thank you about the idea trying to get as much. thank you. >> commissioner maufas? >> thank you president fewer. i remember my connective tissue. it was about you coming forward and having an opportunity to come before the board to give us your input and right, this is last year's report and how far have we moved on it? not very far. so, well, it's true. so what this is is an opportunity and yes, thank goodness for the lc fs that you are integrated into this process. please let's take advantage of this. you also need to push us. don't wait for these moments that don't seem to happen often enough that we need to be reminded that we have a responsibility not just to our delac and your arm goes out to reach those schools, but those students that are served. that is our responsibility and we often with so much on our plate and with m

. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza mcdonald muraser? >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> wynns. >> aye. >> fewer. >> aye. >> and thank you very much, student delegates. now we have the parent advisory council report. good evening, my name is meranda mcmartin and tonight we just have a couple of updates on what we have been working on recently. we are going to talk about our conversation that we have been holding on racial equity and the conversations for the local control accountability plan on the first topic, i think that we spoke in january about our plans to hold conversations on racial equity at school sites in our city. and we have actually begun doing that work. our goal is to really hear stories from families, about racial equity and what is working and where there is room for improvement, and maybe come up with some strategies to support out comes for all students in our schools. and so we have been to three sites already. and we have five more conversations schedule through the month of april. and we still are trying to schedule abo

. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> norton. >> yes. >> and miss fewer? >> yes. >> wynns. >> yes. >> six ayes. item b presentation to the board. >> over the last few days, march 5, through 7, 207 san francisco unified school district skaouts received free eye examines and classes through the vision ban program sponsored by one sight, a foundation group and i would like to on behalf of all of the students, make dr. albert lee who is coordinating this for the last few years, including organizizing more than 150 volunteers from all over california to work with our students, this effort was coordinated with the school health programs and in special recognition to the school district nurse, cathy babcock and many nurses and social workers and staff who helped to insure the student participation with this worthy cause and i want to thank the associate superintendent kevin truit of the support division and kim coats of the health programs. 55 of our schools signed up and sent 223 students to the vision van for free glasses and thank you for your efforts. i would

logan. >> we. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> norton. >> yes. >> and miss fewer?nns. >> yes. >>

commissioner maufas. commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. dr. murase. commissioner norton. commissioner wynns and president fewer. we have a motion and second in support of s b authorized in the california state senator by the proposition for 227 and the district prohibition. i have a brief report from the rules committee. oh, can i have a motion and a second. >> so moved. i was at the rules committee so if you want to have me report on them >> okay. >> this is a bill before the senate it was recommended we take a position of support which the rules committee approved, however, commissioner haney the chair of the committee suggested that we have the opportunity to discuss this proposal publicly here and before the - oh, sorry before t before the commissioner norton duo did so the public would know there's for the superintendant and commissioner haney to support this and also our district has been on record of opposing those rieksdz in the participation of the lawsuit after the passage of this for the rules committee they recommends we take it public not only the rules commi

commissioner maufas. commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell commissioner wynns. commissioner norton and president fewer >> public comment on content items no speakers have signed up. yes. i'm sorry one last item. thank you. we have one more action item in support of renaming the james lining library can we have a report from the buildings and ground and support, please. seeing. thank you. we heard about oh, my god mr. burns as a building and grounds popcorn last time he was a very much missed person and the committee was happy to recommend a recommendation >> may i have a reading of the resolution please. i'm david golden i'd like to read resolution s p-3 the superintendents proposal in renaming the james lavish to the e dwight burns library he dedicated his life mentoring students in academic and successful strategies whereas we provided education services all were spent at the middle school and whereas emphasis mentoring lead to the success of numerous students to stay in school and become avid readers and accomplished that by building relationships to where he

i believe commissioner norton as it and chinese and then oh, can we take commissioner maufas i'm sorry and after all the commissioners have spoken our superintendant wants to close with word. thank you very much. >> so sorry i have something to say studio ditto everything you've said thank you. and based on what cuffing said i don't know if you're grant fund is done or do you still have more opportunity to do work and with that little bit of opportunity can you apply some of the questions that cuffing has asked you and i think those are going to be could he do you have more money to do the work and will you be able to incorporate some of the questions you've heard tonight but there's a tape and can look at this on line and can pull the information it's for those rich pieces of information we can use especially in speaking to families out in the community there are some many of their fears and particularly commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell has been talking about this for years and for our kids maintain didn't but it was a priority for her long with her questions as well. first how much mor

. >> commissioner maufas? >> thank you, president fewer. i wasn't going to comment because i only have one kid and she was really good at math and so good that she was able to explain to others. i got lucky. that is not my case. i don't know how i got that kid. but my question is, that is just because everybody else explained about their kids. my question is how -- teachers thank you so much for coming out and sharing these stories. but it's really what i hear out in the community what commissioner is commenting on and what she's hearing which is not going way anytime soon that my children is not going to get this. i know they are going to bring this now some shape or form. i'm sort of wondering how we in the leadership in helping squeezing individual schools and our teaching staff moving this in transition how we appreciate the culture in understanding in where this is going there is no turning back and this is where we are going and when the question comes with the departments and the school sites and administrators there, how are we goin

. >> maufas. >> yes. >> miss mendoza mcdonald. >> aye. >> miss norton,. >> aye. >> wynns. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> and we also have two very important guests officers of the association of california school administrators region five and these two officers are leaders in the school district and we have here this evening, president-elect andrew isubashi who is the principal at lowell high school as well as past president, they are here this evening. >> good evening, board and superintendent. >> out of, 500 members, and we have representing san francisco counties, we have three awardees this evening and unfortunately they are not here in attendance, jenny horn, retired administrator of the year has served numerous years helping administrators she was a principal, outstanding educator, and students come first in her heart. another individual was susan sanders and won the core administrator of the year and this is being an assistant principal and outstanding principal at george washington high school. >> and our last award winner, administrator of the year dr. dennis shutlz. >> thank

i want to worry about folks a heap chavez holiday and commissioner maufas and i have been activity that the street ceremonies and asian-american teachers, faculties members and educators the deadline is april 4th do to asia fair sf.com and nominate our favorite asia person and that's speck for teaching diversity so you're looking for those teachers teaching diversity and their schools are yes, ma'am latino the diversity >> thank you for that clarification. there be joshua activities and finally the ad hoc is meeting on april 30th at the 6 o'clock in this room >> commissioner commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> i wanted to monopolies that tomorrow morning through the around is the first annual we day educational day i'm sorry it's the program for free the children the first time in the bay area and 16 thousand students will be attending a fro concert and the students earned a ticket to go to the concert they couldn't purchase those ticket they raised money for other students around the world so it is a really great event and 17 of our schools are participating and that's in sfusd they're

. >> miss maufas. >> here. >> miss mendoza mcdonald, dr. murase. >> present. >> miss norton? >> here. >> miss wynns >> here >> and miss fewer. >> here. >> miss wei. >> here. mr. logan? >> here.

i apologize commissioner maufas is the chair but she asked me to report that on march third they recommended a positive made positive recommendations to the board. >> thank you as with gateway charter the budget committee met and sends a positive recommendations to the board. so excuse me for the what charter. life learning charter >> may we have a reading of the reds. thank you president fewer we have the charter petition. authorization to grant in the alternative deny the petition for the life academic school pursuant to code section the life learning academy submitted a petition to the san francisco unified school district and whereas pursuant to the california code the briefcase of the district is in receipt of the renewal petition in february 25th and whereas the district shall comply with the timelines as required by law and whereas the board of education shall review the petition with respect to the petition and supporting the petition and the board of education shall became a part of the school system and whereas the superintendent and the staff shall review the recommendation go to

commissioner maufas? >> i would like to full mou, memo -- memorandum of understanding. item 2b 148. >> okay. any other items. roll call vote will take place under section 0 under item 8. superintendant's proposal. this has been voted on and we have valentino or tim bryant or maybe both. >> good evening superintendant carranza. hi. my name is louis valentino. and elizabeth barnes, an administrator in the math department. the requested action reads as follows: that the board of education of san francisco unified school district support the actions necessary to implement the recommendation of the superintendant to adopt a 6-12 sequence of standards for mathematics and smaller balance assessment in years 2013-2014. >> before public comment if i hear no objection from the board i would like to take out of order at this time on the common core matters section m. superintendant, do you have a designee to introduce this item? >> yes. this is dr. value tip entino who is going to do the presentation. i want a point of clarification. we have two separate items, one is alignment to

. >> miss maufas. >> here. >> miss mendoza mcdonald, dr. murase. >> present. >> miss norton? >> here. >> miss wynns >> here >> and miss fewer. >> here. >> miss wei. >> here. mr. logan? >> here. pledge of allegiance? >> we are voting on the regular board minutes of february 25,

. >> the only reason i ask is when commissioner maufas and myself and now supervisor kim wrote the resolution for the practices, the big hurdle was to actually get funding for the program. it took us a couple of years to wrap up the funding for it. i think at that time it was a culture shift and it was the beginning of the culture shift in looking at disciplining in a different way. that was driven by the same data that drives this resolution today and also this proportion number of detention and referrals of black and brown students. it was that same spirit that it was written that we are looking today at this and so i would just end this. i heard about your challenges and i agree that we have a district that has been deeply indebted in a culture of consequences and punitive discipline. it is very in vetted and actually the way we do it is very sophisticated. it takes actually i think this is going to take an a lot of will. it going to take introspection and a lot of reflection and that is what this practice is really about. i believe that with that we can create a better school system. part