mr. valentine 0 will be joining us i'll be providing a presentation this evening you'll have the power point as well as a number of materials for the presentation. >> so this particular item is a follow-up to a curriculum meeting in november where the english language development curriculum and status was provided with a followup this presentation including the language apathies be provided to the full board to provide additional information and more background to the board as a whole so tonight's outcome to provide a historic legal context of the action plan for english learns as our fraction for the el services we're to zero in and touch on the academic support through the english language development and share the pathways under the action plan. >> aren't those kids cute those are the original class this is the original class from 1970s and budget analyst report it's councilmember bonin been 40 years since nickels was approved and sfleltd by the court with the anniversary we wanted to reflect on what's been happening with the english learner services and provided complexity in 18970s is s

mr. badaui received this prison and floging sentence? >> he put up a website. he is a blogger. he wanted to encourage debate. he wrote some essays about valentine's day and may have criticized the saudi religious police and published essays of other people. it is not an isolated incident. they are in the midst of a massive crackdown on the community that is engaged in human rights advocacy and debate. this is a major crackdown in the country. >> i want to give some of his writings. no yenlg yun at all has any connection to mankind's civic progress. this is not a failing but that all religious represent a precise spiritual relationship between the government and the creator. this is not, particularly in our context, it is a screaming pol lemic, or the kind of thing you would imagine would get someone to run afoul of the law. in this case it did. >> absolutely. it is one example of how the saudi arabian government is involved in this crackdown. they participated in the paris solidarity marches and gave someone a prison sentence for putting up a website. people in the west ought to be outraged about. you have people in muslim majority societies stri