the p.a.c. report, if it's o.k. with my colleagues, i'd like to move up the item where we're going to be appointing new members to the advisory council, so if there's no objection to that, we'll also be moving up, let's see, what it is, item l. >> thank you, we very much appreciate that. good evening, commissioners, superintendent and folks in the room. i'm ruth krabowski and i staff the parent advisory council. i generally try not to be the one doing the talking but the p.a.c. members are also pretty much on break and asked me to do this for them. our report tonight addresses the superintendent's proposal that you'll be taking up later this evening to establish -- that includes establishing feeder patterns to assign students to middle schools and we share the superintendent's enthusiasm for the fact that this issue is about to be over, even if we don't agree with everything in the proposal. so i also want to let you know that district staff who have been working on the very complicated different

the board? commissioner murase? commissioner murase: i thank p.p.s. and p.a.c. for working on this issue and the staff for the many hours that were put into this and i received exhaustil mail on this issue from both sides of the issue. i want to ask someone to explain c-tip. i'm familiar with it but for those listening, we throw around that acronym a lot and it's important for families to understand what c-tip is. >> thank you, commissioner. so c-tip is actually an acronym that stands for census track integration preference and what it is, there are geographic areas of the city that have the lowest average test scores and they were determined by looking at multiple years of english language arts,c.s.t., california standardized tests, throughout the entire city and the city was then, because it's an average, you come up with averages so the city using those averages, there's five -- they're quintiles. the ranges were divided into quintiles and the lowest quintile is the area of the city with the lowest average test scores and we call that ctip. in our literature,

our objectives tonight in addition to the board having more discussion with p.a.c. and p.p.s. are to build an understanding of how the feeders support the board's policy goals that are outlined in p-5101. so there are two handouts that should be available for the public and the board. one is a copy of the power point conversation that we're going to go through. the second is a copy of the board policy p-5101. that's actually the original policy that was unanimously approved by the board in march 2009 and it's a redline version because we've submitted some changes to the policy. and indeed there's even been some changes between first and second readings. so the top right corner says it's a substitute motion. i think technically that's incredibility. it's an amendment. and we will as a staff make sure we incorporate any other meaments that need -- amendments that need to be included beforee board has an opportunity to give us specific feedback on the recommendations that we are presenting tonight. we have heard from multiple stakeholders, the board and staff reviewed the reports.

today, 200 years later, we are run by the tyranny of the special interests and their checkbooks. [applause] >> lobbyist money, p.a.cciation money, think about it. think about the idea of it. i refer you to a tax code that is unreadable, with loopholes for the rich and famous, which favors the corporations, that send our best jobs overseas and where g.e. can make a profit last year of $14.2 billion worldwide and pay not one penny of federal income taxes. and you know what? they gave $4.3 million in political contributions to candidates for president. that was four years ago. corporations never made more profit than they did this year. how do you feel? after this nation was brought to its knees in the last recession by the wall street banks and other companies, which received trillions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts and credit enhancement money without a single thank you in return, did you get your thank you? i refer you to a bank reform bill that allows too big to fail to remain, that did not address the capital ratio, that did not restore the provisions of glass- steagall, and that acted like wall street banks are

able to brag that i'm the first george bush to be on facebook, and so i ask you to, if you can, to like me on facebook so that i can keep in touch with you with respect to maverick p.a.c., a political action committee i'm involved with in helping engage younger americans in the political system. [applause] but since i'm here, i might as well give a bush family update for what it's worth. my grandfather, former president george h.w. bush, just recently turned 87, but my grandmother barbara bush, the silver fox, aka the enforcer within the bush family, executed her veto in restricting him from jumping out of a perfectly fine plane once again. however, he will jump out again when he is 90 and we're all looking forward to seeing that happen. some of you might have saw last week he received an honorary law degree from dort mouth along with conan o'brien -- from dartmouth along with conan o'brien, making the third lawyer in the family joining my family and i. i guess so much for tort reform within the bush family. received the presidential medal of freedom very recently, which is considered the highest honor giving to a civilian in our country. he just thought it was cool b

the world. it doesn't usually receive a lot of attention. there's not a lot of lobbyists down here for poor people. there are not a lot of p.a.c.'s out there that support issues that benefit poor people. but in many ways this is one of the most important appropriations bills we consider. i do think it reflects on our values and what kind of country we want to be. i believe that given the fact that we're the richest country on this planet, we ought to make sure that nobody in america goes hungry. i don't know why that's such a radical idea. and yes, we need to rely in large part on the faith-based communities out there that are doing incredible work. they're working overtime trying to deal with the people who have fallen into poverty as a result of the economic crisis we're. in they're doing all they can to brush it off onto their backs more is just wrong. and it doesn't represent the reality out there. we need to step up to the plate during these difficult times and help people get through these crises. if you don't respond, you want to ignore those who are struggle, they just don't go away. it results in other problems. and oth

because the p.a.c., they want to engage in the discussion. once we saw their outline and questions, we thought it would be more logical to begin with the staff recommendations and the staff presentations, then go to the p.p.s. p.a.c. presentation so that then we can take public comment and engage in discussion. ms. o'keefe, if you want to begin. thank you. >> first and foremost, i really want to take this opportunity to thank parents for public choice diligently with us to do all this work. and i want to qualify a few things that i'm going to say, but before that, i want to thank them because, you know, they did do a lot of input session. they went out there and did a lot of great work for us in cooperation with us. that's really a hard item to do. and we want to thank -- that was a great partnership. i also think that from what i've seen out there, sometimes here in our beautiful city when we get input from different groupings, it doesn't always mean that input means that it goes one way or goes to the other way. it just simply means we take

p.a.c. would use the money on those campaigns. ey even filed a petition for an advisory opinion, but you did get one from a couple of democratic super p.a.c.'s. i know you can't talk about the petitions, but is this something that you plan to tackle soon or is there a time table for trying to tackle that issue? >> right. you know us well enough to know i can't comment on one that's pending before us, but the statute requires that we respond to advisory opinions within 60 days, so that's the time frame. i think you see a lot over the next two months to try to address all of those within the time frame. we can, under the statute, get -- we can get an extension from folks, but we really do try to answer them within the 60 days. >> my question is asking to you revisit something you brought up at the beginning of your remarks, which is a surprising decision in the eastern district of virginia, both last week and again early this week, and just any observations that you might have about how that would play out both as you move forward wi