high school level, we actually see that our plan is to move further away from foods and more towards sfusd produced meals for our students and about 40 percent of our students at the high school are eating at foods that are produced by the sfusd staff and that is actually a much more cost effective model and provides more choice and opportunity and so we are hoping to move in that direction and so with the increased revenue from the participation and the increased number of meals, we are going it see the cost going up but the revenue stream going up significantly as well and we think that it is going to be our estimates are that it is a more cost effective model when they are all rolled out. >> we see, some of those estimates? because that is what kind of questions that we asked when the designs were rolled out is exactly that. and i would be very interested in that and, i mean that i understand that with the... which is i want all of these things to be piloted and tried, but i understand that we are actually participation is going down in the meal programs this year. and so that is a big

are we able to provide analysis if jrtc curriculum alines with sfusd rigorous standards? can we assess it for content and knowledge? and are the students absorbing that knowledge, necessary to pack the course with validity? or could they possibly, three, get that knowledge elsewhere? those questions will be hopefully answered by our staff at the next curriculum committee meeting and that is my report. >> thank you very much. >> and any announcements? >> yes. >> and just very briefly. i wanted to say that commissioner maufas and i attended the first book give away on march first book. hundreds of teachers lined up at 9:00 in the morning to get into the sports basement store on 16th and bryant and special thank you to the sports base sxment they were incredible and opened up the store for a week, and they were, and they had 42,000 books, in the loading bay at the store. and it was just an amazing event, to see all of these teachers lining up so early to get the free books for their kids. >> wynns? >> thank you, i just wanted to and i actually made a presentation at the cali

and we also intend to pass the resolution on specifically to the sfusd, which the commissioners sandra lee fewer supports. and if you are interested in this campaign, the next thursday, march 6th at city hall, some of our sac representatives, will be providing the san francisco health department, with our voice, and support of the city supervisors, legislation between ten a.m. and ten p.m. so i will be there and so, i will love it if the people showed up and you can sort of speak about the ecigarettes. >> thank you. >> so everybody knows about it for youth, and, i can attest to how important it was to me and we offer it to the students of five to 17 and what about the 18-year-old and we have 3,000 18-year-olds and senior 18-year-olds out of 4,000 seniors in high school, and so, together, with the youth commission, we have been working on writing a resolution, to encourage the sfmta to allow 18-year-olds san franciscans to also, participate in the free muni for youth program, in addition, for the very first time of sac history, we have been able to use this boardroom to hold our sac mee

. >> i'm matt i'm the technical with the sfusd tonight i have the honor to present introduce ms. gibbons as the distinguished award. she's worked the district almost 20 years and served some of the biggest challenges she worked at the schools that have helped the children through counseling. i had the pleasure of joining the staff and she's been working at dpw our procedure are restored practices and she's a great advocate it's an honor and pleasure to work with her so happy to recognize her tonight. >> i would like to add i know nike gibbons we worked pta together for many years she was served us well, and a parents wonderful and a great volunteer at our schools. >> first of all, i would recycle to thank everybody forbid this animation and this recognition. i think the things that have been the most important that many of us in education are called to this work and this is the highest service we can offer and i feel very lucky to stand beside our children working year after year beyond what was asked of them and so i feel very, very lucky to be standing alongside david here and

and you are all encouraged to attend and you can register on-line at sfusd sac.org. and also been continuing its effort. and there is san francisco legislation that will go to the full board, on march 28th. and but, to sac members, and also, the sac coordinaters, lopez bar, testified in front of several city supervisors about the ecigarette legislation that is san francisco is considering and also, the sac is working on an ecigarette resolution that will apply to the school district. thank you. >> so it is that time of the year again where we have a new batch of student leaders for the sac and, currently, sfusd, sac.org has applications for any student leader or any potential student leader who wants to be part of the sac or run for the student delegate and so that is available on-line again. and all of our meetings are open to the public if you would like an agenda, you can contact our sac coordinator salvador lopez bar and our next meeting is on monday, march 25th, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. >> thank you. >> and so, for the board members, would not mind, i would like to mov

and whereas there are also approximately 418-year-old high school students in sfusd county schools and even more 18-year-olds enrolled in private schools in san francisco. and whereas 18-year-old high school students do not qualify for the aforementioned discounted fares and must pay $2 for single transfers and additional $1.25 per ride. 66 dollars for passes and additional 43 dollars to 66 per month. and whereas the sfmta youth rate is designed to encourage the youth riders to use the public transportation and whereas there are many low income young people in san francisco, for example, of the 57,860 students enrolled in the san francisco school district, 62 percent qualified for free or reduced lunch. and do we do the whole thing? >> i guess. >> and whereas, resolutions adopted by the san francisco youth commission have all acknowledged and the board of education have all acknowledged the fact that the cost of public transportation is a major concern for san francisco's youth population and whereas the sfmta has responded to the issue of the affordability of youth fares in the operat

have more time to bring forgot the voices of students and make sure that the students are harder at sfusd. another thing this friday it's been really, really stressing us out is the use of the event we have 3 hundred student leaders coming together and learning how to empower themselves to be leader. we're working with the caption and president fewer to write a resolution or create a policy against hazing in or around sfusd campus area. our next meeting is 5:00 p.m. on monday april 14th. everyone is welcome that to come if you want a copy of our agenda or if you want to make a presentation contact our sf c coordinated sool demeanor >> at this time thank you senior graduates. commissioners if i have no objection i want to take out of order item h which are two proposals and the naming of the library. seeing no objection i want to hear those items they've been moved and seconded on february 11th. can we have the report from the can you remember and budget committee, please. would you like president fewer >> this is to deny or grant the petition for gateway high school charter school. >> i r

actually sfusd doesn't calculate. we use cde's numbers because they have a complicated formula. students that leave, if they left at 10th grade, they won't count that student anymore. >> what does it mean to leave the district? >> they went to another district like oakland unified. >> can it calculate the students that go to other districts? >> the second comment, it's not a question but it could be or comment that i like to make is something that i would like to hear from a city's perspective is how the city can support our students from graduating. sfusd policy leaders in curriculum and education and that's not a place that i think we can give a lot of feedback on but where we can be supportive is knowing what external circumstances impact the success of our students. so is it families having stable affordable housing, is it public safety, if we know what those top external issues are how can we support you when we are talking about the summer bridge program. and that factor of students not succeeding, how can we get organizations like students at bishop to applying for afford

are on track for graduation and so we did have some, or a lot of, we had a staff presentation, from sfusd

to the accountability of this resolution moving forward and so, what we would like is to develop an sfusd oversight team and that will be comprised of the various and the members of our leadership here, and the students and parents, and union representation, and sight administration and students and community groups. and ultimately, this team would receive updates progress, checks, and a lot of the work that is happening in the working group will be reporting to. and we would like to partner with this team, to make recommendations around how it is going and what some of our next steps need to be. and we also are going to be developing sfcsd, guiding team and so that will be comprised of the leader within the student, family community, support department. and in this team, it will assist in the facilitation of the development of the out reach, and of the working groups monitoring the progress as well and it will be reporting to the oversight team. and one of the initial next steps that we sao is extremely important is that facilitating a trainer retreat and there is currently all of these

lovely ceremony on thursday at the museum to honor the awards including our own kevin and many other sfusd faculty members and i want to thank all the folks admiring the effectively work and march 19 i wanted to add kudos for commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell for the toll that was favorable to the community and a shout out to the public schools. i want to worry about folks a heap chavez holiday and commissioner maufas and i have been activity that the street ceremonies and asian-american teachers, faculties members and educators the deadline is april 4th do to asia fair sf.com and nominate our favorite asia person and that's speck for teaching diversity so you're looking for those teachers teaching diversity and their schools are yes, ma'am latino the diversity >> thank you for that clarification. there be joshua activities and finally the ad hoc is meeting on april 30th at the 6 o'clock in this room >> commissioner commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> i wanted to monopolies that tomorrow morning through the around is the first annual we day educational day i'm sorry it's the program for free t

this was an answer on sfusd to do the same thing. please support the school. >> next speaker, please. [ applause ] >> hi commissioners, i'm a parent, a gay dad. we adopted my daughter seems like a long time ago now. but she was born preemie and needed therapy and she got therapies and early intervention and occupational therapies and speech therapy. she couldn't talk until she was 2 years old. she's 6 years old now in kindergarten and sometimes i just want her to keep quiet, not talk. i recognize the values of the services that's provided toll -- to all of the kids here whether they are moderately delayed or severely disabled. whether i chose the school, i looked at 15 schools checking out what they offer and things like that. every school said they are inclusive but france school is different. you walk into this school and there is classrooms designed for students here and the corridor is filled with equipment to help these students. i always believe and i said that it takes a village and by you taking way the program you are removi

and 75 percent of high school seniors will turn 18, and that is 3,000 students and another 400 in sfusd county schools, and have to pay the adult fare and face a 167 percent increase for cash fare and around 200 percent increase for monthly pass fares or even more if they sign up for the free muni and so we hope that this board will support this tonight, thank you. >> good evening, i work as a youth organizers and the young people before me already spoke about how vital the muni plays in their lives and getting to school and all of the resources i am here to speak on the 18-year-old piece because as important as it was for the school district to support 5 to 17-year-olds. the minute they turn 18 their dependentcy has not ended it has tripled to paying upwards of $66 what i see for the young people that i work with for my youth coming in from galeleo they would walk so that they could save that $2 so that they can then pay the $2 to get home in the valley and bay view or i am seeing the kids walking with reams of transfers because every time they are paying $2 instead of being able to pu

committed before i came into the room ems on monday there's a joint puc hearing about clean power sfusd and i'll encourage you to attend and i'll be supportive. i know this commission and mr. particular some of the commissioners have received some hash comments from advocates but i know that really we all want the same goal to get a large escape of new energy be it further resolved built rapidly in san francisco. and even though the san francisco public utilities commission staff are working telephone number on this we released on rfp last friday to punish finish the planning for the local installation work for clean pour u s f even though your staff is not working on this i'm sure mell come will finish the getting paid and it will be helpful to come to the joint meeting on monday and you can help us geoget to the goal we need to be able to have this program by dedicating our staff on the local planning plan outbuilding >> i'll be out of town. the critics will be happy to hear that >> i know that supervisor avalos has been doing good work they were applying some pressure to get it down