>> thank you, commissioner mendoza mcdonald. thank you for the presentation. nice change of pace with the powerpoint. just two questions -- well, three definitely related to the topic here on the slides, and then, the third one just to get legal offset with me for going off topic. if we look at the first slide where we talk about areas of improvement, what do you mean by transfer system? >> so when a -- when a student is transferred from -- switches over -- from, like, elementary to the after school program, going from one program to another. >> and then, just a question for leadership of the district, because i believe we have other eed enrollment sites because 55 franklin. i think there's one at everett and somewhere citywide. just out of curiosity. how is that possible and how can we do more of that? >> we can work directly with epc to see that -- i can get back to you with an answer on that question. >> good evening, commissioners. think minnie ahshad, chief of the early edu. we have two, which is one at neil halverd, and then we have one at 55 franklin. t

. >> thank you, president mendoza mcdonald. thank you, everyone. good evening, everyone. i'll try that again. good evening, everyone. i'd like to start this evening by acknowledging that tomorrow is administrative professionals day, and by saying thank you to all of our hard working administrative professionals at our school sites and central offices. you are the lifeline of our organization and administrative professionals day is celebrated to say thank you as you are the ones that make our schools and offices run like a family. let's give our administrative professionals a big round of applause. [applause]. >> it's that time of year again. it is frisco day. those of us born and raised in san francisco know that frisco does not stand for san francisco. it actually stands for friday, the first three letters, f-r-i, successful college opportunities. this'll be hosted at city college, the ocean campus on friday, may 4, 2018, from 9:00 to 2:30. we are expecting to host approximately 1,000 seniors. the goal of frisco day is to connect san francisco unified school district sen

my name is johnny nabler, and i'm vice chair of the p.a.c. >> good evening, president mendoza mcdonald, superintendent matthews, and commissioners. my name is georgia williams brett, and i'm the coordinator for the parent advisory council. so i just wanted to say that the role of the parent advisory council is to bring parent perspectives and voices to t board of education to help inform their decisions, and this evening's presentation is bringing information around the -- focusing on earl ay education department's enrollment process, and what we've learned through stakeholder engagement. so the parent advisory council and the early education department collaborated, and i want to just take a moment to thank the staff in the early education department who were part of this process, and that is dj sati, margaret harris, nancy lambert, did he obserebrd we reached out to various people to gather their ideas, they questions and concerns about the idea of streamlining the earl education department's at a stream lined school enrollment process, and we asked them to identify some solutions to

good evening, president mendoza mcdonald, commissioners of the board and education, deputy superintendents. my name is victor tam and i am the principal at the chinese education center. we are one of two schools focused on meeting the needs of newcomer immigrants, students and families. it's my honor and privilege to introduce miss candy lee. candy came as an immigrant who came to the united states as a third grader, and she attended the chinese education center as a student. she went onto cesar chavez elementary school, francisco middle school and june jordan high school. after graduating from sf usd, candy attended smith college in massachusetts and she received her teaching credential in hong kong. four years ago, candy returned, coming full circle to teach at the chinese education center. last year, candy was chosen to be a fulbright scholar. she received the prestigious fulbright teaching ard with a, so i believe candy holds the distinction of being one of the sfusd rave awardees who has traveled the furthest to receive this honor because she just came back from taiwan for this. i no

>> thank you, president mendoza mcdonald. just a question, so i'm clear. which department is it taking the lead on this? is it communications? >> yes. >> any other questions or comments? commissioner sanchez? >> thank you. maybe it's self-evident, but what is the impetus for bringing this on? >> yes. so it's been -- it's been a long time coming for -- we've had -- we've had the desire to really look at how we -- how we deliver services to our school sites from central office and also to address that what we see is that continuous feedback that we get about different people having different experiences depending on even which schools, like, they go to in terms of parents and that sort of first interaction that they might have with an administrative person at the school or something like that. and so we wanted to do an initiative to really try to identify how we could reduce that variability. and we were able to get some funding to help move the process forward, so that's what is helping to make this happen now. >> yes. >> i would just add, i think we also h