the requested action is for the board ofeducation ofthe san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county office of education approve the attached common core state standards implementation funds spending plan for the fy 13-14 and fy 14-15 to enable san francisco unified school district and san francisco county of education to support student achievement and learning ofthe new common core state standards, as well as prepare studenls for the 21st century skills needed to graduate college and careerready. >> i don't think that i need to read out the background. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> i think that is fine, thank you. >> any public speakers in seeing none... oh, yes. susan solomen. >> make it to the gym this morning this will do. thank you. i had one question about the items that are budgeted, and that in particular for the professional development and so there is one category that says that professional development for teachers and administrators, para educators and para professional educators or classified employees involved in the direct instruction of the pupils the items in the descriptions describe the

is that i am looking under the san francisco county of education, and i am noticing that under the professional development and the instructional development is that we will provide resources lefaged through the san francisco, through the additional and the existing funds. so we are adding additional funds to the regular schools. for a professional development and all of this stuff that i see. however, for a county schools, we are going to leverage them from the additional and from their already meager budget and so i am wondering why that is? >> so, president fewer, i will try to clarify. so, i believe as the short answer is that there is no difference in terms of the amount of professional development that has been provided to our educators in the county, and court programs verses the other educators in the district. so, as commissioner wynns mentioned, the professional development, that took place, at the beginning or prior to the beginning of the school year, you commissioners you may recall that based on discussions and negotiations with the uesf regarding the calendar, for this year, 13,

city and county of san francisco and an retiree attempting to bring something back from the hood that's good. they're not mutually exclusive growing up in a neighborhood and achieving on a education we've reached a new level of sophistication. and i just want to briefly quote what dr. king said he said the truth crutch to the earth will rise again and there was a representative from the arts commission on the subject of the grants the $100,000 in grant that was represented to the commission all from the bayview and i began my work with the man that many of you know a very retained lawyer the first director grant admitting kins and upon my retirement during the course of working there the last person i spent about 10 years working under the mayor that appointed you mayor ed lee the honorable mayor ed lee. and then in that capacity i've investigated hundreds of million dollars in contract and this is an rfp i've done the same thing with them. i don't wish to embarrass this body but i prefer to do is have an opportunity to come back and do with the arts commission did. i want to show you the evidence of the truth so you can make an informed decision. i received a 5 page letter well

county office of education should work together to address the issues. next month, the plaintiffs should learn if the case will be granted klass action status. >>> a natural gas leak in san francisco this morning forced hundreds of people to either shelter in place or evacuate the area. >> need to go inside. >> the leak happened near south park and third in the south of market neighborhood. investigators say that e a construction crew accidentally ruptured a gas main causing a leak. that was about 9:00 this morning. pg&e crews arrived a short time later and tapped the leak. no one was hurt. >>> in oakland, classes are scheduled to resume tomorrow now that an erupted gas line on campus has been repaired. the district say it is contractor accidentally caused the break while work on the line yesterday morning. students were told to stay home today as a precaution. >>> the richmond police officer whose instincts helped uncover horrific case of sexual abuse received congressmen kags from the department today. >> this is very satisfying because this guy is not going to obviously be able to do this to any other family members, any other girls, and, you know, he's going to be in prison fo