>> if we do that, it would be very brief. >> good evening, commissioners, o'keefe, special assistant to the superintendent. subject 115-24 sp 1, revisions to board policy p5101 student assignment. requested action, that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district adopt the revisions outlined in the attached student assignment for policy p5101 as amended herein not withstanding any provisions in p5101 to the contrary, the revisions to p5101 shall be effective immediately. would you like me to read the background in also or the requested action? commissioner mendoza: i don't think we need to do the whole thing. thank you. no. superintendent garcia? superintendent garcia: first, i do really want to thank the p.a.c. and p.p.s. for being such great partners. this has been an extremely long journey for all of us to take but we're glad you took it with us. we may have a few items where we disagree but i think the discussion over the last two years has been a really rich and rewarding discussion that has educated all of us, i think, staff, parents, the community, we'v

o'keefe, if you want to begin. thank you. >> first and foremost, i really want to take this opportunity to thank parents for public choice diligently with us to do all this work. and i want to qualify a few things that i'm going to say, but before that, i want to thank them because, you know, they did do a lot of input session. they went out there and did a lot of great work for us in cooperation with us. that's really a hard item to do. and we want to thank -- that was a great partnership. i also think that from what i've seen out there, sometimes here in our beautiful city when we get input from different groupings, it doesn't always mean that input means that it goes one way or goes to the other way. it just simply means we take it into consideration in making the best recommendation we can. and sometimes that means that we don't follow everything that every group wants us to do. that's the reality of things. we try to tweak things as we work with groups because they give us a lot of insights and great ideas. bu

a young man named james o'keefe found guilty of a federal crime. i yield pack. -- i yield back. the chair: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? >> i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by ms. eshoo of california. at the end of the bill, insert the following, none of the funds made available may be used to enter into a contract that does not disclose political expenditures. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> i reserve a point of order. the chair: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for five minutes. ms. eshoo: i thank the chairman. mr. chairman, i rise today to speak about what i think is a very, very important undertaking. it deals with our democratic system and what works against it. my amendment would require that anyone that receives an appropriation a contract, doing business with the federal government produce full disclosure relative to political expenditures. i raise this because i think there is a dark corner of our system that is not being addres