a reading by commissioner murase. commissioner murase: i would just read a couple of paragraphs. while this was co-founded with community-based organizations to create collaborative community building after its that improve the quality of life of neighborhood children, youth, and their families, and a sister organization was found with similar goals for the western addition neighborhood, and where they have an newly organized back to school events to not only equips students with supplies but also to educate their families about community resources for student and academic success that would otherwise be difficult to access. they distributed 1200 backpacks, conducted free health screenings, a committed to barbecue, and partnered to challenge the school to prison pipeline, and whereas on august 14, they distributed 3000 backpacks and partnered with a charitable foundation to distribute free poland uniform shirts, and therefore, be it resolved that the school district recognizes the founder, the group executive, and the other executive director for their tremendous contributions to

president yee: commissioner morosity. -- murase.ommissioner murase: there will be meeting at 6:00 p.m. the agenda will go up in a couple of days. there will be a hearing on a local hires as a policy. i invite my colleagues to be there. i am not sure whether this was in the calendar, but i wanted to congratulate the 91% of teachers who were recalled from layoffs. i think it is a tremendous achievement. i want to sink -- thank the human-resources department. not knowing whether they were going to be hired. i want to thank the superintendent in being able to recall 96%. >> thank you very much. let's move on to item t. >> i want to ask, and it turns out, it is shocking to me but i have to bang appointments to make to the public education fund committee, which is unexpected. one of my appointees is actually turned out so i was expecting to have to do that but by other appointee told me she has to resign from the committee because of the time constraints. i was wondering if i could be provided with a list of all of the appointees on the c

thank you. >> commissioner murase. >> yes. i want to thank staff for this information in a user friendly format. i think the graphics are great. it's easily accessible. i want to thank staff for that. three comments. first i really think in light of 25% budget cuts from the state in the recent time period that these scores are remarkable. really rationally the scores should be going down; right? because we have 25 less resources. we have forced closure dispais layoffs and defies logic that the test scores are moving in the right direction and i really want to think and it's possible only as the commissioner pointed out and the blood and sweat of the tears of parents and peers and students and before my comment on the scores i want to congratulate you on the drop of suspension rates and they're deathly. are you removing kids from a learning environment and giving up on them and bringing that down to 4% is really huge and i attribute that to board leadership and restorative practices, leadership at the school sites and to princi

president yee: commissioner murase.ommissioner murase: i wanted to -- )Ñstñ>ie3ñ6ç6eopyjÑsg p&e%ei link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c ++ secur personnel. k-11. president yee: any others? ok. seeing none, roll call vote will take place under section 0. item h, superintendent's proposal, helper speaker cards and action. i thought we had about 20 of them. what happened? none tonight. item l. oith l. board members' proposals, helper speaker card and action. none tonight. request to speak regarding general matters. we have a few speakers who have two minutes each. carolyn tom, andrea torres, adam avalos, jennifer lowe, may l., charles sanchez. komafe savasehim and susan sullivan. come on to the mike. you have two minutes. go ahead. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners, superintendent carranza. congratulations. my name is darilin tom. i'm a high school teacher at mission high school. i'd like to just kind of, if you don't mind, take a few seconds at the beginning and actually end after t

thank you. >> commissioner murase. >> yes. want to thank staff for this information in a user friendly format. i think the graphics are great. it's easily accessible. i want to thank staff for that. three comments. first i really think in light of 25% budget cuts from the state in the recent time period that these scores are remarkable. really rationally the scores should be going down; right? because we have 25 less resources. we have forced closure dispais layoffs and defies logic that the test scores are moving in the right direction and i really want to think and it's possible only as the commissioner pointed out and the blood and sweat of the tears of parents and peers and students and before my comment on

commissioner murase? -- commissioner maufas? commissioner maufas: i would like to pull some from k, 3-7 and 19, 20, 22. president yee: k 3-7,l -- 3-7, 19, 20, and 22. do you have the numbers? any others? the roll-call vote will take place under section o. speaker cards, nine tonight, an item i, a board member proposals, nine tonight, and now we go to item j, request to speak regarding general matters. i will call your name. you can come of. ann. [applause] mark o'neal. shalissa holmes fox. andreea ross. tusik yaya julia martin. robert ruskie. karen kai. and i may have a few more, but let's start with that. two minutes each. >> good evening. my name is ed newbower. i am one of the employees were -- employed by the district. we maintain and repair palms, boiler systems, generators, 250 boilers, some palms, miles of leaking pipes, -- 250 boilers, sump pumps. we are the people that keep our children warm and safe inside our classrooms. despite claims of no heat, we respond to many other emergencies on a daily basis. we are also trai

. >> commissioner murase. >> thank you for that report. could you remind us when you meet? >> yes.ur meeting dates this year are wednesday's and i believe it's the second wednesday of the month coming up. i can clarify that and get back to you formally with the date. >> but you also meet here at 555 franklin. >> yes the third floor of this building. >> okay great. any other comments? seeing none. thank you very much. >> thank you again. >> item f, public comments on consent items. i have a big grin because there is only one person. elizabeth stump -- wait a minute. sorry. take it back. i don't see any speakers signed up for this. item g, consent calendar. is there a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> any items withdrawn or collected by the superintendent? any items removed for first reading by the board? any items severed by the board or superintendent for a discussion and vote tonight? commissioner mendoza. >>i would like to pull item k1 and k33 please. >> k1 and 33. >> roll call vote will take place under section zero, item h superintendent's proposal held for speake

murase. >> ms. wynns. >> mr. yee. >> you can notify the three they're pointed. >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> okay. let's move on. consent calendar resolutions removed at previous meeting for second reading and action. none toafnlt item o vote on consent calendar and section f::::am. mendoza -- k1 and k33. thank you. roll call. >> thank you. >> on the consent calendar. ms. -- (calling roll). >> [inaudible] as part of the consent calendar and secondly the lowell exterior painting and to the group and for advocating for that and thirdly i want to congratulate facilities in this consent calendar out of the $2 million in approvals 81% are minority or women owned businesses. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> that was aye commissioner? norton. wynns. mr. yee. seven aye's. >> thank you. item p consent calendar resolution for board and discussion and action. k1. commissioner mendoza. >> all right thank you. so i actually pulled both of these items. surprise. because they are retroactive. i am sorry to keep you here on

. >> commissioner murase. >> i'm sorry. there is no response to that?hat was for now and if you have a response and yes, i would like you to incorporate that understanding in your ongoing updates about this work. sorry. if you have something now i would most certainly like to hear about it. >> sorry about that. >> there is no question in order for us to be successful where we're seeing acceleration is because we're student centered but none of that is possible. we know that the teachers are at heart of this reform. some of the things you heard about today it's because teams of teachers are putting their heads together and are reflecting on student work. they're planning their lessons together. they're really being deliberate how they share some of their practices with one another. that's what makes a lot of this possible. our school communities are built on that community of professionals and yes leaderships critical to make sure the conditions are there for our teachers, but it's our teachers who make it happen for our students, so we definitely need t

tremendous progress and we called them out and called specifically some of the schools" and commissioner murase makes a great point about funding but when you listed some of the simple strategies going forward some of them match what the high leverage strategies that the principals gave us and some didn't and since we know in some of the schools where this incredible acceleration is going what are we doing to replicate what is happening there across the district? >> it's a very insightful question. i will take the first piece of it and then i will ask deputy superintendent to also chime in. we need to be honest with the public and be honest with ourselves and we have perpetuated in our school system not unlike large urban school systems and practices and systems that for years have served some of our students well and some of our communities well, and we talked about going deeper and further we're talking about disassembling some of those systems. for example who gets into an ap class? who gets into an algebra class? there are schools for good and well thought out and historical reasons figure