commissioner murase? commissioner murase: i'd like to sever k3, k5, k11 on the child aide issues. >> they're all pulled. president mendoza: we're just pulling k22 and then we'll do the vote under section o. any comments from the board or superintendent? item h is the superintendent's proposal. there are no one tonight. item i is the board member's proposal, there are no one tonight. item j is request to speak regarding general matters and i have a few cards so when i call your name, if you'd please come up, please. jeff dubois, leann loung and linda plack and you each have two minutes. we have a new timer that we've installed. we've resurrected so you will know when your time is coming to a close so we'd appreciate it if you'll stay close to -- stay within your time frame. thank you. >> i was hoping there would be a time check here. does it beep,atic like -- my name is jeff dubois, my daughter attends mckinnell. she's a first grader. and i guess foremost speaking for my experience as a parent, i can only

president mendoza: commissioner murase? commissioner murase: i wanted to congratulate the community and make a couple of announcements related to their celebration. friday, october 14, at 2:00 p.m., retired faculty and staff are invited to retired teachers' luncheon. on friday, october 14, there is a 66th annual game, football. friday october 14, 5:30, a bell game party at the janet pommerony center and on saturday, october 15, at 3:00, there's a public walking tour of art on washington and later there will be a gala celebration and it's an event bright event and you can find information at the washington high school alumni association web site. president mendoza: i want to give my heartfelt thanks to washington high school, also. as an army brat, i went to four different high schools, my last four years of schooling before going on to college and we lived on the practice -- presidio so i ended up going to washington because of where we were located and i came in a couple of months after cool had started and it was one of t

murase, mr. yee, ms. mendoza. >> yes except on items k 1, 12 and 19. >> item p, we have one item. >> on page 113, k-22. the reason i pulled this actually, i have already spoken to the folks submitting it but the reason i pulled this was because i wanted to just discuss, not discuss but highlight, i think, the need for our parent engagement department to actually review and at least review the curriculum that is being presented to our students, our parents to make sure it is aligned with our overall parent engagement plan and aligned to the goals of our strategic plan. i would hope we would have evaluations for training such as this that we would hold our own selves accountable to which is really the impact and are we moving our parents from a dependency model to an empowerment model. also hopefully once we have the capacity ourselves as a district to do these type of workshops ourselves we will have our folks doing it also. to make sure that everything is aligned to our strategic plan and also to our over

commissioner murase, would you mind reporting on that? i'm sorry, ad hoc committee on student assignment. commissioner murase: on october 19, we addressed informational items. we heard from staff about the enrollment process for the 2012- 2013 school year. there is a proposal to move from unlimited choices in the august assignment system to the single highway pool. there is out of reach and recruitment -- november 5 is the enrollment affair. we received an annual report on student assignment. we're developing questions and getting the help from researchers on how to evaluate this new one. student assignment that includes a consideration for neighborhood assignment. there was an update on the redesign of transportation services. president mendoza: any other reports on any of the committees that may have met? commissioner norton: i'm not reporting on a committee, but i did go see a bilingual community council meeting. i did not know we were doing this, but we have begun translating the annual test reports that all parents get in the mail. p

commissioner murase? commissioner murase: ruth asal school of the arts had a dedication ceremony on september 14 and i wanted to congratulate that community and tonight actually comcast is going to present sort of with donation, they're having a precedent tonight, announcing new asian-american media content so we're very proud of soda and the contributions they're receiving and support from the community. president mendoza: commissioner yee? vice president yee: wherever these schools have celebrations, especially the 100th anniversary celebration, one of the most difficult things to do is find alumni, because we don't have a list. if anybody know of somebody actually went to school at gene parker at any time, let them know that there's going to be a 100-year celebration of gene parker tomorrow night at 6:00. so please join us there. president mendoza: i also wanted to share that the college track did their groundbreaking for their new facility site on third and gerald which is really exciting so it will h

commissioner murase, would you mind reporting on that? i'm sorry, ad hoc committee on student assignment. commissioner murase: on october 19, we addressed informational items. we heard from staff about the enrollment process for the 2012- 2013 school year. t

>> commissioner murase, the wins and then fewer. commissioner murase: you give some of the response from the schools in terms of insufficient materials, principals of 54 elementary schools, did you hear from 100% of the schools? >> yes, we always do. commissioner wins: i'm glad we do -- commissioner wynns: i'm glad we do this. i'm interested in what you can tell us, it doesn't have to be now, but if there's information about the postponement of curriculum adoptions by the state over time, so we've been talking about, you know, since we're spending a serious amount of money replacing textbooks anyway, getting some that are better for the state -- even if the state doesn't do an adoption and also eventually we'll want to weigh in on the question of whether we ought to encourage the state to stop doing them and those kinds of things. if you could at some time in writing would be fine for me, or maybe we could do it at the curriculum committee or something leek that, having a hearing on the impact of the postponement of the adoption on

commissioner murase: a this wanted to point out that -- i just wanted to point out that president mendoza and i were at a presentation. there is a directory of after- school programs. i am not sure it is the most family friendly directory, it would be great to get some feedback from the pac. i will make sure you did that before you leave tonight. commissioner maufas: i have a question about when the next pac meeting is. >> the next meeting will be on tuesday, november 15. and we meet in this building, but usually in the cafeteria on the third floor. >> thank you for your report. president mendoza: public comment on consent items, i don't have any speaker cards. this is a reminder that in accordance with the policy, and individual wishing to address the board on the agenda item can call the board office by 4:30 on the day of the meeting or by completing a speaker card prior to the item being called. cards being turned been the same time an item as discussed will not be accepted. i need a motion in the second on the consent calendar. any items withdrawn or corrected? no itens. -- items. ite

commissioner murase: i wanted to report on the rules committee meeting that met on monday, october 24 for action. we reviewed the online board of education policies. we are going very deep into that process trying to bring the board policies on line. i invite my colleagues to join in on that. we will probably need back for recommendation in december. we reviewed the policy for committing non 7 it is residents to the school of the arts, and when so was started, there was a hard cap recommended of 10% of out of district students. it was unknown to the staff, so the principle has made a commitment in the coming year to really keep to that, because currently they have 60% overall out of district students. some departments are as high as 39%. one of the arguments given to us was that there aren't enough qualified seven it is students. i am here to say that san francisco students should apply. we want to see lots of applicants and phyllis many spaces as possible with san francisco students. there are some exceptions, when there is a need for a particular baritone or tenor who to invite and

commissioner murase: i want to congratulate your team for their work. i was a fifth and sixth grader at wallenberg when it was an elementary school, i was shocked when i heard they were making it a high school. it's wonderful to see that now it's designed for the state of the nsgo there. i've seen the work at modernization at rosa parks, it's made a huge difference. the really nice way that the school was structured contributed to a good school community. i'm glad to hear those things have been taken into consideration for the chinese immersion school there. and just along with vice president yee, i think it is important that people know that there is a bond measure in november to fund the last group of schools. >> commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: i want to say the schools are beautiful. i'm a fourth generation san franciscoian and my parents went to schools in san francisco and one of them was stockton, which we just saw the other day, what a beautiful school, also that you redid there too. anyway, i want to say thanks, it's beautiful, great new