úx san francisco unified school district - if people can please take a seat we want to start a very busymeager regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for tuesday, june 23, 2015 is now called to order ms. casco roll call please. >> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell are ms. norton mr. walton mr. walton? okay ms. wynns dr. murase present >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you item a is approval of board minutes none tonight before i move to the next item as i've been announcing members of the public are reminded that if they wish to address the board of education and individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and presented to executive assistant and according to board rules and regulations cards are not accepted for an item before the board general public comment is one minute and around 7:30 limit to thirty minutes and public comment for other items are limited for 5 minutes per item we have many many items to make a decision on so hoping we can obvious those rules for public comment ton

whereas he's a third generation san franciscan grew up in north beach a product of san francisco unified school district having at the end france 1968 also my graduating class whereas ken lee served in sfusd for 21 years including teaching at el gordon as a counselor mary a middle school and as head counselor at presidio as assistant principle and finally principle at san francisco middle school he worked tirelessly to have a safe and positive environments for the france middle school and he's welcomed the whole community to the school students apartment and teachers and staff as well as the community and whereas ken lee has shown 0 a never ending commitment to the faculty and others to further francisco as a dedicated person to academic success for the whole community and whereas, his govern philosophy to kick it up a notch and whereas ken lee as helped to raise thoughts of dollars with the help of friends and past francisco alumni and whereas ken lee has brought the expended family of francisco round back to the days when discovery ruled. (laughter). >> and whereas, he probably fly he

. >> hi my name is naomi loopz a proud product of the san francisco unified school district and my parents are teachers they met back in the day and elementary school and i have two children in marshall lefrment and my family is a multi lingual and multi racial cultural family i'm jewish and my husband it latino we're very happen at marshall elementary school and appreciate the spanish and the cultural aspect of that language and the program i was existed and thrived thrilled to find out you're open to or restrict and vietnamese and appalled to hear that in the resolution there is a partnership that is the celebration of one language at the extension of the community as the extension of another community my children deserve to be respected and celebrated in their school and community and by partnering within an organization that is openly anti semiic i can see thing osz youtube user their website that are did care recognize against the jewish community by partnering with an organization you're sending a strong message to the jewish children and families we're not welcome and that's a trage

transparent at every stage the assignment and where's the board of education of the san francisco unified school district strongly bltz that all students are better learning in racially equal and whereas the board of education has said we'll reverse the xhaefkd achievement and whereas the students in san francisco unified school district continue to show gaps in the evaluated been the african-american and the latino between white claimant and the claimant that are english learners and students that don't have a disability whereas the 3 results the policy has not see shown refreshment this solicitation and the concentration of underserved students and whereas the board of education created the consensus preference in its needing adoption of the student adoption and representing the 20 percent with the lowest average test scores posted by students that live and attend a san francisco public school and whereas choice patterns from families living in ceqa areas surveyor according to the 2013-2014 enrollment process white families were likely to question resisting and african-american with the

non-structural claims and actions against 9 district the board of education of the san francisco unified school district adopt board policy claims and actions against the district as provided in the attached document. >> thank you in public speakers any comments or questions from my colleagues seeing none, miss ms. casco roll call. >> ms. fewer mraefrn ms. mendoza-mcdonnell plaintiff attorney mr. walton ms. wynns and dr. murase 7 i's. >> thank you very much we're on item r board proposals first reading none item s the board members outstanding committees or organization and all others questions we have already heard from the mr. haney from the report from the committee as a whole and let's see we heard a portion of the ground services commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell would like to rectify the additional discussion. >> we have interesting it possible items the first the update on the hunters point this is in the shipyard and the quality before public sites are available we've been in discussion with the city and the office of investment & infrastructure to determine whether or not san franc

unified. without a unified u.s., they would not have won world war ii. now the unified u.s., we will not win the cold war. that is another reason for the reconciliation that is part of the lost cause. i can tell the story about when virginia built its centennial headquarters in richmond. there was a mercury space capsule outside. it is about at this moment celebrating the greatest of the u.s. if we will only stay unified. of course we all know what was just around the corner in the early 1960's. maybe one of my friends would like to pick up. >> the civil rights movement is going on right at the same time as the centennial. the famous brouhaha when the commission, the national commission, is set to meet in charleston. the african-american representative from new jersey because of segregation laws in charleston, is not allowed to stay at the hotel. jfk kind of doesn't know exactly what to do. eventually they and a going to the charleston navy yard. federal property. they can have the meeting there. the social conditions of the south, the lost cause message

at lincoln high school that has produced teachers that are some of them working in san francisco unified school district and one we've be able to hire them before another school district has snapped them up we have school council as paraprofessionals and students working in the after-school programs i want to thank commissioner walton for inviting us to the conversation lincoln has an excellent program we hope you'll continue to include us in the conversation moving forward in the teacher pipelines thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening. i'm kathleen white a department chair at city college in the child sediment i'm taken care of the link high school academy students this summer they had to leave and this is a win win program i hope it is represent can't take down when you spend money on a teacher pipeline you save money in professional development down the road and the teacher improvements and get teachers from a community that look like the community they sever and employ our own graduates when our students graduate this summer they'll have college units and m

it the board of education approve the fiscal year 2015-2016 adopted budget for the san francisco unified school district and that the county office of education in the official state forms prescribed by the state public instruction a.d. code and 42127 thank you there are no public cards any questions or comments from the colleagues seeing none ms. casco roll call vote. >> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and dr. murase. >> 7 i's. >> thank you very much next, we need a motion and second on a resolution for the state revenues from the account for 2015-2016 may i have it motion and second. >> so moved and second. >> thank you very much superintendent carranza may have a december necessary to read into the record. >> i'd like to ask our chief financial officer rita to read. >> thank you requested action the board of education of the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county office of education approve the approved revenues to be anticipated to be received in fiscal year 2015-2016 from the education protection account no accord

i want to do things that continue to unify our country.h what i'm seeing in south carolina and mississippi. but we've got to be unified as well to deal with the challenges we're facing in our country. we have a tremendous infrastructure deficit and a lack of investment in the things that we know will help our country. after what happened in amtrak in pennsylvania that grievous tragedy that took human life also spoke to the urgency in this country to upgrade our infrastructure. we have nations from japan to china to all throughout europe that are flying past us quite literal rily with the speeds of their trains and their safety records. here i have a partner across the aisle that was focused on making sure that we find mechanisms to increase investment. what we have now is a bipartisan bill that increases investment over last year as well as over the house bill that invests not only in improving our infrastructure but also in important critical safety needs like positive train control. this is a victory on a senate side. we have a lot more

students and teachers are suing the compton unified school district accusing schools of not dealing with students suffering drama. they say it's a problem in a city plagued by violence and gangs. >> these gangs attend different schools. all experience traumatic events from shooting to beating to homelessness. i meet 18-year-old kimberley at a park near her high school. >> i was sexually assaulted on the bus. >> reporter: on your way to school? >> on my way home. >> reporter: they say their schools failed to provide health care and educational programs for students coping with drama. -- trauma. >> i felt i should have gotten therapy, i felt awful and wouldn't go to school. it made me lose my credits. i wasn't getting good grades. >> reporter: students are part of a landmark first action against their district in a lawsuit. it tests americans with disabilities act arguing complex trauma is a disability upped federal law. >> compton unified served 24 plus,000 students. the -- 24,000-plus students. why compton. trauma is ubiquitous among students with a murder rate 5 times the average and ga

. >>> students and teachers are suing the compton unified school district in los angeles.uma is a big problem in an area known for violence and gang activity. >> i have seen a person get shot in the head. it is trau matlizing. >> i felt small, insignificant and i felt like i didn't matter. >> reporter: these teens attend different schools in the compton unified school district. all have experienced traumatic events growing up. i met an 18-year-old at a park near her high school. >> i was sexually assaulted on the bus. >> reporter: on your way to school. >> on my way home from school. >> reporter: she and the other students say their schools failed to provide adequate mental health care and educational programs for students trying to cope with serious trauma. >> i think i should have gotten therapy, because i felt awful, and wouldn't go to school and that made me lose all of my credits and i wasn't getting any good grades. >> reporter: they are now part of a class action lawsuit against the district. the complaint will test the limits of the americans with disabilities act

community office of education and the san francisco unified school district requested action the board of education approves the local control he will cap for the san francisco county of education and the san francisco unified school district covering fyi 2015-2016 and 2015 and 2018 subject to the update and the next page of the agenda the superintendent proposal south park 22015-2016 recommended budget and i will if it's already just read the first private investigator entered into a record the superintendents recommended budget for the san francisco unified school district and san francisco office of education be submitted for first reading at the budget for 2015-2016 and be placed in the official file of the secretary brufgs and that the superintendent has authorized to make transfers to correct erroneous clarifications or to make new by changes and the method of expenditures for the appropriation. >> before you go into the presentation i just want to ask commissioner vice president haney for a committee as a whole on the budget. >> somewhere i think we're going to hear a version of

requested the bylaws 9321 and the other the requested action the board of education the san francisco unified school district revised board bylaws 21 he .1 in the provided attached document. >> thank you. any questions or comments regarding that. >> seeing none roll call please. thank you. >> ms. fewer mr. haney mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and dr. murase 7 i's. >> thank you very much we need a motion and second for suspension the rules to hear the next board policy business and non-structural operation for the district may i have a motion and second to suspend the rules second. >> thank you very much roll call vote on suspension of the rules. >> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and dr. murase 7 i's and thank you very much i need a motion and second for the restriction to the board policy itself. >> so moved. >> thank you very much mr. superintendent a designee to sustain the action and madam president general council to do do honors the restriction to policy business and non-structural claims and actions against 9 di

if i go do half republican house democrat, the only thing that unifies them is their disdain for congress. we should go ahead and consider how long we keep people up here. the inertia is so strong. they say power corrupts, they are absolutely right. there's too much power here. what is the worst thing the president has done. i'm going to get into generalities. the biggest problem the president has confronted us is the collapse of the separation of powers. madison said we would hit ambition against ambition. we would have coequal branches of government and congress was jealously guartheir power against the president king that power and vice versa. one of the philosophers they look to sad when the executive begins ot legislate, a form of tyranny will ensue. the problem i have is a president who writes his own legislation on immigration, health care, war power act. he's been collecting phone records without perssion. even though we told him not to has petitioned the court to continue doing explicitly what we told them not to do week. this is a president run amok with power. lincoln said any

today i would like to discuss the expansion of the program to all san francisco unified school district schools throughout the city in the elementary schools, that is. there's -- there -- the reason i want to do this is because of many -- there's many benefits to the student crossing guard program. basically what you get out of it is that the main thing is about pedestrian safety awareness. with the students that participate in the program, they get basically very high levels of awareness because they go through training from the police department, they talk about it they are -- when they go on duty, they have been to be aware of what's safe and what's not safe because of the responsibilities they're taking to assist other students that are crossing. and what they also learn is leadership in this. many of us -- i guess there's a correlation as i mentioned earlier why many of us in leadership roles went through this type of program and i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we were student crossing guards and the other thing that isn't discussed as much, the other two things ar

. >> and the san francisco unified school district a. >> that's not a department but they're a voting member i think there might not a typo in the digest but the legislation itself 1 through 7 non-voting and seat 8 the san francisco unified school district that may include the board of education and seat 4 is someone that worked in the cannabis entry the owner of an mcd and 11 is seat 11 and 12 users of cannabis one must use them for medical reasons and the 13 is the owner of a small business in san francisco and 14 the business interests and 15 a hospitality and tourism seat and 16 and 17 neighborhood seats and 18 a public health department advocacy phone call thinking focusing on drug and 19 is the entertainment and seat 20 for someone represents the labor unions who work in the cannabis industry and seat 21 works in the capacity and 22 a use for someone between the age 21 i building the commission commissioner over and over brighten said we have a missing piece of the language it shall be appointed by the board of supervisors. >> so is the san francisco unified school district a vo

facility use agreement and the requested action that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district rectify the facility for the 2015-2016 school year negotiated with the charter schools by the superintendent or his designee as so for the in the document we have negotiated agreement with the different chart schools for prop 39 required facilities space in the district for next year of those 92 are state authorized chart schools those will be one person at red heart and the academy anothers independents high school i have no public cards commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> yeah. i have a quick question about flex academy they litigated that was bans the low enforcement and not having or more students i'm occurs why we continue to engage or did they come up with a number what's the reason why it was accommodating them. >> yes. that's true commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell so - you denied their rebuttal and had solid grounds to deny their renewal the california department of education staff agreed with our finding and recommended that the state board deny the renewal, howev

extra programming we bring 3 times as much money into the program as we get from the san francisco unified school district we said that you're in a crutch for space right now and we appreciate the offer you've made but we very specific needs including spates safety, the things how kids needs to be successful and if you can't do that we understand you've got space crunch if i can't do it right now work with us to give us more time and we know find the right place thank you. >> (clapping). >> i'm sorry. >> i'm sorry one minute really one minute. >> i was formal chief counselor in hunters point and provided legal services and served as a commissioner on the probation commission and worked closely with the san francisco unified school district superintendant we reformed criminal justice i'm asking to reconsider the space allocations one the perks of jewel hall to create an environment where kids kids can feel safe what the nonprofits create the safe haven experts on the board you know what environment means we're talking about creating pathway you're trying to create opportunity for people tha

we in relationship to others districts this is something we might be able to fix for instance la unified must have passed something so maybe those tiny districts i don't know dingy so. >> just a little bit not a note i have here by the way those public disclosures of public hearing of our fund balance reserves has to be done annual an annual event and only 35 districts out of 9 hundred and 44 had reserves that were below the state minimum in 2013-2014 so most of the majority of the district about 9 hundred out of the 9 hundred 44 districts had reserves in 2013-2014 that exceeded the not the two percent every district has a la unified has la unified is one percent but month as you can see 99 percent of the district in 2013-2014 had reserves that were substantially over their requirement and okay. thank you. >> it's a very good to know about where we or so i'm seeing that the statement of reason that you put down are things like technology and then on the other side bus transportation so we're saying that we're going to using this overflow for those purposes; is that correct. >> some of th

for the tap stations in the unified school district naechlt not to exceed 2 hundred and 60 thousand with a duration of 2 years. >> hi kate with the benefits program and acting fo the general manager questions or comments. >> those items eleven 12 and 13 have similar if you have questions they serve the same purposes. >> if you could call them altogether and the memorandum of agreement with the san francisco unified school district which will allow for the use of puc funding for the implementation of sfusd vision xerox strategic plan and john o'connell school with the duration of two years and item 13 the agreement academic year grant to support the disengaged young adults with puc project opportunity a authorize the general manager to solicit the entrants and to execute for the in the amount of not to exceed 2 hundred and 60 thousand with the two year agreement. >> can i have a motion on items 11 12 and 13 please. may i ask a question. >> another motion first. >> so moved. >> second. >> yes. >> is there a psychologically manufacture or installer of those water stations? is that not

projects please sharper accelerate the pace of the entitlement process for the site we've already unified in the mission there are 4 we've sorry 2 leonardo da vinci and 50 permanently affordable housing units that will not cost of the taxpayers a nickel we voluntary at inclusionary ordinances those are market rate and why can't we partner the okay. is 20 percent housing instead of telephone the restrictions no one choose those and an opportunity of proposition and moratorium really in a city that is growing by 10 thousand people per year it can only harm this is preventing displacement and get the land and prevent housing crisis from exploding thank you. >> (clapping). >> hi there i'm annie i'm a low income renter that is relatively new to san francisco and housing advocate we have many differences after talking with the mission resident trying to find a common ground we're similar and i want to more affordable housing before i'm priced out of the city because i can't afford an apartment out of - i have a proposal this took me 20 minutes smart and hard work people have been working and pr

as we told you last night, we have a - we have a unified

it is called unified, because it is people with and without disability caring the flame together. our country together in a very exciting and joyful way about our athlete that are coming to compete in the world games. >> just wonderful. now today, what can folks in philadelphia do, what can they check snout. >> perfect. see us at city hall, see us at the art museum, see us leave here, go to harrisburg, and come here, the torch bearers or support us by texting flame to 85944. >> very good. speaking of the flame bearers, we want to talk to johanna over here, athlete and i understand co-captain for the northern route. what's that mean? >> correct. so i head up and just a.m. a cheerleader, and i just rally people around to be able to support and bring neighbors together and unify. >> you are more than a cheerleader, you are an athlete. you competed nationally and internationally, and my favorite, he is questions tree and. what was it like? >> it was amazing. competing in a international venue taught me trust. it taught me so many different things. and i realize what i can do so much.

they've unified.i think that the flag is a relic and is just time for it to no longer represent any government entity but i think like most situations the american people tend to be smarter often than politicians and they kind of ignored it and have worked together and living together. >> if you don't mind holding on, alveda king, the niece to martin luther king, jr. the daughter of the reverends a.d. king, on the phone. alveda i don't know if you had a chance to listen to the good bishop but he said it's a good time to say goodbye to this relic of the civil war this relic of the past. put it in a museum. what do you think? >> i'm going to say something and i hope it's not too off the -- i apologize first. but my mother was -- [inaudible] -- hut her very much and she put it in a jar of alcohol and she has had it several years. sometimes when we lose our teeth, we pull that tooth out and it was very painful and it lad to move away so that the new tooth could come in and we could grow up. so i firmly ag

the really important topic and we have been unified and pressing for compatible solution so we can make the most and optimize at the local and state levels for the critical corridor for the region. plan bay area held the san francisco open house kick off and very much appreciate commissioner mar for attending the event thmpt open house was designed to introduce the public to the planning process and connection to the san francisco transportation plan and now have a process for updating the lists of projects which is due at the end of sept. these will reflect previous priorities [inaudible] we will be working with aejss staff to update the list jz select new ones to include in the plan and member thofz public i r welcome to submit [inaudible] we will also present on plan bay area 2040 with mtc and others at the junes plans and programs committee. vision zero held a budget meeting last month and want to recognize the great work of sfmta and agencies that participated in that to give a preview of proposition a and b. they are putting that funding to work and we'll continue with the vision

unified military. four years since moammar gadhafi was removed from power. many are hopeful this could be a turning point but even if a peace proposal is agreed upon there is a long way to go before stability returns to libya. caroline malone, al jazeera. >> turkey answer president recep tayyip erdogan has called for all to behave well, opposition parties say they will not join forces. omar al saleh has more from istanbul. >> i think turkey is set to face political uncertainty for days now. senior member of the ak party says his party is attempting to form a coalition. they need at least 18 seats in parliament. however given speeches of all parties, not wanting to join a coalition, i think it will thwart those plans. now the interesting point made by the main opposition party the chp, said it was open to a wide coalition mainly the mhp and the hdp. the problem of that is bringing together different ideologies, for instance, mhp is considered ultranationalist all of them need to agree with the kurds going to be very difficult and some say it will perhaps brin

other medical problems. >> among the scientists that study this there is a clear consensus whether unify surveyed all scientists of all diseases they might not doubt that be as up on the latest research but. >> but there is a consensus. >> right. >> thank you very much. >> supervisor mar. >> yes. thank you, dr. i want to ask you to quantify the harm of regular drinking of sugar sweetened beverage i know you mentioned a lot of limbs like the war in afghanistan i know that dr. alyssa at ucsf have done a groundbreaking study of sugar sweetened beverages on our aging cells it can take up to 5 years of live with a person are type 2 diabetes can you talk about the harm in loss of years if you drink the sugar sweetened beverage. >> to repeat question is it possible to quantify the number of years of life lost through the accumulation of sugar sweetened beverages i'm not aware of any study that has done that particular it requires a mathematical modeling so the answer is going to be no however, we do know that type 2 diabetes is in itself reduces our lifespan from 8 to 9 years and as far as suga

the laborers union local 261 the requested action that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell community colleges a public hearing and adopts the related public disclosure documents. >> thank you very much there are no public comments supreme court on this item seeing none ms. casco roll call please. ms. fewer mr. haney mentioning ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and dr. murase 7 i's. >> thank you very much. >> dr. murase before we move to the next item he have a question about one item on the consent calendar i'm wondering too sever that for a brief question k-32. >> yes. >> thank you. i apologize for missing my opportunity earlier. >> k-32 is severed and discussed under item p. >> all right. the next item is m discussion the other educational issues superintendent carranza. >> thank you dr. murase we're excited to have a short presentation believe me that could be a multi hour presentation (laughter) but important to have it presentation that will update the board and board around the strategy as the central supports through a mec

they're unified in condemning the ruling but their tone is different. i think you're going to see the presidential primary campaign particularly the early stages you know a lot of evangelicals who are upset about this ruling. you're going to have candidates particularly ted cruz bobby jindal who are pretty defiant about this ruling. i think it's going to cause, it could cause eventual pain for the republican nominee to be because of the tone and the rhetoric that we could see in the fall. i think that's going to be a real challenge for the republican party as a hole. >> chuck, we'll look for your show tomorrow with a lot more on marriage equality. >>> a lot of talk today about a dramatic act of protest in south carolina. for more than 50 years, the confederate flag has flown at that state's capitol. this morning it was briefly removed after an activist scaled a flag pole and pulled it down. here's nbc's ron allen. >> south carolina's confederate flag came down today. an activist took matters into her own hands, saying she could not wait any longer. she

i have two friends that work in the unified school district as teachers and they refer to the unified school district as feeder schools to the san francisco jails. because they are not funded enough to give students what they need to not wind up in jail. so i just want to put that out there. it fits in the big picture somewhere. i haven't heard anybody say for sure exactly that the police department actually has been doing and conducting the anti-bias training. i have heard them use the term training, but i have never heard chief suhr or any of the police officers say we've had anti-bias training. so i would just really like to encourage you to support that or fund it or pressure them to do that. i think that's a really crucial step to what needs to happen in our city. i don't want to throw out our police department, but i just think that in the right support of environment that they can really be a lot more effective in a positive way. thank you. >> thank you. i did want to thank deputy chief alley for staying for the whole hearing. thank you for staying. >> hello, my name is corral

and spoken with and left hand to and read analysis from many different positions and scientists unifying included what i have seen is it in terms of the impacts of sugar on the liver, on the body in terms of increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes and other health problems seems to me to a be a linkage, of course you know one factor is the absolute hundred percent cause can you comment am i right. >> i'll say yes i'll say that probably one of the most important experts at ushering davis dr. stan if you want to dig deep the yes is that a number of experiments and trials and highly controlled circumstances have shown that sugar leads to quick metabolic effects the liver what's less clear whether it is a high fructose corn or the glucose in reality some saying the effects are mitigated if it is pure glossoglue close in reality the market is flooded with those in publicity health terms liquid sugar the consensus is toxic but if you have a comparison trial comparing blue glucose to corn syrup the jury is out. >> so sugar let's talk about high corn sugar soda and other sugar sweetened beverages

hopefully stays with them to the point that they become drivers is there any effort to work with the unifiedchool district to roll out the greater numbers it seems like a great program. >> it was a triple organization program you wouldn't or 70 years their activity in the city and supervisor yee wanted to bring it to more schools and he has and more schools are getting on board as well we're involved in supervisor yee components and triple a has a flushing program we're not involved with their program we come out and train with them. >> we help train the children at the request of supervisor yee to facilitate 3 schools under his program and several more online with the school district they would like to train the triple a program has 9 kwlz schools a mixture of particular colonel schools and supervisor yee is focusing on unified school district and elementary schools specifically thank you virtual captain a point out point of clarification not that we like by charts commissioners and i like by anyone at home that is present to bring by. >> that was totally any joke (laughter). >> anti arraig