. >> commissioner, mendoza-mcdonnell? >> thank you. >> and since we are having a discussion with colleagues around us, and i am just curious in terms of timing, again. i mean i would love for this to pass, with consensus from the entire board and for it to be unanimous. and it sounds like we have some additional work in the questions that need to be answered. and so i am just wondering if this has to be i mean, this is not, the language has not been fully developed and not even on the ballot yet and so i have been wondering if it is something that we can do, you know, once that is better flushed out so we can do this unanimously and show a different kind of support for in instead of not having all of the votes just because of the discomfort around it and i think that everybody really believes in the purpose, but, is concerned around a variety of different things and so i just wanted to pose that to my colleagues to see if this has to be done tonight, or if it can be done you know, in march or april. or you know, some time

. >> mis mendoza-mcdonnell, dr. murase? aye. >> murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> election of officers of the board of education, as to the board and to the public, this type of election is by voice vote and a second is not need nomination and permissible for a member nominated to vote for him or herself in this election, you will be voting by name, if there is more than one nomination, it is only one nomination, you will be voting by saying aye or nay. >> i declare that the nominations are open for the office of the president of the board of education for the 2014. >> yes? >> i nominate fewer, president. >> thank you. >> any other nominations for president of the board of education? >> seeing none, i am now declaring nominations for the office of president, nominations are closed. sandra fewer has been nominated. we can either do a roll call vote or i would like to make a motion for aclamation. >> is there a second? >> thank you. >> do we, so just general consensus? >> yeah. >> okay. >> so, well, we got a second. >> so,

. >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell? >> i just want to respond to say that i support the concept but i am not going to support the proposal tonight because i don't think that the timing is correct. >> no. okay. >> so, no comments from the colleagues, and okay. and i think that i will render my opinion now. and it is significant at this point. but, so, i support the concept and i think that it is a really good concept and i also have questions about, i mean that i think that what astounded me sort of was hearing this commitment you know, against obesity, and about the health of children, and yet, i hear so little support for physical education in our school districts, in fact, i hear such disparaging remarks about the physical education department and the teachers and really the need for students not to have physical instructional education as part of their class course work. and i find that it is some what hypocritical to say that obesity is an issue here and what we don't look at physical education in our school distric

. >> commissioner, mendoza mcdonnell? >> thank you. will these be able to be administered through the tablets or will they have to be so we can utilize some of the other equipment? >> absolutely. >> the middle schools for example. >> absolutely. we are hoping that some schools choose tablets. i want to checkout a couple of key boards . they can be administered. the requirements are very broad. from apple to win ex-. you can run very old machines on these. >> commissioners, any other questions, comments? so i have a couple. so, i think what i'm sort of concerned about when i hear about this test is how are we making sure that our students will be prepared. this is much more rig let -- rigorous. i'm not saying it's wrong, but the idea that it's more in depth. the idea of teaching in technology. this is a big jump not only for teachers but our students. how are we going to make sure students are prepared to take these test. and what other supports are we giving to them and then also how will we make sure that our learners have access to t

. >> commissioner, mendoza-mcdonnell? >> great, thank you. >> we had a really great discussion last week around this project and i am so excited to be able to support this tonight. and i just want to reiterate that this is not just the endorsement of creating a world class, but supporting this project fund-raising for this project. and being ambassadors for the school and so that means all of you are going to get taped into to hit the city up as well as many other folks, not only to raise the money, but in order for us to build the school but to really talk about the amazing students that we produce out at the school, and the hub that it will represent on the civic center corridor and how it will connect with the market street arts corridor and just the contributions that our school will be giving to the entire city and i look forward to working with all of you to make it a reality this time and it has been way too long that we have been talking about it and so let's get your boots on and plan on getting out there to do j

. >> and commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell? >> yeah, i just wanted to say thank you. and just ask you to continue to do the great work and you guys continue to be number one on my dial. >> great. >> >> and then i just want to say that it is. what they do is really cool. but if you went there. it is sort of down home and local radio, and it is very cool and i think that the experience in fact, it would be great for the student delegates to come up and even to be there cool. and we have answered the phones more and you just hear the people talk about how much they love the programming and they will talk about the shows and it is the true essence and all assets of san francisco and san franciscans and congratulations in your fund-raising. >> thank you. and i just want to add, if classes want to come and visit the station, if you know, if their teachers are saying here are students that i think might be interested in media or journalism, we welcome, and i am happy to sit and talk and a lot of it happens because somebody reaches out to us and i encourage, you know, the tea

. >> commissioner mendoza mcdonnell? >> thank you. i would like to congratulate you for another successful mlk event on monday and then i also wanted to announce the grand opening of the new swing on the southeast community center which is over seen by the puc 5 key charter schools will be opening a new location at 1800 oak dale. so that is going to be happening tomorrow and as many of you know five keys charter schools offers youth and youngster in the classroom to build greater skills to help them obtain their ged and they are opening a new site tomorrow in the bayview. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you, i want to first announce that the budget committee will meet next wednesday on february 5th in this room at 7:00 and second to acknowledge that there were at the last meeting we talked about the state board of education meeting coming up a few days after that and i was there testifying and i was wanting to sta say the board of education voted. i wanted to say this was a fantastic turnout by school board members and administrators

. >> mendoza-mcdonnell. >> yes. >> dr. murase? >> aye. >> miss norton. >> yes. >> and miss wynns. >> aye. >> seven ayes. >> thank you. >> thank you. kevin. >> item q, superintendent proposals first reading, and a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> okay. this is going to be referred to the committee of the whole being held on january 21st, board members proposal and none tonight the board members reports, already reported on the committee of the whole and the discovery of the 9, no,dy not . i want to report of the next meeting. i can't, this was december 9, 2013. >> it was... >> just say that we talked about the... >> so, we talked about it. we had a lengthy conversation on it and i am sure that it was just so interested, and the report for the augmented budget and business services committee december 11th? >> commissioner wynns? >> yeah, i leave this to you commissioner wynns? >> okay. sorry. it was a while ago. >> december 11th, after school. >> did we actually have that meeting? >> i think that we did, ways not ther