east side unified, san jose unified today. and then it goes fremont and san mateo, foster city august 28th. you'll see traffic picking up throughout the different towns and in our area. we have dr. vincent matthews, superintendent of san jose unified school district. how is it to be back to school for you? >> it's exciting. this is my 28th back to school. one of my favorite days, students come back, back to their future. i'm excited to see all of the 33,000 students in san jose unified welcoming you back. >> reporter: this year, it's a big year for you. your focus on implementation of the common core standards. 45 states have adopted these, benchmarks for english and math, things that people have to know by each grade level. and different districts have different time lines for implementation. your implementations by this year what are the common core standards? >> they're a set of standards that you said, 45 states will be implementing standards and to make us more competitive internationally and give us c common standards ac

san jose unified today. august 28th that he when the last district will start going back to school, districts like san mateo, foster city, fremont august 28th. if you're a kid you've got the extended summer. what makes this school year different is that this is when the state will start implementing common core standards. over of the past few years 45 states including california adopted standards, same standards for english and math, benchmarks for what skun benchmarks for students know know after each grade. students generally perform better than american students. in theory aum students here in the united states who go to schools with common core standards get the same education even if they were to move to another school as long as it's in the state that adopted the standards. standards are controversial because they do represent such a change and they do require teachers to receive training throughout the year. "new york times" says it's, quote, maybe the most far-reaching experiment in american educatio

the san francisco unified school district provides free interpretation services in spanish and can cantonese. we will have the equipment in the back of the room where the gentleman and lady are lifting their hands. if you know of anyone needing the services, please refer them to us so they can get their headphones. this message will be repeated in both languages. >> [speaking in spanish]. >> [speaking in cantonese]. >> and a reminder. if people are going to speak in the podium and they need interpretation, they need to come with us first to let us know. [speaking in spanish] [speaking in cantonese] >> roll call, please. >> [speaker not understood]? >> ms. mendosa? director murase? >> here. >> mr. norton? mr. logan. >> here. >> thank you. please join me in the pledge of a lookvance. ~ allegiance. [inaudible]. >> i want to welcome everybody back. i hope it was a restful and productive summer. we're looking forward to the first day of school next week. i'd also like to welcome our new student delegate, mr. cooper logan. he was elected through youth vote -- oh, yes, he was elected through youth

>> san jose unified you will. what we're doing is teachers are beginning to implement them -- when i say the 21st skills, like clab reag, problem solve, creative thinking, it's a way as instead of going wide, which the previous standards did, it's a more focused approach and we go deeper and especially highlighting problem solving skills. >> you're not going to teach to the test? that is what you're saying to me. >> absolutely. >> jen, how much is this -- how much -- we saw the teachers there, how much harder is this for teachers to learn the new standards? it's got to be tough to be thrown into the new way of teaching which changes the way they've been told to do it for a long time. does it give teachers creative license? >> you hit the nail on the head. california has dictated discream standards which limited creativity, collaboration, communication. they said, that was a huge mistake and we're sending kids auch off to the university and workforce unprepared to think creati creatively. let's change that. like a

our plan communicates the san francisco unified school district 6 strategies for success which the board and i will continue to discuss over the course of this year. and for the next two academic years it outlines the prank practices which we aim to embody in the classroom ~, in schools, in the central office, and in the board room to meet our goals. there will be more information about this strategic refreshed strategic plan, but it provides clarity to our theory of action and our approach that we utilize to implement beyond the talk. with our new quality improvement system, an updated strategic plan in our district has clearly articulated an accountability system and a set of strategies that will help us reach our goals of student achievement and access inequity. the school quality improvement system, which may be known to those of you out in the public as the waiver of no child left behind, i want to be clear, we're not waiving accountability. what we're doing is waiving outdated archaic system to a more refined enlightened system which we in san francisco have been practicing now for

. >> the requested action of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district convene a public hearing and adopt the annual budget and annual service plan for special education. >> nicely done. >> okay. i have several speakers signed up for this item. robin hansen has left. mega and katie franklin, two minutes, each. please. >> hi, megan calusa, i am a special education teacher and i want to comment on the fact that our local area plan has not been updated for a while and it was mentioned that as special education starts to look a little different in this district, we need to start planning for what that looks like as a whole district. as it becomes a bigger part of our district in that thoughtfulness that goes into the planning for making sure that the teachers are prepared and that the district is prepared for it as a community. and i think that looking at our local area plan and having a discussion about it and updating it, so that we all have a singular vision of where we are going and what it takes to get there is really important. and i think that as part of this

. >> whereas the board of education of the san francisco unified school district recognizes the keeping families together including immigrant families helps to insure equal opportunity and success for all students, a recent study entitled shattered families highlighted the educational impact on children who are at risk of losing a parent to deportation and whereas the san francisco commitment to welcoming the immigrant families to our city has been under mind by the program known as secure communities known as scom which unfairly imposes the priorities on to the city and county and the biometric information of everyone arrested is transmitted to immigration and customs enforcement triggering a request to hold certain people in jail for extra time for deportation. these requests limit immigration retainers are based on the probable cause that a person is deportable. and indeed, they have been issued against u.s. citizens and whereas immigration is completely voluntary as clarified by the attorney general, and member ran um issued on december 4, 2012, indeed, other have declined to hold t

the security contract is switching here with the unified school district. i work in an industry which is frequently run by duplicitous people. therefore, people who work in this industry must always be alert, aware. sometimes, yes, we even have to expect the absolute worst. abc security is a company which is known for its duplicity. what we're asking is that we understand you're going to go with abc security, but we're asking for your oversight on this matter to make sure that these people that work for you currently for securitas and soon to be abc do not lose their wages, no cut in their wages, no cuts in their benefits. thank you very much. >> thank you. all right. item g, consent calendar. may i hear a motion and a second, please? >> consent calendar. >> second. >> thank you. did you want to make a comment? [laughter] >> well, you can always -- i'm getting to the next part and you can always make your comment there. any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent, mr. steel? >> yes, we have -- there is one correction to 4b. 138-13 k5 on page 105.

the security contract is switching here with the unified school district. i work in an industry which is frequently run by duplicitous people. therefore, people who work in this industry must always be alert, aware. sometimes, yes, we even have to expect the absolute worst. abc security is a company which is known for its duplicity. what we're asking is that we understand you're going to go with abc security, but we're asking for your oversight on this matter to make sure that these people that work for you currently for securitas and soon to be abc do not lose their wages, no cut in their wages,

therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district here by urges all members of the board of supervisors as well as the mayor, to support and pass the due process for all ordinance introduced by supervisors avalos, breed, campos, chiu, cohen kim and mar and yee in 2013. >> thank you very much. >> are there any public speakers on this item? >> okay. seeing none, actually i should know because i should have cards. >> any comments from the board? >> seeing none, roll call. >> ly? >> yes. logan. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> aye. >> six ayes. >> president norton, may we add the board of education members that the other colleagues will be see fit to do so. >> thank you. >> all right. the next item >> item f, public comment, i have one card, dennis kelley you may have two minutes. >> thank you very much. there are three things this evening that i would like to call your attention to, first is on page 171, 171 is, a agreement to hire black bear securi

and of the san francisco unified school district, and that they resolved, and determined and find the following. that the above findings of the resolution are recitals are true. that the district shall implement the project labor agreement with the san francisco building and construction trades council, for projects within the district's proposition, a, 2011 facility bond program, as indicated in the agreement under the separate cover and at the meeting dated august 13, 2013 and tonight. and section, 3, the district superintendent, or the superintendent designee is organized to take the action to adopt the poa and before going any further i would like to basically introduce the district's project labor agreement team, general council, who we have sort of tag teamed this together since november, and without, his help none of this would have been possible and certainly, sometimes kept my sense of humor in track and when who represents wal lace and kelley who are the outside counsel, who co-authored here to answer the questions and, with that president norton, i will turn the meeting bac

>> in san jose unified you will.n i say the 21st century skills, like collaboration, much more problem solving, creative thinking. much more of a way instead of going wide, which the previous standards did, it's a much more focused approach, and we go deeper. >> so you're telling you're not going to teach for the test? >> absolutely. >> how much is this, how much rigorous, we saw the teachers there. how much harder is this it going to be for teacher does learn these new standards? it's got to be a little tough now to be thrown into this new way of teaching which changes the way they've been told to do it for a long time. does this give teachers more creative license do you think? >> i think you hit the nail on the head. for years the state has dictated standards, collaboration, communication. and so they've said oh, that was a huge mistake. and we're sending kids off to university and the work force unprepared. so like a lot of things that the government has done, in public education they've said here's this thing, n

milpitas unified and milpitas unified as well as oak grove in san jose. cambrian unified. can we just say pretty much all of them? >> i think you can. >> a pleasanton teenager accused of hitting and killing a bicy e bicyclist in june expected back in court today. 18-year-old cody has has been charged with murder. police say he hit the woman and her husband on foothill road killing her and seriously injuring her husband. he was reportedly driving 43 miles per hour over the speed limit. police say hall boasted on twitter about speeding and that led to the murder charge. >>> remember this guy? the man accused of running naked through a b.a.r.t. station? >> i don't knower in gary sab bow will be arraigned today. he was arrested earlier this year after this cell phone video surfaced of that incident at the 16th street b.a.r.t. station back in may. he has pleaded not guilty to the charges. >>> 4:37. new warnings this morning after a man plunged 100 feet off a cliff in half moon bay. he was walking close to the ritz-carlton when the cliff crumbled from beneath him, sending him do

you want to unify the south under his control. that conflict between the south and the north continues while the very phases of the war change. >> host: so it's really the war is a can can you once -- continuance on business between north and south korea, but in the conflict there are incredible changes, right? and so it really is very relevant to contemporary policy. >> guest: right. >> host: one thing i find interesting is that there's just a huge literature on the korean war that you had to try to cover. and a lot of secondary sources that contain primary elements but one thing i think is very in the thing about the book is that you really have done a good job of capturing human elements and human voices. at the same time that you're trying to tell the sheep story of -- how did you focus in and find those particular primary voices as you did your research? >> guest: you mean in terms of the sources i used? well, i would assert lay out what sources i use and the primary sources i use. the cold war international is your project,

fremont unifies, walnut creek, dublin unified and moraga. also returning in san mateo, foster city, san carlos. >> back to school, some schools deciding not to reenroll in the federal lunch program. >>> the olympic gold medalist ready to start her freshman year at cal. >>> we're getting ready to pick up that construction through oakland. over as you head north toward the bay bridge. bay bridge, yeah, something's going on there you plight have heard about. # >>> welcome back. 50 years ago on this day, august 28, 1963, martin luther king jr. gave his "i have a dream speech". the memorial in washington. cloudy sky with huge celebration memorial event today. we'll bring that to you as it progresses. 4:54. >>> schools all over the country dropping out of the new federal school lunch program. just a year after it was launched. schools say so many students are refusing to eat the healthier meals pack with whole grains, fruits and vegetables, cafeterias are exact number of happy. always smiling. >> mike, you're always smiling, too, even when you hav

you know, san francisco unified is a much better place for it. and we're seeing now the school district actually is very focused on student achievement and you're starting to see those improvements. but we had to make some really hard decisions around how we were going to make sure that the places where there's some potential for our institution to fall on its knees were addressed and that's what this opportunity is. and it's another 12 months to show significant improvement. and i do want to just quickly say that the improvements that the trustees that are elected trustees and the staff made over this last year was huge. (applause) >> and it should be acknowledged because they worked really hard to make sure that they were addressing so many of the recommendations. but they also had 14 recommendations that they needed to address in a very short period of time. >> having worked on and being an important player in the changes that happened in the school district, i'm all for those standards. but let's take that example, the payroll as an example.

i cannot believe that san francisco unified two want over 500 students to leave the district. economically it does not make sense and it does not make sense, i understand... for the district and proclaims to be dynamic and ininclusive to have this happening. we are asking, please, do something about this situation, my son has already missed 7 days of school and 500 students have missed it and he has missed trying out for the baseball team and missing his education, and please do something about this. >> >> mr. superintendent? >> sure. so sir, if you could, if someone from upc that we could have him talk to? >> so what i am going to ask you to do is if you would not mind, could you get this yes's contact information and make sure that someone follows up with him as well. >> thank you. >> all right, i have one more card, miss marian chat field tailor. >> thank you, so much. i didn't quite know the procedure, but i will for the future. i'm here from citizens of public initiative called public engagement for public schools. and we are not an organization, we are a group of volunte

. >> associate superintendent tim forrester says antioch unified has done a lot. >> the district hired a private security firm to patrol campus. >> when you have two cars that move around they can see things in and around the sight. >> from changing locks to him proving evacuation plans. >> san ramon valley unified has gates, and color coded badges for visitors and volunteers. >> we called a dozen districts today asking people to be more vigilant. >> this mom says it's all part of growing up she and her mom have to accept. >> you can't look sheltered your whole life. >> and that firm is costing the district about $165,000 a year. >> we also heard from berkeley unified. it could prevent proposals as soon as next mother. >>> major league baseball could see an insurance instant review. >> balls and striking would not be reviewed. >> the plan needs a three quarters vote and the owners to take effect next season. >> the a's rose four rbis is to a 5-0 win. >> he knocked his first major league victory. >> the giants trailing 3-1 in the 9th, sanchez launched a 3-run home run, the game winner.

san jose unified goes back at 87 degrees. 90 gilroy.me east bay, the hot, hot readings, 95 in livermore. when i checked the temperature at 4:00 p.m. yesterday, it was 98 degrees in livermore. really a warm day shaping up. 70 san francisco. you're warmer today than yesterday. more sunshine coming in early. clear to start. expecting a bit of patchy fog. clear conditions over the bay again. 89 by friday. there's that brief cooldown just for friday into saturday. those are seasonal averages. we climb back up. i've been warning everybody about next week, looking so hot. i have not had to use that century mark for a while. but it's back. it's staring you in the eyes like snake eyes this morning. >> dreading it. got to admit, we've been spoiled. >>> 4:50. former congressman jesse jackson jr. will be sentenced for using campaign funds for personal vacation and extravagant jewelry. jackson will appear in a washington, d.c., federal courtroom alongside his wife sandra. he pleaded guilty to stealing roughly three-quarters of a million dollars from

and they create major challenges for the san francisco unified school district to provide access for the students and insuring that each and every student has the opportunity to succeed and defined in the district plan and whereas non-citizen parents are not able to vote in the san francisco elections and face other bearers in fear of the depourtation that can prevent them from participating fully. and so, whereas it is children face a variety of challenges to the health and well-being that can impact, to the substan ard housing whereas the record increases of depourtations in recent years have broken apart familis that can have a profound impact for the social, mental and physical well-being and the daily fear of being deported, can have significant consequences on a students' ability to be success until in a school and the plan for the future whereas the current apprehension and criminalize the family cans lead to depression and grief, to pursue the immigration. and whereas the reform will prioritize, the safe of a child or the separation from his or her child and family reunificat

the biggest thing that bully does or the big service the film has is gives everyone a unified collective science of agreement to which they roll up the sleeves and get busy creating change and has been really exciting. i building we already i believe kroshed the threshold of 140,000 students nationwide and we are working to get to the million and the idea is a million is a tipping point . a million kids in america. that's like one in ten basically in public schools. that gets embedded so over time every september schools are starting with that method to have that agreement, and along the way we're also trying to deliver youth action and educate ideas and teach the schools and districts about social emotional learning because after they see the film they want to know what do we do next? how do we impact that? and that's what i am up to and it's great to be here. >> thanks so much for coming here. we appreciate it. [applause] >> good afternoon everyone. i am rachel smith falls and a senior vice president here of futures without violence i wanted to thank you all for being here and formally

and city college is there to support both san francisco unified school district and the entire community. thank you very much. (applause) >> thank you. public comment is now closed. item k, advisory committee reports, appointments to the advisory committees. are there any appointments by board members? no. seeing none, we will move to item l, special order of business. so, first is the public hearing. i'm going to call to order the public hearing on the 2012-2013 initial proposal for a successor agreement from laborers international union of north america, liuna, local 261 to san francisco unified school district and the 2012-2013 initial proposal for a successor agreement from the san francisco unified school district to the laborers international union of north america, local 261. there are no speakers on this item. so, i am going to move on to an action item under item l. may i hear a motion and a second on approval of qtea membership appointments? >> [speaker not understood] recommendation. >> i second. >> thank you. mr. ar men trout, may i hear a reading of the recommendation? >> ye

we need to evolve from political teams to unifying over similar problems. problems whether it is crumbling families, joblessness, those are white problems, too. we all have the same shared difficulties in this new modern culture. speaking of music one more time, there was gospel music playing, unifying experience for the black community. so is hip-hop, but there wasn't hip-hop when i was there. i think that's an important missing piece because hip-hop is actually a valuable part of society. i listen to it. i don't like it when it is demonized. i think there are elements that are degrading, however, it is important part of the scenery of african-american life and american life. i wish that would be integrated by itself becoming more uplifting. find the uplifting elements of hip-hop, to andrea's point. i believe there need to be other voices. sonny johnson, african-american conservative, camille foster, ben cars on, allen west, herman cain, tim scott, where is tim scott? why not put tim scott up there. that's all you need. some other -- >> good comments. >> i

also starting school, redwood city school district, pleasanton unified, oakland unified, berryessa union in san jose and luther burbank also in san jose. >> a couple weeks everyone will be back. >> full steam ahead. >> everyone getting up and dressed and ready. what should you wear? let's check in with meteorologist christina loren. >> another beautiful day in the bay area. i do want to report that it's going to be a busy day at our local airports with flight delays already out of sfo this morning. temperatures currently are pretty comfortable out there. if you are sending your skids back to school at oakland unified, for example, 63 degrees, a nice comfortable temperatures but a pretty robust breeze especially in the oakland hills. 61 degrees to kickoff a monday in concord, 64 in livermore and 64 in san jose. getting into the next couple days, we're going to warm up and then we're going to cool right back down. so the final week of august is looking really comfortable. we'll take you through the full forecast in just a minute. right now let's check your drive with mike. >> i want to sho