. >> hello, i'm jordan dear san francisco unified school district paraprofessionals are well needed at do you want high schools with a continuous of hello high school we need all the help to understand the curriculum the teachers at downtown high school can only help so many students but the paraprofessionals make it less hard to get the help we don't feel cholesterol exit when we get the help the students - being at a continuation school means we lose the support we didn't have at other schools they help with the motivation support and taking the paraprofessionals only having them come in twice a week they'll be less curriculum and the teachers will have to catch them up and the help and support will not be an finder thing students phasing disabilities they need help but because of the great support system from our paraprofessionals we don't feel bad all students at downtown high schools agree that the school board should look at the cuts and an average school teachers are not seeing the struggles at downtown how they have open minds and understand that some students are living in pov

the problems they go through nothing i can say to do better i think in every clamor we need a paraprofessional to help the children and also when you send a child out of a classroom they need to have somewhere to go we want to send a child to another classroom and number 3 when the schools you're confronted with parents you're not only there to help it child learner you should be there to help that parent so they can help the child to put children through school and give us a better education to do better in the world. >> hello, i'm doorwaycy i teach first grade i want to as a say clearly i speak for all teachers we absolutely speak this which were shouldn't be suspend from school because of behavorial problems, however safety maybe an issue or the lesson is disrupted for that students and the rest of the students in the class so the idea of a paraprofessional is definitely essential students are acting out are crying out for help you can't also give that child did hope help so they'll act out to get my attention so having a paraprofessional or to me to whisper in their area and talk about how

i'm a paraprofessional at eir reiterate middle school i support cutting the contract to tfa i'm a san francisco native i'm aluminum of sfusd and working or more on getting my certificate and i believe that the teachers are the problem but i have a disagreement with the corporate leadership of tfa i believe that mou right now we're dealing with maintaining the democrat control of our school district versus corporate control and tfa comes in and works to put people into accurately office staff positions running people for school board and higher elected office and heavy fund with corp lobbyists we can't compete with that we're working class educators i ask you to please make decisions no defense of public school and the rest of the country as strong public schools and thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. next speaker. and good evening. i'm with the latino storing committee that is not a personal attack an individual tfa teachers but a criticism on tfa and it's practices consequences and after math particularly at everett middle school the promise tfa principle the principle

strong lisp we have a strong staff if the staff is provided incentives such as a guaranteed paraprofessional in every classroom teachers need support to be successful in classrooms and teachers in bayview school sorry about that teachers need support to be successful in classroom for more professional development and alp planning time for other teachers we need a better strong substitute in our schools as parents we need to be part of the process of hiring the process that teach our kids thank you very much (clapping) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening superintendent and members and district at large i'm in here on behalf of local and happy to be here where we're not negotiating a contract or have complaints we would liquor to leave with you a mission statement that we've come up with that we hope you'll read and that we plan to implement on a daily base it outlines some of the golden's and some of the vuld we have in the department of accounting and purchasing department of excellence we plan to achieve on a daily basis and hope as a basis of practicing oversee principles i

teach and where they come from and who they are i would extend the parent teacher program we say paraprofessionals are certified degrees another thing that informed we i spoke to promises of how performing schools and all of them told me they would not selected a tfa teacher for their school for the same reasons i've mentioned they're also trying to build continuity i have to mention that in our most underserved community and our children in special education they deserve at least teacher that is credentialed that has spent a year or more in a credentialed program so i also read so much on teacher preparation how could he that is to success in the success of children but when i locate our schools and look at the paper that was given to me with all the reds and yellows and ground zero i think what is going to happen to the red schools they need to build a team i know that through the not novice overwhelm that people actually think that maybe this is a political debate and maybe for some people that is but for me when i go to the boyfriend and look at the eyes of the bayview principle they say pleas

mediation it is actually there a real thing we're informing that by the way we budget whether a paraprofessional or emotional support how do we use this document to hold you ourselves accountability and those steps are there and how do we inform our decision making it provide the gowns of the right steps but also it will hold us accountability so when we want to be able to look at those chartings are those steps being taken and work we're learning from this in practice as we provide those gowns and the last thing in the particular around the higher level of supports the last thing reiterating how important this piece in the matrix is around specific groups of students african-american students have had disproportionate levels of suspended. >> referrals the specific steps for african-american students and for a number of other categories it is incredible that we've put in there are for homeless students and foster youth specific people within the district and outside of the district nodes needs to be involved with the nature of those students that will help to insure our students are not fueling

practice what is in it another issue that came up is as classroom teachers and paraprofessionals looked at this we realize this may be this matrix is about administrators councils and social workers will be doing we have an agreement to have a committee that focuses on a teacher focus matrix so this is something we'll be working on together and lastly i wanted to mentioned that we do have we have sf has been awarded a grant for professional development around managing anti social bother and we'll be working in partnerships are the purple services to address the concerns of some of our members that is a we want we're doing to her one support and tier two those are important but we need to have train in how to deliver the tier 3 support is to the students in the classroom that's where we will be going on the work soon. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm convene advocates for the children and youth we've worked with the district on the creation of that matrix we feel good about it and feel strong it prioritize the support and not punishment we're excited to see that i

we have some of the finest physicians and health care services, paraprofessionals, and technicians inhe world. the v.a. health care. our problem is more in the administration, accountability and accounting level of the v.a. than it is the delivery of the health services. that is where the problems come from for appointments, that is where the problems came from for wait lists, that is where the problems came for phoenix, and that is where the problems need to be corrected. so, while the v.a. has a systemic problems and cultural problems, they are correctable with the director and the secretary of the v.a. having our backing in congress and as having the will to see to it that he has the enforcement mechanism he needs to do the job. john mcardle: so, senator, it is not necessarily a problem that will be corrected with more money being given to this problem. senator isakson: well, i am glad you mentioned that. i could stand to be corrected on this number, but i think i am right. v.a. funding over the last decade has been increased by 74%. we have had sequestration on everybody else. we

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we have some of the finest physicians and health care services, paraprofessionals, and technicians in the world. the v.a. health care. our problem is more in the administration, accountability and accounting level of the v.a. than it is the delivery of the health services. that is where the problems come from for appointments. that is where the problems came from the weight lists. that is where the problems came for phoenix, and that is where the problems need to be corrected. so, while the v.a. has a systemic problems and cultural problems, they are correctable with the director and the secretary of the v.a. having our backing in congress and as having the will to see to it that he has the enforcement mechanism he needs to do the job. john mcardle: so, senator, it is not necessarily a problem that will be corrected with more money being given to this problem. senator isakson: well, i am glad you mentioned that. i could stand to be corrected on this number, but i think i am right. v.a. funding over the last decade has been increased by 74%. we have had sequestration on everybody else.