and as soon as ms. casco is ready. we'll get started. [reading names] [reading names] [reading names] >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: these are different. and ted niece. okay. so, again, this is a consent item. we have a total of 10 minutes, ms. casco. and you may begin -- and please state your name. thank you. you have a total of 10 minutes. so just say what you need to say and move on. >> good evening. my name is lori barrett. i've been a teacher at redding elementary school for 30 years, all at the same time. and just like everyone holding a sign, i support arab youth. i've been serving the redding arab community for almost 30 years and i dearly love my arab families and support the children and their families. my concern is not supporting arab youth. i'm all for learning language, cultural history. it's the extreme speech of the leadership of aroc. when i read on-line, going to the primary source, which we teach our children to do, when i heard her saying on line, bringing down israel will really benefit everyone in the world and eve

prior to the item that is being called and presented to ms. casco. importantly, according to the board rules and procedures, speaker calls will not be accepted for an item already before the board. i'm going to say this one more time. you need to have a speaker card if you want to speak or you need to have called in to be on a list to speak. if you are not on the list, we're not going to allow t a alu speak this evening. we want to be respectful for those of you who signed up. there are many speakers on a couple of items. if you're here for an item where there are more than 20 speakers, i'm going to be limiting the time for you to speak. so i will give you a time limited amount, and i am just asking you now to organize yourselves so that you can speak within that time frame. but i will call everybody's name at the time to speak. item 2 is a superintendent's report. dr. matthews. >> thank you, president mendoza. good evening, everyone. this week is teacher appreciation week and today is teacher appreciation day. all week we celebrate hard work and con

i'll pass that on to ms. casco. aroc is a pillar in the community. it's been doing this for 30 years leading in the movement for social justice. their work speaks volumes. right? you can have teachers, students, parents speak to the impact that it has in opening up our minds and really walking the values that sfusd and you all here at the board of education have on the walls here outside, have on the materials that we give to our families at schools. we talk about social justice. we talk about inclusion. we talk about equity. this organization is walking that every day. right? it is a humongous injustice to deny the opportunity for students to get to benefit from the amazing transformative programs that aroc offers. so on behalf of our members, i want to urge you to look within yourself, in your heart. make this a reality. make it happen. it's been three years. it's ridiculous that this amount of time could go by denying them that opportunity. it's something that we haven't seen with any other organization that has such an amazing track record of doi