this is the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district. today is march 12, 2019. roll call, please. (roll call). >> thank you. tonight i will open this meeting in honour of zora that said those that don't got it can't show it and those that no got i, can't hide it. section a, information for the public and section b, approval of board minutes for february 26, 2019. could i is a motion and second on the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> roll call vote on minutes, please. >> speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session unnecessary. if you wish to address the board of education, members are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and presented to the executive system, miss costco, members of the member have two minutes to address the board and time set by the president. according to the board rules of procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already for the board. so we made announcements about public comment and moved up public comment to start of the meeting for a

from sparks san francisco public schools, and from google to support them in their future learning endeavours after graduation. april is lgbt q. pride celebration month for san francisco unified. aligned with our mission, every day we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century, and in april, we celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning community to improve school climate and create safer schools , and promote respect for all members of school communities. this past wednesday, april 3rd , our school health program , lgbt q. support services hosted its sixth annual high sku -- high school g.s.a. stone wall, the next 50 years of resistance. over 130 students from 17 schools participated. the davis plant in partnership with the queer and trans advisory -- council. a group of seven high school youth leaders from across the district. g.s.a. day was supported by ten community partners, and a robust team of volunteers from school health programs, and pupil services. students participated in 12 different workshops, on topics ranging from trans history, art as empowerment, drag as activism

i am also a product of the san francisco unified school district. i went to andrew jackson elementary school. i went to cabrillo elementary school. and you wonder why so many elementary schools. we had a retrofit for earthquakes. i graduated from washington high school in the late 80's. i went to roosevelt elementary school, and i'm very thankful i had the opportunity at roosevelt to be in band. it didn't allow me to take the visual arts because that was my elective, but that stayed with me until now. i'm a musician now, but i'm a visual artist because i worked very hard after barely graduating from washington high school, okay? i'm telling you that i know it from the inside out. i worked hard at city college, 13th grade, to get myself into a four-year college, and that's where i realized no, you're an artist, and i graduated from the studio art department, came back, and was given the opportunity by my mean of students. so it takes advocates for the students. that's what i'm being right now. so i want you guys to reconsider this because i'm doing t

san francisco, san matteo county. it serves 25 districts, with san francisco the top urban district and more than 300 school educating 158,000 students. this year they will honor four of our very own san francisco unified school district leaders. raul chavez, tiffany from rooftop, and andy from lowell. congratulations to our school leaders for receiving this honor. on wednesday, may 8, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. we will honor the african-american reach higher college signing day. our african-american 12th graders will be welcome to honor their post high school plans. the initiative is part of former first lady's michelle obama's effort to inspire every student to take charge of their future. i'm excited to share our own african-american advisory council has led the planning and design of this event in collaboration with 100% college prep. the alliance and the african-american achievement and leadership initiative. our main focus on this special evening will be to celebrate our african-american students who worked very hard and have made plans to attend a two or four-year college or professional training program. there will be food, live performances, guest speakers and student incentives. i have some excit

was the san francisco mayor and supervisors at the time who facilitated our collaboration with the san francisco board of education. that led to a yearlong project with the san francisco unified school district to create the first ever comprehensive seft high school lesson plans with step by step instructions on how to teach this topic including genocide as a phenomenon, the common stages found in all genocides and the armenian case as it arch type. i brought to show you today the first copy set of lesson plans we did with the san francisco unified school district and now of course we put much of what's in that in that binder and many more lessons on our website, genocideeducation.org. today with the school district we hosted our first full day pilot teacher training workshop here and because of it's success and the positive response we got from teachers, we never looked back setting our sights well beyond san francisco after that. we've given our workshops in many california cities and 15 other states now. we participate in the national council for the social studies yearly conference in a different city every year and also several other regional conferences including the hu

my name is sarah lawrence and i'm a parent of two kids in san francisco unified school district. my oldest son is a freshman at lowell in advanced orchestra, and my youngest son is in 7th grade in middle school in the honor band. they both have participated in the solo and small ensemble festival. that's something that we need to keep, in my opinion. sorry, i have my notes because i'm a little nervous. sorry. okay. the music education that they are receiving at their schools are -- are turning them into the fine young men that they are becoming, and guiding them on career paths that they wouldn't eyes have. i think that vapa is very important, and vapa administration. if that's what the music and art teachers need to help the teachers, you know, get whatever they need going. i don't know anything about budget, but i do know that this program is important to my kids and their friends, so please don't take away the vapa money. please consider it, and happy birthday dr. matthews. [applause] >> hi. i'm michael palladino. i'm the president of the board of the music alliance in the bay

it formed in 2012 as a collaboration between the city of san francisco, the san francisco unified school district, and more than 20 based organizations, to bridge family economic security with student academic achievement in san francisco's mission district in the latino community. mission promise neighbourhood is based at five school district schools and three family resource centers, and connects thousands of families to services such as child care, pre-school, health care, housing, tax preparation, job training, and much more. over the past seven years, mission promise neighborhood has seen increased graduation rates, significant gains in kinder readiness, and accounaccountability in data sharing through our many partners. federal funding for the mission promised neighborhood and other neighborhoods is not assured. that's why we ask for your support for sb687 because686. thank you very much for your support. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> president yee, and esteemed members of the board of supervisors. my name is freda asset, and i'm a proud san francisco native, and i ran t

san francisco at the age of 60, mrs. chow served as a professional in the san francisco unified school district for nearly 40 years, helpingeachers in the classroom, and helping principals mediate and helping solve problems. retiring in her 80s. she created a chinese language teaching system that appeals to both americaamerican-born and chinese-born students. in the 1990s, she helped develop programs where students would earn full foreign language equivalentcy. she taught at the as asian woman's research centre. under the umbrella of child associates, employment and immigration -- articl articlarlene chow continued teaching students until she required at the age of 94. 96. perhaps her most outstanding student is her son, and my dear friend, christopher. who won ortory championships in middle school and high school. he became the first asian on-air television reporter. mrs. chow, in 1921, in the district of quong dong china was commi politically active with accomodations from then governors ronald reagan and pete wilson. as a young woman during world war ii, she supported chinese war relief efforts by performing with her fr

these academic programs are provided at no cost, including transportation, to the san francisco unified school districts, fourth and fifth graders. this year more than 1500 kids will come through stem programs and we'll pass 7,000 in total from all of your districts. each year we have week-long and three-hour programs to 3,700 kids from 37 growght groups around the bay. they are supported through grants by the department of children, youth and their families. and tisc has individual scholarships based on financial need and along with the stem sailing programs annually gives an average of 85 percent of its participants scholarships. and we have numerous funders to pay for all of these and we have become a very important part to our community and its families. but our infrastructure is aging and in anticipation of our new lease we have several challenging years ahead of us. we need as much time as possible to raise the funds that we need to build the best sailing center for our community and to continue to provide these perspective programs for future generations of san franciscoians. i u

i'm a preschool teacher for the san francisco unified school district. >> my name is ronnie and i work in san francisco and i'm a driver from a local electrical company. >> we went through meta first and meta helped us to apply and be ready to get the down payment assistant loan program. that's the program that we used to secure the purchase of our home. it took us a year to get our credit ready to get ready to apply for the loan. >> the whole year we had to wait and wait through the process and then when we got the notice, it's like, we were like thinking that. >> when we found out that we were settling down and we were going to get approved and we were going to go forward, it was just a really -- we felt like we could breathe. we have four kids and so to find a place even just to rent for a family of six. and two dogs. >> we were going to actually pay more for rent and to own a house. >> it feels good now to have to move. it feels for our children to stay in the neighborhood that they have grown in. they grew up here and they were born here. they know this neighborhood. they don't kn

i'm also a charter president of the san francisco unified lions club. i have been a member of the lions club for 20 years. the lions club is the world largest service organization. we are vested in doing a lot of things for veterans, homelessness, meetings, different projects that are lions club does. also in this district, there are two lions club his that are mainly for veterans. i want to say that lien hanley chan has been a line for three different lions club his and he has followed me along three couple of clubs and done a lot of work with the lions. also, i am a friend of a chinese-american veterans organization. handley is with them also and hasn't a lot of work with them also. he is a parent, he is involved in a lot of community organizations. i'm also a business owner, a restaurant that i have run for 18 years. he is all around a community advocate for a lot of things. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much hi, good morning. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is linda and i am no stranger to this community. i am a foster parent of 3

. >> i'm with the san francisco unified school district. it's been painful, frustrating. path for some of purpose process really just begun to convert us from exempt to permanent status. it's been over five years. without the help of local 21 and probably wouldn't be taking place now the. there wasn't even a test available for us to do the conversion. couldn't use city's test for some reason. that leads to lot of negativity in term of moral, staffing

involved in serving youth and families and is a former teacher, counselor and coach with the san francisco unified school district. over 30 years ago, jack along with dr. joseph marshall who's also in the audience found the omega boys club as they were tired of losing young people to violence and drugs. he currently serves as an advocate for young people in the juvenile justice system in san francisco in collaboration with the san francisco public defender's office and several public and private agencies and organizations. jack provides weekly mentoring sessions at the omega leadership academy and the juvenile hall and log cabin ranch before it was shut down and san francisco county jail. he's a coordinator of the squires, the san quintin of inmate resources and studies program. each month the program he is courts a group of young men and women from the san francisco jewel knife court system to san quentin and provide intense peer counselling with the goal of deterring youth from actions that may result in their own incarceration. in 2005 he resource the san francisco public defender's juvenile su

. >> i'm with the san francisco unified school district. it's been painful, frustrating. path for some of purpose process really just begun to convert us from exempt to permanent status. it's been over five years. without the help of local 21 and probably wouldn't be taking place now the. there wasn't even a test available for us to do the conversion. couldn't use city's test for some reason. that leads to lot of negativity in term of moral, staffing problems and career paths. please take the -- everyone spoken here today. help us so we can help the city better. >> thank you very much. >> i'm employee of office specific engagement. i wanted to be clear as we're talking about today's testimony, we're talking about the abuse of the use of classification in these exemption categories. there's one kind of abuse it leads to others. it leads to you heard the stories workers who are afraid of harassment, favoritism, discrimination. there's an overflow with over 50 people. we're not just here to talk about exclusiv abuse and work wh solutions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very

have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unifiedhool teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn'

so i just want to note, in this neighborhood, creative arts is also surrounded by two other san francisco unified schools that are also doing very well with their student population. jonah me or elementary, and cobb elementary. in terms of looking at the student population, when we're talking about diversity, we talk about english learners and the percentage of students that are represented there. we also talk about race, we also want to look at foster youth, homeless youth, migrant youth, and obviously, students with disabilities and socioeconomically disadvantaged students. when i look, creative arts, i see no foster youth, i see note homeless youth, know what migrant students, and in the surrounding schools, there are 35 students that have been identified as homeless out of a population of 243. when i look at cobb elementary school, i see a population of 13 homeless youth in an entire school of 126. so those are populations that are obviously a very high needs, and they require a lot of resources and support, and -- what i am seeing in our city, and this even happens within the public schools,

this is the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district.today is march 12, 2019. roll call, please. (roll call). >> thank you. tonight i will open this meeting in honour of zora that said those that don't got it can't show it and those that no got i, can't hide it. section a, information for the public and section b,

there's as many as 3,000 homeless children in san francisco, the majority of which attend san francisco unified district schools. they deserve a place to go, they deserve a place to sleep, and we are ready to make that happen. on a personal note, i am hungry, i am sleepy, and i am tired, and i would love for our families, i would love for our children who experience this on a nightly basis to have an opportunity to stay in a place that is safe, secure, warm, and where they can get a warm meal. thank you. [applause] >> hello. again. susan solomon. uesf president. i want to add a little bit to what the previous speaker said, to what nick chandler said. one of the reason i've heard that fewer families with sleeping -- actually sleeping at the school is this program actually provides counseling that gets them into more stable housing so they don't need to sleep at horace mann. the other issue i want to talk about is pilots. often, we don't always take the time to examine them and learn from them. from everything i've learned about this program, this pilot, as every pilot, has been a learning opport

san francisco schools, dr. matthews, and had a conversation with him about the topic with san francisco unified school district. got the opportunity to meet with director henderson and his chief of staff, sarah henderson, where we talked about the julius turman fellowship, which i'm extremely, extremely excited about. and i'm sure that director henderson will talk about that. i talked about all the great files that they had pulled apart in the office, and talked about 96-a, so i just wanted to report we are meeting at schedul scheduled. >> president hirsch: okay. next item. [agenda item read]. >> president hirsch: any items? okay. seeing one, next item. >> i think we've spoken about this before, but i would like to agendaize -- i would like to get a deep dive into what the department's doing in terms of making sure that its members are accounted for with mental health support and issues. you know, from what i know, the suicide rate in america is, you know, really, really high, historically high, and it's a continuance problem for us as a nation and i know particularly in law enforcement, and so i would like to

san francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42 years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much. we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in. i went to quite a bit of the meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot.

hoc committee between the school district, the city college, and the board of supervisors, san francisco unified school district will be determined. section m, there are no items. section n, memorial adjournment, there are none tonight. we don't have any public comment for closed session. section o, the

public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help peop

for the san francisco unified school district. today is april 23, 2019. roll call. >> ms.ollins present. ms. lam present. ms. lopez here. mr. moliga here. ms. norton here. mr. sanchez, here. mr. cook, here. >> president cook: i'd like to

hoc committee between the school district, the city college, and the board of supervisors, san francisco unified school district will be determined. section m, there are no items. section n, memorial adjournment, there are none tonight. we don't have any public comment for closed session. section o, the >> welcome back. section p. following the closed session, i am going to readout the actions from tonight's closed session -- tonight's closed session. by a vote of 7 ayes -- the board, by a vote of seven ayes approved the contract of three principals. the board, by a vote of seven ayes, approved the contract of four assistant principals. in the matter of w.s. versus sfusd, o.a.h. case number 2019010983, sfusd versus wsoah, case number 2019020406, hernandez versus sfusd, 317 c.v. 05258 sk, the board here by gives the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount, divers gc 184456455, and for matters of anticipated litigation, the board by a vote of seven ayes, provided direction to general counsel. the board, by a vote of six ayes, one absent, loeps, approved issuing notices to two contractors that