specifically what the pta has increased the district by over $500 per student is a two year measure. and the teacher element is in two components around teacher recruitment and retention and peer review. in the study had a very straightforward focus to document the p t and evaluate the effectiveness. opposing open around the recruitment we're drawing applicants who have only applied to once higher paying district and as a result there's been a increase to 20 to 25 percent of the number of applicants and 49 percent were is new hires from the district. particularly drawn to the initiative were folks drawn to the salary increase. now to the retention increase during the implementation of the pta was the economical challenges which corresponds to the initiative but as the result there was higher retention in the higher staff schools because of the bonus. secondly, for the par program it may be that par is one of the best aspects for the teacher quality. you'll see at the same time there are still significant barriers to the par changes and one of the foremost of the barriers is there con

hope is wonderful but it's not a strategy pta is a strategy so. thank you. >> thank you for this report. all this volunteer time. i have a question about school loop. and i notice it was referred to in your report there is more information on - and mr. kencys report but it's fairly minimal. i have asked in the past with when there's an impact of the school loop. this doesn't tell us so specifically i'm looking at the budget is that 67 pictures of the total funds that is allocated for technology? >> so it's kind of complicated. the circle is roughly 6 percent of that it includes the stipend we pay the teachers to help support those sites. >> what do the teachers do? they provided training. >> and how much are those stipends and is it at each school. it's $500 >> so do you have that broken down of how much goes into the technicalities? how much goes to the stipend? i'm looking that as 4.5 million you say so my pardon me experience i was a registered how would that updates, in fact, it happened once in the whole semester year. and have teachers parti

my name is dave and i'm the pta president at lake shore elementary school and i'm member of the school's [inaudible] council. i'm the parent of a third grader at lake shore and he's very fond of saying that he loves his school. as i'm sure you are aware, lake shore's principal, lindsey keener announced her resignation. her announcement came after a prolonged campaign from members of our own community to have her position fired from lake shore. >> i think we should clarify that resign and fire are not the same thing. >> she resigned from lake shore and i've come here tonight to express my disappointment for how the school board handled this matter. i found her to be an effective dedicated principal with a deep commitment towards lake /shoerp students and families. i'm aware that the parents who led this campaign against miss keener contacted members this board of their claims, but the board made no attempt to fact check the claims against her. i would hope the district would take a more effective roll in handling this situation and that all voices have a chance to be heard. as we move ahe

. >> hi, my name is todd david, i am the alvarado pta advocacy chair and i'm happy to be able to represent both groups here today. i think one of the things that commissioner wynns always reminds me that is left out of this conversation i think is so important and i hope that she will correct my numbers if i get these wrong, but over the last 10 years the san francisco unified's actual budget has slung by 20 percent. it's gone from $500 million dollars to $400 million dollars. well, the city has run a budget deficit, its actual budget dollars have increased in the same time frame. its expenses have gone up faster than its revenues have, but at san francisco unified the actual dollars have gone down while expenses and pension obligations continue to rise. so i think it's an incredible thing that the voters of san francisco have 100 percent of the time supported local funding for our public schools and for our children and that the only place that there ever seems to be a debate as to whether there's an appropriate use of local funds, of the city funds for public schools is inside this chamb

. >> and i think pta, pto meetings are really critical as well. >> we actually spend a lot of time in the beginning of the school year actually right now with the kind error yen thaition. they have been literally starting in may and the beginning of august, back to school nights. ~ we try to go to as many of those as possible. it is a pretty intensive labor effort in the beginning of the year. >> so, any other questions, colleagues? actually i'm really pleased that income is one of the criteria that you're looking at, of income of the families. >> um-hm. >> because i think one of the trends is that the most active ptas will be the ones that know about how to access money and looking at equity as a way of spreading this out so that schools -- >> that's why we created these spreadsheets because what ends up happening is the squeaky wheel gets the grease and those needy schools don't now how to reach out to the city for help. being able to look at the district at least elementary schools. also this year we're going to create the same for middle and high. so we'll be ready. i neglected to

liz works close with our school including pta as has brought many programs to our school. we're lingually and diverse she takes groups of people that may not understand the words they're saying and she promotes togetherness. our staff decided to enhance or so those are services just having her for four hours a day is not enough we need more liz. some of the services bringing our community together with food and she participants in our care team. she's one of the most dpiement employees i'm really proud and honored to give to you liz and superintendant thank you liz for everything you do on behalf of our community. >> thank you, very much. thank you >> okay jeremy i'll give you our 20 bucks later. thank you so much i can't do this job on my own. it's all about my supervisor here and without jeremy being there to listen to me when there's, you know, issues i have to resolve he's been a mentor and a guide through those whole seven years. i want you to let you know without the teachers and parents. there is no, i in team well, we're all about a team. and before i go on i - i'm

i'm a pta member. the certain with the fund allocation is one

i'm a pta member. the certain with the fund allocation is one of the reasons their cutting the budget is tyler awe signing a nurse in the school. we have 3 hundred and 49 school in the school and there's only one kid that needs a nurse. but we do need the family support services which are being cut into part time and there's a position liaison that's it been eliminated that is is an essentially position because many of the latino parents use that serves. we ask for referrals, resources that we can go and get help. also another thing is the school has hired a special needs teacher she's brand new. so we don't need the nurse again, because we have two special teachers in 10 and 5 actually professionals. so the children are well-taken care of. we need more services for the parents to get the achievement gap has been wired last year. we need to implement for services instead of reducing them. thank you >> all right. i have one last group of speakers. 5 cards on. i'm going to call names. (calling names) >>

the one thing about the feedback i don't think it's a terrible idea but some schools have a strong pta organization and, you know, schools that may have equal needs if not more may not only be able to do that. so i think it's important to - i'd like it to be some initiative with that you can leverage the existing resources that they have whether they've applied for the grants but i think it's important to come back to this committee. i think we may have mentioned a couple of - that's just so many of the initial feedback that i have. i think for me it would be helpful to get a sense of a little bit of the history in terms of what our departments have been funding in and around all our public schools and to get a sense of what is successful what is the effective use of our dollars either there the tracks and the school tracks so we he can better give feedback in terms of how we can coordinate our efforts >> we can have a list or map of some sense of whether or not they've reduced crashes or slowed down speeds. >> so the schools where we do have a lot of walking participation and schools

to school week and the safe route to school effort throughout the city, the whole coalition of dph, ptas and all the advocates of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions are really getting us out of our cars and more into alternative . ways of transportation friday morning, sutro and peabody, really fun and invigorating. if anyone wants to join us contact my office. i also am submitting a million-dollar accept and expand for a few program that the department of the environment has been developing over the years, called bay ren. bay area regional energy network program. the rest i will submit. >> supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: i want to do for my rollcall a quick shout out. mayor lee and myself had a community meeting on saturday with the residents impacted by the water main bust, floating 22-23 homes, over a month ago. we had a meeting on saturday in which we had the different departments come in and respond, and continue to respond to the needs of those particular residents, and in particular the yellow-tag and red-tag homes. the department of public works, mta and others were there.

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for example, the community coalition will have 4 seats on that stake holder council, we'll have the pta and parents for public schools involved so we're going to really co-design that process but we wanted to have the technical support of an external facilitator so that all of us could engage in the conversation and that we could have one group capturing all the data as we go so we can get some good reports that we can share around all these questions. >> who is the facilitator? >> i'm not sure we, i don't think we can say it yet. we interviewed 4 different groups, there was an rfp put out and we should be able to announce that the next day or two. >> how are you funding this facilitation process? >> external funding. >> in kind (laughing). >> i want to reiterate what commissioner wynns and avalos said. historically both of these measures did come from the community, was initiated outside city hall. so as much as i can i think we should really honor that process and i think involving the community is incredibly important in many ways because they will be the ones passing all of these ba

i was also a member of the executive board of the pta this year and i've worked closely with our principal and i found her to be an excellent prince /palg, very easy to communicate with, very re/spopbive to parents, but my interpretation of the issue at the is that teachers and some parents were at odds with the district policies of restorative practices, keeping african american children in the classrooms instead of sending them out when there's trouble. and to my mind, that's why she's leaving because the pressure was put on her from forces who didn't believe in the district policies. and while those of us here wrote letters and contacted people, we didn't get any response. so i want to know how is the district going to support principals who are going to implement their policies when they're allowing subversive parents to oust them. doesn't seem like a very productive way to go forward. if i'd like to see anything come out of this, i'd like to have the district come up with a policy for investigating or coming into a site when a problem like this arises. often times i think it arises si

. >> yeah and to add to that i think it's involving the community, so the pta's, the nonprofits, the faith based community and bringing them together and share resources and get really focused and looking at the data and then the outcomes because that keeps you focused. >> great. okay go ahead. >> this is a mixed appreciation and a question. i'm nicholas carlyle and the director of "bully" , san francisco's nonprofit and we share with you the realization that punishment makes bullying situations worse. it's uncoupled bullying and punishment and the question is, which is kind of a comment too. if we uncouple bullying and punishment doesn't that make it much easier to define what bullying is? and seems to me and defining bullying because the bar is so high because we're afraid it's going to trigger some prescribed consequence and bullying doesn't necessarily have to lead to a consequence and just a solution wouldn't that make the definition of bullying much easier? >> i don't think that that -- at least from my perspective and what i heard so far that the focus of addressing bullying l

enforcement has a serious tone so we created this program for officers to present to schools and to pta's and to faith based organizations and any community group that wants to hear it. we have the hour long safety program and started with digital safety as the kind of umbrella but it touches on -- i agree i don't like the term cyber bullying. kids don't use that and it's bullying and it's drama. everything is drama now but law enforcement needs to look at the piece of social media and what it plays and taking the phone is like cutting off the arm and parents are not understanding the disconnect and it's a divide and how kids communicate today and how parents communicate and helping parents parent in this digital world and helping kids make smarter decisions, so they don't have to worry about friending the college recruiter and them taking,a way their scholarship or anything like that. it's also looking at trainings for law enforcement officers -- when i go to a school and has a knife and on the honor role and never had any problems so it would be easy -- well let's cite you for possessio

enforcement has a serious tone so we created this program for officers to present to schools and to pta's and to faith based organizations and any community group that wants to hear it. we have the hour long safety program and started with digital safety as the kind of umbrella but it touches on -- i agree i don't like the term cyber bullying. kids don't use that and it's bullying and it's drama. everything is drama now but law enforcement needs to look at the piece of social media and what it plays and taking the phone is like cutting off the arm and parents are not understanding the disconnect and it's a divide and how kids communicate today and how parents communicate and helping parents parent in this digital world and helping kids make sm