we want to thank you on behalf of all the 65,000 san francisco unified school district students. thank you to pg&e for giving us an opportunity to introduce the sport of golf to the students of san francisco. as a san franciscan and a father, i will come out here and continue to train and practice and try to get that hole in 10 down to maybe of hole in five. i want to introduce a supervisor in the physical education department -- thank you. and her name is michelle. michele, could use that up, please? -- could you step up, please? >> i have a humble gift for pg&e from the physical education department of san francisco unified school district. we want to present you with this black for -- plaque for everything you're doing for the students of the san francisco unified school district. [applause] and we have one last plaque we would like to give to first tee of san francisco. this would not be possible if it were not for the folks who are doing a great deal of work to coordinate with our departments so all of you young adults here, please remember that today is your day, and a great

the bridge to success initiative is a partnership between city college, the city of san francisco, san francisco unified, and san francisco state, and we're working together to reach an exciting goal of doubling the numbers in san francisco will get a degree or certificate. how many of you are going to get a degree? raise your hands. or a certificate? raise your hands. we should have every hand up in this room. if you are not convinced you are coming to college, you will be convinced before you leave today. i just want to tell you a little bit about myself. in the first in my family to go to college -- i am the first in my family to go to college. anyone else? for me, my first year of college was really intimidating for me. i was really overwhelmed. i did not know how to get the financial support i needed. my mother never even went to kindergarten. i could not even go to my mother for help, so i did not know where to turn. my transition was overwhelming. we want to make sure you have a smooth transition of college. that is why we have created this important day for you. that first year in college, i fel

san francisco, los angeles, fresno, inland empire or san diego. therefore, to be resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district fully supports the may 9 through 13th week of action by educators, administrators, education support professionals, parents, students and labor groups to protect california's future and the future of students and working families across the state. and be it further resolved that the board of education encourages all educators, parents and school supporters to attend the mass rally for public education and vital public services on may 13 starting at 4:00 p.m. in the san francisco civic center plaza. president mendoza: thank you. do we have any public speakers this? seeing none, comments from the board? commissioner murase? commissioner murase: i would like to be added as a co-sponsor. president mendoza: i think we probably all could be added. that would be great. any other comments? i do want to display by beautiful jersey that i have on this evening which was given to me by -- actually, i paid for it -- by uesf. it's it represents the jerseys we're going to be giving to the teachers we're h

san francisco education fund. therefore be it resolved that the board of education for the san francisco unified school district commends lisa spinali for her distinguished tenure at the san francisco education fund and wishes her its best on her future endeavors. congratulations, lisa. >> thank you for that reading. president mendoza: before we present there this to you, we'd like to invite any public comment on this. so if there's any public speakers on behalf of lisa you're welcome to come up as we all stare at your staff. you don't have to. and then any comments from the board or the superintendent. commissioner norton. commissioner norton: i would just like to ask the author if i could add my name onto her resolution. commissioner murase: of course. president mendoza: i just want to -- i'm obviously going to support this resolution. but i have to say that lisa has just been an outstanding partner, not only for san francisco unified, with many of the organizations that we work with and we're really going to miss having you at the fund. you've been a real stellar and solid support and we wish you the very best in all

unfortunately, in san francisco unified school district, that's not happening. all the cuts we're hearing, the parents and the teachers and the students tonight talked about that, all the cuts are impacting the classroom. the layoffs are going to continue. the pink slips are going out. where are the cuts at the top? show us. show us where the money at the top, the money furthest away from the classroom, the money that is least essential, where are those cuts? there's $18 million in san francisco ready to keep people in the classroom, paraprofessionals and teachers and principals for that matter. we have $8 million of rainy day fund and $10 million for federal funds for educational jobs. it's time to spend that money now. it's time to heal the family if we're going to fight the fight in sacramento together, if we're going to shake hands as we did yesterday as the bus went off to jeat, we have to make the cuts where may belong, at the top, and spend the $18 million now, rescind the layoffs. we have two teachers from el dorado, two parents, and another teacher from

so, a couple of years ago, i sat down with unified school district, city and county of san francisco, and we said, "how can we change the system in san francisco so that all of you can have the kind of experience educationally that you need?" we decided that the only way we could achieve this is that all the people on the stage have to work together because the students were telling us that we have failed them to a large extent. why? because many of us went to college perhaps or high-school too long ago. i was at uc berkeley in the 1960's as an undergraduate. so i had to look at that and ask how confused i was. when i look back on it, as everyone on this stage will tell you, their first stage was -- their first year was confusing, maddening. we were experimenting. we were experimenting perhaps with a lot more than you will be experimenting with. [laughter] nevertheless, we are here now. what is the common thread that connects all of us? college education. [applause] do not be fooled. do not let anyone tell you that without a college education, everything is fine. we are in america now

now it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you the deputy superintendent of san francisco unified school district. let's give him a warm welcome. [applause] >> all right, is the class of 2011 in the house? [applause] that was pretty weak. let's try it again. class of 2011, are you in the house? [applause] all right, that is better. that is what i'm talking about. i'm just going to say few remarks, and then we have a video. our superintendent could not be here today, but he recorded a video he wanted you to see. before i do that, being in the room full of san francisco unified school district students, you are my peeps. this is what it is all about. i want you to look at everyone onstage today and think about the words of the chancellor, our mayor, and think about you have not heard from everybody up here. i want you to think about teachers and administrators and support staff at your school. every one of those folks has lived every reason that you have for not going to college. they have lived it. yet, they have gone to college. the message here today is you can go to college, and

to get started for the regular meeting of the brd of education of the san francisco unified school district, may 10, 2011, is now called to order. president mendoza will be with us in a second. she's getting some things but we want to get started. roll call please? clerk: ms. fewer? ms. maufas, dr. murase, ms. norton? ms. wynns, thank you, mr. yee? ms. mendoza, ms. fan, ms. creer? >> if you'd like to please join us for a pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] vice president yee: there's no approval of minutes, o.k. so we're going to start with item a, approval of board minutes, there are none tonight. b, presentations to the board of education superintendent's report. superintendent garcia. superintendent garcia: thank you, good evening. it seems ironic with all the activity and we want to salute and give a shout out to all of our employees who went to sacramento to stand up for children and i think we really want to recognize their endeavors to go there because that's a lot to do and they're fighting a good fight and it seems ironic that while we're making these cuts and talking abou

we have the san francisco unified school district. we have marked as bookstores, who will be selling this -- ms. colvin's book, written about her, by philip house. we have sponsorship from the african diaspora, and the friends of the san francisco public library. i serve as part of the african- american interest committee that helped put this program together, and i want to thank all of you for coming, and i want to thank sfgtv for taking the program today. we want to thank the department here at san francisco public library, and we are having a reception in l58, and we want to thank read your catering for providing some delicious food for us to nibble on today, so will you please join us and say thank you again to mrs. colvin and also to byrin bain for telling his story, but thank you for coming so that we can say thank you to miss colvin for being a living history maker. join us. thank you. ♪ lift every voice and sing

we are honoring today the san francisco unified school district visual and performing arts project. ly the 25th anniversary of the young at art festival for san francisco. it is an eight-day celebration hosted by the dm museum. it runs through next sunday but i know of the 20th is the reception from 5:00 until 8:00. this is a free and open possible to everyone and includes the visual arts exhibition which is wonderful every year. it features york and creativity of 2000 students. i love the live performances and i know rob is often playing the piano and directing everything going on. the live performances include musical performance, theater, dance, the jazz ensembles and orchestras that perform -- screenings of student films as well as literary arts events and activities. i have to find out when my daughter's school performance, but there are so many varieties of schools that perform that it's wonderful to check out a lot of stuff. i think the efforts to create a funding stream with proposition h. that many of you help out with and gave the vision for our one of the reasons we have s