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 entailed. >> what we wanted to explain is how it is that san francisco unified got selected for the comprehensive review. there are a number of monitors systems. data informed noncompliance. y

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

the instructional strategies for special education and limited english are 93 through 112. the description of annual goals for all pupils and each subgroup is marked insufficient. i would like you to refer to just one of the examples of the goals appearing in this section. page 116 there is a goal which describes the specifics of a plan for addressing proficiency and ela as measured. third in the staff report element b is marked insufficient without explanation for several outcome based and goal based items. in the one purpose petition the goals and measures are articulated in detail on pages 117 through 126. these are one, fully aligned with l cat, two reflect academic annan -- and the nonacademic outcomes. >> i am susan davenport the finance chair of one purpose school, a proud member. in addition, in element c this articulates how benchmark skills will be developed and assessed and includes the annual goals. please refer to that and note we have been miss categorized. i would like to respond to one additional area marked insufficient in the staff matrix. element c method

i am here on the committee for special education. one of the things that standing out to me is that when you do a search you find the words disability, iep,504 plan, manifest determination. zero times in the entire 15 pages of this m.o.u. in the presentation none of the data included students with disabilities. i will give you statistics. there is a data collection project. the last data publicly available is from 2015. at that time specific to fu they accounted 32.1% of inschool suspension. 39.9% of out of school and half of expulsions. this m.o.u. contains zero information about the special protections our students eaching special education are entitled to in the discipline andy escalation is not included. students like my son are not obvious with disabilities. when he is frustrated he loses disability to hear and respond. he is an african-american boy who at age 14 is now taller than me. for him and for every other african-american student with disabilities we need to update this m.o.u. to be more specific and supportive. thank yo

chris' work has earned her the 2019 early career special education administrator award. baker won the award for her dedication to autism education and assistive technology at earlywood kearnl services. -- educational services. thank you for the work you have done to those in need and congratulations for this honor. mr. speaker, i rise today to congratulate analytical engineering of columbus and the may family for receiving the gold hire veterans medallion award from the u.s. department of labor. this marks the second year in a row that analytical engineering inc, has earned this esteemed award. they were one of only 12 companies in indiana to win this ahard by hiring and retaining veterans. as a beirut veteran myself, i appreciate companies like analytical engineering for taking care of those who served our country. mr. speaker, i rise today to urge my democratic colleagues to stop playing political games and send the ndaa to president trump's desk. the ndaa has been a bipartisan piece of legislation that we as congress have passed for 58 straight years. the ndaa is esect

and my sister's liver was the reason that this special education teacher, trish, is able to be alive00 people nationwide are waiting for organs. dr. sander floorman is the director of the transplant institute at mt. sinai hospital and says there is a major imbalance between the supply and demand. >> we desperately need more organs, and this is a matter of life and death. this is lifesaving for most of the people waiting. >> reporter: since miller ched g five years ago, it's expanded tp 21 chapters at high schools and colleges across the country. >> we believe that students are a critical component to helping to reduce the organ shortage. >> reporter: she hopes her family's story will encourage more young people to register to donate and save lives just as her sister did. kenneth craig, cbs news, hamden, connecticut. >>> coming up only on "cbs this morning," gayle king talks with ed smart, the father of kidnapping survivor elizabeth smart, in his first network tv interview about coming out as gay and why he decided to share his story with the public. >>> plus, wealk with '70s super gr

we revamped our approach to special education and a new role to provide coaching to special education teachers. we are investing in each coach receiving 100 hours of training. providing teachers with data-driven coaching based on best practices. to support emotional health we are working with a program to promote school success for trauma impacted students. we have dedicated a wing to the school building to student services. i cannot wait to see what students accomplish. i invite you to come see the students and teachers in action in kipp bayview academy. thank you. [applause] >> i aigood evening to all of te honorable members of the board. i am doctor walker, pastor of the true hope church of christ located in bayview. also one of the founding members of the corporation where we built over 600 low income housing in san francisco. along with that we are concerned about various communities especially we are concerned about education. when you look at the latinos, african-americans and pacific islands, they are not really coming up to the standard of education in the city. this board ha

we heard loud and clear about what is happening in the field with special education, the need to continue supporting our paraeducators and certificate teachers at the school sites and really uphill challenges. we heard around caseload and workload and the recommendation from community about the importance that, particularly with this agenda item that it be co-presented between the special education division and with talent acquisition and staffing. we are committed to ensuring that happens for those additional teac teacher presents with the program divisions. i think we have a long way to go, and from the recommendation from the committee, i expressed the importance of making sure we have those realtime updates because it is continued to be a consistent issue that we have heard from the field and from our staff at the school sites. [please stand by] mont. >> -- that was moved with a positive recommendation. the information items that were presented were also very exciting, and it was regarding a spanish language reading instruction curriculum benchmark in as supporting spanish teachers. a

. >> my grandsmother was a teacher and taught special education for 40 years in los angeles and when i was growing up she inspired me to record everything. we recorded our conversations, we recorded the [inaudible] we recorded everything to cassette players. learning multimedia skills, from the other crossover employment opportunities for young people. someone who grew up in la rks san francisco feels like a small town. i lived in western addition and i was looking for someone to cut my hair, i found [inaudible] he seemed like a very interesting guy and grew up in the neighborhood and had a lot to say about something that was foreign to me. that local perspective and so important to me because i think as someone who isn't from here, knowing that history allows me to be more engaging in the community i live in and want the same for others. i want people to move into a new neighborhood to know who was there before and businesses and what cultural and [inaudible] shape what we see today. >> my guiding principles have been, if you stick to something long enough and know what it is and go

it linguist to the content developed by the special education folks in the past, but there is a link there. so it can be updated when ready. >> did you want to add to that? >> we have a memorandum of understanding with the parent facility in san francisco. there is a conference that is coordinated that is all about family engagement. there are workshops in english, spanish, chinese once a month that support families and parent workshops all the time. there is a huge amount of family engagement that is done and the process is overwhelming, but the work is still done and we still try. >> thank you for your patience. just in hearing the discussion tonight and the fact that we are all at capacity and this is work being done by the department of education, what are they doing to support us reaching this? is there -- is that -- yeah, i'm just wondering? >> it's frustrating. i think what susan said about the ieda moneys not coming. we stomped in washington in may to get better funding for all of us so we can do this good work. the c.d.e. -- so our partners state-wide are unified. this is no

is one less dollar they have for the high school football team or girls basketball team for special education but from an individual web installer for retirement or their children's education or family vacation and for every dollar stolen from a company that's one less to innovate and create new products and enter new markets or to hire friends and neighbors. these are the cybercriminals and we will pursue them and prosecute them whether minsk or moscow or like to echo the thanks to our international partners and also the outstanding work of the best cybergroup of the fbi in pittsburgh not really hear from the us attorney in nebraska. >> thank you in the district of nebraska the complaint refers to three different nebraska bank accounts belonging to small businesses and to emphasize that is just the nebraska aspect of the victims the conspiracy is much broader into other states. with those three victims to were averted. that there was an actual loss of the 159,000 - - just in the state of nebraska and of the various state to be estimated at nearly $70 million. the methodology was similar each

unified school district is trying to collect money that they accidentally overpaid to retired special education assistants who were working as substitutes for the district of the mistake involves holiday pay. a 2013 state law changed the rules for compensating stanlts who substitute. they used to get holiday pay if they worked a certain number of hours before a holiday. that's no longer the case. some of those who were overpaid think the district should let them keep the money. >> it was their fault. why do we have to pay the consequences for the district knowing what the law was six years ago and yet continuing to pay us? >> a spokesperson for the district says although she empathizes with those teachers a public agency to forgive an overpayment is unlawful because it would be considered a gift of public funds. the mistake was discovered during an audit. >>> one day after calling for unity and respect in his christmas message, trump took to twitter today telling his followers the impeachment process is a scam and that it makes it difficult to deal with foreign leaders. morn on what the preside

a retired special education assistant says those impacted do a variety of jobs including campus supervisors and cafeteria workers. all members of the california school employees association and teachers are not members of the union and they are not affected. >> i'm outraged. when they audit me i'm going to owe them thousands of dollars. i don't have. >> the mistake in payment resulted when a state law went into effect in 2013 that changed the rules for compensating retired school district employees who worked the day before or the day after a holiday. the letter was sent to retirees who do substitution work. ution work. 0. >> it was their fault. why do we have to pay the consequences for the district knowing what this law was six years ago? and yet, continued to pay us. >> a mount dee ablow school official told me, "i empathize with these people but it would be illegal to waif the money overpaid and it would be a gift of public funds." they discovered the mistake in an audit and it doesn't affect all employees. >> they're auditing and coming up with these names. i may not have one today but

. >> sreenasan: okay, in some of those special education cooperatives, yohave several differt storiesf what some of these children do to u talk abouan autistic boy named jace. tell me what happened there? >> we saw jace was repeatedly school.the quiet rooms at his sometimes it was because he didn't want to do his math work and he would cry. the classroom. he would urinate, he would defecate. they would leave him in the room. we show one incident where he was,ou know, crying in that neom and he was saying, "i'm crying a and he was in there for hours. >> sreenivasan: and thu was all dmented how? >> so, in illinois, when chilen were put in isolated time-out, staff members had to cument what w happening during that seclusion, what led to the seclusion, how long the student was put in seclusion, and what happened inside. so you would see jace's incident, for example, it would say,an "1053,d it would quote him, "i'm crying alone." 10: 55, "would go minute by minute and we have the records from all acrs.oss illin >> senivasan: did the parents that trusted their cildren to these institutions

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one less dollar for teacher salaries or special education. for every dollar stolen from an individual, that is one less dollar they have for their retirement, one less dollar they have for their children's education or for a family vacation. for every dollar stolen from a company, that is one less dollar to innovate, to create new products, to enter new markets, or to hire those same friends and neighbors. this is why we go to the ends of the earth to investigate and prosecute cyber criminals. these are the cyber criminals who victimize our citizens and we will pursue them and we will prosecute them, whether these criminals are in pittsburgh, pennsylvania or in minsc or moscow. i would like to echo our international partners and especially recognize for the western pennsylvania indictment the outstanding work of the and thet u.s. attorney work of the best cyber group and the fbi in the field office of pittsburgh. now we will hear from joe kelly, the u.s. attorney from nebraska. you.ank in the district of nebraska, the complaint against yakube

i had four to six year olds in special education, and loved t. by the end of the first year, i was visibly pregnant. the principal did what principles did in those days, wish me luck and hire someone else for the job. yay. so, here i am, at home, have a baby, can't get a job, i got to o something. i got to -- go to law school. i ended up there. y this time, i was living in new jersey, i found the college, and baby on hip, i finished three years of moscow, graduated visibly pregnant, passed the bar, and practiced law for 45 minutes. then i went back to my first love. hich was teaching. i spent almost my whole grown-up life teaching in law school. now, i don't know if everybody does this who grew up like i did, but we watched every nickel. when i taught law school, i taught all the money courses. if it was about money, i was right there in the thick of t. but there was one central question that all of my work was always about, and that is, what is happening to working families in america. why is america's middle class being hollowed out? why is it

high school football team, the girls basketball team, one less dollar for teacher salaries or special education. for every dollar stolen from an individual is one less dollar they have for their retirement. one less dollar they have for their children's education or family vacation. for every dollar stolen from a company that is one less dollar to innovate, create new products, enter new markets or to hire the same friends and neighbors and this is why we go to the ends of the earth, to investigate and prosecute cybercriminals. these are the cybercriminals who victimize our citizens and we will pursue them and prosecute them whether these couples are in pittsburgh, pennsylvania or moscow. thanks to our international partners, i would like to recognize the work, outstanding work of assistant us attorney and the best cybergroup in the fbi and field office of pittsburgh, now we will hear from joe kelly, us attorney from nebraska. >> thank you. in the district of nebraska, the complaint against his co-conspirators refers to three different nebraska bank accounts belonging to small businesses and to

transitship and student demographics, met and unmet student needs, percentage of students placed in special education, students identified and placed in gate, percentage of homeless students, percentage who leave the students, percentage of students ready for kindergarten, percentage of students ready for high school, f.m.p. scores, e.l.a., science and math and c.l.a. score is, uccsu eligibility, for hour cohort graduation rates, percentage of graduates in two-year and four-year colleges, average instructional time, suspension rates, early warning indicators, percentage receiving free and reduced lunch, recruitment of latinx educators, percentage of latinx educators in the district. >> we're almost done. and then, we're going to read it in spanish -- no, just kidding. >> i was going to make that joke. >> and it is in spanish, so it's on-line. be it further resolved annually the superintendent with the support of the latinx community council and the latinx internal oversight committee will prepare and present with the used a stude sfusd a report and consistent with the data provided to the latinx comm

he entered sixth grade and fifth grade his teacher actually recommended that we test him for special education. he might have some processing challenges some sort of classic things like that. he was really struggling. in a fairly traditional education setting. i was worried i did not know he was ever going to be able to write a coherent paragraph. i can find those injuries where i am beside myself thinking how does an english teacher send literally not son literally not know how to write. so fast-forward. his exposition or his pursuit as one he has practiced for himself. so our kids can do that. he likes to make maps. he is obsessed with current events in the world. he has this theory he has a theory of politics and power. and he is spending his expositions this year doing research on that. it is so interesting you ask me about my view of myself. to make do think you are smart now. i would never do that. he is really passionate and confident. and to determine. he is not can it go to a traditional university. >> he has spent a lot of time looking and researching. and he's really excited about a

although it's not on the agenda tonight, we are going to be creating a five-year plan for special education. it's been bumped quite a few months, but it's a long time in coming, as many of you may know. even though it's not on the agenda tonight, i did want to speak to keep it in everyone's mind that we actually need to think about resourcing our mo most-needy programs, in that when we serve students who need a lot of resources, we need to provide a lot of resources to the staff that serve them. i actually got a phone call from one of my students that i taught in second and third grade that's going to be needing to go into high school. i'm looking to those in high schools who have any ideaing. it brought me back to when i thought my students, they're smaller classrooms and i got to know my students really well. it was a magnificent moment in my life. my clam was in the former p.e. closet. i had no desks, no curriculum, and no staff on the first day of school. i'm just going to let you know that it hasn't got much for for our teachers and professionals. this is after five years. we need to d

a retired special education assistant says those impacted do a variety of jobs, including campus supervisors and cafeteria workers. all are members of the california members school employee association. teachers are not affected. >> i'm outaged. outraged. when they audit me, i'm gonna owe mistaken payment resulted when a state law went into effect in 2013 that changed the rules for compensating retired school district employees who work the day before or the day after the holiday. this letter was sent to retirees who do substitution work. it said "we are providing you a one-time option to rectify this violation by repaying the district all the special compensation received." >> it's their fault. why do we have to pay the consequences for the district knowing what the law was six years ago and yet continuing to pay us? >> reporter: an official who wanted to remain anonymous told me, quote, "i empathize with these people but it would be illegal to waive the money that was overpaid. it would be a gift of public funds." they discovered the mistake in an audit. not all employees have received the