i'm here tonight in my nominal role as the california dashboard coordinator for sfusd and one of the things that as part of -- so, the california dashboard is the new accountability system for california. a new version was just released on december 1st and one aspect of it is that schools are asked to -- school districts are asked to acknowledge that they have -- whether they have met or not met a number of local priorities. and the six local priorities -- actually four for the district and two additional ones for the county are listed on the page. if you notice they are all direct from the lcfs. they are part of the budget book and the l-cap report and really the actions related to them are very well detailed in the budget. and so, any actions and data reported to them are there. as part of the accountability system, the state has asked us to perform -- use some self-evaluation tools and determine whether we've met or not met our progress towards these. so, i'm happy to report tonight that based on all my -- based on our use of these self-evaluation tools and thanks to all the diffe

in partnership with sfusd and b.c. berkley and underwriting from google. about to start the third year of that. here are youth showing buy ofacts to some of the high school attendees. and then finished the 4th year of partnering with sfusd. they have a big presence in san francisco. we've partnered with them offer zoo force for 6th graders in underserved schools. we teach animal behavior class in the schools. a week later, the kids come to the zoo and come to hang out and visit with the animals. this involves the volunteers and the staff, about to embark on the fifth year of partnering in two weeks. in terms of youth volunteers, this is just the youth volunteers with the education department. we have others in the natural trail, animal resource center. but these are some of the numbers in terms of scholarship recipients. the number of hours that the youth have contributed during the year. there are some of the youth with reading, storytime station, for the visitors that come by. this is outside the african savannah, so they're reading a book about the zebr

i'm saying sfusd, we can do this. we can do it together. that's our humble ask. thank you. >> public: my name is john mour. mr. president, board members, superintendent and staff. i just want to piggy-back on what was just mentioned. for us, it's all about space. in order to close those gaps and to improve on our performance, especially with our youth within the district, we definitely need some space. and appreciate the fact that the president and also staff have reached out and worked with us. but really want to move it to the point where we can sit here and at the end of the night, you guys can vote yay or nay. we are asking for utilization, our anchor institution right now is a leasing space there. but we have eight other organizations that would need additional space as well. that's why we're asking for not rooms, but for the whole facility. so, please take that into consideration. thank you. >> public: good evening. thanks for taking the time to listen. i'm going to echo some comments. i'm an educator. one of my students was a student delegate, maria. she's

assessment out come data can be us evaluated -- >> should not be directly or indirectly utilized by sfusd to evaluate educator performance, and be further resolved that the -- and the union and the district shall form a committee of equal representation of the district union and parents and guardians to explore the use of formativd until the end of the 2017-18 school year, and be it further resolved -- all board and administrative policy on the matter of term assessments. >> thank you, commissioner sanchez and commissioner cook. we do have one speaker signed up for this item. aaliyah fisher. >> good evening, commissioners. good evening, superintendent. at this time, i start my public comment by saying thank you very much to commissioners sanchez and cook for raising this issue and thank you very much for your continued dialogue. i appreciate that you've taken a lot of parent feedback into your changes and been willing to work with us to modify the resolution and so thank you for the assessment. the cac would like to see a few other additions. first, we're excited to be invited to the tabl

but i do want you to know and understand this: there are a lot of people that have graduated from sfusd that are doing a tremendous job for the city and doing very, very well. members of the board of supervisors, members of this board of education, members -- lawyers, doctors, judges. i want you to understand that the top job in this school district is occupied by a graduate of san francisco unified school district, so just the narrative about not being -- not being able to be successful, you might want to try something else, because we have very successful people day-to-day that continue to come through our public schools. with that said, i am going to support this school because one, i've had conversations with school personnel, i've met students, met young people, and we're not about tearing apart things that are working, that exist, and people that have developed the school community, but let's all work together to change that narrative about what's really happening and focus on the positive aspects of what we all can do as we work together. roll call vote please, miss casco. >> cle

[please stand by] sfusd [ speaking native language ] [ through the interpreter ] >> okay. so that's -- that's why in the bay view public schools, along with naacp, we make a calling for all public servants of this school district and the city to make a commitment with the goal of increasing in a 10 point percentile the level of competency of the students -- of the african american students and latinos for 2018 and '19, and another pinpoint for the year 2019 and '20. [ speaking native language ] [ through the interpreter ] >> senator scott has signed th -- scott weiner has signed that ordinance, and we hope you will, as well. [ speaking native language ] >>president walton: and we have four minutes after this statements. [ speaking throu-- through the interpreter ] >> please, when you see the parents, when you see concerned parents, get us involved instead of avoiding us. >>president walton: thank you so much. geraldine anderson, sean biven, shawn richards, reverend townsend. >> hello. my name is geraldine anderson. my son is kingtston he is in the t-shirts grain th our stu

then we reviewed a fiscal impact analysis of the -- the resolution in support of further reducing sfusd assessments. >>president walton: thank you, committee of the whole, tuesday, november 7th, commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you. we had a great update on the safe and supportive schools and what's been happening related to that, and then, we did a report on the revisions to the board policy 5101, students sign, which we voted on this morning. >> curriculum and program, commissioner norton. >> yes, the curriculum and program committee met last night. we forwarded to you, as i engs med earlier, the resolution on reducing assessments with a positive recommendation. we also heard a really interesting record on the update on the school of the arts outreach plan. they've made a lot of progress, actually, after the resolution two years ago. principal payne was on hand. they've got a common audition policy that all of the -- the arts leads now are implementing that take care of a lot of the concerns the board has had in the past. they've had great interest in the summer program. there