i have spent decades supporting the san francisco unified school district. i also yours truly helped to establish a pilot program to enhance and to bridge the disparity in education. that program is rolled out in about six or seven schools. i need to come back to get a report on that. we believe in the diversity of education. it is not us versus them. you are problem solvers. when you get off your podium you see us on the streets. kipp with the bayview area have performed. now you have confident parents. they are looking at the bigger picture offeducation. that is why we appointed you. the superintendent has given his recommendation. let us respect you and we will continue to work today. god bless you all. (applause). >> good evening, commissioners. we submitted a letter to you last month. i am joyce armstrong, proud president of the public housing tenant association representing more than 5,000 residents under our jurisdiction. >> good evening, i am representing the housing commissioner. >> good evening, commissioners. i am with the public housing tenant as

they have identified 51 san francisco unified schools to implement the program. those interested in supporting the district efforts to have breakfast available in the classrooms can go to sfus sfusd/breakfast to sign the pledge. [speaking spanish] >> this year we are interested in helping to determine the san francisco unified school district for the 2020-2021 school year. these decisions are being offered for students, parents, teachers, administrators and district staff to sample eight different dishes and evaluate on appearance, taste and texture. four sessions are scheduled around the city. [speaking spanish] >> the dates and locations for those stations. november 18 from 3:30 to 430 at independence high school. november 18 from 4:00 to 5:00 at the elementary school. in north beach. november 20 from 12:30 to 1:30 downtown high school. 693 vermont street. november 20 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. at paul revere school. [speaking spanish] >> rsvp student tasting.com by november 8th to reserve your spot. space is limited. the chair has signed up to join us and add your

the san francisco unified school district. today november 12th, 2019. this meeting is now called to order. roll call, please. [roll call] >> i'd like to start this meeting by frederick douglas who said power concedes nothing without a command. and it never >> members of the public are reminded a individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present it to our executive assistant. members of the public have two minutes to address the board and the time is set by the president. importantly according to board rules and pressures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. number two, superintendent's report. >> thank you. good evening, everyone. the san francisco unified school district is now providing childcare for the regular board meetings. [applause] it's beginning right now. [laughter] and space is limited and we'll be provided on a first-come-first serve basis for children age 3-10. childcare is provided from 6:00 to 9:00 in the educational placement center waiting room located here on the fir

that number is representative of 25% of san francisco unified school district k-12 schools. please note that these are not all of the families that we interface with as we see via presentations we hold or events we attend in the community. with our program coordinator's leadership, we also led the development of six new aapac sites, bringing the total number of site-based groups to 24. as you can see, we continued our efforts to distribute books with african american protagonists and african american authors. >> one of the events we held last night was learning in the sfusd. we partnered with various district proponents to engage in a moderated panel. this past week, we also had the pleasure of joining mr. lester on a panel of the california association of school psychologists. on the screen, you'll see a number of events that the district wide aapac has participant participated in. we're very proud of our partnerships and are looking forward to see how we can grow those relationships next year. on this screen, you'll see it says different year and same challenges and it's a

>> this is the regular meeting of the board of education of san francisco unified school district of october 29, 2019. miss casco, roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: thank you. >> i'd like to start this meeting with "grab of broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." section a is general information. number one is accessibility information for the public. number two is teleconference information. there is none tonight. section b, open-ended items. number one, approving of the board minute -- approval of the board minutes of aoctober 22, 2019. may i have a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. may i have a roll call please, miss casco. >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> clerk: five ayes. >> thank you. speaker cards for the regular agenda and for closed session are necessary. if y -- are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. individuals are reminded that they can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called by miss casco. speakers have two minutes or the amount set by the board. speaker cards will not be acce

the recommended action is that the board approve the attached agreement between the san francisco unified school district and united educators of san francisco certificate of classified paraeducators regarding the mayor's stipends at the potential schools and related public disclosure document. >> thank you. i think we have one speaker signed up. >> good evening. i am the president of did you night educators of san francisco -- united educators of san francisco. we did negotiate this agreement and the executive board did approve it. we had a very -- i thought i had musical there like a show on tv. we had a really interesting long engaged discussion about this item. one of the things that i felt was important to point out, and i told our executive board i would do this. the issues about providing the services and education to students at historically underserved communities is complex and we have a lot of ideas how to make it better. the $10 million from the mayor's office for which we thanker is just one piece of what we need to do. one thing we would really want to see and you have heard

ten take tip agreement between san francisco unified school district and united educators of san francisco. >> good evening. we lost a few people. margaret, director of special education and overseeing a whole wing of our work and mostly compliance issues. i am the chief of special education. we are here tonight to hopefully provide you a brief report of an activity that we participated in throughout this spring and a report was generated. we want to give you a little bit of the synopsis of what took place. we start with the core values. i say when they first came out i didn't know what to make of them. now they are my anchors. i like to stay focused on them in our daily work. we start with those. this is a comprehensive review from the california department of special education. it is something they do each year and they look at the entire state of california and look at some data reports and derm a score for each district. there is a cutoff point of 62%. unfortunately for us this year we scored 61. they had to look at us. we are moving to the next slide to tell you what that review entai

i'm a preschool teacher for the san francisco unified school district. >> my name is ronnie and i worko 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 know anything outs

date, the project sponsor has submitted letters of support from mission neighborhood centers, san francisco unified school district, mission delores neighborhood associations, and approximately 360 support letters from students and families. in addition, the department recommends approval with conditions as the project is on balance consistent with the mission area plan and consistent with the policies of the general plan. all of the projects result in the loss of two residential units. the project will help expand the c.m.c.s project, eliminate overflow in the existing campus, and provide more services. the project sponsor team is here to present and has prepared a presentation. i'm available for questions. >> president melgar: thank you very much. we will now hear from the project sponsor. we need the computer. >> good evening, president melgar and planning commissioners. my name is julie steinberg, and i'm pleased to come before you to assist us in the work to expand or home and our campus after nearly 100 years in the district. founded in 1921, c.m.c. is 99 years young, growing from a small, vo

the recommended action is at the board of education of san francisco unified school district to appoint the following applicants to the child care planning. raul, cheryl and jessica. >> president cook: thank you. may have a motion, a second for adoption? >> so moved. >> second. >> president cook: so we already have the recommendation read into the record. we don't have any public comment on the item? any comments from the board superintendent? >> thank you. [roll call] six ayes. >> may i make a request? it would be nice if we could, as commissioners, have a list of all the parent advisory committees, because i know there is a variety of them. a list of those and then a list of the members so that -- and the contact, the liaisons for those, because i want to make sure we're all communicating with them and they're all in different locations. thank you. >> president cook: section e, consent calendar. a motion and second? >> so moved. >> second. >> president cook: thank you. any times by the superintendent? >> none. >> president cook: any items by the board? any items severed. seeing none.

therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district hasetermined as that the instructional material hearing held on october 29, 2019, each pupil has sufficient textbooks or instruction materials in mathematics, science, history, social science and english language arts, including the english language component. each pupil has sufficient instructional materials on foreign language and health classes. that the high school have science laboratory equipment available related to the science classes. and that completes the resolution. any questions that i can answer? >> president cook: just one second. so we don't have any public comment on this? and looks like we have commissioner collins and commissioner lopez. >> so i guess i had a question, the survey, who is completing the surveys at the sites? >> usually it's someone, either the principal or the a.p. or someone in high school that might be a department lead or someone that the school site leader designates to inventory the

she's also a full time environmental literacy content specialist for san francisco unified school district and she's become a leading alzheimer's advocate you're exhausted right. >>was was more tiring i think it was more tiring emotionally it was a you know my first experience holding the it is also testing to be you know setting an alarm and getting up in the middle of the night change might wonder stivers. >>she credits her family first husband, joe for agreeing to move into his in-laws home. when he's not working as a sail boat captain he helps with baby wesley in around the house for this family of sailors all simers has meant it's all hands on deck and finesse is taking her advocacy work to our local us representatives jared huffman. >>representative has been nothing but receptive he spent just so welcoming and and says yes to what we ask of him in terms of policy but seriously with everything else how does she have time in her day or week to relentlessly drive policy change people may perceive as a caregiver how could it possibly have a full-time job assignment, caring for my dad. >>

she's also a full time environmental literacy content specialist for san francisco unified school districtd she's become a leading alzheimer's advocate you're exhausted right. >>was was more tiring i think it was more tiring emotionally it was a you know my first experience holding the it was also interesting to be you know setting an alarm and getting up in the middle of the night change might wonder stivers she credits her family first husband, joe for agreeing to move into his in-laws home. >>when he's not working as a sail boat captain he helps with baby wesley and around the house for this family of sailors all timers has meant it's all hands on deck and finesse is taking her advocacy work to our local us representatives jared huffman. >>representative has been nothing but receptive he spent just so welcoming and and says yes to what we ask of him in terms of policy but seriously with everything else how does she have time in her day or week to relentlessly drive policy change people may perceive as a caregiver how could it possibly have a full-time job assignment, caring for my dad.

i am the most recent past chair of the san francisco unified community advisory for special education. we put together a statement on charter schools in january of 2018, and i believe all of you have been sent that in the past. if you need a copy i would be happy to provide another. i am reading from it tonight. san francisco charter schools have the choice much joining -- of joining the eldorado. it is east of sacramento. they meet monthly with the ex tension of july and september. the leadership members attend. we have parents at each meeting. they are held in support for families here at mission and vanness. we provide interpretation and child care and serve a light dinner. eldora meets two times each year. they collaborate and participate in commits. we attend board of education and committee meetings and comment on matters important. charter schools opting out of the local pan with 1 -- plan effect civil removes parent oversight. the sfusd has serious concerns about no robust opportunities for parental involvement and oversight. that is 10 seconds left. if anyone would like a cop

vincent matthews, our superintendent for san francisco unified school district school district. thank you. [applause] >> good morning, boys and girls. i just want to tell you how proud i am of you today. you did exactly what you were supposed to do during an earthquake. you dropped, you covered, you made sure your head was covered, and then when you heard the all clear sign, you came out here. that is exactly what you are supposed to do. we want to make sure you are safe during an earthquake and one more thing we want you to do is make sure you are telling your parents to be prepared, so make sure they have all the things you need. food, batteries, flashlights, first-aid kit, water, you want to have all those things and a plan. make sure you are telling your parents that. i'm very proud of you today. i want you to -- we will do a quick cheer. i will spell good job because you did such a good job. so i will say good job, and then you say good job, good job. >> good job. >> good job, good job. >> good job. >> good job, good job. >> you did an excellent job today. i'm so proud of y

management of publically-owned, unair gated trees and by the ways, we should consider trees on san francisco unified schools and city college and university land. climate change has significantly impacted these tall-aging water leveling stance of tree. as you can see in my 2014 and 2019 photos of glenn canyon tree tops, these now drought stressed and browning trees are vulnerable to disease pathogens and beatles. a recent report on mount sutra are dying faster than they can remove them. i urge you to begin a thinning program immediately to reduce fuel for a wildfire and to give remaining trees for access. >> next speaker, please. >> i'm dr. arion eroy. i'm here to argue for trees already residing in san francisco. they are a part of our community and they are our neighbors and they are silent soldiers working for us against catastrophic climate change. they make up a diverse community in our city's urban forest network. our largest urban forest is mount sutra forest which has a city and state parcel as a part unfortunate and at a time of a catastrophic climate change, ucsf is raising thousands of eu

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. it's just t

the average teacher salary in the san francisco unified school district is reportedly $65,000 a year. the median rent is $42,000 a year. >>> hayward's first navigation sensor is set to open tomorrow. dozens of community members showed up. that was the ribbon-cutting ceremony this afternoon. the navigation sensor is located in an industrial area about a mile and a half from the san mateo bridge. the center has 45 beds and people will be given one meal a day. there are also bathrooms, showers, laundry, and kitchen facilities, and people will have access to social services, substance abuse counseling if needed, and a path to permanent housing. we talked to one man who knows what life on the streets is like first hand. >> i found out w the street by some of the once they see part of the populace actually doing better than others start to follow. >> police the social workers will work to identify people who need help. no one though will be allowed in without a recommendation. >>> coming up, and arrest in two alameda county rape cases dating back 20 years. the technology investigators used

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have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unifiedc school 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 d

san francisco under 18. >> oh, there are, but not in our programs. >> under 18, significantly more. >> really? i'd like this know -- >> there are 57,000 kids in the san francisco unified school district. >> thank you. i've had this argument with my son. >> still too few. if the number is direct, you -- i think 84,000 to school aged kids living in the city, but it's still less than 10%. >> still have a lot of work to do to get the rest of them in. >> commissioner mcdonnell: i always appreciate when you come. >> thank you. >> commissioner mcdonnell: i just want to say thank you for leading the work. i particularly appreciate your transparency around your own evolution in this space. and certainly appreciate the department's commitment to this kind of focus and rigor and prioritization of this, thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. i'm a humble student. thank you. >> president buell: this information only? this is an action item. sorry. >> there are no members of the public. >> commissioner bonilla: when we first established these metrics, many years ago, about how many years ago was that? >> about four years ago. >> commissioner bonilla: four years ago. i really -- i w