wynns and mr. haney 5 i's. >> thank you item b superintendents report superintendant lee. >> thank you, president haney i'll be speaking about a number of items and i'd like to on the meeting by commenting on the incident at june yonder school for quality i'd like to begin by honoring the students, staff sight leaders and community anothers june jordan was shaken by a terrible incident last tuesday that included violence and physical injury to 4 students and emotional harm to the community i want it permit my thanks to the sfpd for their work in about ongoing investigation and mayor ed lee and supervisor avalos for their immediate offers of support to many staff for their dedicated efforts to support the school last tuesday and in the days since and many other individuals across san francisco sending expression of assistants to june yornd on behalf of the team i offer our deep respect and admiration to two staff for the courage and empathy they displayed in this deeply disturbing event leadership we like

as mr. haneymentioned and the board makes decision it is incredibly important it involves all students and providing resources beyond the curriculum itself to make sure that teachers are proper access to resources to make that curriculum truly manage that is concern they've internal listed i as a former teacher see the issues i built my own curriculum and think this is value it in providing a structure as it does with their common core i work right now a retail level i support teachers in the curriculum and i think that we need in moving forward is taking and bringing in teachers voices and the experience that people have worked the curriculum into the board that is something i can contribute. >> thank you. >> i'm jill wynns the role of the board curriculum is to conduct policies that and those policies often involve things we'd like to have included in the curriculum that may or may not have been included before so a good example the board passed a resolution for ethic studies to be available in

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mr. haney's plans education is not only for making it free but supporting teachers we need to find affordable housing to be teaching here as while as your supervisor i think continue to support the great after-school programs we have last week the excelsior conceives project and in the community schools and the ymca programs on 0'farrell we as a district have been away for far go long but making sure our families can flourish holding off on property tax on fixed incomes for people working that question, create with a new deal we are one of the last working-class neighborhoods in the city completes draw the line for our families and work together to flourish in district health, education, and living wages job safety and vibrant small businesses the heart of the families in our district clean streets for senior citizens and children and working people secure affordable housing this is all part of liveability what i like to call a little bit of heaven in district 11 and people like minnie ward he fool in district 11 we're the few weeks that can make a derivatives join me in this program thank yo

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in each role admiral haney has set a strong example for those under his command by faithfully discharging his duties with professionalism and dedication. mr. president, with nearly four decades of dedicated service to our nation, admiral haney deserves our most heartfelt gratitude and praise. so i thank the admiral and wish him the best and also the best to his family. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cruz: i ask the controller be vitiated. mr. president, it was armando vallarez, dissident and poet who was imprisoned for 22 years under the castro regime who so powerfully observed in his memoir, my response to those who still try to justify castro's tyranny, with the excuse that he has built schools and hospitals is this -- stalin, hitler and pinochet also built schools and hospitals, and like castro, they also tortured and assassinated opponents. they built concentration and extermination camps and eradicated all liberties, committing the wo