so as chair of the community advisory committee for special education, i would like to thank the teamor your collaboration. our learning well black event was amazing, and it was a culmination of a whole lot of work and collaboration around intersection alateen between students who receive special education services, and students who are african-american. thank you for all of that. i will put on my hat of being an adoptive parents of african-american students, the team has really, it has been a game changer for my family. my now college freshman, was she would -- when she was in middle school, used to tell people that her dad was jamaican because she was embarrassed of being adopted and didn't want anyone to know, so the difference in my skin color and hair skin color were because he was so dark because he was jamaican, and that was the story she told, and now, me being involved in this group and my kids being involved in b.s.u. , and us being involved everywhere -- seeing me be accepted has helped my kids feel accepted, and seeing the program like these, and the women empowerment clas

my name is alita fisher, and i'm the chairman of the community advisory committee for special education. >> my name is julia martin. i am the first chair for the community advisory committee for special education. >> and we have at the dais with us d.j., the senior statisticsition. the c.a.c. must sign off on sfusd's local plan and budget before it can be sent to the california department of education. every three years, we update the plan and we will be working on the project -- >> president cook: i'm sorry. i just lost quorum. give me a second. so we'll be here until 2:00 a.m. instead. proceed. >> our meeting topics for 2018-2019 are listed here. c.a.c. meetings are open to the public, and we welcome all those who are here tonight to attend our meetings, as well. this past year, we saw an overall increase in our meeting attendance. our most well attended meetings were the ones that we cohosted with apac as well as our consolidated forum. our next meeting, we will have representatives from the sfusd and google's assistive tech department. [inaudible] >> is this on? no. this very text h

on behalf of the community advisory committee for special education, i would like to thank the parent advisory committee and a representatives tonight for the report. i would like to thank george or williams for her work and particularly for the recent work in the joint advisory committee responses. without her work in the work of the pack, we would not have been able to present the report we presented to you at the beginning of last month. georgia, thank you so much. we are always honored to collaborate. thank you very much. i know this is not the appropriate time to respond to it, as the chair the community advisory committee and someone who represents students who have many disabilities, i find it offensive for public comment to include things about autism and all families believing that autism causes vaccines be -- autism is caused by vaccines. we have many students within sfusd, because of the disabilities, they cannot be vaccinated, and therefore, choosing not to vaccinate a child puts others at risk. thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioners, comments or questions? okay.

advisory council -- council, and the learner advisory committee, the african-american parent advisory council, and community advisory committee for special educatione. thank you. >> fantastic. good evening, vice president, deputy, commissioners, and student delegates. i would like to introduce ourselves. where the local control accountability task force. i and the student advisory council's did advocate. >> good evening, my name is letitia, i'm the program coordinator for the african-american parent advisory council. >> good evening, i'm sharon, i coordinate the services court 19 program and share the executive advisory council. i would like to say happy national foster care month. [applause] >> good evening. my name is maggie, i am the english -- english language advisory council liaison. >> good evening, i am the chair of the community advisory committee for special education. >> good evening, my name is george or williams, i'm the coordinator for the parent advisory council. tonight's presentation is to help inform the development of the district's local accountability plan, in particular, improving the mentation of strategic initiative. our pr

anyway, i am chair of the community advisory committee for special education. i would just like to thank the transportation department and honor your leadership. there has been a lot of input from parents that have gone into working with the transportation group. we have done so many transportations and we are talking about getting our most complex children around the city in ways that launch them into the school day effectively, and it is no easy task. thank you for all your work, i know there's a lot of collaboration this year between special education and transportation, cost reduction and improvement, so thank you for that. one thing that i would love to cs consider is by the time our kids get to high school, there can be a stigma around riding the big yellow bus, so i am wondering if there is a potential to consider some more even cost-effective actions other then the yellow buses, maybe maybe smaller, more efficient cars, something more nondescript that might help our students arrive without the stigma showing up on the yellow bus. lots of things to consi