i've been very impressed with the thoughtfulness of stevon cook. he's proven himself as someone who that is committed and dedicated to the young people in our district as well as to the teachers and staff. stevon, you've really showed leadership in a variety of different spaces and it's with great honor that i nominate you as our vice president for the san francisco board of education. >> president walton: thank you, president mendoza-mcdonnell. any other nominations? seeing no other nominations, we are going to vote for vice president of the board of education for commissioner stevon cook. >> commissioner norton: i would like to make the same motion, that we accept mr. cooke's nomination by acclimation. >> president walton: any objection to that? we'll accept the nomination of vice president stevon cook by acclimation. seeing that, we now have our new vice president, commissioner stevon cook. [applause] and now i will go back to being a member at large. >> want to just take a point of privilege, if i may, to thank shamann for his incredible work th

we have the incredible vice president of the school board, stevon cooke, please. >> it is such an honor to be here to represent the san francisco unified school district at city hall, but i think because the walls are lit with purple, it's somebody else today. whose house? whose house? we have the state champion g-house to that because these incredible student athletes, as a previous speaker said, won the city championship, but took it all the way to win the 6 a championship state title. i would like to take a moment to recognize some leaders from the school district. we have president hydro-mendoza mcdonald today, our athletic director for the school district, don collins, is also here. and the principal of galileo high school has joined us. dr. matthews, our superintendent, wanted to be here, but unfortunately, his father passed this weekend, so if we can keep his family in our hearts and our prayers as they go through this difficult time. this is a really incredible occasion. the first time in the history of our city we can gather in honor of a state football champion. so welcome to

section e, 17523a1 was withdrawn. 1703 a, offered by commissioners mark sanchez and stevon cook, this was moved and seconded october 7th, 2017. reports have already been given. commissioner sanchez and commissioner cook, it's on you. >> all right. victor, do you want me to read half of it? all right. i'll do the first half. this is a -- this is a resolution that's down to some iterations that curriculum committee. it's been modified, and this is actually a substitute resolution, and it was changed enough that we just substituted the resolution before us tonight and that made it through correct you lurriculum and through this body. >> -- assessments. and whereas these assessments included but are not limited to, the reading inventory, the benchmark assessments and performance tasks as well as prekindergarten assessments, and whereas due to ongoing feedback from critical sites, the school's number of assessments have been interim d by formal classroom teachers, and whereas the united educators of san francisco have determined that district mandated assessments are a major concern in tha

i first want to congratulations president mendoza-mcdonnell and vice president stevon cook. and welcome back to brad stamp. it's been a long time. good to see you. i've come to the microphone to talk about what we all know is going on and that's a campaign to get a parcel tax on the ballot from the midst of collecting signatures as a citizens initiative and i want to thank the people who in the front of the room have rsvp'd that they will be attending the kickoff event and training this saturday, january 13, at 11:00 at 1188 franklin. the san francisco labor council headquarters. for those of us that are in the room and listening, we have petitions available right now for folks' signatures. you need to be a san francisco voter and the most important access to this parcel tax is that it will greatly increase compensation for sfusd educators, even though we did just get a substantial raise. this city is so expensive that we know that educators and others cannot afford to stay here unless we put more revenue towards the educators devoted to our students. i thank you, everyone,